Bikini Carwash Company I & II (1992, 1993*)/Class Of '74 (1972/Film Masters Blu-ray)/Mondo Keyhole (1966/VCI w/DVD/both MVD Blu-rays)/S.S. Experiment Love Camp 4K (1976/MVD/88 Films/4K Ultra HD Blu-ray w/Blu-ray)/Vainilla (2022/IndiePix DVD)

4K Ultra HD Picture: B Picture: C+/B/C+ & C/B-/C Sound: C+/B-/C+/C+/C Extras: C/C/C+/C-/C- Films: C+/C+/C+/D/C+

Exploitation, sexploitation, both, neither or anything sexy at all? Well, here we go...

Bikini Carwash Company I & II (Ed Hansen, 1992; Gary Orona, 1993) are the newest entries here, upscaled from their colorful NTSC analog videotapings and are the final run of such films before the internet, HD video and the like too over and ended the regularity of such productions. That makes both 'films' look like the majority of XXX productions late in the VHS era before DVD killed tapes for the home.

Here, they want to have sex when the right guy and/or opportunity surfaces and will not be singing Rose Royce's #1 title song to the hit film Car Wash anytime soon, low budgets not withstanding. Of course, they are sexy gals and look it, no argument, hired to offer a reason to visit their business versus other car wash places (pre-automated car wash business) other such businesses where the helpers where full clothing. Two one-joke releases that are not unintentionally funny or exceedingly sexy, its just a couple of soft core romps that now serve as time capsules of sorts.

They say be careful of going to a car wash if you own an electric or hybrid car, as the machines might get water in the batteries that are usually located at the bottom of most such vehicles. With gals like these around, those vehicles would have nothing to worry about.

Extras include a poster, while the discs add standard regular, original, low definition versions of both releases and the first adds a feature length audio commentary track by Jim Wynorski, moderated by Heath Holland.

Mack Bing and Arthur Marks' The Class Of '74 (1972) is another teen movie in pseudo-documentary, semi-drama (or melodrama?) style that claims to tell the true story of four gals going to college and how they land up having sex in the middle of everything else they do, et al. The four actresses here (Marki Bey, Pat Woodell, Sondra Currie and Barbara Caron) are very likable and appealing, helping the thin script out throughout its 80 minutes, quitting while it is ahead.

Therefore, when they are there and get the chance to be interesting, it is worth seeing, but absent that, the film falters despite good supporting backup from a supporting cast that includes Gary Clarke, Lynn Cartwright and Philip Terry keep this grounded. However, this was made for drive-ins as a make-out movie, so substantial screenplay writing was never a major goal of such releases. Now you can see how that works for yourself.

Extras on this Limited Edition include a nice slipcase and decently illustrated booklet on the film including informative text and an essay by Amanda Reyes, while the disc adds a feature length audio commentary track by Heath Holland.

Jack Hill's Mondo Keyhole (1966) is a sleazy film from a serial rapist on the loose, finding woman after woman to be his next victim, but are these women only imagining this? If so, could it be several of them being brainwashed at the same time, but it is still not happening? It is supernatural or a secret government plot to experiment on innocent women?

No, the film is not that smart and it is just an excuse to make what they called a ''roughie'' where rough sexual assault and worse are portrayed (pre-Deep Throat) and this one goes on and on for 78 minutes. Guess this had an audience of some sort, but even with some censorship limits, its still creepy. What does work is the moments that are aside form the actual assaults, that the film could come up with any kind of disturbing atmosphere that so many big budget horror and crime films seem to lack today. However, this is only for the most curious. The rest will be disappointed or very unhappy.

Extras include a double-sided cover wrap, while the discs add Psycho-Tronia Poster & Photo Gallery, plus two feature length audio commentary tracks: one by film scholar Rob Kelly, the other older one by Jack Hill and Elijah Drenner.

It is much easier to count the good films than the bad ones, then there are some that are so bad, they are just beyond horrid. Many of them come from a cycle so bad, they only get much worse with age, Naziploitation! Carelessly ignoring history and trying to make torture, mutilation and genocide somehow 'sexy' or the like, they revel in their depravity and were all made as cheaply as they were abominations of cinema and much more. Sergio Garrone's S.S. Experiment Love Camp 4K (1976) is one of those films.

