After watching so many cheap Ray Dennis Steckler porno flicks, the first thing you notice about this one is that it at least looks like a real movie. The camerawork is much better and the acting (especially by Steckler’s wife, Carolyn Brandt) is certainly an upgrade from the likes of Count Al-Kum and Dr. Cock-Luv. That doesn’t exactly make it “good”, but it is one of the best Steckler pornos that I have seen.
Brandt plays a reporter named Janice who is doing a story on a professor of the occult (Kelly Guthrie). When he reads a cursed parchment, it awakens a Satanist named Volta (Doug Darush, who kind of looks like Adam Driver). He seduces Janice’s roommate, a hooker named Diane (Lilly Lamarr) and soon, he takes possession of her soul. Volta then commands her to “bring more souls to Satan”, which is just a fancy way of saying, “Stab a bunch of people”. Eventually, the professor (who has spent most of the movie sitting in his office staring at the wall and yelling, “EVIL! EVIL!”) arrives on the scene to perform a sexorcism (driving away a spirit who has sexually possessed someone).
Although most of the dialogue comes in the form of narration, what spoken dialogue we do get is pretty great. Such lines as, “SEXORCISM? What the fuck is that?” and “Bite it! Chew it! Suck it! You can’t hurt me!” had me chuckling. The sex scenes are slightly better than most of Steckler’s previous porn work, although there’s a heavy concentration on blow job scenes. The lack of variety also doesn’t help as Lamarr is the lone female sex performer, but I must admit, the Satanist angle works better in a porno than say, vampires or Nazis. That doesn’t hide the fact that none of this comes close to being titillating for a second.
Steckler does a better job when it comes to the horror scenes. The murder sequences are quite bloody, and he even delivers a not-bad homage to the shower scene in Psycho. The exorcism… excuse me… SEXORCISM finale is also rather memorable.
There aren’t many of Steckler’s director signatures this time around. The constant narration calls to mind a lot of his later-era films such as The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (I have to wonder if Steckler borrowed the idea from his pal Coleman Francis’ Beast of Yucca Flats) and the stabbing scenes are kind of similar to the ones found in The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies. Steckler’s stock players are rather plentiful though, and include Brandt (of course), Guthrie (who later appeared in Steckler’s Sex Rink), and Darush (who previously had a role in Ray’s Devil’s Little Acre).
AKA: Undressed to Kill. AKA: Sexorcist Devil. AKA: The Sexorcist.
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