Scream 2 (1997)

A Scream in the Streets (1973) is yet another of many obscure films with erotic/sexual content "discovered" and released by the great label, Something Weird Video, which is seemingly defined by the unusual, wacky, risque, surreal, provocative, envelope-pushing, often no-boundries-exist content. I love that there are all these kinds of exploitation fare out there just waiting to be seen by a brand new audience. Streets is essentially reminiscent to the softcore of the 2000s. While not hardcore as the decade of the 70s would be known for, Streets ties numerous sex scenes strung together around the case of a transvestite who happens to peep and seems to turn psychotic while dressed as a woman. This singular thread opens at the beginning of the film but doesn't technically define the whole of it in Streets. The guy pops up on occasion to attack a few women, but most of the film is concerned with the police and their sex lives, with the peeping of a lesbian couple thrown in for good measure. Its vintage softcore sex with plentiful nudity and the performers appear to be actually participating although the scenes are shot to not depict actual explicit details needed to move it into the hardcore description. I'm not sure what the audience will expect when they rent this film based on the title, but this isn't some psycho-on-the-loose-in-the-big-city film you'd believe. That is merely a strand that happens to hold the sexual situations together. This should probably be called the people-get-it-on-while-a-maniac-shows-up-occasionally. The transvestite angle seems thrown in because, for whatever reason, it might raise eyebrows at the time. A lot has changed since then, so the angle might appear a bit offensive and politically incorrect nowadays, but this will be seen, I imagine, as a curio of how it once was used by filmmakers at the time. It doesn't seem to indicate the reasoning necessarily for the crimes but just a means to throw in the plot in a trailer at a drive-in to seduce audiences into seeing it.