9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976) User Reviews

Ferrara's First Is More Interesting Than Good.

[russbgrant · 4/10 · 2 November 2019]

Abel Ferrara's first film got the deluxe treatment via Vinegar Syndrome's Blu-ray and it's worth a watch if your a fan of Ferrara. Basically a set of scenes, linked by a narrator who is reading/reminiscing of letters from her absent lover. As porn it's serviceable, nothing remarkable for the era with largely unknown performers, many friends of the director and Ferrara himself in one scene. It's more interesting as a Ferrara film, being his first one. What it may lack as porn it makes up for in ambition. Ferrara attempts a few different style but sets up many themes that he would explore and dissect in later films throughout his career. So while it may not be a triumph, it's still worth a watch.

The Cinema of Abel Ferrara: 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (trailer)

[Captain_Couth · 5/10 · 9 March 2009]

9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976) was the feature length film debut of filmmaker Abel Ferrara, along with his long time collaborator, Nicholas St. John, the duo worked together on this hardcore adult film. I have only seen about half of this film and I have watched the trailer for it on the two disc special edition of Driller Killer. From what I saw, it's a very weird film (even for a seventy's adult film). All of the bases are covered in this one, the skeletal story involves a woman who's looking for some erotic pleasure be it male or female.

The trailer features a cat that's not in the movie (a very nice touch and showcases some of Ferrara's weird humor). A lot of young directors made adult films in the seventies and they used aliases (Lloyd Kaufman and Willaim Lustig are two I can name off hand). A very rare film that's extremely hard to find.

Boring

[kieran108 · 3/10 · 5 June 2022]

Very little interesting plot , Plain Girls i thought Gypsy would interest me latter but i fell asleep on the couch that never happens with Carol Connors or Rhonda Jo Petty.

Hardcore; Ferrara Style

[Michael_Elliott · 26 June 2010]

9 Lives of a Wet Pussy (1976)

** (out of 4)

Ferrara's first feature-length film is this hardcore effort about a rich New Yorker (Pauline LaMonde) who writes to her tarot card reading friend (Dominique Santos) about her various sexual encounters. These encounters include various men and women and we also get a sequence in a gas station bathroom where she pretty much has to rape the worker. Ferrara has pretty much forgotten all about this film as he had his name changed in the credits to Jimmy Boy L. and whenever asked about his first film, he actually talks about his second, THE DRILLER KILLER. It's funny but this and THE DRILLER KILLER actually have quite a bit in common. THE DRILLER KILLER was a horror film that contained gore and violence yet it pretty much tried to stay away from the genre as if the director was just forced into making it. I think the same can be said here because we get hardcore scenes yet they're filmed in a way as if the director was saying he'd much rather be doing something else. This might be why he's also refused to talk about the film or have anything to do with it. The sex scenes are all rather ugly without any decent camera-work but this could be said about the entire film. It looks incredibly cheap and seems to have been put together on the run. Ferrara does manage to create a rather weird atmosphere but the voice over narration and silly dialogue doesn't help matters. One of the most outrageous scenes has a father passing out drunk and then his two daughters rape him. Yes, not step daughters but actual daughters. There's a rumor that Ferrara was involved in hardcore scenes but I really don't think that's the case. He appears in a scene but I think it's rather obvious, due to the editing, that there's a stand-in doing the actual work. In the end, there are certainly much better hardcore movies out there so this here is going to be for Ferrara fans who want to see the film he wants nothing to do with. I'm not sure what he has against this movie but it's certainly a lot better than THE DRILLER KILLER.

The most boring porno ever!

[Bill357 · 2/10 · 18 March 2009]

It fails to deliver on two fronts. The story lacks sufficient interest to make the not very titillating sex scenes worth sitting through and vice versa.

It is to pornography what "Driller Killer" was to horror films, meaning that young Abel Ferrera didn't seem to understand what audiences for these kind of pictures wanted to see. Sure, he delivered hard-core sex and in Driller Killer delivered the blood and violence, but both are crippled by absolute pretentiousness and lack of plot. The girls are mostly unattractive and the sex is lame. The "fantasies" of it's characters are dumb and pointless.

Also, don't believe those bootleg hawkers that try to convince you that Ferrera "performs" in this movie. He appears as the character of the old man but saves the nasty stuff for his stunt double.

boring "plot"

[tunistoron · 4/10 · 18 July 2023]

The film almost has no plot, minimal dialogue, unknown cast, the sex scenes have very bad lightening and the angles are the worst, you can only see moving objects, no faces or the "sensitive" parts.

