INDECENT EXPOSURE (1981) Blu-ray/DVD Combo
Director: Gary Graver (as Robert McCallum)
Vinegar Syndrome

Veronica Hart bares her soul and everything else in INDECENT EXPOSURE, on Blu-ray/DVD combo from Vinegar Syndrome.

When buddy Ted (Eric Edwards, CORPORATE ASSETS) expresses dissatisfaction with his job and being taken care of by a shrewish sugar mama, Tony Ross (Robert Kerman, CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST) – who has remade himself into fashion photographer "Antonio Rossini" – proposes that he come along as an assistant on a "Model for a Day" tour for a magazine spread. This does not go over well with Tony's business partner and on/off lover Layla (Veronica Hart, WANDA WHIPS UP WALL STREET), but lighting assistant June (Jessie St. James, CENTER SPREAD GIRLS) is looking forward to some intellectual company. While Layla finds ways to block Tony from private access to their models – including "Earth Mother" Arcadia Lake (HONEY THROAT) and "virginal" Chrissy (Laura West, STARSHIP EROS) – but she and a disillusioned June must seek comfort from each other when Tony and Ted wind up in a six-way with an easily-duped dance teacher's pupils (BAD GIRLS' Victoria Knoll, LAS VEGAS HUSTLE's Nicole Black, NOTHING TO HIDE's Tigr, and Cat Dalton). Nothing prepares any of them, however, for an eye- and leg-opening encounter with wealthy stockbroker and psychologist Arielanna (Georgina Spelvin, THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES).

In between assignments for Al Adamson and Fred Olen Ray, cinematographer Gary Graver carved out a niche as hardcore director Robert McCallum, and INDECENT EXPOSURE shows Graver's visual flair better than some contemporary impoverished genre efforts he shot but the results are otherwise uneven. The performances of the central quartet are so involving and moving that one wishes that they had a better script to explore the connections the actors forge between their characters. What we get is a light romp punctuated with some moments of drama leading up to a third act that hints at the mysterious and even the dark but fizzles out with little explanation for Spelvin's ambiguous character (is she an occultist, an alien, or just a detached scientist). Production values give the film some elegance, particularly with the mansion setting where the film probably should have spent more screen time, and the sex scenes are hot but the end result is a good-looking timewaster rather than some sleeper of a Golden Age porn film. Graver's career as an erotic director started with softcore in the late sixties, hardcore from the mid-seventies through the eighties, and back to softcore with various erotic thrillers and Full Moon-offshoot Seduction Cinema offerings throughout the nineties.

Released on VHS by Cabellero and poor-quality DVD by TVX, INDECENT EXPOSURE finally gets a new 2K scan from the original camera negative, and the 1080p24 MPEG-4 AVC 1.85:1 widescreen is vividly colorful from the opening fashion shoot onwards with some nice fine detail in facial features, hair, clothing, and much well-lit bare flesh while the DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 mono track boasts clear dialogue and scoring which seems to have some high end defects in the library recordings or in the original post-production mixing rather than Vinegar Syndrome's cleanup. Optional English SDH subtitles could have used some proofing as Layla complains about Spelvin's "anti-maim act" which should be "Auntie Mame". The only extra is a theatrical trailer (2:39). The cover is reversible and first 1,500 units available at Vinegar Syndrome come with a special limited edition embossed slipcover designed by Earl Kessler Jr. (Eric Cotenas)

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