Spermula (1976)
5/10
Spermula
30 April 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Not exactly a vampire movie as I was expecting(a lascivious Count "spreading the seed" to fair young maidens), the creatures in "Spermula" are from a planet, "Spermulites" taking the form of ravishing French sexpots with a diabolical plot to "suck the human race into extinction"..without sperm to fuel Earth with a populace, the Spermulites could then invade and rule the planet! Udo Kier is presented as a mistake! That's right, Kier was supposed to be a female and instead was metamorphically transformed into a man..a genetic anomaly, not equipped to enjoy sexual gratification due to his penile inadequacy! Dayle Haddon is the star of the film, absolutely lovely, the camera worships her..she stars as the leader of the female Spermulites on Earth, the one who must see that the plot stays on course without problem. "Big Mother" is the narrative voice who orders from Spermula through thought to her girls on Earth, whose contempt for men and human sexuality is evident in how she speaks with disgust. It seems someone took the remnants of a French sex film and developed a loopy sci-fi farce around it with hilarious dubbing and sex jokes aplenty. Big Mother commands her girls to "Open your mouths, spread your legs, and conquer". The crux that develops in the "plot" is that the Spermulites, once in the human female bodies over a period of time, start to grow fond of the desire and lust that exists and grows. Meanwhile, their planet disintegrates further as they lose themselves in their human forms. Udo Kier's Werner is head-over-heels for the daughter of the town mayor, but his impotence is a major obstacle he finds difficult to overcome. While the movie has it's share of debauchery, I found it surprisingly tame as French erotica. The comedy is it's lasting asset, the dialogue often side-splitting in it's crude depiction of sexual liberality. Some interesting characters emerge as the film unfolds including a painter and his giggly muse and how Haddon finds her yearning for his touch polluting the task at hand, a dwarf and his black ladies(not to mention his beef with the mayor), a Priest and his female servant(who the Spermulites wish to convert in a plan against the Cardinal!), and the town mayor(his obsession with model planes, not to mention his nymphomaniac wife and naughty daughters!)and the various female lovelies which inhabit "Spermula" as aliens in the gorgeous bodies of Earthlings out to eradicate through intercourse!
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