Getting back to the subject of Lindsay Lohan (who has also experimented with the plumped-up lips look), what do you all make of this?

I clicked on your link and thought......OMG, she looks like a guy......then I realized it was a commercial. ;-)

And wrote of the MOW2 review:

...those glistening, stretched-out babes are just what I like to see in a movie.

That's just the thing I was thinking when I was checking out the stills in Fritz's review. I really like the visual the look of sweaty babes creates. Plus it's such a simple effect to do, just break out the spritzer bottle!

And wrote:

In relation to the discussion about over-inflated breasts, I'd like to register a complaint about another trend that really chaps my ass - over-plumped lips.

I'm with you 199%! I tend to like thin lips anyway. Well let me rephrase....a pouty lower lip, but with a thin upper has always been my favorite look.

Oh, and one last little tit-bit about Heidi's implants. Apparently she got the largest implants currently allowed by the FDA. Rumor has it she wanted larger ones.....a lot larger.

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Oh, I forgot to mention about Ralphus telling us about: And speaking of reviews, check out Review #15 at the Internet Movie Database. We're listed on the IMDB! Pretty cool, huh?

[with The Jefferson's theme playing in the background] We're moving on up.....:-[)

I share your concerns about wimpy whipping scenes (let's hope J.J. and Dan Hawke are paying attention) although I hope I never see one that's so bad it nearly brings me to tears. Also, it's widely known that I'm no fan of nuns with fake udders. None of it may matter, though, as I'm not certain Mark of the Whip 2 is a film I could get in my country.

Thanks for all the effort you put into your review. If I ever do find a way to see these films, I suspect the priority will be to see the first Mark of the Whip movie. But I will definitely keep the second title in mind.

Yes, indeed! And I remember that as one of your best reviews; your knowledge and passion about the subject really shone through. I'm glad you told us about this link because up until then, I never realized there was a whole world of "external" reviews on IMDb.

Too bad the show is due for cancellation. It was one of my guilty pleasures and occasionally snuck in some unexpected GIMP scenes.

Among the babes who have been bound and tortured in this series are Jolene Blalock, Jessica Marais and my favorite, Bridget Regan.

Your evil spirited Gimp possibilities include:

The Haunting of Molly Hartley
Voodoo Moon
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Swamp Devil

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The Haunting of Molly Hartley? After a very promising opening where a teenage girl (played by Canadian actress Jessica Lowndes from Autopsy) follows notes to an old abandoned house, then gets grabbed from behind, it’s downhill Gimpwise. It turned out to be only a teaser as it was her boyfriend. Damn shame too as Jessica Lowndes is mighty fine!

This turned out to be a pretty good movie overall though but a little misleading in its title of “The Haunting of Molly Hartley” as there was no actual haunting per se. It’s about Molly (Hayley Bennett), whose mother tried to kill her some time earlier and is now institutionalized (the mom). The story takes up from the opening sequence with Jessica Lowndes I mentioned above, who ends up getting murdered by her father before her 18th birthday. Years later Molly is now attempting to start anew in a new town & school, but soon starts to get the idea that her mother has escaped and is again trying to kill her.

The Haunting of Molly Hartley trailer

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Swamp Devil ? Some Gimpage but way too minor of a segment to get you credit for anything more than a 1/8th of a correct answer. The Gimpage comes towards the very end as Cindy Sampson gets tied between two trees.

Swamp Devil is about the lynching of a criminal years ago who has come back to seek revenge on those guilty of taking the law into their own hands. Pretty much just a creature-feature as the swamp demon is the main attraction here.

Swamp Devil trailer

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Voodoo Moon? Correctamungo! Details follow in mini review.

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Mini mainstream review of Voodoo Moon.

Voodoo Moon
Voodoo Moon trailer

It’s good vs. evil in this tale of modern day holy warriors doing battle with the forces of evil.

They thought the evil was eradicated several years ago, but now the evil has returned and is bent on revenge. The two forces gather in the countryside for a final showdown.

There are three Gimp moments of interest in this one. The first has a blond victim in a full nude, nailed crucifixion. She is crucified on the ground at the feet of a Jesus statue in a church and is tape gagged. Nice segment but fairly short.

The second is a similar sequence but with another victim and shown only from the waist up in a topless segment. Nice segment but again way too short as this one is even shorter than the first.

The final segment has one of the band of good-doers tied with her hands behind her back. She then gets threatened with beheading but the old lady next to her gets decapitated instead. Later she is again threatened but ends up getting rescued. The appeal is limited for me as the victim is fully dressed and nothing much happens.

Entertainment wise a so-so flick. Nothing really special here….other than maybe an imaginative segment where the evil person turns into a “murder of crows”. Get it? “Murder of Crows” See, that what they call a group of crows….Evil guy….murder….oh never mind.

Grade: C-.

Gimp wise, even though a very nice fully nude crucifixion, too short to get a grade any higher than a C.

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Well that’s it for this installment. You guys really didn’t get the “Murder of Crows” thing huh? See it’s……”flock of seagulls” type thing…….ohhh… see ya next time.

It seems the Doc has plans to attach people from mouth to anus and create a human centipede. Unfortunately one of the Docs participants is a dude but check out the trailer and tell me what y'all think.

Well, I guess you can't say, "It's been done before." The part of the trailer I liked best was when the Doc opens the door and the two dripping-wet babes say, "Can we come in?" That's the kind of stuff that GIMPers' dreams are made of.

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LTL: I liked your special evil spirit edition of Which One Has the GIMP? because I am a fan of horror movies. Although Voodoo Moon doesn't have a lot of GIMPage, it does have crucifixions, and I also like those. And it has Charisma Carpenter in it. Now if only it had featured naked Charisma Carpenter being crucified, then it really would have been a must-see. But I'll probably check it out anyway.

And once again you have "discovered" some lovely new babes for us to keep an eye on.

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Hiccup: My initial reaction to the plot of "The Human Centipede" was much like A Canadian's: This is simply too retarded to bother looking at. But whenever I checked out my favorite horror sites, that movie kept showing up, almost begging me to watch it. Although it's not high on my priority list, I'll probably get around to viewing it some day. It might have some of those offbeat GIMP scenes that I enjoy.

I'll take your word that the two nude crucifixion scenes in Voodoo Moon are pretty short, but, boy, those are nice vidcaps! I may have to check it out anyway. Still, a mainstream movie with the GIMP scenes rated in the "C" range doesn't exactly scream out "See Me NOW!", does it?

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

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I just got a chance to look at (well mostly scan through) Header yesterday, which my former master Sardu reviewed a while back. That has to be lamest excuse for GIMP-age I've seen in a long time. Women are abducted, tied down, and then instead of fucking them like any self-respecting perv would, they drill a hole in the women's skulls and stick their dick in that! You read it right, women are fucked though bloody gashes in their heads. Guys, women already have 2 or 3 better holes that are designed for such a purpose. Who are the morons who greenlighted this idea?

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JohnM: Speaking of bloody, I invested 20 bucks and downloaded Deadly Interrogation II today. It was with hesitation that I did it, because too much red stuff spoils the looks of the victim. Still, it starred Samantha Jo, the red-haired sweetie-pie from Liar, so I said what the heck. And unfortunately, it didn't really work for me. Not because of the blood, but because of the special effects, which looked like...special effects. I know you're in love with the Tinkerbell-like glow electrifying effect that you've added lately, but it's way too much, as are the array of sparks that were shooting out of her pussy while it was being shocked. That just looks phony to me.

And the soldering iron effect was just the opposite. She got burned several times but only once did you spice it up with the flame up and smoke effect, which looked cool, but when it only happens one time, it's pretty obvious the rest of the burns are pretend only. I felt this way about the previous film of yours I saw recently, Hogtie Killer 6. If you want us to believe the effects, you've gotta be consistent with them.

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Bring Out The GIMP on the IMDB: It was kind of a nice surprise seeing that, since we're primarily a bondage site, but then again, we do have one of the larger archives of mainstream reviews on the net. Of course, all the reviews are written by and written for perverts and sick fucks, who seek out movies based on what evil things may happen to the women in them. But hey, there's a reason those scenes were put in there in the first place. We're just more up front and honest about what we like.

The horror genre offers so many wonderful opportunities to inject some GIMP moments into mainstream cinema. Sadly, though, most producers keep letting us down,...

I hear ya. Too many limp dicks most of the time that only want to kill or dismember hot girls. I just watched one not too long ago where the evil guy does (for a change) have some interest in the fairer sex, but circumstances prevent him from fulfilling his Gimp potential of course.

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Hiccup

I've known about “The Human Centipede” for a while but really didn't know what it was about. I thought for sure it was going to be some sort of radioactive mutation or something. Never in my most bizarre imaginations would I have thought it was going to be about surgically attached people. How do you even think of something like that?

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Yik Yakker wrote:

Although Voodoo Moon doesn't have a lot of GIMPage, it does have crucifixions, and I also like those.

And Ralphus wrote:

I'll take your word that the two nude crucifixion scenes in Voodoo Moon are pretty short, but, boy, those are nice vidcaps!

Short but a nice surprise in that you hardly ever get full nude Gimpage in mainstreams anymore.

That's what gets me, they are going to include scenes like that, and they're too short. Expand it a bit and really make them stand out. Include the abduction, the stripping/tearing of clothes, the act of crucifixion instead of just the finished product.

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Brutus wrote:

Dang, foiled again...

Shouldn't that be....”Curses, foiled again”? :-[)

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Today's pic:

The girl sure looks like Denise Richards don't ya think?

This was a custom movie and the effects were requested. No sparks would have been more realistic and saved me about 23 hours in effect work. However, this was a fantasy movie, not meant to mirror reality. In addition I provide detailed descriptions and photos for all my videos. I even made a preview showing the effects available for free at DFN, that I published several days before release.

I cannot stress this enough. I am making fantasy movies. Everything is fake. All the deaths are fetish, not reality based. This one had way, way, way too little blood and with only 4 hours to shoot it, I could build up no silicone wound effects as I had planned.

As far as the soldiering iron, the customer wanted a glowing effect. Motion tests I did determined that it would take about 50+ hours of labor just for that and with imperfect results. I left my one smoke test in for the benefit of the customer. It did not look good, so I did not pursue it. As it stand, there is $4358 in labor with, if I did the other effects, it would have been about $15,000. Of course, the video only cost the customer the price of the actress. Everything else I eat and hope to make it back someday. With most videos topping out at 40-50 copies sold, all the work, really, is because I try to give the customer the best product I can.

So, I will say that while I agree with you on part of it, the fact of the matter is, I am producing the best thing I can, putting a lot of labor into something that for the most part, goes un-noticed. Well, except in this case--in which, your comments were directed precisely what all the labor went into.

Anyhow, thanks for them, none-the-less. Also, you commented about a Hogtie with flashy effects. That was only on Penance III, which, strangely enough, I got the most comments on proving once again the subjectiveness of this genre.

And so it goes...

JohnM

Ralphus:

Congratulations on running this amazing forum for eleven years plus! As I scan through the archives, I'm amazed at the variety of topics and all the useful info buried therein. I'll never get through it all, but it's impressive nonetheless. I only wish I had come across it sooner!

As for the vidcaps,,, yes, I grabbed them from the film or (in a few cases) from the supplementary material on the disk. I used Cyberlink PowerDVD, which is affordable and easy to use. Getting the HTML right was pure luck (with a big assist from you… thanks!). I was pretty good with technology until the early 90s, but then the Internet came along and everything went south.

