Nude On The Moon (EOTWS)

End Of The Week Shorts #28 extract: Nude On The Moon (1961)

Nude On The Moon is a strange movie that finds itself somewhere between soft-porn and a 60s sci-fi picture. However, this is not necessarily either one of these things, instead, it's a nudist film. These first emerged in 30s to promote the nudist, liberal, health-centric lifestyle, and because censorship laws changed around the 50s, they were revived and merged with the exploitation and erotic picture. 

Nude On The Moon is both a narrative, promotional film that comments on the 'rat race' and a bachelor's life as well as an erotic picture that has you watch two 'astronauts' take pictures of a nudist camp on the moon (it is so clearly in Florida) for about 40 minutes straight. In such, this just a very weird look into film history that, though it is bogged down by bad acting, a repetitive soundtrack and mediocre direction, is basically passable as a cult film experience.