VINEGAR SYNDROME NEW RELEASES IN MAY!

MADMAN (1981) 

Label: Vinegar Syndrome
Release Date: May 26th 2015
Run Time: 88 Minutes
Color Widescreen 1.85:1

English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono Region 0
MPAA Rating: R
Director: Joe Giannone
Cast: Gaylen Ross, Tony Fish, Paul Ehlers

Years ago, Madman Marz violently murdered his family only to escape into the woods before his execution could be completed. Legend has it that anyone who calls his name can summon him back to continue his bloody rampage. But teenage Richie, away at camp, doesn't believe the old legend and calls his name. As night falls, strange things start happening at at camp and soon Madman Marz is back, axe in hand, to finish the killing spree he started decades ago. One of the true classics of 80's slasher cinema, Vinegar Syndrome proudly presents MADMAN on Blu-ray for the first time, newly restored in 4K from the camera negative!

Bonus Features:
- New 4k restoration from the 35mm camera negative
- Original Theatrical Trailer
- TV spots
- Cast/Crew interviews
- The Legend Lives: 91 minute documentary on the Making of Madman
- Commentary track by The Hysteria Continues!

FAST CARS FAST WOMEN (1981) / STARSHIP EROS (1979)  Label: Vinegar SyndromeRelease Date: May 12th 2015  Run Time: 145 Minutes Widescreen 1.66:1 English DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono  Region 0 Rating: NR Director: Scott McHaley Cast: Kay Parker, Mike Ranger, Bill Margold, Becky Savage FAST CARS FAST WOMEN: Welcome to the erotic world of female racecar drivers! These high octane girls know how to rev up everyone's engine, but when a group of sleazy mobsters begin attacking the girls and their friends, it's up to their tough coach (Kay Parker) to unleash her own brand of revenge! STARSHIP EROS: Aboard the Starship Eros, the all-female crew have nothing but time to indulge in their erotic fantasies, with the help of their robotic servant. Bonus Features: - New 2k restorations from the 35mm camera negatives - Original theatrical trailer - Interview with producer Wesley Emerson - Outtakes from FAST CARS FAST WOMEN SEX WORLD (1977)  Label: Vinegar SyndromeRelease Date: May 12th 2015  Run Time: 91 Minutes Color Widescreen 1.85:1  English Dolby Digital Mono  Region 0 Rating: NR Director: Anthony Spinelli Cast: Annette Haven, Kay Parker, Leslie Bovee, John Leslie, Joey Silvera Sex World is a luxury resort, advertised as the ultimate sex-themed getaway, where people travel to try and overcome their sexual problems. As the resort's guests slowly become aware of their inhibitions, fears, and repressed urges, with the help of robotic surrogate lovers, director Anthony Spinelli's camera paints a haunting picture of human insecurities set against a science fiction backdrop. One of the biggest hits of the late 1970's SEX WORLD is a thoughtful analysis of eroticism, punctuated with striking and at times abstract visuals. Featuring an all-star cast, including Annette Haven, Leslie Bovee, Kay Parker, John Leslie, Joey Silvera, and with Hollywood level production values, SEX WORLD remains one of the most significant and thought provoking feature films ever produced. Vinegar Syndrome presents this genre classic newly restored in 4k from the original 35mm camera negative, featuring brand new interviews with its talented stars. Bonus Features: - New 4k restoration from the 35mm camera negative - Original theatrical trailer - Video interviews with Kay Parker, Joey Silvera and Joel Sussman LONG JEANNE SILVER (1977)  Label: Vinegar SyndromeRelease Date: May 12th 2015  Run Time: 65 Minutes Full Screen 1.33:1  English Dolby Digital Mono  Region 0 Adult Erotica Rating: NR Production Year: 1977 Director: Alex deRenzy Cast: Jeanne Silver, Paul Thomas, Joey Silvera, Sandy Pinney From master filmmaker Alex deRenzy, comes one of the most radical films of the 1970's, LONG JEANNE SILVER. Part documentary, part vignette film, LONG JEANNE SILVER follows the sensual encounters of beautiful amputee, Jeanne Silver, as she invites her lovers to experience her unique sexual gift. DeRenzy's cinema verite styled camera captures Jeanne as she experiences the pleasures of men and women alike, between heart felt and candid glimpses of her real life and personality. Vinegar Syndrome is proud to present this incredibly unique film on DVD fully uncut and newly restored from rare 16mm vault elements. Bonus Features: - New 2K restoration from 16mm vault elements - Audio Commentary with star Jeanne Silver

PRETTY PEACHES (1978)

PRETTY PEACHES (1978) 

Label: Vinegar Syndrome

Region Code: region Free

Duration: 2 Minutes

Rating: XXX

Video: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono 

Director: Alex deRenzy

Cast: Desiree Costeau, John Leslie, Joey Silvera, Juliet Anderson

Alex DeRenzy's x-rated comedy PRETTY PEACHES stars then newcomer Desiree Costeau as the titular character Peaches. At the start of the film she's driving the wedding of her father to the sexy black nymphet Lilly (Flower) in Nevada. She stops off at a podunk gas station where she sends the locals into a horny frenzy with her super-short shorts, the attendant is so damn aroused by the short-haired cutie that he sniffs the seat she was sitting in just hoping for a whiff of her supreme naughty bits. 