The A- grade for MOW2 was based on previous reviews for the original Mark of the Whip. You gave it a B and MAV a B+. I thought MOW2 was superior to MOW1, so I chose an A-. However, the reasons for my evaluation are purely subjective (I prefer more extreme GIMP scenes and terminal tortures, criteria met by the sequel), so I assigned a higher grade. For those who prefer lesser ordeals, or are sticklers for rigging and real-world effects, the A- may seem high. Apologies if I mislead anyone.

As for Maria Vaslova's whipping being "real"… that is based solely on my interpretation of the scene. The bull whip is shown biting into her flesh, and the strokes leave clearly visible red welts. I'm not a whipping aficionado, but that seems real enough for me. However, MOW1 had similar scenes, and some folks were disappointed, so it may not be real enough for everyone. Depending on your expectations, YMMV.

And thanks for adding my review to the esteemed GIMP catalog, as well as for creating the Teraz category which moves these flicks from the mainstream list. I see both FK1 and FK3 have yet to be reviewed, so I have at least two titles to consider for future efforts. Anyone interested in these?

Dr Yuya:

If you've purchased GIMP videos based on one scene, then you owe it to yourself to get MOW2 - assuming the idiosyncrasies I pointed out in my review are things you can live with. As I said, MOW2 is a film aimed at GIMPers, and over half the film is GIMP material. If you like seeing naked, busty girls bound and whipped, you'll find something in this production to make you grin. Otherwise… maybe not.

And yes… I agree with your sentiments regarding DVD distribution. I asked the producer whether he would consider direct download via his own site or through Nicheclips. This may be in the works, but for full-length productions like MOW and the Fantom Kiler films, DVD is still the preferred option.

Sloth:

Much of what is in MOW2 fits my own GIMP fantasies like a glove: rebel girls being abused by a totalitarian regime; hard-bodied, busty babes; whipping scenes that go on and on; terminal tortures; even the J&B scotch. But no, I did not write this. If I had, there would be no nuns, no Granny Clampett, and no whip addictions. But as Mick J. would say, you can't always get what you want…

LTL:

If you must have bondage, I can understand why the Fantom Kiler vids might not be to your liking. To my recollection, only FK2 delivers on the restraints, and even then, it is not first-rate knot work. FK3 has a tie-and-torture sequence at its climax, and in the opening scene, a hapless blonde is handcuffed and rather poorly immobilized by a rolled-up VW Beetle window. Overall, these flicks are about great-looking gals being stabbed to death in the nude. The bondage is optional. The MOW films have considerably more bondage action, but in MOW2 it is a bit hit and miss.

YikYakker:

If you like glistening, stretched-out babes, you'll enjoy MOW2. In fact, I do not understand why more directors don't grasp the potential of a glycerin-filled spray bottle when filming GIMP scenes. This is especially important for fetish producers whose sole purpose is to sell clips of bound, nude girls being subjected to all sorts of merciless torments. When faced with imminent death in a hot dungeon, girls sweat! Just like guys… but it looks oh, so much better. So why not show it?

Brutus:

MOW1 was "kind of" bondage themed, but the one area in which Teraz could use some assistance is in the tie-em-up department. Hell… I'd even pay for a rigger on their next shoot if it would help. That said, some of the scenes in the FK flicks, and in both MOW videos, and even in the non-Teraz productions like Abducted by the Daleks, Girl in the Lift and Nina's Nightmares have bondage scenes. Unfortunately, most are not all that good.

A Canadian:

Thanks for the kind words. The reason the MOW2 sequence almost brought me to tears was that it could have been perfect (for me) with only three changes: light the scene properly; use believable restraints; increase the force of the whipping. All these elements were evident in other parts of the film, so it was possible, but for whatever reason(s), not carried out here. That sort of thing drives me nuts.

Judging by your moniker, I assume you are Canadian (duh)… so when you say you cannot acquire MOW2 in (your) country, you anticipate that it would be seized by Customs if ordered from the US or elsewhere. Well, I am Canadian too (based in Toronto), and I have received every one of the Teraz / Stella / Terror Perverse DVDs without a hitch. Most I have ordered directly from Sinerama (pricier, but I like to support the producers when I can), but a few times from distributors in the US. In fact, after purchasing about 200 "fetish" and "confiscatable" DVDs and tapes from the US, Germany, England, China and Japan, only about 5 or 6 have been seized. Trust me… it's worth the risk.

If you are in the Toronto area, I know of at least two rental stores which have the FK (and possibly MOW) videos in stock, so if you are in this neck of the woods, you can also rent them.

keep up the great work, I hope you stay in business and understand your not getting rich over this. You are one of the few putting out consistantly good gimp work with attractive females.

If you are in the Toronto area, I know of at least two rental stores which have the FK (and possibly MOW) videos in stock, so if you are in this neck of the woods, you can also rent them.

Actually, I am in Toronto, and work downtown. So any tips on where I might find these films would be much appreciated.

It's funny -- whenever another GIMPer from Canada shows up (and there have been a few), they usually know more than I do about where to find GIMP films. I'm starting to think I really haven't been paying attention.

Road trip: We're leaving at 9 sharp? Has Ralphus ever been up that early?

I didn't say I was driving. My feet can't reach the pedals. I'll be catching z's in the back of the van, dreaming of torturing shapely babes wearing skintight Red Sox uniforms. Wake me up when we get there.

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JohnM: Wow, those cost figures were eye-popping. $4358 in labor versus a movie topping out at only 40-50 sales? At 20 bucks a pop, assuming you got to pocket all the sales money (which I know you don't; NicheClips gets their cut) that's only $800-$1000 income. Simple math shows you taking a $3000 loss per movie, which makes one wonder how producers ever make money doing what they do. It's just one more reason why bootlegging really hurts bondage producers, because as you can see, they're often operating on a tight budget and profits (if there are any) are likely going to be miniscule.

You wrote:

I cannot stress this enough. I am making fantasy movies. Everything is fake. All the deaths are fetish, not reality based.

True, but there's a point where even a fantasy scene has to have enough realism in it to be believable. Was the customer happy with the special effects in Deadly Interrogation II? I agree that no sparks would have been more realistic, would have saved you money and ultimately, it would have made your film better. The glowing Tinkerbell stun gun effect may be expensive, but is it necessarily better? Special effects that draw attention to themselves take away from the fantasy. Rick Masters' stun gun shocking effects in Goon Squad were more subtle, and yet that was an incredibly effective scene.

BTW, I don't want you to think I'm here merely to criticize. I've seen about 9 or 10 PKF films recently and for the most part, I've been quite impressed at the high level of quality I've seen from PKF Studios. I was just editing The Good Murders (the one with Lexi) last night for my highlights compilation DVD and I was admiring the fine job you did bringing that fantasy to life. The acting, writing, directing and especially the babe victim made that one worthwhile. It's a really nice piece of work.

First off let me ditto Mr. Bush in saying that for the most part I've pretty much enjoyed almost all of the stuff I've seen, with an exception or two here and there. But that's the case with pretty much anyone's stuff.

As far as “Everything is fake”; we know that, but we still want to get drawn in......and kept there. But I'm not talking about special effects, but rather the small details (which don't cost anything).

For example, I loved “Raped & Strangled II” w/Samantha, well acted, fairly consistant intensity level, etc. I was drawn in....liked what I saw....and then the “suspension of disbelief” (I think that's the right term) was blown when Samantha starts grabbing at something....anything during her struggle and ends up pulling out a drawer of her nightstand...........and it's completely empty.

I know this is gonna sound like nit-picking, and I might be the only person that would have even noticed, but at that point I was taken out of the scene (like in “Somewhere in Time”), as the bareness of the nightstand just screamed.....prop. A binder, a candy bar....even a candy wrapper, something.....anything....would have kept the illusion going.

I know that sounds minor but I think it really is the little things that can make a good movie into a great one. Just look at Hollywood where directors are given similar budgets and one produces something great while the other makes a clearance shelf material DVD. And usually, the little things don't cost anything either.

last weekend i have found a old "erotic" movie. in this i found a 2 min rack-scene.

its a german movie with raymund harmsdorf and sybil danning (sybil is max. 20 years old).

the german title is "Siegfried und seine liebestollen Frauen"

my question: have you the english title for my? i will post this stuff at weekend in my vidcapgroup with english title.

thanks for your help and greets to ralphus and all the other gimpers

The English title was The Long Swift Sword of Siegfried..

I do recall Sybil Danning as being so young, lovely and natural that I hardly recognized her.

Basically, the movie falls into the category of a "ribald adventure", although some of the "ribaldness" was obviously removed in the English version. It also struck me as kinda wacky, not to be taken very seriously. Wish I could get my hands on an original copy.

I wonder if the rack scene that Tarl mentioned is in our database?

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I have to agree with LTL about the little things that help make a movie work. Hate to be a whiner - some of us have already posted lists of complaints about the things moviemakers do that aggravate us, myself included - but as LTL pointed out, some of these things cost little or nothing but some extra thought.

It's like some producers think we won't notice.

"They won't notice that the bonds are so loose the girl can slip out of them any time she wants."

"They won't notice that even though she's being whipped she's not breaking a sweat."

"They won't notice that even though she's being stretched out on a rack, her elbows are bent."

Fact is, we do notice, and these things are important.

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Well, the Lindsay Lohan Career Death Watch continues. At this rate, she might just as well get tattooed and pierced and audition to be a >shudder< bondage model.

In a word, yes. I have to fess up here and identify myself as the troublemaking PKF customer who is causing John M all this grief. So if you've got any beefs with Deadly Interrogation II, you should lob them my way because I wrote the damn thing. For the most part, John was just doing my bidding. But before you attack me for the video's lack of realism or believability, let me try to explain a few things in my defence…

As most of us who are sexually aroused by taboo erotica like rape, torture, death etc. frequently point out, we only express our desires as fantasy. With the exception of a few psychopaths, we do not act out our twisted little thoughts for real. For some, this fantasy must be as close to reality as possible to be enjoyable - in fact, for these folks a perfect scene would be one that is indistinguishable from what happens in the real world, with the sole exception that the victim is not actually raped, tortured, killed, etc.

However, for others, an ideal fantasy includes additional elements which also are inherently unrealistic. This should not come as a surprise to anyone because the majority of non-erotic entertainment (fiction and movies especially) does so as well. In real life, does the megalomaniac villain really tie down the super-agent and kill him by running a laser beam up between his thighs? Of course not… Bond would get a bullet in the brain seconds after being captured, just like any failed spy. But the Goldfinger scene is far more entertaining for most folks… and hey, it gives Bond a chance to escape.

But that scene is not realistic, and for some people (and critics) such lack of credibility leaves them dissatisfied. I expect most people have their limits regarding suspension of disbelief. If they didn't groan watching Goldfinger, perhaps the later Roger Moore Bonds did the trick. For me, it's superheroes: no matter how well those "special powers" are explained, I just can't accept men and women in tight, revealing clothes defeating the laws of physics on such a grand scale. But hundreds of millions of people would beg to differ.

Back to Deadly Interrogation II. As the clip is a custom production, the producer is at the mercy of his client, and no matter what that producer may prefer, once he agrees to take on the project, he needs to satisfy the client's request first. That's not to say John had no say in DI2, but I did draft up a list of story elements (in addition to the script) that I wanted John to make sure were included.

