As a ragtag rabble of down n' out underdogs, never stiff this clownish cast of outcast n' misfit drivers whose bark has some bite. Just ask the topless waitress from the Venus Club when they strike back. Happy 35th Anniversary.

This month marks the 20th anniversary of IL CONFESSIONALE (1998) being released later resulting in holy embarrassment. While sinful Italian clergy engaged in illicit fucking has always been a staple of nunsploitation, what seemed like nothing out of the ordinary for the fetish-genre changed with an exception to the norm when the picturesque 13th Century church of the filmed sex scenes in IL CONFESSIONALE was identified as San Vincenzo in the central Abruzzo region just outside of Rome. It was a resident congregation member who recognized the building (after downloading the film on the internet) and alerted police -- 5yrs later in 2003(!) Suddenly & unsurprisingly the media swooped down on how porn could have taken place on the property, right under the very nose of the local priest Father Paolo Ferrini. When approached by the filmmakers, Ferrini said (of being duped) that he originally had no reason to be naive & suspect that any funny business would take place as he was told the film crew would shoot a wedding scene. One townsperson scoffed at this asking "How could he not know something was going on from the looks of the arriving women? What did he think was being made, an animated movie?" Ferrini's colleague, 83yr old parish priest Father Artemio De Vincentiis said, "I gave the church keys to the owner of the restaurant opposite who took the movie people in." As the press coverage spread, clearly not every responding voice was of shock/outrage as many found IC's revelation long afterward to be more than humorous enough to actually seek out the film just to see if all the generated fuss was even deserving of being considered a big deal. Predictably, the stuffy diocese was not amused by the seedy events and prosecutors sought to bring blasphemy charges under Roman Catholic law against the producers. The fallout from the ordeal's investigation resulted in so much worry by clerical authority of the sullied church, that to undue the profaning, a bishop had to issue a divine decree of "reconsecration by penitential rites" of all past hallowed services to remain valid, which meant hundreds of marriages, christenings and funerals had to be re-blessed.