In her dream (or is it?), she spots the White Rabbit—not a frantic, waistcoat-wearing puppet, but a bearded, nervous man in a fuzzy suit who keeps checking his pocket watch. She follows him down a literal "rabbit hole," which the film inelegantly portrays as a dark, damp tunnel.
Final rating: ★★★ (Three stars out of five—one for ambition, one for the soundtrack, and one for the sheer audacity of making the Cheshire Cat a mime who only appears during orgasms.) The film is currently available on several cult streaming services (like Something Weird Video) and has been released on an unrated Blu-ray by Vinegar Syndrome, fully restored from the original 35mm negative. Viewer discretion is strongly, strongly advised. Alice In Wonderland An X Rated Musical Fantasy 1976
Released in 1976—a year bookended by the Bicentennial and the rise of Deep Throat ’s cultural shadow—this film promised audiences a simple equation: take Lewis Carroll’s beloved Victorian fairy tale, add a funky 70s soundtrack, and remove all clothing. But what emerges is something far stranger, and arguably more interesting, than mere pornographic clickbait. It is a time capsule of an era trying to have its cake (and eat it too) while wondering why there were no cakes left on the table. For those who have only seen Disney’s 1951 animated classic, the premise of An X-Rated Musical Fantasy will sound familiar—until it doesn’t. The film opens with a melancholy Alice (played by Kristine Heller, credited as “Bree Anthony”), a young woman bored with her buttoned-up Victorian life. Frustrated with her sister’s prudish lectures about proper behavior, Alice drifts off to sleep. In her dream (or is it
The opening number, “Follow the Rabbit,” sounds like a rejected Carpenters B-side played through a broken speaker. The Tweedle brothers’ ode to swinging, “Two Is Company (But Three Is a Party),” has a genuine country twang that feels wholly out of place in a psychedelic dreamscape. The true showstopper, however, is the Queen of Hearts’ power ballad, “Croquet,” in which she belts: “With a swing and a smack / I’ll never look back / My rules are the only ones true.” Viewer discretion is strongly, strongly advised
For fans of the surreal, the obscure, or the simply bizarre, this film is a rabbit hole worth falling into. Just don’t expect to come back with your sense of propriety intact.
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