review for Bizarre on AllMovie

British filmmaker Anthony Balch, who assembled the classic William S. Burroughs anthology/pastiche Towers Open Fire, directed this delirious exploitation omnibus, a collection of six softcore vignettes filled with warped humor and hosted by a bandaged mummy. Beginning with a ten-minute collage of erotic and psychedelic imagery spotlighting fetish clothes, go-go dancers, and other sexual iconography, the film then moves into its short stories, each dealing with the excessive lengths to which people go to satisfy their erotic desires. The first deals with a female photographer who lures a male model into a torture chamber for what is ostensibly a photo shoot, but ends up as a real torture session. Other tales center on a wealthy old man who desires a son but has a mistress with a rare disease; a deranged woman who has captured her former lovers' souls in her houseplants; a call girl (Sue Bond) whose client wants to involve his pet lizard in their encounter; a female spy (Maria Frost) who breaks into vaults topless; and a female burglar (Cathy Howard) who is caught by the owner of the apartment which she invades (Mike Britton). Balch's cockeyed sense of humor, later highlighted in the peculiar cult favorite Horror Hospital, is the main reason to watch, leavening the film's prurient elements with some knowing cinematic winks provocative enough to interest those with more sophistication than the average punter. George Herbert, Elliott Stein, and Peter Carlisle co-star.