If it was in the original, I can forgive the director to a certain extent. But it still could have been left out, thus making it his own work.

BTW, I tested out this post on your HTML link page :-)

This one’s been on my radar for a while but gets put on the back burner because of the blood (not into blood), but it stars Lexxi which alone makes it appealing to me.

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Ralphus ~ Sorry….I try to post accurately (HTML), and I do proof-read, but all the HTML coding just starts to look Greek after a while…and you don't see it.

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A Canadian ~ I hear ya…Just too analytical and hard to shut down to just go with it at times.

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Brutus ~ Thanks for the HTML link. I'll definitely check it out (as if it wasn't included especially for me ;-)

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Sardu: Yep. The one-strand-of-rope bondage never works for me either. It always looks too loose or too easy to escape from. I know some people prefer less rope because they want to see more of the female body, but for me, the bondage must be tight and convincing, or else the scene's a bust no matter how hot the victim is.

As for hands cuffed behind the back? I prefer that look when the victim is seated or standing. As jhlipton said, it arches her back and lifts her breasts, especially if her elbows or upper arms are also tied together. But for beds, tables, crosses and X-frames, I definitely prefer AOH, or spreadeagle. It gives more visual to the struggling and helplessness as the victim is tortured.

"Agent X" looks like a lot of fun, and Jane looks great. I'll be looking for this one.

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LTL: I saw both the original "Funny Games" and the remake, which were nearly identical, the biggest difference being the hotness of the actresses involved. I really am confused on my GIMP feelings for this film, especially the remake. I should love it, considering Naomi Watts is a babe and gets tied up, gagged and humilated a lot. And the villains were beyond ruthless and cruel. Yet I couldn't really get into it from a GIMP perspective. It might have been the inclusion of the kid that turned me off.

As for "Saw III," yeah, that freezing scene was pretty "hot." My problem with whole Saw franchise is that for every female victim, there's four or five male victims. As for the movies themselves, I thought the first one was really well done. But it went downhill from there. Yet I'll continue watching these films just for the chance of a female in a prolonged torture sequence.

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A Canadian: I see what you mean about the recent Attackers movies. Judging from the stills, it looks like someone cut their budget in half.

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For anyone experimenting with HTML, try this link if you want to see your work before you post on the forum and prevent all-italic messages, etc. It's simply a matter of copying and pasting.

I haven't seen the Naomi Watts movie -- it sounds familiar but somehow never quite made it onto my radar screen. I will definitely be on the lookout for that one.

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Sardu: Thanks for the commentary (I think you could call it a review) on The Agent. Although it seems you have mostly described the events that should have happened, your assessment will help prepare me for the movie, which I plan to watch this evening.

Saw III

I don't know why or if I need to bother describing what the movie is about as I think everyone, everywhere pretty much knows. Victims get abducted, put in some sort of torturous device and either end up dying if the can't find an escape, or escape but end up maimed in the process (with very few exceptions).

Anyway, a main subplot in this edition is where a nurse gets kidnapped to tend to a dying Jigsaw. She is put in an explosive harness around her neck that is linked to the heart monitor that is attached to Jigsaw. If he flatlines, by natural or unnatural causes, her harness explodes.

Anyway, let’s get down to the meat and potatoes as they say. There are mainly three Gimp scenes here. The first is a minor one where the nurse (played by Bahar Soomekh ) is tied to a wheelchair and cleave gagged right after she is kidnapped.

The second, is the major scene, where a naked victim (played by Debra McCabe ) is tied AOH in a freezer. She is then sprayed periodically with water adding to her predicament. The scene goes on a long time (minutes) and shows her from various angles including full nudal frontity (as old Archie Bunker would butcherously say). Really a nice segment that I was surprised that I didn't know about (seeing how popular the Saw movies are).

The third is basically a flashback to when Shawnee Smith has her device placed on her.

Entertainment wise: After the first Saw it pretty much is all downhill as far as I'm concerned. The first was kind of novel, but now, the same thing over and over. Early in the film the police find the body parts of a victim who wasn't able to escape his trappings and exploded. From there we get to see a flashback of what happened to him. He is attached to chains with huge metal O-rings looped through his skin. In order to free himself he needs to literally pull himself free from the rings, causing great pain and big chunks of flesh being pulled from his body. So basically, since we already know what happened to him, and thus no tension, it was all done for gratuitous gore.

Plus Jigsaw is gurney-ridden in this one due to his terminal brain tumor. How the hell do the victims get abducted? I know Shawnee Smith is his accomplice, and capable of rendering victims unconscious one way or another. But you gonna tell me Shawnee is gonna lug around 200+ lb. male victims? And even if she could, is she going to construct all those huge or elaborate devices/traps? I don't think so. Plus I'm so sick of hearing “I want to play a game.” Grade C-/D
Gimp grade: Nice long, (I mean long, by mainstream standards) nude AOH were the victim dies by freezing to death encased in a thin sheet of ice from the water spray. Grade B+/A-

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MAV ~ Thanks for sharing the Bella Morte info. Big AOH fan huh? I've got a mainstream review that you may be interested in. Somehow, I think you probably already know about it as I get the feeling that I'm the only one who didn't know about it.

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Sardu~ Thanks for your observations on Agent X . One piece of rope huh? Definitely sounds as there is some room for improvement. I haven't seen it myself yet, but I have seen a few videos where a single long piece of rope was used, and none of them have been done well yet. Will reserve judgment until I see it in this case myself.

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jhlipton ~ So no priest collar? ;-)

You know I'm just messing with you right? I mean I know we had a minor difference of opinion in the past. For whatever reason one of your posts just struck a nerve and I ended up taking a couple of subtle shots (or maybe not so subtle) here and there. Don't know why it struck a nerve, but it just did. Been wanting to apologize for a while, so I figure stop thinking about doing it and just do it. Anyway, I shouldn't have taken those shots. I just wanted to make it official.

I like to joke around and I just wanted to make sure that you know that’s all it is. I like to joke around…poke fun at myself. It probably grates on people’s nerves some, but that’s me.

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A couple of mainstreams mini’s again. Like I mentioned in the comment to MAV, I get the feeling I'm probably the only one who didn't know about this one, but there is a rather good segment in Saw III. It’s a popular series but I'm not a big Saw fan. But sometimes, because of circumstances, you end up watching what you end up watching.

First up is:

Mini mainstream review of Funny Games

Funny Games

I can sum up Funny Games in one word…..Freakin’ Naomi Watts dude!...............What?

Anyway, a couple and their son head out for a stay at their vacation house by the lake. As they arrive they briefly converse with their neighbor who is with a couple of young men out in the yard. The neighbor seems a little strange…a little standoffish. The neighbor comes over later with one of the young men and introduces him to the family. Later the second young man comes over under the guise of being sent over by the neighbor’s wife to borrow some eggs. Then pretty much all Hell breaks loose as the family is held against their will and terrorized.

The two young men who are terrorizing the couple are real smart-asses and extremely obnoxious. In addressing one another they refer to themselves as Tom & Jerry, or Bevis & Butthead, or Tubbs, which one of whom is offended by. They’re matter-of-factly and condescending in how they address the family and are also extremely vicious. Prime examples of how sociopaths would interact with people. In an example of this, Naomi Watts asks at a mid-point in the film “Why don’t you just kill us” to which the reply went something like “Don’t underestimate the value of entertainment.”

Gimp wise Naomi Watts is forced to strip (although you don't see anything…damn it Jim!) in a scene, to prove a point (and humiliate) by one of the sociopaths. She is allowed to put her bra and panties back on, then has her hands duct taped behind her back. Her ankles are then duct taped on screen as one of the intruders wraps the tape around her ankles about a dozen times.

Later there are two more scenes with Naomi bound. The first is after she had escaped and is re-captured, she has her wrists bound in front of her with rope and has her mouth stuffed and rope gagged. This is a better than most mainstream hands-tied-in-front scenes (I hate those BTW), as her hands are roped to where she cannot raise them enough to remove her gag (I hate when mainstreams has the hands tied in front but they never even attempt to remove their gags).

The finale segment has her tape gagged (wrapped all the way around) and bound in a boat.

Entertainment value: I saw the trailers on TV some time ago, looking to be tongue-in-cheek, or light-hearted. Boy was I wrong in expecting that as the trailer I saw was very misleading. This film was a very violent and vicious movie. This is a movie that either you love it or you end up hating it, it seems. Put me in the group that loved it…most of it anyway. I was thoroughly into the picture until a scene in the last 15 minute of the movie that almost ruined it for me. Up until then the movie is based in real world scenarios. Then there is an insertion of an almost cartoon-like, for lack of a better term, scene. I suppose it could be interpreted as imagined. But even if that were the case, the outcome of the segment benefits neither the intruders nor the victims, so I can see that either party would imagine this. IMO, they should have left well enough alone and left the segment out.

The movie also reminded me of The Strangers (w/Liv Tyler) in the sense that the 3 kids that terrorized the couple in that movie did it pretty much for kicks. Same thing here, except that in The Strangers, things were done at a distance so to speak, here it’s all in the family’s face, up close and personal. Reminded me of The Strangers, but this is a much better movie IMO. Despite the one part towards the end, I give it a B
Gimp wise: Long scenes of Naomi Watts in her bra and panties. Good parts included where she struggles to try and free herself, struggling just to get to her feet, then hopping around. Then the stuffed mouth gag looked really good (although dressed by then) too. Plus I really like Naomi Watts. Grade B+

Hardly. But [a] I do have a lower age limit (or, rather, a lower projected age limit[*]) and [b] Ralphus likes to keep anything remotely connected to k-p off the forum.

[*] I have a tape of one of Lord's early performances and she looks very young, but certainly not 14. She might have been, but I wouldn't enjoy it she looked younger than she did. Personal taste and all that.

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MAV: I've only been interested in one Bella Morte clip-Corporate Hanging-because it had AOH and torture. It wasn't bad, but the end was all hanging which ain't really my deal.

Gee, who'd a thunk? LOL!

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Sardu: As you can see, he leaves her hands cuffed behind her on the table

I like her arms behind her -- it arches her back and lifts her breasts. It also allows her to strain to reach her torturer, which causes more pain -- yay!

Where's the justice I ask you??

LOL!!!

I can understand the tying on screen... that is something some people like to see... but have everything laid out so it's convenient. All your rope, cut and ready to go for the scene rather than using one long strand that is a pain to work with.

As you can see, he leaves her hands cuffed behind her on the table... She should have been tied AOH here, with a rope securing the cuffs to the table.

Once again, JJ has the personality of a Q-tip, there is little or no dialogue (not really required), but always nice. Not a lot of sexual touching, even if there is a rape. The production company that does the "Fantom Killer" series, and "The Girl in the Lift" really knows how to give the bad guy personality. The plots are stupid, but the production values are great. They are a real hoot.

Ok, what do I like? Jane is beautiful. A great body, and she looks so sweet tied up. The chair tie and the table ties were functional, and the forced sex was nice to see. If you've got the lovely Jane naked, tied up and at your mercy of course you're gonna fuck her... Jeez!

The inverted water torture was nice to see, and the fact editing was used to give the illusion that she was under water a long time was very sexy (the struggling that is).

My favorite scene was the suspended X. Hanging by her wrists, legs fastened to a spreader bar... the tips of her toes barely touching the floor was a sight to see. Worth the rental price and more! I would have fastened the spreader bar so that it was behind the pole instead of in front of it... but that's a minor nit. The front whipping was nicely done... however, with Jane completely naked, suspended, legs spread that seemed like the perfect opportunity for some foreign object penetration... but alas, that never happens.

The crucifixion was well done, as usual, but once again... naked, X spread... her legs very wide just begs for some penetration. JJ should have fucked her again or done some type of sexual fondling... something! But no, he pulls up a chair and drinks a beer while he waits for her to die. Isn't that a "long neck" beer bottle JJ? Why don't you make yourself useful instead of just sitting there??

I really need to get my own porn web site. It would rock. I'm much better looking than Silverback and my dick's much bigger... and he gets to tie up and fuck Christina Carter. Where's the justice I ask you??

Whitman Speaks! Good news. Look forward to the transcripts.

I have only enough for 1 more nicheclips clip and am eagerly awaiting John M's AOH electro release.

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Red Feline site: There's something wrong with the Red Feline site this evening. It is incredibly slow, and it's pretty much hopeless trying to watch any movie you might have rented.

I have purchased The Agent but can't watch it, as the "play" function initiates the process but then seems to be stuck in limbo. I hope the site is working better tomorrow.

Hey guys...

I just got off the phone with John Blakemore. We talked for over 2 hours. Well, it was mostly him doing the talking...the man talked my ear off. What a fascinating guy! All the stories he told me...and we didn't even cover half the topics that you guys had requested I ask him about. It's going to be a major chore to transcribe this for the board, because he kept jumping around and getting off subject. The man loves to talk, but everything he told me was supremely interesting. He's everything you would expect from a living legend, but he's also a down-to-earth guy, at times vulgar, funny, street smart, highly educated and wise beyond his years. He's also a big horny pervert, even now into his late 60s. He practically begged me to send him some Japanese bondage films, because he's cut off from the Internet and doesn't have access to modern-day bondage porn. He said the only stuff he's seen is movies that Sarge and Dan Hawke sent him, and I believe him.

We're going to continue this interview later on next week. He's got my number and he's going to call me this time. My long distance bill is going to go through the roof, but it was money well-spent. My mind is still buzzing. The man has lived a really incredible life. You'll see what I mean when I the release the transcripts, although I'll tell you right now there's a lot I'll have to edit out because it's personal information that can't be posted on a public forum. So this is a continuing drama, but I wanted to let you guys know we've made First Contact, and I'll do my best to bring it to you when we're all finished.

Actually, I think Hibino makes many types of films that might interest you, including mother and daughter rapes, sisters, etc. You should try doing a search for Hibino films at 8JAV.com (formerly SuperJAV). Please note that "savage" in the title is code for "rape".

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Attackers films: Following up on my recent post about how the Attackers movies seem to have mellowed, here is the listing for the upcoming December releases. Honestly, there isn't one title in the bunch that I'm thinking I have to see.

