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    Released by: After Hours Cinema
    Released on:10/27/09
    Director: Doris Wishman, Charles Lamont
    Cast: Annie Sprinkle, Vanessa Del Rio, Bobby Astyr, Ursula Austin, Roger Caine, Levi Richards, Nancy Dare, Robert Bolla, Jeffrey Hurst
    Year: 1976/1975
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    The Movies:

    Doris Wishman is best known for her nudist films and then later for a few roughies that she helmed and, like fellow exploitation pioneers like David Freidman or H. G. Lewis, she wasn't afraid to dabble in seedy material to make a quick buck. With that in mind, it's really not all that surprising that director behind Let Me Die A Woman! at one point dipped her toes into the warm pool of porno movies in the 1970s.

    COME WITH ME MY LOVE

    This one, also known under the much cooler title of The Haunted Pussy, has a truly fantastic cast! R. Bolla, Vanessa Del Rio, Annie Sprinkle, Nancy Dare, Roger Caine, and Ursula Austin? Sign me up! Proving Wishman was never one to be pigeonholed, it plays out as much like a legitimate horror film that just happens to have some XXX content in it more than it does an actual pornographic movie meant to titillate. It would be interesting to know how grindhouse audiences reacted to this film back when it played theaters, as it probably confused the raincoat crowd.

    The movie starts with a flashback - the setting is Kenmore City in 1925 and a man and a woman are getting it on. A mysterious man named Randolph (Jeffrey Hurst) heads into the room where the sex is going down and lo and behold, Randolph realizes that his wife is boffing his best buddy. In a true crime of passion he pulls out his pistol and shoots them both dead before turning the gun on himself. Turned on yet? Good.

    Fast forward a few years to 1976 and a beautiful girl named Abbie (Ursula Austin) moves into the apartment where the murder took place way back when and in a strange twist of fate, she bears a striking and uncanny resemblance to the woman Randolph killed in the opening scene. When Abbie goes to sleep that night she's freaked out when the ghost of Randolph appears out of the wall of the apartment and starts to get busy with her. The next day, as if nothing had happened (maybe it was all in her head?) Abbie sets out about her business, making and laying many of her new friends in the apartment complex that she now calls home but everyone that Abbie ends up sleeping with winds up dead, seemingly at the hands of Randolph's horny, jealous ghost. Randolph doesn't even relish the idea of his lady messing around with the sexy female neighbor (Annie Sprinkle) for as soon as she has her way with the new tenant, she too winds up dead when a floating knife stabs her between her giant hooters! Will Abbie be able to break free from the spirit of Randolph? Will she need to call an exorcist? Will the strange cutaways to group sex scenes involving Vanessa Del Rio and R. Bolla make any sense?

    Credited to Kenyon Wintel, this one feels like a Wishman movie through and through. The narration and dubbed dialogue is a hoot and the music could not be more inappropriate which gives the movie that kind of kookiness that you just can't get on purpose. There are a few scenes with some atmosphere in the movie that do show some directorial flair and the performances, Austin in particular, are pretty good but this is still a cheap exploitation movie and not much here raises it above that level. With that being said, if you set your expectations properly heading into this one it can be a lot of fun - you get ghost humping, electrocution, floating knives, multiple murders, and Vanessa Del Rio's giant clitoris all packed into a neat and trippy seventy-four minute package! What more do you want?

    IN FLIGHT SERVICE

    The first feature was directed by Charles Lamont whose commentary explains it was the last XXX feature he shot and that once this was done he simply worked as a camera man. The film starts with a blonde stewardess making it with her man on an airplane. This doesn't last long and we cut to a guy named Bob looking for the stewardess. He tells her roommate that he's brought her some flowers. The roommate, named Judy, lets him in. Judy tells him that she's a dancer and that he can wait if he likes and they have a glass of cold gin (is the heater broke? Are they so tired?). Meanwhile, the couple on the plane are back at it. The film cuts back and forth between the two couples as some fuzzed out rock plays on the soundtrack and soon enough, Bob and Judy are fucking like rabbits to the romantic sounds of some pleasant banjo strumming.

