Fredric Hobbs made some strange movies, that's for sure. Only three are available - this one, Godmonster of Indian Flats and Alabama's Ghost - and none of them are alike other than the fact that all three are movies made by either someone who was an artist, borderline insane or probably both.
Adam (E. Kerrigan Prescott) is a rock star - his big song is "You Cannot Fart Around With Love" - who has become obsessed with the Hieronymus Bosch painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. It's led to him becoming unable to perform sexually and, as such, he must steal pornography.
So he does what any sex addict shouldn't and gets a job at a burlesque theater, which ends with him stripping down to just his panties, which leads to him going into the psych ward. He can't pay for therapy, but he doesn't have a singing career without going through it. But suddenly, he falls for a nurse and we have a way too long softcore scene between them.
That's when things get weird.
Hieronymus Bosch, who is now black and played by Christopher Brooks (Alabama from Alabama's Ghost), arrives for exposition that tells us that it's really the future and our hero - or whatever he is to us - is the new Adam after a future war and the painting is really his future, once he escapes from the doctor, who is now spraying the world with deadly gas. It ends as it must. with Adam and Eve making love on a giant flower and repopulating the world.
Say what?
This movie is totally 1971, an art film that hasn't made any more sense with age. I wouldn't have it any other way. Every Hobbs experience has made me question my own sanity, which is more than you should expect for an exploitation film about the evils of pornography.
Adam (E. Kerrigan Prescott) is a rock star - his big song is "You Cannot Fart Around With Love" - who has become obsessed with the Hieronymus Bosch painting The Garden of Earthly Delights. It's led to him becoming unable to perform sexually and, as such, he must steal pornography.
So he does what any sex addict shouldn't and gets a job at a burlesque theater, which ends with him stripping down to just his panties, which leads to him going into the psych ward. He can't pay for therapy, but he doesn't have a singing career without going through it. But suddenly, he falls for a nurse and we have a way too long softcore scene between them.
That's when things get weird.
Hieronymus Bosch, who is now black and played by Christopher Brooks (Alabama from Alabama's Ghost), arrives for exposition that tells us that it's really the future and our hero - or whatever he is to us - is the new Adam after a future war and the painting is really his future, once he escapes from the doctor, who is now spraying the world with deadly gas. It ends as it must. with Adam and Eve making love on a giant flower and repopulating the world.
Say what?
This movie is totally 1971, an art film that hasn't made any more sense with age. I wouldn't have it any other way. Every Hobbs experience has made me question my own sanity, which is more than you should expect for an exploitation film about the evils of pornography.
