Not for Everybody
First off: this trio of James Bryan movies is terrible. Plots, if existent, meander all over the place. Few of the performers even try to act, and those that do are pretty bad at it. The editing is sloppy, the camera work jumpy. Sex and nudity are abundant, but little of it is erotic or appealing. Violence is at once unrealistic and graphically gross. And yet I found these movies strangely compelling. Awful as they are, I enjoyed their counterculture spirit, as well as Bryan's twisted sense of humor. It's as if David Friedman or Harry Novak hired a young, pre-"Pink Flamingos" John Waters to crank out some sleaze for the raincoat crowd and this is what he turned in.
Of course, I imagine even a neophyte John Waters could make a more polished movie than THE DIRTIEST GAME IN THE WORLD (and yes, "Pink Flamingos" is a polished film by comparison), which starts off as a political satire before abandoning that premise in favor of sex and nudity, capped with some bloody--and at...
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