In order to raise funds for his ambitious THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS, as idiosyncratic a genre film as can be imagined, Jonas Middleton bastardized an R-rated script he allegedly wrote with then girlfriend Christa Helm, the tragic starlet who starred in Gerard Damiano's offbeat horror flick LEGACY OF Satan and whose 1977 murder has never been solved. Cutting out huge chunks of expository dialog to accommodate the adult industry's "commercial scenes" made for something of a bewildering curio yet, like LOOKING GLASS, it remains utterly beguiling as much or even more for what it leaves out as for what's properly explained away.
