TN
Tony Nourmand
Argued Esper marketed the film as 'educational' to allow audiences to justify enjoying its steamy content, rather than genuinely educating them.
A young beauty queen travels to New York to further her modelling career, but contracts syphilis after being tricked into a sexual encounter. She is torn between the prospect of a slow, intensive but proven therapy and a supposed miracle cure.
Directed byDwain Esper
Written byVincent Valentini, Joseph Seiden
Critical Consensus
2.9
IMDb
2.9
TMDB
Overall critical reception for "Sex Madness" was overwhelmingly negative, with reviewers denouncing its poor production values, exploitative nature, and hypocritical marketing as educational content. Censorship boards also extensively cut or denied its release.
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Trivia
American film director and author Bret Wood argues that Joseph Seiden is the more likely director of Sex Madness, despite Dwain Esper often being credited.
The definitive director of Sex Madness remains a mystery because the original 1938 film includes no actual credits.
In 2018, a film titled Sex Madness Revealed was released, featuring an audio commentary track played over the original 1938 movie.
The commentary track for Sex Madness Revealed features comedian Patton Oswalt and magician Rob Zabrecky telling a fictitious history of the original film.
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Critics
EM
Eddie Muller
Described Esper's work as 'dingy, prurient imagery' framed by moral righteousness, resulting in a 'huckster’s stew' akin to a carnival geek show.
RE
Robert Eberweing
Observed the film as a 'chaotic mixture of peep show and preachment,' highlighting poor production values and the incompatibility of its aims.
LM
Leonard Maltin
Called it 'another trashy nugget from schlockmeister Esper,' made on a tiny budget, and 'indescribably, hilariously awful' for its moralizing and taboo hints.
SM
Scott Campbell (Far Out Magazine)
Noted the film's failure to achieve its desired effect, framing itself as a documentary but being 'heavily indebted to propaganda'.
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