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Shameless’ Pop Erotica Fest DVD Box Set is out now
Whips and chains and leather and women.
While the S&M themed 50 Shades Of Grey may be drawing in the crowds of Twilight fans, there’s one new S&M release that makes that book look like kids stuff and blows it clear out of the water. Leatherbound ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the upcoming Shameless Pop Erotica Fest box set, containing three dangerously kinky and seriously sexy slices of exploitation cinema. Including Venus In Furs, a filmed adaption of of Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch’s infamous novel of perversion and pain, Baba Yaga starring Cult icons Caroll Baker and George Eastman and the hip ‘n’ horny The Frightened Woman. So, to celebrate this gorgeous looking sleazy set’s release, here’s some other must see S&M exploitation ‘classics’…
Olga’s House Of Shame (Joseph P. Mawra, 1964)
The third in the series of Olga films has remained a cult favourite of sleaze and trashiness. Shot in black and white during the mid 1960s, the film was a truly shocking merit of entertainment upon its initial release. The film made a massive impact in one of cinema’s greatest men of trash, John Waters and it’s easy to see why with its gratuitous spanking, torture and bondage. Starring the stunning Audrey Campbell, this is the granddaddy of S&M movies.
The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1974)
Recently released on DVD and Blu-ray, The Night Porter was one of the key films responsible for the boom in Naziploitation films of the late 70s/early 80s. Unlike its followers, this film is a much more artistic effort. Deemed to be the most controversial film of its time, there’s no denying the brutality in this hard-to-watch swastika flick.
The Whip And The Flesh (Mario Bava, 1963)
Directed by one of Italian cinema’s greatest masters and staring the king of horror, Sir Christopher Lee, The Whip And The Flesh displays the pair at their arguable best. The film’s blurring of beauty and horror that became a staple of Bava is incredibly portrayed in this classy Italian horror.
The Story Of O (Just Jaevkin, 1975)
Based on a work of erotic fiction from 1954 – when S&M fiction really was something wholly shocking. For better or worse 50 Shades Of Grey wouldn’t exist without it. The Story of O has been filmed and mined for shock value numerous times but the 1975 version with Udo Kier remains a classic work of 70s sex cinema as the central character of O submits to her master in a series of submission rituals.
Secretary (Steven Shainberg, 2002)
Almost cuddly, indie-mainstream kink from the Americans. James Spader and Maggie Gyllenhaal star as boss and employee, embarking on a journey into dominance and submission that is as much about two people falling in love as the next lightly comic romance movie… Except there’s a lot more spanking.
School Of The Holy Beast (Noribumi Suzuki, 1974)
The Japanese can take any Western idiom and bend it to their will. When the Italians – filmmakers in a country steeped in Catholic guilt – made a slew of sexy Nun pictures featuring libidinous sisters getting whipped and chained up, Freudian thinkers wouldn’t have batted an eyelid. When these films which mirrored certain obsessions that also feature in Pink Cinema movies became successful in Japan, they made one their own despite having no real history of the Catholicism in their country. Prepare for rope bondage basically.
Eugenie (Jess Franco, 1970)
It wouldn’t a be a list of sleazy bondage flicks without a Jess Franco film. He played out a whole, vastly prolific career melding sex, horror and fetish into an occasionally satisfying whole. Even when his films failed to hit the make, they mostly provided value for money in terms of smut and shock. Eugene is one of the best, with a moderate instead of poverty ridden budget. Eugenie is loosely based on a De Sade book and it’s recommended as an example of libertine 70s trash cinema – the kind that full strength hardcore porn – with its straight to the money shot ascetic – helped to kill off. Another example of Franco exorcised his personal obsessions for a paying audience.
