El Mirón y la Exhibicionista

A badly improvised DVD cover.

I am a fan of the controversial cinematographer Jess Franco, so my point of view is not going to be shared by many readers, which is OK with me: this is a free world! As a matter of fact, I must confess that I watch every Franco's movie I can get my hands on and, honestly, I find always something intriguing and interesting in his work.  

Today's entry will take us deep into the world of 1986's "El Mirón y la Exhibicionista", a straight forwarded hard core porn movie that offers nothing but sex. Perhaps, compared to the unlimited amount of porn you can get from the internet, you may find this Jess Franco film a horrible experiment in porn, as its actors & actresses are not in their best sunday dress. Lina Romay is not as in shape as she used to be and neither are the rest of the cast. Definitely Jess Franco's intentions were not to turn you on to get a good fap/schlock out of his movie. There is a darker point of view in here. Franco wants us to see regular people getting dirty, and portraying the ugliness and brutality of depraved sex.

The opening scene.

Hey! how rude of you to be looking at my nude wet slutty body!

The plot is very simple: in what appears to be a resort/hotel room, a good-looking woman (Lina Romay, featuring all the looks the 80's could deliver), is reading magazines and listening to music from a tape-deck. She is obviously bored but, after a while, she realizes (what an eye...) that a man is watching her from the window of a conveniently placed building in front of her room. It appears that he has binoculars, which qualifies him immediately as a "skilled Peeping-Tom". She doesn't let the opportunity skip by and starts staging a quite titillating and very arousing show in total benefit of this uninvited, but evidently quite welcome, guest. After that brief opening 101 plot explanation lesson, the film turns into varied sex sequences where Lina Romay's character takes the lead. She knows she's got a peeping Tom in front of her window so she finds that very motivating to continue her dirty sexual escapades which feature masturbation, lesbian action, penetration, fellatio, cumshots, cunni lingus and dirty dancing.

Gee! I can't find my clit in this big bush o'mine!

Haven't you ever thought of using a razor Lina?

I got a find neighbour.

The film looks & feels as another average porn movie but, believe you me, Jess Franco doesn't want you to masturbate with his flick, instead he wants to create and show the compelling and escalating atmosphere of tension and complicity, which is building up, as time goes by, between "watcher" and "watched". Lina gets "busy" with her body and soul and you can tell she likes what she does, but her eyes constantly run at the window, looking to be assured that "He" is still there and that he likes what he sees. Believe it or not, her facial language is (particularly under these peculiar circumstances) quite expressive and convincing. There is a mounting tension between the two which, in spite of being at least a couple of hundred yards away from each other and linked only by sight and some other person body, which is the "occasional-transfer", have never been so close and this, till the...inevitable conclusion. 

The dialogue is basically non existent. However at one point Lina says (in her native Spanish) to her occasional and cooperating sex friend: "you may think I'm a maniac but...I love this game!".  

Yeah! Diddle her skiddle!

You sure know how to find my clit in the wild woods of my bush.

Overall, "El Mirón y la Exhibicionista" May look like a porn film, and in fact, it is a porn movie but with a strong direction focused on the topic of being watched, and getting turned on by it. The film is presented mostly in dark colors, that I think, resemble the mood of the depraved characters. The sex scenes are accompanied with pleasant jazzy big band music and the babes acting haven't certainly discovered yet the use of a razor, and don't forget the guilt mood that follows the whole film from start to end. Of course, Jess Franco has directed films that are way better than this simple peeping tom fantasy but still this isn't as bad as it looks.

Anyways, next entries will be about "Father's Day" & "Dear God No" the latest gems in Troma's world of exploitation.

Lina just loves sucking cocks dry!

Lina's money shot!

Here a " video highlight" of the film: