Directed by: Donald A. Davis
Stars: Marsha Jordan, Capri, Michael Perrotta, Sandra Wing, Jackie Smith, Jeanette Mills, Dianna Rosano, Lynne Lori, Lisa Jones
Language: English
Country: Usa | Imdb Info
Description: Christine Hunter is already running from a past she can barely name when the film begins — a troubled woman trying to reinvent herself in the most ordinary way possible, only to have fate shove her straight back into danger. A violent encounter in a stranger’s home leaves her shaken and on the move, and what should have been an escape instead becomes an initiation into something darker: a private archive of forbidden desires, hidden histories, and the idea that pleasure and cruelty may be more closely linked than she wants to admit.
Drawn in by a dead man’s journal and encouraged by a suspiciously helpful publisher, Christine sets out to retrace a strange international trail. Each stop on the journey introduces a new environment, a new set of temptations, and a new test of how far she’s willing to go. The film turns into a patchwork travelogue of vice and manipulation — less a coherent adventure than a feverish series of episodes in which exoticism, danger, and self-reinvention all blur together.
What makes Her Odd Tastes memorable is the way it frames Christine’s descent as both personal and performative. She isn’t simply “discovering” herself; she’s being pushed, watched, and shaped by the people and situations around her, until the line between curiosity and corruption starts to dissolve. By the time the story circles back home, the question is no longer whether she can escape the past, but whether the journey has permanently altered who she is.
Legacy Note:
Her Odd Tastes is a prime example of late-60s roughie/sexploitation trying to dress pulp sensationalism in the language of psychological inquiry. Like a lot of films in that lane, it uses journals, narration, and “research into desire” as a thin intellectual frame for a much trashier core. What gives it cult interest now is that uneasy mix: part moral-warning melodrama, part episodic sleaze odyssey, part fake-art-house study of sexual obsession. It’s less polished than luridly ambitious — which, honestly, is a big part of its grindhouse appeal.
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