Here's some candidates for the GIMP Hall of Fame

[Ralphus]

Yesterday the ballots were mailed out to most of the HoF committee members, so voting for the GIMP Hall of Fame is now officially underway. As I've done in previous years, I'm going to highlight a few deserving candidates that may have been overlooked in the past.

The first one is Italian writer/director Umberto Lenzi. Not exactly a household name, and even I have to admit I wasn't previously aware of most of his body of work. But thanks to Rarelust.com, I'm slowly discovering that this man has a definite GIMP tilt to a whole lot of his films, and since he wrote them as well as directed them, it's obvious that he gravitated toward treating women very, very badly in his movies.

I still haven't even seen a majority of his filmography, so this list will be incomplete, but here's a little sample of what I've found so far.

ALMOST HUMAN
A woman is threatened with a knife, then two more of them are hung topless to an overhead lamp before being shot to death.




OASIS OF FEAR
A woman is tied to a chair and a man threatens to burn her tit with a lit cigarette




THE TOUGH ONES
A woman is tied up inside a car about to be crushed in a wrecking yard. There's also a lovely rape scene and several moments of women getting slapped and beaten



HITCHER IN THE DARK
Josie Bisset is drugged, stripped, bound and gagged and made to watch while the killer tortures her boyfriend



NIGHTMARE BEACH
Three different women get electrocuted and a fourth one gets bound and flame broiled by a large incinerator



PARANOIA
Carroll Baker beaten with a belt, tied to a bed and gagged



EATEN ALIVE
A woman bound and gagged and forced to watch another woman get her tit cut off




COP TARGET
Haven't seen this one yet, but here's a still from the Rarelust site



MAKE THEM DIE SLOWLY
Probably his most well-known film, featuring the infamous scene of a woman hung up by her tits


I repeat, I've only seen a small percentage of his movies. The guy made over 60 films! But just based on these, I'd say Lenzi is definitely Hall of Fame worthy.

[bakerboy]

Great choice but his RIP was back in 2017...

It is of course the reflection on today's PC culture, that not "real monies" are currently spent on GIMP movies maybe with the exceptions of Red Feline and Bound Heat.

I wish for the return of the good old days

[frog]

Great choice but his RIP was back in 2017...

It is of course the reflection on today's PC culture, that not "real monies" are currently spent on GIMP movies maybe with the exceptions of Red Feline and Bound Heat.

I wish for the return of the good old days

A great choice, indeed. I didn't realize that some of the flics I enjoyed for their GIMP content way back when were his work. As to his having passed away, I was also unaware of that. Maybe in future we could think of a posthumous award category, after all, the divine Marquis is in the Hall of Fame and he expired way way back.

As to the PC issue, I imagine most of the things we would like to see, and even ones from the past, will never be produced or will be expunged. There will be nothing produced that remotely smells of GIMP. Ironically, people keep slaughtering each other in prodigious amounts.

[frog]

As I've done in previous years, I'm going to highlight a few deserving candidates that may have been overlooked in the past.

The first one is Italian writer/director Umberto Lenzi. Not exactly a household name, and even I have to admit I wasn't previously aware of most of his body of work. But thanks to Rarelust.com, I'm slowly discovering that this man has a definite GIMP tilt to a whole lot of his films, and since he wrote them as well as directed them, it's obvious that he gravitated toward treating women very, very badly in his movies.

I still haven't even seen a majority of his filmography, so this list will be incomplete, but here's a little sample of what I've found so far.

I repeat, I've only seen a small percentage of his movies. The guy made over 60 films! But just based on these, I'd say Lenzi is definitely Hall of Fame worthy.

He is an excellent candidate. I had forgotten some of his films I've seen and was not aware of his prolific production. It's a pity, as Bakerboy pointed out, that he is dead. I think there is nothing wrong with a posthumous induction into the GHF. After all, de Sade is a GHF member.

[yyy02]

...there is nothing wrong with a posthumous induction into the GHF. After all, de Sade is a GHF member...

Amen to that!

[Ralphus]

He is an excellent candidate. I had forgotten some of his films I've seen and was not aware of his prolific production. It's a pity, as Bakerboy pointed out, that he is dead. I think there is nothing wrong with a posthumous induction into the GHF. After all, de Sade is a GHF member.

Not just de Sade. John Willie, Pichard, Bettie Page, Franco, Lina Romay, Lana Clarkson, Bishop, Stanton, Saunders, Eastman, Vincent Price, Marston, Irving Klaw, Lee Frost, Anne Desclos, Dan Hawke...close to half the GIMP Hall members passed on before they were inducted. No one lives forever, but their work stands the test of time.

Since I don't like to post without sharing an animated gif, here's one featuring Lina Romay in a movie directed by Franco. Just because.

[Ralphus]

(*sniff sniff* This smells suspiciously like a rerun. No wait, not a rerun. Call it a Ralphus Classic, that's better. Well, it's all for a good cause. Friedman missed by ONE VOTE last year. It would be nice to see him elected.)

As the ballots slowly pour in for this year's GIMP Hall of Fame, one name that is consistently overlooked is producer David F. Friedman. He may not be a household name to GIMPers, but a look at his body of GIMP-related work is mind-boggling. This King of Exploitation Cinema knew how to make big bucks, and one of the ways was producing films featuring women being kidnapped, bound, raped and tortured, starting with some of the earliest "roughies" of the 1960s and continuing on through the 2000s. What follows is a shameless attempt to alert voters to a candidate who really deserves to join the elite group already in Hall. This list is by no means complete, but take a look at just a few of the titles this man was responsible for:

The Defilers


The Ramrodder


The Lustful Turk


Brand of Shame


The Big Snatch


The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried


Love Camp 7


Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS


2001 Maniacs


And once again, there is still time to become a voting member for the GIMP Hall of Fame, just send me an email to ralphus44@aol.com and I'll mail you out your official ballot.

[skullchaser]

Oh, snap! I didn't realize Friedman was on the ballot! I knew he put out "Love Camp 7" but I didn't know about the others. Yes, by all means add him as a candidate!

[skullchaser]

I went back and looked at names dropped for last year's voting. Mendell Johnson is one that not many know, because his best work is out of print and considered a collectible. Of course I'm talking about "Let's Go Play At The Adams", about a college swimmer who babysits a couple of children but ends up getting captured by the teens next door in one of their "games", stripped naked, bound in various positions, tortured, and... well, it ends in a way that I'm sure a lot of mainstream readers weren't happy about.

While Johnson didn't write the novel as a bondage piece, it certainly relies on it for the storyline about the clash of the old conservative culture that placed value on a woman's chaste, and what was, at the time, the blossoming hippy Mod Squad culture of drugs, sex, and rock and roll.

For a taste of what I'm talking about, here's a brief passage:

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Dianne knelt down and mostly untied Barbara. She undid the ropes around the sleeping bag, opened it and undid the rope that John had put on hours earlier until only three were left – ankles, wrists, upper arms. Everything else lay on the floor around them. Blood pushed through bruised arteries and again burned Barbara’s body. Dianne was good. It was a simple thank you: Dianne might be going to help kill her, but Dianne was kind. Barbara straightened out stiffly. Then Dianne began to bathe her.

…

"You're a teacher, all right." Diane had her back turned to Barbara. She appeared to be buttoning her blouse. "You'd make a good one like all the rest and tell us lies about what isn't so."

"Then what is so?" Barbara could not stand to look at the day she could not live, and she shut her eyes. "What is so, Dianne?"

" Well..." Diane neatly tucked her blouse below the waistband of her shorts and zipped up the side and buttoned the flap. "It's like on a beach when people go walking along and pass each other and hate each other. You know? Paul and I were on the beach hunting for shells last summer, and these kids came walking up from the other way, and when we passed - without anybody ever saying anything - we were all looking around for something to throw or a stick or a board or something. And I'd never seen them. Neither had Paul. I mean, we just hated each other because it was right, and it was mean, we just hated each other because it was right, and it was fun, and I was scared, and some of the other kids were a little scared of Paul and me. That's the way I mean."

…

“So kill me now,” Barbara said. “Do it the nice way between us. You can, and I won’t feel anything except what anyone feels.” She breathed deeply. “I don’t want them to cut me or burn me or whip me and laugh at it,” she said. “You’re a woman, Dianne. You know that…” She paused. “Do you understand?”

“Yes,” Dianne said. She did. “I really do, but I ‘just won’t’ do it. You won’t get out of it just by sniffing a funny bottle. That’s that.”

“I don’t know…” Barbara turned and looked at Dianne clearly. “How are you going to do it?”

“That would be telling.”

…

When there was still even a little time left – she didn’t know how much, one hour, two – Barbara desperately hoped. Then, with revulsion, she heard brief flames and smelled smoke. There would be no last-second change of plans by Freedom Five, not even any quick thing like shooting her. This too had all been thought out: it was going to be like they always played.

The children had done well not to feed Barbara. Her bowels heaved but were empty. She retched in terror, but was only a dry convulsion. Then they came and got her.

[Ralphus]

I have a hard time finding words to describe my reaction to reading "Let's Go Play At The Adams" for the first time. I was in my 20s then, and my girlfriend at the time had told me about this paperback she read when she was younger. It even had a girl tied to a chair right on the cover. There was no Internet then, but found a bookfinding service that located a copy in Schenectady, New York. I bought it for $23. She was excited to see it, but not nearly as excited as me once I got to read it. I was so turned that I would stop every few chapters and sexually ravage my girlfriend. Then read some more, fuck some more. I'll tell you this much, she was fully satisfied by the time I finished the book.

It is, in my opinion, the BEST book ever written about bondage. Johnson writes in great detail about how Barbara the babysitter is feeling over the hours and days of being kept in constant bondage...you can almost feel what she's experiencing. One gets the impression that Johnson knew exactly what he was writing about first-hand. Then the mental torture she endures, which in many ways is even worse than the physical pain she is suffering. Not to mention the reactions and dialogue of the kids who take part in tying her and torturing her. What they are doing is shocking and yet somehow makes a lot of sense to themselves. They've played prisoner-of-war games amongst themselves before and now they're just taking it a step further, just for the thrill of it, because they can. They're playing a game, after all, it's them against Barbara, and Barbara is the one who's going to lose.

Last year, Mendall W. Johnson got 7 votes for the GIMP Hall of Fame, a huge jump over previous years, and missed getting in by a single vote. My guess is that anyone who has had a chance to read this book, and there may not be a lot of us here, will end up voting for Johnson. Sadly, he only wrote the one book, and died just 2 years later. I get the impression that if he had lived longer, he would have hung out at this website. There's no doubt in my mind, he was one of us.

And the book he wrote is a bonafide GIMP masterpiece. It's my favorite book ever, and had a huge influence on me as far as the fetish is concerned. That 23 dollar investment I made decades ago has paid off big time over the years.

The good news is that after being out of print since the 1980s, apparently there was so much online clamour for the book, Valancourt rereleased it a few years back. You can pick up a copy for about 9 bucks now at this URL : https://tinyurl.com/3ymzjhaz

And if you've got about 20 minutes to spare, check out this YouTube video by a 20-something girl who reviews it online. She's clearly not a GIMPer, and she's also about the same age as Barbara was in the book. It's really fun to see her reaction to the story.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlfQui4TROc