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Because she's too stressed out from both her job and her relationship to
abusive artist Lobo (Richard Sargent), Tanya (D.D.Winters, soon known as
Vanity) dreams herself away to a paradise island, where she & Lobo live by
themselves & have massive sex on the beach (the intercourse, not the
cocktail). Eventually though, Tanya discovers that someone else is living on
the island, Blue (Don McCleod), a full grown gorilla. At first, Tanya is
nothing less than terrified, but eventually she egins to grow fond of the
gorilla - & he of her. ... much to the dismay of Lobo, naturally, who
growns more & more abusive towards her (just like in real life), & even
rapes her - which makes her run off & live with the gorilla. Days later,
Lobo captures Blue in a cage, then makes up with Tanya, but when she sees Lobo
in a cage, she sets him free & breaks up with Lobo for good. Lobo doesn't
like that at all, builds himself a bamboo fort with a little cage, then he
captures Tanya & puts her in the cage ... & because of Lobo's fort's
walls, Blue has no way of saving her. Lobo on the other hand has of course no
way of geting out, but he has the wopman, & to show off his triumph he
promptly rapes her. Now this drives Blue really mad, & he starts bombarding
the fort with coconuts, until Tanya's cage is the only safe place inside the
fort's walls, & both Lobo & Tanya lock themselves in there ... &
not Lobo can only watch helplessly as the big gorilly finally breaks down his
fort's walls, fights & defeats Lobo & takes Tanya with him as his
prize. To celebrate hsi victory, he then preopares to rape her ... when Tanya
wakes up to the reality of her New York appartment screaming ... end. This
film has garnered some notoriety because it 1) starred Vanity, the later
protegé of Prince, mostly in the nude, and 2) because it deald with
bestiality. Both these points were rather exaggerated over the years by people
who haven'T even seen the film. Point 1: Vanity of course has her fair share
of nude scenes, but even later, when Prince took her under his guidance, she
wasn't exactly a woman who couldn't be helped out of her cloths. Point 2:
There is no actual bestiality in the movie, & certainly none graphically
depicted. In the most part of the movie the beauty & the beast don't even
hug, & before the rape at the climax gets too harsh, the girl awakes from
her fantasy turned nightmare. Ok, after having pointed out what the
movie not is, what is it actually about ? Well, it's a heavy handed
but at the same time sleazy allegory of a man retreating to his animalistic
instincts when at the same time a beast develops human traits, & the 2 soon
fight over their territory & over their woman. Is it a good movie? - No. Is
it a masterpiece of sleaze ? - Nope, it's just not sleazy enough. What it is
is a sometimes dull, sometimes funny, sometimes downright silly jungle
exploitation picture that does offer some mindless entertainment.
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