Alpha Blue Archives
| Review
by Crites
From
the bottomless vaults of the impressive
Alpha Blue Archives comes a new 120-minute
DVD compilation in The Sadistic 70's Series,
THE FLESH RIPPERS. Tune in as "Our
most bizarre collection ever features films
which cross the line from lust to insane
savagery!" (Note: if this looks like
your kind of thing you may not want the
'surprise' of each sex & violence segment
revealed, so here as a teaser is a list
of the chapter titles: THE BARBARIAN GIRLS,
BRANDED, COME DEADLY, BLACK RITUAL, DIVERSIONS,
SEX PSYCHO, THE VAMPIRE AND CHARLOTTE, and
the closer-to-feature-length WET WILDERNESS.)
Featuring "a cast of
insane asylum escapees," this orgy
of depravity begins with THE BARBARIAN GIRLS
as a hit & run car accident leaves one
of two bewigged hookers down and bloodied
by the side of a dirt road. (We know they're
hookers because of their uniform of red
spaghetti-strap blouse, panties, and Nancy
Sinatra boots.) The red-wigged working girl
drags her blonde companion to a deserted
barn, and instead of administering first
aid decides instead to strip her down, tie
her up, and maul her breasts. Moving south
the redhead roughly examines her friend's
vag, then takes her own clothing off, squats
down, and pisses all over her partner's
belly. Decaying emulsion flickers as Blondie
is hauled upright for a cat-o-nine tails
whipping, doing a little go-go dance of
pain as marks begin to appear. Then Red
picks up a rusty knife and rams it home
right between her friend's legs, twisting
it nastily as the filmstock itself appears
to bleed along with Blondie. Red keeps working
away as the blood pours down, finally pulling
out a gory fistful of entrails. When Blondie
finally passes out from the pain, Red unties
her and hacks into her groin, disemboweling
her with the detached bliss of a Manson
girl.
As was THE BARBARIAN GIRLS,
BRANDED is accompanied by a contemporary
soundtrack of agonized doom metal that provides
a fittingly haunting accent to the on-screen
torture. Opening on a nude teenage girl,
shackled and crotch-whipped, the setting
is one of a B&D/S&M parlor attended
by a mistress and a pair of male slaves/accomplices.
After forcing one of the men to eat her
out the mistress goes down on her sweet
young captive, and with this pleasantry
out of the way she inserts a speculum; in
the background a brazier of coals has been
burning away, and branding irons are now
applied to the girl's breast before being
pushed... right into the canal. Bucking
and writhing the girl passes out, only to
be revived so that the mistress can sit
on her face and give head to a slave. When
he comes the mistress rubs it into the girl's
chest, and the scene switches to:
Some hippie chick's apartment,
where the flower child is being interviewed
by a census taker in COME DEADLY. When he
finds out that Miss Evans is a marijuana
user he chloroforms her, strips her down
to bra and panties, and slaps on the handcuffs.
When she awakens he shows her a "Sex
Slaying" newspaper headline. "Maniac
Killer – that's a pretty impressive
title for someone as insignificant as I
am!" he happily tells her. Cutting
off her underwear and holding a gun to her
head Maniac Killer suggests that Miss Evans
do as he says, and presents his cock with
the advice she do a good job. Just as he
seems to be enjoying himself, hippie chick's
hippie boyfriend barges into the apartment.
"You have the worst timing in the world,
Mr. Colback!" Mr. Maniac Killer says,
and shoots him. Miss Evans' wailing earns
her a couple of pops too, bloodying the
books containing Mr. Killer's rape census
and causing him to bemoan the wasted day.
(This is one of the 'cleaner' scenes in
the collection, as not only is the film
quality better but the dialog track is fully
intact and there is no on-screen penetration.)
For BLACK RITUAL we move to
a darkened ceremonial setting, where an
older hippie cult guru-type is praying to
the Mother of the Universe for wisdom. A
swank and slightly out-of-place couple watches
as a hefty Earth mama steps up to the altar
and strips, laying down in preparation for
what appears to be a full-scale cult orgy.
