Bobi (Layla Peters) gets a call from Hannah (Cleo Nova), a girl she met while vacationing in Europe and became "very friendly" with. Hannah is in town but can't find a hotel room, so Bobi invites her to stay in the apartment she shares with Carol (Darlene Bennett) while she visits. She is grateful, but strangely distracted. Two men come to the door, claiming to be from "the plumbing company," but once inside they pull guns and announce that Hannah has some information they want. It turns out that she's the secretary for the prime minister of a European country who will be visiting the hotel across the street. They pistol whip her until she tells them that her boss will be arriving at six o'clock the next morning, so the hoodlums set up camp in the apartment and wait for their chance to assassinate the dignitary. While Nick (Michael Lawrence) is threatening and all business, his partner Frankie (Buck Starr) takes time out to romance Carol, promising to take her away with him to South America after he collects his payment for the job. The two of them attempt to make love while everyone else sleeps, but Nick awakens and angrily interferes. After a lesbian dream sequence, a desperate seduction, and a brutal rape, the zero hour arrives and the killers professionally execute their hit, though there's an extra complication they didn't plan on.
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Nathan Todaro | The Chef |
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Mary Avelis | C.C |
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Ashley Brightwell | Razorwire Girl |
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Cory J. Grace | Mickler |
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Ricky Scott Hall | The Hunter |
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George Maranville | Hutchings |
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Victoria Robbins | Kayla |
| Director | Christopher D. Grace |
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| Writer | Tom Whitus | |
| Producer | Christopher D. Grace, Jeffrey McLeid, Nathan Todaro, Tom Whitus | |
| Musician | Andrew Garbe | |
| Photography | Jeffrey McLeid | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Screen Ratios | 1.37 |
| Audio Tracks | Mono |
| Regions | Region 1 |
| Owner | MLZ MEMBERS |
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| Location | MLZ ARCHIVES |
| Storage Device | DIGITAL MEDIA |
| Purchased | At MLZ MEMBERS ONLY |
| Watched | May 29, 2011 |
| Index | 72 |
| Added Date | Oct 06, 2014 12:42:08 |
| Modified Date | Aug 22, 2022 20:20:45 |
Abstract/Review:
With a cast of only five and a single apartment as the set, A Taste of Flesh tells a story of political assassination, rape, and lesbianism with bare-bones economy. While much of its homosexual innuendo pales in comparison to the average Will & Grace episode, the film is an example of the harder-edged "roughie" territory that exploitation director Doris Wishman (here billing herself as L. Silverman) moved into after the market for cutesy nudist camp features dried up. Wishman's cinematic language isn't easily understood by most, but those who are fluent will recognize the extraneous shots of lamps and feet, elaborate negligees, and mobile hand-held cinematography (courtesy of longtime associate C. Davis Smith). Despite these curious trademarks, A Taste of Flesh captures its images in a more refined style than some of the more haphazard pictures the director is responsible for, with some unique, visually arresting shots that almost make up for the plot's rather pedestrian staging. Like most Wishman films, no one in the cast is called upon to act; rather, the people onscreen function more as models, going through the motions of the story as an illustration of the soundtrack's post-dubbed dialogue. The cast were all regular players in New York City grindhouse pictures for directors like Joe Sarno and Barry Mahon and spend their time gazing into mirrors, grimacing at the camera, or taking enticing bubble baths. The female stars are attractive and don't mind spending the entire film in their sheer, lacy undergarments or less, making A Taste of Flesh feel like an advertisement for lingerie fetishism (one character even enters with the line, "You should see the delicious undies I bought!"). A Taste of Flesh was one of many films lensed in Wishman's own New York City apartment; the director was still using the same location and furniture in her productions more than ten years later for the delirious, sadistic A Night to Dismember
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