Peek Freak (1971) User Reviews

big Jim rocks

[mw-95436 · 5/10 · 5 May 2017]

Once there was Cher, then there was Madonna, but before being a one-named artist became popular, we had the man known only as "Jim", who was a regular in the early 1970's Los Angeles hardcore scene.

Jim's best feature was that he had a mammoth sex organ with no erection problems, and he was a serviceable stud. His IMDb profile barely touches all of the films he appeared in (I'd estimate he was in 50 of these one-day wonders). In this film he has three lengthy scenes that all end with a money shot, something that he excelled at. The plot is hardly unique; he is a Peeping Tom who via fantasy inserts himself into the sex scenes he watches. Who knows, maybe this is where Ray Dennis Steckler got his inspiration. A lot of film is wasted with Jim wandering around looking for women to follow home and windows to peek into.

To fill up remaining time in the film, some of the sex scenes Jim watches are stock footage taken from other films, so obviously he cannot insert himself into those, but these scenes extended the length of the film to an acceptable limit. I guess there wasn't enough money in the budget for additional live bodies.

But appreciate this film for Jim. He wasn't quite John Holmes sized, but he made up for it with his performance.

The audience as voyeur; so what else is new?

[lor_ · 28 July 2010]

The anonymous makers of PEEK FREAK exploit the obvious fact that the audience for porn is made up of voyeurs. Sure, there might be a film buff or two sneaking in (I plead guilty), but film buffs are card-carrying voyeurs too.

Our peeping tom hero, who resembles Ron Howard as actor in the '70s (AMERICAN GRAFFITI, EAT MY DUST era), spends the film going from window to window, watching people have sex. Twist is that he fantasizes himself suddenly replacing the male in the sex act, and actually getting some himself! This is more or less the hardcore porn era's answer to the vicarious thrills of the IMMORAL MR. TEAS style voyeuristic films of a decade before.

First time this happens, the male sex partner's face is cleverly obscured from view, making the magical transition for (let's call him) "Ronny" work. It was kind of interesting that "Ronny" is jolted back to reality after he ejaculates. Perhaps the creeps who will soon make a XXX satire of INCEPTION (my shooting title suggestion would be INSERTION) can use this motif, in place of Edith Piaf singing or somebody getting killed in a dream as their "shock" cue: Axel Braun take a memo.

Other than that, the anonymous makers of this film from Something Weird's Dragon Art Theatre series Vol. 24 deliver strictly routine porn footage.

Highlight has to be perky Sandy Dempsey, always stimulating in sexploitation mode. Sex scenes here are presented with or without music, typical of the slapdash, "let's get this baby over with and delivered" approach. Film ends arbitrarily in the middle of a blow job, possibly a defect of the print SWV used, or perhaps carelessness on the part of the genius who directed this junk.