Carter Stevens’ Teenage Twins Grindhouse Collection

Classic Erotica

After Hours Cinema

All Region DVD

M

Carter Stevens’ films mark the period of change from the early mildly erotic one-reelers to the full-on porno feature films of the late 1970s and early 1980, and before the genre degenerated to the artificial formula porn of the last ten years or so. Penetration shots and girl-on-girl became acceptable, if not compulsory. The three films in this collection have been quite well restored. They come with an informative insert, something missing in a lot of retro collections.

In the Extras there is an interview with Stevens (actually his name is Malcolm Worob) that reveals a lot about the industry at the time. He asked would-be starlets two questions – “do you have any special sexual talents we can use? Do you have any non-sexual talents we can use? “

When a young girl named Brooke Taylor approached him about work he asked the standard questions and was astounded to find she also had a twin sister. In his constant search for something new for his films, this was the Holy Grail. “I got on the phone and called my distributor and said “Quick ! Send me money ! He said “Are you crazy? You just finished shooting. You haven’t delivered the new picture yet.” I said “I’ve got twins”. He said “How much do you need?” “

The twins were naïve about sex and he had to have them tutored by another actress. Stevens admits Teenage Twins was not his best film but it was certainly the most popular. Since it includes promiscuity, incest, adultery, anal sex (“I want to stay a virgin until my wedding night”), threesomes and a bit of black magic it would be a hard film to get through the censors now. “Family Values” would see to that. As Stevens points out, though, “It was the seventies…sex was clean and the air was dirty”.

Another girl answered the question about “other talents” by saying she could roller skate. The idea of sex on skates appealed to Stevens and so Rollerbabies was born. The first problem was getting enough actors and actresses to fill the roles. He said he accosted every likely girl in the street and asked “Can you fuck? Can you suck? Can you skate?”

Let’s be honest – it wasn’t much of a film, but it made money and kept him going. Perhaps the high spot of the film is the ice cream blow job scene, perhaps better imagined than experienced, but the pregnant android is another nice touch..

For a while Stevens shared an apartment with a punk rock fan girl. The idea of a film set around a punk band was a different one, so he made Punk Rock. At the time of filming he picked a band called the Stilettos whose lead singer was a girl named Debra Harry. She went on to become a major singer just before the film was finished so he had to use the new lead singer instead. He says she was not as good-looking as Debbie Harry.

The film also starred Wade Nicholls, who was unashamedly gay. Stevens called him “straight for pay”. He did many straight porn films for Stevens but never made a gay film.

Carter Stevens films were very different from the one-reeler porn that preceded it. His girls were attractive, slim and realistic looking. Generally his films were made before the fetish films featuring unnaturally enhanced women, high heels and huge boobs so the girls have a natural look. Some could even be regarded as skinny. It was only a few more years before the porn feature film really took off. He believed in the importance of a plot of sorts and he wasn’t afraid to use light comedy in his early films. Deep Throat had already been released and many producers were looking for that something different – Stevens was not the first producer to look for a new, different idea.

Carter Stevens is a man who obviously enjoyed his work. With the poor standard of current porn genre films perhaps it’s time to give him lots of money and get him back to work.

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