Review : Guilty Pleasure, Joe Zaso & Joseph F Parda, 1997

GUILTY PLEASURE

Directed by Joe Zaso, Joseph F Parda

With Sasha Graham, Alexandra Paulhiac, Eraldo Maglara, Joe Zaso, Liz Haverty, Joseph Marzano, Carl Marchese, Rick Poli, Kevin Ratigan, Ruby Honeycat, Hank Poje, Ellen Sauchelli, Johanna Haggerty

Year : 1997

Country : USA

Length : 105 min

Rating : 5 / 10

SYNOPSIS

Silvia and Rosemarie are two women, each with a lot in common. Both beautiful. Both living in the same luxurious apartement building. And both living a terrifying nightmare. Silvia has three admirers : an obscene phone caller, an abusive boyfriend and a police detective who's a little too "hands on". Could one of them be the city's notorious "Sex Killer" ?
Rosemarie is an aspiring stage actress with and old friend named Monica who demands a re-union...even if she has to kill to have it. As a recentless trail of blood and bodies is left in Rosemarie's path, the shocking secret is soon revealed.

REVIEW

"GUILTY PLEASURE" is for sure a strange movie... Co-directed by Joseph F Prada ("5 DEAD ON THE CRIMSON CANVAS", "EVIL STREETS", "MACHINES OF LOVE AND HATE") and Joe Zaso, this long-running film, actually dating back to 1997, is composed of two distinct movies, each director being in charge of one part.

It has to be noticed that, if the idea was sensible, just like recent work from Nonzee Nimibutr, Ji-woon Kim and Peter Chan on "THREE", the most different visions of the directors make the story wobbly and we have more the impression to watch two separate medium-length films.

The first, by Joseph F Prada is called “Nocturnal Emissions”, is more of an erotic thriller than a horror movie properly speaking.
After awfully kitsch credits, we can find Joe Zaso in the part of the detective that he interprets perfectly. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite make it and tension isn't there, which is a pity for what is supposed to be a horror movie... The direction isn't that bad, with games of lights and it's very 70's colours, especially during that hallucinating track race with a most feeble music as a background!

Notice a small mistake in a french part, "My Face" is subtitled "My Breasts" and "My Breasts" is subtitled "My Face" :) !

The second film of this DVD side, "Method of Madness" was directed by Joe Zaso, back to directing seven years after his "IT'S ONLY A MOVIE !". If this part of the story is a bit more researched on, we can find more or less the same faults as the previous, the tension doesn't rise much, even though some scene were made to save the honour.

These two medium-length movies are dispensable but integrate very well to this DVD as an extra to "AND THEN THEY WERE DEAD".

Note from Oh My Gore ! : 5 on 10

Published on 2004-12-01