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Suburban Secrets

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New Joe Sarno.I'd never heard of Joe Sarno till 18 months ago.Now I am a fan.His 1970's films such as Butterflies and Abigail Leslie are great fun.Unfortunately Suburban Secrets is not quite the same.It is a bit too long.The sexual scenes are obviously simulated and there is a bit too much girl girl for my liking.The packaging includes a shortened version but I haven't got round to watching it yet.There is some delightful viewing just the same. 4 stars

Suburban Secrets is a sad comeback for Joe Sarno. The legendary sexploitation film maker, now in his 80's, was talked out of retirement to make another "After Dark" production. Whoever thought this was a good idea neglected to give him a decent budget, actors who could act, actors who were attractive, or more script than a pale rehashing of several of the themes from his old movies mishmashed together. There is no comparison between this repulsive effort and the very erotic better early films such as "All the Sins of Sodom", "Girl Meets Girl", or "Daddy Darling". The earlier movies had very good looking male and female leads, actresses with great bodies who could read lines, and real sexual tension. All of this is blatantly absent in this failure. They should have left Mr Sarno in a happy retirement basking in the glory of his better work decades earlier than to embarrass him and waste our time and money. Trying to cash in on his reputation with this slovenly production that wouldn't even be shown on late night cable is just sad.

I found this flick to be boring and often irritating for too much overdone phony breathing.