I'm No Dummy:
Does your knowledge of ventriloquism extend any further than ... than ... the question may be more accurately, do you know anything about ventriloquism? Oldies such as your reviewer may remember Jay Johnson, launched into the national spotlight by Soap, while others dialed in to the dying arts circuit might be fans of Jeff Dunham, but it is otherwise safe to say that ventriloquism is as much on the minds of modern pop culture acolytes as is vaudeville itself. Prepare to have your socks knocked off by I'm No Dummy, which, while representing a fairly standard documentary format, touts ventriloquism as cutting-edge comedy, mystifyingly magical, and indeed a meta-art form. At an engrossing 90-minutes, the documentary makes its point with emphasis. Read my lips. Wait, don't ...

Ventriloquists, or 'Vents' in the vernacular, work with dummies; vaguely unnerving puppets ...Read the entire review

An Erotic Werewolf in London:
Here I go again wasting another awesome idea for a piece the copyright of which now belongs to DVDtalk and Internet Brands. You better thank me, guys! What's he on about, you ask? I'm talking about the latest 'erotic horror' offering from Seduction Cinema and the Factory 2000 gang, An Erotic Werewolf in London. Yes, the crew is reaching back 27 years to find titles to spoof. What's next, Battleship Poontangkin? (That's the awesome idea, by the way, I expect to see it on shelves 3 months from now.)

Hopefully readers will already have an idea what Seduction Cinema, Misty Mundae and the rest are all about. This time around, we get a tragic, 68-minute tale (actually lensed in 2001) of a lusty wench (Anoushka) victimized by a rare form of lycanthropy - when she gets horny (a lot) her arousal makes her put the bite on people. If it's the full moon, watch out because ...Read the entire review

The Film:
Once upon a time, when home video consisted of VHS tapes rented at grocery stores and played on machines that loaded from the top, one of the best bets for horny teenage boys like myself to see naked female bodies were Women In Prison movies. I can recall sitting through several entries in this genre that always held the promise of gratuitous shower scenes and the possible lesbian action, and when I was 14 years old, none of these movies seemed that bad. But watching the recently re-released uncut version of Bruno Mattei's Women's Prison Massacre and Caged Women, I realize that in my youth I was much more forgiving of cinematic ineptitude, as long as there were titties.

Filmed back to back in 1981, Women's Prison Massacre and Caged Women (a.k.a. Violence in a Women's Prison) were both directed by the late, great Bruno Mattei. By "late," I mean t...Read the entire review

The Product:
To repeat the observations of a pair of previous reviews, the softcore sex film used to be a staple of late night cable TV, an easily obtainable alternative to a still very taboo XXX entertainment ideal. Back before adult material went meta, then mainstream, the only way to experience some hot horizontal hopscotch was to crank up Showtime or tune to Cinemax and wallow in a heaping helping of old school suggested sizzle. Sure, the actresses seemed a simple step away from a lifetime in the food service industry, and their partners were either portly or merely playacting, but they frequently delivered some basic bang for your pay television buck. For better or worse, the easy availability of porn (along with the social acceptability of rampant plastic surgery) changed everything, so much so that no one even bothers with the non-penetration brand of balling today. Seduction Cinema h...Read the entire review

The Product:
To repeat the observations of a previous review, the softcore sex film used to be a staple of late night cable TV, an easily obtainable alternative to a still very taboo XXX entertainment ideal. Indeed, back before adult material went meta, then mainstream, the only way to experience some hot horizontal hopscotch was to crank up Showtime or tune to Cinemax and wallow in a heaping helping of old school suggested sizzle. Sure, the actresses seemed a simple step away from the service end of your local dive bar, and their partners were either portly or merely playacting, but they frequently delivered some basic bang for your pay television buck. For better or worse, the easy availability of porn (along with the social acceptability of rampant plastic surgery) changed everything, so much so that no one even bothers with the non-penetration brand of balling today. Seduction Cinema has...Read the entire review

The Movies

The recent release of the Quentin Tarantino/Robert Rodriguez double-feature Grindhouse was meant to evoke memories of those days gone by when one could catch a few B (or Z) grade movies at the local theater. Even though the movie didn't perform as well at the box office as predicted, this event has no doubt triggered thoughts of those older films in many fans and home video companies. Thus, we get DVD releases such as this Al Adamson Double Features of Five Bloody Graves and Nurse Sherri.

