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Cabaret Sin
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USA 1987
produced by Christopher Saint Booth, Nacada O'Toole, Kirdy Stevens (executive)
directed by Philip O'Toole
starring Greg Derek, Krista Lane, Lorrie Lovett, Kristara Barrington, Kevin James (II), Herschel Savage, Bunny Bleu, Candie Evans, Keisha, Tom Byron, Tish Ambrose, Leslie Winston, Chris Thompson, Tex Anthony, Brute Force, Gail Force
written by Philip O'Toole, Nacada O'Toole, Christopher Saint Booth, music by Cinema Symphony's
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The year is 2020: Someone has stolen some sort of decoder from someone
(it doesn't get much clearer than that), and Taylor (Greg Derek), an
eliminator (pretty much a cop with the authority to kill whoever he
pleases), has tracked the thief down to a club called Pleasure Dome, where
sex is performed live on stage in various scenarios. To figure out who's
behind it all, Taylor goes backstage to have a couple of sexual encounters
himself, then he finds his true love Nicola (Krista Lane) in the audience,
and remembers the good times they had. When they get to talk though, they
get right into an argument, and eventually she breaks up the conversation
altogether when she finds out he's not here to try and win her back, only
on another assignment as eliminator. Later though, it turns out that she
is actually the thief he's after - but when he's supposed to kill her, he
can't, and the two of them make an escape to start somewhere else anew -
where they're tracked down by another eliminator before long ... Many
critics have called this a hardcore porn version of Blade Runner,
which does make sense in a way, as both films are based on similar
concepts. However, the movie as such comes across more as a streamlined
and watered-down version of the hardcore classic Café
Flesh, with its dystopian post doomsday world and its
live-on-stage sexclub. However, Café
Flesh was essentially a pornographic yet surreal piece of
performance art - while Cabaret Sin has thrown out all the
weirdness and comes across as a mediocre porn circus that tries but fails
to tell a proper story as everything is interrupted by yet another fuck
scene a few times too often, and while the girls are at least all very
cute in this movie, the fuck scenes just lack creativity. That said, the
film is still at least some fun from a retro perspective for its clearly
1980's visuals and attitude, but it's certainly less than a sci-fi porn
classic à la Café Flesh. By
the way, quite a bit of this film's footage was reused in the following
year's Droid, a non-hardcore feature with a bit of a different
storyline (but a similar cast and crew).
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