In the vast shadow of Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales , lies a peculiar, forgotten stepchild of the home video era: . For decades, this title has languished in the dusty bins of “adult content” and cult obscurity. Yet, to dismiss it as mere pornography is to miss the point entirely. This film is a time capsule—a loving, hilarious, and surprisingly literary attempt to translate Chaucer’s bawdiest stories into a distinctly 1980s visual language.
Calling a 1985 "B-movie" a classic might seem like a stretch to some, but within the world of cult film collectors, it earns the title for a few reasons: The Ribald Tales Of Canterbury -1985- -Classic-
A good wyf of Bathe, so bold and so free, Had known her fifth husband’s folly, you see. She said, “In cloth I am richly clad, But a man who lies still? That makes me mad!” In the vast shadow of Geoffrey Chaucer’s 14th-century
The Ribald Tales of Canterbury is a final gasp of the Golden Age’s literary ambition. It assumes the audience has read Chaucer—or at least remembers the Cliff Notes. It trusts its audience to understand the joke of a “revel” gone wrong. This is erotica for the VHS renter who also watched PBS’s The Canterbury Tales (1972) and thought, “This needs more nudity.” This film is a time capsule—a loving, hilarious,
The Ribald Tales of Canterbury is a 1985 adult adventure-comedy film directed by Bud Lee and written by Hyapatia Lee