Sloth reviewed a film I saw, actually a 4-hour 2 part epic called Shark Special #30, Parts 1 and 2. It was a good film, with lots of time devoted to three women...the mom and her 2 daughters. They were all tortured separately, though, and not together if you're looking for something like that. Personally, though, I really only liked the youngest daughter's scenes, since she was the youngest and cutest.

Your best bet would be go to Video Mayhem's search feature (located along the far left side on their main page at the bottom) and do a search for "mother". Several choices come up when you do that.

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Is it me or does the latest pictures of Casey Anthony, now that her hair has grown, look a lot like Jane von Deltefson in today’s pictures?

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jhlipton wrote: Both Sophie and Abigail are underage (14), so I don't think I'd enjoy their torture that much.

I agree in that Abigail looks a little too young (looks 11 or 12) to be appealing in the scene. Sophie looks about 14 or so, just starting to bud and cute. And let’s not forget, Traci Lords was only 14 when her infamous career began.

But if that’s the case, what’s with these stories I hear? You putting on the phony collar and pretending to be a Catholic priest or something ;-)

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Edward I can't vouch for quality or anything but I know Bella Morte has some mother/daughter videos. They are death fetish though.

I've only seen one of their clips, Where’s Brittney (which I reviewed). I gave it a decent grade but that was basically for a hot girl and a situation I hadn't seen before (inverted bagging). The acting of the villain sucked and the editing was poor. Not sure if the filming deficiencies are indicative of what their other productions are like or if it was just an aberration.

Some of the studio productions from the U.S., such as the ZFX movies, are more expensive.

As for the type of movie you want, well ... that's a pretty broad menu of options you have listed. As a starting point, you may want to look at the reviews section, particularly the reviews of Japanese movies. Many people have commented that the reviews written by me tend to be the most reliable (just kidding). In all seriousness, the reviews might help you narrow down your search, as there are many rape and torture scenes to be found throughout the world of Japanese porn.

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Jane: You look very hot in these pics from AgentX (no surprise there). I'm glad this is now available for rental. I can't wait to get my hands on you...er, I mean the movie. ;)

I suspect I know the ending to Downloading Nancy and it's probably not all flowers and butterflies for Maria's character, but it still looks like an interesting film. It's not due out on DVD until next January, though.

The direct link to your review is in my Homepage URL above.

The Dark is a film I was not familiar with. The choice of putting all the GIMP scenes in little snippets sounds like a bit of a tease, but it may be worth a rental.

Here's the direct link for your review:

http://ralphus.net/reviews/mainstream/dark.htm

BTW, I got stuck checking out that "Bitty's Celebrity Titties" site you linked. If anybody wants to take a peek at Sophie Munk tied up and nude in the recently-discussed The Hills Run Red, click on this page:

http://www.hogrockcafe.com/sophie_monk.htm

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Hey, potential good news about the Blakemore interview. This was supposed to happen 4 weeks ago but he's never called. I've been in contact with the Sarge and he got through to Blakemore on the phone to see if we can get this thing accomplished. The good thing is I am now allowed to call him instead of waiting for him to call me. The bad thing is that he's apparently quite guarded about his personal life and this has to be done discretely, but he has indeed agreed to the interview so we'll see if we can possibly do it this weekend. If not, Sarge assures me this WILL happen, we just have to find the right time.

You're really cute.

Liquor in the front, poker in the rear

In reguards to the disappearance of John Galt, I hope it's do to nothing more serious than the guy taking a vacation from GIMP.

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LTL: Thanks once again for your work on the mini reviews. I could be wrong, but I think GIMPage is actually a new variation of GIMP that we can add to the collection on this forum.

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The John Galt mystery: It is a little troubling when a regular contributor mysteriously disappears. I hope everything is OK.

I look forward to John Galt making his long-awaited return and to Bill Zebub just going away.

Sardu - yeah, I thought "Cancun Nightmare" to be one of Silverback's stronger efforts - first viewing I was unaware that was Christina Carter but finally that ankle tatoo gave it away - and thanks for the "Header" info - saw it for sale at Asian Cult sometime back but after checking into it decided against a purchase - now, not even a rental.

LTL - thanks for those reviews - saw some snippets from "Downloading Nancy" and it seemed all consensual which is an affront to all Gimpdom - "The Dark" however does sound interesting.

Jane von Detlefson - I too found "La Femme Nikita" to be very entertaining with a surprising amount of bondage and peril for the tele - let's ratchet it up, slip it into a late night time slot and do it right.

Ralphus - with these latest pics from "Agent X" I've got the freak on for it - and with dialogue no less.

Have decided to pull the trigger and place an order for "The Torurer" and "Shoot the Dirty Rapist" - if no one else gets to them first I'll provide the skinny on them.

Stay Well All

It's a major problem about minors! LOL

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LTL: Hey man, if it’s about me borrowing your Wayback Machine….get over it. I put gas in the damn thing.

It runs on DIESEL!!!! No wonder he's mad!

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As far as Gimpage goes, all three of the female characters in this are shown restrained and/or tortured.

Both Sophie and Abigail are underage (14), so I don't think I'd enjoy their torture that much. But thanks for the review. It sounds like an intriguing film even without the Gimpage.

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She is threatened with a shard of broken glass, but she’s into pain and it's part of a consensual game. A game she does not have total control over.

Combine this with the "rape" scene in "History of Violence" and I wonder if Ms Bello isn't into pain games a bit! This movie definitely looks fun. Thanks for the review.

Downloading Nancy

This truly needs to be a "mini" review, since it would be almost impossible to give too many details without revealing what the film is about.

Nancy (played by Maria Bello) is dealing with the pain and depression of being abused as a child, and neglected as a wife. She deals with the pain and emptiness constructively by going to analysis, and self-destructively by inflicting pain upon herself by cutting herself and by finding someone on the Internet that'll pay attention to her. As I was watching the story unfold I was thinking to myself that this is sounding very familiar. Then at the beginning of the closing credits my familiarity with the story was confirmed as it stated that it was inspired by actual events.

Gimp material is fair to good depending on your viewpoint. Maria is naked and has her arms tied above her head and to the bed she’s lying on. She is threatened with a shard of broken glass, but she’s into pain and it's part of a consensual game. A game she does not have total control over.

Maria Bello

Entertainment wise: This is a very, very good movie. IMO Maria’s acting is exceptional in this one, as you can almost feel the pain and emptiness she’s portraying. It was also very intense at times, very dark, very disturbing, and very unsettling to watch. This is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, but for me, I give it an A
Gimp wise: Though consensual in nature, still an interesting segment…plus nude and bound. And how often does that happen anymore in mainstreams? Grade C+

In retrospect, I probably shouldn't posted it, but I do like to look at the lighter side of things. Probably as a counter-balance to my Gimp tastes, which tend to run a little dark.

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Anyway, down to business. I saw Downloading Nancy at the theaters not too long ago. Then just watched The Dark just the other day. Both starred Maria Bello, so I figured I do something slightly different. A Maria Bello mini review double feature.

Mini mainstream review of The Dark.

The Dark

The Dark Trailer

The story begins as a mother (played by Maria Bello) and Sara, her pouty-lipped daughter, (played by Sophie Stuckey), make a trip to the Welsh ocean side for a stay with the girl’s father. Later on, on an excursion along the shoreline, Sara goes missing and is presumed drowned. After search attempts come up empty, a girl (played by Abigail Stone) mysteriously shows up walking outside the house. It turns out the girl is the daughter of a religious leader, whom after the death of his daughter (Abigail) some 50 years ago, convinces his congregation to kill themselves by jumping off the steep Welsh ocean side cliffs.

As far as Gimpage goes, all three of the female characters in this are shown restrained and/or tortured. First is a couple of flash snippets of Sophie. The first shows her in a head restraint with her mouth being covered by a hand for an implied torture. This is followed up by a similar snippet but with her eyes rolling back and a trickle of blood running down her forehead. Later on there are a couple more similar snippets of Sophie.

Abigail is next, as her torture scenes are done from a flashback perspective. She is also head harnessed and tied to a chair for snippets of implied and actual torture. One of which is a metal object being heated and burning her with it.

Maria finishes out the restraint/torture segments as she is tied to a chair and neck strapped. She is shown being slapped around by her now possessed daughter, and then later, cut by Abigail.

As you may know I don't like to give away too much plot from mainstreams. That wouldn't be a problem here as I'm not totally sure what happened. By that, I mean that there are at least 2 or 3 different ways you can interpret the ending…thereby clouding some of the earlier parts that you thought were straight forward. That’s not to say I didn't like this movie. In fact I liked it quite a lot despite the uncertainty of conclusion. I really like the eerie feel and the awesome scenic shots of the Welsh shoreline, including the tall vertical cliffs. And the part that was told from recollection about the mass suicide created a very powerful visual as you see masses of people jumping to their deaths, suitcases in hand, as they were convinced that this was the way to Heaven.

And say what you will, but I thought Sophie Stuckey to be a real cutie. Reminded me of a young Scarlett Johanssen.

Entertainment wise: I'd give it a B/B-
Gimp wise: The visuals are in lots of flash snippets…but there are quite a few. And despite no nudity, and hoping there would be more scenes with Sophie, I'd give it a C/C+

Jeff Gord: You know, I'm one of those who had never seen the V: the Final Battle scene before. For a scene with absolutely no bondage, that was really hot. It certainly helps having a total cutie like Faye Grant wearing a skintight outfit surrounded by swirling steam and screaming her pretty little ass off. Not to mention a beautiful sadistic female villain dishing out the punishment. Thanks for sharing that.

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Sardu: Thank you, my former master, for 2 more useful reviews for the board. I had seen the trailer for Header a while back and was curious, too. Like LTL adroitly pointed out, it seems like all the horror moviemakers care about these days is coming up with new ways to kill off their victims. Instead, what they end up doing is wasting our time with over-the-top gore when all we really want is the tried and true. I've said it before, I'll say it again. The key word is distress, not mutilation.

The direct link for your review is in my Homepage URL above.

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As for Cancun Nightmare, Brutus beat me to the punch by coming up with the actual title. There were a few clues that it was a Hardcore Abductions movie; the first being that it was Christina Carter doing hardcore bondage sex. As a well-known bondage model, I think it's cool that she'll do the harder stuff, even if she tries to lay low and not use her real name in the Hardcore Abduction films, apparently thinking that if people knew, it would supposedly hurt her career. Personally, I think she should proudly wear it as a badge. I respect her more for doing it.

Silverback has posted here in the past; I'm still in contact with him via e-mail from time to time. He had heart surgery a few months back and sold off his company, but he'll be getting it back the first of the year. And he's recovering nicely and should be back to raping more girls on film soon. I like a lot of what I've seen from Hardcore Abductions, even though their films are inconsistent, depending on whether he has someone running camera for him during that particular shoot.

This is obviously one of their better titles. Sloth also reviewed this one a while back and he gave it a B, and he's a fairly tough grader.

Here's the direct link for your newest review: http://ralphus.net/reviews/other/ha_cancunnightmarea.htm

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John Galt's disappearance: It's odd to me, too. John is an online friend of mine. We e-mail back and forth a lot. I noticed he hadn't been around for a while so I wrote him 3 weeks ago and asked what was going on. He's usually very quick to write me back, but this time, he never replied. As one of our most prolific posters, it's very strange for him to go AWOL like this, and it's been nearly 2 months since he posted here.

I had this happen to another of my online buddies, too. Longtime GIMPers may remember AvF, one of our regulars for quite a few years. He and I were pretty good buddies; in fact, we used to swap videos by mail. Then one day, he suddenly disappeared from the site. He stopped answering his e-mails. Weeks went by, then months. I had his actual home address so I sent him a registered letter and it came back undelivered. There was no one there to sign for it. I've googled his actual name (it was an unusual one) and nothing came up. That was years ago and to this day, I haven't a clue what happened to him. I still miss my friend. It's the not knowing part that makes it hard.

Let's hope John returns soon. This place really isn't the same without him.

Sudden thought: You think Bill Zebub might have gotten to him?

Me too! As you look very lovely in those pics! (wiping the drool from his face;-)

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Brutus If you do end up getting The Cottage let us know what you think of it. I'm curious to see if you end up liking it as much as I did.

As far as it being a comedy, and I know this may be sacrilegious to many of you, but there are other things to life than just Gimp ya know.

And I was wondering about John Galt myself.

Hey man, if it’s about me borrowing your Wayback Machine….get over it. I put gas in the damn thing. ;-)

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Sardu ~ Thanks for another fine review. Cancun Nightmare looks and sounds like a winner!

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Disregard this part. I'm trying to expand on my HTML knowledge a little more so trying something out. Hope you don't mind Ralphus

And what better subject to test something out on than my favorite Goth, Liz Vicious.

Liz Vicious

Had this been an actual Gimp alert moment, you have been directed by the network to your local pervert station provider.

About Bill Zebub: It's not funny when you threaten others. Ever. It's pretty hard to laugh it off when someone is threatening to do you harm. I was contemplating renting said director's documentary "Black Metal: The Norwegian Legacy?", because I'm a HUGE fan of Norwegian Black Metal and in particular Ulver. I think Mr. Zebub owes Ralphus an apology.

On another note, I bought the first season of "La Femme Nikita", which has a surprising amount of bondage (clothed) and perilous situations. Now I'm totally addicted.

Christina Carter in Cancun, review: I have to say upfront that I received this video through less than reputable source, but were I to know where to download it from it's original source I would gladly shell out the cash for it. I'm not even sure this is the title of the vid, but perhaps someone here can pinpoint the exact source from the description below:

First, let me say I absolutely love Ms. Carter. Her body is voluptuous, her pouty face looks wonderful gagged or not, and she is super sexy in bondage. I've loved her on Hogtied and the variety of websites she's been on... and I really don't dig "porn" bondage... but damn... there is just something about her.

This is a great peril bondage porn vid. It starts of with the lovely Carter sunbathing in Cancun in a skimpy bikini. She is video taped by some stalker, and then followed into her room. This is where the action happens. Next, he sneaks up behind her, and does a very nice chloroform on her rendering her unconscious.

Next, he puts her on the bed, and strips off the bikini. He ties her hands behind her back, and then ties her legs spreadeagle to the bed. The bondage is very good!! Furthermore, her legs are tied very far apart on the queen size bed!! Yes! At this point I'm already happy.

