SKINEMAX/SHOWTIME AFTER HOURS/SOFTPORN CABLE MEMORIES

[retrorussell]

Hey badmoviephiles!
Just saw some old "Showtime After Hours" bumpers and got to thinking we should have a thread where we could reminisce on some of the softcore movies we remember seeing on cable back in the day. 
For the uninitiated, softcore is like a hard "R" rating with copious sex, nudity and adult theme, intended for "mature audiences".  Numerous European flicks with this content were shown late at night and early into the morning, way after kids were SUPPOSED to be in bed asleep. :)
If you have any memories, or want to know the title of such a movie and you're stumped but can give a description asking for help, post away!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXXAnedmEX8
Or heck, if you were able to catch the Playboy Channel (after you read all of Dad's magazines) you can post those memories too, even if it is a bit harder than softcore IIRC.

[Psycho Circus]

I've always been trying to remember this softcore flick about these two chicks (who were in a few films together and possibly some playboy tv shows), who go on some sort of road trip, screw some bikers and end up at some swanky house with a pool and a steamroom having an orgy. Would have been mid-90s.

[RCMerchant]

I remember jerking off to SWEET SUGAR circa 1981!

It was on Showtime After Hours. Before internet porn made the real deal accessable.
NOT SAFE FOR WORK! Boobie shots here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ARw7agTiQ&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dsweet%2Bsugar%2Btrailer%26aq%3Df&has_verified=1

[MrMari]

The first time I learned to program a VCR was because of Skinemax and Showtime. The plan was simple, check the TVguide for listings after 10PM, after dinner I pull a mission impossible style programing of the VCR and put that sucker on EP. Go to bed and wake up the next morning to retrieve the goodies. My first movie I saw like that was an Italian skin flick called "The Best"starring the beautiful Gloria Guida. The Italian name is Ragazza alla Pari. I highly recommend it because not only is Gloria smokin' hot in it but the movie is unbelievably funny.

[Criswell]

I remember jerking off to SWEET SUGAR circa 1981!

It was on Showtime After Hours. Before internet porn made the real deal accessable.
NOT SAFE FOR WORK! Boobie shots here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2ARw7agTiQ&oref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fresults%3Fsearch_query%3Dsweet%2Bsugar%2Btrailer%26aq%3Df&has_verified=1

Woah Boobs on youtube!

[retrorussell]

I haven't heard of Sweet Sugar before but it seems awfully similar to all the women in prison films of the 70s and early 80s.  I remember Big Doll House being perhaps my favorite of the ones I had seen (which weren't many).  I kind of remember seeing The Best in the cable listings way back when.  I remember seeing Fanny Hill, Seduction of Inga and Hardcore (with Fiona Richmond) among a whole slew of Euro films I don't know the name of.  One of which was something about a cruise ship where women (I think) created some sort of potency drug and all the men got a hold on it and chased all the women around trying to "get some relief".  And another one where this goofy little middle-aged man (a secondary character) has sex with this ENORMOUSLY FAT woman at the very end.  I think the more prominent characters (attractive women) were laughing at him.  And I saw Joan Collins in a couple flicks: THE STUD and THE B*TCH.  One more was some movie called something like Getting On Top (or something) where some gal was either in the movie or music business and to get to the top, she naturally had to screw her way there.  She had a 3-way with 2 guys in one scene.

[The Burgomaster]

On Friday nights in the late 1970s or early 80s, one of those channels had Kung Fu Theater (they would show 2 martial arts movies), followed by teen titty-flop movies like H.O.T.S.

[RCMerchant]

On Friday nights in the late 1970s or early 80s, one of those channels had Kung Fu Theater (they would show 2 martial arts movies), followed by teen titty-flop movies like H.O.T.S.

I saw H.O.T.S.!!!! Dam! And LUNCH WAGON GIRLS!

[Couchtr26]

I remember many in the 90's.  Mostly Showtime (was free in most apartment complexes in Lawton).  I also remember being 13 and watching the scrambled channels.  Mostly, I remember a lot of Marilyn Chambers and like Bikini clad cave girl movies.   I also remember the old Showtime Sherman Oaks series.  I miss that at times. 

[Rev. Powell]

When I was 13-14 I used to actually set my alarm to go off in the middle of the night so I could sneak out to the living room and watch some Showtime After Hours with the sound turned way down.

Like RC that's where I first saw SWEET SUGAR... yes, it's a women-in-prison movie.  Still remember the scene where the guy stuck the hot gun barrel into the front of Phyllis Davis' daisy dukes---subtle!

This was the one that really delivered:



YOUNG LADY CHATTERLEY II, of course, starred that bastion of virility, Adam West. 

[Archivist]

On Friday nights in the late 1970s or early 80s, one of those channels had Kung Fu Theater (they would show 2 martial arts movies), followed by teen titty-flop movies like H.O.T.S.

I saw H.O.T.S.!!!! Dam! And LUNCH WAGON GIRLS!

Lunch Wagon Girls?  I love the internet!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DXZ-uqYAqA&feature=related

I've never seen either, but the plot of Lunch Wagon sounds similar to a hardcore flick from the 70's called Chopstix.  The voiceover for the trailer happily says, "Chopstix - The Motion Picture.  The movie that changed the eating habits of America!"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0123681/

[retrorussell]

Oh yeah!  Lunch Wagon!  Missing Persons had a guest appearance IIRC.
I can't mention softcore programming without showing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnpypXUq4DE

[66Crush]

It seems like every movie had Shannon Tweed in it.

[RCMerchant]

They hadda lotta those Emmanuelle movies too.
I remember BLACK EMMANUELLE.
OH! I really was geared up about ANGEL OF H.E.A.T...cuz it had porn star Marilyn Chambers...! But alas,no real porn...sigh...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDIi_v0KFpE

It did have Mary (Miss Togar!) Woronov,though! 

[bob]

When I was in grade school I stumbled upon one of the Lady Chatterley films......

I remember in one scene someone, I wanna say Lady Chatterley, said if they wanna talk let's give them something to talk about. In the next scene at least 30 people were naked on the side of a street. Also Lady Chatterley convinced someone to drop out of cerminary school.