Hot Picks

- Ready for My Close Up 2019

- Talk of the Dead 2016

- Bittertooth 2023

- 4 Minutes of Terror: Night Slasher 2024

- Apart 2024

- The Abandoned 2006

- Becky 2024

- The Evil Fairy Queen 2024

- The Black Guelph 2022

- Followers 2024

- Silence of the Prey 2024

- Battle for the Western Front 2024

- Beware the Boogeyman 2024

- Subject 101 2022

- Driftwood 2023

- The Legend of Lake Hollow 2024

- Black Mass 2023

- Skinwalkers: American Werewolves 2 2023

- The Manifestation 2024

- Spirit Riser 2024

- Garden of Souls 2019

- It's a Wonderful Slice 2024

- Caleb & Sarah 2024

- The Thousand Steps 2020

- The Desiring 2021

- When a Stranger Knocks 2024

- Quint-essentially Irish 2024

- Son of Gacy 2024

- Saltville 2024

- The True Story of the Christ's Return 2024

- Whenever I'm Alone with You 2023

- Jurassic Triangle 2024

- Midnight Peepshow 2022

- Offworld: Alien Planet 2024

- The Swiss Conspiracy 1976

- Sex-Positive 2024

- Here for Blood 2022

- All Over Again 2024

- The Color Yellow 2023

- Des Töchterleins Leid 2024

- I Am a Channel 2024

- The Hermits 2023

- Murdaritaville 2024

- Inheritance 2024

- The Devil's Partner 1960

- A Stranger in the Woods 2024

- Underground 2023

- A Nashville Wish 2024

- molkipolki 2023

- The Ghost is a Lie - Take Two 2024

- Return to the Theatre of Terror 2023

- The Ghost is a Lie - Take One 2023

- First Impressions Can Kill 2017

- A Killer Conversation 2014

- Star Crash 1979

- Strangler of the Swamp 1946

The Naked Zoo
The Hallucinators / The Grove

USA 1970
produced by
William Grefé, C.T. Robertson (executive) for Film Artists International
directed by William Grefé
starring Rita Hayworth, Steve Oliver, Fay Spain, Ford Rainey, Joe E. Ross, Willie Pastrano, John Vella, Fleurette Carter, Anne Gilliam, Kim Bretton, Edward Anderson, Kay Daphne, Jeff Gillen, Gertrude Marx, Robert Jackson Sparks, Ninon Wilkinson, Gwen Merrill, Johanna Bailey, Lynn Topping, George Brooks, Luis Carvajal, Bill Kelley, William Kerwin
story by William Grefé, screenplay by Ray Preston, songs written by Joe Sherman, Sid Wayne, performed by Steve Alaimo

review by
Mike Haberfelner


Terry (Steve Oliver) is a writer "between books", so presently he more enjoys the lifestyle than doing anything creatife, meaning he does plenty of drugs and booze, and has over time also become quite the womanizer. Of course, this lifestyle doesn't come free, so on the side he does work as a gigolo, doing "favours" to the older women in the neighbourhood - like Helen Golden (Rita Hayworth), whose husband Harry's (Ford Rainey) is wheelchair-bound, which of course is no reason for her to deny herself some bedroom fun. Unfortunately, Harry one day catches her with Terry, and unfortunately he packs a gun. However, chasing after Terry, he falls out of his wheelchair by mere accident, bangs his head and dies. As mentioned, a mere accident, and yet Terry's quick to take a powder, leaving Helen to deal with the affair on her own. Another client of his, Pauline (Fay Spain), asks him out soon afterwards, but he finds it hilarious to drug her to the hilt and humiliate her as the centerpiece of the spontaneous party he's throwing at his place. This gives him an idea how to deal with Helen who he's sure will squeal at the earliest opportunity ...

