"... a must see for all cult film fans."
Eric Caidin, Cult Movie Magazine
| Of particular interest to Cult Movie Magazine readers and exploitation film fans in general is "Mau Mau Sex Sex." Mau Mau Sex Sex is a fascinating look at two of America's premier exploitation film makers, Dan Sonney and David Friedman. Director Ted Bonnitt has effectively used clips, trailers and interviews to show us the shady, seedy side of Hollywood which to most of us is a hell of a lot more fun to watch than anything that comes from mainstream Hollywood. We are treated to a road show with Sonney and Friedman revisiting their old haunts: the vacant offices and studio lots, and a montage of memories. Friedman and Sonney, friends, business associates and partners in crime have, between them, produced hundreds of classic exploitation films and battled their way through probably just as many legal battles to win the right to make films their way. This is their story, the classic anti-Hollywood success story. Dan Sonney's Amusement Enterprises released such landmark sexploitation films as "Girls of the Street," "Wages of Sin" and "Gambling with Souls," just to name a few films that dealt with controversial subjects at the time: drugs, prostitution, vice, and showed them in all their glory. Dave Friedman was responsible for so many film cycles that we can't thank him enough. He was one the first to jump on the nudist, nudie-cutie wagon with "Daughters of the Sun," and "Lucky Pierre." There were the roughies with Herschel Gordon Lewis and Dan Sonney: "Scum of the Earth," "The Defilers" and "A Smell of Honey- A Swallow of Brine," the first gore films "Blood Feast" and "Two Thousand Maniacs," and the classic sex films with a plot: ""Starlet," Headmistress," "Space Thing" and many more. We owe Sonney and Friedman a debt of gratitude and applause for their contributions to our cult films enjoyment, and this film is one way of thanking them. March, 2000
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