Let me also say, that for a porn vid, the dialogue isn't half bad. The stalker guy is wearing a ski mask, but is older... looks to be in his 50s. He's also quite fat... which is kinda gross when it comes to the rape scenes... but for some reason that worked for me, because I could imagine that the girl really wouldn't want to make it with this guy.

So anyway, he's got the lovely Christina Carter, completely naked, hands bound behind, legs tied widely apart, and he begins to fondle her. Squeezing her breasts, etc. Very nice. He waits by her side, video taping the unconscious girl until she wakes up. Of course she begins to struggle and mmrph as she is nicely ball gagged. Typical porn vid mmrphing, but from Christina, it's very sexy.

Next, he fondles and fingers the bound and helpless girl, and then begins having sex with her. Actual penetration is shown... very nice as she struggles and mmrphs the whole time. The camera pulls back and shows her tied legs, and gives a nice pulled back shot over the stalker pounding her.

Let me take a second to talk about the camerawork here. A cameraman is employed, so there are no overly long, static shots that are typical for porn vids these days because the only two people are the model and rapist. They cameraman seems to be reading my mind as focuses on the right aspects of a scene... be it her spread legs, tied hands, anguished face, etc. For a cheapo, hotel room porn vid, this is done right!

The stalker eventually pulls a knife and forces her to sit up, legs still tied apart and give him a blowjob. I'm not big into forced blowjobs unless there is a dental gag involved, but Christina definitely looks disgusted as she's forced to suck this guy off... based on what he looks like, she probably wasn't acting... heh, heh.

The movie ends with him tying her up in a strict hogtie and leaving her struggling, completely naked, on the bed.

Maybe its because I've been watching a long string of duds here recently, I don't know, but I really enjoyed this one. I'd give it a B+... it is a porn vid after all, but it's Christina Carter, the bondage is well done, the sex scenes are nice, and a cameraman moves and keeps it going nicely.

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Sardu: Once again, a review here has saved me some money. "Header" does seem like a major disappointment. That seems to be the norm these days.

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Ed: I'm not much into anime because the women's faces often look like children. Real Japanese women often do look much younger than they are, but if they if they look like kids, it becomes a major problem. Japan's child porn laws are notoriously lax. Be careful what you order.

For anyone who cares, hentai simply means "kinky." It doesn't refer to any specific medium. (That was one of the first Japanese words I learned.)

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Bill Zebub Does Ohio: That's some creepy stuff there. When I read his message, I (wrongly) assumed that he and Ralphus were e-mail buddies.

I actually complimented Bill Zebub on his ability to roll with all the criticism and ridicule directed his way. Seems like there's another offline side to Mr. Zebub. Maybe Ralphus's hilarious comment about burning his DVDs with an acetylene torch pushed him over the edge?

But if this guy is a convicted felon as he claims, better to be safe than sorry. Here's part of Mr. Zebub's post on Sunday, June 3, 2007, at 12:23:31 p.m. that supports the notion that he has a violent streak:

I beat someone up pretty bad, and I remember the fight in slow motion. So I liked the idea of time altering, or being misperceived, by the killer in the movie.

Yet he'd have to be a complete dumbass if he would specifically threaten Ralphus like that on a public forum and then actually try to carry it out. I certainly hope this is just a bad joke on his part. Still, I've found that a 12-gauge shotgun is a good way to keep weirdo filmmakers off my property.

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Jhlipton ~ "I try to keep it simple
I'll even use my hands
I'll try to explain
But [they] just don't understand!"

Once again, first rule for kidnappers? TAKE OFF THE CLOTHES!!!!

You know….I think I could actually see your hand gestures as I was reading this.

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Ralphus It'd be prudent to be cautious, but you're probably just being messed with. After all, it does look like Bill Zebub has a sense of humor. Hell, his name for that matter, with what I'm assuming is a tongue in cheek reference to the Devil (Beelzebub for any that missed that). It least it looks that way. It'd be pretty sad if he would actually think that would inspire fear or something. If it were The King Contrary Man…now that would be something altogether different (wink ;-).

But some people just don't take criticism constructively. Check this out as an example:

http://video.tvguide.com/Scare+Tactics/Screaming+Room+2/1457873?autoplay=true&partnerid=OVG

Well I hope that helped. I know if I were you, I'd feel much better after having just watched that ;-).

But if worse comes to worse, I hear that they are casting for Leprechaun 16 in Jamaica.

Take care.

I am coming to Ohio Ralphus, as I do three times or more a year. Do you still live at the postal address that you provided for the package I sent a while back? See you soon

Well if I get my butt beat because someone thinks I'm you there will be heck to pay. The State of Ohio isn't that big. Of course right now with that 11 person serial killer investigation in Cleveland you might be safe because of the Police in the area.

"I try to keep it simple

I'll even use my hands

I'll try to explain

But [they] just don't understand!"

Once again, first rule for kidnappers? TAKE OFF THE CLOTHES!!!!

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Nude but however, only from the back... This victim is also shown topless in this scene.

Much, much better! Someone was paying attention in Kidnapper's School!

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Jeff Gord: Anyone know if it is possible to actually copy from Youtube to disk ??

You have several options. You can use one of the YouTube downloaders (I like vixy.net -- it lets you save as wmv directly -- no converters needed); you can use a downloader that comes with RealPlayer (as others have mentioned) or you can use a screen-recorder. Vixy is probably the easiest and most flexible.

The scary thing is he actually sounds from your story and his inviting himself that he really is that dumb.

I have to confess, I didn't read much into the post when I originally saw it. I mean, it seemed a little odd to announce out of the blue that he'd be stopping by for a visit, but it is Bill Zebub, after all. This is a guy who regularly talks about his films as if we're all huge fans, despite the fact he is ridiculed here on a fairly regular basis. Never mind those posts where he rambles on about his artistic vision, even though the quality of his movies is similar to those old Mr. Bill home movies, except without the entertainment value.

Hopefully, he's just high or something and being an idiot. But, Ralphus, I do think it's a good idea for you to be careful.

As longtime readers here know, I've been openly critical of Mr. Zebub's work on this forum, and I've also poked some fun at him. The only reason he even knows about this forum is because I checked out his almost universally panned film Kill the Scream Queen and wrote a review that was probably the first positive review online of his work. I e-mailed him and he's been a semi-regular poster to this site ever since.

Unfortunately, Scream Queen was his only watchable film, and all his subsequent films have been pretty awful. And he's made a few enemies on this forum along the way with some of his comments about our readers, referring to us as "retards". But before that, he asked for my address so he could send me a screener of his newest title for review and I complied. It turned out to be once of the worst films I've ever seen. Rather than give it a negative review, I wrote him and gave him the option of letting me pass on reviewing it to spare him the embarrassment. He told me to write the review, so reviewed it and gave it an honest, low grade.

Publicly, Zebub was courteous and acted like it didn't bother him, but via e-mail, he wrote me a nasty, obscenity-filled reply where he threatened me with violence and told me he was coming out to Ohio to let me have it. That was over a year ago. I've had no contact with him since. And now, all of a sudden comes this mysterious post. Look at it again:

I am coming to Ohio Ralphus, as I do three times or more a year. Do you still live at the postal address that you provided for the package I sent a while back? See you soon

I interpret this message the way I'm sure it was intended...as a threat. He said he's coming to Ohio, and he does have my actual address, or at least did at one time. See you soon...See me soon? I didn't invite him. What's that supposed to mean?

I don't know Zebub very well, although we used to e-mail and chat online from time to time. Up until that e-mail, he never gave me the impression that he was a loose cannon, but he did mention in one of his other e-mails that he spent some time in jail. I didn't ask why. And now this odd message after I've had no contact with him for a year, intentionally posted on a public forum rather than private e-mail. Is he trying to leave a clue that others will see, something like how a killer does before committing his act? It's all rather spooky, and like I say, rather disturbing. I just wanted to bring the forum up to speed...just in case.

Yep, I'll be looking over my shoulder for a while.

I would like to talk a bit about something I have recently noticed concering Hentai videos and images. I have an interest in this genre to a small degree and often buy a membership with Full Hentai Movies in order to browse their most recently posted galleries.

Quite often, I would find lots and lots of images of girls that are clearly underage. I am not talking pre-teens, I mean a lot of these girls look like they are five or six years old. I don't get the Japanese' sick fascination with underage girls, girls who look more like children.

Any comments on this?

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Sloth: Thank you for the very entertaining review of Header. I laughed out loud when I read the description of the part that explains the title. Jeez, it's no wonder guys like jhlipton need to take a break when we start getting into stuff like that.

I agree with your generalization of what’s going on with producers these days. It seems like all they want to do is think of clever or unique ways of killing off their victims. The Finale Destination movies are a prime example (although I do want to see part 3 since Amanda Crew http://www.fanpix.net/picture-gallery/546/602546-amanda-crew-picture.htm , my new “it” girl, stars in it). I guess they are trying to show how hip and innovative they are. If you ask me, all they accomplish is showing how retarded their creative abilities really are by doing so.

Your description of the Gimp scene didn't sound too bad though when you mentioned "several girls get tied spreadeagle to a table and stripped topless". But your ending stated the scenes as "poor bondage". I take it they were really loose bonds?

You will need to convert the video to a format that your DVD movie writer software will recognize. Most will be able to use WMV, none will be able to write a flv file.

I've been using this site for a while to save youtube stuff. works pretty well

http://keepvid.com/

just paste in the link to the youtube vid, and it give you a download link for it.

Jeff: Yes you can. First you need the current Real Player which will allow you to download streaming movies (handy in its own right), which will give you a video file in ".flv" format. You will then need a format converter to change it from flv to wmv. I'm sure you can take it from there.

Movie Review, HEADER (2006): I had read the reviews on this movie and thought it might have some interesting GIMP scenes in it... Well the answer is yes, but...

The story begins with a young boy running through the woods until he comes to a small shack of a house. He waits out on the porch as he hears two older men arguing about something inside. Then there is a flash of a girl running through the woods and it cuts to eleven years later. Now we are focused on Stewart Cummings (Jake Suffian). He is an ATF agent who is struggling to make ends meet with a girlfriend who is very sick and requires constant medication to function. Stewart is working out of an office in the backwoods and is in charge of locating and closing down old moonshine stills.

Thanks to his girlfriend’s condition he feels forced to be on the take and look the other way on certain stills in the area. We then switch gears again to see the young boy, Travis Tuckton (Elliot V. Kotek), from earlier as a young man just being released from prison. He finds his way back to the shack and is greeted by his “grandpap” (Dick Mullaney). Travis find out the old man has lost his legs to a disease and is now in a chair. The old man starts going on about how Travis can help him through these troubled times with a little excitement. He then talks about what they need is a “header”. Travis remembers hearing his father and grandpap speak of this when he was younger, but was too young to know what it meant. The old man thinks Travis is now old enough to know and fills him in on the details. Travis begins taking young girls from the area to accomplish this task. Meanwhile, Stewart gets wrapped up in being on the take with a drug deal so he can increase his “off the books” money. Stewart then comes across the bodies of the young girls that Travis has snagged, used, and dumped. The two stories begin to come together for an interesting conclusion.

Ok, here's the spoiler... so don't read unless you want to know what a "Header" is... and why, although several girls get tied spreadeagle to a table and stripped topless, these is no payoff here.

When I see a movie like this I think to myself, "where the fuck to people come up with this stuff?" I mean, can't we have a good 'ol torture and rape killer? Jeezus! Ok, here it is... once the girl is secured to the table, the old guy gets out a drill with a 3" routing bit on it and hands it to his grandson. The guy then proceeds to drill a hole in the girl's HEAD and remove that piece of her skull. He takes a knife and cuts a small hole in her exposed brain and then begins to... well... you get the picture. There are few movies that can make me sit there with my mouth agape, going "WTF??", but that was one of them.

As a movie, I would have to give this one a C. For GIMP: D... poor bondage, and lame conclusion. What the hell is wrong with movie perverts these days?

I totally forgot to recap about Matador, the Almodovar film. Here it is on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091495/ The movie begins with a compilation of female death scenes from various movies on a television screen, the camera draws back and we see that a man is masturbating to said compilation tape. If I go into the plot line it will spoil the movie for those that wish to see it. I will say that there is an interesting scene where Antonio Banderas (very young here) imagines himself strangling a naked woman on the floor. Though short, it is a nice scene with an attractive young naked lady.

Jeff Gord: I saw this scene with Julie Parish the other day on TCM. Pretty sensational for television.

Julie being "converted" by Diane in V. Someone put clips of it all together in one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2FUYJzvG-U

Anyone know if it is possible to actually copy from Youtube to disk ??

Jeff

Using popular entertainment as a scapegoat for real-world social ills is nothing new. Remember Professor Harold Hill in "The Music Man," prancing around and warning the good citizens of River City that their sons were being corrupted by playing pool and reading dime novels? Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

As for society becoming inured to violence, consider that throughout most of history, in most cultures, a certain degree of callousness and fatalism regarding violence was necessary simply in order to survive. Think of how violent life must have been in the Middle Ages, or in Italy in the time of the Borgias, or in America's Wild West. I'd say the very fact that we're discussing our alleged "desensitization" to violence proves that, over the long run of history, we've become increasingly MORE sensitive to it. Hell, to the Spartans or the ancient Romans, we'd seem like a bunch of wimps!

Sorry to hear about that malady that has afflicted you - perhaps a good therapist or some heavy duty meds could bring you back from the abyss - always seem to work for me.

I like that idea. Well, except for the therapist part.

jhlipton - good to see you back partner - sorry to hear about that malady that has afflicted you - perhaps a good therapist or some heavy duty meds could bring you back from the abyss - always seem to work for me.

LTL - yeah, I thought "The Cottage" seemed to be played exclusively for laughs but Jennifer meets a grisly demise you say - that should be worth a look just for that.

Bill Zebub - traveling to Ohio for a possible hook-up with Ralphus - having read the book of Revelation I recall that is one of the signs of the impending apocalypse - the Mayan calendar also has reference to such a trip.

Stay Well All

Yes, I think we have become desensitized to violence of all kinds. We're surrounded by it. The media -- the web included -- lavishes attention on it. And we look. We watch.

We like to watch. Don't we?

I like to watch. Don't you?

