Early in the New Wave, when Rivette, Godard and Truffaut were first feeling their oats, the basics of the new filmmaking were summed up facetiously as "a guy, a girl and a gun". The untalented pornmeiseter signing his work as Jimmy De Knight unwisely applied this mantra to the making of a hardcore porn film.
Reissued on Vol. 18 of Something Weird's Dragon Art Theatre series, HELL is nominally about a caper gone wrong. Four idiots try to rob a gas station, but are thwarted, killing a man in the process. When they return home to their four girl friends, a whole lot of sex ensues, but the integration of some crime thriller twists is beyond our Jimmy's meager abilities.
Rarely have action scenes been so poorly executed, what with cap pistols going off at the drop of a hat. At film's end only one of the 8 stalwarts is still alive as the (unseen) cops close in. The viewer senses there are cops out there since a voice-over in the "Come out with your hands up" cliché mode has been inserted but otherwise the budget didn't allow for any to actually show up.
Even though some porn stalwarts are on hand, notably the inevitable team of Rene & Ric, the acting is abysmal and there are many longueurs where everyone is sitting around on couches listlessly waiting for a cue (or perhaps for some uppers to take hold?). Clearly aimed at an audience that only wants to see explicit sex, and nothing but, the film is as dumb as it gets.
Muzak version of pop hits soundtrack is really bad, featuring "Aquarius," "Games People Play," "Galveston, "The Letter," "Georgia on My Mind," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Spooky" and most insultingly Lalo Schifrin's love theme from "The Fox". The filmmakers are so stupid they save that lesbian-themed music for too late in the film -when there's only one girl left alive. Duh.
Reissued on Vol. 18 of Something Weird's Dragon Art Theatre series, HELL is nominally about a caper gone wrong. Four idiots try to rob a gas station, but are thwarted, killing a man in the process. When they return home to their four girl friends, a whole lot of sex ensues, but the integration of some crime thriller twists is beyond our Jimmy's meager abilities.
Rarely have action scenes been so poorly executed, what with cap pistols going off at the drop of a hat. At film's end only one of the 8 stalwarts is still alive as the (unseen) cops close in. The viewer senses there are cops out there since a voice-over in the "Come out with your hands up" cliché mode has been inserted but otherwise the budget didn't allow for any to actually show up.
Even though some porn stalwarts are on hand, notably the inevitable team of Rene & Ric, the acting is abysmal and there are many longueurs where everyone is sitting around on couches listlessly waiting for a cue (or perhaps for some uppers to take hold?). Clearly aimed at an audience that only wants to see explicit sex, and nothing but, the film is as dumb as it gets.
Muzak version of pop hits soundtrack is really bad, featuring "Aquarius," "Games People Play," "Galveston, "The Letter," "Georgia on My Mind," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Spooky" and most insultingly Lalo Schifrin's love theme from "The Fox". The filmmakers are so stupid they save that lesbian-themed music for too late in the film -when there's only one girl left alive. Duh.