Despite the fact that it sounds like a horror film, Five Bloody Graves is a western. Here we meet Ben Thompson (Robert Dix), a gunslinger who roams the barren desert of the old west. He learns that a Native American named Setago (played by John "Bud" Cardos) has been roaming the area attacking settlers. Ben tries to warn and save as many people as he can...Read the entire review

The Product:
Someone in the mainstream media needs to hurry up and hire Debbie Rochon before she loses the desire to perform before the camera. This attractive, intelligent woman has been wasting away in the fringes of outsider cinema for far too long. Granted, it gives novice moviemakers with little or no cash a definite bit of personal production value, but for an actress with as much raw talent as Rochon to simply be some fanboy's easily hire-able eye candy seems a shame. A good example of her underused abilities is the wannabe thriller Skin Crawl. Crafted by a first time filmmaker desperate for an attention-gaining gimmick, and offering Rochon a fully realized role without mandatory nudity or nastiness, this narratively complex effort should make for an interesting fright night at the movies. Instead, ambition thwarts entertainment as the movie's knotty plot purposefully avoids let...Read the entire review

The Product:
It's about time to stop referring to certain types of film as 'post-modern'. Back when the phrase actually meant something, it was used to define a type of movie that traded on the past while plotting a course for the future. In fact, it indicated a certain cinematic style, a filmmaking forte that relied on both the history and the hindrances of the medium to make up its meaning. Today, none of that really exists. Instead, independent artists are mulling over the medium's memories, plucking out the elements they want to exploit, and randomly tossing them together into mind-blowing motion picture projects. A good example of this approach is the Rocky Horror meets Texas Chainsaw Massacre amusement called Chainsaw Sally. Half of Jimmyo Burril's hilarious horror homage is a rip-snorting riot act of anarchic thrills and body bisecting chills. The other is a refere...Read the entire review

The Movie

Back in 1987, self-proclaimed filmmaker Jon McBride gathered a bunch of enthusiastic -- yet talent-free -- pals into the woods to make a few movies. A few weeks back I saw one of these flicks (called Woodchipper Massacre) and I was amazed that something so outrageously amateurish could earn itself a nationwide video distribution -- but then I remembered that back in the late '80s you could have put out your own movie if you had a handycam, some willing friends, a few buckets of homemade gore, and a salacious title like Cannibal Campout.

Plot: A bunch of idiots go into the woods, butt heads with a ridiculous trio of sleazy cannibals, wander around a whole lot, get killed and get eaten. If there's more to Cannibal Campout than that, I'll have to take your word for it. Because there's no way I could sit through even five seconds of it over again. Cheap and chintzy...Read the entire review

Laura's Toys is my second Joe Sarno-directed effort to be reviewed this week (hey, did somebody mistake me for a Blue Room reviewer?), and it certainly doesn't pull any punches when it comes to adult content. Whereas Moonlighting Wives was a totally innocuous non-nudity nudie, Laura's Toys is a full-on, mid-70s Swedish soft-core pornography feature. That being said, many of the sex scenes in Laura's Toys are comparable with mainstream R-rated Hollywood films today (as well as cable shows like Nip/Tuck, for that matter), so the titillation factor is fairly tame. My reaction to Laura's Toys is the same reaction I had when seeing soft-core sexploitation films at the drive-in when I was in high school: about five minutes of anticipation, followed by general laughter at the script and acting, winding up in total boredom after the first 15 minutes. If y...Read the entire review

Oh, man -- I remember seeing Moonlighting Wives at the drive-in when I was in high school back in the early 80's! We had a sweet neighborhood drive-in where the owner wasn't above keeping the odd print or two if they proved successful with the patrons, and Moonlighting Wives was definitely one title that seemed to show up every summer, usually at the very bottom of those great Friday and Saturday night triple features that ended right before dawn (if you were never able to experience this uniquely American rite of summer, I truly feel for you). Picking up the Moonlighting Wives DVD case, it didn't spark my memory in any way (probably because the cool cover art has nothing to do with the film). But as soon as that distinct cocktail music soundtrack of Stan Free's came on, I was immediately transported back to my cherry-red '66 VW Bug, laughing with my girlfriend at the ...Read the entire review

The Movie

From the years 1983 to 1989, it was possible to get pretty much anything released on VHS. And here's the proof: Woodchipper Massacre, a horror/comedy with the mentality of a slow child, the wit of a wet dog, and the production value of a backyard barbecue. I get that the mega-low-budget and ultra-amateurish approach is meant to be diverting (or even amusing), but it's like that old joke about watching someone else's home movies: nobody wants to do it.

