Sugar Cookies (1973) Theodore Gershuny
Sugar Cookies (1973)
Genre: Drama | Horror | Softcore
Country: USA | Director: Theodore Gershuny
Language: English | Subtitles: None
Aspect ratio: Widescreen 1.85:1 | Length: 91mn
A pornographer tricks a model into committing suicide on camera. The
dead girl's friend discovers what happened, and swears to take her
revenge.
Porno queen Alta Lee (Lynn Lowry) is
murdered by her pornographer lover Max (George Shannon) in a game of sexual
Russian roulette. Alta's other lover, icy lesbian casting agent Camila Stone
(Mary Woronov), provides an alibi for Max. But Camila has an agenda of her
own, and a plan involving the seduction of innocent actress Julie (Lynn
again) in a web of sexual mind games. When the lookalikes' identities are
sufficiently blurred, the stage is set for vengeance as passionate as the
most heated carnal encounter.
A very early Oliver Stone (associate-)produced film, and one of the
first films in the impressive career of Lloyd Kaufman (co-founder and
president of the world's only real independent film studio Troma,
creator of the Toxic Avenger and, at the prestigious Amsterdam
Fantastic Filmfestival, lifetime-achievement awarded filmmaker for over
30 years). Having raised the money for this film on his own, Lloyd
wrote this script together with Theodore Gershuni in 1970 and in
hindsight regrets having listened to advice to have Gershuni else
direct the film instead of doing it himself. But back then he was still
inexperienced in the business and it is probably because of decisions
like these that he takes no nonsense from anyone anymore. Indeed it
would have been interesting to see Lloyd's version of his own script -
as one of the world's most original, daring, experimental and
non-compromising directors he probably would have given it even more
edge than it already has. But as it is we have the Gershuni-directed
film.
And weather it is due to the strong script, or the fact that he too is indeed quite a director of his own, SUGAR COOKIES is a very intelligent, highly suspenseful and well-crafted motion picture that deserves a lot more attention than it receives. The shoestring budget the small studio (this was even before Kaufman and his friend and partner for over 30 years now, Michael Herz, formed Troma) had to work with is so well handled that the film looks a lot more expensive, indeed does not have a "low budget" look at all. The story revolves around lesbian Camilla Stone (played by enigmatic Mary Woronow) and her lover who winds up dead through circumstances I won't reveal not to spoil a delightful story. This leads to a succession of plot-twists, mind games and personality reform that is loosely inspired by Hitchcock's Vertigo and at least as inventive. The atmosphere is a lot grimmer, though, and some comparisons to Nicholas Roeg's and Donald Cammell's PERFORMANCE come to mind. In this mix is a very original and inventive erotic laden thriller that keeps it quite unclear as to how it is all going to end, which, along with a splendidly interwoven sub-plot with a nod to Kaufman's earlier and unfortunately unavailable BIG GUSS WHAT'S THE FUSS, makes for a very exciting one-and-a-half-hour. Certainly one of the best films in Troma's library, and yet again one of those films that defy the curious fantasy that their catalog is one of bad taste. Highly recommended.
And weather it is due to the strong script, or the fact that he too is indeed quite a director of his own, SUGAR COOKIES is a very intelligent, highly suspenseful and well-crafted motion picture that deserves a lot more attention than it receives. The shoestring budget the small studio (this was even before Kaufman and his friend and partner for over 30 years now, Michael Herz, formed Troma) had to work with is so well handled that the film looks a lot more expensive, indeed does not have a "low budget" look at all. The story revolves around lesbian Camilla Stone (played by enigmatic Mary Woronow) and her lover who winds up dead through circumstances I won't reveal not to spoil a delightful story. This leads to a succession of plot-twists, mind games and personality reform that is loosely inspired by Hitchcock's Vertigo and at least as inventive. The atmosphere is a lot grimmer, though, and some comparisons to Nicholas Roeg's and Donald Cammell's PERFORMANCE come to mind. In this mix is a very original and inventive erotic laden thriller that keeps it quite unclear as to how it is all going to end, which, along with a splendidly interwoven sub-plot with a nod to Kaufman's earlier and unfortunately unavailable BIG GUSS WHAT'S THE FUSS, makes for a very exciting one-and-a-half-hour. Certainly one of the best films in Troma's library, and yet again one of those films that defy the curious fantasy that their catalog is one of bad taste. Highly recommended.
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