Most of these elements are in the final production. That includes the sparkly FX for the electro-scenes, the over-the-top sledgehammer beating, the less-than believable gutting scene, and quite a few more. Frankly, I have no idea what these things would look like if performed in real life, nor do I care - though I'm pretty sure one whack with a sledge-hammer the size of the one John used would have brought things to a close right there and then.

However, my fantasy preferences include over-the-top torture, and the more that is highlighted (i.e., attention is drawn to this, even if it's not "realistic"), the more I tend to enjoy it. Further, not only are the torture scenes unrealistic, the whole premise of DI2 is completely demented and unbelievable - which is just how I like it. In fact, I tend to get turned off by scenes that are too realistic because they become uncomfortably close to what I read in the news. I've seen a few clips that were incredibly well done, that featured some of my favorite fantasy elements, but ultimately lost their appeal because I began to feel empathy for the victim. Once that occurs, I can no longer enjoy the video.

In the end, it's all moot anyway. If a video is identified as a custom production, there's no point arguing with the producer that this should have been done like that and that like this. And there's no point arguing with the writer, because he or she most likely wanted it shot the way it is. And the writers always get to have it their way because they are the ones paying for the production. Want it your way? Pull out your wallet and e-mail John.

All that said, I think it's great that there is so much diversity in what GIMPers like. I've even discovered my own tastes changing after watching material I would not have thought I would enjoy. When we review or comment on videos, we invariably draw in our own personal biases, and that's fine too. If our critiques are supported by factual details, then those with different likes and dislikes can determine whether or not the film will be of interest to them. But I firmly believe that no one has the right to say that any sexual fantasy is correct because it conforms to specific criteria (which always seem to be those preferred by the person passing judgment) or should be avoided because it doesn't. One corollary: the fantasy must remain harmless (and that's why I feel I am on solid ground when I badmouth those goddamned bug-crushers).

JohnM wrote: As it stand, there is $4358 in labor with, if I did the other effects, it would have been about $15,000. Of course, the video only cost the customer the price of the actress. Everything else I eat and hope to make it back someday. With most videos topping out at 40-50 copies sold, all the work, really, is because I try to give the customer the best product I can.

Holy crap! $4358 of labor, plus the acting fees? That's no where near what I paid for DI2. Had I known you were going to spend 23 hours just doing the sparking effects, I would have considered some other options. Trust me, I'm not trying to drive you out of business. Now I'm worried I may have done just that after commissioning customs from other producers. I know I ask for some pretty complex stuff - but I don't want to be remembered as the Michael Cimino of custom video productions.

I hope you sell more than just 40 or 50 copies of this one, but as everyone keeps telling me, the more extreme vids don't do nearly as well as the asphyx and gunfun stuff. I do notice DI2 has been the top selling clip on Niche since Saturday though… so at the least, it must be doing reasonably well.

BTW… I know I owe you some more feedback, but I'm still on the road and only got to see the clip twice Friday before I left.

LTL wrote: I know this is gonna sound like nit-picking, and I might be the only person that would have even noticed, but at that point I was taken out of the scene (like in "Somewhere in Time"), as the bareness of the nightstand just screamed.....prop. A binder, a candy bar....even a candy wrapper, something.....anything....would have kept the illusion going.

I expect with a custom production, the director needs to be very careful. Yours may seem like a trivial example, but it's risky for directors to add elements that aren't in the client's script. It's happened to me on many customs - some wonky decision made by the director (with best intentions) wrecks a scene for me. So unless the script calls for a binder, candy bar, or any props at all, the default will probably be a bare nightstand.

On the other hand…

YikYakker wrote: It's like some producers think we won't notice.

"They won't notice that the bonds are so loose the girl can slip out of them any time she wants."
"They won't notice that even though she's being whipped she's not breaking a sweat."
"They won't notice that even though she's being stretched out on a rack, her elbows are bent."

Here I have to agree. When it's obvious that anyone into peril scenes would want the peril elements to be realistic, the producer should make every effort to portray them that way (unless the client specifically requests loose ropes, bent elbows or whatever). I've encountered quite a bit of this sort of sloppiness in customs I've purchased in the past, and it's the quickest way for a company to lose my support in the future.

A Canadian wrote: Actually, I am in Toronto, and work downtown. So any tips on where I might find these films would be much appreciated.

I saw all the Fantom Kiler titles except FK4 at Suspect Video on Queen West just a few months before it burned down. The original Suspect on Markham Street is still in business and as it carried much of the same inventory as the Queen West store, perhaps you'll find the Teraz videos there. Further afield is DVD Mansion which recently relocated from Markham to 3650 Langstaff in Woodbridge (no URL… sorry). I believe they had MOW1 and some of the FKs, but contact them before you take the long journey north as my memory is fuzzy. BTW, DVD Mansion carries some very obscure titles which may be of interest to Toronto-based GIMPers, including Japanese fetish flicks and even the Action Girls line-up produced by Scotty JX.

TARL:

I remember watching a French version of "Long Swift Sword of Siegfried" over 20 years ago, and it did indeed have a rack scene in it. It's basically a comedy, so don't expect too much female peril, but the rack scene is a stand-out as I recall, especially as the victim was also being whipped while stretched. There's a trailer here. You can catch a glimpse of the girl on the rack at 3:25.

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Fritz: Aha, so it was you! Hey, I'm not complaining. It was your custom, you paid for the thing, so you deserve to get what you paid for. The thing is, I paid for it, too, just not nearly as much :)

I hear what you're saying about people not wanting their fantasies to come across as too realistic. But personally, I've never been a fan of the James Bond pictures nor of the whole superheroine genre. I don't like comic book movies; never even seen Spider-Man, Ironman, the latest Batman, etc. Of course, the Bond pictures are always profitable crowd-pleasers, and millions would probably love to see someone like Batgirl or Wonder Woman wearing their skintight costumes and tied down and terrorized by the villain. I don't begrudge anyone for their fantasies. If it makes their dick hard, that's all that matters, ultimately.

My fantasies are more based in reality. I want to see something I can believe. I don't believe in superheroines, so if I saw Samantha Jo wearing a costume and a cape, I wouldn't have even ordered it. But I do like several of the torments that she was supposed to experience in the film (like shocking and burning), so I made my purchase. And even though I'm a fan of adding effects to increase the visual experience, I just didn't expect them to look so over-the-top. I didn't believe them. Fantasy blown.

If I were making that movie and had been in charge of the effects, it would have looked different. Bottom line is I didn't. The movie turned out the way you liked it, not the way I like it. But the next one I order will probably be better. I'm rarely let down by PKF. I trust John will deliver the goods most of the time.

John M.: You sound like a really cool dude. I like your committment to your work!

LTL: Too many limp dicks most of the time that only want to kill ... hot girls.

You say that like it's a bad thing! I do want them to suffer for an extended period while they're dying -- does that help?

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Fritz: If a video is identified as a custom production, there's no point arguing with the producer that this should have been done like that and that like this.

Yep. Take "WebCam Massacre". I would have done that differently -- have the killer molest and cum on the girls while they were still alive, and have all the girls moaning at once. I wrote a story that showed what I'd want to have happen (but I set mine at a nail salon).

But John gave the customer what they wanted, and it was still an excellent movie. I might have to go watch it now...

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Meanwhile, LTL's favorite star -- Lindsay Lohan -- has been cast to play Linda Lovelace in a new movie. While I don't think there would be anything GIMP-worthy in the re-enactments of her film career, the parts about Lovelace's off-screen life might have some potential.

It's too bad LiLo looks like such a mess these days. I read somewhere the producers of Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew are trying to book Lindsay for the upcoming tapings of the next season's shows but aren't having any luck.

LTL wrote: I know this is gonna sound like nit-picking, and I might be the only person that would have even noticed, but at that point I was taken out of the scene (like in "Somewhere in Time"), as the bareness of the nightstand just screamed.....prop. A binder, a candy bar....even a candy wrapper, something.....anything....would have kept the illusion going. I expect with a custom production, the director needs to be very careful. Yours may seem like a trivial example, but it's risky for directors to add elements that aren't in the client's script.

I miss wrote on that following paragraph and meant the completely empty dresser drawer.

The point I was trying to make is that I don’t think it would take anymore time or effort in trying to make a setting as realistic as possible.

I don’t know how detailed your script was but I would imagine that….lets say someone wants a rape/strangle in a bedroom setting, I think pretty much universally that’s going to be the extent of the written detail on set. Then what does John provide? He goes a little further than just a bed in a room by adding the nightstand and table lamp. My point was (suggestion) was to take it a step further still by making the setting as realistic as possible with some everyday stuff to make it look lived in…..which would require all of maybe two minutes and no cost.

I used “Raped & Strangled II” as an example. The setting looked fine…..a little pristine for a teenage girl, but fine. But a completely empty drawer doesn’t ring very real. And like I said, at that point I was pulled out.

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jhlipton wrote:

Sorry I've been gone so much, but DarkFetishNet sucks up a lot of my free time.

Yeaugh, right. You’re still sore about that whole Chris Hanson thing aren’t you? Get over it! It’s in the past. ;-)

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Yik Yakker & A Canadian wrote:

Meanwhile, LTL's favorite star -- Lindsay Lohan -- has been cast to play Linda Lovelace in a new movie. While I don't think there would be anything GIMP-worthy in the re-enactments of her film career, the parts about Lovelace's off-screen life might have some potential.

And: Well, the Lindsay Lohan Career Death Watch continues.

Looking like this lately, are you sure she isn’t playing Linda Lovelace’s mom? And are you sure that shouldn’t just be the Lindsay Lohan Death Watch?

Nice to know she still has some sense left. That show isn't about rehab -- it's about Celebrity, and even more about Dr Drew (who I hate almost as much as "Dr" Phil). His guests always knew more than him on "Loveline", but somehow he turned into an "expert". Blech.

...Dr Drew (who I hate almost as much as "Dr" Phil)

Hey, what's wrong with Dr. Phil? That's my porn name.......well actually spelled a slightly different......Dr. Fill ;-)

See this page for what I mean...lots of people saying how hot she looks etc...

http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?pid=3683602&id=25088724403

That show isn't about rehab -- it's about Celebrity.

I think that's true. Some of the people who show up on those shows seem to mostly be addicted to the spotlight. Brigitte Nielsen, who was on the first season of Celebrity Rehab, is an obvious example.

Take care anyway. Thanks for serving our country.

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Paulus: See this page for what I mean...lots of people saying how hot she looks etc...

Well she is HOT!!! I saw an ep of the show, and Cara is played by the best actress, far and away. I just wonder how much of how she got those bruises they showed...

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Canadian: I think that's true. Some of the people who show up on those shows seem to mostly be addicted to the spotlight.

That's true, but also, Drew is addicted to Celebrity.

Has anyone heard anything about III? I haven't heard anything other than that theres going to be one.

So which way do you think III will go? Bet ya they'll take the new “trendy” formula of couples but most (if not all) the Gimpage will be guys. So....which way do you guys think it'll go?

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I was waiting for Survivor (still mourning Amanda :-( being voted off last week) to come on last night and caught the tail end of one of those (lame ass) celebrity shows (which I hate all of). The segment was about Lindsay Lohan giving her mom advise about order (in context of bedroom order). Yeaugh, like Lindsay Lohan is the poster child for order of any kind.

The crap that these people put on.

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Dangerous Dave: Good luck sir. Looking forward to hearing from you again in the fall.

Has anyone heard anything about III? I haven't heard anything other than that theres going to be one.

Are you sure about this?

