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Pleasures of the Damned

USA 2005
produced by
Mark Leake, Sean Tigert, Mark Colegrove for Dire Wit Films
directed by Mark Leake (as Antonello Giallo)
starring Sean Tigert, Bubba Brian, Megan Mundane, John Enke, Larry Gamber, Dustin Edwards, Rob Baillet, Steve 'Hobart' Ward, Linda Carrigan, Mark Leake, Dustin Blanks, Ian Potter, Ryan Thomas, Mark Colegrove
written by Mark Leake (as Antonello Giallo), music by Sean Tigert, special effects by Ian Potter, Paul Joyce, Doug Sakmann, cinematography & editing by Mark Colegrove

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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Evelyn's (Linda Carrigan) brother Tommy (Dustin Blanks) has joined the cult of Brother Love (Bubba Brian), and now she has hired private dick and Vietnam veteran with a dark secret Jack Steele (Sean Tigert) to get her brother back - and it's high time, too, because Brother Love is a Satanist and he has chosen Tommy to be his next human sacrifice.

Now throw a quintet of bikers (John Enke, Larry Gamber, Dustin Edwards, Rob Baillet, Steve 'Hobart' Ward) who rape everyone in their way into the mix, as well as a professor dabbling in Satanism (Mark Leake) and his student Julia (Megan Mundane) and let them all as well as Steele and Brother Love loose in a forest searching for the definitive book on Black Magic, and then have them fight not only against each other but also against a gang of black-robed cannibalistic mystical monks, and you pretty much know what's going to happen.

In the end though, Steele makes it out alive and even manages to save Julia. And while he might have failed to save Tommy, he still gets Evelyn in the end ...

 

In its original advertisments as well as the pre-credit sequence of the film, it is claimed to be a 'lost gem' of a particularly sleazy Italian director named Antonello Giallo (who of course never existed) who got expelled from his country for making Pleasures of the Damned back in 1979.

Of course, only a few minutes into the film one can't help but notice that the film is not from 1979-Italy but was made in the USA at a much later date (2005 actually) - and yet it's the perfect hommage to 1970's and 80's sleaze films from both sides of the Atlantic, as it has got everything: People with ridiculous hairdoes, mustaches and wigs, actors that are either too wooden or too hammy for their roles and never show quite the right reaction to whatever happens to them on-screen, dubbing voices that never match the actor's mouth movements, are lightyears away from matching their acting, and are so clearly studio-recorded it's embarrassing, a musical score that varies between funky and soulless but does little to heighten the atmosphere of any particular scene, a thin story that seems to have lost its clue and is little more than a hanger for depravity heaped upon depravity, gore effects that are as crude as they are sensationalist, ... and I could probably go on forever with this list.

But don't get me wrong here, I'm not putting together this list to condemn this film, nope, all of these shortcomings are not only purely intentional, they are the whole point of the film, which is a loving hommage to sleaze films from yesteryear, with all their virtues and vices. And even if Pleasures of the Damned might seem a little too loud at times, at other times it hits its targets perfectly, and at least to a trashmovie lover like me, the film is pretty much as enjoyable (and a lot funnier) than all of these pieces of sleaze of old.

Recommended!

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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