One of the MANY adult films missed off Severin films ‘Ray Dennis Steckler’ compendium. im really not surprised that ‘Deviates in Love’ was omitted…the fact it was the B picture on one of vinegar syndromes ‘Peekarama’ doubleheaders should pretty much tell you everything you need to know about exactly how good this thing is.

The films split in half, with the first half following a voyeur neighbour as she goes from house to house peeking into the neighbours windows to catch them up to depraved acts such as BDSM,orgies and incest. With a continuous inner monologue from said peeping tom neighbour as she recounts that all the women she’s watching are her friends from high school and she basically ranks them out of 10 for how much she wants to bang them.

The film then promptly announces that she drank herself to death, and the second act is basically the SAME plot, only now there IS now peeping tom woman, its instead a women visiting her doctor because shes concerned shes a lesbian after getting turned on seeing all her friends banging their husbands/partners, again in various orgy/slightly rapey settings.

Ray Dennis Steckler is a miracle quite honestly, able to shoot out a couple dozen porn films a month and NOT ONE of them that i’ve seen to date even BEGINS to contain a PARTICLE of what I would call ‘eroticism’.

Its the same problem as all the other films he made around this time, EVERYONE looks ill, the lightings incredibly poor, the locations are equally dingey and sickly. the quality of the film stocks poor, the quality of the acting is poor, the composition of the shots made me get an ‘innie’, the scripting is lazy, with poor quality dialogue, bad pacing and repetative and monotonous sequences.

The themes are unpleasent and arnt handled particularly well. the direction is cold and offputting…Like…if you JUST wanna see people mash genitles together for an hour, THIS is your movie! but for anyone with even a MODICUM of fire left in their soul. this is as appealing as curdled custard.

OH! and you can add to the HUGE pile of issues with this one that either the only surviving print of this has been damaged, or the edit was atrocious, because large chunks of the film are missing…as in peoples dialogue will cut out mid sentence and then we’ll hard jumpcut to another totally random reel MULTIPLE times from around the mid point onwards.

If it wasnt for the fact that this one was a cheap pick up during Melusines valentines day sale this year, i’d have skipped this one. But honestly? its antiporn. Ray Dennis Steckler could shoot you as many adult movies in a month as you’d be willing to pay him to do. but the man just WAS NOT adept at shooting for eroticism. He is to adult cinema, what I am to open heart surgery…like, yeh, i’ll give it a go. But that wont stop the lawsuits.

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