The FLESH Triple Feature. Michael Findlay (as Julian Marsh) 1967-1968.
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Edition screened: Something Weird, released 2003. English language. Cumulative runtime of three features approximately 222 minutes.
Summary: Two of the three films have weird animal-related moments.
The Something Weird compilation includes three slightly fascinating Michael & Roberta Findlay films devoted to lingering close-ups of soft female torsos.
• The Touch of Her Flesh (1967, 75 minutes): A revenge thriller including a particularly admiring sequence of a young Black go-go dancer, and a good unscripted walk-on by somebody’s house cat in the murderer’s apartment. 2.5/5❤
• The Curse of Her Flesh (1968, 78 minutes): The previous story continues, with a minor animal incident at 20:06 when our killer dips the cat’s paw into water that he was shown lacing with something, presumably poison or a sedative. Later, embarrassing bed talk leads the killer to scruff the cat in a vague way while explaining that “all pussies must die,” 23:27-23:30. The girl kicks him out of the apartment and everyone is fine. There is no harm to the cat. The killer just scrunches its fur weirdly, and so his mysterious lacing ingredient must have been something like mouthwash or Fresca. I have no disagreement if you are thinking that this doesn’t make a lot of sense. 2.5/5❤
• The Kiss of Her Flesh (1968, 69 minutes): The saga concludes, but not before a few more languid murders. About six minutes into the film our killer sits down to a meal of lobster - just a whole boiled lobster plopped on a white cafeteria plate garnished only by a bottle of Lancers. His chair is situated so he can stare at an unconscious squishy girl tied to a spindly reproduction neoclassical sideboard. No thing leads to any other, and he is compelled to break the claw off the lobster and use it to pinch her thigh until she comes to, at which point he switches to a pair of awkward salad tongs and tweaks her further. He’s an odd one, our killer. 2.5/5❤