The plot is a lot like Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, only with less comedy and a bit more carnage. Three ultra-dorky kids are left alone with their mean, rotten aunt while Dad heads off for a business meeting. After an painfully extended series of scenes in which the aunt behaves like a truly evil old bitch, the youngest kid accidentally stabs her in the gut with a huge hunting knife.

But instead of calling the...Read the entire review

Plenty of quality mind-bending films await anyone who searches hard enough. From suspenseful horror films to erotic thrillers, the trend has challenged a myriad of imaginative auteurs to roll the dice and toss their ideas onto the screen. Is a valid reaction to a complex psychological film one of utter confusion and emptiness from the effects of an unclear, indefinable plotline? If that's the case, then Pop Cinema's Sinful really delivers.


The Film:

A very strange and macabre low-budget B film, Sinful is a suspense-horror tale of maternal instinct and the dire desperation of a woman unable to bear children. Lillith lives a very depressing life; her marriage is on the skids amidst sexual and emotional disconnection, her job revolves around an aggressive and hostile environment involving expecting mothers, and her overall living conditions leave much to be desired. To...Read the entire review

The Movie:
It's always fun to go back and view films for the nostalgic factor. Usually you tend to watch a movie that you remember seeing when you were younger or during a specific moment in your life to recapture the spark that made you enjoy the film in the first place. Sometimes you can go back and watch films from an era that you really didn't get a chance to participate in initially. I tend to do that now, going back and watching films of the seventies that I didn't get a chance to enjoy at the time, since I was only a youngster. Exploitation, whether it be horror, action, kung-fu, or blaxsploitation are all on my list; and I really enjoy watching the trailers accompanying that era. 42nd Street Forever is a wonderful disc for that, and so it was with hesitation and a bit of glee that I journeyed into the film that is Cinderella 2000.

Having recently reviewed Ki...Read the entire review

The Movie:
Ok, I'll make a confession right off the bat. I agreed to review Kinky Kong based solely on the name. I couldn't help it, but with a name like that my curiosity was completely piqued. "Never judge a book by its cover" (or movie for that matter) has never been so apt a rule as it was with this movie. What touted itself as a "non-stop erotic action epic and hilarious spoof" was nowhere near being erotic, having action, nor being hilarious. What the movie was, however, was an utterly amateurish, vastly inept waste of time (even at clocking in at an hour and fifteen minutes) that should be avoided at all costs.

A brief synopsis is in order, since after all this is a review. Erotic film director Seymoure Ass (John Fedele) is looking to make his next epic. Wanting to find the next great starlet, he comes across Fannie Sparrow (Sabrina Faire) trying to steal a sex toy fr...Read the entire review

"I can't say it enough: these films aren't for everyone." - Chip Lamey

INTRODUCTION:

Christine (Ruby LaRocca) is an obnoxious, nasty creature who fancies herself as a stylish hipster and apparently makes an income shooting hidden camera videos of women urinating. Periodically, she finds a new unsuspecting female roommate and treats her like crap for her own amusement. Karen (Zoe Moonshine, executive producer and wife of the director), a young girl who has just arrived from South Africa with no possessions, or dignity for that matter, becomes the latest to participate in this idiotic exchange, and The Devil's Bloody Playthings chronicles the lifespan of their relationship for an excruciating 84 minutes.

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The Movie:

Seduction Cinema regular Misty Mundae plays Olivia in this semi-sequel to The Silk Stocking Strangler, a woman who works for a pimp named Claudio (Dean Paul) who is a bit of a voyeur with a few pent up issues of his own. He digs on watching his employee do her thing with members of the same gender and he digs it even more when Olivia hurts her playmates, sometimes even strangling them to death by accident when she gets a little too into her work.

