This film, written and directed by Paul Morrissey, is very strange. It tells the story of a young East German who swims ashore on a US beach. Stripping down to his swimming costume, he uses a switchblade to mutilate his thigh, for no apparent reason. Wandering the streets, he falls in with a streetwalker and her gay pimp who is obsessed with doorknobs. The streetwalker’s father is a fat transvestite who spends most of the time talking about junk food and the rest of the time tormenting his adolescent son. Our hero moves into an abandoned building full of strange characters. It turns out that the East German is in America to recruit Jane Fonda (who not surprisingly is not in the film) to aid the Communist revolution. Meanwhile, Madame Wang runs the only punk Chinese restaurant in town.
Paul Morrissey came from the Andy Warhol stable. Originally hired as an assistant, he graduated to directing Warhol’s underground films when Warhol was seriously wounded by a disciple. Eventually he branched out on his own, directing a dismal version of The Hound of the Baskervilles with Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. Madame Wang’s was his first film in three years. While the cover of this DVD says “Andy Warhol Presents”, Warhol had nothing to do with this film, as he and Morrissey had parted company in 1975. Morrissey has taken a bunch of interesting ideas and put them all together in a stew that does not add up to the sum of its ingredients. It seems as if he was trying for shock value in order to create a cult film with a gay subtext. All he has succeeded in doing is making a dull and lifeless film with some obnoxious characters and no real interest. John Waters has done this sort of thing a lot better. An odd thing about Morrissey is that while a lot of his films centre around alternative and underground culture, he is apparently very conservative and a devout Catholic. If he is is trying to criticise the culture he portrays, it is not evident from the film. The acting in this film is very poor. The two leads are wooden to say the least, and the rest tend to overact. The direction is serviceable at best, and the script is somewhat pretentious and incoherent. Madame Wang is played by Virginia Bruce. According to every on-line film reference this is the same Virginia Bruce who was a Hollywood star during the 1930s. I am not so sure. This actress looks to be too tall, and there is little resemblance to the original Virginia Bruce, who died the year after this film was released, and had retired in the early 1960s.

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From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
A bizarre, yet mild version of “Sunset Boulevard” a la Warhol, with a bevy of voracious females of varying proportions vying for the casual favors of a passive Joe Dallesandro. The dialogue is fresh, simple, funny, as is the relaxed, improvised acting. Fellatio and demythologized sex make their usual appearance, though – for Morrisey – in a curiously reserved manner. While these desperate people and their always-interrupted sex acts are perhaps too small really to engage one’s concern, Morrisey’s talent for a new, weird kind of naturalism (as in his Trash) now seems fully established. Most notably, sex is both ubiquitous and joyless, an almost inevitable chore that can neither be avoided nor really enjoyed.

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Language:English
Subtitles:French

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From Amos Vogel’s Film as a Subversive Art:
A high-camp “love story” of an outrageously handsome heroin junkie and his trash-scavenging girlfriend (played by a female impersonator), this film skips from fellatio to seduction to foot fetishism in its attacks on soap opera myths and Hollywood. A playful perversity, an acceptance of the soft underbelly of bourgeois society, a strange poignancy informs this fable of impotence, drugs, and sex. In the climactic love scene, the hero — remaining impotent — suggests to the lusting “girl” — reclining on a rumpled bed among objects gathered from garbage cans — that she use a beer bottle instead; she does, while he solicitously inquires whether she is coming, then holds her hand and promises to do better next time. In a second scene, she accuses him, in rage, of not even letting her “suck” him off. What with an antiwar Welfare worker revealed as a malignant foot fetishist, assorted females as sexual aggressors against the forever innocent male, drug-fixes or penises casually displayed, the mounting intrusions upon the viewers’ value system mark this as a truly seditious work.

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Language:English
Subtitles:French

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Synopsis:
Udo Kier is without a doubt the sickliest of vampires in any director’s interpretation of the Bram Stoker tale. Count Dracula knows that if he fails to drink a required amount of pure virgin’s [pronounced “wirgin’s”] blood, it’s time to move into a permanent coffin. His assistant (Renfield?) suggests that the Count and he pick up his coffin and take a road trip to Italy, where families are known to be particularly religious, and therefore should be an excellent place to search for a virgin bride. They do, only to encounter a family with not one, but FOUR virgins, ready for marriage. The Count discovers one-by-one that the girls are not as pure as they say they are, meanwhile a handsome servant/Communist begins to observe strange behaviour from the girls who do spend the night with the Count. It’s a race for Dracula to discover who’s the real virgin, before he either dies from malnourishment or from the wooden stake of the Communist!

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Synopsis:
Lacking a formal narrative, Warhol’s art house classic follows various residents of the Chelsea Hotel in 1966 New York City, presented in a split screen with a single audio track in conjunction with one side of screen.

2.35GB | 3 h 14 min | 913×348 | mkv

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Subtitles:English, Italian (muxed)

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In Serbia, Baron Frankenstein lives with the Baroness and their two children. He dreams of a super-race, returning Serbia to its grand connections to ancient Greece. In his laboratory, assisted by Otto, he builds a desirable female body, but needs a male who will be superbody and superlover. He thinks he has found just the right brain to go with a body he’s built, but he’s made an error, taking the head of a gay aesthete. Meanwhile, the Baroness has her lusts, and she fastens on Nicholas, a friend of the dead lad. Can the Baron pull off his grand plan? He brings the two zombies together to mate. Meanwhile, Nicholas tries to free his dead friend. What about the Baron’s children?

2.88GB | 1h 35m | 1024×436 | mkv

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Subtitles:English

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Quote:
Flesh was filmmaker Paul Morrissey’s first production for Andy Warhol. The story concerns a bisexual hustler (Joe Dallesandro) who does tricks so that he can pay for his wife’s lover’s abortion. The film made headlines when it was confiscated by the police during one of its earliest showings in 1970. Though this event is unlikely to repeat itself, Flesh is still explicit enough to elicit gasps from even the most jaded of underground-film enthusiasts. — Hal Erickson

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