Mau Mau Sex Sex
2000, NR, 80 min.
Directed by Ted Bonnit, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring .

Profiled in this documentary are David Friedman and Dan Sonney, legendary old-time purveyors of cinematic sleaze and exploitation. These producers ñ individually and together ñ produced what were called nudie cuties, which later gave way to the S&M roughies. During the Sixties, they moved on to grindhouse fare and produced some of the best work of maestro Herschell Gordon Lewis. The documentary provides volumes of movie lore and a fascinating look at how the benign understanding of their straight-arrow families assisted them in mastering their life’s work.

This article appears in February 8 • 2002.

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.