Mandragora (1997)
Entertaining sexploitation dreck
26 January 2001
A friend pressed the DVD to this film in my hands and said, "laugh it up! This is an old-time exploitation movie, like 'Reefer Madness.'" Slogging through the relentlessly depressing story, I have to agree.

Blonde boy protagonist leaves his small Czechoslovakian town to become a boy prostitute. Nothing goes right, and he winds up a drug-addled, AIDS-infected suicide in a matter of days! Like the exploitation films of yore, it graphically depicts the Wages of Sin while simultaneously filling the screen with Sin, glorious Sin. It's too bad it's such a downer, best viewed in 20-minute increments.
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