For me, spending a day off running from video store to video store and spending hours walking the isles was always fun, of course there were plenty of times that I was led astray by a video box cover that suggested more than it gave, but that was the hunt, in the end I always came back with something to add to my collection. Now with the internet, point and click and that whole day of running around is saved, but it's not the same.

I remember back then I would visit New York once in awhile, down on St.Marks St. there was a video store called Kim's, best video store ever, I would always catch myself spending a couple hours in the isles of that three floors of video heaven, now Kim's is a shell of its former self. I guess with the internet you just don't need that kinda space, still miss it though. The hunt just isn't the same, it's sad to say but all that fast forwarding and rewinding was enjoyable.

It doesn't surprise me that there's going to be another sequel; the first one was a huge hit, the sequel not so much but it still made a profit. The question is whether they're going to make Part 3 similar to the original, which was a sausage-fest, or the sequel, which is still one of the best mainstream GIMP films in recent memory. I'd even settle for a combination of both guys and girls, if we can get something close to the intensity of the action in Part 2. It's easy enough to fast-forward past the male scenes if there's some women being tied and tortured somewhere in the DVD. At any rate, it's definitely something to anticipate.

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LTL wrote:

This one looks interesting

Yeah, it does. What is that, Sexual Murders 4 ? Have a link for it? The girl is hot, although she's left untied during the rape. Might be worth checking out.

BTW, PKF just keeps cranking them out at an amazing rate of speed. John Marshall must be on speed. I saw tonight they have a new movie out called Special Night , about a young babe whose Prom Night doesn't go quite the way she expected. Check out the stills. Perfect time of the year to release the movie, too. Oh, if only real life was like our fantasies...

Less than 20 bucks at NicheClips. I may have bite the bullet on this one. I hope John appreciates all the coin I've been throwing his way ever since I found out what his movies are like.

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Bluetylerrose: I like your question, let's make it an official GIMP Poll and maybe steer the discussions away from Survivor, Celebrity Rehab and whether breast implants make some TV Bimbo de Jour look like a Barbie Doll. Because this board is supposed to be about tying up women. Right, guys?

GIMP POLL:
Is the thrill of the hunt for films and finding those undiscovered scenes the same as it used to be, does it still generate the same level of excitement as it used to now that it takes a few clicks and a few minutes in comparison to the hours of driving from store to store?

I miss those days of spending hours at video stores, poring over videotape box covers, front and back, looking for clues that there might be a scene in there where a girl might get tied up, or hopefully, get tied up and tortured or raped. Sometimes the boxes would give you a tiny picture of a girl with a gag in her mouth on the back of the box, like Maniac , for instance. That was the first movie I ever rented just for the bondage scene. In fact, it's the first scene I ever collected, period. If that picture weren't on the box, I may never have rented it at all. It was that discovery that helped shape my life as a perv.

I used to spend countless hours renting promising movies and fast-forwarding through them, hoping for a scene. Usually I would come up empty, but not always. When you found one, especially a really good one, it was a genuine thrill. The movie Quake was one I checked out without a clue, only to discover it had a gorgeous woman in it and she was frequently naked, tied up about 4 times and held captive for nearly the entire film.

Today, you've got the Internet and not only do you hear about these movies in advance, you often get vidcaps, full descriptions and even video clips of the scenes beforehand. Not that it's a bad thing, but by the time you actually get around to seeing the movie on DVD, the thrill is gone because it's no longer new. One thing is does do is save you time, which is a huge benefit because who has time anymore to scan through movies that may not pan out? It gives you more time to check out other stuff, because it seems like there's so much out there that it's like I'm in a race to see it all before I die. Used to be that I could excited for weeks with the discovery of a new scene. But now PKF puts out a new movie seemingly every week and there's just not enough time to see everything I want. In many ways, I preferred the simpler, slower pace of seeking and discovering new hidden pleasures.

Me? I’m never sure about anything. Ralphus’ link seems to verify though.

As for my source? I just happened to have overheard a conversation while I was checking out……um, I mean, while hanging out at Jessica Alba’s pool party. :-]) Someone mentioned something at the IMDB but was barely anything at all.

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As far as Sexual Meurders 4. It’s from a new company (at least to me). Never seen any of their stuff but this one in particular looks pretty good from the stills, mainly because of the hot looking blond with the killer body.

Kinky Love Story Nicheclips link

BTW, here’s one from Psycho-Thrillers starring Amber Rayne getting gang raped that some of you might find of interest called Party Girl Raped & Suffocated.

As for myself, I would love to check out both of these along with a few from PKF but unfortunately I’ve run into some unexpected expenses of late. The last storms toppled a huge tree that cost over $500.00 to cut up haul away. Plus the storm also exposed that I need a new roof. So, will have to tighten the Gimp belt for a bit of the immediate future.

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bluetylerros’s question and poll question:

Personally I never liked trolling for movies. I hate shopping and to me this was just another form of. Know what I want….in & out and I’m happy.

I tend to enjoy horror flicks for the most part and every so often you get lucky. Some from expected views, and some from places you’d never think there’d be any at all.

So to answer the Poll Question, I’d say it would be no change from then to now.

You can spend the same amount of time now days locating materials and find 10X more than you could back when all you had to go off was a suggestive box cover. Not to mention no more embarrassment factor of being the one who repeatedly goes into Blockbuster and rents titles such as "House of Whipcord", which the cashier is required by his boss to say out loud in front of everyone.

I personally have no problem with this except the anti-porn folks usually go too far and we adults pay the price.

My thoughts are guns in the hands of idiots, alcohol and drugs in the hands of incompetents (drunk drivers etc.) and general violence towards innocent men, women, children is surely perpetrated by a fraction of our society.

It would appear we have come full circle once again and I see no real cure. Just read the news about the University of Virginia case.

Just my personal view.

Norman

I don't think my local video stores ever provided a wealth of GIMP material. If they did, I missed it. But given that vanilla porno movies in my neighborhood were being edited in the '80s and early '90s to the point that all scenes of penetration, oral sex, etc., were being cut, I doubt there were many good GIMP films available.

I did know of a couple of stores (one closed years ago) that had some riskier stuff, including a copy of Bloodsucking Freaks (which was called The Heritage of Caligula). There were some other horror movies that also worked for me, including one with cheerleaders with a title I have forgotten.

Mostly, though, the best GIMP films have been available for purchase, rather than rental. And if I'm going to shell out serious money to see a film, I want to know the content will deliver before I pay for it. So I prefer living in the age of online reviews.

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Hostel 3: I still don't believe it is in production. The link Ralphus provided is two years old, and there is no current information available. I think it's just a rumor.

This is a good poll question. I like how it already presumes that we older pervs actually used to do stuff like look at multitudes of video boxes searching for an undiscovered bondage/torture scene in some crappy movie.

Let me say that I certainly did do this...and before that..stay up late for a late night horror movie with hope that there would be some nubile female being sacrificed to Satan or something , anything, that would give the thrill of an unexpected torture scene.

Once actual bondage videos started coming out, it was a good thing, but there was still something special about a torture scene in a conventional movie. Perhaps because these scenes were unexpected. Or maybe because you knew that the primary subject matter of a movie is not BDSM, so when it's thrown in there it is more exciting.

Also there is the added element that these were scenes with "real" actresses (ok so a lot of these movies were pretty bad B movies so the acting talent wasn't that accomplished). There was a real film crew present when it was made, and it was captured on film as opposed to harsher looking video tape.

Some of it was funny, with horrible ties that would take someone 5 seconds to get out of. Or horrible "whips" that looked like strips of a sheet or some other crappy prop that was laughable.

Many of these movies were Spanish or Italian made and had to be translated and have the English dubbed in later by voice actresses who often did a great job at sounding like they were in agony. I would sometimes wonder what they may have been doing in the studio to make their screams and moans sound authentic.

So in answer to the question...yes the thrill is gone because as you say, it's too easy to find on the internet. No more hunting down movies with little snippets of torture. It's kind of a bygone age now, although there are still new movies coming out where you might occasionally be surprised with a scene.

Another thing that made those days more exciting was the fact that you quite often came up empty. The box would say promising things like "the evil sadistic baron brings these poor unsuspecting wenches to his terrifying torture chamber", and then you are lucky to get anything even remotely related to the description. Which made a good torture scene so much more satisfying when you finally ran across one.

When videos came out, I did indeed carefully peruse all of the titles, studiously searching for potentially GIMP-worthy situations. In fact, I had memberships in numerous video rental shops. I distinctly recall looking for the most out-of-the-way dives in the hope they would have rare videos. I was assisted by Playboy magazine's annual "Sex in the Cinema" feature (every November as far back as I remember), which helpfully sometimes printed stills from movies hinting at GIMP.

A few of the video rental places even had The Room in the Back, past the curtains or the swinging saloon style doors (which always squeaked, announcing to everyone in the store that someone had just ventured into That Room), where the adult titles were kept. I was always extremely disappointed that there was so little XXX GIMP stuff. But any title that even HINTED at GIMP got my attention. The one that I remember most vividly is A Dirty Western. Not the best, but the first one I saw that finally came close to delivering. (Behind the Green Door was too artsy for me, and Marilyn Chambers just didn't come across very well as a victim.)

In fact, around this time I also began paying attention to the XXX Theaters, and I even braved the sleaziness a few times to catch "first run" movies promising the GIMP. There weren't many, and the ick factor was high enough to discourage many forays into dark adult theaters. I NEVER succumbed to the loop booths in so many adult bookstores, no matter WHAT the teaser sheets promised. The ick factor was off the charts.

However, the few brick and mortar stores I still visit that feature rentals (now DVDs, of course) occasionally lure me into perusing the rental shelves in the hope of finding some obscure "B" movie straight-to-DVD release featuring GIMP. I rarely RENT them, of course. I jot down the title and then do a comprehensive Internet search to determine whether or not it is worth it. In the Old Days, of course, I HAD to rent it. No more. Does that take the fun out of it? Hell no. It saves me money and helps me avoid wasting time on movies with teaser covers or blurbs that don't deliver.

It is my opinion, though, that there are FAR fewer movies with decent GIMP these days, and the dearth of GIMP goes back several years, if not perhaps decades. And let's face it, even in the Good Old Days, we are talking about--best case scenario--a minute or two of good GIMP. Usually less than a minute. I do not expect, EVER, to see anything approaching the intensity of I Spit on Your Grave.

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Speaking of which, and it's my bad that I've been out of touch for so long and maybe this topic of discussion has been done to death, but since the movie trailer for the remake of I Spit on your Grave was just released (go here), I did some reading I am 99 and 44/100ths percent certain it will suck.

First there was the choice of Sarah Butler as the actress who plays Jennifer. She has no movie nudity to her credit. That in and of itself isn't so bad, since there's a first time for everything. But secondly, in an interview with the actress, she said the director and producer told her "we're toning down the nudity and stuff...." Well, excuuuuuuuse me, but "the nudity and stuff" (by which I interpret "stuff" to be the, you know, rapes) is the raison d'etre for the movie, apologist post-modern female empowerment interpretations notwithstanding. And thirdly, in the same interview, the actress mentions several times the "modifications" made in this film, "increasing the torture element," and likening it to Saw and Hostel. And finally, but most chillingly of all, is the actress' observation that the remake is NOT a "passion project" for the new director, and he's not some "sketchy-looking director asking [her] to take her clothes off," in the words of the interviewer. In other words, for the new director it is just a job. I'm sorry, but exploitation films should be a "passion project" at the very least, and preferably a guilty pleasure.

