Wednesday, December 11, 2024

SWEDISH GAS PUMP GIRLS (1980) ****

Brigitte Lahaie stars in this amazing softcore sex comedy from Erwin C. (Caged Women) Dietrich.  Six sexy girls own a small gas pump (not a station mind you, just a single pump) in a quaint Swedish village, but they spend more time humping than pumping.  The prudish town officials try to put a stop to their full-service antics.  Predictably, these guys are a bunch of hypocrites who do a lot of humping of their own.  (Mostly with the mayor’s wife.)

Swedish Gas Pump Girls bears no relation to the immortal drive-in classic, Gas Pump Girls.  It’s actually a sequel to Six Swedish Girls in a Boarding School, which I definitely have to check out soon.  Incredibly enough, this is even better than the American Gas Pump Girls.  It offers up non-stop near hardcore action with a bevy of beautiful Swedish sexpots with the barest minimum of plot and clothing.  I ask you, where is the Criterion release for this one? 

If it was just a collection of sexy vignettes, it would’ve been great.  However, many of the sex scenes are downright surreal.  The opening scene rips off the ending of Kentucky Fried Movie where a newscaster on TV can miraculously see a couple boning on the couch.  This scene is one-upped later on when the sexy Kerstin (France Lomay) bangs the little man inside her TV. 

Later, we get a scene where the girls watch a Santa Claus porno and get an idea to create a dildo-powered exercise bike.  (You have to wonder if the Gang from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia saw this as it’s nearly identical to Mac’s workout bike.)  Not satisfied from that workout, the gals then strip and decide to take a run through the woods.  (In glorious slow motion, no less!)

Even the so-called “normal” sex scenes are surprisingly well done and wonderfully erotic.  The scene where Lahaie and Lomay make love is especially great as the camera occasionally focuses on blooming flowers to symbolize their budding love affair.  However, it’s those bonkers moments that make this one a classic.  What more can you say about a movie that ends with six sexy Swedish babes banging a marching band?  That’s some AFI/TCM/MoMA type shit right there if you ask me. 

AKA:  High Test Girls.  AKA:  Swedish Sex Service.  AKA:  Friendly Favors.  AKA:  Six Swedes at a Pump.  AKA:  Swedish Erotic Sexations.

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