'The Lusting Hours' (1967) - John Amero/Lem Amero.
Infrequently appraised,'The Lusting Hours' remains an esoteric, modestly titillating, strangely enjoyable trip into the decadent midnight movie milieu of deviant peccadilloes, rustic, insalubrious love shacks, lacklustre burlesque, and theatrical, uproariously camp-looking cat fights!!! This hyperbolic, pseudo-docco roughie is narrated by the altogether mysterious, and quite magnificently monikered, 'Gun Gun Sharper'. This stark, not unduly lustful, joyfully jarring, frequently unlovely collage of bawdy B/W imagery is jarringly juxtaposed with a hilariously didactic voice over which endows this grubby grindhouse 'expose' of the sensual aristocrat, the degenerated, lavatorially languorous, permanently peeping pornographer, and spank-happy call-girl an additional frisson of weirdness!!! While the erotic gratification gleaned watching such an antique, luridly exploitative work is, of course, entirely subjective, the outlandish entertainment quotient proves vertiginously high, again, due in no small part to the sublime narration skills of the singularly sardonic voice artiste, Gun Gun Sharper!
'The time is now! Not yesterday or tomorrow! While the body is young and the brain can still be dulled by alcohol!'
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