Uncle Farts’ ‘70s Grindhouse Sleazefest

Independent Entertainment

R1 DVD

In the 1970s the porn industry was changing. With the increasing popularity of overseas films like Emmanuelle (1974) the U.S. industry had to change. Mainstream films like Deep Throat (1972) and The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) showed the way. Using the big-movie professional techniques perfected in the U.S. porn could be turned into a full-length feature with a plot and good cinematography and acting. This would produce a higher quality film with its sleazy nature overcome. Many of the actors and actresses came from a grindhouse background. There was big money to be made – if you could find a theatre game to show the films. Most were confined to the late night sessions.

Even the grindhouse industry, the little back street theatres that showed continuous low quality porn shorts, could see the change coming. There was still a market for short porn loops but gradually they started to get longer, incorporate a plot, and be filmed in colour. It was still, however, the last gasp of a dying industry. The home video recorder replaced the grindhouse theatres and the videotape widened the market without the cooperation of the theatres. When every little video shop had a collection of “under the counter” films people could finally choose what they wanted to watch.

The films on this compilation are from that last period of true grindhouse. They are rather poor quality as you would expect from a film that was played regularly, and the plots are laughably silly. Sound was generally non-existent. There is no penetration or “money shot” – yet.

The compilation would have been improved if the films were digitally cleaned up. It would have improved again if the producers cut the pointless and crude Uncle Fart animations that do nothing to introduce the films.

We get four films on the DVD.

Sex Odyssey is a group of remarkably clean shaven cavemen who meet a group of luxuriously unshaven cave women. Guess what happens next? The sound track is very obviously overdubbed with lots of grunts and screaming.

Dionysius: the Greek god comes to earth where he is seduced very thoroughly then killed. He seems to enjoy the experience and comes back for more.

Honky Tonk Nights: a girl wants people to appreciate her for her singing, not for her mammaries.

Satan’s Daughter: more of the usual.

The films are not great but they are well representative of the change of emphasis in the industry.

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