Henry’s Night In (1969)

A nerdy guy mixes up a magic formula and becomes invisible whenever he sneezes. He uses his power of invisibility to sneak into his neighbors’ bedrooms at night when their husbands aren’t home and have his way with them.

Forman Shane, the star of HENRY’S NIGHT IN, would find regular sexploitation work with Stephen Apostolof, aka A.C. Stephen, who cast Shane in almost all of his barnburners from 1966 to 1975. He’s an appropriately goofy nebbish in this film, even going so far as to raise his pants waaaay up in an attempt to look the nerd part, and is genuinely funny in several scenes.

Fans of Dave Friedman films will recognize Steve Vincent (SPACE THING) as the auctioneer, and nudie regular Phyllis Stengel (GETTING INTO HEAVEN, THE STEWARDESSES) plays one of Henry’s invisible conquests who rides nude on an exercise bike, then takes a bubble bath. One woman takes a shower and shows that silicone really was taking off, even back in 1969, and another bizarre sequence finds Henry sending invisible mice to scare his wife and her lady houseguests out of their clothes! It’s a shame that there are no technical credits for HENRY’S NIGHT IN because whoever was behind the camera did a marvelous job with the photography. Unique framing and angles and professional-looking dolly and crane shots make this look like the filmmakers actually knew what they were doing.

Henry’s Night In (1969)