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Movie Night (2024 Video)
Amusing vignettes
8 May 2024
This DVD containing a trio of "Oopsie!" segments delivers some amusing moments, but generally veers toward gonzo TS content.

In the title scene, Little Lulu Chu is watching a horror movie on TV with TS star Emma Rose, when the pizza girl (attractive TS newcomer Valeria Atreides) arrives at their door. In an overused porn gag, the pizza box opens and reveals Valeria's big dick inside instead of the pizza, and Lulu invites her in for a threesome on the couch.

This slapstick pantomime is the usual "Oopsie!" routine, with Lulu enjoying having two dicks simultaneously at her disposal. Its content is kinkier than usual, with Valeria delivering her lactating ability (already displayed in a recent scene from sister label Transfixed), while the two trans girls have anal sex together, and a sandwich for the trio with Valeria in the middle is also a highlight.

The slapstick action in "Daily Exercises" becomes confusing, as if director Stella Smut had her cast horse around rather than perform a simple little skit. It's all-sex, gonzo sex, utterly pointless.

As far as I could tell, we have petite Aften Opal having fun with her BBC boyfriend Rodrigo Amor, culminating in a fake "cum in the mouth" early climax, but taunted by goofball TS girl Izzy Wilde (who sticks a dildo onto one of those huge exercise balls to sit on and hops up and down on the dildo to distract Opal's attention.

Two girls hump away with abandon, as there's pegging by Aften using the dildo on Izzy, and then Izzy depositing a fake creampie in Opal's pussy. Meanwhile Rodrigo sits in a chair enjoying the view. Why he's even in the scene remains a question mark considering how little he contributes to the action.

A misfire by the usually reliable director of this series, Stella Smut.

Regarding "Water My Plants", John McEnroe said it best. His tag line applies to this dumb "Oopsie" sex comedy, notable only for teaming Christy Love and Jade Venus, who have real chemistry together.

The problem here is a ridiculous emphasis on Squirting, that peculiar fetish favored by some porn fans despite its utter fakeness. Here there's several different types of fakery: Christy squirting fountains of Evian when stimulated by Jade, liquid sprayed from off-screen by a prop guy, and on-screen fake liquid attributed to her. It's all supposed to water plants belonging to her boss Jade, while we watch the duo hump in Jade's bathroom.

Transsexual porn is quite popular, and I dig this particular couple at work. But a romantic teaming of the duo is 100% preferable to watching their acting silly like in this segment.
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Good Service (2024 Video)
A rubdown and an interview
8 May 2024
Another Adult Time "Porn plus conversation" VOD, once again bringing one of Sinn Sage's own content creations: an Oiler scene she made with Charlotte Sartre. The pair was featured just a month earlier on Adult Time's "Teaching" VOD.

Charlotte plays a masseuse, and she gives Sinn a serious rubdown on a set decorated with a large Yin/Yang styled wall illustration in the background. Sartre turns dominant and ends up shtupping Sinn with a strap-on dildo. They've made a few of these videos, so I wouldn't be surprised if another one popped up soon.

The interview is from Holly Randall's "Unfiltered" series, the visual version of her popular podcasts. Not the legendary Katsuni/Katsumi, but instead current starle Kazumi in a vignette titled "The Gangbang Gal". They talk a lot of nonsense about her love of gangbangs, and with Holly somehow equating them with female empowerment, but she is not a traditional porn star but instead representative of the OurFans craze.
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My TS Stepsister 9 (2024 Video)
A new format
8 May 2024
Transsensual cuts back from its four sex scenes per feature to just three with this disappointing edition of a long-running series. Director Ricky Greenwood has pared down the story intro material to a bare minimum for each vignette as well.

Brother-sister incest, rather far-removed, is dealt with in two vignettes. Pierce Paris and stepsister Ariel Demure reminisce about their hanky-panky together while growing up (presumably brothers having sex because she hadn't transitioned yet) and then have sex for old times sake. Their acting is good, but the uncredited script isnt't.

Similarly, Roman Todd is seduced by his larger-than-life and quite beautiful trans step-sister Brittney Kade, a scene where the introduction of their characters takes about a minute before the half-hour of XXX content begins.

Third vignette is merely thrown in, having nothing to do with the "stepsister" title. It's kinky, with Maya Woulfe conducting surveillance on Venus Jade, who weirdly sabotages Maya's car by stuffing a Fleshlight sex toy into its tail pipe and then forces Woulfe to have sex with her.