I'm still surprised how well known it is, it's very bad even for 1976.

I only rated it 4/10 because of the overall cinematography, the locations are great and the film stock they used had brilliant colors.

Pauline character which should be the lead role only said a few lines in the whole movie, it is worth a viewing if you are interested in photography and cinematography (like me), otherwise don't bother watching it let alone buying it.

Ferrara's hardcore debut feature is quite good for what it is

[Woodyanders · 8/10 · 4 November 2019]

Sexually adventurous wealthy socialite Pauline (an impressively uninhibited portrayal by sultry one-shot brunette Pauline LaMonde) shares her bawdy carnal exploits with tarot card-reading mystic Gypsy (nicely played by the enticing Dominque Santos), who becomes obsessed with trying to control Pauline.

Director Abel Ferrara, working from a spicy script by his frequent collaborator Nicholas St. John, not only keeps the engrossingly seamy story moving along at a constant pace, but also ably crafts a genuinely sensuous mood. The sex scenes are really hot, raunchy, and explicit, with a sordid gas station bathroom encounter rating as a definite scorching highlight. Moreover, a rape set piece prefigures "Ms. 45." Ferrara appears sporting a hilariously phony and unconvincing powdered wig as an old guy who gets tag teamed by his own daughters (don't worry folks, Abel used an obvious penis double for this sequence). Francis X. Wolfe's polished cinematography provides a few nice stylistic flourishes. Joe Delia's funky-throbbing score hits the get-down groovy spot. Worth a watch for fans of 70's adult cinema.

The black princess finally talks

[mmcgee282 · 9/10 · 27 August 2019]

Years ago I bought this on VHS by V.C.X.,but, it was the cut version without the rape sequence.A bad trailer print on VHS something Weird Video XXX trailers of the 70's 80's volume ,I think one or two,had the rape sequence in it.At the time V.C.X. was putting git out they were appeasing the censors,they did not want to take a first amendment stand and they ruined the original works of Ferrara.Then I got the DVD about the same .Now Vinegar Syndrome has Restored it from a just as perfect negative as the other print,except it's the uncut version.They also converted it to Wide screen ,one by eighty five by one ratio,but,it was shot for one by thirty seven by one ratio.I learned that the Filmmaker,Abel Ferrara, under a pseudonym ,Jimmy Boy L. wasn't adult film maker, but a mature family oriented film maker,who did this film so he can get money to do a mainstream movie.But he was enthusiastic about it as a film maker at that time.Because he was going to have sex in it it gave him the power to be creative about the movie.Later on he regretted it and doesn't even like to talk about it,just because it's an adult movie. He has denied that it was his first movie.Because of it's artist merit the time square movie audience did not like it.He had his girl friend play Pauline.Nicholas S.T. John ,who played the Chauffeur, was a writer.Now this was more of showing hard core sex for artsy reason ,rather than a turn on .He never like categorizing his films neither.Because of the actor who was suppose to play Pauline's Grand mother and Aunts Father could not get it up Able to over the role and he did it.I believe he did too and that wasn't a stunt.It looks like his penis matched his face.In fact the last Sex scene between Pauline and a man that was suppose to be Gypsy in disguised ,could of been him to with his hair painted gray still Now in the uncut version it showed the black Princess Nacala ,played by Joy Silver, being concerned about the memory of how she was attacker by two men to Pauline which show more dialogue than the cut version.The rape scene is shocking.It's not suppose to turn on neither.It's shows sex as something frightening and scary.It very short and leads back to the scene which Pauline and her are making love.As I stated before the sex scenes were not about turn on but and artist statement.It kind of looks like a subtle horror movie and yet it's not .You have Gypsy and her tarot cards and knowing Pauline and wanting her for her self only and her black cat,the term nine lives of a wet pussy.It dos give it a haunting feeling a bit especially that wooded sequence that Gypsy walks through half naked,as it goes back and forth to Pauline and her affairs In the end you can't tell whether Gypsy has brought Pauline back through teleportation or she came back to Gypsy on her own free will and Pauline is just taking a nap? I wasn't aware until the commentator Adult film historian Samm Deighan stated That Able had directed," The bad lieutenant with Harvey Keitel.but you can't make comparisons because a film maker can be a jack of all trades.This come both in DVD and Blu-ray together.It also contains a remastered version of the trailer in better shape than the one in Something weird video version.08/27/19