70s therapy culture meets softcore chaos—what could possibly go wrong?
A group of your couples and singles arrive at an experimental ‘encounter group’ to try and solve their sexual hangups.
Production
Genuine 1971 encounter-group aesthetics—shag carpet therapy chic.
Acting
George Buck Flower's committed weirdness elevates every scene.
Director
Anthony Spinelli
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures the tail end of the Esalen-era 'human potential movement' before it curdled into self-help cliché. Director Anthony Spinelli was actually a pseudonym for prolific adult filmmaker Sam Weston, who used mainstream-ish sexploitation as cover for more explicit work.
George Buck Flower became a John Carpenter regular (They Live, Escape from New York) after this early exploitation work—imagine the audition stories.
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