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Nearly every aspect of ''Bat Pussy'' has been heavily criticized, "thanks to some incredibly unarousing sex and a general attitude of awfulness".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://io9.gizmodo.com/5914178/the-bizarre-history-of-superhero-porn-nsfw |title=The Bizarre History of Superhero Porn [NSFW] |author=Anders, Charlie Jane |date=May 30, 2012 |publisher=[[io9]]}}</ref> In addition to general critiques on the film's acting, technical quality and [[Low-budget film|low-budget]] production - for example, the "Bat Pussy Headquarters" sign is a hand-written paper sign unevenly taped to a cement wall - ''Bat Pussy''{{'}}s chief criticisms were focused on the pervasive unattractiveness of the film's actors, in particular Buddy and Sam, of whom ''PornParody.com'' wrote as "physically unappealing specimens[...]even by the looser standards of 1970s porn"<ref name="BPPornParody" /> and ''AV Maniacs'' bluntly described as "two white trash, out of shape, drunk on [[Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company|Schlitz]] yokels";<ref name="BPAVClub">{{cite web |url=http://avmaniacs.com/features/bat_pussy.html |title=Deep Inside Bat Pussy |author=Allison, Matthew |publisher=AV Maniacs}}</ref> their largely unscripted dialogue was called "almost surreal" by ''Something Weird'', likening Buddy and Sam's dirty talk to the "babbling" of "two escaped mental patients",<ref name="BPSomethingWeird" /> while their sex scenes were heavily derided for their distinctly unappealing qualities and Buddy's visible [[impotence]].<ref name="BPSeattleWeekly" /><ref name="BPAVClub" /> |
Nearly every aspect of ''Bat Pussy'' has been heavily criticized, "thanks to some incredibly unarousing sex and a general attitude of awfulness".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://io9.gizmodo.com/5914178/the-bizarre-history-of-superhero-porn-nsfw |title=The Bizarre History of Superhero Porn [NSFW] |author=Anders, Charlie Jane |date=May 30, 2012 |publisher=[[io9]]}}</ref> In addition to general critiques on the film's acting, technical quality and [[Low-budget film|low-budget]] production - for example, the "Bat Pussy Headquarters" sign is a hand-written paper sign unevenly taped to a cement wall - ''Bat Pussy''{{'}}s chief criticisms were focused on the pervasive unattractiveness of the film's actors, in particular Buddy and Sam, of whom ''PornParody.com'' wrote as "physically unappealing specimens[...]even by the looser standards of 1970s porn"<ref name="BPPornParody" /> and ''AV Maniacs'' bluntly described as "two white trash, out of shape, drunk on [[Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company|Schlitz]] yokels";<ref name="BPAVClub">{{cite web |url=http://avmaniacs.com/features/bat_pussy.html |title=Deep Inside Bat Pussy |author=Allison, Matthew |publisher=AV Maniacs}}</ref> their largely unscripted dialogue was called "almost surreal" by ''Something Weird'', likening Buddy and Sam's dirty talk to the "babbling" of "two escaped mental patients",<ref name="BPSomethingWeird" /> while their sex scenes were heavily derided for their distinctly unappealing qualities and Buddy's visible [[impotence]].<ref name="BPSeattleWeekly" /><ref name="BPAVClub" /> |
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Some reviewers have labeled ''Bat Pussy'' "anti-porn" for its decidedly unerotic depictions of sex and nudity.<ref name="BPAVClub" /> Brad Jones of [[The Cinema Snob]] called it both "anti-porn" and "anti-sexy", describing it as "something you would show to someone to scare them away from sex".<ref>Jones, Brad (2016). Audio commentary for ''[[The Cinema Snob]]: Unerotic Fantasies''. Walkaway Entertainment.</ref> ''The Snipe'' concurred, writing "the boner-killer of all time[...]''Bat Pussy'' is like a [[Blade Runner#Voight-Kampff machine|Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test]] for chronic masturbators. Only a psychopath or possibly a [[replicant]] could withstand let alone enjoy a document so barren or unflinching in its contempt for humanity".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thesnipenews.com/movies/reviews/bat-pussy/ |title=Bat Pussy |author=Mack, Adrian |publisher=The Snipe |date=May 12, 2009}}</ref> ''Radiation-Scarred Reviews'' wrote "This is the sort of sex film you show teenagers to encourage abstinence because it just makes the act of fornication seem so repulsive, so utterly disgusting that it seems unthinkable to perform".<ref>{{cite web |
Some reviewers have labeled ''Bat Pussy'' "anti-porn" for its decidedly unerotic depictions of sex and nudity.<ref name="BPAVClub" /> Brad Jones of [[The Cinema Snob]] called it both "anti-porn" and "anti-sexy", describing it as "something you would show to someone to scare them away from sex".<ref>Jones, Brad (2016). Audio commentary for ''[[The Cinema Snob]]: Unerotic Fantasies''. Walkaway Entertainment.</ref> ''The Snipe'' concurred, writing "the boner-killer of all time[...]''Bat Pussy'' is like a [[Blade Runner#Voight-Kampff machine|Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test]] for chronic masturbators. Only a psychopath or possibly a [[replicant]] could withstand let alone enjoy a document so barren or unflinching in its contempt for humanity".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thesnipenews.com/movies/reviews/bat-pussy/ |title=Bat Pussy |author=Mack, Adrian |publisher=The Snipe |date=May 12, 2009}}</ref> ''Radiation-Scarred Reviews'' wrote "This is the sort of sex film you show teenagers to encourage abstinence because it just makes the act of fornication seem so repulsive, so utterly disgusting that it seems unthinkable to perform".