Water Power (1977)
A (very ) black comedy
25 December 2005
One reason modern-day hardcore porno movies are such a waste of time is that they have become so damn conservative and even respectable. The "adult industry" doesn't want to do anything that will upset the lonely businessmen in hotel rooms or the lucrative "couple's market" which allows them to rake in billions of dollars annually. It's kind of refreshing therefore to see an old style porno movie that is completely un-PC, in the worst possible taste, and even downright disturbing. This movie is actually fairly well-made and could probably pass for a (very) low-budget police thriller except that it has a villain who ties up women and forcibly, and very graphically, gives them enemas!(An alternate title for this is "The Enema Bandit", but "The Enema Rapist" would probably be more appropriate).

I should point out that this movie is not the least bit erotic if that's what your looking for. Even if you are some kind of sick deviant who finds enemas sexy, the execution here is pretty risible. Plastic tubing being shoved up the pimply backside of some "actress" while she squirms and unconvincingly protests might be many things, but erotic definitely isn't one of them. Director Gerardo Damiano was one of the people responsible for ushering in the whole "porno chic" nonsense in the 70's with his film "Deep Throat", but I've often suspected he was really a very subversive filmmaker who was never really interested in turning people on. His follow-up film, "The Devil in Ms. Jones" is a classic too, but it has a gut-punch ending like something out of Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Exit" that really delivers a very chilling message about sexual obsession. And I can't imagine he really meant this or his even more ridiculous puppet porno epic "Let My Puppets Come" to be anything more than a sick joke on all the "porno chic" idiots.

This movie is best approached as a (very) black comedy. Some might be troubled by the air of misogyny or the fact that the enemas here were very obviously not simulated, but you should take into account that 70's porno actresses were often strung-out junkies who frequently engaged in anal sex with numerous overly-endowed males--I imagine many of them probably could have used a good enema. . .
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