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Directed by Eduardo Fuller (as Vidal Raski)
Written by William Mayo and Harlan Asquith
Starring:
- Torben Bille as The Dwarf
- Anne Sparrow as Mary
- Tony Eades as Peter
- Clara Keller as Lila Lash
- Werner Hedman as Santa Claus
- Gerda Madsen as Winnie
Rating: 
Picture a depraved pantomime à la John Waters but without the farcical factor and only the sickie porn factor. This grossly skeevy Danish sexploitation is the realization of that crass and un-farcical depraved picture; nasty moviemaking in Dwarfsploitation fashion featuring a whole pointless yet grand act of extreme gross-out depravity. Sheer cinematic anti-aesthetics crudely helmed by Vidal Raski about the sinister exploits carried out by the wicked dwarf Olaf (Torben Bille) and his hard-drinking mother (Clara Keller), both sadistic perverts who abduct young women, turn them into junkies dependent on heroin, and then force them to engage in prostitution inside their squalid boarding house. With this unholy premise, The Sinful Dwarf delivers an inhumane and demeaning stream of gnarly porno and plenty of amateurish histrionics. The mere fact that the only well-acted bits are the sex scenes is enough to indicate that its competence lies in the salacious and its incompetence in the dramatic, when the film is in narrative mode it’s risible yet when it’s in sleaze mode it’s all at once alarmingly gruesome. But that’s a poorly poised dichotomy, exposing more of its foibles than its powers as an implacable provocation. I came for plain kinky curiosity and stayed because of Torben Bille’s effectively sinful performance as the creepy deviant – genuinely unsettling; his highly physical and facially expressionistic acting is a showstopper. He laughs heartlessly at his dejected victims, he is a prideful peeping tom, who when he is not kidnapping girls or shooting them up with smack, is busy playing with his kids toys. Dreadful through and through, but not every film climaxes with penetrative cane fucking and The Sinful Dwarf gets there with commendable bravura. All the filmmakers are clearly having a blast. And I must admit that the trashy methodology is infectious. Only the 70’s could spawn something as outrageous as this.