When Olivia does go too far one day, she decides that she no longer wants to be part of Claudio's world and so she escapes from him, running into the city with nowhere to go and no one to turn to until she meets up with a woman named Melody (another Seduction Cinema regular, A. J. Khan) who takes her in. One thing leads to another and before you know it, old Claudio has found his way to Olivia's new digs and not only convin...Read the entire review

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The Movie:

Though the title may have been changed to coincide with the in house remake supplied in the extra features section of this release, let there be no mistake - Sexual Confessions is a re-titled version of The Three Phases Of Eve, a softcore (though just barely) sex film from 1973 that was previously available (and might still be) under its original name on VHS from Something Weird Video. The video generated title card on this release is a dead giveaway as it doesn't match the film at all and it sticks out like a sore thumb. Not quite feature length (it clocks in around forty five minutes), this one is an obvious parody of The Three Faces Of Eve albeit with a lot more sleaze and an interesting cast of early seventies adult performers in place of their Hollywood counterparts.

Sandi Carey plays Eve, a bored and lonely but very attractive housewife who finds...Read the entire review

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The Movies:

Another fine pair of vintage smut films from the rip, roaring seventies, this double feature from Retro-Seduction Cinema's After Hours line features a great Nick Philip's film, Dr. Christina Of Sweden (which once again teams him up with Uschi Digard and her fantastic boobies) which makes it's home video debut paired with Sex Nurse, a fun romp through sexy land that somehow just feels like a good match for the first film.

Dr. Christina Of Sweden:

The film starts off with a female narrator telling us that Dr. Christina Of Sweden was the pen name she used to write sexy articles for a few newspapers. From here, we learn about how she went out to research those articles, beginning with her arrival in Paris, the city of love where the bulk of the film was actually shot. Our narrator struts around the streets and tells us what she sees for a few minutes, a...Read the entire review

]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/20608 Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:49:29 UTC Recommended

The Movie:

There's really very little plot to this 1972 grindhouse smut movie from Nick Philips. Chic is a guy who likes the girls – he wanders around San Francisco and picks up chicks, and then he has sex with him. That's more or less it. There are a few little quirks that make this more interesting than that basic premise, however – there's some truly retarded narration courtesy of some gal with a strange southern accent, plenty of bad disco era fashions, and the undeniably sexy presence of the one and only Miss Rene Bond, the original sex kitten of the XXX world – and she's rarely been in better form than she is here in front of Philip's camera.

After Chic walks down the street, telling us a little bit about himself, he smokes a doobie with Rene. They head back to an apartment and before you know it, one thing leads to another and it's time for a little mouth to crotch actio...Read the entire review

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The Movies:

Born in Sweden then moving to America in the late 1960s, Uschi Digard rose to fame as a big bust model in through the late sixties and the seventies before going on to star in over a hundred exploitation and softcore sex films from 1968 through to the early 1980s when she retired from film and opted out of the public eye. A few of her better known films, including Roxanna and Pleasures Of A Woman were directed by Nick Philips (a.k.a. Nick Millard), both of which have seen DVD releases from Retro-Seduction Cinema, who continue that trend with this release which compiles two new to DVD Uschi films, the first of which, Fancy Lady, is a collaborative effort between Philips and Digard. Though she'll probably always be best remembered for either her 8mm stag loops or her work with Russ Meyer (Supervixens, Harry, Cherry And Raquel), it's nice to see s...Read the entire review

]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/19860 Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:01:32 UTC Recommended

The Movie:

EI continues to pump out some interesting seventies softcore titles and while the Sarno and the Nick Philips titles have thus far been the highlights in their Retro-Seduction Cinema titles, this pairing of one of their older releases (2069: A Sex Odyssey) and a vintage title new to DVD for the first time (Run, Virgin, Run packs a whole lot of goofy, sleazy, entertainment value into one nice little package. While certainly not for all tastes and far too soft to appeal to those looking for truer, harder smut, fans of drive-in era nudity should find a lot to like about these two films.

2069: A Sex Odyssey:

Shot in Germany in 1974 by Georg Tressler and presented here dubbed into English, this one tells the story of a group of five gorgeous alien women from Venus who need to harvest the, ahem, 'seed' of Earth men to bring back to their home planet whic...Read the entire review

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The Movie:

Made in 1973 when porno chic films like Deep Throat and Behind The Green Door were at their peak in terms of popularity, sexploitation master Joe Sarno was still pumping out softcore sex films, reluctant to go all the way into the realm of XXX hardcore movie making at this point in his career (he'd later cave and do it under a couple of different pseudonyms). Possibly in an attempt to cash in on some of the success that hardcore pornographic films had found at the box office, however, Sarno shot Abigail Leslie Is Back In Town using a cast of known adult film stars, which gives it some novelty value and proves that a few of them (notably Jamie Gillis of Waterpower fame) could actually act, as well as frolic in the nude in front of a camera.

