Taboo 1 1980 New Now

1. The Basics: What is it?

• Title: Taboo
• Release Year: 1980
• Director: Kirdy Stevens
• Starring: Kay Parker, Mike Ranger, Juliet Anderson, Dorothiea "Dottie" Hundley.
• Genre: Adult Drama / "Golden Age" Cinema.

1980 was only the beginning. The blade was still falling. But for one night, in a cold apartment on Avenue B, a woman had caught it between her fingers and held on.

), a woman whose life is upended after her husband leaves her. Alone and sexually frustrated, she struggles with unsatisfying dates and the aggressive advances of men. Encouraged by her friend Gina ( Juliet Anderson taboo 1 1980 new

The film stars Kay Parker and is noted for its commercial success during the early years of the home video boom. In 1983, it received a Homer Award from the Video Software Dealers Association, which is frequently cited as a moment of crossover between adult entertainment and the mainstream video retail market. Title: Taboo Release Year: 1980 Director: Kirdy Stevens

Atmosphere: Unlike many other films in its genre, Taboo uses comedy (primarily through Juliet Anderson's character) and a campy tone to "soften" the impact of its incestuous theme. 1980 was only the beginning

Her son, Danny, was nineteen. He hadn't meant to come home. He’d enlisted in ‘78 to escape the dead-end roads and the dead-end stares. But a training accident (a torn ligament, a medical discharge, a greyhound bus ticket) spat him back into the living room he’d sworn to leave forever.

Later that week, she found another cassette taped to the store’s back door. TABOO 2 — 1980 — NEWER. She didn’t play it. Not yet. She slipped it into her coat pocket and walked home under a sky the color of rusted tin.

If you are a collector who has only seen the fuzzy, cropped, public domain version circulating on shady websites, you have not seen Taboo. The "new" 1980 cut is a revelation. It transforms a dirty movie into an art film about the dirtiness of the human soul.