With B&D or Snuff I'll write a full review, but on mainstreams I don't like to give away too many plot points, thereby not to ruin it for anyone who’s not seen the movie and wants to. So that’s why the “mini’s”.

Also: I'm guessing nothing sexual or extreme happened to Jennifer, right?

Again, that’s why I didn't go into too much detail but will confirm that nothing sexual happens. However she does die a very gruesome death…which was really unexpected as she was a main character.

I was going to include the first part of your YouTube link in my description, as that part had me busting up when it happened. The POV camera looking trough the hood eye-cutouts, first seeing she is still unconscious, then dropping to look at her tits. Then up again as she’s looking straight at him before head butting him, breaking his nose. It’s done for laughs, like you mentioned, but it’s not over the top as…say Scary Movie is. For laughs, but in a way that could happen due to the bungling of the two brothers.

Really a very good film! You should check it out if you get the opportunity. Funny and gruesome at the same time. The English wit, plus things happening that I really wasn't expecting….Like Jennifer’s death as an example, makes it a very nice little flick.

I'm a fan of large-chested British pin-up babe Jennifer Ellison; in fact, I belong to 2 Yahoo groups that are devoted to her. Apparently, she's huge in the UK but virtually known in the US. I was initially excited when I heard she was going to be B&G in The Cottage, but from what I've seen, the film is mostly played for laughs and to me, that's a real waste. I'm guessing nothing sexual or extreme happened to Jennifer, right? We know there's no nudity, and all the clips I've seen show her fighting back and being aggressive toward her hapless kidnappers. What a shame. And what are the chances she'll ever get tied up on film again? Another waste of a good babe.

This YouTube link has a bit of Jennifer bondage action from the film, at least in the first half:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qj9_YqpT0Xg

And your review link is right here: http://ralphus.net/reviews/mainstream/cottage.htm

A Bell From Hell was discussed here a while back, and I teased the forum with several stills from it, but it was never officially reviewed (unless I missed adding it) until now. While it's not a "great" film per se in terms of quantity of DiD moments, it's definitely watchable and the suspension scene with the 3 naked babes is a mainstream GIMP classic.

Did you know the director fell from the bell tower on the last day of shooting and was tragically killed, and the film had to be completed by someone else? That gives the movie an extra morbid fascination, IMO. For a long time, the film was very hard to find and I considered myself lucky to have acquired a VHS copy of it years ago. And now that's out on DVD, they did a really nice job coming up with a sharp letterboxed print. It's definitely worth checking out.

Your direct link is in my Homepage URL above.

And at the following link below is a video clip (albeit small) from the film. It's better to rent the DVD, though.
http://www.didvideodb.com/scenes.php?action=scene&id=276

Certainly, it has been discussed here before and many people would agree with you that it is a classic. You have to believe it influenced Eli Roth's thinking when he made Hostel: Part 2.

After having spent the last tree years institutionalized, John returns home to get a fresh start on life. He gets a job at a slaughter house but quits after only a short while. When asked “Are you sure you want to leave?” he replies “I've learned enough”.

Back home, he reestablishes contact with his aunt and his three female cousins (played by Maribel Martín, Nuria Gimeno, and Christina von Blanc), but deep down he feels his incardination came about due to his aunt.

http://www.probertencyclopaedia.com/j/Maribel%20Martin.jpg

http://img56.imageshack.us/ifs/7666/img370/2/primabordeby7.jpg

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/7500/primarubita2kp3.jpg

Gimpage here takes place in John’s basement where he’s made a makeshift trolley/hoist system similar to what he saw at the slaughterhouse. The three cousins are unconscious on rolling tables as he pulls their arms out from under the sheets that are covering them and attaches their wrists to overhead hoists. With all three hooked up, he pushes the button as they are lifted off the table to hang by their wrists nude. Nude but however, only from the back. Still very nice visuals as they have their ankles secured together with leather straps and all three are tape gagged. Later he trolleys one away from the other two and lowers her onto a table. Again very nice visual here as there is water running over her face and body from above. This victim is also shown topless in this scene.

http://ralphus.net/dailypic/4f60b22f4572a6af4a81abb15f8775bc.jpg

http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/8260/domingaqf4.jpg

Entertainment value: I really liked the gloomy feel of the movie as the color palate uses mostly muted earth tones throughout to achieve this feeling. The main character is also a bit of a prankster as this sets things up nicely in certain scenes. Overall a B/B+

Gimp value: The payoff scene, though mostly from the back, is nicely done…plus there are three of them hanging all at once. The addition of the water from above, sets off the victim who gets separated from her sisters, nicely. Overall a B+/A-

What the hell is a matter with you man….That’s gotta be the dumbest thing I've ever heard!

Just Kidding with ya man ;-)
I hear ya. I'm kinda there myself. I run in cycles…and right now I'd rather be entertained, so I've been picking up a bunch of DVD’s that I can enjoy on an entertainment level….and if I run into Gimp…well that’s a plus. Plus .75 cents a DVD (on some) I can get quite a few.

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First of two mainstream mini reviews:

Mainstream mini review The Cottage http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7621809&style=movie .

The Cottage is an English film about a couple of inept kidnapper brothers. As the movie starts, they are discussing whether to leave the kidnapped girl, played by Jennifer Ellison http://images.dailyradar.com/media/uploads/ballhype/story_large/2008/11/12/jennifer_ellison_2009_calendar__11_.jpg in the truck of the car or bring her inside while they make their ransom demands. They end up moving her inside, as this becomes the start of all kinds of misfortunes for the kidnappers as well as the kidnap victim.

The victim is gagged and bound with her hands behind her back for a good portion of the first ½ hour of the film.

http://www.zodcaps.com/moviepics/j/jennifer_ellison_(the_cottage01).jpg

This film is definitely different! The dialog and situations in this one was a crack-up and had me busting up laughing, especially early on. Later in the film it turns slightly as it becomes very gruesome at times…while still having funny moments here and there. For example (while still keeping with my M.O. of not giving away too much plot w/mainstreams), with one of the kidnappers facing impending doom from a local, he hesitates for a moment as he turns to look at the girl (the kidnap victim, escaped) who is yelling at him with a gutter mouth filled with all kind of expletives. The local looks back down at the kidnapper, as the kidnapper shrugs his shoulders as if to say…what can ya do?

Entertainment value: I'd give this one a high B+ The only reason it misses an A grade is because it kinda loses a little of its edge in the last third of the movie. Highly recommended for entertainment value.

Gimp grade: High C+ (No nudity (in Gimp), but fairly long bound sequences)

Anyway, I have noticed the guys on the show have a real fondness for A Clockwork Orange. One of the regulars on the show, Kenny Hotz, often impersonates the crazy Mr. Alexander from the movie when he is tormenting his roommate. He actually does a pretty good impersonation, as he did in a Season 5 repeat that aired on Friday night (with music from A Clockwork Orange playing in the background).

Thanks to Scribbler for the clarification about Nicole's testimony. It makes a lot more sense now. Violence against women, indeed violence period, around the world is a real issue but in the in the more educated parts of the world, women have gained a respect and power that is unprecedented in human history. In some small part, it is the result of media depictions of violence of all types that provoke thought and intelligent discussion which brings about a change in attitude in general society. To paraphrase Sam Peckinpah when asked why he made his movie violence so real... Unless people know what real violence looks and feels like, things will never change.

In most of the 'modern' world, women are little more than human chattel or property with only the rights given to them by religion or customs dating from hundreds/thousands of years ago. You have to go back to the time before the monolithic religions when civilizations had women as gods but even then common women were more property than human. Rape and torture are now part of the battlefield strategy of many conflicts, 'true believers' of all major religions subjugate 'their' women, in parts of the world wives and daughters are sold into bondage/slavery to settle debts. On the scale of Violence against Women scale, western media depictions are at the bottom. That hasn't stopped it from being an issue that some grab onto for their own reasons and this is why it's practically disappeared from the mainstream media. For most producers, it just isn't worth the risk of having your movie condemned publicly. But as Buffy said... It's about Power. It's always about POWER.

Violence against men doesn't rate a mention because we're only getting what we evil creatures deserve... good time to be a gay GIMPer I guess... or maybe it's a conspiracy by them to take over the marketplace.

Haven't heard anyone mention here mention the TV series "Machines of Malice" which is playing on the Discovery Channel up here. I've seen four or five episodes over the last two seasons. It reproduces and analyzes the effectiveness of each method of torture and execution. It's quite well done and shows that some of the historical methods perhaps weren't as effective for torture as recorded. They even have the cute Michelle Boyd as one of the scientists.

Ralphus: In one episode they illustrate how to 'properly' burn a witch at a stake... apparently 100,000 witches were burned in Europe over 300 years... guess you were born in the wrong century. You'll be happy to know it takes 17 minutes to fully engulf the witch in the traditional method. But some places changed to the 'lever arm' method where she could be suspended in a modified hogtie over the fire and raised up and down as the executioner chose. This was supposed to prolong her suffering, which it did to some extent, but it still only took 18 minutes for the flames to fully engulf her. Did you know that humans burst into flame at 480 degrees F? Sorry, but the other thing is that it showed in the traditional burn, the wood is pilled up to the point you can barely see the victim so the suspended method was favored when the witch was a prominent person who deserved the more visible treatment.

I know you, and many others, are fans of the classic "Clockwork Orange" but have you seen ScatWork Orange starring Simon Thaur from Innovative Productions that takes the movie to new, very dirty extremes?

YikYakker: Thanks for the tip on Katy Perry, she's cute but I'll stick with the 6 inch action figure format although there have been 'interesting' 12 inch dolls over the years.

On the desensitization/disappointment issue, we're all in the endless search for the 'perfect' depiction of whatever it is we're desiring at that moment. That's why I've gone back to the written word that leaves nothing... and everything to the imagination. Reading what I've written on one screen while watching ZFX on another is my version of multi-tasking heaven.

Till next time.

Just wondering that if I didn't have access to these pics/vids that apparently degrade and cause violent menaces to surface (guess how much a model gets paid and by HIS/her choice, just remember, NO MEANS NO) I maybe would turn to the actual act of harming someone if it was built into my genes (which it ain't, but want some excitement in my life). So I think, being from the UK (land of censorship) that it might be down to other problems with the other individuals who cant afford a computer/DVD/VHS/camera/straight-jacket. We humans are amazing, as the ads for bubba go, and we are all different in our ways. Just how much of a le-way is decided by?????

Frankly, I don't care what she thinks, and I have no sympathy for the bleeding-heart crowd that wants to tie itself up in knots worrying about violence in movies, etc.

As Brutus says, there are mentally unbalanced people out there, and that's unfortunate but that's the way it is. Censorship isn't going to help those people. I mean, no one would suggest we should ban people from owning dogs as pets because the Son of Sam claimed to be getting evil instructions from his dog.

For those people of sound mind and body, we need to get back to creating a society that respects personal responsibility. As Smokey might say, only you can prevent your own bad behavior.

I've said this before and I'll say it again. I have no sympathy for people who claim they committed a crime because of something they saw in an Oliver Stone movie, or something they heard on a 50 Cent CD. I don't care what you saw or what you heard. Each person should be responsible for his own actions. If a movie is making you think about doing bad things, then stop watching it.

Off topic, but since Halloween is probably my favorite holiday, I thought I share a couple of short fun clips in the spirit of.

Again, so you know, no Gimp value, so skip the following links if not interested.

(^_^) „² (Pumpkin) Vampire Bikers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8h9NNKG_tNE

(^_^) Rat Monster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PWH745MMMY&feature=related

Boooo

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jhlipton Where U been man! Get your asphyx loving ass back here and quit lurking!

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PKF's The Pawn Shop Starring Samantha Jo

I've seen Samantha Jo before...she's a real hottie! I've always had a thing for reds. Plus all natural, super cute, with a sweet little tight body and no tats (that I can remember anyway).

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Here's one to stay away from.

Because of the title and DVD cover, some of you might be tempted to pick up Lying in Wait http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7526681&style=movie , but there is nothing of Gimp here. Nothing even remotely alludes to what you might think would be in this video from the cover & title. Unfortunate too, as it stars a younger Virginia Madsen and Shannon Whirry.

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Well time to put my shoes on my knees. Put on my fake beard and moustache. And put on my fro! I'm going as Ralphus this year.

Interestingly, you won't see this in most "chick flicks" (without the guns and chases and kills and threats, etc.) They activate our "mirror neurons", areas of the brain which lead us to share another person's experience as if it were our own--empathic responses. Watching Jason slaughter a bunch of teens doesn't do that. It just blows out the adrenaline circuits.

The more of this stuff you watch, the more over-used your "emergency response" system becomes and the more likely you are to respond at a lower level to the same level of stimulation. We've discussed our early GIMP experiences a number of times on the forum. I well remember the sympathetic response (trembling, heart racing, tightness in the chest, etc.) I felt when I first looked at the covers of those 60's pulp mags--which I now find boring. I know that now I search through material that would have blown an artery in those day with only minor levels of arousal, looking for the image or moment in a film that triggers that old response, but it rarely comes anymore (no pun intended). I've become desensitized. And images of death, blood, etc., which are common now on the CSI franchises, which once would have made me woozy, I flip past with the remote. My body still responds, but at a much lower level.

That need to seek the rush--sexual arousal is sympathetic response--and the difficulty of producing it for most of us anymore--results in the constant pushing of the limits so that we might see things in a commercial today that would have been hidden in art-house flicks 20 years ago. I recall the first time I had the chance to whip a girlfriend. I was so over-aroused that I really couldn't do it. Now I whip my wife, a good deal harder, and don't think twice about it.

Here's the problem: one of the most reliable ways of identifying a sociopath is to look for sympathetic response. Sociopaths don't have it! They are so desensitized that literally almost nothing can arouse them anymore. Now whether that is something in their makeup or due to over-stimulation over a long period, I don't believe anyone can say with certainty. But the more imagery of murder, blood, torture, pain and fear we expose ourselves to, the further we push in that same direction. Nicole pitched her comments into an area that would most trigger a response from us: it's all about violence to women. I would say that the real point, if one wished to make it, would be that violence itself and its depiction in mainstream media harms us all.

