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Overview
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Director:
Writers:
Philip Kearney (writer)
Les Rendelstein (writer)
Release Date:
September 1972 (USA) more
Tagline:
A most bizarre voyage into the psycho sexual! more
Plot:
When Cheryl and her roommate quarrel, Cheryl moves into her aunt's skid-row hotel in downtown L.A. rather than return home to Ohio... more | full synopsis
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The Sex Doll Sequence is Unforgettable more (24 total)
Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Ayn Ruymen | ... | Cheryl Stratton |
| Lucille Benson | ... | Aunt Martha |
| John Ventantonio | ... | George |
| Laurie Main | ... | Reverend Moon |
 | Stanley Livingston | ... | Jeff |
| Charles Woolf | ... | Jeff's Dad |
| Ann Gibbs | ... | Judy |
| Len Travis | ... | Mike |
| Dorothy Neumann | ... | Mrs. Quigley |
| Gene Simms | ... | First Policeman |
| John Lupton | ... | Second Policeman |
| Patrick Strong | ... | Artie |
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Also Known As:
Blood Relations (USA) (alternative title)
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Runtime:
87 min
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Color (Metrocolor)
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1.85 : 1 more
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Certification:
UK:X (cut) | West Germany:18 | USA:R
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Aunt Martha: At certain funerals, you can actually feel the liberation of a spirit from the prison where it's been a captive. more
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Private Parts (1972)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| Warner has a great DVD of PRIVATE PARTS | jobla |
| Ayn Ruymen--actress that played Cheryl | miriamwebster |
| How? What? | xidusx |
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THE PLOT: A teen (Ruymen) cannot get along with her sister and boyfriend and decides to move out of their apartment and into a rather seedy hotel run by a strange old lady (Benson). Here she begins a bizarre relationship with a voyeuristic photographer (Ventantonio) who has a big sex doll fetish.
THE POSITIVE: This movie could best be described as what would have happened had Norman Bates's mother lived. The film's intrigued comes from the way it see-saws between being a perverted character study, horror film, and dark comedy. Director Bartel makes great use of lighting, setting, and camera angles. There is also one truly odd and memorable sequence involving Ventantonio filling up his sex doll with water and then pumping it full of his own blood. The story is subtle enough to keep you involved and guessing and may even take a couple of viewings before you truly 'get it'.
THE NEGATIVE: The film teases you with some sex and violence but never really goes all out. It dances the line between being a horror film and a sex flick and although it has its share of unique and interesting moments it fails to make any lasting or strong impression as a whole.
THE LOWDOWN: An interesting curio for sure that for its time was really pushing the envelope. Ventatonio's sex doll is unforgettable.
THE RATING: 7 out of 10