A candidate for California state representative wants to get the vote of pot smoking hippies to win,so he runs on a platform to legalize marijuana.The politician quickly becomes some kind of a guru for local group of hippies,smokes a lot of weed and has tons of sex with slutty hippie girls."The Dirtiest Game" is a total sleaze with no redeeming qualities.Jam packed with full-frontal nudity,sex and bad acting it offers 68 minutes of dirty entertainment.The razorblade masturbation scene is quite unsettling and actually made me feel a little bit queasy.I can't believe that the maker of terrible slasher schlock "Don't Go in the Woods" is also behind this piece of utter filth.
3 Reviews
Counterculture unerotica with a few disturbing moments.
EyeAskance16 October 2003
Warning: Spoilers
**SPOILERS AHEAD**
A grimy relic of a bygone time, DIRTIEST GAME is a late-entry sexploitation roughie which comes within a tongue's length of hardcore. Beggarly production concerns an aspiring young politician going for the "hippie vote" by campaigning for legalized pot. He thereby finds himself sucked into the sleazy counterculture scene where dope is a simple per-diem commodity, and sexual interaction is as unceremonius as bridge night with the neighbors. When he leaves his boozing wife, she pursues him through a chain of underground sex parties...until she, too, becomes victim to the lure of drug-addled depravity.
This flick serves up a couple of pretty unsettling scenes, most notoriously one in which our leading lady flicks the proverbial bean with a razorblade, graphically slicing away at her naughty bits before annihilating herself with a pistol. The cast are mostly average looking at best, with some of the ladies sporting that 70s "let it be" look of hairy pits and the old-school rain-forest crotch. And speaking of "hairy", get a load of hirsute Titus Moede(one of the more enigmatic figures within the strange universe of grassroots regional filmmaking). He's furrier than Chewbacca from the neck down, and his butt-crack looks kinda like Gene Shalit.
Slightly more entertaining than the median example of its type, it includes a hippie pot-orgy which mirrors a hot night at Spahn Ranch...amusing enough in a far-afield way, but I doubt you'll be concomitantly touching yourself.
5/10.
A grimy relic of a bygone time, DIRTIEST GAME is a late-entry sexploitation roughie which comes within a tongue's length of hardcore. Beggarly production concerns an aspiring young politician going for the "hippie vote" by campaigning for legalized pot. He thereby finds himself sucked into the sleazy counterculture scene where dope is a simple per-diem commodity, and sexual interaction is as unceremonius as bridge night with the neighbors. When he leaves his boozing wife, she pursues him through a chain of underground sex parties...until she, too, becomes victim to the lure of drug-addled depravity.
This flick serves up a couple of pretty unsettling scenes, most notoriously one in which our leading lady flicks the proverbial bean with a razorblade, graphically slicing away at her naughty bits before annihilating herself with a pistol. The cast are mostly average looking at best, with some of the ladies sporting that 70s "let it be" look of hairy pits and the old-school rain-forest crotch. And speaking of "hairy", get a load of hirsute Titus Moede(one of the more enigmatic figures within the strange universe of grassroots regional filmmaking). He's furrier than Chewbacca from the neck down, and his butt-crack looks kinda like Gene Shalit.
Slightly more entertaining than the median example of its type, it includes a hippie pot-orgy which mirrors a hot night at Spahn Ranch...amusing enough in a far-afield way, but I doubt you'll be concomitantly touching yourself.
5/10.
About As Bizarre As You're Going to Get
Michael_Elliott6 June 2017
The Dirtiest Game (1970)
** (out of 4)
Titus Moore (Titus Moede, how that's for an alternate character name?) is running for office in California but he's told that his numbers aren't looking too good. In order to get votes he tries to please the hippie crowd and soon he's joining their parties, which leads to some non-stop sex and of course weed smoking.
James Bryan will always be remembered for DON'T GO IN THE WOODS but he did have a career before that slasher film and it was in the softcore/hardcore market. This film here is softcore but it pushes the limits of good taste about as far as you could go without entering the straight porno market. There's no question that this is a pretty bad movie but at the same time it's only 65-minutes and features enough bizarre moments to make it worth sitting through.
For starters, fans of THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS will be happy to see that film's director Coleman Francis playing one of the political advisers here and this alone adds some camp value. There's also non-stop nudity throughout the film with a lot of full-frontal and I'm sure this here will make fans of sexploitation pictures happy. As I said, this here pushes the nudity to the extreme limits, which is another plus. The most bizarre and controversial moment happens at the end when a woman decides to take a razor to herself including some of her "female parts." There's no question that this sequence will have some people turning away from the screen.
Bryan at least does a good job at keeping the film moving at a nice pace and the fact that it has a short running time is certainly a bonus. I must say that the performance by Moede is also another reason to see the film because of how awful it is. I mean, it's really something that you have to see to fully believe as the performance is just downright laughable at times and the "best" thing about his performance is when he messes up his lines.
THE DIRTIEST GAME is certainly an interesting example of low-budget filmmaking. It's not a classic but there's enough sleaze to make it worth watching.
** (out of 4)
Titus Moore (Titus Moede, how that's for an alternate character name?) is running for office in California but he's told that his numbers aren't looking too good. In order to get votes he tries to please the hippie crowd and soon he's joining their parties, which leads to some non-stop sex and of course weed smoking.
James Bryan will always be remembered for DON'T GO IN THE WOODS but he did have a career before that slasher film and it was in the softcore/hardcore market. This film here is softcore but it pushes the limits of good taste about as far as you could go without entering the straight porno market. There's no question that this is a pretty bad movie but at the same time it's only 65-minutes and features enough bizarre moments to make it worth sitting through.
For starters, fans of THE BEAST OF YUCCA FLATS will be happy to see that film's director Coleman Francis playing one of the political advisers here and this alone adds some camp value. There's also non-stop nudity throughout the film with a lot of full-frontal and I'm sure this here will make fans of sexploitation pictures happy. As I said, this here pushes the nudity to the extreme limits, which is another plus. The most bizarre and controversial moment happens at the end when a woman decides to take a razor to herself including some of her "female parts." There's no question that this sequence will have some people turning away from the screen.
Bryan at least does a good job at keeping the film moving at a nice pace and the fact that it has a short running time is certainly a bonus. I must say that the performance by Moede is also another reason to see the film because of how awful it is. I mean, it's really something that you have to see to fully believe as the performance is just downright laughable at times and the "best" thing about his performance is when he messes up his lines.
THE DIRTIEST GAME is certainly an interesting example of low-budget filmmaking. It's not a classic but there's enough sleaze to make it worth watching.
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