THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS (1976)

Probably one of the weirdest porn flicks and possibly the most unsexy 70's porn flick I've ever seen.  Sexiness was likely not the goal anyway.  The 70's were a time when many talented directors were stuck making adult films because it was the easiest way to start out and some of them never made that jump from XXX to more mainstream films of the day.  I feel like in this case director Jonas Middleton could have gone on to make a great horror film.  He did go on to write and produce the 80's slasher JUST BEFORE DAWN which is one of my fav's from that genre but apparently never directed anything outside of three porn features which is too bad because this movie really plays out more like a bizarre nightmare than anything that would remotely turn on any normal human being.  If you go into this expecting the typical porn spoof of ALICE IN WONDERLAND you will be disappointed.  About 30 minutes in you do get a bit of a nod to ALICE but it's all done in a very weird offbeat way that you never fully know what to expect.  It's basically the story of a kooky woman who descends into madness thanks to a ghost that may be her dad or a demon or both(played by the late, great Jamie Gillis) and ultimately ends up trapped inside a mirror which seems a lot like hell.  You get daddy-daughter incest, pissing in bath tubs, A guy fucking the desert, a camera journey deep into a vagina, jerking-off into cups and other strange sexual shenanigans.  Music score is by Harry Manfredini who went on to score FRIDAY THE 13th.  Check it out for some artsy porn that seems a lot closer to being a horror film than a porn at all.