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(1965)

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3/10
Pretty dull
Woodyanders5 January 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Three brothers decide to start their own adult publication. Complications ensue when the most uptight and conservative of the brothers begins to feel guilty and goes dangerously around the bend.

Sound good? Well, it just ain't. Writer/director Al Mitchel alas gets bogged down in way too much drab kitchen kink family melodrama, lets the blah story plod along at a painfully sluggish pace, makes annoying overuse of an overbearing narrator, and fumbles the inevitable tragic conclusion. Worse yet, Mitchel crucially fails to exploit the complete sleazy potential of the sordid premise, with precious little in the way of bare female skin outside of a nude model photo montage. Only the startling opening nightmare sequence and the sultry Carla Desmond's lively portrayal of bitchy mistress Beth do anything to alleviate the overall stultifying tedium. A real snoozefest.
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2/10
Low-budget Bergman works better than Nyquil
Lang Jr3 May 2006
Three brothers run an adult magazine. The eldest is showing signs of mental strain. He walks around Central Park smoking cigarettes. The middle brother is married to a free-spirit European nymph who flirts with both the oldest and youngest brothers (the youngest is a horny photographer). The oldest brother develops an abnormal attachment to the girl, and that's when the breakdown begins.

Even as mid-sixties adult films go, "Sin Magazine" offers little nudity (most of it photographs of photographs). The acting is adequate, but who cares? There's an eight-minute Point-of-view shot where the middle brother seduces a female magazine distributor who works out of a closet. Only for Al Mitchel aficionados.
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3/10
A real load of crap
lastliberal21 November 2008
Another entry from the golden age of sexploitation (1965-1968).

A real load of crap. I can't believe people actually paid money to watch this.

Three brothers start a skin mag and one of them slowly goes crazy with guilt. Something like Reefer Madness.

There was so little sexploitation in this it was unbelievable.

After one brother tries to have sex with his wife, the crazy one kills him. He ends up killing his other brother, too.

If this is what passed for entertainment in the sixties, they were really hard up. They would have been better off watching an Ed Wood production.
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