boasting Jason Miller and Susan Tyrell (!) as cast members. “Ma- niac Publicity” is a collection of vintage interviews featuring Lustig, Spinell and/or Munro on various radio and TV programs, plus a Q&A session featuring Lustig, Garroni and porn veteran Sharon Mitchell (who appears only briefly in the picture, but contributes some information about Spinell’s “research” pro- clivities not mentioned elsewhere) following a recent screening at The New Beverly Cinema. These are complimented by a large still gallery of posters, lobby cards and newspaper ads.
“Maniac Controversy” is a collection of news reports from commentators like Gene Siskel and Rona Barrett charting the hostile reception the film received in various cities, particularly from The National Organization for Women, as well as clips of Lustig and others (including Joe Dante and Charles Champlin) discussing
the state of violence in movies during that era. While the focus is usually on MANIAC, the seg- ment provides a valuable time capsule look back at the recep- tion slasher movies received. Fi- nally, “The Gallery of Outrage” is a collection of hilariously vitriolic reviews from the original release; one can only hope that most of these critics had retired by the time the HOSTEL and SAW pic- tures hit theaters! A two-disc DVD edition with the same extras is also available for $24.98.
MARCY 1969, Deweyvision, $19.98, 76m 28s, DVD
DADDY, DARLING 1970, RetroSeduction Cinema, $19.98, 94m 47s, DVD By Tim Lucas
These two Joseph W. Sarno features, which share some of the same narrative concerns, were
made within the same 12-month period and came perilously close to achieving “lost” status, surviv- ing only in compromised form. No print of MARCY was known to exist until this battle-scarred copy surfaced in “a smelly metal goldberg can” (per the liner notes) and before this 2008 re- lease, DADDY, DARLING was pre- viously available only in shorter, splicier form from various PD video companies.
Shot in rural Suffolk, NY,
MARCY stars “Artemida Diannini” (aka Uta Erickson) as Marcy Wiggins, who lives in a libidi- nous small country town where she shares her farmhouse with June Rutland (Sheila Britt), a hired hand at the time she in- herited her property who has since become a personal friend. Despite Marcy’s well-known past relationship with neighbor- ing landowner Dalton Christie (Nick Linkov acting as “Nick Dundas”), her lack of present
Uta Erickson, Linda Boyce and Sheila Britt sort their sexual fears and desires in Joseph W. Sarno’s MARCY, a once-lost title now recovered in battle-scarred form on DVD.
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