Peaches arrives late to the ceremony but just in time to see the vows and after downing a few shots the drunken Peaches  gets behind the wheel of her Jeep before driving off the road and into the scrub brush and falling to the ground unconscious where she is found by Kid (Joey Silvera) and Terry (Ken Scudder), two of them men from earlier at the gas station. In a pervy attempt to assist the woman in distress they decide to loosen her clothing before Kid has sex with her unconscious body. 

When she comes to a few moments later questioning just what happened to her we discover that a bump on her noggin has caused amnesia, now confused and unable to remember who she is or even her name, the pair of low lifes take her to a doctor whom oddly practices his chosen profession in a public restroom. In an effort to he her regain her memory the freaky doc performs an enema that ends up being quite a water show leaving the doc unconscious on the floor. That's the magic of this film, somehow it manages to make something so completely filthy into something fun, somehow it works. Seems an off choice to start your porn-comedy with rape and an enema yet somehow I am entertained by it all. 


Kid and Terry are willing to let are willing to let Peaches stay at their place with the one caveat that she must find a job, and what job would is better suited for the curvy Peaches than a dancer. Somehow the dance audition turns into a impromptu live sex show with an army of dildo-donning carpet munchers using and abusing the poor naive Peaches who is chained to a table and left in a fit of tears, again, something that could have been very dark again played for laughs, a lot of it has to do with peaches reactions to these situations, she's played for laughs as a bit of a wide-eyed bimbo. 

Not surprisingly as the film pays out the attractive and naive Peaches finds herself involved in still more sexual misadventures while trying to recover her lost memories, leading to the oiled-up orgy at the end with a surprise twist of incest! 

Pretty Peaches covers some dark subject matter including the distasteful areas of rape, enemas and incest, all of which could have potentially dragged it down, but, through the performances of Costeau and the playful touch of director deRenzy it manages to create just the right mix of adult mischievousness with just the right amount of tongue in cheek humor.

Coming from the golden age of porn the film does set-up a fun storyline of Peaches trying to recover her memories but doesn't carry it through all that well - this is pretty silly stuff - but the incest tinged finale made me laugh quite a bit. The cast is great, particularly Desiree Costeau as Peaches who plays it for cute laughs with a mixture of pouty faced sexuality and bubbly personality, it certainly doesn't hurt that she has a wonderful body with perky breasts and gorgeous curves from the head to toe. Additionally we have the character of the new step mom played by Flower with some great comedic delivery and playful sex scenes. 

The DVD from Vinegar Syndrome features a new 2K restoration from 35mm archival element and sports a natural layer of fine film grain and with it some very nice fine detail. Skin tones are natural looking and the color reproduction and black levels are solid. Vinegar Syndrome offered the film as a limited edition Blu-ray back in October, The picture quality is fantastic, this is yet another sterling presentation from Vinegar Syndrome.

The English language Dolby Digital Mono audio sounds great for what it is, offering a nice balance of dialogue, score and the sweet sounds of fornication. Due to the limitations of the source material there are changes in the audio quality from scene to scene but overall there are no issues to speak of. 

The disc includes a handful of special features including the only known video interview with director Alex deRenzy recorded sometime before his death in 2001, for twenty minutes the director fondly looks back on his early career and sharing stories of making a few films including briefly mentioning Pretty Peaches. 

There's also an eleven-minute interview with film historian Ted Mcilvenna who shares stories of his friend Alex deRenzy offering some fun insights and analysis of his films. Lastly there are a selection of deRenzy trailers for Baby Face II, Pretty Peaches II and Femmes de Sade. 

Special Features:- Dual-Layer DVD-9 | Region Free | 16:9 Anamorphic | MONO
- Restored in 2k from 35mm archival elements
- Archival interview with Alex deRenzy (19 Minutes)
- Interview with film historian Ted Mcilvenna (11 Minutes)
- Baby Face II Trailer (4 Minutes) 
- Pretty Peaches II Trailer (4 Minutes) 
Femmes De Sade Trailer 94 Minutes) 

Verdict: A solid disc from Vinegar Syndrome from start to finish and quite a fun watch. Pretty Peaches was my first encounter with deRenzy and I am looking forward to watching more from the late director of humor-tinged-smut. 