As to whether watching Paingate or Wired Pussy videos or ZFX and HOM makes me more violent toward women or allows me a safe outlet for a response pattern I've had from very early in my life, I personally believe it's the latter. At least for me. But I'm able to have--as most of us here are--relationships with women (and other people) which balance the fantasy world. I guess a person who is more isolated and unable to have a girlfriend or wife or friends might have a good deal more difficulty maintaining that balance.

When it is unacceptable to make fun of one but it's okay to make fun of the other, then something is truly wrong. Looking back, it may have felt right for our forebearers to belittle the "Little Woman", because it was what was expected, but we know that it wasn't. So why is it deemed okay to belittle men today?

If you want to continue the animosity between the sexes (or even between the races, as this applies to that as well) then let's keep on doing this.

MAV: Thank you!

Everyone. I just released something that might be of interest.

"The Pawn Shop" Starring Samantha Jo

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Details and Purchase: http://nicheclips.com/shop.php?store_id=61

Thanks,

JohnM

I'd say yes. But that's only because there are a few loopy assholes out there who should have been put down long ago. I believe the vast majority of the population knows how to separate fantasy from reality, and I oppose any attempt to censor movies because a handful of douche bags don't know the difference between right and wrong.

What we should get rid of is this tendency to play the blame game for all criminal actions. I'm tired of hearing sociologists blaming sex on TV, movie violence, pornography and videogames for voluntary acts of criminal behavior. I prefer to keep things simple: If YOU commit real-life violence against a woman because YOU were influenced by a movie, then YOU are obviously nuts, a menace to society, and YOU must take responsibility for YOUR actions.

I keep hearing that we've become desensitized to the violence around us. I totally agree. But there is an enormous difference between becoming desensitized to violent images in movies and carrying out real-life violence against another human being.

The hypocrisy of Hollywood? I may be reaching here, but this is something that has bothered me for a while. When people complain that bondage movies and violence in film lead to real-life rape, why does Jody Foster's rape scene in The Accused get a free pass? Let's compare that movie with I Spit on Your Grave.

If the purpose of the two movies was to deliver an anti-rape message, I'd say that based on the rape scenes, I Spit on Your Grave was stronger. I had much more sympathy for the victim and I thought the movie more effectively showed the ugliness and unsexiness of rape. Yet this movie is panned as sleazy, misogynist, disgusting, lurid, etc. Has anyone heard these words used to describe the rape scene in The Accused, which I found much more titillating? Is it because The Accused is considered a more "serious" film? What would the reaction be if a bondage producer had filmed that scene but used Petal Benson instead of Jody Foster?

I think another question the poll raises is why should society give a rat's ass about what Hollywood has to say about anything? I respect some of the work actresses and actors do for certain causes, but why are they often treated as rocket scientists? When Tom Cruise opens his mouth about any issue, I'd be hard-pressed to find a more idiotic human being on this planet. Roman Polanski drugged and raped a child but society should forgive him because the kumquats in Hollywood say he's a talented filmmaker and Whoopi Goldberg knows it wasn't "rape-rape."

I find it alarming that society is so easily willing to listen to and even believe the words of people whose greatest skill is to act like they are someone else.

Just dl'd Hogtie Killer IV and was very pleased. My kinda scene and Micah is hot. Lookin forward to the AOH eletro clip with Lexxie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWQTfOvwPAM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBetGbsxE_w

So I guess Nicole's qualification for giving testimony about violence toward women is that she portrayed a beaten woman in a movie once.

Yeah, it's not like she's ever been threatened with violence, or has a friend who's been raped, beaten or murdered. How on earth would she know ANYTHING about violence towards women?

Back to the shadows for now.

I'll second that, and add that genetics also plays a role. For example, much was made of the fact that Harris and Klebold, the two kids responsible for the Columbine massacre, saw a movie in which a trench-coated youth kills a teacher. Well, maybe that's where they got the idea. But it also turns out that Harris was a sociopath, and Klebold was suffering from depression. And both had been involved in less serious crimes prior to the Columbine shooting. In other words, these kids were on the road to ruin long before they saw the movie.

So many social and psychological problems are traceable to family issues stemming from incest, physical and verbal abuse, neglect and bad genes that these should be the major focus of any discussion about preventing violence. As someone with a social science background, I am skeptical of "studies" that attempt to link media violence with real-life violence. I don't feel that any of them are credible because they ignore more important factors.

Also saw your review ( http://ralphus.net/reviews/mainstream/savageweekend.htm ) on Savage Weekend and also saw the movie. The second scene on the saw table reminded me of a lot of those old HOM pics.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_aOQLE4Fqk3w/Sbl-AM7MrKI/AAAAAAAACWI/aN1PIjGYjCs/s1600-h/vlcsnap-00097.jpg

In your review though, you forgot to mention the excellent soundtrack…NOT! I was tickled by the cheesy wha-wha peddle guitars and the fifties sounding UFO sound effects during the branding scene.

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A Canadian wrote: Congratulations, my friend ... today you have achieved true GIMP-hood by passing the ultimate test: discovering Natalie Avital.

So what does that mean exactly? Does this earn me a knighthood and a seat at the Gimp table? I can see it now…Sir Lurker of the hallowed Gimp table.

Part II of the poll question. ~ "And do violent images and ideas become normalized so we as a society become desensitized to them?"

Not just Gimp…but anything for that matter. In the days of my grandparents…and their parents, tragic events like earthquakes or fires…or a murder for that matter, were terrible, terrible things. Now, just during the evening news, how many loss-of-life stories do you see on a nightly basis…all while you sit and eat your evening meal.

GOD - hey man, it has been awhile - have a few confessions to make and I'll get hold of you next week.

Scribbler - read your assessment of the Nicole situation and must respecfully disagree.

You wrote "This ganging up on Nicole is pretty lame". I do not see it as ganging up on Nicole - simply the observation and commentary on a Hollywood mind-set of which she is merely the latest example. As Steve pointed out, as long as you possess "creative genius", you can do no wrong. But that only applies to the Hollywood elite, not to you or me.

Numerous examples of this celeb centered thinking exist. The one that comes to mind best is a few years back when Jessica Lange testified before House and Senate committees on the subject of farm subsidies. When asked afterward what qualifications or expertise she possessed in the area of farm subsidies her response was that she portrayed a farm wife in a movie once. So I guess Nicole's qualification for giving testimony about violence toward women is that she portrayed a beaten woman in a movie once.

You wrote "She did not go there to bash Hollywood and films. That was not her agenda." That's a given. Not only would she not hammer her meal ticket but the Hollywood celeb mind-set never hammers their own on any subject. To them it is always the fault of someone else rather than anything that Hollywood does.

You also wrote that you saw her in an interview and she seemed like a nice person who reminded you of a 12-15 year old girl when she spoke. She probably is a nice person with good intentions but I for one would hope that our elected representatives are not basing policy decisions on the opinions of a woman who has the behavior of an teenager whose raging hormones play ping-pong with her brain :-).

So what does all my rambling mean? Nothing really, except I have to throw in with those who state " Hypocrite, thy name is Nicole" and every other elitist celeb who wants congress to dictate how everyone should behave - everyone that is except elitist celebs who set their own rules.

Truman Capote who hung with the stars was once asked what he thought of actors intelligence levels - his response was a he didn't find them to be very bright - he thought that would simply get in the way of actors who spend their entire career being someone else - that may explain why Nicole was not the "scholar" of the group.

Stay Well All

Rohrabacher:
Nicole, ah, thank you for what you're doing today. First of all I wanna predicate, I'm gonna ask you a question, it's going to be a very pointed question, but I want you to know, that I respect you for what you, for being active, you are trying to help in the situation,

but you mentioned earlier that education plays a role in this. Doesn't Hollywood play a role in this; hasn't Hollywood played a bad role? Haven't women been portrayed, in Hollywood, as weak, and as sex objects, and hasn't that contributed to the problem?

Kidman:
ummm...Probably...ummm...but I also think they've contributed, or are trying to contribute to the solution, I mean, you can always...ummm...cite...films...ummm...but I think as an individual, I-ummm...I certainly don't undertake, or don't want to, participate in that, I mean I get offered films...uh..often..(loud inhale) ummm...that depict violence against women...ummm...and if I feel that it's exploitive or that it would actually umm, demean women then I'm not interested and I pass. I can't be responsible for the whole of Hollywood, but I can certainly be responsible for my own career.

Rohrabacher:
Good answer, thank you very much

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This ganging up on Nicole is pretty lame. I'm not talking about just here, many other websites seem to be making a big deal about this. A mountain out of a pebble.

All she went to this panel for was to advocate for this legislation, Support call for International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA)...

Support call for International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA)

And this was her opening statement text (she veered slightly from it when she read it at the panel, or they rewrote it a little)

Nicole speech

She did not go there to bash Hollywood and films. That was not her agenda.

That agenda was put in by Rohrabacher, he asked the question, the only one who asked a question about Hollywood, and the last question of the 2 hour panel. She was blindsided by a clever politician. She's not a clever politician, she just wants to help get resources to counter real violence against women.

Did she blow the answer? Yes. She was rambling, and trying to say the right thing to get this representative's vote. Maybe she sort of believes what she said, but I tend to think not with much strong affirmation. "Probably...ummm." She's played weak characters, She's played strong characters. She's played sexy. She's played a bad singer. One can label her as a hypocrite for this answer, but I think of her as a celebrity wanting to use her celebrity for a good cause, and getting a question she wasn't expecting or prepared for, she didn't have a script with good dialog to read from, and she forgot about some of the roles she's played!

Really. She's a nice person. I saw her on a Larry King interview and she was nice, not a super genius, and on occasion reminded me of a 12 to 15-year-old girl. At this congressional panel, she read her prepared speech fine, she did somewhat OK with a few other questions about what she came to talk about, the I-VAWA, although the other 2 ladies were better, more knowledgeable. They were the scholars, she was the not so scholarly.

That's my defense of Nicole.

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As far as do movies, books, art, plays, video games, bondage porn contribute to real life violence? Everyone's different and you'd have to go to each person in the world, and scan their brain. Some people are more influenced than others, but I think the influence is negligible for most people, like 99.999999%. Evil people, psychopaths, people with no conscience, people with no sense of right or wrong, or little sense of right or wrong, don't need fictional material to get them to do bad things in real life. And good people, sane people, people with a conscience, empathy for others, a sense of right and wrong, aren't going to commit real violence against women or men because they see a bunch of murders every week on TV crime dramas.

What we really need to fear are the lizard people, or aliens, as depicted on ABC's V series, premiering Tuesday. OK, it's late. Sometimes I can't sleep. I saw this movie 'Insomnia' and was influenced by it. OK, that's not true, I never saw the movie, just the trailer.

Trust me, [Lisa Kinkaid's] body looks great in the movie.

I concur. Indeed, while I wasn't too excited about the movie, I thought Lisa looked terrific. I prefer her with the longer hair.

Those images make Lisa Kinkaid look plump and a bit overweight. I am not sure if those screencaps are scaled down vertically or Ms. Kinkaid really looks like that in the movie. What's the deal?

It's just an optical illusion. In the pic you questioned about (http://ralphus.net/dailypic/zfx_goon_02_caps_01_5148.jpg) she's hunched over and leaning forward toward the camera and she looks shorter and slightly more thick. But in the previous shot where she's standing upright (http://ralphus.net/dailypic/zfx_goon_02_caps_01_5136.jpg), you can see she looks a bit slimmer. Trust me, her body looks great in the movie.

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LTL: I'm a few days late, but thanks for the mini-reviews of Return of the Living Dead III and Shallow Ground. I haven't seen the former, but on Shallow Ground, I agree with your grades. The movie itself was only fair, but the individual GIMP scenes of Tara Killian and especially Natalie Avital made it worthwhile. In fact, Natalie won a 2005 Ralphus Award for Best Mainstream Performance, and Canadian picked her as well. How often do you see an actual suspension scene in a mainstream film? And a naked one on top of that? One of the real gems of the past decade, IMO.

http://ralphus.net/dailypic/hank-shallow-ground-natalie-avital-0002.jpg

Both your reviews were added to the Reviews section under Mainstream.

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Latest GIMP Poll: Some very interesting and well thought out comments so far. I particularly liked reading DHT's opposing take on it, even though I don't really agree with a lot of what he said. If you think that violence in movies contributes to violence in society, I'll counter that if a person is sick and has predilections towards violence, it's not going to matter what movie he sees. In fact, he doesn't have to watch a movie. Heck, a woman walking down the street wearing a skirt could give him dark ideas.

People get influenced by all kinds of material. Movies, books, magazine articles, TV commercials, print ads, you name it. Not to mention porn, specifically bondage films. You can't totally safeguard society because there's a few loose screws out there. And for Hollywood to cave in to preconceived notions about how exploiting women ultimately causes them real-life harm is a step in the wrong direction. Isn't there anyone working in Hollywood who can see the Big Picture and understands that this self-censorship is just PC bullshit? To that person (if there is one out there) I say this: Just make the kind of movies you want to see and tell everyone else to fuck off.

I live in New York, and about 10 years ago to prove her acting cred, Kidman appeared in a Broadway play called "The Blue Room." What was the play about? I don't remember, all I remember is Kidman's character was dressed like a slut I'd pick up in an after hours club dressed in a mini skirt and dark hose as seen in the attached picture. That was the selling point. If she really wanted to be taken seriously in live theater, she should have done something not so titillating. But sex sells even on stage.

In that respect, for her to put down movies that supposedly exploit women in the media is phony and laughable. My guess is she's just upset that now that she's hit the 40 and over mark, and those young sexy women's roles are going to Megan Fox and other 20 somethings, she's got to be preachy.

Personally, despite being 40 plus, I'd still do Nicole, but she better lay off the Botox.

Also, as to Congress, don't they have more important things to do like trying to get health care for everyone and ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan rather than make us feel guilty about looking at beautiful women in distress?

What's next? Banning the "Sports Illustrated" swimsuit issue?

To answer the general question, I don't think Hollywood adds or decreases to the treatment of women. That argument has been made ever since the first author put pen to paper. It's a straw man argument. As for people, or men in particular, who might be persuaded easily by entertainment or something else, they are naturally weak minded anyway like religious fanatics. (Anyone want to ban The Bible?).

Hollywood may demean women for exploitation and entertainment. But it does so to other groups whether it's women or minorities. As long as it makes a buck. I for one feel we have more serious issues to focus on.

