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...rest of the movie is a sado-masochistic version of an old-fashioned quest-not for a golden fleece or a Holy Grail, but for Lee's stolen share of the stolen loot. His techniques are sometimes interesting-as when he uses a white 1967 Chrysler convertible to subdue a bad-guy passenger by crashing, crunching and slamming the car into a junkyard heap. His invasion of the syndicate's impregnable penthouse (carpeted in wall-to-wall red fox fur) begins with a steamy sex wrestle and ends in a superbly vertiginous shot of a naked mobster arcing...
These three ladies and their assorted Steve Stunnings fill 499 and a half pages of super-sado-maso-chistic-hyper-orgiastic drama that is guaranteed to keep any dateless teeny-bopper or frustrated insomniac gasping into the night...
...bleak Manchester moors, where Myra posed smiling over the graves for Brady's camera; the third corpse was found by police in Brady's house. In addition to the bodies, photographs and tape recordings (found in a Manchester locker), police also discovered a lubricious library of sado masochistic pornography, ranging from the Marquis de Sade to a book titled High Heels and Stilettos. Most horrifying item: a 17-minute tape of the screams and pleas of pretty Lesley Ann Downey, ending with a macabre medley of Christmas music, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas and Little Drummer...
...some books that are not fit for all people," she says, "and some people who are not fit for all books." Literature, she believes, is a model demanding emulation; if the model is violence, violence follows. "Their interests," she says of Brady and Hindley, "were sadomasochistic, titillatory and sado-Fascist, and in the bookshops they found practically all the pabulum they needed...
...That the Indianapolis torture-murder [May 6] was described in agonizing detail, and that I, and millions of others, ate up every gory word, attests to the latent sado-masochism in all of us: everyone is a latent Mrs. Baniszewski, who can experience pleasure in giving pain, or a Sylvia Likens, who can enjoy being burned, beaten and humiliated...