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Satan's Bed
USA 1965
produced by
Jerry Burke, Roger Wilson for Prometheus Ventures
directed by Michael Findlay, Marshall Smith, Tamijian
starring Yoko Ono, Val Avery, Glen Nielson, Gene Wesson, Robert Williams, Steve Shaw, Lydia Martin, Cathey Stevens, Judy Young (= Judy Adler), Sarah Gold, William Stein, Marvin Holtz, Philip Dunn, Franklin Clark, Ruth Rawson, Juanita Rodriguez, Thomas O'Reilly, Michael Ryan, Anna Riva (= Roberta Findlay), Joy Durden, Michael Findlay
music by Thomas J.Valentino
review by
Mike Haberfelner
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Paul has ordered himself Ito (Yoko Ono), a mail-order bride to start a
new life with from Japan. And while he has to go away for a few days to
arrange their wedding, he drops her off at a five star hotel so she'll
have nothing to worry about ... nothing but the bellhop who figures the
girl would be a great asset, so he lures the naive foreigner to a cheap
motel under a pretense, then tries to make her his loveslave. But the
motel owner has other ideas and soon sells her to another customer as a
whore. Somehow she gets away though ... and runs right in front of a truck
... There is another side to the story though: You know, Paul has a past
in crime, and his former boss doesn't really want to let him go, and wants
to have his revenge on him by having his wife-to-be raped. And according
to his information (which proves to be false), Ito was to stay with Paul's
sister, so bossman sends a trio of rapist (one of them female) to her
place to rape Ito. Not finding the foreign girl, the rapists decide to
rape Paul's sister instead, but she somehow gets hold of one of their guns
and shoots them all in self-defense ... Now by any standard, Satan's
Bed is not a very good film, its focus is too much on violence, sex
and nudity (and in case you wonder, no, Yoko Ono doesn't bare it all),
while the story is very simplistic, silly, doesn't always make sense,
lacks actual build-up, and the two stories the film tells seem to be
hardly at all connected. That said, Satan's Bed clearly comes from
a time when people (including Michael Findlay) actually put some pride in
their work and tried to add some inventiveness and originality to the
(even by then) a tad stale sex-and-crime mix - so buried between the usual
scenes of nudity and violence, there are actually some pretty
well-directed and -edited sequences that almost make this look like an
arthouse flick ... and that said, "arthouse" is of course a bit
of an overstatement, but I guess you catch my drift ...
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