Shot in Copenhagen in 1973 by production company Scandia Films, THE SINFUL DWARF is a sleazy, mean-spirited, whacked-out, filthy, and nasty little flick that could have only been made during the drive-in and grindhouse days of the 70's. If we could somehow combine the DNA of Andy Milligan, Doris Wishman, H.G. Lewis, and Al Adamson into a single creature, this is the kind of movie that creature would probably make.
The heroin-induced slavery angle and grimey surroundings invoke THRILLER - A CRUEL PICTURE, while the zero-budget nature and the evil dwarf in the title role reminds some people of BLOODSUCKING FREAKS. However, THE SINFUL DWARF is entirely its own bag of filth. The subject matter is depraved; the sets, mattresses, walls, and floors are grimey and dirty; there is no intentional humor to take the rusty edge off. Some of the sex slaves have full armpit hair (very European of them) and display realistic looking track marks up and down their arms and legs (in one scene, Olaf struggles to find a vein in one of the sex slaves and finally just shoots the heroin into her ass). The XXX footage of the uncut version adds to the sleaze by displaying bungholes, throbbing cocks, beavers, and non-simulated fellatio. Yes, the stories are true - you will literally want to take a shower after you've seen this - but that won't help you wipe the layer of grime and filth off your poor battered soul.
Olaf (Torben Bille) is a creepy, sweaty, leering, gimpy, pervy dwarf who uses toys to lure young girls into his attic dungeon, where he ties them up, gets them hooked on heroin, and whores them out as sex slaves. Beneath the sex attic, he runs a sleazy boarding house with his drunken "Baby Jane"-like mother, Lila Lash (Clara Keller), who breaks out into terrible song-and-dance numbers while wearing fruit on her head like Carmen Miranda.
Down-on-his-luck writer Peter (Tony Eades) and his wife Mary (Anne Sparrow) are nearly broke and rent a room in the boarding house, unaware of the sleazy goings-on in the attic. Olaf watches them have sex through a peephole in their room. The husband ends up getting a courier job at the same toy store where Olaf buys his toys and his heroin (run by a guy called "Santa" played by Werner Hedman), and as part of his job, he unknowingly delivers smack hidden in the toys for them.
Mary eventually gets suspicious of all the johns going in and out of the attic and starts nosing around. She's eventually discovered by Olaf and his mom, just in time as it turns out - it seems that eventually, the drug-addled sex slaves use too much heroin to be profitable, and Olaf and his mom need some new girls. Susan gets shot up with heroin and added to the sex slave collection. Olaf's mom fakes a "dear John" letter for her husband to cover up the abduction.
With Mary now high on heroin, Olaf decides to get himself off by fucking Mary with his cane and sucking on her tits. Meantime, Peter finds out about Santa's drug smuggling operation and reports it to the police. Will the cops get to the house quickly enough to save Mary and her fellow smack whores from a life of slavery?
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