The Smut Picture Racket

Lost and in Limbo, Vol 1

They may be gone—or locked in a private collector’s vault—but they are not forgotten. The Sin Syndicate return with our most ambitious project yet, a two-part journey through the Twisted Sex trailer archives for our Top 10 most wanted Lost and in Limbo sexploitation films. We are once again joined by friend, press book hoarder and Canadian degenerate, Alex DiSanto, for a countdown of numbers 10-6 from our personally compiled, highly secretive lists. The rules: - a trailer must exist - one film per director - two substitutions allowed - all the lost Andy Milligan films are off the table (too obvious) How many films featuring Peggy Sarno will appear? What lost Barry Mahon film do we actually want to watch? Who the hell is George Gunter? Join us for “Lost and in Limbo, Vol 1” to find out!  P.S. For those who want to spoil themselves on our picks, they are listed at the very bottom of the show notes. Links: Watch the Twisted Sex trailer compilations on the Something Weird Channel [https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird]https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate [https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicate/] Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry [https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/] & Casey [https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/] Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions [https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network] Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com Special thanks to Alex DiSanto [https://www.instagram.com/alexetwonderland] Timestamps: (00:00:32) Intro (00:01:39) Why Lost? (00:04:47) The Rules (00:06:40) #10  (00:27:27) #9 (00:50:42) #8 (01:14:07) #7 (01:49:40) #6  (02:14:35) Final Thoughts  Our Picks:  Gentry 10. Carny Girl  09. The House of Cats 08. Love Thy Neighbor And His Wife  07. Come Ride the Wild Pink Horse  06. Fanny Hill Meets Dr. Erotico Alex 10. Mme. Olga’s Massage Parlor 09. Diary Of Knockers McCalla 08. Game People Play 07. Devil’s Bedroom 06. Smoke Of Evil (sub: Come Play with Me) Casey 10. The Peeping Phantom 09. Justine: The Erotic Excitement of Evil 08. Whip’s Women 07. Come Play with Me 06. Prowl Girls

The Bruised Ballerina

Gather ye rosebuds and put on your ballet slippers, The Sin Syndicate is taking a stroll through Central Park and Greenwich Village for director Stanley H. Brasloff’s directorial debut, 1968’s Two Girls for a Madman, a melancholic roughie focused on two ambitious dancers (Arlene Farber, Jean Weston), one giggling sex maniac (Lucky Kargo), and a Beatnik cafe that offers masked orgies with admission. Before he went for broke with his candy-colored daddy/daughter melodrama, Toys are Not for Children, Brasloff—a showbiz kid from an early age—cooked up this exemplary sexploitation film with a little help from his friends and connections in the East Coast entertainment business, including former Broadway performers and Jewish comedians like himself. Join us as we discuss Brasloff’s short but memorable career in moviemaking, a career filled with wonderful failures, interesting stories, and a whole lot of passion. In this episode we debate the thespian talents of stunning starlet Arlene Farber, talk early electronic music scores (theremin!), and ask the deep questions, like “Is Lucky Kargo HOT or NOT?” Make sure to stay ‘til the very end, where Casey even has a correction for Mr. Stephen Thrower himself. So burn your tutu, hold on to your passport, and meet us at the fountain for Episode 16,  “The Bruised Ballerina.”  Links: Watch Two Girls for a Madman on the Something Weird Channel [https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird] Buy Toys are Not for Children from Arrow Video [https://www.arrowvideo.com/p/toys-are-not-for-children-blu-ray/12946940/] Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate [https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicate/] Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry [https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/] & Casey [https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/] Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions [https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network] Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com Timestamps: (00:00:33) Intro (00:02:31) Update (Abortion) (00:09:36) Update (Bunny Yeager) (00:12:34) Two Girls for a Madman (00:15:05) Director Stanley Brasloff (00:20:25) DP Victor Petrashevic (00:33:12) Distribpix (00:36:15) The Music (00:40:37) Jewish Connections (00:49:15) Arlene Farber (01:01:48) Jean Weston  (01:06:29) Lucky Kargo  (01:17:01) Toys are Not for Children

Godmother of Gore

Doris Wishman. Roberta Findlay. Two of the undisputed female titans of sexploitation. But there’s another name that is often forgotten, and underrecognized, as a sexual pioneer in an industry that wasn’t always welcoming to women—especially those with strong opinions. We’re talking about Louise ‘Bunny’ Downe.  In planning for our episode about “The Girl, The Body, and The Pill,” we learned that Louise, the film's writer as well as assistant director (and former nudie-cutie actress), had just recently passed away. The moment felt right to give her a proper sendoff. So, for Episode 15 of the The Sin Syndicate podcast, we spoke with professor and screenwriter Janna Jones [https://directory.nau.edu/?person=jj269] about her Bunny-based screenplay (“Cheap, Sexy and Shocking!”), Louise’s importance as a woman in the field of exploitation moviemaking, as well as her contentious relationship with one of the genre’s biggest names, Herschell Gordon Lewis.   Prepare a 500 page paper on the relationship between men and women, and join us as we discuss the “muddy morality” of the birth control pill, Louise’s creative drive to create something meaningful, and the still controversial topic of in-school sex education. But more than anything, we hope you’ll accompany us in celebrating the life of one of sexploitation’s most underappreciated do-it-all artists, the still mysterious (just as she wanted it), Allison Alma Louise Bunny Downe—the “Godmother of Gore.” Links: Read Janna Jones’ essay, Neither the Nudie-Cuties nor the Gore [https://www.therialtoreport.com/2024/11/17/louise-downe/]  Watch "The Girl, The Body, and The Pill" on the Something Weird Channel [https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird] Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate [https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicate/] Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry [https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/] & Casey [https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/] Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions [https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network] Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com Timestamps: (00:00:31) Intro (00:02:31) Rest in Peace Louise (00:07:48) Louise in Miami (00:15:40) Rewriting Louise’s Ending (00:22:49) Abortion and The Pill Onscreen (00:31:22) Louise’s Influence (00:47:18) Breaking New Ground (00:51:17) Picture Palaces (00:57:37) Louise’s Silence  (01:02:00) The Cast (01:19:10) The Lesson for Today

