 After Hours Cinema Unearths Rare Fred Lincoln Flicks
After Hours Cinema has dug up two ultra-rare, hairy hardcore flicks from the sickie
Seventies featuring footage of AVN Hall of Fame director Fred Lincoln during his early
days as a performer.The new three-disc set includes
Millie's Homecoming and the brilliantly titled Weirdos and the Oddballs, both directed in
1971 by little-known New York porn pioneer Eduardo Cemano. Lincoln appeared in these films
under the name "Fred Zottis" opposite Dolly Sharp, Harry Reems and Tina Russell.
Lincoln was one in a very small group of male performers
who started the hardcore porn scene in New York, along with Reems, Jamie Gillis, and
Waterpower director Shaun Costello. The release of the Cemano movies is significant in
that both were made before the release of Deep Throat opened the floodgates for hardcore,
placing the two films among the first fully explicit XXX features.
According to smut historian Mike Bowen, Cemano made Weirdos
and the Oddballs and Millie's Homecoming for sexploitation icon Doris Wishman (Bad Girls
Go to Hell, The Amazing Transplant.) Both films were released theatrically by legendary
distributor Terry Levene, who later handled the controversial New York opening of Throat
and went on to bring U.S. audiences such Italian gore imports as Make Them Die Slowly and
Dr. Butcher M.D.
While a couple of Lincoln's onscreen performances have
survived, including his leading non-sex role as the S&M guru in Armand Weston's
Defiance (VCX), most of his work as a performer was released in long-lost loops. About six
months after he wrapped the one-day wonders for Cemano, Lincoln played the most infamous
part of his career as Weasel in Wes Craven's Last House on the Left, which was originally
conceived as a hardcore porn flick.
Lincoln contributes a typically candid and funny interview
to the DVD in which he talks about on his entry into the biz, meeting Butchie Peraino, the
bad experience of fucking Dolly Sharp (Linda Lovelace's "smoke while you eat"
roomie in Deep Throat), why Jamie Gillis was known as "The Geek," and more. The
featurette is also worth seeing for Fred's take on Sacha Baron Cohen ("Get the fuck
outta here!") and his perspective on why porn changed for the worse in the '80s.
After Hours Cinema deserves kudos for unearthing these
stoned-out obscurities and giving contemporary audiences a look back into porn's murky
past.
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