See, here is what I hate in porn: Artsy fartsy. Whenever a porno director convinces himself that he’s going to make something other than another stag movie and tries his hand at arthouse, it’s really annoying. Case in point: “The Devil Inside Her,” a mixture of Andy Warhol, Merchant-Ivory, and “The Crucible,” Zebedy Colt attempts an actual story in an hour, and fails with laughable results. To call this a pure monstrosity is an under statement, as every bit of direction and dialogue is painful, while even the hardcore porn is reduced to satire that fails to be even the slightest bit arousing.
Taking place in 1826, young buff blond Joseph is seeing and sleeping with the local farmer’s daughter Mary, a young woman who is chastised for her temptation by the gigolo when they’re caught meeting to make love. She wants her buff Joseph. Her father wants to prevent the corruption of the devil and reduce her taste for the flesh. And that’s the plot. Speak of the devil, because he in all his moronic glory rises from hell to wreak sexual havoc on the entire Christian family who punishes their daughter. And he looks like Gene Simmons! Hot damn, this devil dude has the make up of the Demon, and never hesitates to ravage a young bushy woman who is irresistible to his temptation. Director Colt pushes in religious subtext in the preamble to the sex and rape, but it dies instantly in a hail of horrid dialogue and a plot that makes no sense at all.
But this is porno, so you’re likely asking if the sex is good. No, it’s not. Because while Colt even aspires to feature disgusting acts of sexual exploration (erm–golden showers), he fails to really shock. I’m trying to examine this in the context of a person who’d seen this for the first time in a theater before anything really gross inched into the blue theaters, and while it may have had some punch in its premiere, it’s still nothing but a very goofy porno, in the end. When Mary’s sister Hope longs for Joseph’s affections, her pleas for sexual pleasure and passion are heard by nude Lucifer. The hilarity doesn’t stop there. Lucifer summons his powers by literally masturbating and chanting in Latin, and uses his semen to turn into Joseph and create carnage in the household.
The series of sexual chaos involves being penetrated by a stalk of corn and piece of carrot, having the demons urinate on Hope, using cum as a secret potion for love, threesomes, orgies, and incest. There’s even a demon free for all in the climax. Whether or not Colt seems to be working towards an anti-porno by showing sex in its ugliness, or just having a time breaking every barrier in hardcore porn isn’t clear, even after the horrific finale signals a sequel, but “The Devil Inside Her” is just a poor bargain basement example of vintage porno and sexploitation. So bad it’s good? Sadly, it’s just awful, even if mercifully short in the running time. Even lovers of the roots of pornography will be hard pressed to give it a chance. I still prefer vintage porn to modern porn as the women then were much sexier and natural, but “The Devil Inside Her” won’t convince anyone that vintage was better. Horrific in every respect, this is a stag film you can dump and forget.