Standing in the stairwells of VOID HOUSE now it’s pretty hard to believe that once the likes of Carla Labia, Paunch Davies and George Van Genitals ran through them naked and smeared in gelignite. Hard to believe that director Ludger Von Braun (brother of the rocket scientist) stood in consultation with cameraman Buzz Aldrin as they considered the innovations that would earn them a place in the history of exploitation cinema. Hard to believe (as one glances at the endless off-green corridors thru the banal and nervous buzz of fluorescent lights) that this is the actual place with such a firm grip on the collective unconscious of the age, that these walls are the very walls that run with blood in so many nightmares turning adults into weeping children, that these doors are those that open on every travesty of human pleasure imaginable, that the 5th floor landing is the place which has inspired more terror and dread in the human heart than any other location this side of the death camps. And yet it is true. All true. And if the ghosts cannot be seen or felt always they can at least be named.

Carla Labia was 24 when she took the role of Marnie in BONE GRAFTERS II – she’d just broke up with her agent-cum-boyfriend Wagner Lasten and he asked her not to do the movie, told her not to do the movie, begged her not to do the movie but she went ahead and did it anyway, with the consequences well known to everyone now.

Paunch Davies was at the end of the line (or in fact at the end of many many lines, mainly of cocaine what were supplied to him by his personal trainer/doctor and confidante Gruel Hampshire). After some false starts to his come-back career (a cameo in some TV shit and a sidekick role in the movie DOCTOR UNDER THE INFLUENCE) Davies was rolling back into the almost public arena with a series of unexpected porno flicks produced by Alfonso Verbatim. BONE GRAFTERS II was planned to be just the latest of these, shot back to back with another project called UNDER THE SKIN but in the end tho, as shooting on BONE GRAFTERS took its almost inevitable downward turn Davies was sacked from his other male lead in less than happy circumstances.