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If it wasn't for the fact that he was the head of a S/M sex film
company, you'd think Howard (Nick Moriarty) was overcome by sexual
inhibitions of all sorts: He never touches his beautiful and willing wife
Vicky (Victoria Wren) - who's long hit the needle because of this -, his
hot employees complain that he doesn't harrass them sexually even one bit,
and he clearly doesn't enjoy the stuff his company puts out. So what's
wrong with him? Well, he has long become a serial rapist, and he only
can get it on if his victim doesn't want him. He has already raped dozens
of women, because in his sick mind "they all deserved it", and
he isn't one to stop soon. Of course he knows it's wrong, but hey, a man
has to have his hobby, doesn't he? (Of course, the not only politically
correct answer to this is "no", but we're talking about Howard
and his mindset now, not our own convictions.) Vicky of course doesn't
know about his weird habits, and wants to try everything to get his sexual
appetite up again, so she and a model friend of hers want to drag him to a
fetish masque - but he refuses but tells the girls to go without him ...
then he attends the masque after all because he wants to rape Vicky's
friend - but when he tears off his victim's mask, he finds it's his own
wife (apparently she and her friend have exchanged masks) and when she
tears off his, she finds out what sort of a man she's married to ... Howard
runs off, then has a drink at a bar to calm his nerves, where he meets a
beautiful woman he follows home ... Vicky meanwhile meets a man in
a vampire mask (Christopher Winters), who takes her to a private
room at the party where a few guests have a perverse orgy that includes a
woman bathing in cheap champagne, another serving as a salad plate.
Eventually, Vicky falls for her new companion and they make love. Howard
has meanwhile cornered his victim-to-be in the elevator, when she suddenly
beats him up and knocks him out. When he comes to, he finds himself all
tied up and readied for severe torture. You see, his victim-to-be was
actually a man-hating karate teacher one of his former victims (Carol
Baughman) has hired to lure him into a trap to have her sweet revenge on
him ... ouch (and deservedly so). Mondo Keyhole is a fun
roughie from the mid-1960's, and one of the rather uneven Jack Hill's most
interesting movies: While it's perverse as it could have been back then,
it does tell a full-fledged story in a psychedelic way, shows traces of
film noir, is elegantly filmed, features stylish sets and costumes, and
actually doesn't just present perversion for the perversion's sake but at
least touches the philosophy behind it (and makes fun of it in a few
tongue-in-cheek monologues). Probably not for everybody, but definitely
worth a look for those who can turn off their
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