Joseph W. Sarno

A frustrated sexually repressed woman lives with her even more repressed sister. When the woman’s domineering lesbian ex-lover shows up, she tries to resist her, but the lover will sex up sisters’ lives whether they like it or not.Read More »

A man-hungry suburban woman feels frustrated since she lives in the home of her prudish aunt and cousin, who interrupt and criticise her amorous liaisons. A co-worker brings her to a tarot-card reader, who introduces her to a club of women who meet occasionally to share an intoxicating brew, tease each other erotically with long-stemmed roses and honour the heathen god Pan. The occultist manages to corrupt the aunt and cousin, and lure the woman into full-fledged membership so she might participate in its climactic ritual.Read More »

One of Joe Sarno’s first color movies, Moonlighting Wives is supposedly loosely based on a true story about a group of bored suburban women who ran a prostitution ring in their neighborhood. Interesting material for one of Sarno’s suburban psycho-sexual melodrama’s to be sure, but those expecting boat load’s of kink and softcore bump and grind action might be taken aback by how tame this film really is when compared to much of his other work.Read More »

When King Minos discovers Theseus is on a mission to locate the rightful ruler of Greece, he sends his buxom servant Pandora to disrupt the search.
Meanwhile, Zeus selects Theseus to protect a wooden box “full of trouble.”
Add a handful of Amazons and one king in drag, and you have Sarno’s zany spin on a classic Greek myth.Read More »

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Pinup model Laura (Isadora Edison, Sexy Adventures of Van Helsing) learns of some bad news on the home front from her sister Winnifred (Chelsea Mundae, The Seduction of Misty Mundae). She just has time for some lesbian love before heading back to New England to see what’s up. Turns out that her Aunt Cynthia (Tina Tyler, Pulp Friction) is getting it on with Laura’s ex hump buddy, Nelson Nyland (John Samuel Jordan, Sexy Adventures of Van Helsing) Laura’s ire vanishes when she finds out that the two are in love. But Laura knows that Nelson’s jealous sister, Judith (Kay Kirtland), will stop at nothing to break the lovers apart.Read More »

Joe Sarno did his best to bring class to smut throughout the ’60s, in a string of “middle-class depravity” exposés that turned low budgets into assets. The director’s locations and casts looked authentically shabby, and because Sarno didn’t have to worry about playing Radio City Music Hall, his films possessed a bracing frankness about what frustrates people, sexually and otherwise.Read More »

The sadistic Madam Margareta is a talking side of beef that serves as the hostess and ringleader for a live sex tease show and whorehouse. Madam’s shows always feature her bodacious nieces Susanna and Karen, who perform in everything from striptease to S&M acts. Eventually, Karen meets a nice rich gentleman and runs away with him whereas Susanna falls in love with a deceptive airport cargo handler.Read More »

Mara and Jane, two girlfriends from college, rekindle their friendship. Jane is now married to Mara’s ex-boyfriend, but Mara still has the hots for both him and Jane.Read More »

Shot back-to-back with Vibrations in 1968, All the Sins of Sodom has been hailed as “one of Sarno’s most captivating films” (Video Watchdog). Encouraged by his agent, Henning, a struggling NYC photographer, begins a daring portfolio of his model, Leslie. But all too soon, jealousies erupt when another model vies for his camera and bed in this penetrating study of ambition, romance and lust set in the world of fashion photography. “Sexploitation auteur Sarno is at the top of his game” in this elegantly filmed time capsule of late ‘60s New York (DVD.com).

Includes commentary by Michael Bowen and Peggy Steffans-Sarno, interview with Joseph Sarno and footage from a 2008 screening at the Alamo Drafthouse Theater in Austin, TX.Read More »