The Sin Syndicate

Just keep telling yourself, "This is only a hypnotic astral projection, Cindy.” The Sin Syndicate's horrotic October continues with Episode 22, "Let's Fantasy F**k Now!" Join us for an in-depth look at Psyched by the 4D Witch, a uniquely terrifying tale of demonology from director Victor Luminera. Largely a one-man passion project from the psydonomous man, this strange and often comical light and music show was actually a serious attempt by Luminera to break into the mainstream and further advance his experimental ideas about illumination therapy, feminine power and ethereal phenomena. It's fair to say he made some commercial compromises in producing a sexpolitation film where a woman pulls a snake out of her ass. But in the words of Luminera, "this is a trip without drugs." Listen now, get psyched, get f**ked, and watch out for the evil eye. 

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Someone’s playing this game for keeps. Instagram’s least favorite podcast, The Sin Syndicate, is back for the onset of scary season with Episode 21, “Uncle’s Night of Tricks.” In honor of October, we’re looking at director Ron Garcia’s Pandora's box of horrotic, Freudian depravity, "The Toy Box" (1971), a midnight party with orgies, casket play, magic boxes, and Debbie Osborne as a sleepy-drunk giant. In this episode we discuss Garcia’s strange career path from sexploitation director to David Lynch collaborator as well as dissect Super Bitch star, Ann Perry, a powerful woman both in front of, and behind the erotic scenes. Break yourself in, accept your payment, and join us for a kinky night in Uncle Ralph’s old dark house.

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O say can you see what she’s doing to me? Glory, glory, hallelujah! Join The Sin Syndicate in saluting the flag of Peggy Church and the quiet genius of director Mark Haggard in Episode 20, “Don’t Forget Your Girl.” In this episode we’ve brought along Patrick Crain to help us discuss “The All-American Girl,” a 1973 softcore sexploitation film produced by hardcore pioneer Bob Chinn while he was laying low in Los Angeles. Listen as Gentry gets schooled in “snowballing,” Joe Rubin gets repeatedly called out for refusing requests for restoration, and many other diversions to talk about Erotic Master Joe Sarno, The Immortal Bob Chinn, and the diminishing returns of Carlos Tobalina. We also discuss the greatest mutual masterbation scene ever recorded to film. To paraphrase our adventurous, babysitting girl: relax, lie back, hit play…and let us do the work.

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It’s a nice day to be alive and swimming in “The Rivers of Cruel Intent” as The Sin Syndicate return for Episode 19, a deep exploration of the cavernous depths of Russ Meyer’s underrated camp classic, “Common Law Cabin.” This week we’re celebrating the day of birth of our very own Casey Scott, and what better way than to look at the Meyer film that he won’t shut up about. Keeping it in the family, we are once again joined by degenerate film archivist and unofficial third member, Alex DiSanto (sans riding crop), who hitches a ride in the roundbottom boat as we gush over Jimmy McDonough’s Russ Meyer biography, ponder the state of the RM catalogue, and debate the sexism of the artist vs. the power of the woman. Also, apparently a certain demographic finds Ken Swofford “yummers.” So, pant with us (an animal trait), drink the foul water, and ask yourself, “Is your turntable working?” It’s going to be a most unusual day.

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They may be lost—or only available to see at a German screening—but they are not forgotten. The Sin Syndicate returns with the second and final volume of our most ambitious project yet, a two-part journey through the Twisted Sex trailer archives for our Top 10 most wanted Lost and in Limbo sexploitation films. Helping us finish the countdown of number five through one is friend of the Syndicate and riding crop wielder, Alex DiSanto. A reminder of the rules:

- a trailer must exist
- one film per director
- two substitutions allowed
- all the lost Andy Milligan films are off the table (too obvious)

What is the Sin Syndicate’s cumulative most wanted film? When are we getting a Don Davis/Marsha Jordan box set? How much time will we spend talking about press books? Join us for “Lost and in Limbo, Vol 2” to find out! 

P.S. For those that want to spoil themselves on our picks, I’ve listed them at the very bottom of the show notes.

