An ad is placed in a Hollywood trade paper announcing two days of auditions for the sexiest man and woman and the strangest act. The auditions will be filmed by a hidden camera with direction from the similarly hidden producers in two sets: a French boudoir and a dungeon. Although it seems like a setup for one of the handful of late seventies films about snuff filmmaking, AUDITIONS is an excuse for the audience to see several men and women (mostly women) revealing their bodies and simulating sexual acts for a prize (as well as a handful of strange acts involving ventriloquism, puppets, comedy, and weird music performances) followed by some paired performances.

If the presence of a couple "professionals" among the off-the-street hopefuls - porn stars Rick Cassidy and Rick Lutz, pre-Scream Queen Linnea Quigley as underage "Sally Webster", seventies sexploitation faces (and bodies) Linda York (FANTASM COMES AGAIN) and Jennifer West (NIGHT OF THE DEMON), voice artist Joey Carmen (who would actually get a Band gig from his audition in the R-rated FAIRY TALES, also directed by AUDITIONS' Harry Hurwitz) - then the constant cutaways from the supposedly single hidden locked-down camera to angles that keep some realistic-looking sex scenes conveniently softcore (despite the theatrical X-rating) should indicate that producer Charles Band wasn't brazenly scamming a bunch of gullible would-be actors for profit (I have no idea if releases would have been required back then). Attempts are made at verisimilitude with performers either belligerent about having to take off their clothes or about being turned away, a couple potential psychopaths (Michael Hardin - of Band's END OF THE WORLD - as a guy who can only get off when his gun is the third partner in a menage-a-trois), the delusional (a pudgy effeminate opera singer who is auditioning for sexiest man rather than strange act), and the underage (although the filmmakers have her clothes torn off by two men before telling her that it would be illegal to use her). It matters not who wins the strangest act, nor even the sexiest man and woman awards because the finalist orgy is hardly a measure of skill so much as a piling of writhing naked bodies onscreen. AUDITIONS was also one of a handful of X-rated films future Empire Pictures/Full Moon producer Charles Band unleashed onto the rental market (including Joe D'Amato's EMANUELLE AROUND THE WORLD on Wizard Video, Cult Video's SNUFF, and Walerian Borowczyk's IMMORAL TALES on the Force label, as well as several unrated imports).