04.10.2024 | CAFÉ FLESH (US 1982, Stephen Sayadian)

US 1982, D: Stephen Sayadian, A: Andrew Nichols, Paul McGibboney, Michelle Bauer, 73′, OV with English subtitles, DCP

“Able to exist, to sense…to feel everything – but pleasure. In a world destroyed, a mutant universe, survivors break down to those who can and those who can’t. 99% are Sex Negatives. Call them ‘erotic casualties’. They want to make love, but the mere touch of another makes them violently ill. The rest, the lucky one percent, are Sex Positives, those whose libidos escaped unscathed. After the Nuclear Kiss, the Positives remain to love, to perform…And the others, well, we Negatives can only watch…can only come…to…CAFÉ FLESH…”

CAFÉ FLESH’s initial release as a hardcore film failed but the film was later rediscovered as a cult film on the midnight-movie circuit, breaking the house record at LA’s Nuart Theatre and replacing audience favourite PINK FLAMINGOS.

Restoration by Peter Blumenstock.