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Timestamps:
(00:00:32) Intro
(00:01:59) Future of Twisted Sex
(00:08:10) #5 
(00:42:37) #4 
(01:11:50) #3
(01:45:18) #2
(02:08:00) #1
(02:41:13) Honorable Mentions

Our Picks: 
Gentry:
05. A Weekend with Strangers
04. The Playpen Girls
03. Teach Me How to Do It (sub for: Mme. Olga’s Massage Parlor)
02. Infidelity American Style (sub for: Justine: The Erotic Excess of Evil)
01. Death of a Nymphette 

Alex:
05. The Street Is My Beat
04. The Twisted Sex (sub for: The Playpen Girls)
03. The Seducers
02. (Pass) (orig. pick: A Weekend with Strangers)
01. Scarf of Mist, Thigh of Satin

Casey:
05. The Daisy Chain
04. House of the Red Dragon
03. Ride Mister
02. Threesome (sub for: A Weekend with Strangers)
01. A New Girl in Town

Honorable Mentions: 
Gentry: Body of a Female
Alex: Satan’s Mistress
Casey: Corporate Queen

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They may be gone—or locked in a private collector’s vault—but they are not forgotten. The Sin Syndicate return with our most ambitious project yet, a two-part journey through the Twisted Sex trailer archives for our Top 10 most wanted Lost and in Limbo sexploitation films. We are once again joined by friend, press book hoarder and Canadian degenerate, Alex DiSanto, for a countdown of numbers 10-6 from our personally compiled, highly secretive lists.

The rules:
- a trailer must exist
- one film per director
- two substitutions allowed
- all the lost Andy Milligan films are off the table (too obvious)

How many films featuring Peggy Sarno will appear? What lost Barry Mahon film do we actually want to watch? Who the hell is George Gunter? Join us for “Lost and in Limbo, Vol 1” to find out! 

P.S. For those who want to spoil themselves on our picks, they are listed at the very bottom of the show notes.

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Special thanks to Alex DiSanto

Timestamps:
(00:00:32) Intro
(00:01:39) Why Lost?
(00:04:47) The Rules
(00:06:40) #10 
(00:27:27) #9
(00:50:42) #8
(01:14:07) #7
(01:49:40) #6 
(02:14:35) Final Thoughts 

Our Picks: 
Gentry
10. Carny Girl 
09. The House of Cats
08. Love Thy Neighbor And His Wife 
07. Come Ride the Wild Pink Horse 
06. Fanny Hill Meets Dr. Erotico

Alex
10. Mme. Olga’s Massage Parlor
09. Diary Of Knockers McCalla
08. Game People Play
07. Devil’s Bedroom
06. Smoke Of Evil (sub: Come Play with Me)

Casey
10. The Peeping Phantom
09. Justine: The Erotic Excitement of Evil
08. Whip’s Women
07. Come Play with Me
06. Prowl Girls

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Gather ye rosebuds and put on your ballet slippers, The Sin Syndicate is taking a stroll through Central Park and Greenwich Village for director Stanley H. Brasloff’s directorial debut, 1968’s Two Girls for a Madman, a melancholic roughie focused on two ambitious dancers (Arlene Farber, Jean Weston), one giggling sex maniac (Lucky Kargo), and a Beatnik cafe that offers masked orgies with admission.

Before he went for broke with his candy-colored daddy/daughter melodrama, Toys are Not for Children, Brasloff—a showbiz kid from an early age—cooked up this exemplary sexploitation film with a little help from his friends and connections in the East Coast entertainment business, including former Broadway performers and Jewish comedians like himself. Join us as we discuss Brasloff’s short but memorable career in moviemaking, a career filled with wonderful failures, interesting stories, and a whole lot of passion.

In this episode we debate the thespian talents of stunning starlet Arlene Farber, talk early electronic music scores (theremin!), and ask the deep questions, like “Is Lucky Kargo HOT or NOT?” Make sure to stay ‘til the very end, where Casey even has a correction for Mr. Stephen Thrower himself. So burn your tutu, hold on to your passport, and meet us at the fountain for Episode 16,  “The Bruised Ballerina.” 

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Timestamps:
(00:00:33) Intro
(00:02:31) Update (Abortion)
(00:09:36) Update (Bunny Yeager)
(00:12:34) Two Girls for a Madman
(00:15:05) Director Stanley Brasloff
(00:20:25) DP Victor Petrashevic
(00:33:12) Distribpix
(00:36:15) The Music
(00:40:37) Jewish Connections
(00:49:15) Arlene Farber
(01:01:48) Jean Weston 
(01:06:29) Lucky Kargo 
(01:17:01) Toys are Not for Children

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Doris Wishman. Roberta Findlay. Two of the undisputed female titans of sexploitation. But there’s another name that is often forgotten, and underrecognized, as a sexual pioneer in an industry that wasn’t always welcoming to women—especially those with strong opinions. We’re talking about Louise ‘Bunny’ Downe. 

