The Last Step Down features no opening credits, just a production company name and a title card before it launches into a fifteen minute scene in which two women (Uschi Digard and Neola Graef) wander into some sort of basement lair inhabited by a few monks. There's an alter setup and as the girls disrobe and lean back against it, the monks use dildos to spread some sort of ceremonial liquid on their cleavage. After that, everybody gets it on, including the head monk (a very mustachioed Michael Donovan O'Donnell).

Once that's over with, we head to a swanky home where we learn that the girls are named Norma Jena (Digard) and Suzie (Graef). Norma Jean is just lounging around on the couch when Suzie comes into the room, she's tired from a long night of turning tricks. Norma Jean makes her some coffee and then they have rad lesbian sex. After that, it turns out that someone referred to as Mother Harry (we assume this is their pimp) has sent over a new recruit, a virgin named Kathy (Terri Johnson), for some training. Kathy shows up and Suzie lets her into their house and tells her to get into a bikini. Kathy does what she's told and then heads to the poolside where she watches Suzie oil up Norma Jean's breasts. This gets everyone all hot and bothered and the three head inside for more rad lesbian sex.

At this point they decide the best thing to do with Kathy would be to bring her along on their next visit to the ‘weekend weirdos.' From there, yep, the three ladies wind up back in the monk's secret lair for more dildos, liquid and fairly graphic softcore bumping and grinding. When that's done the two elder hookers tell their new co-worker how much fun their job is but warn her that hospital visits are more frequent. The end.

This fairly plotless early seventies sexploitation picture is light on plot but chock full of skin. The cast is pretty small in number but hey, when you've got Uschi Digard top lining things, it's hard to get too bent out of shape. She looks great here and it's fun to hear her line delivery with her thick accent. Best known for appearing in plenty of softcore loops and features and exploitation pictures directed by the likes of Russ Meyer and Don Edmunds, if you're a fan of Ms. Digard you'll appreciate just how much screen time she gets here. Neola Graef also looks great and both she and Uschi do seem to enjoy spending time together in their birthday suits. Bucktoothed Terri Johnson is fun to watch and pretty cute in her own way. None of these ladies are going to win you over with convincing performances but they look good naked.

There's really nothing to the story, however. There are moments where it looks like the story will find some depth as our two elder hookers ponder why a looker like Kathy hasn't been laid yet, but nope, it never goes past that point. We also never learn anything about the monks or why they do what they do outside of the fact that they probably just enjoy dressing up in robes and rubbing dildos on big breasted prostitutes. If that's the reason, hey, no problem there… but those looking for depth should look elsewhere as there is absolutely none of that here (even if the title itself infers some sort of journey to Hell or dark character transformation). There is plenty of skin though, so on that level this is enjoyable trash.

The Last Step Down arrives on DVD framed at 1.66.1 anamorphic widescreen though you have to wonder as the movie plays out if it was meant to be seen fullframe as the tops and bottoms sometimes look a little tight. Regardless, the film sourced transfer hasn't undergone any serious restoration so small scratches and white specks are pretty common but the print damage that does appear isn't particularly distracting. Colors are reproduced fairly well and compression issues are never a problem. No obvious edge enhancement or noise reduction to complain about here. This isn't a pristine transfer but it's decent enough for a low budget obscurity such as this.