Bizarre (DVD)

(Film only review – the only DVD release I’m aware of is American.) As the lights started to go out on the British film industry in the 1970s, one of the few genres still capable of making money was the sex film. By sex film, I don’t mean the likes of Deep Throat or other hardcore movies from America or Scandinavia. British censorship would never have allowed it. Instead we saw a whole spate of sex comedies, which used Carry On style innuendo, while at the same time rendering it rather pointless as audiences actually got to *see* the ladies’ front bottoms instead of just having Sid James make smutty allusions to them. A strange and totally unnecessary hybrid ...