But just as the nearly naked devotees get
started, in charges some candle-bearing
broad who accuses the swank chick of being
a traitor. With a bit of hocus-pocus the
blonde ages about forty years, does some
theatrical moaning, and stabs herself in
the belly with a machete. "Oh my God
- oh my God" her puzzled date says.
He takes her home so she can do the Linda
Blair thing, puking up pea soup and speaking
of forthcoming doom, but his declaration
of love drives the demons right out of her
and sappy music begins to swell. Just as
it looks like we're in for some hardcore
post-exorcism fucking, there's a cheap message
about love being as strong as death and
the scene comes to an end.
The most graphic chapter so
far, DIVERSIONS starts off right away with
a man and a woman going at it on a leather
divan. Throughout the sex act she seems
to be experiencing hazy flashbacks of a
gang-rape, and whether her date is one of
the molesters or just some anonymous sap
unlucky enough to get caught between her
man-hating legs this particular evening
she pulls a knife from beneath the couch
and sticks it between his ribs again and
again. The murder sends her into a fit of
ecstasy, writhing around on the divan rubbing
blood over herself and masturbating with
the dagger, and upon climaxing she licks
the blood from the knife, rolls off onto
her date, and cuts his cock right off. After
licking away at her severed trophy the woman
showers off, gets dressed in her finest
black leather biker/bondage gear, and takes
her leave.
In a scene from SEX PSYCHO,
two guys with mutton-cop sideburns are in
bed humping away when in walks some dame
and a guy carrying a meat cleaver. Loverboy
number one, Marshall, holds his buddy's
hands down so the Andy Kaufman lookalike
can bury the blade in his throat for a very
bloody murder. After which Marshall takes
some cash from the woman, who turns out
to be his sister, and the wife of the dead
man, and goes out to fetch a coffin. Meanwhile
she strips down and takes Andy right there
on the body of her dead husband – after
applying some lengthy warm-up head to his
pudgy cock she climbs aboard, and in her
excitement she even starts going down on
the dead body. Andy busts a nut, just as
Marshall comes in toting the coffin, and
we jump to a scene of Andy at home, getting
a job from his wife. As she sucks him dry
Sis and Marshall creep in with the cleaver,
and when Wifey sees the big blade she chomps
down hard on Andy's choad, biting it off
and choking to death while he bleeds out.
Sis and Marshall run the hell away. (On
a side note, the full-length presentation
of SEX PSYCHO features none other than Big
John Holmes, although in the version I saw
the performance was less than impressive.)
THE VAMPIRE AND CHARLOTTE
is from the same feature as DIVERSIONS,
and finds our homicidal harlot stabbing
away at a fellow in the midst of his post-coital
ejaculation. His response is to bare his
vampire fangs and dig in. This segues into
a scene of backyard molestation, as a naked
man and woman's wrestling match ends up
with her pistol going off and shooting another
woman through the breast. "You silly
bitch, you killed her!" Angry at the
girl for blowing away his meal ticket, the
man penetrates her with a stick then rapes
her until being shot by a geeky rifle-toting
passerby.
In the next dreamlike sequence
tribal drumming provides a hypnotic soundtrack
as a woman with an eye patch leads a young
man into the scene at gunpoint. He's forced
to receive head from and then have sex with
another woman, as everybody is cut with
a knife for some ritualistic bloodflow.
Young one-eye joins the action as the guy
receives more head, apparently climaxing
into the bit's shadowy finish.
