The Sin Syndicate

Meet Granny Good, she's the head mistress at a finishing school for girls, where the curriculum includes reading the dictionary, taking showers for gold stars, and drawing Bob Cresse. Just don't go in the basement, where there's a werewolf cooking up death-proof elderberry wine.

The nudie-cutie genre is full of some incredible highs, and some incredible lows. We've previously confessed our love for the wonderfully mad monster-nudie, Kiss Me Quick! in episode 12 ("Too Much Sex Fizz"), and we're back to cover another entry from the same stupid source. You may know House on Bare Mountain for its eye-popping monstie-filled marketing campaign, which only slightly exaggerates the creature content, but you may not know the history behind its making, which saw Bob Cresse and frequent collaborator Lee Frost swooping in to save a well-intentioned, but poorly planned production.

To tell the tale, we are once again joined by Canadian degenerate and 4D-Witch possessed Alex DiSanto, who helps us sail the turbulent waters of early Frost/Cresse, study the state of the nudie in 1963, as well as aid us in correcting some misinformation about the Mountain. There will be spiked punch, sexless nudity and the best goddamn Twist you've ever seen (both plot and dance). Join us for the second and final film in this month's special spooky Haunted House Duology, where everyone's a sudspect. 

Episode Specific:
Watch the 2017 restoration of House on Bare Mountain
Find Alex in the paperbackgrindhouse
Purchase Maple Syrup Pix, Vol. 1
Get tix to Nikkatsu's Golden Age of Eros
Check out the Lurid Cove Kickstarter

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This house is not a home, but all our friends are here. For the first in our Haunted House Duology for the 2026 Halloween season, The Syndicate is joined by the artist formerly known as Spicy Goldman to discuss a mad and mysterious transitioner distributed by "The Professionals" and directed by a red Corvette driving Edward D. Wood Jr.

If you've never heard of The Only House in Town, there's probably a reason. If you have heard of The Only House in Town, you may be wondering what there is to say about this seemingly unfinished bump 'n grinder with about 2% plot and 98% softcore orgy. Well, we hope you'd know by now that there is something to say about even the most ineptly made, bottom-of-the-barrel sexploiter (except maybe those Cosmos Films). Now, we're not saying that The Only House in Town is one of those, well, maybe Casey is, but nevertheless, we were excited to bring Shawn "Spicy" Langrick back on the show to let him do what he does best: educate.

Shawn provided a commentary for the 2024 release of House that appeared on Severin's 3-disc "Hard Wood" set, in which he and Greg Dziawer dropped a research bombshell about the location of the titular house. And it all came down to a window. In between the recording of that commentary and the street date of that set, Shawn kept digging, and found even more information about the production of the film and some of the key players in it. We were happy to provide an outlet for that information, and of course, to get the chance to talk about some of our favorite girls: Lynn Harris, Jane Tsentas, Neola Graef and Uschi Digard.

Oh, and the guys are alright too. In fact, Shawn has some interesting background into a couple of them. Let's just say, maybe unsurprisingly for this Hollywood, CA film, The Church of Scientology is involved. Join us for House Part 1, it may not be the spookiest choice of film, but the sound quality sure is frightening.

Episode Specific:
Purchase Hard Wood from Severin
Pickup Outlaw Ladies from Melusine
Visit the Capri Show World
Listen to archival episodes of The Ed Wood Summit Podcast

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Few women in "the industry" left more of an impression than the young, squirrelly, sometimes buxom, Rene Bond. Born Rene Ruth Bond on October 11, 1950, the Queen of Porn was one of the first superstars of the nascent, still-illegal industry. In this episode we chart Rene's relatively short but memorable career in both the hard and softcore adult film industry, with a special emphasis on her role in the Ed Wood-scribed women-on-the-run sex 'n action film, Fugitive Girls. 

Directed by Stephen C. Apostolof, a friend and frequent collaborator of the down-on-his-luck Wood, the film features memorable performances by a bitchy Bond, a butch Tallie Cochrane, and cameos by Erotic Zorro Douglas Frey, the small but powerful Maria Arnold, and Edward D. himself as a hapless station attendant. To name a few.

Joining us for the discussion is graphic artist Robin Bougie, who has studied every inch of Rene Bond's body. For research, of course. A fan of all things trash, sleaze and XXX, Robin put together some of the most substantial research into Rene’s life and career through Volume #7 of his Cinema Sewer series. We talk about that, and much more, such as Bond's frequent partner Ric Lutze being the annoying Bogie to her Bacall, as well as the difficulty in shooting day for night, and maintaining a convincing Southern accent.

Episode Specific:
Visit Robin Bougie's Store
Shop Cinema Sewer at Fab Press
Follow Robin on Instagram
Watch the VS trailer for Fugitive Girls
Stream Rene Bond on Cultpix
Watch Rene Bond on Break the Bank

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I hope you haven't forgotten your girl. We sure haven't. It's true, we will never stop talking about The All-American Girl, director Mark Haggard's 1972 coming-of-age, sex positive, Southern California masterpiece. We discussed the film at length in Episode 20, "Don't Forget Your Girl," have long been clammoring for a new home video release, and thus, were more than a little excited when we heard that the film was being screened on 35mm at the New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles on Labor Day, 2026. Friend of the pod and enthusiastic Vinegar Syndromer Eli Olsberg was able to attend as our proxy, and joined us in this Short Ends episode to give his report. Keep your hankerchief on hand, it's going to get messy.

Episode Specific:
Revisit "Don't Forget Your Girl"
Listen to the Punk Vacation podcast
Follow Eli on Instagram

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Can you afford the price? The film might call them hookers, but there is no hooking. Instead, in the 1967 anthology film, The Hookers, we are treated to three different stories dealing with three different ways in which the female body is sold and commodified, either by choice, or by coercion. 

Fleurette Carter (Aroused) plays Callie Sue, Sharon Kent (Indecent Desires) plays Julie, and Monica Davis (The Swap and How to Make It) plays Barbara. Each woman is from a different station, and each approaches the salability of their womanhood in a different way. Callie Sue takes back the power that was stolen from her; Julie is oblivious to the games that men play; and Barbara uses her charms to get out of a gambling debt. As the narrator, producer, actor, and director (?) of The Hookers asks at the end of the documentary, Queens at Heart: "Who are we to judge?"

Join us for Episode 46, "The Secretary, The Go-Go Girl and The Housewife," where we spotlight The Women, plus one fascinating man with a golden voice and a once-fierce karate chop. It's teasing, taunting, and opens on a shot of the Pan Am rooftop helipad where Michael Findlay was killed. Does that have anything to do with anything? No, not really.

Episode Specific:
Watch the documentary short Queens at Heart featuring Joel Holt
Stream All of Me and Karate, the Hand of Death on Cultpix.com
Purchase The Lost Sexploition Triple Feature and Maple Syrup Pix, Vol. 1
Visit the SWV VHS Archive

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