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Sex and Satan Double Feature: Sex and Satan/Twice is Not Enough
R0 - America - Impulse Pictures Review written by and copyright: Eric Cotenas (29th June 2025). |
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The Film
 "A devilishly erotic adult double-feature that contains enough smut to send unclean souls straight to hell!" Young reporter Janice Lightning (Blood Shack's Carolyn Brandt) accompanies sexorcist/demonologist Professor Ernest Von Kleinsmidt (Psyched by the 4D Witch's Kelly Guthrie) on an expedition to The Marsh outside the city where once dwelled a coven of sex-crazed Satan worshippers. They discover a parchment which Ernest takes home to translate. Reciting the words aloud, he unknowingly wakes hooded cultist Volta (Wayne Williams) who offers the gift of true pleasure to Janice's hooker roommate Diana (Lilly Lamarr), taking sexual possession of her in order to deliver souls to the devil from her clients (along with pimp Richard Zufger). When Janice discovers Diana's desperate state, she contacts Von Kleinsmidt to conduct a sexorcism (which may be exactly what the devil wants). Alternately known as "The Sexorcist's Devil" and "Undressed To Kill" but mainly as "The Sexorcist", Sex and Satan (presumably a retitling for this release as the print has no credits) is one of the many pseudonymous Ray Dennis Stecker hardcore efforts – direction is credited to "Max Miller" here but IMDb lists "Sven Hellstrom" so that name may be on other prints – that he helmed from the mid-seventies to the mid-eighties as it became harder to market his kookier genre works like The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher or Sinthia: The Devil's Doll, and also one of a handful with a supernatural element along with The Mad Love Life of a Hot Vampire and Sacrilege. Like much of his output, hardcore or otherwise, The Sexorcist is a dud, with Brandt's droning narration filling much of the soundtrack apart of a lot of MOS photography in between ugly-looking sex scenes and Guthrie's demonologist spending much of the running time contemplating terrible occult paintings and drawings before realizing the demonic nature of the parchments. Steckler-regular Brandt does not participate in the sexual activity, but the film does offer up some twists in the downbeat finale to keep those with a higher tolerance for Steckler amused.  While this set is called "Sex and Satan Double Feature", the disc's co-feature has nothing supernatural about it. Twice is Not Enough (director unknown) is about an incestuous brother and sister with on-and-off British accents who seduce "simple-minded mama's boys" from wealthy families and take them for all they are worth via sexual blackmail. In flashback, the brother Julius explains to a female guest who has arrived in the middle of a blowjob by his sister how he seduced the unsatisfied masochistic girlfriend of a young man, paving the way for his Popsicle-sucking sister to have her way with the man. Julius then "catches" them together, "punishes" his wayward sister, and then offers to procure other partners for the man who he then photographs in the act. That is all there really is to Twice is Not Enough, a book-ended flashback and then a threesome with the new girl. It is hard to determine if this was always the intention or if the framing was added to bring the film up to barely feature-length or if an entire second half of the film in which they work over another target was never shot. In any case, what remains is pretty much wall-to-wall sex including the expository scenes, all of it with unrecognizable performers shot in claustrophobic locations and generally looks pretty ugly in conception and execution. 
Video
Previously released by Vinegar Syndrome in a Peekarama Double Feature DVD with Steckler's Deviates in Love from a 16mm source with the aforementiond "Undressed to Kill" title card, Impulse Pictures' 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.37:1 slightly-matted fullscreen presentation has seen plenty of projection with a litany of white and green emulsion scratches. It is hard to tell just how much of the daylight scenes are faded and how much are overexposed while shadow detail is nonexistent. There are no credits or title card on the print. We have not seen any previous versions of Twice is Not Enough – mostly from gray market labels – but Impulse's 4:3 non-anamorphic 1.37:1 slightly-matted fullscreen presentation is the better one in this double feature if only because there are fewer scratches but they are not absent, although the generally brighter overall photography makes some of the scratches less visible. Detail is superior but what is detailed in sharp focus and good lighting is not always worth pondering. 
Audio
Like most Steckler films, Sex and Satan is primarily narrated by Brandt who sets up the story and covers a lot of details from MOS sequences. There is some production dialogue but obviously little effort was made to capture it in places free of ambient noise. It is all intelligible apart from a few splices that drop anywhere from a few frames to a few seconds. Twice is Not Enough was shot entirely with sync-sound although that was not really a challenge since the camera is pretty much locked down during dialogue scenes. 
Extras
There are no extras.
Overall
Impulse Pictures' Sex and Satan Double Feature offers no chills or thrills, but then again other releases of even slightly more ambitious supernaturally-based hardcore pornography offer none either.
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