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiationscarredreviews.com/?p=1950 |title=Bat Pussy (1973) |author=Adcock, Bill |date=September 23, 2014 |publisher=Radiation-Scarred Reviews |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141014204549/http://www.radiationscarredreviews.com/?p=1950 |archivedate=October 14, 2014 }}</ref> Cult film website ''Movies About Girls'' concurred that it "does not work, on any level" but was nevertheless "stunningly weird, grubby, and ugly, an unintentionally hilarious bit of homespun cinematic folk-art so senseless, so maddeningly random in its execution that it very nearly approaches some sort of terrible genius".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.moviesaboutgirls.com/2009/07/bat-pussy-1973.html |title=Bat Pussy (1973) |date=July 13, 2009 |publisher=Movies About Girls |author=McIntyre, Ken}}</ref> |
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On a slightly more positive angle, ''Bat Pussy'' has been cited by both ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and [[io9]] as one of the earliest known examples of a [[pornographic parody film]].<ref name="BPTelegraph" /> ''PornParody.com'', a website dedicated to reviewing porn parodies, considers ''Bat Pussy'' to be either the first or the earliest known surviving example of a [[superhero]] pornographic parody film, a category which has since become a major sub-genre of pornographic films following the success of 2010's ''[[Batman XXX: A Porn Parody]]'' by the superhero-based adult film company [[Vivid Superhero]].<ref name="BPPornParody">{{cite web |url=http://pornparody.com/2014/10/bat-pussy-the-first-superhero-porn-parody/ |title=Bat Pussy – the first superhero porn parody? |date=October 6, 2014 |publisher=PornParody.com}}</ref> However, reviewers have also criticized the parody aspects of ''Bat Pussy'': the book ''The Many More Lives of Batman'' edited by [[William Uricchio]], [[Will Brooker]] and Roberta Pearson - also describing it as "the worst porn ever made" - wrote that the film contains none of the core components of the character beyond "a pun in the title and a limited attempt to recreate some of the recognizable costumes".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hZ5CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA115&dq=%22Bat+Pussy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHm9f2mqnLAhUCLmMKHQ4kBF8Q6AEINzAF#v=onepage&q=%22Bat%20Pussy%22&f=false |title=The Many More Lives of Batman |author1=Pearson, Rebecca |author2=Brooker, Will |author3=Uriccho, William |date=2015 |isbn=978-1844577644 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref> |
On a slightly more positive angle, ''Bat Pussy'' has been cited by both ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' and [[io9]] as one of the earliest known examples of a [[pornographic parody film]].<ref name="BPTelegraph" /> ''PornParody.com'', a website dedicated to reviewing porn parodies, considers ''Bat Pussy'' to be either the first or the earliest known surviving example of a [[superhero]] pornographic parody film, a category which has since become a major sub-genre of pornographic films following the success of 2010's ''[[Batman XXX: A Porn Parody]]'' by the superhero-based adult film company [[Vivid Superhero]].<ref name="BPPornParody">{{cite web |url=http://pornparody.com/2014/10/bat-pussy-the-first-superhero-porn-parody/ |title=Bat Pussy – the first superhero porn parody? |date=October 6, 2014 |publisher=PornParody.com}}</ref> However, reviewers have also criticized the parody aspects of ''Bat Pussy'': the book ''The Many More Lives of Batman'' edited by [[William Uricchio]], [[Will Brooker]] and Roberta Pearson - also describing it as "the worst porn ever made" - wrote that the film contains none of the core components of the character beyond "a pun in the title and a limited attempt to recreate some of the recognizable costumes".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0hZ5CgAAQBAJ&pg=PA115&dq=%22Bat+Pussy%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHm9f2mqnLAhUCLmMKHQ4kBF8Q6AEINzAF#v=onepage&q=%22Bat%20Pussy%22&f=false |title=The Many More Lives of Batman |author1=Pearson, Rebecca |author2=Brooker, Will |author3=Uriccho, William |date=2015 |isbn=978-1844577644 |publisher=[[British Film Institute]]}}</ref> |
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| File:BatPussyDVD.jpg The DVD cover for Bat Pussy, illustrated by Matt Allison | |
| Distributed by | Something Weird Video |
Running time | 50 minutes |
| Language | English |
Bat Pussy is a pornographic film, believed to have been made or released in 1973. Ostensibly a spoof of the 1966-1968 Batman television series, it has been cited as the earliest example of a pornographic parody film and more infamously considered to be the worst pornographic film ever made.[1][2]
Plot synopsis
Allegedly set in Gotham City, the loose plot of Bat Pussy primarily focuses on married couple Buddy and Sam in the bedroom of a small apartment. While reading an issue of SCREW, Buddy is inspired to experiment with oral sex on Sam and the two spend the remainder of the film together in bed, continually and aggressively dirty talking each other while they alternate between cunnilingus and fellatio, despite Buddy's visibly and perpetually flaccid penis. At several points during Buddy and Sam's scenes, the director is heard off-camera giving both actors various directions.
