"Girl In Trouble" A Cautionary Tale

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Fascinates me that a sexploitation film as small as "Girl In Trouble" would get a novelization. But such were the 1960s. The book version is dated 1964. And like many "cautionary tales" of its day, it delves into the dark side of sexploitation, the stark tabloid side. Usually about a downward spiral, suggesting: "Don't Let This Happen To You!" Here's a scan of the beginning of the book:

"I WAS sixteen years old before I realized that I was pretty. Then I counted it a blessing, the magic key that would unlock the doors of my prison -- set me free to enjoy the glamor and excitement I had only read about. By the time I was eighteen, I knew the key had only unlocked Pandora's box. Oh, there was excitement enough. And, I suppose, a certain amount of glamor. But these were paid for in full measures of pain, heartbreak and degradation...."

The film appears as the first in the Something Weird "Teen Turmoil" Triple feature. File under 1960s sexploitation > roughie.

 

Here's the awesome trailer. As with many exploitation teasers it's better than the actual film, which is awkwardly cobbled together. Love the helmet hairdos though. And, in the case of this movie, the main character's do gets bigger the deeper she sinks "into depravity" -- her hair height becoming a barometer of her downward spiral.

 

 

From "Girl In Trouble" ~ good girl gone bad. Way bad, if we're to judge by the height of her hair. A cautionary tale, for sure.

 

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PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls
and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana
(as told to Richard Perez)

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I need to emphasize that PERMANENT OBSCURITY is not "erotica," although it has BDSM overtones (leaning toward so-called "femdom"). It's really a dark comedy about bohemia and the difficulty of relationships (female/male and female/female) and finally the big question for anyone in the arts (or in the tabloid media): sudden fame vs. permanent anonymity. The style of the novel is inspired by '60s over-the-top sexploition films like those of Russ Meyer (FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS) and those Something Weird Videos, like A SWEET SICKNESS and BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL [so-called “cautionary tales”]) -- updated to the Bush era (circa 2006).

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana (as told to Richard Perez)
Written in the 3 parts:

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 1 - THE KINKY HOOK
Whereupon we are introduced to Dolores and Serena and their kinky shenanigans.

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 2 - STRANGE HUNGERS
Whereupon Dolores and Serena grapple with relationship/sexuality issues, life-threatening drug dealers, irreversible money woes. Culminating in a desperate attempt at making a so-called "femdom" film.

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 3 - NO MAN'S LAND
Whereupon Dolores and Serena find themselves in a place not expected. Namely, hell.

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana (as told to Richard Perez)

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Initially published small literary magazines, Richard Perez has also written for The New York Times (a newspaper he doesn't read.) His first novel, The Losers' Club (aka: The Losers' Club: Complete Restored Edition) has three foreign translations to date: Korean, Turkish, Italian. PERMANENT OBSCURITY: or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography, and Death — his second novel — also reflects his infatuation with bohemia and willful nonconformists.

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