Honey Buns
Starring: Matt Hewitt, Ushi Digard, Rene Bond, Michelle
Simone, John Barnum, Becky Pearlman, Sandy Carey, Kathy Hilton, Harvey
Whippsnake
The Chambermaids:
Starring: Eric Edwards, Jeffrey Hurst, Valerie Marron, Levi
Richards, Lynn Stevens, Mary Stuart, Andrea True
Honey Buns:
Plot: Poor Harry! He’s a clumsy, bumbling sad sack who works
at the “Internally Yours” feminine hygiene company. Destined to remain
eternally alone, Harry meets “The Magician”, a man who knows what Harry wants
and gives him a red pill that will make all his dreams come true. Soon, Harry
is making beautiful women appear and do his bidding, but there’s a catch! Just
as soon as he gets aroused, the women vanish!
The Chambermaids:
Plot: Mary Ellen and Sally, two lovely maids at a local
hotel, are tired of their boring, dead-end cleaning jobs. To liven up their
work, these two horny honeys decide to give the guests a little extra “room
service.” When some honeymooners and businessmen arrive, the humping and
bumping gets even hotter for our heroines as the night goes on. In the morning,
will they decide to keep their jobs after all?
My Review and Thoughts:
Film:
Honey Buns (3/5)
The Chambermaids (3/5)
These are two wonderful examples of porn films that stand
out from the many films of pornography of the 1970's. Both are beautiful pieces
of American smut. Impulse Pictures does a wonderful job in bringing out these
forgotten odd, weird, and little a bit funny pornographic oddities.
Honey Buns was Directed by James Chiara. From what I can
tell, this was his only film. He seemed to vanish off the face of the porn
world.
This was originally titled Heads or Tails. What makes this a
little bit different is there's a story-line in this porn film, or at least
they attempted to add a little story between the sex shots.
Now this stars some beautiful ladies Ushi Digard and Rene
Bond. Both are eye openers and with huge 70’s style bush. This film mixes a lot
of comedy in with the porn story-line. Why can't Harry have sex? Why do women
appear and then vanish before Harry gets his pickle picked?
The Chambermaids is from the golden age of pornography. This
is from 1974 and basically, it's at a hotel and the maids want large tips and
as you can guess they offer very special room service to horny men, and they
even pleasure themselves.
In both golden films, there is a lot of weird, odd, fun, and
interesting sex. Impulse Pictures
did a great job in bringing both out for a
modern generation. They preserved two wonderful golden pieces of forgotten
porn. These two 70's porn create interesting and somewhat strange plots at
times, yet both bring great odd appeal to the viewer.
The Chambermaids does the same but has a more typical porn
sensibility. Whereas Honey Buns has more
of a strange and fanciful plot, and The Chambermaids is the Wam Bam Thank you
Ma'am attitude. The Chambermaids has a wonderful female masturbation scene that
will get all the viewers of this type of cinema wide-eyed and a little hot.
Did I mention Honey Buns has huge Hairy Balls and a
Magician, I thought that needed to be mentioned?
Honey Buns has an interesting reality in that it stars an
average looking Joe as your main character. No sexy hunk or not a male porn
star. Harry is a silly bubbling goof. He can't get the woman or when he tries
they simply disappear or walk away. Harry needs satisfaction. Porn magazines
have become his go to, but now he needs to know why he can't get the girls. A
magical magician shows up to help poor Harry.
Matt Hewitt plays the goofy, simple, silly nerd that can't
get laid. He shines in the part. Owning the persona of the average office nerd.
He becomes that character we all know or can relate to because we know someone
like him or we ourselves are like it. Everyone around poor Harry is knocking
the boots but he gets no porridge. He soon finds himself in all the joys his
heart desires.
Honey Buns is a retro classic that has been hidden, forgotten
about, and now wonderfully somewhat restored and brought out for all the horny
men and women of this style of film making.
Both these pictures are grainy but lovingly restored and
fixed in the best ways possible. Not perfect, but both work in that they recapture
the glory days of smut.
Ursi Digard who stars in Honey Buns as Yolanda is a true
star in the cult, b-grade and Grind-house glory of cinema. She graced many
countless films of the 70's and 80's, shining in such acting rolls in 71's The
Cult, 71's The Toybox, 72's Blood Sabbath, 75's Ilsa She Wolf of the SS, 75's
The Last Days of Pompeii, 77's The Kentucky Fried Movie, 79's Secret Valley of
the Ultra-Vixens and so many others. She is a classic actress of retro cult
cinema.
Honey Buns also stars another goddess of cult retro cinema,
the one and only Rene Bond. Starring in 70's Country Cuzzins, 71's weird ultra-cool
classic The Jekyll and Hyde Portfolio, 71's Necromania, 72's A Clockwork Blue,
73's Please Don't Eat My Mother, 73's Invasion of the Bee Girls, and many
wonderful others.
Now The Chambermaids is a true campy classic that mixes the
wonderful likes of erotic with silly over the top campy comedy. This film was
basically lost. The negative was so damaged that it could only be restored at
what Impulse has done to it. Its grainy and very scratchy, but they rescued a
forgotten piece of campy cinema that thankfully for fans of this style, can
adventure into its forgotten glory.
Both films are unique and interesting in that most of the
players are average looking people. Small pickles, saggy boobs, hairy backs and
average Joe's, play significant roles in both films giving it a more reality
based setting. Most porn's at least this day and age are glamorized with makeup
and perfect bodies and Hollywood features. These two old school gems of porn are
perfect examples of forgotten retro cinema, that stands out in the underground
department of film making.
Audio/Video:
Honey Buns (3/5)
The Chambermaids (2/5)
Both are: Aspect Ratio: Full-Frame 1.33:1
Both are brought out and cleaned to the best of the ability
that can be. Honey Buns looks a lot better than The Chambermaids. Both have
grain and scratches, but with that said it's okay because these where never
filmed on high quality in the first place. I think Honey Buns shines in the
best clarity whereas Chambermaids is very scratched. Both can still be enjoyed
and to me it just enhances it because of the old style. It makes me think I am
in a darkened Grind-house Neon Lights theater. The audio is the same, Honey
Buns is better and Chambermaids has the popping and grind style, but you can
still hear it in all its classic old school style.
Overall:
Need I say more then what I have. Just know these are old
school classics that should be graced with the love of underground style
cinema. Perfect examples of the 70's style of pornographic filmmaking.