The Girl the Body and the Pill

The Girl the Body and the Pill is an H. G. Lewis sexploitation that attempts for something of a coming-of-age, slice of life drama surrounding the a controversial sex education class. While that might be the kind of elevator pitch that gets HGL fans lining up, the actual film will leave most disappointed. Unlike his well regarded classics (BLOOD FEAST, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS, WIZARD OF GORE) this film has almost no psychotronic aspects, no gory deaths, and no zany character acting in it. Its mostly a by the numbers story with a few lurid details thrown in. The closest thing to overacting we get is from Bill Rogers (the villain from A TASTE OF BLOOD) who seemingly tries to channel Lawrence J. Aberwood's infamous SCUM OF THE EARTH rant but it feels very out of place in the sweet, suburban setting the rest of the film exists in. Perhaps that was the point? Beneath suburbia is all of the nastiness of humanity (alla David Lynch's BLUE VELVET)? Perhaps, but the point is lost in a film that tries to do too much.