Adam and Nicole

EROTIC INFERNO is, as the title would suggest, an erotic drama filled to the brim with wall-to-wall softcore sex scenes. It's also a distinctly adult-flavoured movie, with aforementioned sex feeling rather rough and no doubt inspired by the adult roughies that America was making during the decade.

The film was helmed by one Trevor Wrenn, a former protégé of Jose Ramon Larraz, and he certainly brings some atmosphere to the establishing shots, few that they are. Jonathan Gershfield wrote the script under the pseudonym Jon York, and has latterly turned to directing himself and is still working today in TV on the likes of BIG TRAIN and TROLLIED.

The storyline is one of those 'reading of the will' type tales in which various parties congregate in a rambling old house to find out who's about to inherit a fortune. Use of natural lighting throughout means that the whole thing's pretty dark and grubby, but the grubbiest thing is in the attitudes towards women; as the scheming brothers, Chris Chittell (EMMERDALE's Eric) and Karl Lanchbury spend their time abusing and pushing the women around, particularly in the unappetising sex scenes.

Said actresses include SEX EXPRESS starlet Heather Deeley and the late Mary Millington as lesbian lovers, alongside various other assorted down-to-earth performers. GRANGE HILL's Michael Sheard has a one scene cameo too. Bizarrely, for a film with so much sex, none of it is erotic whatsoever, there's no inferno of sorts, and indeed it's all very cold. A bit of a depressing film overall.