Oh My God, What's That Dog Doing To That Women?
Oh my God…What’ s that German Shepard doing to that women ?
Review #002 – Jesus Franco’s Sadomania (1981)
Starring: Ajita Wilson
Written by: James Bogart
Mondo Film & Video Contributor
There are ALOT of reviews on the web for this flix, and I gotta be honest, I am not so sure that any of the reviewers really watched this film…
Directed by the infamous Jesus Franco aka Jess Franco. Sadomania is a limited plot, low budget sexploitation flix about a women’s prison and it’s sleazy inner workings run by a sex crazed Grace Jones afro’d look-a-like warden. But of course with any women in prison flix, there’s always a little corruption and wrong doing. That being said, here you have a corrupt warden, and local Governor and his lesbo wife, buying and selling female prisoners for prositutation at a island retreat.
The Governor btw, looks like a crazy mash up of Tom Selleck, mid 70′s Richard Benjamin, and any one of the Beatles from the Sgt Pepper era. Oh yeah, I almost forgot… he’s impotent as well. And can NOT impregnant his lesbo wife, whom MUST bare his child. They don’t even sleep in the same bed together.
The Governor, as with all the men in the film, clearly have on faux overgrown hitler pompadours, that look like giant strips of old cat hair on their upper lips. And since this film is overdubbed, Franco could only afford to make the female actresses voice overs accurate. Where all the male characters in the film are clearly done by the same guy, who sounds something like a extremely homosexual Charles Nelson Reilly.
Before I stop writing about the Governor, I need to cover one sequence in particular, which inspired the title of this review, and made me stab a newly sharpened pencil into both my eyes. The Governor and wife are into some kinky tourture fun, they decide to include the use of a feisty and sexy full grown german shepard dog, which they let go wild like a horny tasmanian devil on a nude woman bound to a chair.
As the dog goes hogzilla, this turns on the Governor and his lesbo wife and they go at it. The Governor loves him some German Shepard, so as you can imagine, any issues with impotence are out the window. Just as the dog and the Governor cross the finish line, the lesbo gratefully moans “You are a man, my love, now we will have our child.” Geez. Who needs Viagra when you have what I like to call “The German Shepard Effect.”
There has always been something about films directed by Jesus Franco, that have never sat well with me. I think he’s overrated and essentially a spanish hackmeister. His films are nude masochastic fantasies where he often casts himself as a rapist. How come Hitchcock never took on bigger rolls in his own films? Franco is often confused and compared to French auteur Jean Rollin, however, Rollin plays in a different ball league than Franco.
With a extremely limited plot, low budget, and 1500+ breasts to boot, Sadomania makes for a one time somewhat interesting experience. The film clocks in at about ninty minutes, and at about the thirty-five minute point, I was looking at my watch, wondering when I could go get some Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The only thing that’s sadomasochistic here is the fact, that I lost 90mins of my life watching Sadomania, and I’ll never be able to get that time back. If you have seen it, then you know what I am talking about, and if you haven’t seen it, don’t waste your time, skip it. or at least if you are compelled to watch, throw it in the dvd player, at a party, when you wanna clear a room.
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