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Formulaic Moral Depravity: Sex and Exploitation Scare Films
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The Shame of Patty Smith / You've Ruined Me Eddie (Something Weird)The Shame of Patty Smith / You've Ruined Me Eddie (Something Weird)
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IF YOU are violated while on a date, YOU WILL be shunned by society WHICH WILL destroy your life. (These comments are intended to be read with a sense of humor)
Girl in Trouble / A Good Time with a Bad Girl / Bad Girls Do Cry (Something Weird)Girl in Trouble / A Good Time with a Bad Girl / Bad Girls Do Cry (Something Weird)
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IF YOU skip out on your fiance, YOU WILL wind up a stripper WHICH WILL, strangely enough, have few consequences.
Damaged Goods / The Hard Road (Something Weird)Damaged Goods / The Hard Road (Something Weird)
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IF YOU experiment with drugs, YOU WILL succumb to prostitution WHICH WILL result in car related death.
Two Girls for a Madman/Mr. Mari's Girls/Tortured FemalesTwo Girls for a Madman/Mr. Mari's Girls/Tortured Females
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IF YOU participate in a pseudo orgy at a beatnik club, YOU WILL be pursued by a psychotic rapist WHICH WILL lead to the destruction of your promising dance career (and death in a plane crash).
Bad Girls Go To Hell/Another Day Another ManBad Girls Go To Hell/Another Day Another Man
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IF YOU leave the house without your husband, YOU WILL be assaulted instantly WHICH WILL force you into an unsavory lifestyle (until you wake up. . . but is it a dream?)
The Love Cult / Mundo Depravados (Something Weird)The Love Cult / Mundo Depravados (Something Weird)
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IF YOU join with those stinky hippies, YOU WILL find yourself in a world of mind control WHICH WILL lead to your incarceration or DEATH.
High School Big Shot / High School Caesar / Date Bait (Something Weird)High School Big Shot / High School Caesar / Date Bait (Something Weird)
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IF YOU abuse your popularity in high school, YOU WILL lose all of your friends WHICH WILL leave you tragically alone at the end of the movie.
The Educational Archives: Sex & DrugsThe Educational Archives: Sex & Drugs
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Several short films where the IF YOU, YOU WILL, WHICH WILL formula works perfectly. There is a second volume.
A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine / The Brick Dollhouse (Something Weird)A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine / The Brick Dollhouse (Something Weird)
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IF YOU are a tease, THEN YOU will never find love WHICH WILL leave you turning tricks on the street.
The Dirty Mind of Young Sally / Teenage Bride (Something Weird)The Dirty Mind of Young Sally / Teenage Bride (Something Weird)
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IF YOU have premarital sex, YOU WILL be a teenage bride WHICH WILL lead to your moral exclusion from society.
Sin in the Suburbs / The Swap and How They Make ItSin in the Suburbs / The Swap and How They Make It
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IF YOU engage in sexual taboos, YOU WILL find yourself in a bizarre occult world WHICH WILL lead to a SHOCKING FINISH! (I can't spoil this one--it's a good one)
Flesh and Lace / Passion in Hot Hollows (Something Weird)Flesh and Lace / Passion in Hot Hollows (Something Weird)
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Nymphomania leads to tragedy--typical Sarno sexploitation couched in the framing device of a medieval morality play. Very paradoxical; very good.
Take Me Naked/A Thousand PleasuresTake Me Naked/A Thousand Pleasures
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Honsestly, there's so much "IF YOU" stuff in these movies that the consequences are indecipherable from the circumstances. Endless moral depravity unsolvable short of a deus ex machina.
Hitch Hike to Hell/Kidnapped CoedHitch Hike to Hell/Kidnapped Coed
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IF you hitchhike, YOU WILL be picked up by a psycho WHICH WILL result in having the "professor" from Gilligan's Island investigate your disappearance.
The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare / Behind Locked Doors (Something Weird)The Beautiful, the Bloody, and the Bare / Behind Locked Doors (Something Weird)
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IF YOU allow yourself to become part of the seedy underworld of pornography, YOU WILL come in to contact with psycho WHICH WILL end up in violence. Typical
Mantis in LaceMantis in Lace
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IF YOU take LSD and love SEX, YOU WILL lose touch with reality WHICH WILL lead to a bizarre string of meat cleaver "accidents." Oh, Harry Novak! You subtle genius, you.
A Scream in the StreetsA Scream in the Streets
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This film combines 70's cop show with sex! A really overt portrayal of the "sexploitation film thinly disguised as a moral lesson." Cops act like psychos when taking out the "freaks."
Street Corner / Because of Eve (Something Weird)Street Corner / Because of Eve (Something Weird)
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From 1948. This collection of depraved tales point the finger squarely at moral decline. Many good extras--excellent customer review on the Amazon site.
Olga's House of Shame / Olga's Dance Hall Girls / White Slaves of Chinatown (Something Weird)Olga's House of Shame / Olga's Dance Hall Girls / White Slaves of Chinatown (Something Weird)
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Heard this one before. Drugs lead to sexual imprisonment which leads to satanic cults in suburbia. A tried and true theme that, frankly, is timeless when it comes to (s)exploitation.
Confessions of a Psycho CatConfessions of a Psycho Cat
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Whew! This is an urban pseudo-feminist/psycho/skin reversal of the "The Most Dangerous Game"--very weird; very entertaining.
Saturday Night Sleazies Vol. 1 [VHS]Saturday Night Sleazies Vol. 1 [VHS]
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Three volumes in series. The best one features "case studies" and psych "commentary" on misbehaving housewives.
Satan in High-HeelsSatan in High-Heels
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This Clytemnestra-esque tale features moral decline, murder and a whip-weilding, leather clad cabaret number c. 1962!
Indecent Desires/My Brother's WifeIndecent Desires/My Brother's Wife
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Doris Wishman classic features a bizarre tale of a mongoloid's love for a blow-up doll that manifests itself voodoo doll style on a not-so-innocent secretary.
Cool It, Baby/Mini-Skirt Love/Venus in FursCool It, Baby/Mini-Skirt Love/Venus in Furs
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The Agony of Love/The Girl With the Hungry EyesThe Agony of Love/The Girl With the Hungry Eyes
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