Meanwhile, across town at Bat Pussy's Secret Warehouse Hideout, Bat Pussy's alter ego Dora Dildo awaits for her "super senses" to alert her to nearby trouble - the film's sole bit of narration explains that she can sense crime "when her twat begins to twitch". Angrily sensing that someone is about to "shoot a fuck movie" in her "holy Gotham City" without her, she proceeds to change into her Bat Pussy outfit and slowly travel across the city on an inflatable space hopper, stopping only to urinate behind some bushes and thwart an attempted rape or mugging by beating the attacker with her space hopper.
Back at Buddy and Sam's, Buddy starts taking pictures of a nude Sam with the intent of selling the pictures to SCREW when Bat Pussy breaks into their room and confronts them. They immediately engage in a threesome involving the use of an unattached strap-on dildo until Bat Pussy suddenly puts on her costume and leaves, bringing the film to an abrupt end.
Discovery and release
Virtually nothing is known about the production of Bat Pussy, as the film bears no credits and no names have been publicly associated with the film. There is no known record of Bat Pussy's existence prior to the 1990s, when musician and filmmaker Mike McCarthy (Cigarette Girl) discovered roughly 200 boxes of vintage Super 8 and 16 mm pornographic films and loops in the back room of the Paris adult movie theater in Memphis, Tennessee, among which was Bat Pussy.[3][4] McCarthy contacted Mike Vraney, founder of exploitation film distributor Something Weird Video, and Vraney purchased the Paris Theater's collection for $1000.[3]
Despite being found in Tennessee, it is uncertain where Bat Pussy was filmed. Based on the actors' heavy southern accents, McCarthy surmised the film may have been shot in Arkansas.[3] Vraney, in a 2013 interview with Seattle Weekly about the documentary film That's Sexploitation!, in which Bat Pussy is briefly featured, mentioned that the film was likely made in Texas, saying "I love sexploitation movies made in Texas, just because these girls have these amazing accents. In Bat Pussy, that girl's accent is hilarious".[5] The year of Bat Pussy's production is also of debate. Although the Internet Movie Database and the Internet Adult Film Database both list a year of 1973, Something Weird more vaguely dates it as "1970s". The issue of SCREW magazine which Buddy is reading from at the beginning of the film was published on September 14, 1970.
