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Wacky sexploitation.
Jens-2822 June 1999
"Nymphs Anonymous" is a league of women who...eh...just can't get enough! One woman tries to seduce everyone in her path; her husband, landlord, shrink and when that's not enough she calls for the FFF (Fast Fast Relief!) who arrives with two men. Her immortal comment: WHAT! ONLY TWO!? They accidential shots her husband and.......well you'll have to see for yourself. Badly shot & acted but who cares when those sleazy wacky juices are flowing! Another Something Weird Video to lose your mind to.
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8/10
Racy and loopy 60's soft-core romp
Woodyanders23 January 2015
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Sexually voracious Laura Ellis (a sultry portrayal by alluring long-haired brunette Natasha) joins a special secret organization in order to satisfy her insatiable carnal desires. When her husband Stan (likable hunky lunk Gordon) finds out about this, he puts on a monster mask and embarks on a killing spree.

Director Manuel Conde, working from a gloriously wacky script by Jean Van Hearn, relates the enjoyably sleazy and outrageous story at a quick pace, maintains an engaging screwball tone throughout, further spices things up with an amusing sense of brash humor (the scene with a vacuum cleaner salesman is a hoot!), does an ace job of crafting a supremely cool'n'swank atmosphere of blithe decadence, and delivers oodles of yummy female nudity (voluptuous blonde bombshell Jymi in particular provides quite a delicious eyeful sans clothes). Jack King amuses as a pesky wannabe helpful psychiatrist while Gary Kent pops up in a neat small role as a gun-toting thug. Gregory Sandor's stark black and white cinematography gives this flick a suitably seedy noirish look. The groovy score by The Sense of Humor hits the right-on swinging spot. Nice naughty fun.
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8/10
Nymphs Anonymous
gavcrimson27 September 2020
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A wacky journey into sexploitation heartland, Nymphs Anonymous is blessed with extremely witty dialogue, a gleeful lack of taste, plus amateur but entertaining turns by exhibitionist performers, that anticipates John Waters' early stock company. Initially appearing to be about a cloak and dagger feminist organisation called FFS, whose attempts to "take away the vote from the feeble man" involves offering up obedient male prostitutes to bored female suburbanites (FFS stands for 'Fast, Fast Relief'). The film's attention soon shifts to housewife Laura, who having become bored by her asexual husband and unimpressed by the sexual attention afforded to her by a door-to-door salesman, calls on FFS's services. Hubby Stan however responds to the discovery of his wife's infidelity by retreating to a nearby hillside, donning a Halloween mask and becoming a sniper, taking out various FFS studs with his high powered rifle. Eventually Stan comes down from the hills to finish off his wife, only to be talked out of it by her ("Stan, if you are going to kill every man I go to bed with, we're going to have a very unhappy marriage"), and somehow gets recruited into being a stud for FFS himself. A sense of utter confusion reigns supreme for poor Stan -not to mention the film's audience- as various interested parties (an Irish cop, a chubby psychiatrist, a germaphobe swinger, a lesbian couple, a pair of undertakers) also show up at the couple's house only to wind up either naked or dead.

The material here has the potential to be misogynistic, tapping into male fears about female sexuality and the women's movement, but Manuel Conde keeps things light and thoroughly tongue in cheek. Every topic, no matter how taboo, is treated with utter irreverence here, from incest to cold blooded murder, making Nymphs Anonymous feel like a warm up for Conde's later, more notorious hardcore production Sex Psycho (1970) aka Widow Blue, another film whose main source of humour was the inconvenience of having to dispose of dead bodies in the midst of a suburban sex orgy. The main cast are either hiding under first names only ('starring Natasha and Gordon') or joke pseudonyms (Loie Lane, Banana Peel) but look out for legendary pin-up model Michelle Angelo in the opening titles and later as the non-butch half of the lesbian couple, and a young Gary Kent as an ill-fated stud for rent.

Highly recommended, Nymphs Anonymous deserves to be less Anonymous
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Lots of Nudity but Way Too Long
Michael_Elliott8 January 2013
Nymphs (Anonymous) (1968)

* (out of 4)

The title refers to a club for women (all wearing Zorro masks) that send out men to those who need an endless supply of them. In this case, a house wife is unsatisfied by her husband and we see her various sex scenes with countless men. You know, if I was twelve-years-old then I probably would have loved this thing. I mean, if you've never seen a woman naked in your life and you remember those days of staying up late to catch something on Cinemax then you know what one might be willing to do to see some skin at a young age. However, I'm not twelve anymore and this film here was just downright boring and hard to get through even with the non-stop nudity. The biggest problem with this movie is that it's just boring, doesn't have a very interesting story and it just drags to the point where it's quite painful to sit through. Clocking in at 87-minutes, this is way too long for this type of film. I enjoy these sexploitation pictures but there's no question that most of them don't feature enough entertainment for a short subject let alone something this long. At least the majority of the women are good looking.
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