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Charles Romine,
Charles Romine
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: Not Rated
: Chiller Theatre/Something Weird Video
: Cult, Foreign, Horror, Science Fiction , Studios, Something Weird, Africa, South Africa, Erotica, Sexploitation
: 145 min.
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This entertaining South African sleaze-fest was originally marketed as a sexpo picture by SHB and Distribpix in 1968 (under the title Any Body, Any Way), then retitled and sold as an R-rated horror film by Boxoffice International in the 1970s. "Two young swingers turning a fun-filled weekend into a nightmare of unspeakable horrors," the ads promised. The two women in question attend a party in a barn, where they meet Mr. Bradley, an odd middle-aged man with a British accent. He saves one of them, Ann, from an attempted rape in a hayloft, so she introduces him to her friend, Terry. After chatting a while, he leaves and (unbeknownst to them) drains the gas from their car. Finding their gas tank empty, Ann and Terry walk until they come to Bradley's isolated house, where he lives with his Mrs. Danvers-like sister, Myla, and a goonish servant named Freddy. It turns out that Bradley is actually a sicko mortician, trying to create the perfect mate. His experiments involve tying the girls naked to a bed, smearing them with suntan oil, and raping them. Sometimes Myla gets to whip them, too. If they try to escape, the girls end up dead, stuffed like museum exhibits in the cellar. The cellar? Yes, "THE CELLAR! A palace of passion or a pit of perversion? It depends on your point of view!" ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
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| South African sickness
by GGoodsell
December 31, 2005 - 4:36 PM PST
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2 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| BEHIND LOCKED DOORS is this bit of South African sickness that continues to confound everyone who comes into contact with it. Two girls get fed up with a barn dance (that for some reason is being held in the middle of the day), and are lured away to a creepy mansion. The chief pervert bears an uncomfortable resemblance to Henry Kissinger, and he's aided by his rather butch sister in keeping the girls prisoner. It's mostly talk, talk, talk and bad acting, but DOORS does generate a certain amount of sleazy fascination with its claustrophobic interiors and no-budget desperation. The sexual abuse suffered by one of the girls is genuinely unpleasant. Everything about this feature, from its ugly wallpaper and even uglier storyline coats the viewer in a grimy film. Lemme outta here! I didn't watch the co-feature. |
| Not the sleaze-fest I was promised
by freakydude
February 6, 2005 - 7:41 AM PST
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5 out of 7 members found this review helpful
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Though neither is a winner, "Behind Locked Doors" is the more interesting of the two, where Mr. Bradley makes the two women pose for risque photos then paws them as they try to resist. (Envision Eugene Levy covering himself with oil and you can imagine the awfulness.) It's not shocking (as the description makes it out to be), and "The House of Whipcord" does it better.
"The Beautiful, the Bloody and the Bare" relates the story of a photographer who takes nude pictures of women. However, when he sees the color red, he becomes murderous, albeit not until the last 15 minutes of the film. Only worth watching for the women, if that floats your boat. |
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GreenCine Member Rating
(Average 5.09)
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