The silly slapstick of a Brazzers or Oopsie! Scene is injected when Jade, busily face-f*cking Maya, and suddenly turns around to (fake alert!) deposit her money shot in the mouth of just-arrived Cherry Kiss. They tie Maya to a chair and force her to watch as Cherry dons a strap-on dildo to peg Jade in the rear end on a couch. Goofball scene ends with Maya left in bondage, begging to get laid. What all the spying was about is left to one's imagination.
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Cards on the Table: Episode One (2024)
Season 1, Episode 1
XXX Texas Hold'em?
8 May 2024
This Digital Playground series begins with Texas Hold'em, as gambler Mick Blue uncannily keeps winning, seemingly every hand, at his table in a VIP suite at John Strong's casino.

It's a glamorous world of high rollers, with sexy girls (Gizelle Blanco and Erotic Medusa) servicing Mick sexually both during and after the card game. The first episode sets the scene and introduces Lily Bell (quite beautiful with black hair instead of her trademark blonde look) as the cocktail waitress observing the action, and Isiah Maxwell as croupier. Website's handy synopsis promises crime and undercover action to come, but the initial segment is all about sex.
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Naughty Boy (2024 Video)
You dog, you!
7 May 2024
Ricky Spanish has the "playing for sympathy" routine down pat, proving irresistible to stepmommy in this rather cute MIssaX vignette.

Newcomer to the MILF ranks Addyson James plays the stepmother who wants to end her affair with her teenage son, afraid that his father suspects. But when Ricky can't keep his hands off her and keeps pleading for "one last time", she gives in, and is more than satisfied that she let her guard down.

The scene is about eroticism, with Addyson giving off a mature Michelle Pfeiffer vibe, but is also amusing when Ricky makes love to her while she's on the phone with his dad. Clearly distracted by what's going on, she says the wrong thing and even moans, explaining to her husband that his naughty pet dog is distracting her.
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Tory Without a Cause (1989 Video)
Less than meets the eye
6 May 2024
If you want to learn too much about this trivial Tori Welles vehicle, check out the IMDb linked "External Review" which runs about 8,000 words long, many of them misspelled.

Suffice it to say that Paul Thomas did an okay job creating a corny situation comedy, as ephemeral as can be. Spoofing Elvis with many a cliche, it's facile and silly, with the same performers (Randy West as the Elvis figure, somehow still alive a decade after "dying", Tom Byron and Marc Wallice) being tiresome, with several pretty actresses. An obscuro, Sasha Sean is quite appealing playing a plumber, but the mystique of Tori Welles is an acquired taste. I enjoyed watching her when she was riding high, but an all-time great? I think not.
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Silly horror spoof from Europe
6 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Warren Kiefer; Produced by Paul Maslansky; an Italian-French co-production. Released in America as "Castle of the Living Dead" by Woolner Brothers Pictures, and for TV by American-International TV. Screenplay by Warren Kiefer and Michael Reeves, from Kiefer and Maslansky's story; Photography by Aldo Tonti; Edited by Mario Serandrei; Music by Angelo Lavagnino; Camera Operator: Luigi Kuveiller; Assistant Director: Michael Reeves. Starring: Christopher Lee, Philippe Leroy, Gaia Germani, Donald Sutherland, Mirko Valentin and Antonio De Martino.

Chris is playing with a liquid which petrifies folks. This spoof is loaded with foolishness and sight gags dealing with a dwarf.
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Okay sci-fi from England
6 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Quentin Lawrence; Produced by Monty Berman and Robert S. Baker for Eros Films; Released as "The Crawling Eye" in America by Distributors Corporation of America. Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster; Photography by Monty Berman; Edited by Henry Richardson; Music by Stanley Black; Camera Operator: Desmond Davis; Special Effects by Lester Bowie and Brian Johnson. Starring: Forrest Tucker, Janet Munro, Andrew Faulds, Laurence Payne, Jennifer Jayne, Warren Mitchell and Anthony Parker.

