Posts tagged Shaun Costello
Water Power (1977)
Jan 8th
Water Power (1977)
AKA: Waterpower
Enema Bandit
The Enema Killer
Director: Shaun Costello
Starring: CJ Laing, Marlene Willoughby, Sharon Mitchell, Clea Carson, Susaye London, Barbara Belkin, Jamie Gillis, Eric Edwards, Leo Lovemore, John Buco.
In the fall of 1976 I was in the midst of moving to a farm in Krumville, New York when the phone rang. It was Sid Levine, the front man for the porno unit of the Gambino crime family. I was their largest supplier of feature product, and Sid said he had to see me right away. Urgent. Couldn’t wait. So I jump in the car and make the ninety minute drive to lower Manhattan. Sid was looking grim when I got to his office. He didn’t waste any time. “Look, I’m a grandfather and I’m ashamed to have to ask you this, but they need an enema movie.” I don’t want to break the mood so my inner chuckle never surfaces, but it’s close. An enema movie????? Sid has been given an audio cassette recording of something called The Enema Bandit, which has a scene where an effete Doctor, assisted by an evil nurse, is giving an enema to a bound and gagged young girl. He’s going to use a device called the Bardex Inflatable Nozzle…
Sweet Sexteen (1975)
Oct 17th
Sweet Sexteen (1975)
Director: Shaun Costello
Starring: Judy Craven, Carla Young, Eric Edwards, Ashley Moore, Levi Richards.
“This is one of the ‘one day wonders’ made for $5,000. for the Gambinos. At this point they were into teenage titles so I came up with Sweet Sixteen. The problem was the available cast wasn’t young enough to remotely resemble the title. When my partner and I screened this picture for Sid Levine, the Gambinos’ front man, he just shook his head and said, ‘Sweet Sixteen?…. You guys should have called this, Life Begins At Forty’. Oh well…”
Betrayed Teens (1974)
Oct 6th
Betrayed Teens (1974)
Director: Gerard Damiano
Starring: Shaun Costello, Leo Lovemore, Alan Marlow, Marlene Willoughby.
BETRAYED TEENS is another cheapie roughie helmed by the prolific Shaun Costello. Thin on storyline, heavy on sex, and a pinch of sleaze thrown in make this one a semi-enjoyable if a bit “tired” roughie entry.
Linda is abducted by bikers and her mother contacts a private-dick to find her. Turns out Linda wasn’t abducted at all, but was hanging out with the bikers of her own accord. When the gang realizes that the mother concocted the “abduction” story, they decide to go back with Linda in tow to mess with Linda’s parents …
Lots of goofiness in this one – first off, Linda is played by some French speaking hooker whose heavy accent is played off as a by-product of her going to school in France. The plot is pretty weak and only serves as the barest of threads to hold together the several sex scenes. On the good side – the hardcore scenes are pretty good and erotic, and there is a bit of extra sleaziness towards the end where the gang whips Linda’s mom and forces her to give an inter-racial blowjob, and where Linda decides to go down on her pops as revenge (?!?!?). I don’t know if any of Costello’s films will ever reach the “greatness” achieved by his classics WATER POWER and FORCED ENTRY – but so far, none have come close. Even so – most of Costello’s films have been entertaining and / or arousing – so I’ll continue to check out his works.
A Taste Of Betty (1978)
Sep 17th
A Taste Of Betty (1978)
AKA: A Taste Of Bette
Starring: Pola Black, Shaun Costello, Eric Edwards, Sharon Mitchell, David Williams, Marlene Willoughby.
China Doll (1974)
Sep 9th
China Doll (1974)
Director: Shaun Costello
Starring: Vanessa del Rio, Barbara Ames, Ashley Moore, Levi Richards, Carter Stevens
China Doll opens with private eye Mickey Flynn discussing New York: “In 1648, the Dutch brought it from the Indians for $20.00 in trinkets. Some say they overpaid.” After first getting his balls drained by the babe he picked up the night before, the hard-boiled dick is off on a case: finding rich bitch Mrs. Muldoon’s missing daughter, Marjorie.
Uh-oh. Looks like Flynn’s morning lay is, in fact, the missing Marjorie and everyone in the New York underworld is after her since she’s carrying a china doll which contains a quarter-million dollars worth of “dilithium crystals.”
Highlights include Vanessa del Rio, as a dancer who has hoofed her way “from Vegas to Grossinger’s”, demonstrating the versatility of every one her bodily orifices simultaneously. It’s a three-ring circus with a dancing bear in every circle!
Come Fly With Us (1974)
Aug 12th
Come Fly With Us (1974)
Director: Shaun Costello
Starring: Pamela Fields, Day Jason, Linda Lovemore, Kevin Andre, Valerie Marron, Eric Edwards, Bernard St. John, Shaun Costello, Sonny Landham, Jamie Gillis.
This little movie was my first production effort for Teddy and Tom, the Greeks who owned the Capri Theater on Eighth Avenue. They had been making heavy profits showing the one day wonders I had been making for Star Distributors, and now wanted to make their own movies. They could make back their investment playing the picture for two weeks at the Capri and anything after that would be profit. Come Fly With Us was a Stewardess Buddy Movie, and a big hit for the Greeks. Subsequent to this picture I was to make many movies for them between 1974 and 1977, after which they couldn’t afford me.