What I am hearing is that the awesome GIMP first half has been completely gutted to remove most if not all nudity and the original's over-the-top graphic violence. In fact, if you view the trailer, there is a scene that looks to me like it is post-rape where Jennifer is still totally clothed. What I am hearing is that we will see a probably all-too-brief rape scene (with no Jennifer torture involved) to set the stage, and then an extended Saw and Hostel inspired convoluted torture sequence of her getting even with a bunch of guys (or, in the words of Ralphus, a "sausagefest"). It sounds like a travesty. I can think of only one thing that would make it more unbearably disappointing, and that would be if they had gotten Jessica Alba to play the toned down rape and non-nude victim. Another potentially juicy Hard R-Rated role she could PG-13 for us.

You can read the interview with Sarah Butler here and see what you think for yourself.

Color me despondent.

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Hostel III: I figure it is only a matter of time for a third Hostel movie to come out. And there will probably be a fourth version as well. I think that direct-to-video may give us a better chance at seeing women getting tortured.

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Poll question: I agree with Dr. Yuya that the potential embarrassment at the video store will not be missed. Each time at the store, I dreaded hearing these three potential phrases:

1. Hey Brutus. What are you doing here? What movies are you renting?

2. Mr. Brutus, I see you are renting "Ilsa: She Wolf of the SS." According to our records, this is the 10th time you have rented this movie. Is everything OK?

3. Wow. Look at the perverted movies that guy is renting. We should warn all women in this store that he's probably a rapist.

But to answer the question: The thrill is gone. I loved finding that hidden gem in the stack of videos I had rented. Fatal Pulse was one of the more memorable moments in this regard.

Back then, to find GIMP material, I had to rely on snippets of information I could retrieve from reviews, which were unreliable for my tastes, or the box covers, which were often even more unreliable. Like John Galt, I had several memberships and found the best movies came from the smaller "dives." Then Blockbuster came in and drove most of those smaller stores out of business.

Nowadays, there are so many websites, many with stills or the actual video of the GIMP scene, that the element of surprise is lost. I must say I do enjoy the convenience that modern technology has brought us. But I do miss the hunt for great GIMP action and the unexpected rewards.

Regarding the I Spit On Your Grave remake, we had a lot of talk about it when we heard there would be a remake, but not much speculation since. Your scoop that there's a trailer released should start the chatter once again. And now after seeing the trailer and reading the interview with Sarah Butler, I have the feeling that your negative speculations probably have some merit. It is likely going to concentrate more on the female revenge aspect of the story and, in typical modern fashion, severely tone down the nudity and the rape scenes of the original. It was the rape scenes that are the reason the film is such a cult classic today. It's the reason why any guy with blood flowing through his dick would want to see it.

But wait, it's the new millennium, and haven't you heard? Women aren't allowed to be victims in the movies anymore. But guys...oh hell yeah, tie them up, torture them, that's perfectly acceptable entertainment. So here's what we do. We take the most notorious exploitative rape film ever shot, remove the exploitation, remove the rape (or sanitize it to the point where no one gets to see much of anything), and simply play up the second half of the film where the victim gets her revenge. Yeah, women in power! THAT'S the reason why people will pay to see it!

See, this is the kind of backward thinking that infuriates me. Women in jeopardy is a tried and true concept. As the men's magazine covers I've been running recently plainly illustrate, we like to see women as victims. The damsel in distress theme has worked for more decades than I've been alive. Some of those magazines were from the 1930s. And how many times did you see men as victims on those magazines? Oh, every now and then, but it was very rare. Because who the hell wants to see men abused? Have we become so PC as a society that even our entertainment values are out of whack? Or is it just the people who produce the entertainment that are misguided?

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Just a quick reminder that the public voting for the Bondage Awards ends at midnight Sunday night. So if you haven't done your duty and placed your votes, this is the final day to do so. It only takes a minute to vote for your favorites, and hopefully we can get enough support from our readers to make the Top 10 once again. Competition is fiercer now than we've ever had to deal with, so every vote counts. Let's go for the three-peat!

Why are they remaking I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE? That might be the worst remake idea I've ever heard...

Although, I recently heard a Michael Caine observation. He said, "Why do they remake good movies? Why not remake awful movies or flops and try to do them well?"

Apparently, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS was a remake of a movie that flopped, and of course it was a great success.

Still, I don't know what you can do with I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. A theatrical release horror film is aimed at the teens and the 20-somethings, right? Our teens and 20-somethings seem like morally and intellectually lost souls in general already. Do we really need to serve them up this kind of thing?

That pretty well sums up my view. I never experienced the "golden age" of trolling through video stores, and as they say, you can't be nostalgic for something you never experienced. From the descriptions by others, that period had its good points and bad points and I'm sorry I missed it. At the time, I was basically doing the same thing trying to track down old vinyl records and cassettes in music store bargain bins. But that's a different topic.

Perhaps another way to look at it is that today we have Bring Out the GIMP, which opens up a whole world of GIMPage reviews, comments, links, pics etc. I'm having fun with it.

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Speaking of our beloved site (the Mother of all GIMP sites?), I'm kinda disillusioned by the whole Bondage Awards thing this year. Maybe it's just a matter of gathering up sour grapes to get ready for disappointment should we fail to win a jpeg trophy, but I've found the whole thing kinda confusing. Among the problematic elements:

~ allowing someone/something to be nominated with just 2 votes;

~ first being told that you could only vote for a person/site once; ~ then finding out that you could vote for any person/site once a day

Regarding the last point, I only learned about this by reading this forum. Where and when did everyone else learn this? And how many other site's fans were able to record votes before the news became widespread?

I'm not accusing anyone of being dishonest here...I'm just saying that because it looks and smells fishy, I'm not very excited about it this year.

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MAV: This is pretty much as good as it gets on TV.

I agree. Man, that GIMP scene on Legend of the Seeker was even longer and better than I expected. Thanks for posting that link, and thanks to "Mickey Mouse", whoever and wherever you are.

Also, kudos to Tabrith Bethell, the actress who made it happen. Her evolving character was the most interesting thing on the show this season. It's a shame there's only one episode left. I hope we get to see her do more GIMPage in some future venue.

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Today's Pic: A rack scene for Mother's Day? Awwww...you shouldn't have...it's just what I wanted! ;-)

As far as Sarah Butler, I recognized her right away from the picture link. She's already played the lead in a horror movie called Flu Bird Horror. She's cute enough, and did a decent acting job. And as far as John Galt's (where you been man ;-) mention about no nudity on her resume so far, she hasn't been in all that many projects as yet....and most of them have been for TV. So, she may surprise us (having wrote that, I haven't read her interview which may already state something to the contrary).

But yeah, the biggest thing I'm upset about is that we were told you could only vote for your favorites once in the entire 2-week voting period. I would have no problem with that...it seems like a fair, democratic way to do it...if that were actually the case. But as we've seen, nothing has changed from last year. You can still cast your ballot every day. Personally, I didn't realize it until near the end of the first week. I was in no hurry because I thought we could only vote once. If I had known we could vote multiple times, I would have started the first day and continued voting to the end. The way it occurred this year, I missed out on 5 days of voting, and presumably, so did many other readers of this site. With 88 initial nominees this year in our category, the competition was greater than it's ever been...and we were nearly a week late getting started. Did any other sites catch on earlier than we did about multiple voting? No doubt some did, some maybe didn't. But I do feel cheated either way.

And then there's the new final round, where a panel of judges will get their own votes on the top nominees. John originally stated that judges could not for their own site, but I just discovered that indeed, they can. Of course, they only get one vote, but it's the constant flip-flopping on the rules that has me irritated. There seems to be a certain casual looseness about the whole setup that gives me the impression that they're making stuff up as they go along.

Like I say, this should turn out to be a very interesting election. Win or lose, I'm just really curious about the results this year. If I were a betting man, I'd still put my money on the Luvbights sweeping the competition once more.

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MAV: Great tip on Legend of the Seeker. I agree, it was much longer and more GIMP-worthy than expected. Like the previous scene I saw that was posted here, the actress was indeed really hanging by her wrists, which I always dig. And then to have her tortured (especially in that final scene) was icing on the cake. Paulus mentioned that a lot of women have been raped on that series, too. I hardly ever watch TV, but it looks like I'll have to rent the series box set from Netflix when it comes out on DVD.

-She (starring Sandahl Bergman)

-Musketeers of the Sea

-Desert Warrior

-Reign of Terror, a.k.a. The Black Book

-Jess Franco's "The Demons"

-The Vengeance of Fu-Manchu (I think)

-Planet of the Apes (Tim Burton's version)

Having said that, my expectations for the remake are pretty low, but I'm always happy to be pleasantly surprised.

Occasionally, someone will get it right. There was Hostel 2, of course -- I didn't rank that one as highly as others, but I certainly appreciated the effort.

As well, I thought Rob Zombie's film, The Devil's Rejects, was an effective GIMP film. The scene with Priscilla Barnes being forced to strip and then pleasure Otis is one of my favorites.

I also thought the remake of The Hills Have Eyes was a pleasant surprise. To my way of thinking, the scene where the pretty mother is forced to let the mutant suck on her breasts (as the mutant points a gun at the mother's baby) surpassed anything I remember from the original film.

So there's always reason to hope.

I don't really care if the I Spit on Your Grave remake gets politically correct, and I can live with a reduced number of rape scenes. My fear is that whatever is shown will be done through all sorts of quirky camera jumps, so you can't really tell if you're watching a rape or an aggressive game of Twister. I hope I'm wrong.

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Well, I just saw Iron Man 2, which has no GIMP, but does feature Scarlett Johansson as The Black Widow wearing one of the most awesome super-heroine costumes ever (second only to Rebecca Romijn's Mystique from the X-Men flicks). And I noticed that porn newcomer Delila Darling bears a passing resemblance to Scarlett Johansson. Sort of. Or maybe it's just me. Here's Delila's web site (scroll about 1/3 of the way down to the picture where she's sitting in the shower in the rainbow-colored top for a good head--um, I mean, face shot) and here's a bunch of Scarlett Johansson pictures. Contrast and compare.

Steve Power has some excellent clips of Delila Darling in standard Powershotz bondage and sexual abuse situations (for those who like them). He even posted a free link on this forum to one of the better clips a month or so back that featured a bound Delila crying while being anally abused. Steve indicated to me that he has some more Delila Darling coming, but that she has moved on. And sure enough, I have found her on a few other sites, but nothing else with a BDSM flavor. Mostly just reality crap. If anyone finds her in another BDSM-themed web site or video, please let me know.

Anyway, Steve's latest DVD, Hoosier Daddy, features an all-Delila Darling tale of a prom night kidnapping that includes a delicious X-frame bondage and rape session. I haven't seen the DVD but I have downloaded the actionable clips. (I'm pretty sure, by the way, that the anal abuse clip Steve posted here is not on the Hoosier Daddy DVD. As far as I can tell, he has at least three DVDs worth of Delila scenes in all. He was nice enough to send me a couple of stills from scenes that haven't been posted on the Powershotz site yet. What a nice guy.)

So I have my sort-of Scarlett Johansson bondage porn lookalike to fantasize about. If I run across a Jessica Alba bondage porn look-alike I'll let you know, A Canadian.

This week’s makeover selections include:

The Collector (scene from the original)
Friday the 13th (scene from the original)
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The Pit & the Pendulum (scene from one of the predecessors)

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The Pit & the Pendulum? TP&TP is an updated, modern-day version of. And as far as Gimpage, non existent other than an opening scene of a little girl seated in a chair with her hands tied behind her back, and from back view only. So……(dramatic pause) Wrong answer!