In planning for our episode about “The Girl, The Body, and The Pill,” we learned that Louise, the film's writer as well as assistant director (and former nudie-cutie actress), had just recently passed away. The moment felt right to give her a proper sendoff. So, for Episode 15 of the The Sin Syndicate podcast, we spoke with professor and screenwriter Janna Jones about her Bunny-based screenplay (“Cheap, Sexy and Shocking!”), Louise’s importance as a woman in the field of exploitation moviemaking, as well as her contentious relationship with one of the genre’s biggest names, Herschell Gordon Lewis.
 
Prepare a 500 page paper on the relationship between men and women, and join us as we discuss the “muddy morality” of the birth control pill, Louise’s creative drive to create something meaningful, and the still controversial topic of in-school sex education. But more than anything, we hope you’ll accompany us in celebrating the life of one of sexploitation’s most underappreciated do-it-all artists, the still mysterious (just as she wanted it), Allison Alma Louise Bunny Downe—the “Godmother of Gore.”

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Timestamps:
(00:00:31) Intro
(00:02:31) Rest in Peace Louise
(00:07:48) Louise in Miami
(00:15:40) Rewriting Louise’s Ending
(00:22:49) Abortion and The Pill Onscreen
(00:31:22) Louise’s Influence
(00:47:18) Breaking New Ground
(00:51:17) Picture Palaces
(00:57:37) Louise’s Silence 
(01:02:00) The Cast
(01:19:10) The Lesson for Today

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Unless you’re neck deep in the world of sexploitation, you’re probably unfamiliar with the name “Bethel Buckalew.” And even if you are familiar, you may have been led to believe that strange moniker was just another pseudonym used by secretive director Pete Perry in a series of hay-roller hixploitation pictures for Harry Novak’s Box Office International. Let's start with some facts. #1: Drinking moonshine and walking should be illegal. #2: We gotta do something 'bout that boy. And #3: Bethel Buckalew was a real person, and in Episode 14 of the The Sin Syndicate podcast, “Moo Just a Little,” Casey and Gentry look at the man’s carefree, bovine-focused final film in his Sexy Southern series, “Sassy Sue.” 

Featuring a stacked cast of future hardcore starlets (Colleen Brennan, Tallie Cochrane, Sandy Carey), as well as the always amusing Buckalew muse, John Tull, “Sassy Sue” is a fittingly stupid, but entertaining end to a successful series of Southern sex comedies featuring fantastic fiddle-heavy Country music from the duo of Southern & Hensley, and plenty of skin-on-skin-on-dirt action. So join us as we search for the backwoods liquor still, discuss barnyard loving, and debate the merits of mixing poontang and corn, in surely one of our most braindead episodes yet.

Stack the hay bales, prepare your bee'hind for measurement, and “Moo Just a Little.”

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Timestamps:
(00:00:31) Opening
(00:02:33) Updates
(00:04:31) Plea to TerrorVision
(00:06:15) The Bang Bang Gang
(00:11:03) Sassy Sue
(00:14:44) Sharon Kelly Speaks
(00:24:12) Marlene Buckalew
(00:30:57) Talie Cochrane
(00:35:52) Talie Cochrane Speaks
(00:36:50) The Sex Scenes
(00:50:14) A Scream in the Streets
(00:57:02) Sandy Carey
(01:01:39) Patrick Wright
(01:05:23) Supporting Players
(01:08:59) Southern & Hensley
(01:17:22) Sex Doesn't Sell
(01:27:44) Buckalew Rankings
(01:35:25) We're Leaving California

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Hike up that skirt and show a little leg, we’re entering the world of psycho killers and girl boss pornographers for Episode 13 of The Sin Syndicate Podcast, “The Smut Picture Racket.” This week Gentry and Casey are joined by Toronto-based author Will Sloan, who has written a new critical reappraisal of Edward D. Wood Jr. entitled “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA.” Join us as we discuss Wood’s career heading into the 1960s, as well as his final mainstream film, the sexploitation crime thriller, “The Sinister Urge,” a movie both ahead of and behind the times—anticipating the Roughie by half a decade through its depiction of a nudes-obsessed, knife-wielding sex maniac, while simultanously splicing in awkward footage from an unfinished delinquent youth picture, “Hellborn.” Put on your favorite angora sweater, grab a slice of pie from the cool kids pizza parlour, and come along as we investigate “The Smut Picture Racket.”

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Timestamps:
(00:00:31) Opening
(00:01:39) Pete Perry Updates
(00:06:22) Will Sloan Intro
(00:22:25) The Sinister Urge
(00:31:22) Pornography
(00:38:12) Psycho
(00:49:14) Post 1960
(00:55:43) The Players
(01:06:22) The Wood Estate
(01:17:06) Buy the Book
(01:18:07) Final Thoughts

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