Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Jailbait Babysitter (1977)

How bad is it? Imagine porn without sex and you're about right.
Should you see it? No.


This film would be forgotten, except that John Goodman makes his first screen appearance, in a rainbow afro wig at a Halloween party, in it. There's been debate about this point, but Goodman himself once said he was in it. It also got paired with SuperVan in a release.

A 17 year-old (played by an older actress) refuses to sleep with her boyfriend. Then a group of his friends show up and start partying. There's some action, some stuff gets broken, she hits a guy with a blunt object. The girl runs off and for reasons impossible to elucidate, ends up living with a hooker. She ends up hooking - yes, the same girl who wouldn't sleep with her boyfriend. Her first client dies of a heart attack and she gets scared straight. She runs back to her boyfriend and he saves her from revenge from the guy she hit earlier.

Some of the film is shot adequately, but most is not, suggesting more than one cameraman (and equipment). The whole thing suggests it's going to turn into porn, but doesn't. The director also made "Grave of the Vampire," which is pretty good, but also made a bunch of uninteresting trash; this is borderline.

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