Up last is the feature WET
WILDERNESS, directed by Lee Cooper and starring
Daymon Gerard, Alicia Hammer, Raymond North,
and Fay Little. It begins appropriately
enough with the PSYCHO theme (music by "Melvin
Devil") as the credits play through
and a family (mom, son, sis & her friend)
arrives at an out-of-the-way location in
the woods for their lovely vacation. So
lovely, in fact, that right away the girls
pair off for a photo session that turns
into a lesbian romp. As the voluptuous brunette
daughter works away between the thighs of
her hairy Italian friend, a man wearing
floods, blackface, and an orange ski mask
with "Love" scribbled on it strolls
up toting a huge machete. So involved are
the ladies that they don't notice him at
first, but he quickly interrupts and lets
himself in on the action with the demand
of a double blowjob. Soon the girls are
going down on one another as Ski Mask takes
the Italian from head to tail, and as she
finishes him up her friend gets up and sneaks
away. As Sis runs to fetch the others Ski
Mask stabs his victim in the guts and lies
in wait for the family to come running.
Which they do; Ski Mask immediately
orders Mom to give him head, and the girl
to do the same to her brother. Ski Mask
then rapes Mom in the ass, popping his load
("You liked that didn't you?"
"NO!") and watching Sis bring
her brother off and lick the sperm from
his stomach. Mom is next made to suck off
her boy ("I'm sorry son!"), and
while this is taking place Sis runs off
again. Sonny tries to screw his Mom, but
his pecker's not up for it and it takes
a bit of shoving to get it in there. Finally
he gets going, and very quickly shoots a
heavy load over Mom's chest and belly.
Meanwhile Sis has come upon
a black guy tied up between two trees ("Oh
my God, what are you doing here?"),
and as she struggles to free him Ski Mask
leads a tearful Mommy on a frenzied dash
through the trees (after presumably killing
her son). They catch up to Sis just as she
unties the guy, and you know what's coming
next – yes, soon Mom is sobbing and
burying her face in her hands as her daughter
gives head to the black man. Twice; once
to get him off, and again to get him up
for a fucking ("Yeah! Ha-ha!"
cheers Ski Mask). Pretty soon Mom's down
there helping her out, then even stripping
down and mounting up herself. Ma finishes
him up with a blowjob, and a jealous Ski
Mask hacks into him with a hatchet for coming,
showering the ladies with blood.
After a quick dunk in the
river Ski Mask demands yet more head, and
while Mom is performing her daughter grabs
his machete and... THE END.
Incest, rape, murder, and
miscegenation; just another day in the woods
in the Sadistic Seventies!
This region-free NTSC DVD
includes a gallery of sex & violence
pictures as a bonus, collected from out-of-print
magazines specializing in the rape/murder
fetish. Men and women alike are brutalized
here, whipped, bound, threatened with knives,
and generally tortured to death, making
for some interesting screen-saver material
for your less-sensitive friends. Also present
are trailers for the hardcore roughie COME
DEADLY, BIG TIT SUPERSTARS, and a brief
run-through of other titles in the Sadistic
Seventies series, "The rarest, most
brutal and bizarre films of the 70's on
VHS and DVD!" (HOGTIED HOOKERS! BRUTAL
LESBIANS! TIT TORTURE ENFORCERS! And more!)
The DVD menu itself is a little
hard to read, in a punk rock flyer kind
of way that matches the accompanying song
fragment. The quality of the loops contained
herein does vary somewhat, and some entries
can be quite dicey in their clear display
of every scratch, blur and watermark. But
Alpha Blue makes certain to qualify this
in their statement, "Due to the rarity
and age of our film masters, some films
will show lines and other glitches. This
is normal." And in fact not only is
the less-than-digitally-perfect film quality
excusable in this case, but in places it
actually adds to the sleazy bad trip aura
playing out in these little vignettes of
degradation. Sex and life are made to look
pretty cheap here, matching the decidedly
low budgets of the pictures and providing
a no-frills step into strange and savage
territory. What's most curious about this
collection is not that these are clips of
rape-murders with no shortage of occult
themes and bloody torment, but that they
all come from thirty years ago. What the
fuck were those people on? Oh, yeah... Of
course the level of realism varies from
clip to clip, but for those in the mood
for vicious snuff-porn, the fetish this
collection is catering to, the illusion
ought to be sufficiently wicked.
$39.95 + $5.00 shipping from
Alpha
Blue Archives, P.O. Box 16072, Oakland,
CA, 94610