As far as a movie this one has little to do, if anything, with the original. It’s about getting young athletes to come to an isolated estate under the guise of a program to enhance their performance. This one was a snoozer that you should avoid at all costs (IMO). It has the look and feel of one of those sexploitation flicks of the past, but w/o any nudity (of interest). Nothing remotely of redemption here other than possibly a pair of (meh) strangulations for asphyxia fans.

The Pit & the Pendulum trailer

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Friday the 13th? I guess the real question should be ….does Jason finally get Gimp? The answer….sort of. He keeps a girl chained because of her resemblance to his mother (I always knew he was a mamma’s boy). The scene is meh, as she is chained with her hands in front, so I can only give you a 1/16th of a correct answer for this one.

It does however have a possible scene of interest for BATS fans though, as a girl gets hung over a campfire while inside a sleeping bag. Sounds kinda meh (you’ll notice I’m using that word a lot as it is a new word I learned here ;-), but the camera cuts inside the bag as you see her reactions until the bag finally burns through, spilling the contents….a medium-rare camper.

A better effort than the originals in the series, however they still have a ways to go. I mean after all, he’s a young adult male who, I’m assuming still has a dick. But all he wants to do with nubile young hotties in various stages of undress is kill them. Are these killers ever gonna grow a set?!

Friday the 13th trailer

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The Collector? Correct answer!

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Mini mainstream review of The Collector

The Collector
The Collector trailer

I wasn’t really expecting too much from this one as re-makes usually turn out to be a let down, but I was pleasantly surprised. First, it has nothing to do with the original, and so the only thing the two have in common is the title. And second, this turned out to be a pretty good and very suspenseful horror flick.

The Collector is about a construction worker who needs to raise some money in a hurry because his wife’s loan-shark payment is way past due. The construction worker is himself of questionable character as he knows exactly who to contact and how to obtain the money.

With the owners of the house he’s recently been working on suppose to be out of town, he breaks in and attempts to get into the wall-safe. He soon discovers that he is not alone and that the house has booby-traps set all over the place. Set not for intruders, but to keep the inhabitants from getting out.

Gimp wise there are two scenes of some interest. The first one has the wife and mother who lives there handcuffed while lying in her bathtub. She is cleave-gagged and is duct-taped blindfolded. The scene creates some pretty nice visuals but….if she’s gonna be in a bathtub, lets get her dressed appropriately for it. She is however not nude but barefoot in a red dress.

Later the older daughter comes home and is captured after a nice little make-out session with her boyfriend. This scene had potential as while they were making out the Collector is spying upon them, pretty much licking his chops all the while. After she’s captured she gets restrained in an AOH by the staircase and has wire wrapped around her throat securing her there. The potential quickly goes down the drain as right when he starts to check out her body by lifting her shirt to peek at her breasts, he hears a noise and goes to check it out. Then of course in typical Hollywood fashion she gets rescued before he can get back and continue where he left off. And to totally kill all possibility of re-capture, she dies by tripping one of the booby-traps in her hurry to escape. So even though it seemed like we finally have a villain who’s got a set, he never gets a chance at her. Damn it Jim!

As entertainment, a very well made horror flick getting a solid grade of B+/A-

As Gimp, just so-so as a definite missed opportunity when the daughter gets killed goes down the tubes. At least it seemed like it was because the villain just didn’t get a chance, and not due to his total non-interest in naked or half naked girls like the villains in other horror movies. Grade a C

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And now on to the special reveal. Are you all ready as this lucky young lad gets the thrill of a lifetime, getting made over as his idol & hero. Ready?..........MOVE THAT BUS!…wait wrong show….oh here, just look. WOW! Now that’s one Gimpafide makeover!

I don't miss that search at all!

And, you know, the storyline of the original movie could be turned into an awesome GIMP flick. This movie just took the title and attached it to a completely different movie that gives new meaning to the term non-sequitur. Their next project will be a movie called The Rapist about a deranged killer who breaks into houses and steals Hummel figurines, but only the ones with little girls. Give me a break.

Friday the 13th is a series that has disappointed almost from the start, in my opinion. And I saw the first one in the theater as a first-run movie. Once again, you hit the nail on the head. If all Jason can do with nubile young female victims is kill them, we should just refer to him as Jason the Killer Eunuch.

And as far as The Pit and the Pendulum goes, I feel very strongly that the 1991 Stuart Gordon Full Moon Video version will never be outdone in terms of nudity, rape, brutality, disfigurement and GIMP. And Rona De Ricci, who disappeared from sight after that film, was so affecting as a victim. I didn't see anything in the trailer for this latest version to recommend it.

Besides, for all its schlock, I think the best GIMP get-together-a-bunch-of-attractive-young-people-in-a-spooky-house concept movie was Screaming Dead, with the inimitable Misty Mundae bound nude to an X-frame and slashed in one of three standout GIMP scenes. (I mention the Misty Mundae scene because (a) it was the only one of the three involving nudity, and (b) she is a GIMP goddess). Plus, this bad guy had the good sense to just get together a bunch of attractive female young people. That's what I'm talking about.

But thanks for the reviews. They are always entertaining and insightful.

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Joanne: I have to admit, I've never looked for erotica in e-book format. My opinion is that e-booking the contents of all those adult paperback books with the lurid covers might be an untapped market. Personally, I'm not sure the potential profit would surpass the investment necessary. For my GIMP dollars spent, I am more focused on video. I suspect I am not alone in that respect, if for no other reason than because it leaves both hands free.

A Google search for "erotica e-books" did turn up a few vendors with adult e-books titles. I didn't see anything like those sleazy paperbacks I remember so fondly, though.

If we ever get one of those, here are a few more scenes for the collection:

~ In Blitzkrieg a nazi interrogator takes a swastika-shaped branding irons and applies it to a bound woman's bare foot (hated the movie, but that scene may be of interest).

~ SS Hell Camp 5 - a chained woman gets whipped and then branded. No seared flesh is actually shown, but the build-up is very nice.

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LTL: Well, you got me there. I would've guessed that neither Friday the 13th nor The Collector would have any GIMPage. At least Jason knows to kill the hot girl after she takes her clothes off, which is an improvement over some slasher flicks.

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John Galt wrote: I don't really recall any rapes in the television series [Legend of the Seeker].

Yeah, I watched every episode and can't remember any. Torture, yes; rape, no.

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arrakur: Thanks for the link to that interesting site full of adult book covers. So far, this one is my favorite.

I couldn't go to my hometown video store and rent something, because I would have been recognized and probably dragged out into the street and burned at the stake... or something like that.

Now, when I'm in NYC I still go to my favorite stores (the ones that are still there) and I don't care as much. But I still prefer to shop online, it's just more convenient, reading reviews first, etc.

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My demonic spawn: Sorry, but makeover or no makeover, it makes no difference -- junior is a sorry excuse for a son.

Last year, I asked him to get me a nice rape movie for Father's Day. Instead, he sends me some gross thing about a woman having her eyeballs licked.

Seriously, of all the deadbeat dads in North America, I'm the only one who's been ordered by the courts to not make any child support payments.

gonzaullas wrote:

Glad to see the WSIMD page back again!! Are there plans to restore the electric torture scenes page, too? What about creating a "red hot iron" torture scenes page?

The electric shock database will eventually be back; right now the Torture Rack Scenes Database is next in queue, plus I've got more updates to do on the Whipping Scenes Database. I hope to eventually have quite a few more additions to add soon; I've got a whipping fan helping me out behind the scenes.

As far as a database devoted to burning with hot irons, well, I definitely like that idea. In fact, one devoted to any kind of burning scenes (hot irons, cigarettes, burning at the stake) would be awesome. Certainly, that's my favorite fetish and I could easily fill it with hundreds of entries, but here's the rub: there just aren't enough hours in the day for me to tackle that right now. I'm so far behind rebuilding the other 4 databases that I wouldn't want to take on another massive project until I'm done with the others.

You know, I admire the guys who took the time to come up with their respective lists (Kyle Shocker did the electro one, Oslo Netfetter created the whipping scenes database, Tony Wood was behind the torture rack list, and the rape lists were a combination of Jefferson James and another massive collection of movie titles I found on the net years ago) but to have one person try to juggle all 4 at once can be daunting. I think it's important that this resource information should be available on the net, though, so I'll keep fighting the good fight until I'm finished.

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John Galt: So nice to have you back. Delila Darling is a true Smokin' Babe. Definitely easy on the eyes. I recognize her from a few clips Steve posted here where she got attacked in one and anally abused in the other. And you say she's going to be bound and raped in Hoosier Daddy? I'm still not ready to take another chance on a Powershotz video until Steve changes some of his direction, but this one looks promising. Since you're our designated Powershotz reviewer, how about ordering it and writing up a review for the forum? We haven't done a Powershotz showcase here lately; I'm sure Steve would be willing to donate some pictures for the site.

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LTL: Thanks for bringing us our weekly fix of Which One Has The Gimp. As far as Extreme Makeovers go, you can't really improve on perfection, although even I admit I look pretty darn snappy in that cowboy hat.

And I've started a new winning streak. That's right, I nailed The Collector as the winning title from this week's batch; another lucky guess but a correct one and that's the only thing that matters. Still, after seeing the choices, I'm putting Friday the 13th in my Netfix queue instead based on the sleeping bag over the campfire scene. Hey, just doing research in case we add a new database one of these years :)

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

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Joanne: This site may not include any books from Star Distributors, but there's a bunch of complete books from Bondage House, who did some really hot stuff back in the day, and best of all, it's completely free. Look around the site; there may be more stuff there that's worthwhile. Here's the link: http://neatopotato.net/xnovel/category/Bondage-House/

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Jane von Detlefson wrote:

I couldn't go to my hometown video store and rent something, because I would have been recognized and probably dragged out into the street and burned at the stake... or something like that.

Really? Burned at the stake? Oh, that would be just awful. But really, I think you should go there and try it anyway. And make sure JJ is with you to shoot video. You know, just in case anything happens...

Nice artwork, Ralphus. A good choice, as RL is finally permitting me to work on the China Beach GIMP fanfic. More of those war themed artworks, if you could, please.

Last year, I asked him to get me a nice rape movie for Father's Day. Instead, he sends me some gross thing about a woman having her eyeballs licked.

LOL. Well maybe with the makeover he'll start to feel his Gimp heritage and get you something more Gimp appropriate upcoming Father's Day.

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Well done to those that got this week's WOHTG?! I thought for sure that The Pit & the Pendulum would be a very formidable (for lack of better term) decoy title.

I can sympathize with your time problems. I am myself pretty busy these days! However, when I got some time, I'll try to search for the compilation I made. If you're interested, I could email it to you. Best wishes, and sorry for my probable spelling errors (I'm Spaniard, and my English is quite poor).

[1] It's a bottle of Snot Remover -- he plans to fuck her nose later and doesn't want any obstruction. [2] Snot already removed. [3] That's actually a Phlegm Detector. You might think it should go on her head, but you would be wrong. [4] Who says the speculum has to go between her legs? Even with the snot removed, her nose is hardly big enough to accommodate his "throbbing manhood" without a little help!

Aren't you glad you asked?

what's in the IV......hmmmmm.....don't know but it certainly is a scene straight out of "Ilsa" which makes it good no matter what.

Back from an extended road trip with no computer so I head over to youtube and stumble across this little item completely by accident - looks like it may have Gimp potential - listed over at IMDB as in post production, no release date I could find.