Yes, Hollywood does push violence, but it takes an already sick individual person to act upon that. In the Boilerplant group I see a lot of extremely violent images, decapitations, cuttings, dismemberment, disembowelments, hangings, stabbings, with people commenting on the eroticism of those images. Proves the desensitism of society.

Anyway, I thought I should state for the record that I'm a little bit skeptical about that post from "Nicole Kidman." I guess I should at least be grateful "Nicole" didn't make one of those lame jokes about Tom and the gerbils.

Hey Ralphus...

Are those screenscaps from Goon Squad 2 proportionate?

Those images make Lisa Kinkaid look plump and a bit overweight. I am not sure if those screencaps are scaled down vertically or Ms. Kinkaid really looks like that in the movie. What's the deal?

As for Ms Kidman, we must remember that she is a Hollywood liberal (as in, Polanski didn't do anything wrong to a 13 yr. old girl). In their minds, there is nothing that can be done by any Hollywood Lib as long as they are truly a "creative genius". Ms. Kidman, thy name is HYPOCRITE!

SADLY, the recent changes in UK law have apparently ignored this venerable peice of brain storming and caved in to the knee jerk reactions, one distraught Mom who sadly lost her daughter to a nasty idiot, and a politician looking to keep his ass on a bench.

In order for material to be considered obscene, the Jury has to consider that it will cause an appreciable number of persons coming into contact with the material would have their demeanor altered in a SINISTER MANNER. It does not mean to merely influence them, nor does it refer to the appreciable number as the few who are the lunatic fringe.

If you apply the spirit of that thinking, as I did in the case of the 5000 Fantasy 3 magazines they went after, then what do we consider an appreciable number based on the total of 5000? - - - 50? 100?. My defense was that we would have noticed a sudden increase in the chicks being abducted, tied up and molested if that were the case. Stick that into Hollywood terms and given the same criteria and the numbers viewing and I think we would see a massive surge in violence with every movie of that ilk.

So applying this to another area, the motor vehicle, we should ask Nicole Krapman (sorry Kidman) Shall we pander to the idiot fringe who drive their cars recklessly and kill people, or the idiots who drive through a buss queue with one because they don't have a gun? Or do we continue with the concept of taking the idiots out of the cars whenever possible so that rational people can go about doing crazy stunts with cars, and having fun in safe places where no one else gets hurt; - or shall we just ban the motor vehicle and all reduce ourselves to the level the moron can handle????????? I think that line can be applied to just about everything. Let's ban kitchen knives. Some asshole stabbed a chick with one and it was reported on the news. Obviously that will set off hundreds of wannabee stabbing idiots.

Here's a classic case of that Kidman BS stupidity. One of the greatest porn fighters of all time in UK, forgot to look in her own nest and raise her own son. She was too busy looking after everyone else's morals. As a result he grew up a junkie and was arrested twice on rape charges, but someone pulled strings and he was never charged..

Jeff

The short answer: Sure

The long answer is not so black and white. Violence has been around for a long, long time. Way before movies and TV. There is no doubt that some people might be influenced by what they see and read. But, what they actually do, is more a product of their upbringing and overall life circumstance. The ultimate decision to commit violence is theirs alone. Blame parents, TV, books, history, Twinkies, whatever---they still own the act. They give it life, then see it through and it is their burden to carry.

There is way too much blame going around. I submit people should stop being idiots. Scammed by an infomercial late night--you're an idiot. Backed over your pet--you're an idiot for not realizing your pet was one too. Hurt or kill someone--you're the biggest idiot of all. You're to blame, not TV, not movies, not your momma, not foster care or Catholicism and not the bully in 5th grade. You. Just you.

And, yes, I believe these idiots are influenced by all kinds of things. When I make a movie, I assume my audience are mature adults that make good decisions. But, I know better--really I do. But I also don't think my role is to parent society. Controlling, censoring, creates far more problems. Having an awareness of what I do, what it is, and what others might see it as is substantially different than some corporate Hollywood movie monger in denial about their latest slasher flick or their serial killer instruction movie, Mr Smith.

But that being said, I enjoy what I do and for the most part, my fans are mature adults solely responsible for themselves. The few that are not, well, they did not need me to fuck up...there are plenty of violence things out there to "influence" them when they are ready to do something stupid. All we can hope is to not be around when they do.

JohnM

Nicole - I think I can speak for all Gimpdom when I say we are bloated with acceptance that you would finally post on our humble forum - although I've never been a big fan of your work I admire your fortitude - fact is, if I'd had my way, they would have lined you up against a wall and blown you away rather than the Mandy character in "Bangkok Hilton" - still, welcome to the forum.

Jeff Gord - ah yes, ClipKorean022 has long been a favorite of mine - don't know much about the context but what the hell.

LTL - let me ditto A Canadian on your "Shallow Ground" initiation - I happen to have an empty tree in the back just waiting for Natalie.

For the poll question I would simply ditto Sardu - I know this is anecdotal but as another having fought a war, I can't imagine any person would ever be cruel to another living creature as long as he lived - so if you become desenitized to suffering because of exposure to movies then you have a problem.

Stay Well All

We elitist limo-liberal Hollywood types are really the only segment of society capable of making the distinction between fantasy and reality. We spend our entire lives portraying people other than ourselves expecting you of the great unwashed masses to pay top dollar for every over hyped piece of shit we can produce. Then, to justify our existence, we spend every free moment giving awards to each other since we have no other means of self validation.

Truth is most of us major Hollywood celebs are filled with self-loathing and we simply want to make the rest of you miserable as well. Look at the career choices I've made - I married Tom Cruise for christ sake. What a prick he is but that's another story.

And besides, being the mercenary bitch I am, I'm willing to do anything on screen if the money is right. Just last month my people were in negotiations with Jeff Gord to do a shoot but he apparently couldn't meet my low ball $4 million dollar per film tab. Too bad as I was rather looking forward to working with him.

Need to head out now as I'm flying by myself in my Lear jet to Helsinki to hear an Al Gore speech on energy conservation and global warming.

Love and Kisses - Nicole

1. I believe that violence in movies does contribute to violence in society. The common arguments against this are either "Well I watch violent movies all the time and I'm fine!" or "if kids learn violence from movies or TV or whatever then their parents shouldn't let them watch them!" Both of these arguments are absolute horseshit.

For one thing, using oneself as an example is as useless an argument as trying to argue your dreams as evidence in court. It proves nothing, and the speaker has no credibility nor are they an adequate diagnostician of themselves. Presuming that everyone who is suggestible is a child whose parents can easily censor what they see is obviously narrow-sighted. Susceptible people come in all ages. 2 8-year old boys killed a 2 year old in Britain. They did it because they wanted to be like Chucky. Teens killed homeless people because they wanted to be like Mickey and Mallory in Natural Born Killers. A teen convinced two of his friends to kill one of their other friends because he wanted to be like the Corleones.

You and I have never killed anyone. That's not the question though. The question is, does media violence contribute to violence IN SOCIETY. For every half-bright know-it-all at the watercooler who is desperate to make his girlfriend watch the Clockwork Orange, yet thinks he's "just fine", there are a dozen lonely, insecure young people being taught, with more repetition than almost any other lesson, that the answer to their problems is violent action.

As far as violence against women, I don't think it is JUST media VIOLENCE that contributes to that, I think it is the media's unrealistic portrayal of women in general, as having to be beautiful and accepting of everything, and most of all, to give their protagonists complete acceptance and approval. Girlfriends in male-oriented comedies come most readily to mind. Their role is always to be beautiful, nice, funny, adoring, and approving, no more than a beautiful supplement to their silly male pursuers. But real women have actual fears, insecurities, irritations, ambitions, needs and worries. To some guy raised on SNL, Porky's, and National Lampoon movies, and expects gentle nymphs who love his antics and sense of humor, all of these real needs and feelings must seem like one big pain in the ass. Where's his Christine Taylor? Why does he have to listen to all this bullshit?

Finally, of course these things desensitize us. Is that really in question for anyone here? The more you see anything the less effective/stimulating it is for/on you.

Japanese bondage films becoming boring? I vote a big, fat, red YES. When I first really started focusing on GIMP material, I learned early enough to keep an eye out for content from Japan. I'd almost thought they invented torturing females in a sexual manner. They had GIMP content in mainstream entertainment, mangga, and all adult material seemed to have at least some GIMP influence. They had whipfests, electrotorture, penetrations with huge dildoes, all administered with a certain meanness and sadistic glee. (In some sense, they were a lot like ZFX). I particularly enjoyed that they focused on torturing breasts and genitalia (probably in violent response to pixilation). My favorite clip from the older days is still the one where hoods take over a TV show, then proceed to slap, puch and maul the bountiful newscaster's bare breasts, while she screams, pleads and cries the whole time. There used to be quite a bit of video from Japan along these lines.

Today, the only things interesting about Japanese bondage films are the bombastic titles ("Big Breast Destroyer" had such promise!) and the covers of the discs, which invariably promise far more torture than actually shown. One school of 'torture" is apparently mostly candle wax, nose clips, and more wax. The other is this corny 'forced orgasm as torture' concept, where they stick various wires, vibrators and pads (none of which are probably even switched on) on the victim, who then thrashes around and pretends she is suffering from orgasm overload. Even the forced sex scenarios are watered down. Instead of a tightly bound (or held down) babe in torn clothing being viciously pounded against her will and over her violent protests and futile resistance, we generally have the already naked, untied prisoner who meekly 'surrenders' herself for fear of worse consequences.

I have not seen Torture Witchhunt Count, but I am betting it will be a prime example of what I mean. Witches are supposed to be purged and interrogated with whips, pincers, pears, breast-presses and more. From the back cover, I see that they are torturing one witch with the kind of vibrator you might see in a Kink video (and not even the rougher ones).

I'm not saying we don't get jaded or more picky over time. But the declining quality of Japanese videos is the fault of the producers, not the GIMPers.

I was listening the other week to an interview done with the quite well known atheist/scientist Richard Dawkins, who's main interest (aside from discrediting religion) is in talking about evolution. He said a fascinating thing, in response to the question 'what evolutionary advantage does having an imagination give people?' His answer was that if we are able to rehearse things that are dangerous to us in our minds, then rather than going ahead and doing them, we are able to run through the possible results, and if they're fatal, avoid that action. For example, rolling down that nearby cliff to get to the rabbit for dinner might not be such a good idea. Or, if you're a teenage girl who's just had sex for the first time, you might not want to go downstairs on your own to check out the strange noise - you'd call the cops.

This tied in with another inteview I heard with a young woman who was putting on a horror film festival, where she answered the same sort of question as Sir Bruce asked by talking about the enjoyment she got, as a movie fan, 'living through' horrible things (vicariously) which she could never otherwise experience without ending up dead or in major trouble.

To go back to Dawkins, it seems that things that are advantageous to our species survival (like fucking, for example), are pleasurable. So if using our imagination to go over horrific possibilities is something that helps us stay alive, then maybe that's why it's pleasurable - and I use the word 'pleasurable' deliberately (and I'm sure all readers here, as well as many millions who would never visit here, will know exactly why).

Maybe I'm drawing a long bow, but by this theory, horror/extreme movies let us work through the 'storyline' that would, in real life, lead to us either dying, being in prison forever, or otherwise destroying ourselves and others.

This hasn't really answered the question of the poll, but I think what's going on with the anti-male violence in movies is very complicated, and ties more into the sort of thing I wrote above - maybe along the lines of jokes about rapists getting raped themselves in prison, it's an acceptable form of sadism that gives a moral backing to your pleasure. Complaining about it on the grounds that it's more extreme than violence visited upon women, though, seems to me to be a bit parochial.

Humanity is a tapestry as well. Some, a small minority of human beings, might be inspired to take real life action on their violent feelings by some fabricated scenes they see in the media. Others who might have been predisposed to exercising their violent tendencies may be ameliorated by enjoying their aggressions vicariously through fantasy and media, never to actually bring it into the real. In this way media does a service to all.

Most, I imagine, find some jolly harmless outlets from their visual and audial material. Harmless fun without judgement or blame.

Here, I believe, is the real question. Why? Why are Horror Movies so damn attractive? Thrillers, crime movies, drama's etc. And why the ones with hot looking babes being threatened tortured and/or murdered? I have a theory; sex attracts attention. In most horror movies sexy women draw you into the scenario. Unfortunately if they are murdered or tortured in these movies they are mostly done so in unsexy ways. In The Cook, for example, a hot looking babe in lingerie walks in on the murderer busy murdering. She screams and runs away. He throws a meat cleaver lodging it in the back of her head. What is sexy about that death? It's a bait and switch. How many times has the voluptuous coed been killed quickly or off camera? It's more likely that a girl tied up will get more visual time than a murder scene. So that becomes desirable.

My rant is going a little off topic but my point is the media itself has programmed a world full of movie watchers with erotic anticipation followed by gross, gory or antiseptic follow through. This is why short scenes that deliver extended sexy death or tied up girls with or without torture are so much in demand. It is why I produce the scenes I, and apparently, many aficionados like so much. A sexy girl dying or being tortured on film should look like she's having a painfully high voltage orgasm. Only instead of rolling over and having a cigarette, she is either dead or unconscious.

Your thoughts?

Is Nicole Kidman right? Does Hollywood in any way contribute to violence against women? And do violent images and ideas become normalized so we as a society become desensitized to them?

I agree with everything that is already written about this stupid comment. She is a damned hypocrtite and a phony. I do believe if these fantasy outlets from Hollywood and/or the bondage industry were NOT available there would be MORE trouble. Most know the difference between reality and fantasy.

DOCTOR GORD - My take on this is that I was born what I am. I knew I enjoyed bondage at the age of five and a half.

THANK YOU for saying that - to know you enjoy something but not really know why is a mystery to me - "just born with it" but I accept it totally. As you say "Nothing else gets my crank turning".

It goes back further than that. There is a classic statement by Lord Wilberforce when he set the case precedent in UK, MANY years ago (1826 I believe) when he said; Quote:-

"My concern is that pornographic material may fall into the hands of young men serving in the armed forces." End quote:-

As an ex military type, that REALLY pisses me off. What he is saying is that it is okay to send sixteen year old kids to war to get the shit shot out of them to protect the country and keep his fat useless ass on the bench; but they can't be trusted with porn because they haven't got the brains to handle it and treat it is a fantasy.