Okay British sci-fi film with a fair amount of suspense. A scary climax and an interesting mixture of mysticism with straight sci-fi. Janet is impressive in a white nightgown; a white cloud descends from Outer Space with decapitating aliens in the form of eye octopuses landing on mountains. They gradually become acclimated to the Earth, utilizing human zombies to help smooth their takeover bid.
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Solid sequel to a classic
6 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Anton Leader; Produced by Ben Arbeid; Executive Producer: Lawrnece Bachmann, for MGM release. Screenplay by John Briley from John Wyndham's novel; Photography by David Boulton; Edited by Ernest Walter; Music by Ron Goodwin. Starring: Ian Hendry, Alan Badel, Barbara Ferris, Alfred Burke, Sheila Allen, Ralph Michael, Patrick Wymark, Martin Miller, Bessie Love, Clive Powell and Leo McKern.

Excellent, unsensational sci-fi thriller, succeeding via tight direction and tightly modulated acting by its unsung, underrated lead players.
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Kubrick does justice to Burgess' vision
6 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed, Produced and Written by Stanley Kubrick, from Anthony Burgess' novel, for Warner Brothers release. Photography by John Alcott; Edited by Bill Butler; Music by Wendy Carlos; Camera Operators: Ernest Day and Mike Molloy; Focus Puller: Doug Milsome; Production Design by John Barry; Costume Design by Milena Canonero; Stunt Arranger: Roy Scammell. Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, James Marcus, Adrienne Corri, Myriam Karlin, Philip Stone, Sheila Raynor, Aubrey Morris, Godfrey Quigley, Margaret Tyzack, Pauline Taylor, Anthony Sharp, John Savident, Steven Berkoff, David Prowse, Gillian Hills and Katya Wyeth.

An incredible technical tour de force by Stanley that puts its contemporaries to shame. But Kubrick's meticulously sick sense of humor at times overwhelms his careful execution of Burgess' themes and almost his miraculous visuals and soundtrack as well. McDowell's bravura stardom--producing performance is fundamental to the film's super-success and it is shameless that Stanley literally tortured poor Malcolm for the sake of realism. A minor project that developed under Stanley's fanatical perfectionism into the biggie of the early Seventies.
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Minor version
6 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Paul Landres; Produced by Jules V. Levy and Arthur Gardner for Gramercy Pictures, Released by United Artists. TV Title: "Curse of Dracula". Screenplay and Story by Pat Fielder; Photography by Jack MacKenzie; Edited by Sherman Rose; Music by Gerald Fried; Assistant Director: Bernard McEveety. Starring: Francis Lederer, Norma Eberhardt, Ray Stricklyn, John Wengraf and Virginia Vincent.

Undistinguished, modernized Drac film, devoid of the necessary atmosphere, which benefits from a good Lederer performance. Credits are displayed against a striking blackout face with lit-up eyes.
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Yes We Spank (2024 Video)
No spanking, however
6 May 2024
This Adult Time VOD is mistitled, probably because the marketers don't bother to check out their content. "Spank" is of course a porn fetish for the BDSM crowd, but this pair of scenes includes one from Bree Mills' Lez Be Bad label that's titled awkwardly "DV Spank-Bank Sex Tape", and via the magic of Google I discovered that spank-bank means storing away images to recall as stimulation later for masturbating. In this context the word spank is from "spanking the monkey", unrelated to corporal punishment.

That scene stars Kenna James in an absurd story premise (courtesy of untalented writer Midnight): she finds a box belonging to her husband that contains lesbian porn magazines and videos. Her absurd reaction is to call up a couple of old college chums, Vicki Chase and Katrina Colt to invite them over for a session of lesbian antics to tape for her horny husband to watch (and evidently masturbate about). This is an all-sex vignette with no dialogue (just Kenna's silly voice-over intro) and gonzo sex including Kenna being double-penetrated by her friends' strap-ons.

The second segment has no spanking either. It's titled "My Pesky Girl Has the Wrong Remote!", and was issued just one month earlier on the VOD titled "Precious Keepsakes".

Lexi Luna gets the opportunity to display her overacting ability in this poorly done "Mommy's Girl" segment, with blame to place on the shoulders of directors Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas.

Lapis Afterglow's script is NSG for starters, straining credulity, which is then run off the cliff by the helming team. Stepmom is rather mean to her daughter Aften Opal, bossing her around and not wanting to talk at length, for no obvious reason. It turn out she wants to go to her bedroom to masturbate and try out a new toy -an egg shaped vibrator operating by remote control.

Stop me if you've heard this one before: she pops the toy into her pussy and it starts vibrating irregularly. That's because she has the wrong remote; Aften unwittingly has the toy's remote which she keeps punching the keys to try and get the TV in the living room to operate.

