Soft Cell’s Infamous ‘Sex Dwarf’ Video

Directed by Tim Pope, Soft Cell’s Sex Dwarf video, released to promote their debut album, created quite a scandal in 1981. Claiming it was pornographic, British police actually confiscated copies of the video. It was banned from MTV at the time and is currently banned from Youtube.

The Sex Dwarf clip reminds me of the films of Jack Smith and The Kuchar Brothers, mashed up with Texas Chainsaw Massacre: a Bacchanalian group grope full of writhing bodies, hot flesh and a chainsaw. Richard Metzger, DM’s founder, knows quite a bit more about Marc Almond and Soft Cell than I do. He may have some inside info on this notorious video. Enjoy it in all its sleazy glory.