LAS VEGAS LADY (1981)

After professional setbacks which included two troubled projects in a row (one of which caused his irreparable split with actor John Holmes), the creative burnout that director Bob Chinn was feeling in 1981 is completely and utterly palpable in Las Vegas Lady. A blank, 57-minute stare across a desolate parking lot and into the middle […]

BLACKMAIL FOR DADDY (1975)

For such a forgotten film in the sprawling resume of Bob Chinn, Blackmail For Daddy is one of his most curious. Piggybacked with the shoot of For Love of Money, Blackmail For Daddy is the one film of Chinn’s that’s truly dependent on another, and not in the same kind of way that would be […]

FOR LOVE OF MONEY (1974)

“Enough romance… let’s fuck” blasts forth the disembodied opening line of dialogue that shatters the silence on the soundtrack immediately before Fred Huber shoves his member into the mouth of Maria Arnold while the “Mars” movement of Gustav Holst’s The Planets booms over the soundtrack. If you are fortunate enough to draw 1974’s For Love […]

THE DEVIL’S GARDEN (1973)

My premiere viewing of Bob Chinn’s The Devil’s Garden was one in which the unique and unfamiliar experience lent itself to the wonderfully strange film that unspooled itself in front of my very wide eyes. The only available copy to me was the original VHS that was released by Something Weird Video in the good […]

THE LOVE GARDEN (1971)

“I began my seduction strategy the next day,” says Mike (Jason Scott), the well-meaning protagonist of The Love Garden, writer and director Mark Haggard’s debut effort for executive producer Bob Chinn and producer Roland Miller from 1971. And with but thirty minutes left in the film, the audience should want him to succeed in bedding […]

EVIL COME, EVIL GO (1972)

As the world of softcore began to crumble in the early seventies, it became more imperative for filmmakers to try and formulate some kind of a hook to make their projects worth the time to an audience who could just as well plunk down the same amount of money to see the real thing. For […]

THE ALL-AMERICAN GIRL (1972)

Touched with a unique magic that makes every single second count, The All-American Girl, writer and director Mark Haggard’s 1972 follow-up to the previous year’s The Love Garden, is easily the filmmaker’s high-water mark and very well be the best project executive producer Bob Chinn was involved with (where he wasn’t the director himself, naturally). […]

LITTLE ORPHAN DUSTY (1978)

After giving Rhonda Jo Petty her first feature role in 1978’s Disco Lady, director Bob Chinn was approached by Jaacov Jaacovi, friend and sometime crew member, to help direct Little Orphan Dusty from a screenplay that Jaacovi had written with his then-wife, Svetlana. As he had never made a film before, Jaacovi needed Chinn’s help […]

BLUE MONEY (1971)

“But it don’t snow here, it stays pretty green. I’m gonna make a lot of money, then I’m going to quit this crazy scene. I wish I had a river to skate away on.” Joni Mitchell – “River” Captured in glorious 35mm with as much cold, hard cash writer/director/star Alain Patrick sunk into making it […]

TELEFANTASY (1978)

Utilizing a simple idea of a floundering television station grabbing for ratings by injecting a whole bunch of sex into their news program, Bob Chinn’s Telefantasy is like a Mad Magazine parody of Sidney Lumet’s Network it if ran in Screw Magazine. Unfortunately, Telefantasy has not proved to be as prophetic as Network. For all […]