 

One of the very last films by Hollywood legend Rita Hayworth, this is of course not a film that lives up to her standards - but she handles her role with all the diginity you'd expect her to and turns in a fine performance while the film, while definitely from the low budget end of the spectrum, isn't at all bad, pretty much an exploitation drama firmly set in the drug-infused late 1960s/early 70s that on a surface level of course plays to the balcony, but that actually also paints a disturbing picture of a man without conscience, and how that ultimately breaks him, and some scenes (like Pauline's humiliation at the party) strike a really unpleasant chord and will stay with one for a while, and yet make perfect sense in the film's context. That said, I'm not at all saying The Naked Zoo is a hidden gem or forgotten masterpiece, as that would simply do the film too much honour, but it sure is an interesting watch, even beyond being one of Rita Hayworth's last movies.

 

Quick Links

Abbott & Costello

The Addams Family

Alice in Wonderland

Arsène Lupin

Batman

Bigfoot

Black Emanuelle

Bomba the Jungle Boy

Bowery Boys

Bulldog Drummond

Captain America

Charlie Chan

Cinderella

Deerslayer

Dick Tracy

Dr. Mabuse

Dr. Orloff

Doctor Who

Dracula

Edgar Wallace made in Germany

Elizabeth Bathory

Emmanuelle

Fantomas

Flash Gordon

Frankenstein

Frankie & Annette Beach Party movies

Freddy Krueger

Fu Manchu

Fuzzy

Gamera

Godzilla

Hercules

El Hombre Lobo

Incredible Hulk

Jack the Ripper

James Bond

Jekyll and Hyde

Jerry Cotton

Jungle Jim

Justine

Kekko Kamen

King Kong

Laurel and Hardy

Lemmy Caution

Lobo

Lone Wolf and Cub

Lupin III

Maciste

Marx Brothers

Miss Marple

Mr. Moto

Mister Wong

Mothra

The Munsters

Nick Carter

OSS 117

Phantom of the Opera

Philip Marlowe

Philo Vance

Quatermass

Robin Hood

The Saint

Santa Claus

El Santo

Schoolgirl Report

The Shadow

Sherlock Holmes

Spider-Man

Star Trek

Sukeban Deka

Superman

Tarzan

Three Mesquiteers

Three Musketeers

Three Stooges

Three Supermen

Winnetou

Wizard of Oz

Wolf Man

Wonder Woman

Yojimbo

Zatoichi

Zorro

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

Feeling lucky?
Want to
search
any of my partnershops yourself
for more, better results?
(commissions earned)

The links below
will take you
just there!!!

Find The Naked Zoo
at the amazons ...

USA  amazon.com

Great Britain (a.k.a. the United Kingdom)  amazon.co.uk

Germany (East AND West)  amazon.de

Looking for imports?
Find The Naked Zoo here ...

Thailand  eThaiCD.com
Your shop for all things Thai

Something naughty?
(Must be over 18 to go there!)

x-rated  find The Naked Zoo at adultvideouniverse.com


Thanks for watching !!!

 

 

In times of uncertainty of a possible zombie outbreak, a woman has to decide between two men - only one of them's one of the undead.

 

There's No Such Thing as Zombies
starring
Luana Ribeira, Rudy Barrow and Rami Hilmi
special appearances by
Debra Lamb and Lynn Lowry

 

directed by
Eddie Bammeke

written by
Michael Haberfelner

produced by
Michael Haberfelner, Luana Ribeira and Eddie Bammeke

 

now streaming at

Amazon

Amazon UK

Vimeo

 

 

 

Robots and rats,
demons and potholes,
cuddly toys and
shopping mall Santas,
love and death and everything in between,
Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

is all of that.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to
-
a collection of short stories and mini-plays
ranging from the horrific to the darkly humourous,
from the post-apocalyptic
to the weirdly romantic,
tales that will give you a chill and maybe a chuckle, all thought up by
the twisted mind of
screenwriter and film reviewer
Michael Haberfelner.

 

Tales to Chill
Your Bones to

the new anthology by
Michael Haberfelner

 

Out now from
Amazon!!!