Abduction of an American Playgirl / Winter Heat
Welcome to another dose of Vinegar Syndromes, drive-in double
bill feature Adult Style. It's time for Peek-A-Rama Vinegar Syndrome style.
First is Abduction of an American Playgirl followed by Winter Heat.
Abduction of an American Playgirl (1975)
Starring: Eric Edwards, Alan Marlow, Darby Lloyd Rains.
My Review and Thoughts:
Two sexually charged men kidnap a random girl walking down
the street after shopping. They plan on raping her over and over in a remote
cabin. They plot and scheme, making it more perverse and sadistic, or at least
they think so.
Not even three minutes in and you have a twat shot. Nudity,
and two guys that are truly nuts.
First plan was to ball her, as they put it, and then after
kidnapping her and taking her to the cabin, they realize she's from a wealthy
rich family. So, they get it in their mind, to have a ransom demand for Jackie.
They wish to make money because they're broke. The guys are truly dorky, comical and downright ludicrous.
They're both, how do I put it, morons, dorky and they have no brains.
Now the guy’s names are, Fred and Dumbo. Fred is suffering
from erectile dysfunction because Jackie won't stop crying, he can't get his
balling on as he puts it, with her crying.
The plan doesn't go as they wanted because Jackie's father
does not care, and Jackie can't stop fake crying. Jackie continues to smirk and
laugh as each one of them leave the room, every time she starts crying, she
knows how to work both. They are the dumbest criminals ever.
Now be warned this is not soft-core, this is not fake sex,
this is full-blown hard-core porn. You get fellatio, 69-ing, a threesome,
foursomes, lesbian sex, anal sex, and all the sexual acts you can think of over
and repeatedly pre-condom era.
What turns out as a simple scheme of raping and ransom is
going against both, Fred and Dumbo because Jackie is a nympho-maniac. Jackie
love's sex. Jackie loves playing with them. It gets to the point were poor
Fred and Dumbo can't take it anymore, and they end up calling other guys into
please her. At one point, I thought she was going to udder the phrase:
"Please sir, Can I have some more."
It’s one of those wild weird underground porn films with an
actual plot. This is one of those late-night midnight screenings or the Girls
Girls Girls establishments on 42nd Street of paying $.50 to get your rocks off
while making the theater floor more sticky then it already is.
This is a wild fun, funny, comical romp of nudity, massive
sex, and really a simple silly dumbest worlds criminal type of reality.
Now this stars Eric Edwards Mr. Master porn man himself, who
has been in over 300 films. He is credited with the only porn man to ever act
in the 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and 2000's showcasing porn films in each decade.
He stopped acting in porn and went to editing porn and
editing films because of his children as he put it. His last porn feature was in
2002. He has gone by many pseudonyms such as Eric Cowards, Erik Edwards, Rob
Emmett, Rob Everett, Rob Evert or Eric Rob.
What's interesting about Eric is he did the truly
traditional acting in the 60's and started to switch to porn after acting
onstage in play's and performances, and he was a part of the American Academy of
Dramatic Arts.
Audio/Video:
It shows its age but it is transferred clearly and perfect
for the viewer. The audio does have a little static in it, you can hear the
snapping of static, but other than that, it's done perfectly and brought out by
Vinegar Syndrome where you see everything visually, and truly crisp while
viewing.
Extras
Sadly, all you get is a trailer.
+ Dual Layer DVD-9 | Region Free | 1.33:1 Full Frame | MONO
+ Scanned and restored in 2k from 35mm elements
+ Original theatrical trailer.
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Now I want to repeat both these are full-blown porn. This is
not soft core. This is not fake. I don't want people going into these thinking,
they're just going to get a fake grind-house nudity sex film. This is
full-blown penetration and sex, so you are warned.
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Winter Heat (1976)
Starring: Jamie Gillis, Susan Sloan, Mickey Humm, Jennifer
Jordan.
Plot: In this notorious roughie, a group of ex-cons
terrorize and abuse a trio of helpless young women who are held hostage in a
snowbound cabin.
My Review and Thoughts:
Now what is kind of interesting about this porn, is it plays on
the homage of such horror films as the classic, Last House on the Left. You have
four criminals, three guys, one girl, who break into a house occupied by three
women. Soon all kinds of sex happens when the girls are forced to have sex,
where they don't seem to find it that bad, or at least fighting it off that
hard (no pun intended).
This is another one of those double bill porn films that you
would find at a sleazy theater in the middle of the night, or those signs of
neon plastered XXX Pleasure.
Vinegar Syndrome sure does know how to dig in the depths of
cinema history, that is forgotten and bring out and showcase these forgotten
little odd porn, grind-house, drive-in type feature films, that nobody has ever
seen or like to admit they have seen.
Like I say, it plays on that cabin out in the middle of
nowhere, and crooks coming into your private spots, oh I mean personal private
spots, called your home. It takes you back to those old gritty 70 films that
showcased their violent glory. This is like a porn horror film, or
a porn home invasion film.
Now the dialogue is what it is. The acting well, it's a porn
film. Looking past, the negativity, I think it's a great little feature film,
because it plays like I say on those 70's films. It showcases a more sinister
porn, sex, violence, where they are forced into the engagement.
I will say this, I don't think I have ever in history seen
oatmeal rubbed on a female twat or boob before until now.
Video/Audio:
Vinegar Syndrome did a great job re-capturing this film for
the new generation of porn hungry pre-condom fiends. The film is messy, grainy but still works. The audio you can hear the static at times but it's really overlooked.
Extras:
You get absolutely nothing which is a bummer. I would have
liked to see maybe interviews by the cast or commentary or something, even
though it is a porn film, it would've been nice to see where are they now.
+ Dual Layer DVD-9 | Region Free | 1.33:1 Full Frame | MONO
+ Scanned and restored in 2k from 35mm elements
Overall:
Both films are truly interesting in their own ways.
Abduction is a silly comical porn, whereas Winter Heat is a more profound
sinister induced interesting plot woven porn. I do like Winter Heat more than I
do Abduction because it's more of a story, and more of an interesting stance on
the home invasion reality.
For lovers of classic 70's porn, lovers of pre-condom porn,
this is a must see. Both are stylishly done for lovers of this kind of cinema.
It's interesting to see porn films get a good treatment, a good so-so transfer, and a somewhat cleaning or remastering of the films. Vinegar Syndrome did a great awesome wonderful
quality job. The studio is truly passionate and understands what all genres of
fans want. I highly recommend this for the porn 70's style pre-condom lovers.