Years ago I bought this on VHS by V.C.X.,but, it was the cut version without the rape sequence.A bad trailer print on VHS something Weird Video XXX trailers of the 70's 80's volume ,I think one or two,had the rape sequence in it.At the time V.C.X. was putting git out they were appeasing the censors,they did not want to take a first amendment stand and they ruined the original works of Ferrara.Then I got the DVD about the same .Now Vinegar Syndrome has Restored it from a just as perfect negative as the other print,except it's the uncut version.They also converted it to Wide screen ,one by eighty five by one ratio,but,it was shot for one by thirty seven by one ratio.I learned that the Filmmaker,Abel Ferrara, under a pseudonym ,Jimmy Boy L. wasn't adult film maker, but a mature family oriented film maker,who did this film so he can get money to do a mainstream movie.But he was enthusiastic about it as a film maker at that time.Because he was going to have sex in it it gave him the power to be creative about the movie.Later on he regretted it and doesn't even like to talk about it,just because it's an adult movie. He has denied that it was his first movie.Because of it's artist merit the time square movie audience did not like it.He had his girl friend play Pauline.Nicholas S.T. John ,who played the Chauffeur, was a writer.Now this was more of showing hard core sex for artsy reason ,rather than a turn on .He never like categorizing his films neither.Because of the actor who was suppose to play Pauline's Grand mother and Aunts Father could not get it up Able to over the role and he did it.I believe he did too and that wasn't a stunt.It looks like his penis matched his face.In fact the last Sex scene between Pauline and a man that was suppose to be Gypsy in disguised ,could of been him to with his hair painted gray still Now in the uncut version it showed the black Princess Nacala ,played by Joy Silver, being concerned about the memory of how she was attacker by two men to Pauline which show more dialogue than the cut version.The rape scene is shocking.It's not suppose to turn on neither.It's shows sex as something frightening and scary.It very short and leads back to the scene which Pauline and her are making love.As I stated before the sex scenes were not about turn on but and artist statement.It kind of looks like a subtle horror movie and yet it's not .You have Gypsy and her tarot cards and knowing Pauline and wanting her for her self only and her black cat,the term nine lives of a wet pussy.It dos give it a haunting feeling a bit especially that wooded sequence that Gypsy walks through half naked,as it goes back and forth to Pauline and her affairs In the end you can't tell whether Gypsy has brought Pauline back through teleportation or she came back to Gypsy on her own free will and Pauline is just taking a nap? I wasn't aware until the commentator Adult film historian Samm Deighan stated That Able had directed," The bad lieutenant with Harvey Keitel.but you can't make comparisons because a film maker can be a jack of all trades.This come both in DVD and Blu-ray together.It also contains a remastered version of the trailer in better shape than the one in Something weird video version.08/27/19
Review of 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy
