Mondo Keyhole: The Psychotronica Collection #2 – VCI Entertainment (Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

Theatrical Release Date: USA, 1966
Directors: Jack Hill, John Lamb
Writer: Jack Hill
Cast: Nick Moriarty, Adele Rein, Carol Baughman, Pluto Felix, Christopher Winters, Penelope Faith, Cathy Crowfoot, Rene De Beau, Gaby Martone, Barbara Nordin, Missy Simone, Luana Anders, Ron Gans, Joy Lowe

Release Date: July 29th, 2025
Approximate Running Time: 77 Minutes 37 Seconds
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1 Widescreen / 1080 Progressive / MPEG-4 AVC
Rating: NR
Sound: LPCM Mono English
Subtitles: English SDH
Region Coding: Region Free
Retail Price: $29.95

"A serial rapist relishes his attacks on women, but are they only fantasy, real though they may seem?" - synopsis provided by the distributor

Video: 3/5

Here’s the information provided about this release's transfer, "Restored in 2K from the original uncut 35mm camera negative!"

Mondo Keyhole comes on a 25 GB single layer Blu-ray.

Disc Size: 22.2 GB

Feature: 20.6 GB

Though there are moments where black levels, contrast, and image clarity dip in quality, this new transfer is the best Mondo Keyhole has ever looked on home media.

Audio: 2.5/5

This release comes with one audio option, a LPCM mono mix in English with removable English SDH. Although audio sounds clear and balanced, it sounds limited range-wise.

Extras:

Extras for this release include an archival audio commentary with director Jack Hill, an audio commentary with film historian, podcaster, and artist Rob Kelly, a Psychotronica photo and poster gallery with text information about this subgenre, and a trailer for Delinquent Schoolgirls.

Included is a DVD that contains the same contents.

Summary:

Jack Hill co-directed Mondo Keyhole. He’s known for Blood Bath, Spider Baby, Pit Stop, The Big Doll House, The Big Bird Cage, Coffy, Foxy Brown, The Swinging Cheerleaders, and Switchblade Sisters.

A married man who works as a pornographer secretly leads a double life at night as a serial rapist.

Mondo Keyhole is a film that fits firmly into a subgenre of films known as The Roughie. These were softcore films that upped the ante when it came to violence, specifically towards women. That said, despite their nudity and softcore elements, these films were more shocking than erotic.

The protagonist is a husband who lives a double life. He has an attention-starved wife who is addicted to heroin. The only way that he can get off is by taking women by force. Driven by impulse, and during one of his attempted assaults at a party where everyone wears a mask, his wife finds out about him when he tries to assault her.

Mondo Keyhole’s opening setup oversells what follows; it claims that what you are about to watch is an exploration of the line between reality and illusion. Unfortunately, what unfolds is a film that is heavy on exploitation elements like nudity, S&M, and other acts of depravity and light on plot. When it comes to pacing the narrative, it does a good job creating an uneasy feeling that builds to a fever pitch by the revenge-themed finale. Though Jack Hill has a proven track record when it comes to exploitation cinema—he made one of the best exploitation films of the 1970s, Mondo Keyhole—it is nothing more than a curiosity for fans of Roughies.

VCI Entertainment gives Mondo Keyhole its best home video release to date. 

Written by Michael Den Boer