Stay Well All

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With all the talk recently about how movie producers tend to totally screw up GIMP scenes, I've decided to take a different approach to writing a review. I also took a cue from LTL and have tried to include links to some stills I made using PhotoBucket for the first time. Bear with me if the stills (or the review) don't work.

An open letter to the makers of Madness (2009):

I thought you guys had the right intentions. Sure, the plot of your Swedish horror flick--deformed hillbillies kidnapping and torturing motorists in the backwoods--is nothing new, but it does offer a great opportunity for GIMP action. I was especially taken in by the lines in your synopsis:

Friends Jenna and Tara are on their way to a cheerleading contest. ... What they don't know is that they are being watched by a group of mad men. Their only intention is to hunt them down and kill them for all sorts of sadistic pleasure.

Cheerleaders? Mad men? Sadistic pleasure? Obviously, your movie is targeted at people like me who rather enjoy cheerleaders, mad men and sadistic pleasure.

But judging from the end result, I strongly advise that you read every chapter of the GIMP Handbook for Movie Producers. In fact, read it twice because you pretty much broke every important rule.

Failed GIMP scene No. 1: I was impressed that you guys wasted no time getting to the action. You start the movie off with an attractive woman tied arms over head and wearing a white negligee in a large shack in the wilderness. She's a bit bloody and there's a bulge in her stomach. A bulge? You have a visibly pregnant woman as the first victim?

I know some people might be into that sort of thing, but not me. However, the cardinal mistake you made is having the villain cut the ropes and then take his eyes off her. Why? Oh, I get it. So he can throw a knife into the back of the fleeing victim and then stomp on her bloated stomach. For the gore crowd, this might work. For this GIMPer, meh.

Failed GIMP scene No. 2: After their car crashes and they accept a ride from a guy who looks like a sleepy rat who hasn't bathed since the Reagan administration, Tara, Jenna and Oliver are tied hands in front and led to the villains' home.

Now here you guys really screwed up. I have seen some lame ties in my time, but what you did to these women is downright embarrassing. Their hands are loosely tied in front, and to keep them from running away, the rope is fastened to a ring on the FLOOR. Thankfully for you, the cheerleaders are rather dumb. They try burning the rope instead of, you know, maybe untying that stupid knot on the ring. Or maybe freeing themselves from the loose ropes around their wrists.

But you guys really sank to the depths of retardation with the next scene.

Guy In Merciless Peril: Another hillbilly rather easily ties/handcuffs Oliver in another room so he's bent over a table. And then Oliver is raped offscreen. Now this is just plain wrong. Why do you producers think that male rape is something that anyone wants to watch? Yes, it was terrifying in Deliverance, but that movie didn't have two cheerleaders in it, now did it? What the hell were you thinking? Get your priorities "straight!"

Failed GIMP scene No. 3: The women have given up on the burning idea and pull the ring out of the floor, but then the bad guys come back and gay rapist feels Tara's tits and snatch for a brief moment. OK. You guys are trying to redeem yourselves for the male rape scene, right? I guess not. The rapist shoots another male prisoner in the head and then leaves the room! This allows the women, still fiendishly tied to the ring that's now loose, to escape.

Failed GIMP scene No. 4: You have Tara taped wrists and ankles to a chair as the hillbilly beats the crap out of Chad. (Tara gets punched in the face once.) Jenna, meanwhile, is tied hands in front (sigh, won't you guys ever learn?) in a boat and tossed in the water with a large rock chained to her ankles. After holding onto the side of the boat for a while, she hits rock bottom. As does your movie. As does my interest in your movie. As does any hope of you guys offering any sadistic torture scenes in this movie.

But could I be wrong? An asphyxia scene using clear plastic? Yes! But wait. The victim is a male hillbilly.

Before we talk about what went so horribly wrong in terms of GIMP action, let's discuss some other major flaws in your movie.

According to the credits, only three of you did all the writing, directing, photography, etc. That's to be applauded. And I think you guys worked real hard on an obviously minuscule budget. But you had problems in:

Casting: Why do the so-called cheerleaders look as old as soccer moms? Especially Tara? You can be forgiven because they are attractive, but damn, I initially thought they were mother and daughter.

The Swedish elements: The movie is supposedly set somewhere near Minneapolis, but the gas station in the film is Swedish. And some of the license plates are obviously European.

Voices: Everyone in the movie has a Swedish accent. It's subtle but really comes out when they are shouting or swearing. That's not too big a problem, and maybe people in Minnesota talk like that (See Fargo.) But what was going on with the villains? They switch from English to Swedish (I think) and then spend the second half of the movie just screaming "AARGH! AARGH!" all the time.

Fight scenes: Did you stylize the hand-to-hand battles based on a fight between two nancy Swedish hockey players? These guys in the movie are supposed to be fighting for their lives, but they usually throw only love taps. More realism please.

Other questions about logic:

Now, some questions related to GIMP.

I'm afraid I have to give your movie a D for both film and GIMP scenes.

The bottom line is that you guys tried to make a GIMP movie without even knowing the basics. That type of approach is wrong-headed. It's insipid. It's confusing. It's ... it's ... it's ... Madness!

Thank you for your time.

Asian Cult Cinema

Thanks for the heads up on Hostage. That one looks promising.

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Brutus

Thanks for the very entertaining review of Madness! Too bad the movie turned out to be suckie. Not having seen the movie (yet...if ever) it still sounds like you were being very generous with a “D” grade.

I've actually had this movie for a few months but haven't been able to get myself to watch it. I started to at one point but thought the cheerleader outfits were totally ridiculous, as my reaction was the same as yours in that they both looked way too old to be.

I also really liked the captions you put on the stills....nice touch! Your choice of the still of the girls was a good one in that the one on the left looked totally vacant, LOL.

The opening line from the movie should have let me know it was a foreign movie: “Over 2000 people are reported missing everyday in the U.S. alone. Not everyone make it back safe.”

2000 people a day in the U.S. alone huh? That comes to 730,000 a year! That's damn near a moderately sized city going missing every year. But if all these missing people are those that can't find their ways free of lame-ass bonds like depicted in the movie.....we're probably better off anyway. ;-)

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Speaking of cheerleaders, though, I can review a Powershotz DVD called Pretty Little Profit, which involves the kidnapping and abuse of cheerleader Bobbi.

Pretty Little Profit (VL-043) (Powershotz, 2010)

We begin with Bobbi stripping naked in her room. She has a slender body, a high waist, magnificent just-the-right-size breasts, and a single small tattoo in the middle of her lower back. She admires herself in the mirror, turning this way and that to afford us a nice thorough look at her nude body. Then she dons her cheerleader outfit. There's some walking and stalking involved and before long she is pulled off on the side of a deserted road with truck trouble. Of course.

Bobbi's stalker slash kidnapper shows up and overpowers her. (The kidnapper looks very ethnic, and kind of reminded me of the kind of smarmy businessman you might have seen roaming the streets of Havana back before the revolution.) Kind of lame struggling and chloroforming ensue. I'm not so much a fan of the actual kidnapping action, so your enjoyment mileage may vary.

Bobbi ends up in his SUV. The guy fondles, gropes, and explores her, and then rope ties her hands and ankles and hogties her. More taunting and groping. Bobbi moans and whines a lot, even through the electrical tape gag that he applies. (You need to get used to the whining because she does it for the rest of the DVD.) We are treated to scenes of Bobbi rolling around and futilely struggling during the ride back to the kidnapper's lair. He chloroforms her upon arrival.

In the Lair, Scenario 1: Still in her cheerleader outfit, Bobbi is placed face down on a board supported by two sawhorses. Her neck is loosely chained to the board. Mr Havana feels her up as Bobbi weakly resists. He flogs her backside and crops the bottom of her tennis shoes, which is evidently more painful than the flogging. He rips off the tape gag and tells her to be quiet. Face slapping. Verbal taunting. Fingers in the mouth. (He tries to gag her with his thumb but it is too short. Foreshadowing, it turns out. He is able to gag her with his fingers, though.) Then he makes her recite her various measurements. He applies a cloth gag. More cropping.

At this point the action falters, which is bizarre because this is the oral sex part. It could be that the short Mr Havana has to haul over a wooden box to stand on to get his cock up high enough for Bobbi to suck it. It could be that when he tells her to ask for it, Bobbi says, "I want to suck your penis." Really? "Your penis?" Whatever. Penis sucking follows. And although you have no doubt perceived that I am not thrilled with Mr Havana, I will reinforce that perception by noting that his cock does not get hard at any point in this DVD. Mr Havana is also inept at tying and untying bonds, which becomes apparent during this scene. Finally, Bobbi's panties come down and we see her pussy as Mr Havana licks her and finger fucks her. Bobbi's pussy is definitely fuckable, and although the flaccid Mr Little Havana makes an appearance, he does not go spelunking.

In the Lair, Scenario 2: Bobbi is untied, in her cheerleader outfit, on her knees. Mr Havana stands her up and makes her undress while he watches, and occasionally crops her. (Continuity error: Bobbi is wearing a different scrunchy on her ponytail and different panties.) Mr Havana ties Bobbi's hands (in front) to the wooden stock-looking device against which Bobbi is standing. Bobbi is cloth gagged again. Then Bobbi's naked body is fingered, slapped, spanked, cropped, flogged (hard and a lot), and generally abused. Her breasts look especially nice hanging down when she leans forward. This is really an excellent scene.

In the Lair, Scenario 3: Bobbi is handcuffed AOH, still gloriously nude, and ballgagged. Her knees and ankles are ziptied together very tightly. She is finger fucked, spanked, groped, and flogged (hard, a lot and all over, including her full and shapely breasts). Then she is taken down and laid on the floor, then cuffed AOH on her knees for more cropping and abuse. Mr Slightly-More-Turgid Little Havana makes another appearance, as does the box to bring Mr Little Havana up to Bobbi's mouth height, and penis sucking commences.

In the Lair, Scenario 4: Bobbi is on her hands and knees, ballgagged, on a bench to which her wrists are cuffed, with her knees apart. Mr Havana is fucking her and pulling her ponytail, but you just know he can't pull her back hard enough to penetrate deep enough to do a number on her. Poor Mr Havana. But he does stick his thumb up her ass while he's fucking her, so points for that. And Bobbi does look awesome from the front, bouncing forward with each thrust. The fucking goes on for quite a while and the ballgag comes out halfway through so we can hear her ask to be fucked. Damn. And at the end, he makes her suck his cock as he "comes" in her mouth.

In the Lair, Scenario 5: The final scene has Bobbi naked on the floor. She is bound again using rope, cloth gagged, groped and cropped, fingered and spanked, abused in miscellaneous ways, re-dressed in her cheerleader skirt, and locked in a wooden box. The end.

Bobbi is of indeterminate age. She could be a cheerleader, but she could also be in her early- to mid-20s dressing up as a cheerleader. She gets points for the long bangs and pulling her hair into a ponytail, though. She sold me. She is a dark-haired beauty with smooth skin and a supple body, and it was exciting watching her being stripped and abused. Mr Havana detracted a little bit. Still, the DVD lasted almost 2 hours, and Bobbi's ordeal was highly entertaining.

This is standard Powershotz fare, which I like, but I know others do not. One of the things I absolutely love about Powershotz productions is when the model is subjected to something she wasn't quite expecting and we get to see an authentic response. Bobbi was not subjected to anything like that, although it looked like she called a halt to the hard flogging once or twice. Even so, this was a nice little kidnap, abuse and rape story, with Bobbi being subjected to a wide variety of abuses for extended lengths of time. I would give this a really strong C+.

