FORMAT: DVD (REWATCH)
ORIGINAL REVIEW:
(As posted on August 18th, 2007)
This ranks up there next to Reefer Madness as a classic example of a ‘30s scare film. This time it’s not marijuana that is the destroyer of innocent youth, but syphilis. See innocent naïve chorus girls get wrapped up in “wild” parties where they have sex and catch the deadly disease. See young starlets sleep with producers to get ahead and get more VD than PR out of it. See innocent husbands contract the disease from their infected fiancées. See infected women give birth to syphilis ridden children. See a trip to a “real” syphilis ward. See hints of lesbianism. See doctors lecturing about the evils of sex. I don’t know if anyone took this seriously in 1938, but almost 70 years later it works pretty well as camp. It’s not as funny as Reefer Madness is but the subject matter and how it’s handled should elicit more chuckles from you than those filmstrips they showed you in Family Life class. Director Dwain Esper also directed the equally sensational Maniac. For a pretty funny send-up of this movie, you should check out Amazon Women on the Moon.
AKA: Human Wreckage. AKA: They Must Be Told.
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