After an actress is murdered by a pornographer during an erotic "game" that is made to look like a suicide, her lesbian lover uses another aspiring starlet as a pawn to exact revenge.After an actress is murdered by a pornographer during an erotic "game" that is made to look like a suicide, her lesbian lover uses another aspiring starlet as a pawn to exact revenge.After an actress is murdered by a pornographer during an erotic "game" that is made to look like a suicide, her lesbian lover uses another aspiring starlet as a pawn to exact revenge.
Stanley Kaufman
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- TriviaLynn Lowry initially turned the script down because she objected to all the extensive nudity that her dual role entailed. But later, in an interview, she said being naked on set all the time wasn't a big deal. "Dealing with all the nudity was very difficult in the beginning. Just the idea of being nude in front of all these people is hard. But after you've done it, and by the first night you've spent 14 hours nude, nobody cares anymore. Nobody looks at you anymore, you're laying on the floor and crew people are stepping over your nude body. After a while, it's just like you're in clothes." She went on to star in Score (1973) that same year where she spent even more time fully naked and having more sex than this film.
- GoofsWhen Camila is in Dola's apartment for the first time & Dola asks her for money, you can see an extended shot of one of the set lights clearly on the Left side of the screen that's lighting the scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Adam & Yves (1974)
- SoundtracksSally Go 'Round the Roses
Copyright 1963 Winlyn Music Inc.
Written by Zell Sanders (uncredited) and Abner Spector (uncredited)
Performed by The Jaynetts (uncredited)
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Fans of Mary Woronov and Lynn Lowry should dig this one.
Alta Leigh (Lynn Lowry) is a young actress killed by creepy film producer Max Pavell (George Shannon) during a "game". Max's associate Camila Stone (Mary Woronov) agrees to alibi for him while searching for a suitable replacement for Alta. After a while, she seems to find just the right person: Julie Kent (Ms. Lowry again), who's a dead ringer for Alta. Eventually the naive Julie finds that these new people in her life are more than a little twisted, and begins to get scared. While this is going on, there are subplots such as the sexual misadventures of Gus (Daniel Sador), the younger brother of Max's ex-wife Helene (Monique van Vooren).
"Sugar Cookies" will likely be too slow and psychological for some tastes, but it's interesting and stands as a sharp contrast to the later productions of co-writer / executive producer Lloyd Kaufmans' Troma Studios. It's actually an intoxicating and moody mix of exploitation and art. Some of the music is rather nice, and everything is gorgeously shot by cinematographer Hasse Wallin. The story ultimately evolves into a practically two character drama as the bisexual Camila gets to know Julie and seduces her. If nothing else, this film is a solid vehicle for the charms of sexy cult actresses Woronov and Lowry (the latter receiving an "introducing" credit here); their admirers will appreciate how much flesh the two ladies bare, and absolutely love the steamy scenes with them later on in the film.
Woronov was married to the co-writer / director Theodore Gershuny at the time; he actually wrote the part of Camila with his wife in mind, and also around this time they (and Kaufman) worked on the horror film "Silent Night, Bloody Night". The editor Dov Hoenig went on to bigger and better things, cutting films such as "Thief" and "Heat" for Michael Mann as well as "The Crow" and "Under Siege".
Definitely recommended to those people interested in the artifacts of NYC's "underground" film scene of the period.
Seven out of 10.
"Sugar Cookies" will likely be too slow and psychological for some tastes, but it's interesting and stands as a sharp contrast to the later productions of co-writer / executive producer Lloyd Kaufmans' Troma Studios. It's actually an intoxicating and moody mix of exploitation and art. Some of the music is rather nice, and everything is gorgeously shot by cinematographer Hasse Wallin. The story ultimately evolves into a practically two character drama as the bisexual Camila gets to know Julie and seduces her. If nothing else, this film is a solid vehicle for the charms of sexy cult actresses Woronov and Lowry (the latter receiving an "introducing" credit here); their admirers will appreciate how much flesh the two ladies bare, and absolutely love the steamy scenes with them later on in the film.
Woronov was married to the co-writer / director Theodore Gershuny at the time; he actually wrote the part of Camila with his wife in mind, and also around this time they (and Kaufman) worked on the horror film "Silent Night, Bloody Night". The editor Dov Hoenig went on to bigger and better things, cutting films such as "Thief" and "Heat" for Michael Mann as well as "The Crow" and "Under Siege".
Definitely recommended to those people interested in the artifacts of NYC's "underground" film scene of the period.
Seven out of 10.
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- Gross US & Canada
- $78,340
- Runtime1 hour 31 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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