Johnny’s remarks:
Split this update into two but there’s only a few more movies than 1996 and it helps that I’d already capped most of the movies from this year. Not a lot of nudity in the first part of the 1997 update but there’s some good stuff in crazy The Masturbating Gunman plus some good nudity in Blackrock and Epsilon.
Johnny’s clips from The Masturbating Gunman are here.
His synopsis:
The Masturbating Gunman aka Masked Avenger Versus Ultra-Villain in the Lair of the Naked Bikini is a 1997 exploitation thriller where The Masked Avenger (Robin Brennan) is a man who helps people with a particular set of problems. He can find any woman in the world just by smelling their underwear, which he demonstrates when he finds a woman who has been kidnapped to be sold off to sex traffickers. But he has one weakness: He can’t help but masturbate when he sees a woman. Meanwhile Gunta (Peter Beitans), has just been let out of prison after 12 years and immediately takes control of his crew, who are listless and broke. He also proclaims that he is going to make a son with the most pure woman in the city. Turns out all the women are impure with even school girls being trained to be table-top dancers (there’s a 90s reference if ever there was one) but they finally find a virgin worthy of bearing Gunta’s son: Sister Mary (Nene Powell), who is then kidnapped and brought to Gunta. There’s just one problem and it’s a big one; Mary’s brother is The Masked Avenger and she just happened to leave a pair of her panties behind before being kidnapped. He finds her panties but is still clueless as to her whereabouts. As Gunta prepares for his moment of triumph, Sister Mary decides that the best defence is attack and lets herself be ravaged by Gunta’s crew, ridding her of her purity and while she’s at it, stealing all of their guns. The Masked Avenger tracks down Gunta but he is not going down without a fight, as he has an array of sexy women to distract our hero.
Completely ridiculous, low-budget exploitation movie that works because it has a silly idea and just runs with it with glee. Lots of unrepentant silliness, very 90s (some of the references are the most 90s things I’ve ever seen). As a result, it delivers exactly what it sets out to do. You could easily nit-pick it’s faults but why bother, its clunkiness is part of the charm. If you’re into exploitation, this movie is a perfectly fine watch.