WWII is almost over (though in these films, it really never is) and involves a Colonel trying to still create a 'super race' and this starts to get into torture, testicles (yup, you read that correctly) and plenty of naked women (all 'white' for the 'Aryan' purpose) being tortured, raped and all the usual disgusting other things this film waddles in under pretend narrative circumstances. Running a very, very, very, very long 95 minutes (feeling like 950!) the highly unfunny cartoonish voices (including in the English dubbing!) and tell you immediately the filmmakers have zero respect for you or if you are alive or dead after paying to watch this trash. Director Garrone made several of these.

Trivializing The Holocaust, then the rest of history are only the top of the list of the many, many, many, many things wrong with this and similar films, but even in all that, even these need to be restored and preserved so people can see how really bad these are. You cannot make this up and that there are dozens more makes for one of the all time nadirs of filmmaking. For most viewers, once will be way more than enough of this and the curious have been warned.

Extras include an illustrated booklet with notes by Tim Murray and Rachel Nisbet

• SLIPCASE WITH ART BY JOEL ROBINSON

• Audio Commentary by Italian Cinema Experts Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti

• Sadistically Yours, Sergio G. - An Interview with Director Sergio Garrone

• SSadist Sound - An Interview with Music Historian Pierpaolo De Sanctis

• The Alibiso Dynasty - An Interview with Editor Eugenio Alabiso

• Framing Exploitation - An Interview with Cinematographer Maurizio Centini

• Italian Opening and Closing titles

• and an Original Theatrical Trailer.

Valeria Rowinski's Vainilla (2022, which she actually co-directed) is about the title character (played by Rowinski) who (despite the Internet and endless sex experts, blogs, talk shows, YouTube channels and the like) is not certain if she has ever had an orgasm! So what is a gal to do? Might she look into these options first?

No, she gets in S&M, BDSM, lesbianism, group sex and whatever else she has not tried. The film tries to do this with intelligence and seriousness, landing a few good moments, but it ultimately does not go anywhere after a very short 64 minutes (more like a cable TV special than a feature film) so they quit while they were ahead, but maybe they should have tried something else. Now you can see for yourself.

Trailers are the only extras.

Now for playback performance. The 2160p HEVC/H.265, 1.85 X 1, Dolby Vision/HDR (10; Ultra HD Premium)-enhanced Ultra High Definition image on S.S. 4K is good in color, but even in a 4K scan from the original 35mm negative, the source has some flaws and issues that cannot be fixed and/or is the way the film as shot. That is low budget, of course and you can only expect so much. The 1080p Blu-ray version is actually in 1.66 X 1 digital High Definition with the same flaws, but even softer. We get a so-so English PCM 2.0 Stereo dub that is not good and a better Italian PCM 2.0 Mono track that definitely shows its age and the budget limits of the production, but both have been restored as much as possible. In 4K, it will never look or sound better in keeping with the cheap look of all these films.

The 1080p 1.33 X 1 upscaled from old NYSC analog video, digital High Definition image transfers on the Bikini films get the color to look good, but the rest is as cheap and cheesy as expected, so you can only expect so much. They are a little better than the low-definition versions, but not by much. The PCM 2.0 Stereo tracks on both are very limited, as expected as well, so you know what you are getting when you watch, but it is not shot for great form or images, only to show off the ladies hired for each romp.

The 1080p 1.85 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer on Class Of '74 shows its age, but is a nice, naturalistic color film shoot with color almost as good as the S.S. 4K disc, but not always the sharpness or richness, but the film materials are in as good a shape. Of course, it also has some rough spots, but considering its age and budget, that was also expected. The DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 2.0 Mono lossless sound mix may have its age and budget limits in aged sonics and other slight issues here and there, but it still manages to be the best sonic performer of the films here, which speaks to the nature of al of them.

The 1080p 1.85 X 1 black & white digital High Definition image transfer on Mondo Keyhole is rough as expected for its budget and the subject matter, so it is shot to be sleazy too. A 2K scan from the original 35mm camera negative, it has its share of age and damage, so we're lucky they go out of this what they did. The sound is rough PCM 2.0 Mono with the usual sonic limos and harmonic distortion issues, despite the restoration, for which they could only do so much on. The anamorphically enhanced black & white 1.85 X 1 image on the DVD version is softer still and here for convenience, accompanied by a weaker, lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono. If you must watch, go for the Blu-ray.

The anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image on Vainilla is on the soft side, though you watch and know it is not that way normally, but for this old format, which we can also say for its lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo sound mix. Weak and passable, this could and would play better in HD.

- Nicholas Sheffo