Revelations of a Psychiatrist on the World of Sexual Perversion is a mondo film that draws from real newspaper headlines to show the sexual sick truth, as I'm certain an American trailer would say if this movie had ever emerged from its native Italy. Directed and written by Renato Polselli, it has a psychiatrist named Dr. Froodman explaining the deviancy that he has seen to a group of his students.
If this was shocking in 1973, when it first came out, it would be even more shocking in 1979. In fact, some of the adult scenes would still feel taboo in 2023, as two men touching one another, even with a female third present, doesn't often appear in mainstream adult.
There are all manner of perversions here - and if you get what they are just by the name like me, well, you have some issues - including zooerastia, nymphomania, necrophilia, fetishes and gerontophilia. Even one of the students gets involved, as she explains why she fell for an older adult man while just a child; his abuse of her is just one reason why this happened. And the doctor is not above sharing the story of his servant who lost his virginity at the late age of 44 to someone of the third sex, as they say in these mondo films.
A lot of the inserts were either staged with a totally different cast or taken directly from American loops. You have to love the Italian exploitation industry, as they have no fear when it comes to being outright thieves. Polselli used his Ralph Brown name for this; the cast has a few notable people in it, including Isarco Ravaioli as the professor (he's also in The Throne of Fire, Polselli's Mania and Oscenità, Satanik, Danger: Diabolik and a few Sartana and Django Clones); Franca Gonella (Diabolicamente... Letizia and Luigi Rosso's Beauty and the Beast); Bruna Beani (the priestess in The Eerie Midnight Horror Show, Byleth: The Demon of Incest) and Melissa Chimenti, who was Papaya in Joe D'Amato's Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals. As most of those movies are filled with either sex, violence or sex and violence, you should know what you're getting into here.
At once a movie that has a girl explain her sexual desire for dogs and then shag a stuffed animal while also being a film that closes with the line "We are all spent beings desperately trying to walk towards infinity," this barrage of rapid cuts and filth is pretty much Polselli from here on out.
If this was shocking in 1973, when it first came out, it would be even more shocking in 1979. In fact, some of the adult scenes would still feel taboo in 2023, as two men touching one another, even with a female third present, doesn't often appear in mainstream adult.
There are all manner of perversions here - and if you get what they are just by the name like me, well, you have some issues - including zooerastia, nymphomania, necrophilia, fetishes and gerontophilia. Even one of the students gets involved, as she explains why she fell for an older adult man while just a child; his abuse of her is just one reason why this happened. And the doctor is not above sharing the story of his servant who lost his virginity at the late age of 44 to someone of the third sex, as they say in these mondo films.
A lot of the inserts were either staged with a totally different cast or taken directly from American loops. You have to love the Italian exploitation industry, as they have no fear when it comes to being outright thieves. Polselli used his Ralph Brown name for this; the cast has a few notable people in it, including Isarco Ravaioli as the professor (he's also in The Throne of Fire, Polselli's Mania and Oscenità, Satanik, Danger: Diabolik and a few Sartana and Django Clones); Franca Gonella (Diabolicamente... Letizia and Luigi Rosso's Beauty and the Beast); Bruna Beani (the priestess in The Eerie Midnight Horror Show, Byleth: The Demon of Incest) and Melissa Chimenti, who was Papaya in Joe D'Amato's Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals. As most of those movies are filled with either sex, violence or sex and violence, you should know what you're getting into here.
At once a movie that has a girl explain her sexual desire for dogs and then shag a stuffed animal while also being a film that closes with the line "We are all spent beings desperately trying to walk towards infinity," this barrage of rapid cuts and filth is pretty much Polselli from here on out.