Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976) was a direct beneficiary of that wave. Produced by Bill Osco (who had already made the porn musical The Opening of Misty Beethoven ), the film had a then-impressive budget of $250,000—a fortune compared to the $20,000 average for adult films of the era.
Introduction: Not Your Childhood Wonderland For over a century, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been a canvas for reinterpretation. Disney gave us a pastel-colored dream. Tim Burton gave us gothic spectacle. American McGee gave us gothic horror. But in 1976, at the tail end of the Golden Age of Porn and the height of the sexual revolution, director Bud Townsend gave us something entirely unhinged: Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy . alice in wonderland an x rated musical fantasy 1976 2021
The 2021 restoration rescued it from the bottom of a VHS bargain bin and placed it where it belongs: in the canon of bizarre, gonzo, American musical history. Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy (1976)