Shot in the director's hometown of Amityville, the film follows the story of the titular Abigail Leslie (Sa...Read the entire review

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THE MOVIE

It's hard reviewing titles from Seduction Cinema – because you can't really judge them by their storylines. Much like hardcore porn movies, you have to judge them by the women and the sexual performances – even though the releases are strictly softcore (i.e. plenty of nudity, but no visible penetration). And by that standard, Lust In Space isn't a bad little flick.

This isn't a spoof of the TV show, "Lost In Space," but rather the fourth chapter in the Erotic Witch Project series. I hadn't seen any of the first three movies, but I'm guessing that's not a major prerequisite for viewing this one.

The story is set in the future, as the ladies of the previous Erotic Witch Project films (A.J. Khan, Darian Caine and Alexa Moore) must travel back in time to 1999 Earth in an attempt to cure the world of the sexual virus they apparently found the...Read the entire review

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The Product:
Something Weird Video has been doing it for years. Along with their usual treasure trove of time honored exploitation classics, the company has larded their DVD releases with bonus features focused on the old nudie loops of the 40s thru 70s. These strip showcases were part of the standard operating procedure for most storefront adult bookstores during the era. With the company's genre success has come copycats. Retro Seduction Cinema now wants to join the ranks of the ribald with this initial outing of nudie loops - peep show product from the once sinful streets of NYC. As with most product from the past, we learn more about the era than the erotic.

The Plot:
This DVD is made up of a brief introduction by noted grindhouse ...Read the entire review

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CONTENTS

00:00 - Devil's Rejects - Movie

10:55 - Devil's Rejects - Extras

18:55 - Undead

21:45 - Day of the Dead 2: Contagium

24:55 - Lust in Space

29:20 - DVD Giveaway

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]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/18688 Mon, 14 Nov 2005 00:54:15 UTC Recommended

The Movies:

The Euro-Vixen Collection? What's that? Well, it's four of Misty Mundae's movies making their way to DVD with additional steamy footage that was originally broadcast either on cable or in European markets and until now has not been seen on home video in North America. Here's the breakdown…

Vampire Vixens:

In this 2003 sequel to the earlier Vampire's Seduction, and it follows a hillbilly named Eugene (Zachary Snygg) who accidentally resurrects a female vampire named Dracool (Katie Jordon) from the grave. Dracool commands Eugene to do her bidding and she sends him off to get a handle on what's happening with the local lipstick lesbians in town.

During his spying escapades, Eugene gets to witness a lot of softcore shenanigans but what he doesn't realize is that Wally Van Helsing (John Fedele) is on the hunt to lay Dracool back down for the ...Read the entire review

]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/18519 Wed, 02 Nov 2005 05:08:30 UTC Recommended

The Movie:

Better known in horror movie circles as Veil Of Blood, Joseph Sarno's 1974 vampire sex film comes to North American DVD for the first time under the alternate British title of The Devil's Plaything.

We first learn of a sinister female vampire named Baroness Varga who was executed in the mountains of Germany where she was found guilty of drinking the blood of nubile young women. Before she breathed her last, however, she claimed that she'd come back and live again off of the blood of the local women folk.

Fast forward to the modern day (well, the modern day of 1974, at least), and two pretty young girls are heading up to the hill country to check out a creaky old castle that their recently deceased aunt has left to them in her will. When they arrive, the find that a young couple named Peter and Julie has had some car trouble and they too are hoping to ho...Read the entire review

]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/18117 Mon, 10 Oct 2005 01:09:16 UTC Recommended

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CONTENTS

00:00 - The Seduction of Misty Mundae / Misty Mundae: Euro-Vixen Collection

06:30 - Inside Deep Throat

11:00 - The Man with the Screaming Brain / Alien Apocalypse

16:05 - Dead & Breakfast

19:50 - Liberace: Behind the Music

21:20 - The Blind Dead Collection

24:25 - Horror Business

25:40 - The Witches of Breastwick

30:00 - DVD Giveaway

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CONTENTS

00:00 - The Seduction of Misty Mundae / Misty Mundae: Euro-Vixen Collection

06:30 - Inside Deep Throat

11:00 - The Man with the Screaming Brain / Alien Apocalypse

16:05 - Dead & Breakfast

19:50 - Liberace: Behind the Music

21:20 - The Blind Dead Collection

24:25 - Horror Business

25:40 - The Witches of Breastwick

30:00 - DVD Giveaway

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]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/18103 Sun, 09 Oct 2005 17:02:58 UTC Highly Recommended