Moo Just a Little

Unless you’re neck deep in the world of sexploitation, you’re probably unfamiliar with the name “Bethel Buckalew.” And even if you are familiar, you may have been led to believe that strange moniker was just another pseudonym used by secretive director Pete Perry in a series of hay-roller hixploitation pictures for Harry Novak’s Box Office International. Let's start with some facts. #1: Drinking moonshine and walking should be illegal. #2: We gotta do something 'bout that boy. And #3: Bethel Buckalew was a real person, and in Episode 14 of the The Sin Syndicate podcast, “Moo Just a Little,” Casey and Gentry look at the man’s carefree, bovine-focused final film in his Sexy Southern series, “Sassy Sue.”  Featuring a stacked cast of future hardcore starlets (Colleen Brennan, Tallie Cochrane, Sandy Carey), as well as the always amusing Buckalew muse, John Tull, “Sassy Sue” is a fittingly stupid, but entertaining end to a successful series of Southern sex comedies featuring fantastic fiddle-heavy Country music from the duo of Southern & Hensley, and plenty of skin-on-skin-on-dirt action. So join us as we search for the backwoods liquor still, discuss barnyard loving, and debate the merits of mixing poontang and corn, in surely one of our most braindead episodes yet. Stack the hay bales, prepare your bee'hind for measurement, and “Moo Just a Little.” Links: View the Bethel Buckalew Obituary [https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/name/bethel-buckalew-obituary?id=53328626] Visit the Temple of Schlock [https://templeofschlock.blogspot.com/2008/12/my-boys-are-good-boys-1977.html]  Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate [https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicate/] Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry [https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/] & Casey [https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/] Peep Gentry's Buckalew Ranking [https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/list/country-fried-bethel-buckalew-ranked/] Check out the Something Weird Channel [https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird] Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions [https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network] Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com Timestamps: (00:00:31) Opening (00:02:33) Updates (00:04:31) Plea to TerrorVision (00:06:15) The Bang Bang Gang (00:11:03) Sassy Sue (00:14:44) Sharon Kelly Speaks (00:24:12) Marlene Buckalew (00:30:57) Talie Cochrane (00:35:52) Talie Cochrane Speaks (00:36:50) The Sex Scenes (00:50:14) A Scream in the Streets (00:57:02) Sandy Carey (01:01:39) Patrick Wright (01:05:23) Supporting Players (01:08:59) Southern & Hensley (01:17:22) Sex Doesn't Sell (01:27:44) Buckalew Rankings (01:35:25) We're Leaving California

The Smut Picture Racket

Hike up that skirt and show a little leg, we’re entering the world of psycho killers and girl boss pornographers for Episode 13 of The Sin Syndicate Podcast, “The Smut Picture Racket.” This week Gentry and Casey are joined by Toronto-based author Will Sloan [https://www.willsloan.ca/], who has written a new critical reappraisal of Edward D. Wood Jr. entitled “Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA. [https://orbooks.com/catalog/ed-wood/]” Join us as we discuss Wood’s career heading into the 1960s, as well as his final mainstream film, the sexploitation crime thriller, “The Sinister Urge,” a movie both ahead of and behind the times—anticipating the Roughie by half a decade through its depiction of a nudes-obsessed, knife-wielding sex maniac, while simultanously splicing in awkward footage from an unfinished delinquent youth picture, “Hellborn.” Put on your favorite angora sweater, grab a slice of pie from the cool kids pizza parlour, and come along as we investigate “The Smut Picture Racket.” Buy Will Sloan’s book from OR Books [https://orbooks.com/catalog/ed-wood/] Instagram with us at The Sin Syndicate [https://www.instagram.com/thesinsyndicate/] Follow us on Letterboxd: Gentry [https://letterboxd.com/gentryaustin/] & Casey [https://letterboxd.com/manofsteel26/] Check out the Something Weird Channel [https://www.cultpix.com/somethingweird] Listen to other podcasts on Someone's Favorite Productions [https://www.someonesfavoriteproductions.com/network] Contact us: thesinsyndicatepodcast@gmail.com Timestamps: (00:00:31) Opening (00:01:39) Pete Perry Updates (00:06:22) Will Sloan Intro (00:22:25) The Sinister Urge (00:31:22) Pornography (00:38:12) Psycho (00:49:14) Post 1960 (00:55:43) The Players (01:06:22) The Wood Estate (01:17:06) Buy the Book (01:18:07) Final Thoughts