Sex on 42nd Street

This episode of the "After Hours Cinema's Storefront" feature film series presents a three-pack of Big Apple smear films that are guaranteed to give you a hard-on the size of Donald Trump's ego. So get ready to be transported back to the days when the "Rotten Apple" was the capital of jerking off and when 42nd Street was a veritable theme park of dealers, prostitutes and peep shows. Pen Pals is an early honey-humper of the great Shaun Costello, undoubtedly the most important (and probably the most productive) cineaste in the entire New York school. Costello's films generally display the hip, urban, jaundiced sensibility of Paul Morrissey's Warhol films: deliberately anti-artistic, they exude an engaging cynicism that somehow revitalizes them as cinema.Certified Mail is a pure product of Kirtfilm Studios, the "Gower Gulch" of the New York scum. Certified Mail's rather episodic and not very unified plot involves a post lady who is involved in various sexual misadventures on her rounds and rounds out the program with Love-In Maid, the ugliest porn ever made for the film. In the mid-seventies, regular Bobby Astyr and another nameless Svengali advertise for a domestic helper, hoping to find a built-in orgy partner.