The film comprises a set of episodes, each featuring recurring sexual themes depicting the battle of the sexes, and introduced by an Egyptian mummy voiced by Valentine Dyall.

The episode of the monster baby is a bore, but the single shot of it, at the end is brilliant.”[3] Released in February 1970, it was a huge success in the UK, running for six months at the Jacey Cinema in Piccadilly Circus alone, during which time it recouped its entire production cost.

… it's sad that censorship should function against its own long term purpose and re-enforce the man-in-the-mac’s sexual furtiveness by denying him the chance to view sex irreverently.

"[4] Sight and Sound wrote: "One has to make allowances for the tiny budget, inexperienced cast and the inexorable effect of time on what was once considered raunchily risqué, but the feature debut of legendary distributor/exhibitor/William S. Burroughs collaborator Antony Balch is so far ahead of the dismal 1970s British softcore norm that it's hard to credit it's from the same milieu.

Spellbindingly bonkers from its opening scene, which establishes an ancient mummy as the onscreen narrator (with Valentine Dyall's sonorous voice), it's a series of vignettes by turns sexy, horrific and/or flat-out demented, with nods to comic-strip spy thrillers and silent slapstick, and memorably perverse touches like the meal of bloodily rare steak and lychees enjoyed by a couple of torture fetishists during a break in their photo session.

In January 2010, the film, under its original title, was finally released on DVD in the UK by Odeon Entertainment, featuring new sleeve-notes by author Simon Sheridan.