Remember See You Next Wednesday? You know, the porno David and Jack were watching in An American Werewolf in London? Well, I was thinking about that film-within-a-film a lot while watching The Office Party. It has the same style of flatly filmed softcore scenes mixed with dry humor (although this one is actually kind of funny). After seeing something like this, you realize what a spot-on recreation that scene was.
A boss (Alan Lake) and his sexy secretary (Pamela Grafton) are secretly having an affair at the office behind their respective partners’ backs. A salesgirl named Sally (Theresa Wood) is about to be married, so everyone in the office decides to throw her an after-hours party. Once the drinks start flowing, the clothes start hitting the floor, and couples go sneaking off for a good shagging.
From British sexploitation maverick, writer-director David Hamilton-Grant, The Office Party has a decent amount of skin, a handful of respectable laughs, and is less than an hour long. The setting is fun as the office is a distribution arm for softcore movies. (The filmmakers probably just filmed the thing in their own office to save money.) The posters on the wall, both for real and fake movies, are amusing too. It was fun seeing an ad slick for the Candace Rialson flick Pets (under the title Submission), but my favorite ad was for a film called Frankenstein was a Lesbian!
The sex and nude scenes are somewhat brief, but for something this short, I’d say you get your money’s worth. The humor works surprisingly well though as some of the banter is genuinely good for a laugh. I also liked the scene where the staff rode an elevator and imagined their co-workers nude.
Some may feel shortchanged by the lack of an actual plot. If you were expecting the plotline with the philandering boss and his cheating secretary to be resolved (either by them being found out by their spouses or running off with one another), forget it. At fifty-three minutes, this movie doesn’t have time for shit like that. This is The Office Party and it’s about the office party. I kind of liked that.
Hamilton-Grant later landed himself in hot water with the authorities when he released the “Video Nasty” Nightmare in the UK. (This, along with a few of his other British skin flicks can be found as bonus features on Severin’s 4K UHD release of the film.)
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