DVD Review: EXPECTATIONS (1977) / CONFESSIONS (1977)

DRIVE-IN DOUBLE FEATURE: 

EXPECTATIONS (1977) / CONFESSIONS (1977)

Label: Vinegar Syndrome

Region: Region-FREE

Duration: 128 Minutes

Video: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1)

Audio: English Dolby Digital Mono

Director: Anthony Spinelli

Cast: Chris Cassidy, Kristine Heller, John Leslie, Joey Silvera, Jack Wright

The fine purveyors of filth and sleaze over at Vinegar Syndrome have put together this XXX double feature from porn auteur Anthony Spinelli from 1977. Both films are of the plot-driven porno variety and feature attractive women doing a lot of naughty things.
In Expectations (1977) we start of with some sex of course, nicely lit with a blue light and ending with a a damn decent blow job. The woman performing this delightful oral routine  is Margo (Delania Raffino) and she's bored with her upper crust lifestyle. To cure this malaise she sets in motion a plan to swap lives with a young hippie-type named Montana (Chris Cassidy). The two women meet-up and exchange IDs and apartments and Margo heads off to Montana's little bungalow - it's just that easy. Margo arrives at the quaint apartment and its not long before there's a knock a the door. A young and young mustached stud enters and pretty much forces himself on her - while it starts out a bit rough she's completely game for this new experience after a few seconds. This guys corny sex-talk is hilarious, you gotta hear it. 

Meanwhile blond hippie Montana is back at Margo's pad sifting through jewelery and making herself comfy in the new surroundings when Margo's one-eyed brother Vincent (Jack Wright) arrives looking for his sister. After some small talk the two get down to the expected sex-stuff and she takes on the persona of Margo which gives the encounter weird incestuous overtones, plus that eye-patch is just the most ridiculous thing ever. 

Montana sends a female companion over to Margo for her very first interracial woman-on-woman encounter. For all of a 1/2 second she seems resistant but she cums around nicely to the idea and we end up with a sweetly intimate encounter. However, when Montana boasts to Margo that she fucked her brother and indulged his incestuous fantasies she calls off the swap but not before some Margo-on-Montana sex action, oh yeah.  This one was a nice slice of x-rated entertainment shot fairly well and with an intriguing (enough) framing device. I loved the 70's styles and the hardcore sex is dirty and hot with no shortage of bush, blow jobs, and glistening genitalia. 

The second feature Confessions (1977) starts when a married couple wake in bed together. The husband Gary wakes-up with a skull-pounding headache after a night of drinking. Fortunately his wife Beth (Kristine Heller) sucks away his brain pain with a morning blow job and when he finishes-up on her face she cleans-up his love gun with her tongue, she's a nice lady! The selfish fucker jumps in the shower and is off to work without even reciprocating - what a shitter. 

Unsatisfied in bed Beth decides to explore other sexual avenues throughout the course of the day. Her husband refers to himself in the third person, he's obviously a douche nozzle. Before you know it Beth's sucking biker-cock (and not very well according to him) so he gives her an impromptu lesson in fellatio. At a party later that night she screws Gary's boss in the bathroom after giving him one of those newly practiced blow jobs while the films inter cuts between a party guest eating a banana, she was so into it assume she's dreaming of a cock between those lips. Later she answers a personal ad to dominate a woman's submissive husband (Jack Wright again minus the eye-patch), she does it so well that she's rewarded with a prolonged carpet munching session from the grateful wife who tongue-darts her to a screaming orgasm. Her thirst for sex  not quite quenched she resorts to one final excursion - prostitution. This one made me wonder what kind of weirdo would go-down an a prostitute! I love it when the john inquires "How Much?" and she responds "$200" which he scoffs "I wanna fuck you, not support you". 

Kristine Heller is quite a looker with a gorgeous body and the camera loves every inch of her, for the most part she has some decent acting chops when they're called upon - which is not that often to be honest - but once again the premise is an just interesting enough to pull the various sex scenes together into a semi-coherent films 

You just don't see hairy pussy and cock-shaft like this anymore, t was a seedier time when porn wasn't streaming online for free and you had to seek it out in cum-stained theaters projected  - now thanks to Vinegar Syndrome you can watch it on DVD for cheap at home.

The DVD from Vinegar Syndrome presents both films in anamorphic widescreen (1.85:1) with English Dolby Digital Mono audio with no subtitles. Scanned from 2K film elements the transfers look nice with . strong color reproduction and clarity, the crispness is generally quite nice with only a few instances of print damage. The mono audio is decent and the score and dialogue sound nice with some underlying minor hiss but it's not distracting. No special features for either film on this set, the budget-minded Drive-In double features from VS rarely sport commentary tracks but there's only so much you can say about a fuck tape

Verdict: Another fun x-rated double-feature from the filth preservationists over at Vinegar Syndrome who are on quite a run this past year with obscure slices of nasty cinema. If I had to pick my preference I'm going with the swap identity turn-on of Expectations (1977) a filthy piece of cinema with a fun premise and plenty of the requisite seedy sex scenes. If you're looking for a quality double-dose of 70's hairy-bushed porn this double feature is just what you're looking for.  2.5 Outta 5