INNOCENTS ABROAD (1971)

Alex de Renzy’s Innocents Abroad is an invitation by the filmmaker to explore various locations across Europe and witness the cultural shift as the sexual revolution grips specific countries and cities. Definitely a direct follow up to his previous year’s groundbreaking Pornography in Denmark: A New Approach, the idea put forth in Innocents Abroad is […]

SEXUAL ENCOUNTER GROUP (1970)

It’s difficult to puzzle out how much of Sexual Encounter Group, an 81 minute odyssey of guided, mannered group sex produced by director Alex de Renzy for exhibition in his Screening Room and beyond, is a genuine time capsule or an orchestrated put-on. Regardless, beginning poolside and concluding with a post-coital immersion, what unfolds between […]

A HISTORY OF THE BLUE MOVIE (1970)

Soon after the release of Alex de Renzy’s Pornography in Denmark: A New Approach in 1970, a rash of other filmmakers and producers decided to get in on the act and make their own “documentaries,” then a semantic-but-legal safe haven for producing or projecting non-simulated sexual acts. One of the earliest and most notable examples […]

PORNOGRAPHY IN DENMARK: A NEW APPROACH (1970)

Somewhere in the catalog of great cosmic ironies, Russ Meyer being the first filmmaker to adapt John Cleland’s Fanny Hill to the big screen is one of the more twisted. The book, a bawdy, lusty tale of a young girl’s misadventures and blossoming sexual awareness, was published in ye olde England in 1748 and was […]

ADOBE ANGELS (1991)

After retiring from the adult film business in 1987 for a more conventional life in Hawaii, director Bob Chinn eventually moved back to the lower 48 and settled with his family in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he became a successful camera salesman at Kurt’s Camera Corral. It wasn’t long, though, before the filmmaking bug got […]

PANAMA RED (1973)

A hippie musician is given 72 hours to unload 500 kilos of grass on various funky acquaintances throughout the Los Angeles metroplex. Cisco Pike, you say? Nope. This is Panama Red, the second film from director Bob Chinn’s Pantheon Pictures and the only film on the filmmaker’s resume that was awarded a PG rating from […]

THE DANISH CONNECTION (1972)

Before he resurrected the memory of the Johnny Wadd character in 2001 with a spinoff cycle of features that centered around Wadd’s illegitimate son, and then again in 2011 when he began adapting and reworking the plots of early Wadd films into a series of detective novels, Bob Chinn, originator of the fictional private eye, […]

LOSING CONTROL (1985)

If you didn’t know any better, you might think you were settling in for a cheap, shot-on-video quickie while watching the opening credits to Bob Chinn’s Losing Control, shot and released during the insanely busy year of 1985. But once we get dropped into the story, Losing Control reveals itself to be an honest, funny, […]

FANTASIES UNLIMITED (1985)

Dipping in on the then-nascent home computer technology craze that made its way onto the big screen, Bob Chinn’s Fantasies Unlimited finds its primary location in a business which delivers VR sexual scenarios via dial-in phone service. As the technology struggles throughout the day with a slight glitch in its interface, Tom (Eric Edwards) and […]

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 […]