Lexi in the nude goes through lots of gyrations to simulate orgasms as the out of control toy stimulates her. Finally she rushes to the living room to switch remotes and then, in an ultra-horny state seduces Aften on the couch for the duration.

So much is wrong with this clunker, for starters: (1) No way that the remotes would resemble each other, given that a TV would have far more buttons; (2) Lexi would have simply removed the toy from her pussy once it was wildly out of control, but she doesn't; (3) Final plot twist is bungled by the directors, as Aften agrees to sex because the TV doesn't work, but no explanation is given why she couldn't get it to work once Lexi gives her the correct remote.
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Underrated classic by Zugsmith
6 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed and Produced by Albert Zugsmith for Allied Artists release. Reissue title for TV: "Souls for Sale". Screenplay by Robert Hill, from Thomas De Quincey's book; Photography by Joseph Biroc; Edited by Robet Eisen and Roy Livingston; Music by Albert Glasser; Art Direction by Eugene Lourie. Starring: Vincent Price, Linda Ho, Richard Loo, June Kim, Philip Ahn, Victor Sen Yung, Caroline Barrett, Geri Hoo, Terence de Marney, John Fujioka and Vincent Barbi.

Super exploitational opus by Zugsmith features a unique opium-induced nightmare sequence. Price first suffers through a scary horror montage ot terror-filled objects zooming toward the camera, distorted by a "burning hole bubble in film" effect at the last moment. Biggie is a world's record endless slow-motion sequence of Price flying through the air and eluding his pursuers. Many dazzling shots included in this camp classic.
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Dumb but sexy
5 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Alfredo Crevenna; Produced by Ruben Calderon; Mexican production Released in America retitled "Cry of the Bewitched" by Azteca Films (Spanish-track) and Domino Films. Screenplay by Julio Alba and Julio Alejandro; Photography by Raul Martinez Solares; Edited by Gloria Schoemann; Music by Lan Adomian and Obdulio Morales. Starring: Ninon Sevilla, Ramon Gay, Rosa Elena Durgel and Fedora Capdevila.

Mexican voodoo film lacks the proper atmosphere, emphasizing instead (to the point of exhaustion) Nino Sevilla's oile limbs writhing in vaguely Allison Hayes- "The Disembodied" styled postures. A modicum of white nightgown action is included for the dedicated fans, and the hammy acting is fun.
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Lovecraft country
5 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Jeannot Szwarc; Produced by Jack Laird for the Universal TV series "Night Gallery"; Broadcast by NBC. Screenplay by Rod Serling, from Story by H. P. Lovecraft; Photography by Leonard South; Edited by David Rawlings and Sam Vitale; Music by Robert Bain; Art Direction by Joe Alves. Starring: Barbara Rush, Henry Darrow, Beatrice Kay, Larry Blake and Karl Lukas.

"Cool Air" is a good adaptation by Rod of an atmospheric HPL opus. Barbara is very convincing and great hand-held, first-person camerawork delivers windblown action at start and finish to create a bittersweet mood for this tale of artificially preserved life after death, and a woman's reaction to the realization and loss accompanying her discovery of her lover's malady/final demise, as well as her recalling these events with a chill. Jeannot uses slow-motion and stylized white-out for the climactic scream scene. The haunting Spanish guitar score is excellent.
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Crowhaven Farm (1970 TV Movie)
Fine, well-cast TV horror
5 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed and Produced by Walter Grauman; Executive Producer: Aaron Spelling; Broadcast by ABC TV. Screenplay by John McGreevey; Photography by Fleet Southcott; Edited by Aaron Stell; Music by Robert Drasnin. Starring: Hope Lange, Paul Burke, Lloyd Bochner, John Carradine, Patricia Barry, Cyril Delevanti, Milton Selzer, Cindy Eilbacher, Louise Troy, William Smith, Virginia Gregg, Woodrow Parfrey and Ross Elliott.

Stylish deja vu tale of Hope inheriting a farm, gradually realizing that she is the reincarnated prey of revenge-seeking fellow witches. Set in Brampton, Massachusetts, the film boasts a 1971 Dodge Challenger, white nightgown action, wide-angled vaseline smeared lens memory sequences and a 10-year-old girl's letch for Paul. Also, Satan's bite mark, Rosemary's Baby action and a voodoo-style reprise of the animal sacrifice/pain in Paul ritual from the previous Grauman/Burke epic "The Disembodied".
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Not the Statue of Liberty or King Kong
5 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Eugene Lourie; Produced by William Alland, for Paramount Pictures. Screenplay by Thelma Schnee, from Story by Willis Goldbeck; Photography by John F. Warren; Edited by Floyd Knudtson; Music by Van Cleave; Special Photographic Effects by John P. Fulton. Starring: John Baragrey, Mala Powers, Otto Kruger, Robert Hutton, Ross Martin and Charles Herbert.

An award-winning scientist believes that the brain is the one part of the body with the possibility of immortality. To prove his point he inserts his late son's brain into a 10-feet high robot, who promptly goes on the rampage. The robot's design is curiously old-fashioned, but the film is in the late 1950s sci-fi mold. (The colossus looks like an exaggerated Frankenstein's monster with brightly glowing eye regions.) The film manages to deliver up Mala in a white nightgown, but the robot's "rampage" in New York is minuscule. Typical plot of the creation taking control of its master is trotted out one more time. Cheap keyboard musical score is straight out of the Silent Era.
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Night Games (1987 Video)
Loop da loop
5 May 2024
A crummy loop carrier features 6 old sex scenes, one new foursome and a full 13 minutes of credits that includes highlights of the same footage. It's porno fraud.

Four friends play trivial pursuit and shoot the breeze: Peter North and wife Tracy Adams and their friends, the couple Scott Irish and Tammy White. After they introduce flashbacks or fantasies (old footage), all four have sex, with a lousy plot twist at the end.

A pretty and sexy fire-eater highlights the opening credits, but the rest of this junker is mainly drek. Jeanna Fine is styled as a pixie-haired blonde, serving Field Marshal Bradley in a highlight.
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On a serious note...
5 May 2024
Anthony Spinelli takes a serious approach to what, in other hands, might just be a sex filler VHS release with four XXX vignettes. Missing from IMDb for nearly 40 years (I just added it today), this volume of his "Talk Dirty to Me" series has excellent acting by all concerned.

It's presented in a documentary style as a series of interviews (by an uncredited speaker, perhaps Spinelli himself) of folks who knew Jack, the hero of the series played by John Leslie. It's all for a movie titled "The Last Great American Gigolo". Krista Lane, Lisa Bright, Keisha and Shanna McCullough are featured talking and in flashback sex scenes, all of whom (except Keisha) give testimony to Jack's peculiar allure, which of course included him talking dirty to each of them.

McCullough is especially interesting in that she is proud of having stood up to Jack, goading him by calling him "too old". She got his goat, and their flashback conversation has him offended when she calls him a gigolo, and he refuses to have sex with her.

Jack is also presented as a voyeur: he watches two sex scenes of Keisha, first with Jon Martin in which Jack shouts directions as they make love and then Keisha having sex with Shanna as he hides, doing an "I like to watch" routine reminiscent of yet another popular porn series.

Movie ends on a bittersweet note: as Jack watches Keisha and Shanna in action, Spinelli presents a montage from earlier videos of Leslie having sex with many familiar porn ladies, his own reminiscences, before he walks away. Even in a sex vignette format, this clearly demonstrates how meaningful characterizations can elevate porn.
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Undressed Rehearsal (1984 Video)
Trivial
5 May 2024
Ginger Lynn earned star vehicles with her almost instant success back in 1984, and this has been one of them.

Back-of-the envelope scribble summarizes the screenplay: Robert Bullock is casting a new video starring Black stud Tony El-Lay and needs girls. That's all she wrote.

Ginger is rounded up among four actresses to visit Bullock, and we have plenty of f*cking with his assistant Tom Byron and Tony himself. Punch line is typical of a shaggy-dog story, and attempts at humor are meek. The other actresses including Gina Carrera are pretty but Ginger has no problem remaining the center of attention.
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Breast Worx 3 (1991 Video)
A harbinger
5 May 2024
Watching this random gonzo porn VHS from 1991 I was struck by one thing. Director Bobby Hollander did nothing special here, but the first of three vignettes making up the feature-length video runs over 40 minutes, a clear precursor of the approach of most porn made now: the all-sex formula audiences seem to crave.

Mature German star Greta Carlson seduces a nonentity (named "John") who is cleaning up his bar after a party, with some improvised dialogue as the nominal "set-up" prior to 40 minutes of XXX action. It's a familiar scene, reminiscent of those much shorter loops that existed in porn always, but decades later has now supplanted actual storytelling.