My take on this is that I was born what I am. I knew I enjoyed bondage at the age of five and a half. I got my first hots looking at a net-tight clad ass (with seams) on a young woman before I even knew what sex was, and I can remember thinking, I wish she was tied up so that she couldn't keep turning around to face the audience and hiding her ass. I have seen every perversion under the Sun since those days, and I have not wavered from what I am. Nothing else gets my crank turning

By the way it's DOCTOR GORD, or Gord PhD now you plonkers. I got my honorary degree in "Advanced Human Sexuality" a couple of weeks back.

So in future face Mecca and kneel when you email me :-))))

Cheers

Jeff

Now to the Japanese movie critique. I believe the appeal is that the Japanese allow longer, more intense scenes than we see in American cinema. And almost all American S & M is presented as consensual which really takes the edge off. And the girls are very petite and make believable victims.To me with a few exceptions the issue with the Japanese products is the dearth of creativity. I can tell you the plot of EVERY drug agent/ spy caught/ housewife taken movie they are going to do. They just get a bit old after a while.

Also, the insistence on pleasuring the women and forcing BJ's before the rape is implausible at best. I can't imagine any rapist or torturer that would start with dining at the Y. The whole idea of torture is something the women don't enjoy, something that repulses them. While a few of the scenes are good, many are weak. The other thing that boggles my mind is the insistence that when the rape actually takes place the victim is no longer held down or tied down. Like what? I've even scene this in some of the GIGA flicks.

The other issue I have with Japanese AV is that it's very hard to get hooked on one girl. Because most of the girls rarely do more then one or two good gimp worthy flicks. It seems like they do one Attackers or GIGA thing and then retire or something. I get the feeling that the streets of Tokyo are crawling with millions of hot twenty-one year old bangable babes that all look sixteen. Most of which would gladly marry the first middle age American with a job who met them. Because with all these different girls in country that size doing A/V the ratio must be like twenty beautiful A/V star chicks for every guy.

Our only hope is Rachel Bilson signs up for the uncut release of Fair Game, the new more graphic version. :)

No, absolutely not. Movies can't make a person do anything. If that was true, I'd be the sickest person on the planet after the real life death (when I was in the military) and movie crap I've seen. The thing you need to step over the line is a lack of empathy. A frontal lobe brain disorder that prevents you from seeing or feeling anything for a person in pain.

What causes people to kill? What causes violence against women (or anyone for that matter) Constant bullying, degradation, beatings, sexual abuse... especially at a young age when the brain is still forming.

You want to stand up for a cause, put some effort into those... but that of course would require REAL WORK, dealing with REAL PEOPLE. She might break a nail.

Nicole Kidman, you ought to be ashamed.

While testifying before Congress this past week to demand action on violence against women, Kidman was asked if Hollywood contributed to violence against women by portraying them as weak sex objects. And her reply? Probably, she said, but she wasn't interested in those kinds of demeaning roles. "I can't be responsible for all of Hollywood but I can certainly be responsible for my own career," she said.

Uh, hello, Nicole? Didn't your character get raped in Dead Calm? Weren't you bound and gagged in Batman Returns? Weren't you bound and gagged and threatened with a boiling kettle in Birthday Girl? Didn't you star in a movie called Dogville where your character is beaten up, raped, and tortured?

What a bunch of crap. Now, I'm obviously not in favor of real-life violence to women, but for her to sit there and publicly blame Hollywood movies for contributing in any way to rape is irresponsible, especially since she's been as guilty as nearly anyone else in the choices she's made in her career.

Hypocrisy, thy name is Nicole Kidman.

And what's worse is that when she comes out with this bold statement against Hollywood is that some people actually believe her. And yet there's no facts behind it. Rape statistics in the US are as low now as they've ever been. It all goes back to the whole PORN CAUSES RAPE hysteria from the days of the Meese Report in the 1980s. There's just no connection between the two, but it doesn't stop Hollywood from sanitizing their own work.

And like LTL pointed out, the trend now is towards showing torture towards men. Men! Who the hell wants to see that? You still get the occasional female rape scene, but for the most part, you rarely see the victimization and exploitation of women like you used to. In fact, the level of female nudity in horror films is ridiculously low. Even in rape scenes, it's getting pretty rare to even see a bare breast or two in a mainstream film.

A while back, Vince reviewed a film called Descent where the lead female character (Rosario Dawson) gets raped, and it's darkly lit, with no visible nudity. I saw the scene and it was purposely shot so it was not arousing at all. Of course, later on the film, she gains her revenge and the actual rapist gets tied to a bed and raped, and the scene is much longer, much better lit, and the guy is shown fully nude. This is a perfect example of what I'm talking about. It's fine to exploit men, but now suddenly women are no longer allowed to be victims? This whole trend of "empowered" women in movies and TV is perverse and sickening. And statements like Kidman's only further that cause and give Hollywood reason to continue this course.

Here's a poll question to get the forum talking. I know we've done variations of this before, but we always have new readers here and it's a question worth exploring once again.

GIMP POLL:
Is Nicole Kidman right? Does Hollywood in any way contribute to violence against women? And do violent images and ideas become normalized so we as a society become desensitized to them? What is your opinion?

Attention, all you perverts and sick fucks, we want to hear what you have to say. Make me proud.

ITC has just had TX Massacre on for about the gazzilionth time, followed by Eaten Alive.

A couple of days ago it was Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth, with that classic scene. Then Criminal Minds has had a run of hot bondage scenes going.

The SAW series pops up in between. My favourite is always the chick in the freezer turning into a popsicle. Damn that Jeff, what a fuckin' pallooka he was.

Okay so it was fun watching her tities turn blue but he could have switched the water off before she went solid.Then switched it on again after she had thawed a bit :-))) The idiot has no clue how to prolong the game.

Then I was checking out why we got pulled from YouTube when everyone else has bondage all over the place and I came up on this stuff: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AC1zvnUyQY&feature=related Koreanclip22 was pretty good

But I guess this is all old stuff to you Gimper lot.

Happy Halloween anyway folks

Cheers

Jeff

When I go through phases where I only watch Japanese porn, I do think the same way. The victims squeals become grating and the ropework starts to look repetitious. But after taking a break, I find that the appeal is still there. Mind you, I'm not necessarily looking for new Japanese movies since there are thousands already made that I haven't seen. There are also a shitload of Japanese studios that I haven't got to yet. Perhaps a change of venue is in order?

I think there may be something to what you're saying, but I also think Dr. Yuya may be right that the stuff is getting tamer. I mean, when you take a look at the JBD titles available at Attackers, I don't know that there's anything that looks like it would compare with some of the classic releases from that series.

And I'm not necessarily convinced it's just a case of me getting jaded.

I've mentioned before -- in reviews and comments -- that the Slave Island movies have lost their edge. One might think I simply feel that way because I've seen too many of them. Except, I recently had a chance to see Slave Island 3 -- the one film in the original series I hadn't previously seen -- and I thought it was really good. That experience makes me think I'm correct that the problem is with the latest titles in the series, not me.

I have enjoyed some of the Giga movies I have seen. Maybe I'll go back to those movies for a while.

I also cannot describe how much I agree with you when it comes to male torture in movies. I gave a brief review of "Bad Reputation" at the above URL. It seems all revenge movies these days let the evil women off the the hook. I just saw the remake of "Last House on the Left" where that slutty villain, who loved to get naked, gets a bullet through the head. Jeez, could the film producers have thought of a more boring way to kill this evil woman?

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Sloth: "The Torturer" looks promising. As Ralphus said, this looks like a serious movie (likely some sort of political message is involved) but at least they did the right thing in having a female victim.

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A Canadian wrote: Is anyone besides me starting to wonder if the Japanese porn films are starting to lose their appeal?

When I go through phases where I only watch Japanese porn, I do think the same way. The victims squeals become grating and the ropework starts to look repetitious. But after taking a break, I find that the appeal is still there. Mind you, I'm not necessarily looking for new Japanese movies since there are thousands already made that I haven't seen. There are also a shitload of Japanese studios that I haven't got to yet. Perhaps a change of venue is in order?

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DHT: Are you in Tokyo? About 10 years ago when I was working in Japan, I went to a rather large porn store in Shinjuku (on the east side of Kabukicho.) They had quite a variety, including a "Western" section although most of those movies were boring ones from Bizarre Tristar. They had a loose section for Japanese movies featuring gags. I bought one simply called "Gags 2," a rather tame effort that featured clips of women being gagged in a variety of ways. (One scene had a tied up woman being gagged by two other women. They stuffed a rag in her mouth, taped her mouth shut, wrapped medical gauze around her mouth, slapped on more tape, tied a cloth around her head, and finished it off with one of those leather contraptions with those sink plugs.)

What also surprised me was the price range. Some of the movies cost maybe 3,000 yen (about $30) and others were 30,000 yen ($300). I have no idea if the store is still there, as the turnover rate of businesses in Tokyo was pretty scary and I heard the government has tried to "clean up" Kabukicho. But I found there were places selling porn seemingly on every other block in Tokyo.

Young Ms. Avital made quite an impression a few years back when GIMPers first learned about the movie Shallow Ground, which has also been reviewed by DHT. She is definitely hot and I loved her scenes in that movie. The other actress, Tara Killian, was also quite good.

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Sloth: I'm happy to review Torture Witch Hunt Count but something tells me it will be the Ralphus Review that matters most in that case. I'm not sure we should both assess it, as I don't want people thinking I'm going to make a habit of jumping into the limelight whenever there's an official Ralphus Review. Young GIMPers might not even realize there was a time when I reviewed movies on my own....

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ju man: Be careful with the "drug agent" movies, as they are often disappointing. For example, here is my review of IESP-351, which is typical of the films in this series.

One of the better films in the series was IESP-194 with Riko Tachibana.

I haven't seen it, but the cover art for IESP-500 looks pretty good, and the star of that one -- Rui Saotome -- is a dependable performer. You might also want to try IESP-505, with Maria Ozawa, although be warned that she has some ugly looking tattoos these days that may or may not be visible in this film (I haven't seen this one, either).

Mainstream movie mini review of Shallow Ground http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=6847609&style=movie .

With the local Sheriffs station about to shutdown for the winter, a blood-covered naked teenage boy walks into the office. He is questioned but says not a word. He is later fingerprinted and has his fingerprints run through the computer. His prints turn up as 10 different matches of people who are missing. Blood oozes out of him in buckets as it spills and crawls over the floor. Coming in contact with the blood causes visions of crimes that have taken place. He is the embodiment of the dead come back to settle the score.

There are mainly two segments of Gimp material here. The first is shown in a long dream sequence the Sheriff has with Tara Killian http://content6.flixster.com/photo/11/68/34/11683472_tml.jpg as the victim. She is shown cleave gagged and suspended AOH in only a pair of panties. Along with the dream sequence, she pops up throughout the movie is a series of flashbacks. http://www.bocadoinferno.com/romepeige/filmes/T/tombs6.jpg

Natalie Avital http://www.imdb.com/media/rm282237184/tt0369918 is the other main victim. She is also shown pretty much as the first, suspended AOH and cleave gagged. http://www.nitrovideo.com/moviedb/shallow_ground/Natalie_Avital.html

http://www.moviesnxs.com/web/thumbnails/tn-LC_NatalieAvital_ShallowGround.jpg

Along with Tara and Natalie there are also a few brief flashback snippets of other victims tied and gagged in the trunk of a car.

As entertainment: This is really not a bad flick…Considering how low budget it is (made for only $72,000.). The filming is good, the acting is decent. It even has a soundtrack with a 72 piece orchestra (how the hell they do that for 72 grand?). Overall a C+

Gimp wise: 2 very attractive victims in almost nude suspensions with tight gags, in fairly long sequences (w/ full body views…although from a distance). Overall Gimp a B+/A-

I personally never really got into Japanese stuff. A few years ago I took the plunge a p/u 3 DVD’s but was kinda soured on them right away. What soured me was that most of the girls in the DVD’s I ended up getting looked like they were 10 years old. They looked 10 years old. They had bodies like they were 10 years old. They sounded 10 years old. Hell, they could have been 10 years old for all I know…since I can’t read Japanese.

Then there was this other one I remember, who I was sure I was going to see a dick as soon as her panties came off because she had such a bulge down there. It turned out the bulge was because she had a really stiff bush down there. It was kinda gross.

Anyway, I ended up dumping them all and haven’t been back. I know they are not all like that but there is too much good stuff out there for me to want to try again (although Torture Witch Hunt Count looks interesting).

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With Halloween right around the corner I’ve been watching a lot of horror flicks lately. So here are 2 horror/supernatural mainstream mini reviews. First up, a tragic teen love story… The Return of the Living Dead III http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=1948935&style=movie .

Going back a little ways for one that many of you may have forgotten about, The Return of the Living Dead III is a story about military experiments on re-animation.

Curt and Julie (played by Mindy Clarke http://blog.mrskin.com/data/features/92/clarke-returnofthe-1.jpg ) are teen sweethearts, with Curt’s father being a high ranking military officer at the research base. One evening Curt lifts his father’s security card and the two teen sweethearts go exploring. They discover that the research at the base is experimentation with a gas that re-animates corpses.

After finding out that the father has been re-assigned, the 2 young lovers make plans to run away together. Tragically a fatal motorcycle crash ends their plans as Julie dies.

Remembering the secret research at the military base, he brings her there to hopefully bring her back to life.

Will the boy and ghoul find their happily ever-after?

The only real gimp scene comes towards the end as Mindy Clarke is chained, semi AOH and naked with a metal gag.

The scene is fairly short but none the less a fairly tasty one as Mindy Clarke makes a fine looking zombie. Or to borrow a slightly modified quote from Martin Chuzzlewit, “She’d make a lovely corpse.”

http://ralphus.net/dailypic/livingdead11.jpg

Entertainment value: Even though a little cheesy, is still about a high C+
Gimp value: Though the bonds are not exactly tight, the gag makes a nice visual…plus a hot Mindy Clarke…also a high C+

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On the subject of zombies, can anyone tell me more about the girl in Deadgirl (Gimp review). The zombie in the above review I can live with cause she’s got a Goth thing going. How ‘bout the Deadgirl? Is she ugly zombie or more in the Goth looking type of zombie? Inquiring minds want to know.

