Teenage Twins

There have been porno/exploitation films since there has been film. These 'Scandal Reels' were privately shown and traded until the early 1960s when laws began to loosen and by the very early 1970s the pornography industry was firmly entrenched. As the shock value and novelty of nudity in film wore off, the porn industry started to gain production values and engaging story lines... This is not one of those films. Giving a rundown of the plot or even mentioning the acting is useless in a film like this. From concept thru production (a 2 day shooting schedule) this was meant to be a quickie to capitalize on the twin sisters stars. Porn is supposed to be dirty and this film is wonderfully dirty. The stars are the very cute Brooke and Taylor Young, a twin sister combo of beautifully average looking women. This is their first film and it shows, and therein lies the charm. Ignore the story and enjoy the porn. The soundtrack is a disco confection so gloriously out of place that it works. As a matter of fact this whole film works on so many levels. If your looking for top notch acting and a sumptuous production look elsewhere. If you are looking for a great 'Bad' film that will bring joy and wonder every time you watch it-then find this film, You will thank Carter Stevens for gifting this movie to you.

Teenage Twins (1976)

** (out of 4)

Do we really need a plot description?

Carter Steven's TEENAGE TWINS was one of the more notorious hardcore films to come out of New York City. Why you might ask? Well, the two leads in the film were Brooke and Taylor Young, twins who just happens to have real sex with one another here. What amazed me is that the director wasted no time getting to the scene where the sisters go down on one another and yes it's fairly weird to watch something like this.

Obviously this film was sold on the idea that you were going to get sisters performing oral sex on each other and that's pretty much the gimmick here. TEENAGE TWINS certainly isn't a masterpiece and it's certainly not an awful film. What it is is an interesting piece of history where one had to ask if the filmmakers went to far. Did they? Well, I guess that will be up to the viewer but if you're willing to even watch something like this then I guess you know the answer to that.

There's a subplot dealing with the Necronomicon and there's even a scene with the (fake) mother messing around with the daughters. Oh yeah, there's also a scene where one of the twins masturbates with a Bible. Obviously the filmmakers were trying to break all sorts of taboos and this film deserves more credit than say TABOO, which was about a mother and son but those were actors and in no way, shape or form real relatives like you've got here.

Modern porn has lost something: Depravity. So much of Seventies porn was depraved and that made watching an adult film from this period a unique, exciting experience. What they lacked in polish they made up with gleeful taboo-bursting eroticism. Just think, there's "Water Power," "The Farmer's Daughter," "Little Orphan Dusty," "The Story of Joanna," and, of course, "Teenage Twins." Mix a dash of wannabe-H.P. Lovecraft-mysticism-and-satanism with a whole lot of perverted sex and you get this film. Best of all, we have the smoking hot Brooke and Taylor Young performing actual lesbian incest. You wouldn't be able to find any modern equivalent on the shelves today (in America, at least.) This provides the film an extra sizzle that is also present in this delectable pair's other films (especially "Double Your Pleasure.") No other sister tag team measures up to these two women. God, I love them. I really wish they had made more films. Well, at least we have this one (which is fairly easy to get your grubby little hands on.) Long live depravity!

Teenage Twins makes liberal use of inventions by H.P. Lovecraft, from the Necronomicon in the plot to the writer's pseudonym in the credits. Such usage probably has puritanical old H.P. spinning in his unquiet grave up there in Arkham. The "Twins" really were twins... and one writer who'd been on set pointed out (with great fondness) that these pretty, agreeable sister-starlets were willing and able to do everything required of them other than act. They were airline stewardesses, and after this and one or two other cinematic attempts they disappeared into the wild blue yonder. But rough-hewn though it is, this is a one-of-a-kind classic: No other X-rated film has ever featured both H.P. Lovecraft and biological twin women on a single sound stage. Very silly, very dirty, lots of fun.

Some video copies of this film were retitled TWIN TARTS in the late 1980s, when many films with "Teenage" or "Young" were re-christened. Film is a fairly cheap-looking, about 60m, Carter Stevens effort with a script that ventures a bit for a porn grinder. Chief gimmick was that the femme leads were allegedly twin sisters taking the plunge into adult movies as a team.

Sisters Prudence and Hope, living with their mother and stepfather, share an unwelcome connection. Good girl Pru receives telepathic signals whenever trampy Hope gets sexual, and this makes Pru a little uncomfortable. Meanwhile, their stepfather and his friends are searching for a copy of the NECRONOMICON (script is credited to Al Hazred!) in order to pursue black magic goals. One sister turns out to be the precise vessel needed for the incantation of eternal life, and this sets up what may be termed a fairly polite gang-bang.

Incestuous lesbianism (Brooke and Taylor Young resemble one another, though their accents differ, and may be fraternal twins, as promoted at the time of film's release) and some rather casual sodomy (but hardly of the sort to appeal to Max Hardcore fans) highlight the proceedings here. The end is a bit abrupt and also flat, with one actor apparently missing a cue and no retake to get it right, but the film is a welcome departure from the average hardcore grinder of the day.

This is worth a peek from the *truly* dedicated Lovecraft completist as well as the fan of classic porn. It will look a bit primitive to followers of current hardcore cinema.