Behind Locked Doors (1968)

Behind Locked Doors is apparently the re-release title of Any Body..Any Way (1968).  I've never seen the complete film, only this trailer, (sadly censored by You Tube who seem to believe that the sight of a bare woman's nipple will lead us all to sexual depravity).  But the trailer fascinates me - when I first saw it I doubted that it was for a real movie, that it was some kind of parody of a typical sixties or seventies low budget sexploitation film.  It is the way in which it holds out the promise of all manner of titillation: lesbian sex, bondage, voyeurism, torture, a horrible secret in the cellar and, yes, nipples.  The sense of parody is heightened by the presence of a villain apparently trying to imitate Noel Coward (badly) and the presence of an apparently half witted (and sexually predatory) handyman/assistant.  It's all there, with the trailer clearly determined to convince the audience that it is the greatest piece of sexploitation ever made.

The reality, of course, is somewhat more modest: a roughly made B-movie with a no name cast, some giving overheated performances, others barely trying.  The horrible secret in the cellar, apparently, are the embalmed bodies of the villains' previous victims, with the climactic inferno trying to evoke memories of House of Wax, the whole thing framed by a Dead of Night style 'was it a dream?' ending.  I'm sure that I could only be disappointed if I was ever to see the complete film - it could never live up to the expectations raised by that trailer.  (Not that I've ever been able to track down a copy, under either of its titles).   Noel Coward as a kinky creep abducting women to carry out sexual experiments on them is a concept that surely no film, regardless of budget, could ever do justice to...