Sadomania

Jesus Franco #8

Contains so much nudity it stops being gratuitous and simply becomes boring and tedious.

The transsexual warden of a womens prison loans the prisoners out to the corrupt governor and his bisexual wife as playthings. The uniform for the prisoners is a pair of blue short shorts and nothing else, and the uniform for the guards is brown short shorts and a machine gun. Despite the continuous onscreen nudity, most of it isn't very titillating and the sex is much less explicit than Franco's other stuff from this genre. Franco himself has a hilarious cameo as the gay owner of a brothel.

What makes Sadomania kind of good a (Franco-)movie is it's pretty short and exploitative exposition and the fun to watch finale. Okay, the rest of the movies is pretty much filled with sleaze which is kinda good. But apart from that the sleaze is just too innocent and the movie overall's just too long and all these naked damsels in distress do not make up for the movie idling most of it's runtime trying to really develop a story. There are worse Francos - but there are definitively better.