7/10
Hairy Holidays
26 October 2022
Having built up a perfectly respectable reputation with avant garde shorts like 'Towers Open Fire' and 'The Cut Ups', director & distributer Anthony Balch roiled up his sleeves and made a couple of gloriously trashy, alliteratively titled exploitation pieces of which this is the second.

Full of gratuitous nudity and gory deaths (including a couple of decapitations), and boasting a truly weird cast including a priapic Robin Askwith and a highly camp Dennis Price; you think you've seen it all then Michael Gough - as a disciple of Pavlov presiding over a roomful of lobotomised zombies staring vacantly into space - wearing his hair slicked back and cracking his knuckles in shiny black gloves comes on in a wheelchair. Balch obviously knew his Cocteau so the resemblance to the motorcyclists in 'Orphee' of his leather jacketed goons sipping creme de menthe through straws doubtless intentional.
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