Something Weird released Bat Pussy on VHS in 1996 as a double feature with the 1973 film Baby Bubbles, comprising volume 23 of "Bucky Beaver's Dragon Art Theatre Triple XXX-Rated Double Feature". This version of Bat Pussy is preceded by a vintage theatrical introduction to the Dragon Art Theater by theater owner and exploitation film producer Donn Davison, though it is uncertain whether Bat Pussy actually played at the Dragon Art Theater.[6] The Bat Pussy/Baby Bubbles double feature was later reissued as a print on demand DVD-R in 2007, and as of 2016, is also available as a digital download through the Something Weird website.[7]
Reception
Since its video release, Bat Pussy has achieved cult status as the worst pornographic movie ever made, with Gawker Media's io9 proclaiming it "the absolute nadir of pornography, period. Not just Batman-themed pornography. ALL pornography".[2] In a 2014 interview, Tim Lewis, the general manager of Something Weird Video, selected Bat Pussy as the one film "so nuts it has to be seen to be believed" out of Something Weird's entire catalog of over 2,500 schlock and exploitation films.[8]
Nearly every aspect of Bat Pussy has been heavily criticized, "thanks to some incredibly unarousing sex and a general attitude of awfulness".[9] In addition to general critiques on the film's acting, technical quality and low-budget production - for example, the "Bat Pussy Headquarters" sign is a hand-written paper sign unevenly taped to a cement wall - Bat Pussy's chief criticisms were focused on the pervasive unattractiveness of the film's actors, in particular Buddy and Sam, of whom PornParody.com wrote as "physically unappealing specimens[...]even by the looser standards of 1970s porn"[10] and AV Maniacs bluntly described as "two white trash, out of shape, drunk on Schlitz yokels";[11] their largely unscripted dialogue was called "almost surreal" by Something Weird, likening Buddy and Sam's dirty talk to the "babbling" of "two escaped mental patients",[7] while their sex scenes were heavily derided for their distinctly unappealing qualities and Buddy's visible impotence.[5][11]
Some reviewers have labeled Bat Pussy "anti-porn" for its decidedly unerotic depictions of sex and nudity.[11] Brad Jones of The Cinema Snob called it both "anti-porn" and "anti-sexy", describing it as "something you would show to someone to scare them away from sex".[12] The Snipe concurred, writing "the boner-killer of all time[...]Bat Pussy is like a Voigt-Kampff Empathy Test for chronic masturbators. Only a psychopath or possibly a replicant could withstand let alone enjoy a document so barren or unflinching in its contempt for humanity".[13] Radiation-Scarred Reviews wrote "This is the sort of sex film you show teenagers to encourage abstinence because it just makes the act of fornication seem so repulsive, so utterly disgusting that it seems unthinkable to perform".[14] Cult film website Movies About Girls concurred that it "does not work, on any level" but was nevertheless "stunningly weird, grubby, and ugly, an unintentionally hilarious bit of homespun cinematic folk-art so senseless, so maddeningly random in its execution that it very nearly approaches some sort of terrible genius".[15]
On a slightly more positive angle, Bat Pussy has been cited by both The Daily Telegraph and io9 as one of the earliest known examples of a pornographic parody film.[1] PornParody.com, a website dedicated to reviewing porn parodies, considers Bat Pussy to be either the first or the earliest known surviving example of a superhero pornographic parody film, a category which has since become a major sub-genre of pornographic films following the success of 2010's Batman XXX: A Porn Parody by the superhero-based adult film company Vivid Superhero.[10] However, reviewers have also criticized the parody aspects of Bat Pussy: the book The Many More Lives of Batman edited by William Uricchio, Will Brooker and Roberta Pearson - also describing it as "the worst porn ever made" - wrote that the film contains none of the core components of the character beyond "a pun in the title and a limited attempt to recreate some of the recognizable costumes".[16]
References
- ^ a b Merz, Theo (February 23, 2015). "The rise of parody porn, 'the Chaucer of our times'". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ a b Lamar, Cyriaque (May 22, 2010). "A brief history of Batman-themed pornography (NSFW)". io9.
- ^ a b c "Long Gone Loser Rock Show - Episode 9". August 20, 2014.
- ^ "Movies About Girls - Podcast Episode 27". Movies About Girls. August 1, 2009.
- ^ a b Warner, Mark (August 20, 2013). "That's Sexploitation!". Seattle Weekly.
- ^ Kerekes, David; Drake, Temple (2004). Headpress Guide to the Counter Culture. Headpress. ISBN 9781900486354.
- ^ a b "DRAGON ART THEATRE DOUBLE FEATURE VOL 023: BAT PUSSY / BABY BUBBLES - DVD-R". Something Weird Video.
- ^ "Something Weird Video". The Atomic Leg Drop Zine!. March 4, 2014.
- ^ Anders, Charlie Jane (May 30, 2012). "The Bizarre History of Superhero Porn [NSFW]". io9.
- ^ a b "Bat Pussy – the first superhero porn parody?". PornParody.com. October 6, 2014.
- ^ a b c Allison, Matthew. "Deep Inside Bat Pussy". AV Maniacs.
- ^ Jones, Brad (2016). Audio commentary for The Cinema Snob: Unerotic Fantasies. Walkaway Entertainment.
- ^ Mack, Adrian (May 12, 2009). "Bat Pussy". The Snipe.
- ^ Adcock, Bill (September 23, 2014). "Bat Pussy (1973)". Radiation-Scarred Reviews. Archived from the original on October 14, 2014.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ McIntyre, Ken (July 13, 2009). "Bat Pussy (1973)". Movies About Girls.
- ^ Pearson, Rebecca; Brooker, Will; Uriccho, William (2015). The Many More Lives of Batman. British Film Institute. ISBN 978-1844577644.