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Light your black candles and start the chant! Culled from 16mm prints found in Something Weird’s attic, SMUT WITHOUT SMUT: SATANIC HORROR NITE is an exclusive feature-length mixtape curated by the Lucifer-worshipping maniacs at the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA). Best viewed during the witching hour at a haunted drive-in, this mixtape features “Smut Without Smut” versions of six Satan-themed features, as well as trailers, commercials, and ephemera from the vaults. WATCH! Demon killers wearing makeup in the style of the band KISS! SEE! Sacrificial rites performed on kitchen tables! OBSERVE! Credits like “Co-starring Raquel Belch!” Dreamy, outrageous, and filled with naked people wearing velvet capes, SMUT WITHOUT SMUT: SATANIC HORROR NITE is a spicy treat for those souls who are brave enough to jump into the fire.
This film is a hot one with one those endings that comes out of left field. A hippie couple is standing on a corner waiting for Burt. He shows up driving a battered station wagon. Cleo (Cindy Hopkins, aka Suzanne Fields) only has half the money, so Burt suggests that they work something out. They go back to Burt's pad and he suggests a trade: pussy for that work. "I hope that you're worth $20, baby." She bitches when he gets tough. "You broads are all alike," he says. "You like to get kicked around so you can go home with a clear conscience after giving up some pussy."
Linda York is the redhead who plays the youngest daughter, Jenny. She's the one who strips down to her purple panties in the swimming pool and seduces the older Mr. Brandt, getting him to scrub her back in the shower. Linda is probably best remembered for her role as Brandy, the possessed teenage daughter in Angel Above, the Devil Below, a porn spoof on The Excorcist
Hypnotist
A groom recounts his past sexual exploits to his new bride on their wedding night.
Hawk (uncredited)
Six female prisoners are given a weekend furlough to prepare them for their upcoming parole. While out, they all have miscellaneous sexual experiences, some good, some bad. One returns to her pimp even though he beats her, one overcomes her frigidity, one gets gang raped, two join in a threesome, and one goes back to her criminal lover shortly before the police show up.
Pablo
An "adults only" retelling of the legend of Zorro.
Man in Woods
A religious fanatic murders people who are engaging in sex.
Rudy
Mimi Murphy arrives in Los Angeles to hook up with her estranged sister Michelle. Following an abortion, she's run away from home in Omaha and wants to find Michelle in the worst way. Rudy tells her the bad news: Michelle has been kicked out of the apartment for failure to come up with the rent, and she's become a hooker to boot.
Han's Friend (uncredited)
The Kidnapper (uncredited)
A woman in need comes to visit a private dick. She hires Johnny Wadd to find her girlfriend and offers him $1000 plus her body. Later, the missing girl's sister shows up and offers to double his fee and her body too so he won't find her sister.
John Alworth
Hey! Want to see a bizarre blend of Sci-Fi, S&M and drooling psychedelic hardcore madness? (I didn’t think so.) But The Sex Machine is breathtaking in its weirdness. It reaches new levels of fucked-upness. Take a gander at this plot. "The Meadows Foundation" is a research laboratory run by dedicated scientist Dr. Flanders and his shapely assistant Dr. Phyllis Alcott (CHERI ROSTAND), an Ivory Snow blonde. The place was named after their leader, Dr. Meadows, "an underground practicing abortionist." The two doctors, dressed in lab coats and clutching clipboards, conduct experiments on "surrogates" - people whose libidos are damaged. Mainly, they hook up battery cables to naked, spread-eagled women.
Marv
Blonde German model Cindy (Phyllis Stenger) arrives at Los Angeles from Germany to try her hand at becoming a Hollywood actress. She is welcomed by her close friend Joyce (Uschi Digard) who is a successful call girl. Joyce puts Cindy up in her apartment. Soon Cindy finds out how difficult it is to start a Hollywood career. Despite submitting herself to the casting couch hanky panky Cindy is unable to land a starring role in any Hollywood movie. However Cindy’s sojourn in Hollywood is not all that gloomy when she meets the love of her life at a birthday party
Jay
A witch uses her powers to seduce a handsome young man.
Party Guest
Juan Gerardo
Arrogant famous matador Juan Gerardo uses the power of hypnosis to transform a party into an orgy.
Three thugs kidnap two innocent young women and demand $50,000 from one of the girl's sister, while her boyfriend is hot on the trail. Unfortunately, after being raped and cut with razor blades, the girls don't stand a chance.
Bob Deacon
Three thugs kidnap two innocent young women and demand $50,000 from one of the girl's sister, while her boyfriend is hot on the trail. Unfortunately, after being raped and cut with razor blades, the girls don't stand a chance.
Rick the Chauffeur
A rich old man hires a security expert to put cameras in his home and see if his trophy wife is cheating on him. Is it the chauffeur, doctor, lesbian masseuse or even his own daughter?
Sex Demonstrator (uncredited)
A female doctor tries to help a married couple out with their sexual problems.
A detective is on the trail of the Zodiac, a serial rapist who has been taunting him with rhyming clues and riddles.
Scorpio Male
Soft sex film which aims to "scientifically" examine human sexuality under the various signs of the zodiac.
Movie Theater Patron
Mona is engaged but wants to remain untouched until she is married.
Bob
Bob and Tom are in the woods intending to go fishing but find sex instead.
Al
Little Women Get Ahead has ditzy blonde KATHY HILTON and ultra gal FIFI WATSON doing a jigsaw puzzle in their skivvies. Fifi tells the blonde of a scheme where her friends get paid for "partying all the time."
Party Guest (uncredited)
On her eighteenth birthday, a woman is granted by Satan the power to make all of her sexual desires reality.
Alice
Low budget softcore farce where two men cross-dress to go into a women's prison.
Tom Hanson
A poker-night bachelor party turns lurid.
Jim
A twenty-something brunette confesses her marital problems to her sexy, blonde neighbor. The blonde suggests that the mousy, shy brunette attend her weekend "swinging" parties. Five sex parties later leads to her mental breakdown and a visit from the local police!
If you're a younger gent, your exposure to grindhouse flicks may only be with a Quentin Tarantino film, which is fine--but grindhouse flicks really began in adult cinema and that's what's on display here! Don't let the name fool you. While the moniker might suggest coitus elevated to a transcendent level of Eastern-influenced sexual enlightenment where mind, body and soul come together as One in the act of lovemaking, you can be sure that Harem Hangups delivers a bunch of dudes in genie pants and turbans...but more than its fair share of mindless, clueless, soul-eroding screwing where any glimmer of magic has long since departed.