Director: Stu Segall (as Godfrey Daniels)
Writer: Daniel Short
CAST: Richard Pacheco, Mike Ranger, John Leslie, Marilyn Chambers, John C. Holmes, Jesie St. James
Sandra Chase (Marilyn Chambers), a model and now a
successful actress, inherited a wealth from her parents who died in an
air crash. A beautiful estate near the Sacramento River, where she
welcomes her relatives, such as Flo (Jessie St James), her agent, and
partners in her upcoming movie, Renee Reynolds (Serena) and Roger Adams
(John Leslie). Being an orphan pushed Sandra to “burn the candle at
both ends”, enjoy life to the fullest, without limits, especially in
terms of sex. And Sandra is plagued by a real sexual frenzy, which
began a few years earlier when she was deflowered by her parents’
gardener, and continues today with most of the men and women she meets.
She is a sex addict assuming her condition, and she absolutely does not
want to heal. The pleasures of the flesh pursue her even in her
dreams, where well-hung men make her suffer the last outrages. But
Sandra Chase is insatiable and she still wants more.
At the beginning of the documentary accompanying the film (on the Wild
Side DVD), Bill Margold announces that Insatiable is a highly
overestimated film, despite a large budget (about three hundred thousand
dollars) and excellent actors. Margold is absolutely right. Insatiable
owes its success to the performance of Marilyn Chambers, who seems
possessed by the demon sex, and justifies throughout the footage the
adjective that has been affixed in the title. Marilyn is insatiable and
even John Holmes’ unconventional sex will not be able to extinguish the
burning fire between our heroine’s legs.
For the rest, to tell the truth … not much. We are dealing with a
fairly standard porn, a pivotal time between the heyday of the 70s and
the arrival of the video in the early 80s, directed by Stu Segall. Man
is not a particularly talented director. With a double hat of producer
& director, it began in 1970 with works of the type “sexploitation”,
and in which we could find some stars of the genre, such Rene Bond,
Colleen Brennan and Uschi Digard. He then switches to porn in the early
1980’s. His best known x films are the ones he shot with Marilyn
Chambers, Insatiable and its sequel and Up’n’Coming, considered
byMargold as the best movie of Chambers’ career. Marilyn Chambers will
remain as one of the muses of adult cinema and her death last year only
reinforced the myth of this actress who started in cinema in 1970 in The
Owl and the Pussycat (a comedy with Barbra Streisand). It’s after
seeing him in Sean S. Cunningham’s “Together” that the Mitchell brothers
will hire him for “Behind the Green Door”. She will continue with “The
Resurrection of Eve” before being entrusted with the lead role of
“Rabid” (David Cronenberg) while the role was initially felt for Sissy
Spacek. Despite the success of the film, Marilyn returns to porn with
some parts in mainstream cinema (like the very nice Super Angel). The
rest of her career will be less glorious for this actress who once
advertised for Ivory Snow (which does a humourous product placement in
this film). Marilyn Chambers will also sing (especially in this film)
will be a novelist on occasion and will try a political career with no
tomorrow, until her unexpected death in April 2009 at 57. Insatiable’s
hard scenes are rather conventional but the flashbacks in London, where
Sandra confides to her aunt during their walks around the usual tourist
spots are a nice touch. As far as the supporting roles: we see very
little of Serena; John Holmes, outside of his gear, does not have much
to show us and David Morris (the gardener) has little to do. Richard
Pacheco, although nice, is not really charismatic, but fortunately the
duo Jessie St James/John Leslie manages to raise the level. “Give me
more,” begs Sandra at the end of the film. But the viewer, more than
likely, will not want more despite Marilyn.