It happened with our porn in the 70s, and it seems to be happening with hentai as well from what I've seen lately. Not a big surprise it'd happen with Japanese live action stuff as well. What the general population wants is tame vanilla stuff and if you really want to grow seriously I'm guess that's what you need to make in order to do so.

On the plus side, the Giga/Zen stuff, specifically Zen, seems to be heading in the opposite direction with increased numbers of titles featuring nudity and rape rather than just torture, but still plenty of torture. What's cool is they also seem to be growing, new movies about every week, now most all of their major titles subtitled in English, and they seem like they are hiring English voice actors to start English dubbing soon.

Jane von Detlefson - am unfamiliar with Matador - explain please - so the answer is no, haven't seen it.

LTL - saw "Midnight Meat Train" sometime back and couldn't agree with your assessment more - so many missed opportunities and male equal treatment again - was especially disappointed in the female protagonist demise near the end - thought that could have been played really well under the premise and they just fell down flat.

A Canadian - "Torture Witch Hunt Court" looks like a very nice entry - will you be viewing or leaving that to our host gnome - I certainly like the premise and the cover shot looks promising.

DHT - I've seen a couple of clips from "The Butcher" - not a gag in sight from what I saw - looked like a scream fest and I seem to recall more male equal treatment as well - those are some nice pics you put up from various efforts - think any will bear any resemblance to those shots - let us know when you find out.

Ralphus - I too have become quite jaded over the years as have most Gimpers, I suspect - but the problem is coming from Japan - in my last few orders from Video Mayhem I found I was getting sooooooo many with a semi or completely consensual - little resemblance to the cover art and not enough info in the description but that's not unique to VM - I have to think the Japanese are getting soft on torment - when we discussed "Golden Age" sometime back we were pretty much split on when and why - I still maintain that age was 70-80s as one could count on what one was getting - now, even with the obsessive Japanese, one can't take anything for granted - more research, more info, more Gimpers ready to take a chance - yeah, ain't simple no more.

Stay Well All

Check out the cover art for this Japanese release, Torture Witch Hunt Count. For some reason, when I saw the cover, it made me think of Ralphus.

Oh. My. God. Best. Cover. Ever. Just the imagery itself has me excited. Two tied-up naked women hanging upside-down from a tree, surrounded by a group of masked men all yielding torches? Mister, I'm already there. My order's on the way.

You asked if anyone else besides you is wondering if Japanese porn films are starting to lose their appeal. Gosh, I'm glad you brought that up. I don't think it's a matter of me being jaded because I've already seen some of the most brutal and vile atrocities ever directed toward women on screen, most of them courtesy of those twisted Japanese, but I'm beginning to get bored with what I'm noticing from them, too.

You ever hear the statement that as one becomes desensitized to violent images that it takes stronger and stronger material to arouse them? I never used to believe that, but it might be happening to me in this case. Hung up naked and whipped? Seen it already. Needles through the tits? Been done before. Bondage rape? Candle wax? What fan of Japanese porn hasn't seen that a hundred times by now?

I'm not saying those things aren't exciting, but show me something I haven't seen before. What happened to the firecracker torture that Attackers implemented in a few of their films? That was new, that was exciting. How about when they set that girl's back on fire in Attackers JB-92? Never saw that before (or since).

Last week, I checked out the Attackers website and was shocked by what I saw. Attackers used to be the cutting edge in sadistic bondage porn, but recently, the quality has gone way down. Oh, occasionally we'll still see a Randa Mai whipfest, but looking at the pics, I'm noticing consensual action, or movies with little or no bondage at all. What the hell? What happened to the Attackers I used to know and love? If even the Japanese are toning their films down, what is there left?

Anyone else getting bored with Japanese bondage films? Discuss.

The two scary face ones are actually American movies and I am pretty sure they don't even have a tape gag in the actual films.

There are a bunch of low budget horror US films repackaged here with real Hostel-looking cover art. Anyway, Japan is pretty awesome!!! Did you know there is a Flower and Snake Part 2?

http://ralphus.net/dailypic/IMG_0012.JPG

http://ralphus.net/dailypic/IMG_0147.JPG

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They had previews of SURVIVE/PLAY DEAD and that THE TORTURER movie on Youtube.

Has anyone seen a movie called SKELETON CREW or a Korean movie called THE BUTCHER? I just wanna know if there are women gagged in them.

Meanwhile, I'm also thinking of a bigger question (bigger by my standards only, of course). Is anyone besides me starting to wonder if the Japanese porn films are starting to lose their appeal?

I mostly judge these things by the Attackers releases and I have to say it's been a while since I've heard of any upcoming releases that I was really excited about. I've already publicly stated that the Slave Island series went flat some time ago -- really, after the end of the original series. But it's not just those movies. It seems to me the Attackers torture films that were most popular in these parts were released some time ago, and I find many of the rape movies and other films look more contrived these days.

Perhaps I'm just being cynical. But it sure seems GIMPers in general don't seem as enthusiastic about Japanese releases as we once were. Or is it just me?

What do others think?

BTW, there’s already a used copy at Half.Com. But since it’s still pretty new, it is still its kinda expensive (for a used copy) at $13.00. Maybe in a little while the cost will drop some. I'll be checking back.

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MAV ~ Since you mentioned you found an old account at Nicheclips, I would think (I could be wrong) you could punch in your account & password, click “add funds” and be able to add via credit card. I’d say give it a try.

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I know we've talked about this before…but what’s with all the male tortures? Is this the Gimp equivalent of affirmative action or what? I'm really starting to get sick of all this! I watched a few movies in the past week and a good percentage had these kind of scenes.

The first one 3 Steps To Heaven I can kinda understand 'cause it goes with the story (and I didn't know the victim turned out to be gay. What it was about as the description I read, was about a woman who's lover is found dead and becomes obsessed with revenge and finding out what happened to him). This one has a male victim hanging upside-down. So as it turned out, I can understand it in this one.

Next up, Midnight Meat Train (not as bad as it sounds…Brooke Shields even has a role in this one). http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7545148&style=movie This one has male and female victims who are slaughtered, stripped, hung upside-down, and tied if they are still alive. And once again, the victims who are still alive….are male. And in a train car full of upside-down nude victims, all you see are the guys. What’s up with that?

Then the last one Bad Reputation http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=7462403&style=movie is a gang rape/revenge movie. The star of the film is raped by 2 guys as a third one holds her down. Then later the guy’s girlfriends end up blaming her for what happened and take her outside and duct-tape her to a tree in the front yard. http://www.horror-fanatics.com/articles/08-06-07-badreputationreview.html

She escapes and plots her revenge. And again, even though there are females to take out her revenge on, the only tied scene (besides the tree taping) is of one of the guys, spread-eagle and ball gagged.

WHAT IS HAPPENING? The horror… the horror…the horror…

That will be edited in the next few weeks. I am never sure of the actual release date until the week I actually start to edit it.

I am not familiar with the e-checking. I would email admin@nicheclips.com and ask.

Thanks, JohnM

The film has an official website, too (Homepage URL). There's a trailer for the film, too. Unfortunately, it looks more like a serious movie rather than an exploitation flick, but I'll be checking it out for sure.

Had some chat some time back on a new title coming out, "The Torturer" with an award winning cast including Nichelle Nichols of Star Trek fame - now available at Asian Cult Cinema - too bad jhlipton is still on hiatus as there seems to be a nice bagging scene which might be to his liking.

Also noticed a little effort over there titled "Shoot the Dirty Rapist" which may have some possibilities.

Back to painting the house - oh, for joy.

Stay Well All

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ZFX is definitely not going anywhere. I am certainly not retiring as an artist or filmmaker. Beyond that I am not going to even speculate other than to say all options are open.

Well, I'd say that's very good news! I don't think I'm as excited right now with the prospects of a computer animated bondage film as I would be with a live action one, but then again, I saw one that Dofantasy did called Slave Sisters and it was actually pretty damn incredible. The animation was quite sophisticated, and it had sync sound and realistic sound effects. And of course, you can do a lot with animation that you can't do with live action. The clip I saw was about 17 minutes long and it had to have taken them ages to complete even that portion. I can't imagine doing one like that with a feature-length running time, especially all by yourself. Good luck with your endeavors on that.

You know, if I remember correctly, before one of the recent elections, you were speculating about what might happen to ZFX if the Republicans won again. One of your ideas was to make horror-type movies with bondage themes. If you don't go back to making the normal ZFX fare, you should think about trying that, at least making one. With all the "torture porn" movies out there that continuously get it wrong by giving us weak bondage and overdosing on the blood while offering little or no female nudity, I would think you would know how to do it right. I'm sure you could teach today's filmmakers a thing or two about what we really want to see in horror films.

And you could play the villain with your new look. An enormous beard, huh? Well, that's probably a good call on your part since I caught a glimpse of you on the outtakes portion of your new DVD and you seem to have lost whatever hair you had left on your head. Ah, Mother Nature is a cruel bitch, isn't she? So you compensate for the bald head by growing an enormous beard...hey, I think I know your inspiration. It won't be long before people start confusing you with Nick Long.

I saw the preview pics of the AOH electro Nikita-style movie you shot with Lexxi (the 9/20 folder from your pic site). When is that gonna come out? I may have to bite the bullet and buy that and Hogtie Killer IV at that point. I found an old nicheclips acct that I can fund, but I'm still hesitant since it's e-checking, which to me is more sensitive than ccard info. Also, how quickly does e-checking fund the nicheclips account on weekends? Thanks!

I am indeed working on an animated feature, but it is slow, time consuming work. I am not sure when it will be done, but I hope early next year.

Joaquin Phoenix and the Spine guy: Wow, that really is odd. Dead ringer! Has it ever been determined whether JP was actually insane, or just pulling everyone's leg in grand style? I heard he was working on a mockumentary and this bit was a part of it. One thing is for sure, it made for great TV!

On a side note, I am also working on my own music career and have also grown an enormous beard, though Joaquin has me beat by a few whiskers. And, no, I'm not kidding....=)

Ernest: One way is to use a capture card installed in your PC to capture the video from your VCR. There are oodles of cheap cards that can do the job at tigerdirect.com. You could then use a DVD burning program like Toast or Nero to encode the video to MPEG-2 (the format of DVD) and burn the disc. You would also need a DVD burner in your PC, these are pretty common these days, you probably already have one.

An alternate way is to get a set top DVD burner and just burn the disc directly. I'm not sure which way is more cost effective. The PC method takes a bit more know how but is more flexible as far as bit rate (quality) vs. Length. Hope this helps.

Rick

This is a question directed to those who produce bondage videos who may be able to give me some tips.

How hard is it to produce bondage videos and how much do they typically cost? I've been a fan of the damsel in distress videos, and I have a lot of concepts that not only I'd like to see done but also feel others would enjoy as well. So I'm interested in getting into the business and give it a shot, but I'd like to get some information before I jump in, and I've been hard pressed to find any so far.

I know I could simply have my ideas done by current producers, but the average custom video is around $500, plus having someone else doing it, I figured I could make sure it's done the way I envision it and also make some money off it.

Unless you mean that other kind of DVD burning...in which case my method is sort of old-fashioned. I copy DVD's the same way I copied VHS tapes, with dubbing cables. You play your master on a VCR and record on a DVD burner, hooking them up by going Audio OUT to Audio IN, Video OUT to Video IN. I know there's ways to go through a computer and such, but I ain't educated enough to know that much. And I've never had a problem with the audio going out of sync.

LTL: That clip was hilarious! I've never heard of "Scare Tactics" (don't watch much TV) but that was a perfect stunt to pull on that chick. They really had her going!

Ernest: I know it's a risk but if you would be willing to send it to me , I'll x'fer it for you and send some of mine along with the return mailing.

I wasn't on planning to get involved in reguards to the question concerning copying VHS to DVD. However, I can't help but provide some tips. The best way is to use one of those set top DVD recorders that are now avaliable. I have one myself and although I use it primarily for recording TV shows to watch later, I do also use it to build compilations of my favorite GIMP material.

I suggest that you go out and see if you can find one of Panasonic's DMR series DVD recorders. Just use a standard RCA AV cable to connect the VCR's output jack to one of the DVD recorder's input jacks. Make sure the DVD Recorder's input setting is set for the jack that the RCA cable is plugged into as most of Panasonic's DVD recorders have two or more seperate input ports.

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Ernest ~ I’d help you out …but I’m in the same boat you’re in. I’ve been planning to purchase a DVD recorder as I guess that would be the easiest way to convert VHS.

Apparently the movie exists only as a trailer at this point. Doesn't sound like it will ever get released.

Ralphus and A Canadian: You know one of the things I love about this forum? The total honesty in the reviews. Both commentaries were excellently written and very informative. I'm with YikYakker on this: I'm more disappointed than discouraged. I do think that if "Goon Squad 2" had not carried the ZFX label, it probably would have received higher grades. I think we hold Rick's work to a higher standard.

Ralphus wrote to Rick: I'm hoping you haven't lost your will to be creative and can give it another go afterward. Certainly, the idea of a world with no more ZFX is not a pleasant thought.

I think Rick wrote here a long time ago that you can't keep a good pornographer down. And he is a good pornographer. This should also be noted: If your job description included tying up, groping and torturing gorgeous women, would you really want to retire?

As for the end of Lisa Kinkaid's run, well, it's been a great ride and she was an exceptional victim. But at the risk of receiving a haymaker from A Canadian, I must say that I got too used to her. Still, I also wish her the best.

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Gabriela Atar wrote: My favorite villain? Jabba the Hutt.

There's one problem with that selection. As far as I can tell, Jabba has no dick, so any rape scenario would be out of the question :-)

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Joe Wrappe: One of the few times I've been satisfied after renting a movie based on the box cover was Argento's "Opera." Forcing the cute star to watch the killings of her friends by taping those pins under her eyelids was a stroke of sadistic genius.

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LTL wrote: When Joaquin Phoenix went on Letterman with that beard, didn't he look like the guy from SPINE?

LOL! The killer in "Spine" was also a fairly good villain. I thoroughly enjoyed the parts where the women tried desperately to reason with him, only to be continually reminded that he's totally insane.