Horny and frustrated housewife Marjorie Malone (fetching curly-haired redhead Elizabeth Gray) gets kidnapped by an underground S&M ring; she discovers that she enjoys being on the receiving end of the rough stuff and becomes content to be a prisoner of her own warped desires. Moreover, Marjorie's deceitful and treacherous best friend Liz (foxy slim brunette Patrice Trudeau) takes advantage of the situation by making the moves on Marjorie's husband Ben (hunky Rod Pierce). Writer/director Shaun Costello does a sound job of creating a suitably seedy atmosphere and makes excellent use of authentically grubby New York City locations. Of course, it's the graphic and raunchy sex scenes that provide the obligatory erotic charge: Arousing highlights include a hot girl-girl session between Liz and Marjorie, Liz and Ben doing just what you think, and Marjorie participating in a vigorous three-way with two of her captors. Better still, there's a neat array of familiar late 70's/early 80's East Coast porn regulars featured throughout: Dave Ruby, George Payne, Ashley Moore, Frank Sirocco, and, in an especially sleazy part, Carter Stevens as the slimy guy who coordinates the abduction. Yummy blonde amputee Long Jean Silver even pops up to pleasure another gal with her stump in a truly startling scene. Bill Markle's raw hand-held cinematography gives the picture a certain jolting you-are-there semi-documentary immediacy. The funky-grinding music hits the get-down groovy spot. In addition, there's even a strangely positive take on the protagonist's predicament: Marjorie finds being a submissive sex slave to a bunch of degenerates to be both fulfilling and liberating. Good dirty stuff.
Review of Prisoner of Pleasure
