‘White Fire’(1984) - Jean-Marie Pallardy.

Esteemed French soft-core impresario, Jean-Marie Pallardy wends his wickedly insidious way into the cheap, thrill-strewn annals of sinuous exploitation excellence with his 24 carat, Bona Fide, B-Movie Bobby Dazzler, the multi-faceted freak-show, ‘White Fire’. Clearly a canny celluloid alchemist of some considerable filmic fluency, as in lesser, more prosaically nuanced hands, this roughly hewn, uncut grindhouse gem would in all likelihood have remained an ill-remembered trash movie misfire. And yet, perhaps, by sheer cinematic serendipity, White Fire’s exotically enticing Turkish environs, plus some fortuitous casting choices, namely having the stoical presences of enigmatic, no-nonsense actors like, Fred ‘Vigilante’ Williamson, Robert ‘Exterminator’ Ginty and rock-rugged Roman, Gordon Mitchell adding their much-needed alpha ballast to the perfunctory plot of these sinisterly scheming smugglers covetous need to claim the outsized, brightly glistering, no longer mythic ‘White Fire Diamond’ for their own, doubtlessly nefarious needs! 

This spectacularly unusual celluloid curiosity has the additionally funky frisson of, Robert Ginty’s bravura, dock-side chainsaw massacre, and the sinful suggestion of a not-so latent incestuous desire betwixt brawny, tousle-haired Bo (Robert Ginty) and his maddeningly nubile sister, Inga (Belinda Mayne), while remaining unconsummated, their yearning merely increases the risqué piquancy of an already outré, pleasingly paradoxical B-Movie melange! And it is White Fire’s audaciously awkward, bafflingly bizarre treatment of what might have been such stultifyingly ordinary material that gives this high-powered, diamond-detonating, chainsaw-battling, boredom-dynamiting dose of morally mutable sibling-on-sibling action its most transfixing allure! 

Avid sleaze worshipping aficionados of majestic mayhem merchants, Cirio H. Santiago, Brian Trenchard-Smith, and, Jess Franco’s hastily mounted, but no less saucy Spy escapades might well glean the most guiltless pleasure from Monsieur Pallardy’s extraordinarily lustrous, recklessly lurid adventure ‘White Fire’, an injudiciously juicy, genre-mashing, morality-baiting, multi-cultured, chainsaw chooglin' gem from the last golden age of independently financed, iconoclastically insane exploitation cinema!