Night Hunger (1983)

A man stop at a bar for a drink and a lunch, but he will get more than this when the barman start telling him about the story of the Blair family.

Jerry Butler

The family is afflicted by a disease named satyriasis that make sex something vital for them. The first sign of the affliction appeared with Lucien Blair (Eric Edwards) at the end of the 19th century who kept a collection of young women at his manor to satisfy is lust while keeping his love for his wife (Honey Wilder).

Honey Wilder and Eric Edwards

The story of the family continue during the prohibition when Lillith Blair (Sharon Mitchell) was running a brothel at the manor to feed her lust for sex.

Sharon Mitchell

Like her father, I suppose that Lucien was her father, she have a lover but she use the brothel clientele to satisfied her sexual urges.

Joe Santini, Alan Adrian and Dan Stephens

After we get another time period jump and we reach the seventies when a musical band was renting the manor (so the affliction is related to the house and isn't a family curse after all) as a studio. 

This section start greatly since we get a musical number from Sharon Kane (seriously I love when she sings in a film) and this time we see how the curse works on a person via the discussions between the two personalities of Sharon Kane's character. This part contain a risque segment that would have been certainly cut if the film would have got a legit DVD release. 

Michael Bruce and Sharon Kane

Finally we learned that the manor is now a rest house for the nuns, since it isn't a Jesus Franco's film it won't end with a nuns orgy but the usual Damiano cameo.

Candida Royalle

The eighties was not a good decade for Gerard Damiano like many other veteran directors the transition from film to tape killed his drive, but when he was good he was more than good and this is the case with this one. Sadly it was his last great film, but this little known gem is really worthy of being rediscovered. 

I can't find any negative to this film... the story is original, the acting is excellent from Edwards great dialogues to Sharon Mitchell who got an award for her role to Sharon Kane who is great like she  always is, the decision to use diferents color tone for each different periods and the supporting cast who do a good job even if they haven't much to do since they are sex feeders for the characters afflicted by the satyriasis.

Sadly there are no legit release, so you have a choice between a GVC standalone DVD release or an ABA triple features to get the film. Both are easily findable at the usual places on DVD and Video On Demand.