Naughty goings on at this combo massage parlor and photography studio.Naughty goings on at this combo massage parlor and photography studio.Naughty goings on at this combo massage parlor and photography studio.
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How bad can you get
I used to be a fan of RDS, when I used to see his INCREDIBLY STRANGE one good movie on TV a lot back in the '60s. Lately I've been watching many of his tedious loop carriers where he strung a few stag films together and had a girl pretend to be a voyeur on roller skates, and assumed that was the bottom of his barrel. TEENAGE MASSAGE PARLOR proved me wrong.
I recall that Steckler began his wayward career doing Don Glut style backyard short films - kids kidding around. This isn't a bad way to start: Sam Raimi and his pals (Bruce Campbell and Bob Tapert) began the same way back at college. TEENAGE resembles the spirit of that sort of amateurism, but applied sloppily to pornographic content, and the result is a mess.
As inevitable narrator Carolyn Brandt tells us, there's a photo studio in the building where Helga's massage parlor is located. Movie consists of random (random in both its shooting and editing) footage set in both places. Two guys working as photographers upstairs are mainly humping. The sex footage at both places is totally idiotic, not erotic and the entire film is so bad it must have caused non-stop walkouts when grinding away theatrically back in the '70s.
An older guy fancying himself as a muscle-man provides a disastrous subplot -his footage is mainly soft-core fortunately. A very busty mulatto girl named Ginger Lafayette is perhaps a highlight in mixed combo action, sort of go-to footage amidst the dross. A creepy guy with fake mustache sort of doing a Groucho impression with cigar is beneath the level of amateurism one associates with well-meaning actual amateurs.
Typical of when this was made, emphasis is put on 16-year-old Babsy auditioning for a massage parlor job. The fact that she's (the character I mean) underage doing explicit sex is normal, as only the age of the actress mattered in those days. What I consider kiddie porn (and that's meant to be derogatory) is apparently legal as long as it's old -go figure.
By the end of the less than an hour show, you have to conclude that this is not a movie, but rather just some crappy footage slapped together, and part of RDS's sorry legacy.
I recall that Steckler began his wayward career doing Don Glut style backyard short films - kids kidding around. This isn't a bad way to start: Sam Raimi and his pals (Bruce Campbell and Bob Tapert) began the same way back at college. TEENAGE resembles the spirit of that sort of amateurism, but applied sloppily to pornographic content, and the result is a mess.
As inevitable narrator Carolyn Brandt tells us, there's a photo studio in the building where Helga's massage parlor is located. Movie consists of random (random in both its shooting and editing) footage set in both places. Two guys working as photographers upstairs are mainly humping. The sex footage at both places is totally idiotic, not erotic and the entire film is so bad it must have caused non-stop walkouts when grinding away theatrically back in the '70s.
An older guy fancying himself as a muscle-man provides a disastrous subplot -his footage is mainly soft-core fortunately. A very busty mulatto girl named Ginger Lafayette is perhaps a highlight in mixed combo action, sort of go-to footage amidst the dross. A creepy guy with fake mustache sort of doing a Groucho impression with cigar is beneath the level of amateurism one associates with well-meaning actual amateurs.
Typical of when this was made, emphasis is put on 16-year-old Babsy auditioning for a massage parlor job. The fact that she's (the character I mean) underage doing explicit sex is normal, as only the age of the actress mattered in those days. What I consider kiddie porn (and that's meant to be derogatory) is apparently legal as long as it's old -go figure.
By the end of the less than an hour show, you have to conclude that this is not a movie, but rather just some crappy footage slapped together, and part of RDS's sorry legacy.
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- lor_
- Jul 7, 2015
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