Though the title may have been changed to coincide with the in house remake supplied in the extra features section of this release, let there be no mistake - Sexual Confessions is a re-titled version of The Three Phases Of Eve, a softcore (though just barely) sex film from 1973 that was previously available (and might still be) under its original name on VHS from Something Weird Video. The video generated title card on this release is a dead giveaway as it doesn't match the film at all and it sticks out like a sore thumb. Not quite feature length (it clocks in around forty five minutes), this one is an obvious parody of The Three Faces Of Eve albeit with a lot more sleaze and an interesting cast of early seventies adult performers in place of their Hollywood counterparts.

Sandi Carey plays Eve, a bored and lonely but very attractive housewife who finds herself the victim of multiple personality disorder. In order to get help, she winds up making an appointment to see Dr. Bushnell (former Mr. Rene Bond, Ric Lutze) who finds no small amount of pleasure in analyzing the three very different phases of Eve one by one. Her first personality is uptight and frigid, her second is as passionate love machine and her third is a freewheeling and free loving hippy type who is happy to hop into the sack with anyone who offers. As the psychiatric evaluation gets under way, we learn some intricacies of each of these three distinct personalities through way of their more carnal encounters…

While not a particularly good or even very erotic film, it's a fun one nonetheless. Ric Lutz makes for a pretty amusing psychiatrist, he's slick (or at least he thinks he is) as can be in the roll and as such we get a pretty hammy performance that provides us with no small amount of unintentional hilarity. It's interesting to see him in an early seventies outing without the lovely Ms. Bond appearing alongside him, as was so often the case during the films that they were involved in during this time period.

As a parody of The Three Faces Of Eve it isn't all that good either, as it doesn't have the characterization traits or plot twists that they original did, which, when you consider the market that this film was made for, isn't at all surprising in the least. Don't expect anything along the lines of Joanne Woodward's Oscar winning performance in this one, or the interesting psychological over tones – the story exists here solely to string us along from one of Sandi's bump and grind sessions to the next.

What the movie does have going for it are a couple of fun set pieces and an odd supporting cast of exploitation regulars, most notably Sandi Carey in the lead who would later go on to star in Naughty Stewardesses and a few other notable trash films. Rick Cassidy would show up in the original New Wave Hookers and a slew of other smut movies.

Video:

While there is some moderate to heavy aliasing all over the image, other than that Sexual Confessions looks pretty decent on DVD when you take into account the fact that EI probably didn't have much to work with here. The colors aren't half bad despite some bleeding with the reds, and the 1.78.1 widescreen image appears to be here in its original aspect ratio. Of course there's some hefty doses of print damage in more or less every frame but the detail is there and those familiar with how old 70s smut films usually look on DVD will probably be pleasantly surprised (or at least not disappointed), although unfortunately the image isn't flagged for progressive scan playback and as such there are some saw tooth artifacts present if your hardware is setup that way, and they prove to be annoying.