SEXUAL INADEQUACIES (1969) Alfonso Brescia's sex shockumentary
3791DVD
Alfonso
Brescia's Mondo Documentary on Sexual Perversions
Original
Italian Title: INADEGQUENZA SESSUALE also known as: NEL LABIRINTO DEL SESSO [Labyrinth of Sex]
and SESSO [Sex]
director: Alfonso
Brescia
starring Orchidea de Santis · Franco Ressel · Susy Andersen
· Maria Pia Conte · Ugo Boccaletti · Gioia Desideri
Professor
Emilio Servadio is the host for Alfonso Brescia's mondo film, a collection
of sequences which paint sex as a depressing and nasty pastime. Witness
a nymphomaniac take a cold shower to calm herself down before surrendering
to her base impulses and, then, venturing to a movie theater to pick
up some man, plus a pervert flashing a schoolgirl, a freaky fetishist
who creates the 'ideal woman' from mannequins, a young girl who sees
her mother beaten and becomes a murderess, another child locked in a
closet who becomes a whip-loving masochist, plus lots more.
This
is a particularly deceptive 'documentary' that starts with the graphic
birth of a baby (upper left photo) and then spirals into a series of
vignettes designed to condemn the very behavior that it exploits. Of
course, the vast majority of segments are not real, rather scenes
lifted from obscure movies. But a few were shot by director Alfonso
Brescia, featuring [then unknown] actors and actresses. For example,
the pervert who makes love to his mannequin is actor Franco Ressel who
made SINS
OF MADAME BOVARY later the same year. Interesting, one of his
costars in that movie was Maria Pia Conte who also shows up in this
project. Susy Andersen had just made the Zombie/Peplum WAR
OF THE ZOMBIES and Orchidea de Santis would costar with Paul
Naschy in SEVEN
MURDERS FOR SCOTLAND YARD a few years later.
This
whole thing was unapologetically strung together by genre filmmaker
Brescia (usually operating under his pseudonym Al Bradley). In his defense,
it was an early project and he had not yet hit his stride as a filmmaker.
But, frankly, Mr Brescia had a career that vacillated wildly between
quality and crap. He made some remarkably good thrillers [NUDE
GIRL FOUND DEAD IN THE PARK and HOMICIDE
IN A BLUE LIGHT], entertaining erotica [SWEET
TEEN] and cult actioners [BATTLE
OF THE AMAZONS] but he also helmed some of the worst SciFi ever
produced [SEVEN
GOLD MEN IN SPACE] and mindnumbing blaxploitation [MIAMI
COPS]. Mr Brescia died from heart failure at age 71 in June
of 2001 after directing 60+ films.
An
Italian film in English language; widescreen format, uncut (87 min.),
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC, playable on any American machine. Extras
include selected theatrical trailers.
Strong
Sexual Themes/Nudity/Violence/Sexual
Brutality/Sadism
For Adult Audiences