What's scarier than an escaped mental patient with an axe to grind...and wield? What's more unnerving than a psycho with a straight razor? What's more menacing than a monster sent up from the bowels of Hell, ready to do its redolent master's macabre bidding? How about a fat chick! That's right, is an obese babe with an unhealthy appetite for oversized portions, and a supersized slaughter sensibility more unnerving than a walking corpse or a shape-shifting lycanthrope? Wouldn't you rather meet Dracula, the Undertaker and all his pals and various members of the Munsters in a dark, dank alley rather than have to put up with a homicidal heifer that can't get enough cake - or carnage? Let's face it, a beached whale woman is a lot more terrifying than an entire army of skeleton soldiers, and ghosts, ghouls and goblins can't hold evil talisman to a chunky chick with a chip on her shoulder.

Perhaps the grea...Read the entire review

]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/18062 Thu, 06 Oct 2005 09:07:43 UTC Recommended

In the world of the gore film, all you need is blood (with many apologies to the Fab Four). If you give good grue, you can get away with just about anything. Misguided plotting? Just lay on the clotting. Shoddy characterization? Make with the evisceration. Production values less than stellar? Just drain a vein and get over it, feller. Horror fans are incredibly forgiving of even the most noticeable of errors if you simply bathe the screen in buckets of bile. Heck, a crimson decapitation or a good disemboweling will pardon hours of hackneyed dialogue, boundless bottom feeder acting and rank retardation of the cinematic style. But pus and puke can't solve every filmic crisis. Indeed, some movies are so maladjusted, so drenched in the talentless tenets of their creators that you could show an entire autopsy on screen, complete with snuff film close-ups, and the audience would still lash out in overt feeli...Read the entire review

]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/17956 Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:48:02 UTC Recommended

The Movie:

Seduction Cinema is pretty hit or miss with some of their softcore erotica titles, but the ones that they play straight usually work out better than the parody releases, especially when they feature the lovely and talented Misty Mundae in the lead. Witness exhibit A - The Seduction Of Misty Mundae, a tribute to the softcore sleaze of old from such masters of skin flick movies as Nick Phillips and Joe Sarno.

The plot, which by admission only really exists to link together the randy set pieces, follows an eighteen year old girl named Misty (played by… Misty Mundae.. go figure) who takes a train ride out to visit her Aunt Inga (Julien Wells). Inga is a very sexually aware woman who is very much in touch with her carnal instincts and on the first night of her visit, Misty wakes up in the middle of the night only to hear her aunt letting her fingers do the walking whil...Read the entire review

]]> DVD Video https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/review/17180 Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:23:38 UTC Recommended

It's funny, but few films dealing with the end of the world look at it from the everyday perspective. True, envisioning the final moments of the planet may not require a routine examination. But unless we are immediately wiped out by a series of nuclear blasts, the world will not die instantaneously. Instead, whatever the reason for the impending apocalypse, the various factors will be small at first, mere blips on the cultural landscape. By the time the real danger has arrived - indeed, by the time the media has picked up the story and created their expensive computer graphics logo to oversell it - the end will be a pragmatic certainty. Still, what would those news reports look like, and who will be determining what news we see? If a plague of some sort hit our world, killing us off one by one, how would that information arrive to us - and how trustworthy would it be?

These are just some of the fasc...Read the entire review

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Jim Wynorski was one of my favorite directors in the '80s, I just never realized it. Is it even conceivable that with the viewing of Lust Connection, I have actually seen as many Wynorski films as I have those of "master" director, Steven Spielberg? I've seen exactly 13 of each director's works (which doesn't even come close to the 18 Takashi Miike films that I own and covet above all else on my DVD shelves, but that's another story), and surprisingly can say that I almost enjoyed them all. I mean, all filmmakers are different and I can think of none more disparate than these two, but when I watch their films, I know exactly what I'm going to get (except for A.I. Artificial Intelligence, no one was ready for that).

I'm not alone when I say that I loved Wynorski's sophomore effort, Chopping Mall, but, hands down, Deathstalker II (1987) i...Read the entire review

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