Inside Amy

Inside Amy (1974)

1/2 (out of 4)

This here is a really awful movie about a husband who wants his wife Amy (Jan Mitchell) to join a swingers club with him. She doesn't want to but pretty much gives in after the husband begs. Once at the party Amy begins to dig all of the sex and soon every guy is wanting here, which doesn't sit well with the husband. Before long various swingers are being murdered.

Before making this picture, director Ronald Victor Garcia made THE TOY BOX, which was one of the strangest sexploitation movies ever made. I'm not exactly sure what he was thinking going into this movie but it's a complete and utter disaster. The worst thing you can ever do in an exploitation film is make it boring and that's exactly what this thing is as there's really not a single good moment from start to finish and there's some really questionable direction as well.

Most people probably became familiar with this under its alternate title SWINGERS MASSACRE or reading about it in Stephen Thrower's NIGHTMARE USA. What really is amazing about this movie is the fact that it's really, really tame. I'm not sure if the director was trying to make a legit movie but it's a complete bomb from start to finish. The sex scenes are all rather lame. Most of the violence takes place off screen. I think that the film was trying to be some sort of Hitchcock-like thriller with erotic undertones but it fails horribly.

What's more shocking is that Rene Bond, Uschi Digard and Marsha Jordan were cast in the film. All three are sexploitation legends who appeared in countless soft and hardcore films. All there are here yet for some reason none of them get naked! Why on Earth would you hire these three and then do nothing with them? What's even more shocking is that this mess clocks in at 105-minutes, which is about sixty-minutes too long. The incredibly slow pace and the awful performances are just the icing on the cake.