Sin Of Lust (1976)
May 31st
Sin Of Lust (1976)
Starring: Vanessa Del Rio, Sharon Mitchell, Ursula Austin, John Buco, Shaun Costello,Ron Dorfman, Leo Lovemore.
Carlotta and her male partner are newspaper advertised sex surrogates who make house calls. When a husband who can’t satisfy his wife hires Carlotta, he is surprised by her relaxed casual suggestion to have unprotected oral and anal sex in order to help him. He indeed manages to bring her the orgasm he couldn’t give his wife. Satisfied, he comes clean to his wife and counters her anger by asking her to schedule a session with Carlotta’s male partner. Carlotta is then hired by a whole couple. They too are surprised when she asks them to demonstrate an intercourse, while she first just commentates and then also casually fully joins them. The first wife indeed meets up with Carlotta’s male partner, who quickly suggests having sex with her and even slaps her butt during the act. Later on, the first couple invites a third couple over and can’t help demonstrating on them the new moves the sex surrogates taught them…
Dominatrix Without Mercy (1976)
May 16th
Dominatrix Without Mercy (1976)
Director: Shaun Costello
Starring: Marlene Willoughby, Terri Hall, C.J. Laing, Vanessa Del Rio, Ultramax, Mel White, John Leslie, Grover Griffith, Jamie Gillis, Fred J. Lincoln, Marc Stevens.
Model Mara answers an ad in “Screw” magazine for a high paying job at a New York City whorehouse that specializes in all kinds of kinky sadomasochistic bondage and discipline sex tricks. The bordello’s middle-aged madame shows Mara the ropes (and chains) of the B&D business. Meanwhile, a motley assortment of perverted customers have their wicked carnal way with the hookers who work at the seedy joint.
Dracula Exotica (1981)
Apr 29th
Dracula Exotica (1981)
Director: Shaun Costello
Starring: Jamie Gillis, Vanessa Del Rio, Samantha Fox, Eric Edwards, Gordon G. Duvall, Denise Sloan, Diana Sloan, Bobby Astyr, Donald Blank, Alba Bonn, Murray Bukofski, Roger Caine, Inez De Falla, Christine De Shaffer, Leigh Hope, Ron Jeremy, Tony Mansfield, Carol Marcoe, Jim Messina, Dave Ruby, Robin Sane, Herschel Savage, Sidney Spade, Marc Valentine, Randy West, Marlene Willoughby, Terry Yule.
Horrified at his causing the death of a young girl, Dracula commits suicide and curses himself to be one of the undead for all time. Unlike Christopher Lee, however, this Dracula prefers to bite his victims in far more erotic places than the neck.
Jamie Gillis stars as Leopold Michael George/Count Dracula. Leopold is having damned himself after raping his lover (in a scene that is both explicit and disturbing), and driving her to suicide. After living in his castle for over 400 years, he decides to do away with his two vampire brides and go to America for a change of lifestyle.
Adding a brilliant supporting role is legend Samantha Fox, who has a unique dual role in Dracula Exotica. She not only portrays Leopold’s lost love, but is also cast in the role of Sally, a spy whom the F.I.B. has assigned to seduce and destroy Count Dracula. In a strange way, Sally’s lethal, predatory sex practices are even more typical of the vampire archetype than the asexual Leopold. Of course, it’s ultimately Sally’s sexual power that brings redemption and satisfaction to Leopold.
Schwartz and Evans (FIONA ON FIRE) combine again for an elaborately mounted film that alternates from drama to comedy and spans four centuries in time. Jamie Gillis is the finest screen Dracula bar none (with the true dimension of the vampire’s sexuality) as he searches through time for lost love Samantha. As a horror film buff, I’ve seen them from Lugosi to Lee to Langell and beyond, and Jamie comes closest to making Bram Stoker proud of his 1897 story. No one can ever top Dwight Frye as Renfield, however, in the 1931 Lugosi DRACULA.
Prince of Darkness Jamie plays Leopold Michael Georgi Count Dracula in love with Surka in 1590. She is driven to suicide by his attention so he takes an eternal oath to find her. The tale moves to modern times with Sally (also Samantha) a dead ringer for Surka. A silly US/USSR espionage plot is thrown in to allow Vanessa to strut her stuff sexually and to provide Edwards with the hilarious role of Big Bird, Chief of Intelligence.
One of the monumental moments in porn is the Bobby Astyr/Samantha Fox lollipop and ‘kiss the snake’ scene. It is funny as all hell clear through to the snuff the Albanian conclusion. Universal appeal abounds for men and women with Vanessa for raunch, Bobby for comedy, Jamie as the quintessential Count and Samantha as the object of Jamie’s sweeping narrative search for true love. A delightfully entertaining sex flick.
Fiona On Fire (1978)
Apr 7th
Fiona On Fire (1978)
Director: Shaun Costello
Starring: Amber Hunt, Marlene Willoughby, Gloria Leonard, Susaye London, Sam Dean, Jamie Gillis, Pepe Valentine, Robert Kerman, Reggie De Morton, Simon Lupowitz, Roberto Vegas, Carlo Tonti, Donald Blank, John Leslie, Michael Thorpe.
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