Cult of the Sex Tigers

Hal Manciano struck Grindhouse gold in 1974 with his low budget riff on James Bond movies, The Cult of the Sex Tigers. Filmed on the cheap and on the fly in the Phillipines, the film's production is infamous on the islands due to it's status as the most fatal movie ever made.

Hundreds of uninsured, non-union crew members and extras died in a series of flawed stunts, botched explosions and wild fire outbreaks of venereal disease. The director himself was officially banished from the country by King's guard in an elaborate airport ceremony and to this day, mothers tells their children that if don't eat their Sinigang, Uncle Hal will get them.

The story, if we can call it that, involves British secret agent Chin Davernport (Flood Mason - Devil Gate Double Take / Triplets of Evil / Bayou Baby Doll 2: Barefoot & Bold) investigating the connection between Russia's KGB and an ancient cult of Amazonian Kung Fu Warriors, The Sex Tigers.




It's seems that there's a plot to kill the President of the USA and the Tigers have been charged with seducing then killing the American leader and his staff of highly trained Ninjas.

The Sex Tigers, Led by Midnight (Rosie Earl - White Hot Boot Camp / Driven to it / Lust of the Frankenwolf) and her second-in-command Lustina (Petal Floss - Sex College Second Report / The Erotic Adventures of Macbeth / Jane Eyre's Slutty Sister) are part of an ancient lineage going back to the Aztecs. Sworn to fight to the death for whomever hires them and able to enrapture weak minded, feeble men with a glance, these hellcat bitches are Bikini Clad Sin-Killers with hearts made of stone and claws made of steel.




Chin must infitrate their tropical lair and bring the Tigers to justice. All this might seem easy for man as strong and able as Chin Davernport except for one thing... Chin and Midnight have met before. Starcrossed lovers it's seems, doomed to fight each other to the death atop an active Volcano.

Fans of Bikini girls with bad attitudes will love The Cult of the Sex Tigers (AKA Curse of the Sex Tigers. What's the curse? They all have to die at 30, an idea later stolen by the producers of Logan's Run), it's a fast paced riot of sassy back talk, lazer firing falsies, Kung Fu sex and eye scorching violence (some of it unfaked, see above!).

The less said about Flood Mason's English accent the better but suffice to say, he takes the crown from Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins. You'll also notice the startling difference between the Philipino exteriors and the interior footage, which seems to have been shot in the same Portacabin with slightly different set dressings for each location.

Hal had little to say about this production, other than to describe the entire population of the Phillipines as "A bunch of Goddamn Cocksuckers!". When asked in the early 90s what final act saw him deported after the film wrapped, he could only allude to some issues surrounding a misordered Ladyboy and a complaint about excessive noise, but police records show that Hal "went native", running the shoot like a demented combination of King Lear, Colonel Kurtz and Charles Manson, before finally crashing down to earth after six weeks without sleep when the Dexedrine shots his Pueto Rican physician had been shooting him up with finally wore off.



Rosie Earl - Selected Filmography

1971 Bo Peep Show

1971 Sex Pest on Campus

1972 Crimson Squad

1973 White Hot Boot Camp

1974 Driven to it

1974 The Cult of the Sex Tigers

1974 London Milan Paris Dead

1975 You Can't Do That In Alabama!

1977 Stepsister, Dear Stepsister

1978 Lust of the Frankenwolf

1979 Roller Disco Nights

1980 Roller Disco Days

1980 Rollerama Disco Amenesia*


*Rosie was tragically struck by lightening on set and never acted again. Her album "Not Twice..." is available now on iTunes.