Entry Ten: The Sinful Dwarf (1973)

The Sinful Dwarf (1973)

Dir: Vidal Raski

Torben (he only NEEDS one name, like Prince) IS Olaf, the sinful dwarf!  Steel yourselves for this one, folks!  Our lascivious little person gives precisely zero fucks about anything other than making them Benjamins, which he does by kidnapping young women, hooking them on smack and making them turn tricks to get their fix!  We first meet Olaf as he walks down the street with his cane (which he needs not because of any physical disability, but because he's a motherfucking pimp).  When he comes upon a lonely young woman (whose clearly old enough to know better), he distracts her with a wind-up plush dog, brains her and drags her back to his sex lair, which he runs with his down-on-her-luck former actress mother, Lila (Clara Keller), out of their boarding house!  Cue opening credits, set to montage of wind-up plush animals walking against a black screen...

After the credits, we're introduced to our protagonists, Mary and Peter, who are desperately looking for a place to live.  Peter is an out of work writer who can't afford the ten pounds a night charged by most normal boarding houses, so they end up at Olaf and his mother's (they only charge six!).  Mary is immediately put off by Olaf and his scarred old mum, but Peter is insistent and they take a room.  This leads to an explicit scene of celebratory fucking, which consists mostly of shadowy close-up shots of asses (Peter's thrusting, Mary's pale and goosebump-ridden), which Olaf spies upon through a hole in the wall.  This scene is immediately cut to a shot of a boy playing with his dog, OBVIOUSLY symbolizing orgasm.  Lila and Olaf keep their girls chained up in a room right next to the one they're renting out, and Mary is concerned about all the noises she hears at night (unbeknownst to her, "Johns" coming in and out). Lila and Olaf decide that they want the too-inquisitive Mary for their harem, so they trick Peter into accepting a phoney job for their drug-runner that will take him out of the country.  Mary is lured into the "dungeon" by a toy train (yes, really), gets drugged-up and hallucinates that Peter shows up and fucks one of the other girls (gratuitous blowjob and doggystyle shots follow), and then gets cane-raped by the pint-sized pervert.  In the end, Peter arrives to rescue Mary with the cops, who decide to give him free reign with a pistol (standard police procedure) and allow him to blow away Lila.  Olaf spitefully clubs one of the girls to death before committing suicide by jumping out the window.

Jesus fuck, I haven't even mentioned Lila's drag performance scene, the endless bush shots, the interminable scenes of Lila and Olaf palling around with the former's old actress pal (played by Gerda Madsen, of the excellent Haxen), the bearded drug dealer who refers to himself as "Santa Claus," Olaf whipping the shit out of a trick who's using too much smack or the gratuitous topless scenes featuring upper middle-aged Keller.  This is grade-AAA sleaze, folks; you can practically SMELL the jizzum-encrusted raincoats on the print.  I wish I could've seen this in a theatre.  I can't, however, recommend that you watch this movie; let reading this entry be enough.