The films

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Alvin Purple

The sex comedy that funded the entire boom. Historically important, hard going.

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Bad Girls Go to Hell

The definitive Doris Wishman roughie: grimy, deranged, and edited by someone allergic to faces.

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Scum of the Earth

Herschell Gordon Lewis invents the roughie the same year he invents gore. Busy man.

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The Curious Dr. Humpp

Argentine, insane, and re-cut by its US distributor into something stranger.

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The Immoral Mr. Teas

Historically pivotal, formally inert. Watch ten minutes and read about the rest.

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The House on the Edge of the Park

Deodato points Last House at a dinner party. Grubby, mean, effective.

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Supervixens

Meyer's biggest hit of the decade, and his cartoon violence at its most cartoonish.

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Vixen!

The one that made the money and triggered the obscenity fight.

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Lorna

Meyer stops joking. The one where the sun goes behind a cloud.

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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls

Meyer and Roger Ebert, at a major studio, on drugs. Somehow released.

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Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!

Meyer's best. Tura Satana is a genuine screen presence and the dialogue snaps.