Carnal Madness

Carnal Madness
Directed by	Gregory Corarito
Written by	Gregory Corarito, John Lamb
Produced by	John Lamb, Maurice Smith
Starring	Stephen Stucker, Bob Minor and Michael Pataki
Cinematography	Louis Horvath
Edited by	Richard Beck-Meyer
Music by	Randy Johnson, Fred Selden
Release date	March 1975 (USA)
Running time	89 min.
Country	USA
Language	English

Carnal Madness (AKA Delinquent Schoolgirls, Delinquent College Girls, The Delinquents, Love Maniacs, The Sizzlers, Scrubbers 2) is a 1975 exploitation film directed by Gregory Corarito and starring the unlikely trio of Stephen Stucker, Bob Minor and Michael Pataki as three escaped mental patients wreaking havoc in a female detention centre.

Plot

Template:Spoiler Stucker, Minor and Pataki are cast as a gay fashion designer, a horny soul brother (catchphrase - "this is the best lookin' piece I've seen in a long time!") and an incompetent impressionist respectively. The three escape their mental asylum and sexually assault their way into a girl's school. Their broad, knockabout performances attempt to keep the film's (fairly objectionable) content amusing rather than disturbing. The entire female cast comprises softcore porn models (mostly drawn from men's magazines of the era, and including Sharon Kelly and Roberta Pedon in her only movie role) who don skimpy karate costumes and violently turn the tables on their tormentors.
Carnal Madness is as breast-fixated as its protagonists, and was clearly designed to appeal to the needy drive-in audience, and therefore stands as an interesting time capsule. In common with many exploitation films, the content is objectionable to many. Template:Endspoiler

Cast

Actor	Role
Michael Pataki	Carl C. Clooney
Bob Minor	Dick Peters
Stephen Stuckor	Bruce Wilson
Sharon Kelly	Greta Anderson
Brenda Miller	Penny Archer
George 'Buck' Flower	Earl
Jane Steele	Betsy Benton
Ralph Campbell	Mr. Miller
Zoe Grant	Miss Crowley
Roberta Pedan	Carla Gray

Distribution

Corarito's film was shot on 35mm during 1974 and was released to American cinemas in its 89m cut in March 1975. A heavily truncated 58m print titled Delinquent School Girls appeared on home video (both in America and England, on the TCX label) in the early 1980s — another pseudonym the film had at this time was Scrubbers 2, obviously designed to cash in on the success of the entirely serious reform school drama Scrubbers (directed by Mai Zetterling) which had recently shocked cinema audiences. However, when Corarito's grindhouse flick was submitted to the BBFC in 1986 in its pre-cut 58m form, its title now changed to Delinquents, the board's then-director James Ferman ordered over nine minutes of cuts before granting it an 18 certificate. (The BBFC website records a film with the title Sizzlers - one of the many pseudonyms of Carnal Madness - being passed with an X rating after cuts in 1976, with a running time of 82 minutes!)

Reaction

"Every sewage pipe on earth will lead you to this film" is the comment of one IMDb user, and whilst it's certainly true that Carnal Madness — with its parade of perversions, sexual fumblings and gratuitous nudity — is extremely politically incorrect, it might be considered closer in spirit to the Benny Hill Show and the Russ Meyer canon than, say, I Spit On Your Grave and The Last House on the Left.

External links

• Carnal Madness at IMDb