1/10
No fan of British sexploitation should miss this unbelievably bad sex drama
6 April 2020
Steven Drew is a former male model with delusions that he can act, write and direct. His previous feature, "The Estate" (2011), is distinguished by a list of "worst British film ever" reviews on IMDb. This "new" (read on) effort is a sex drama with all the qualities we remember from "The Wife Swappers" (1970): a tawdry, melodramatic script; leaden direction; flat lighting; dull suburban settings; and crowd and bit players struggling with leading roles. The only comparable film to turn back the clock 50 years so successfully is "Killer B****" (2010). But Liam Galvin is David Lean compared to Drew. The lead characters are an Indian family although the representation of Indian culture is about as authentic as "Curry and Chips". The discovery of the late patriarch's private life leads his widow and her potty-mouthed Brit neighbour to swingers' clubs that are bad movie gold. Subplots are not of the remotest interest. Sex scenes are thankfully perfunctory given the awkwardness and unattractiveness of the participants. If the budget exceeded £500 I'd be surprised. The film is without doubt a cult in the making and only its previous unavailability seems to have prevented this. (Where it's been is anyone's guess. It has a 2016 copyright date but as lead player Gurdial Sira died in 2013, the film may be considerably older). Now that it has surfaced (needless to say on desperate-to-fill-its-schedule London Live) it should be snapped up for midnight screenings. We have been waiting for a successor to "The Room". This is it. I want little more than to introduce Steven Drew before the screening and congratulate him on an astounding achievement.
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