    Soon enough, evidently the stewardess has finished her flight and she comes home to find Bob and her roommate going at it which turns her on so much that she can't help but put her fingers in the fur. Judy finds her on the floor and brings her into the room to play along with she and Bob. They have a three way and then we see some stock footage inserts of an airport.

    Two men, one of whom is Bobby Astyr, bicker about getting laid while on a plane. Looks like the stewardess is back at work again. She asks them men if they'd like anything to eat, one man grabs her leg. She sits down between them and they rape her. Why isn't there anyone else on the plane? Who knows. Meanwhile, Judy finds herself wandering into the wrong apartment where a jive talking black dude with a knife throws her to the ground and rapes her. Once again, the film cuts between the two scenes. Are we supposed to draw parallels between the two rape scenes? Are they representative of something? Unlikely. The editing is so choppy and haphazard that at times it's hard to tell what's going on - but hey look, a plane! Yay for stock footage.

    Once that's over with, apparently it's Halloween? The stewardess is in her apartment, a pumpkin decoration on the door. A chubby dude in a doctor's outfit shows up. She and Judy are both wearing masks. The doorbell rings and a guy in a monster mask wearing a pith helmet arrives.

    Sadly, this version of In Flight Service is the edited softcore version. While After Hours Cinema should have acknowledged this on the outside of the packaging, the liner notes confirm this (and all you really have to do to see for yourself is take a quick peek at the sex scenes - no penetration here, kids!).Then some guy with a penis nose mask and a guy with a sheet over his head show up, followed by some girl we've never met before who has come dressed as herself. This chick sounds kinda like Fran Drescher. Everyone starts screwing, and when they finish the girls say 'We'd like to give you in flight service' and the movie ends.

    This film makes no goddamn sense at all.

    Video/Audio/Extras:

    The 1.33.1 fullframe transfer would be better if it weren't interlaced but it's certainly watchable enough as it stands. There are nicks and scratches aplenty and the colors aren't all that bright but everything is certainly watchable enough and it's nice to see that both transfers are indeed taken from film sources. Neither is going to win any awards for picture quality but for moldy-oldy obscure dirty movies, they look alright.
    The English language Dolby Digital Mono tracks are a bit muffled in spots but for the most part are clean enough and easy enough to follow. Often times the dialogue sounds a little bit hollow but this has probably got more to do with the way the audio was recorded than the DVD itself. Don't expect a super high fidelity experience here, these tracks are quite basic, but they're sufficient enough.

    The best extra on this disc is a commentary with Charles Lamont moderated by the mysterious and seemingly impossible to identify After Hours Collector. This plays more like an audio interview for the first twenty minutes or so, as Lamont talks about his early days in industrial filmmaking before he got into making adult films with prolific producer Leonard Kirtman, who had a massive and fully equipped studio that he was running out of Chelsea in Manhattan during the seventies. Lamont talks about working on In Flight Service as well as on Come With Me My Love, discussing everything from booze and drug intake on set (or lack thereof) to Doris Wishman's sex life (or lack thereof) and telling some interesting stories about many of the characters he encountered on his journey through the underbelly of New York City's seventies porno movie scene. The commentary ends roughly forty five minutes into the picture but it's a good listen and quite informative, even if it could and should have been longer.

    Aside from that, look for a catalogue link, chapter selection and trailers for the Sex Education Double Feature, the Honeymoon Suite collection, Sex On Capitol Hill, The Collegiates Collection, The Grindhouse Possession Collection, The Grindhouse Occult Collection. Inside the case is a booklet of liner notes from The After Hours Collector that shed some light on the adult careers of Wishman and Lamont and detail the distribution history of both films on this disc.

    The Final Word:

    Two ridiculously goofy seventies skin flicks previously made available on DVD in the past get a shiny new life one DVD that fans will probably be interested in for Lamont's interesting commentary. Both films are more amusing than they are erotic, but as cult curiosities, they certainly have their place and as such are worth a look.
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