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Trying to earn money for college, wholesome cutie Kim (Vickie Miles) is sucked into the degenerate world of the dirty picture racket when she agrees to model for the "Scum of the Earth". Under the tutelage of a sleazy photographer, Kim is soon posing topless before being blackmailed into appearing in raunchier shots, which lead to a police raid, two murders, and suicide. (official distributor synopsis)
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Scum of the Earth truly belongs to the best that Herschell Gordon Lewis directed at the beginning of his career, and it doesn't matter at all that this film lacks nudity. This is a story about how people are, what they are after, and how they stop at nothing. It's not a particularly brutal story, but it has that destructive streak, which becomes fully apparent at the end. I was thoroughly entertained by this once again from Herschell.
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