Devil's Little Acre (1972)
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Three brother, all farmers, decide they need some women in their lives so they call the Ozark Maids Employment Agency (ran by Rene Bond) who quickly send a couple girls over.
Ray Dennis Steckler is such a fascinating director as he made some really awful comedies, some really awful horror movies and he also made some adult movies but refused to ever really talk about them. I've always found him adult movies to be a lot more interesting than his regular films because they're what I'd call anti-porn meaning that you can tell he didn't want to make them and he tried to make them as ugly and as different from the normal as possible.
The strange thing about DEVIL'S LITTLE ACRE is that it's actually a softcore picture that has some really weird things in it. For starters, there are a couple scenes where the male actors are fully erect yet Steckler does everything he can for us not to see any actual hardcore action. If you're not going to see it then why have the actors "up" so to speak? The simulated sex scenes are laughably bad in the way they were shot so these didn't help matters.
Another strange thing about the picture is that the comedy is just downright bad and these three brothers are about as annoying as they get. There are a lot of close-ups of the female body but there's really not too much else going on here. I'm really not sure what the hell Steckler was doing with this but it's certainly poorly made and makes very little sense. Again, my love of Bond made me watch this movie and as usual she's quite charming and I do think it's funny that she got to work with Steckler and Edward D. Wood, Jr..
* 1/2 (out of 4)
Three brother, all farmers, decide they need some women in their lives so they call the Ozark Maids Employment Agency (ran by Rene Bond) who quickly send a couple girls over.
Ray Dennis Steckler is such a fascinating director as he made some really awful comedies, some really awful horror movies and he also made some adult movies but refused to ever really talk about them. I've always found him adult movies to be a lot more interesting than his regular films because they're what I'd call anti-porn meaning that you can tell he didn't want to make them and he tried to make them as ugly and as different from the normal as possible.
The strange thing about DEVIL'S LITTLE ACRE is that it's actually a softcore picture that has some really weird things in it. For starters, there are a couple scenes where the male actors are fully erect yet Steckler does everything he can for us not to see any actual hardcore action. If you're not going to see it then why have the actors "up" so to speak? The simulated sex scenes are laughably bad in the way they were shot so these didn't help matters.
Another strange thing about the picture is that the comedy is just downright bad and these three brothers are about as annoying as they get. There are a lot of close-ups of the female body but there's really not too much else going on here. I'm really not sure what the hell Steckler was doing with this but it's certainly poorly made and makes very little sense. Again, my love of Bond made me watch this movie and as usual she's quite charming and I do think it's funny that she got to work with Steckler and Edward D. Wood, Jr..