A brunette with big fake tits, Chelly Supreme, follows with a masturbation scene in which she's unsatisfied and phones Tony Montana to come over for a booty call and maybe bring a friend. Tony shows up quickly,services her and then his pal Biff Malibu drops by and finishes the tag-team action, not a threesome but more like "sloppy seconds".

Hollander ends the show with Trisha Lea phoning Alexis Gold (a/k/a Julie Juggs) to come over and the girls have fun with dildos, until just before the end of the video a guy called "J. Bowen" (not the British director John Bowen a/k/a John T. Bone, despite the obvious name similarities) delivers a bottle of champagne before briefly having a threesome and then ending the show with faked (invisible) cumshot.

Nothing special but an indicator of bad things to come.in Adult Entertainment.
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Weak entry in the Hammer series
4 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Michael Carreras; Produced and Written by Anthony Hinds for Hammer Films. Released by Columbia Pictures. Photography by Otto Heller; Edited by Eric Boyd-Perkins; Music by Carlo Martelli; Clapper Loader: Doug Milsome. Starring: Ronald Howard, Terence Morgan, Fred Clark, Jeanne Roland, Jack Gwillim, Michael Ripper, George Pastell and Marianne Stone.

Pretentious entry in the renovated mummy series lacks the nea archaic qualities of the originals. Featuring a foolish-looking revenge-seeking mummy and a creep with semi-Frankenstein's monster makeup. The emphasis is on Hammer sadism and a pretty babe thrown in occasionally.
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Psycho-Circus (1966)
This is Edgar Wallace speaking
4 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by John Llewellyn Moxey. Produced by Harry Alan Towers. British-German co-production, Released in America as "Psycho-Circus" by American-International Pictures. Screenplay by Harry Alan Towers from an Edgar Wallace novel; Photography by Ernest Steward; Edited by John Trumper; Music by Johnny Douglas. Starring: Christopher Lee, Heinz Drache, Leo Genn, Margaret Lee, Suzy Kendall, Anthony Newlands, Eddi Arent, Klaus Kinski, Cecil Parker and Victor Maddern.

Reprise of the plot of earlier "Circus of Horrors", Terror and mystery elicited by grisly murders in a circus milieu. The film has colorful style, absolutely gorgeous girls and the thrill of seeing the German Edgar Wallace regulars articulating in English.
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Suspenseful Shonteff film
4 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Lindsay Shonteff. Produced by RIchard Gordon. Original British title: Curse of Simba. Released in America by Allied Artists. Screenplay by Brian Clemens; Photography by Gerald Gibbs; Edited by Barrie Vince; Music by Brian Fahey. Starring: Bryant Halliday, Dennis Price, Lisa Daniely, Mary Kerridge, Ronald Leigh Hunt, Jean Lodge, Louis Mahoney, Valli Newby, Beryl Cunningham and Mike Nightingale.

Voodoo curse torments a white hunter who killed a lion in an area of lion-worshiping natives. It dominates his life back in London until he returns to Africa to kill his curser. Fine music, female pulchritude and excellent, suspenseful photography help punch up the weak story. An English forest is used to simulate the African bush, giving these scenes a most unroutine look in comparison to the stock safari saga. Lack of chills or supernatural atmosphere causes the film to be far inferior to Shonteff's memorable next effort: "The Devil Doll".
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Before it could walk
4 May 2024
One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed and Edited by Herbert L. Strock. Produced by Joseph F. Robertson; Released by Donald Hansen Enterprises. Screenplay by William Idelson and Herbert L. Strock; Photography by Willard Van der Veer; Music by Marlin Skiles. Starring: Peter Breck, Kent Taylor, Alan Hale Junior, Allison Hayes, Arline Judge, Richard Arlen, Tristram Coffin and Sirry Steffen.

Slapdash sci-fi-horror film in which the severed hand of an astronaut crawls about threateningly, and turns a poor victim into a scary Dr. Caligari (heavy eye shadow) type killer. The photography and direction are quite clever at times, but the acting is hampered by a "one-take only" policy, which made for numerous verbal clunkers in the final print. Also poor is the trite shaggy-dog ending, Film's outstanding feature for the Ghoulardi-oriented fans is its extensive showcasing of the Rivingtons' recording of "The Bird's the Word".
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