In the interest of full disclosure, I need to mention that the scene I linked in the first paragraph showing Bobbi being forced to suck cock in the cheerleader outfit was not on this DVD. Steve apparently has a lot of Bobbi in that outfit that didn't make it onto this DVD, which was a minor disappointment to me because I bought it hoping to see her anal abuse scene and it also didn't make the cut. Maybe Mr Havana is going to take her out of the box and we'll get to see Pretty Little Profit, Part Deux.

Pretty Little Profit is available at the Powershotz DVD Store for $45.00.

Maybe I can help cheer everyone up with a review of a movie that actually delivers. (See below). Thanks to all those who provided tips about using VLC to make screen caps, and to Ralphus for cleaning up after me.

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Nun Story: Frustration in Black (1980)

The convent as a den of iniquity is a popular theme of European nunsploitation flicks, but the Japanese hold their own in this genre. Nun Story is a good example. Although my copy was entirely in Japanese without subtitles, I found it entertainingly mean-spirited and – due to the fine performances throughout – it was not hard to follow most of the story. GIMPwise, it features two stand-out whippings, two rapes and one ball gagging. There’s also plenty of nudity and consensual sex.

As the movie opens, Sister Maria (played by cute and appealing Eri Kanuma) is taking her vows to enter the penguin sorority. Immediately things start going to hell. First, her beloved but aging Mother Superior (“Mata”) becomes gravely ill. The new head nun is younger, but meaner and more corrupt. Her first night in the coop, Maria discovers a young nun down the hall, kneeling on the floor of her cell, topless and flogging herself. Then two of her three roommates keep her awake with their snogging. And she spies another nun diddling herself and getting wet. Her third roommate seems unable to hold down her breakfast. Yep, she’s pregnant, and in a convent that just won’t do. She must be punished.

In the film’s first whipping scene in the movie, the wayward sister is dragged down to the dark basement by a group of black-hooded nuns and chained AOH with her white robe pulled down below her navel. I like the way this scene is set up: first we see only the chains being hoisted, then her wrists attached to them, then her head and finally her breasts appear in the picture. There are both long shots and close-ups as they commence the whipping, mostly on the front of her body. They also force her to drink water out of an urn (perhaps holy water?). Next they pull her dress down, then her panties, and walk around her slowly, each one taking a whack at her back and ass with a whips. Throughout, the actress’ reactions are excellent - screaming, writhing and twisting as her body glistens in the harsh contrast of glaring light and deep shadow.

But it’s not over yet. They strap her down to a table and use candles to give her a hot wax treatment. (No, I don’t know why they did this). Finally, one of them takes a flexible, sharpened rod (bamboo perhaps) and inserts it between her legs. What happens next is not graphically shown, but the young woman’s screams signal that the convent’s problem has been solved.

Sister Stella is randy and free-spirited, not the usual nun material. She sneaks over the wall, aided by three doofuses (doofi?) in a van. They are “friends with privileges who gladly help Stella out of her cumbersome clothes, then play a game similar to rock-scissors-paper to see which one gets to boff her first. Stella polishes off all three of them (one at a time) and enjoys it all. Slut.

Meanwhile Maria has been given leave to go visit Mata in the hospital, and takes off in her scooter. Stella and the doofi spot her riding by and decide to follow. Coming back from her visit, Maria stops at a secluded spot for a moment of reflection. The doofi give chase and tackle her in some tall grass. After a fierce struggle and several ‘yametes’ from Maria, the doofi finally get her panties off and her blouse open. Each of them gets a turn with her as Stella watches at a distance, drinking and smirking.

Stella tries to sneak back into the convent but is discovered. So they throw her in the basement, shackle her hands and feet, and slip on some kind of ball-gag-cum-face-harness. When they finally let her loose, Stella announces that she’s fed up with the whole nun gig and walks out the gate in her civilian clothes. She doesn’t get far before she’s surrounded by black-hooded nuns, who pursue her to the edge of a cliff, from which she falls and is dashed on the rocks below. That answers the question of why these nuns just don’t get up and leave this wretched place.

Meanwhile, Maria is praying in the chapel when she is approached by the young priest who often visits (and often boinks the new head nun). After a brief conversation, he jumps her and wrestles her to the chapel floor. Despite her struggling, he manages to get one hand in her panties and work through all those layers of clothing to her tits. He humps her and abandons her on the carpet.

Maria’s roommate (pretty sure it’s the same nun who was pregnant) discovers Maria in the chapel. She hands Maria a note and strongly suggests that she fly the coop and get help from her lover on the outside. When the head nun and her paramour priest discover that Maria is missing, they decide to torture the roommate for information on her whereabouts.

The nun and priest chain her AOH and wail away at her with cat-o’-nines. This is a great scene: the girl’s body is stretched tight, her white robe pulled down below her navel. She’s soaked with sweat that reflects the candlelight. Her torso has several welts but she’s not a bloody mess. She won’t give them the information they seek, even as they assail her from all sides. Once again, the actress’ reactions are terrific – squirming, flinching and grimacing perfectly. The frustrated priest loops his whip around her neck and savagely pulls her toward him, berating and threatening her, but she remains resolute. So they commence the whipping again. The priest is especially adept at this, swinging the cat like a ninja with nun-chucks. (Sorry). He pulls on her hair and threatens her some more, but she seems strangely silent. Uh-oh, she has become completely non-respondent. But this is a lengthy and superb whipping scene.

Well, I won’t give away the rest of the story – there is more violence, but no more GIMPage.

Movie plusses: Well-done whipping scenes, very good performances and an engaging (but bizarre) story. Pretty good production values.

Movie minuses: Some of the scenes were too darkly lit (probably a bad transfer to DVD). No subtitles (not really necessary, but it would have been great to know what the sassy and snarky Stella was saying – her facial expressions were very amusing). The rape scenes were pretty intense, but I would like to have seen more clothes-ripping and skin-revealing. The first whipping scene could have benefitted from more close-ups and fewer long-distance shots.

Overall, I liked this movie and I’ve watched it more than a few times. There is a pervasive meanness to the proceedings, and the whipping scenes are among the best I’ve viewed in a mainstream movie. My grade: B-.

Shocking Videos

I was particularly disappointed after I opened the link to the pictures on the Asian Cult Cinema site, and fully understood the opportunities that had been missed. What a shame.

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John Galt: Now that you're back, you've quickly gone to work reminding the rest of us that we're a bunch of slackers. Man, Ralphus has got to be impressed with how quickly you responded to his call for a Powershotz review. I don't think men are particularly intimidated by Ralphus (not even hillbillies), so I'll assume you were eager to answer the call. Well done.

Brutus: Nobody skewers a bad movie better than you do, because even though your reviews are often hilarious, they're also right on target with honest observations of the clueless tripe that passes for mainstream GIMP entertainment these days. It makes you wonder if some of these filmmakers "get it" or whether they're just doing it because movies featuring tied-up women make money. At least the creator of one of the promo pics you linked to on the Asian Cult site was smart enough to gag one of the girls, so maybe he knew more than the people who actually made the film. Really, the bondage in those stills is laughingly bad, and if you can't do that right, it's not likely the rest of the movie will redeem itself.

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

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John Galt: Speaking of reviews, when was the last time we read a new John Galt review? It had to be sometime last year, before your disappearance. The rash of postings and now a new review speaks in capital letters that you're back...with a vengeance, baby! As for the movie, it sounds like typical Powershotz fare, which for me means lots of promise and likely disappointment that it's probably not mean enough, although I'll admit that Bobbi makes a very appealing victim. Who doesn't love bound cheerleaders? I also dig the premise of locking her in a box at the end; I've always liked that concept.

Get with me before you do another review and we'll see if we can punch it up with photos, either within the text or at the top of the site as the daily pic. I'm looking forward to seeing Delila raped.

Your link is here: http://ralphus.net/reviews/powershotz/pow_prettylittleprofit.htm

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YikYakker: Finally, a movie I've seen that I can comment on. Pretty much all the classic Nikkatsu films had at least one or two good scenes that made them worthwhile; for me, it was the hot candle wax scene and the second whipping. I think a grade of B- is right on target. It is too bad that apparently the only place to find most of these great Nikkatsu titles is through a bootleg site like the one you linked to. My print (acquired through a collector) was similarly dark. I wish Japan would print off brand new mint DVDs of these movies for today's generation, because I would be more inclined to order them if I knew the quality would be better. You never really know what you're going to get, otherwise.

The direct link to your review is http://ralphus.net/reviews/japan/jap_nunstory.htm

Thanks again to all three of you guys for taking the time to write up reviews for the forum. Lurkers, if you like what you read, it doesn't take long to post your appreciation to the forum. These guys only pay is when someone takes the time to say thank you.

Hey, I got me a Wii and I got me a Netflix streaming disk. Anyone know of any good GIMP movies that may be available on the Wii's streaming service?

Hey you all, check out my new signature. Reading some of the movie reviews posted lately, gave me an idea. It seems like most movie makers who try to do GIMP movie learned how to do so while following these steps.

How to become a GIMP movie maker...
1) Open head...
2) Remove Brain...
3) Unscrew burned-out light bulb from nearby light fixture...
4) Screw burned-out light bulb into head...
5) Open nearby trash bin...
6) Toss brain in trash bin...

This is actually not the first time Aurora has done BDSM. She appeared on FuckingDungeon with her asshole boyfriend/pimp almost exactly 2 years ago in a very rough bondage sex shoot that was fine until he started pounding on her back with his closed fists. Dickhead. You know, there are ways to do rough sex and there are ways not to.

Anyway: Aurora Snow BDSM Appearance Alert!

Thanks for the nice review of Pretty Little Profit. Bobbi looks pretty nice.

And also, thanks for the Aurora Snow info. She's definitely a hottie!

As far as your mention of Amber Rayne, she's been turning up at a few places of late for some very Gimpible subject matter, including a 4-man gang-rape/snuff-ending clip.

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Yik Yakker

Very nice work on Nun's Story! Looks like an interesting view.

And wrote:

......and to Ralphus for cleaning up after me.

I hope that meant about the review....and not the excitement you had for the movie (Yeeeeeeee ;-)

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TGG Got a Wii huh? I got an idea.....everybody's heard about the Wii Fit right? Well how about a Gimp Wii Fit Disc where your physical actions determine the Gimp action on-screen. There would be different characters you could play as....different victims to choose from. There could be add-on for famous characters like Jane, Amber Rayne,.....even Ralphus.

I can see it now.....Ralphus Gimping his favorite type of victims. ;-)

You've probably heard of the urge of couples to have their wives getting laid. Most women have the fantasy of getting raped by complete strangers.There's a special (and popular!) club in Eastern Europe where they're setting up such situations and were most of the women don't even know! Of course the men are aware of it and are usually taping it themselves:)

Don't expect a superb quality of these movies as they're all amateur tapes but it's thrilling to see how their wives are getting laid!

Although the last part of that gives cause for pause.

I'd love to hear any feedback from anyone who has already taken the plunge.

Brutus - I saw "Madness" pop up at Asian Cult about a month ago - thanks for confirming my suspicions on that one - had this haunting fear I would be in for another major disappointment - in any case, well played review.

John Galt - so at least we get a better cheerleader effort from our friend Steve - that should even things out for the day - good review man.

YikYakker - like Ralphus, "Nun Story" is one I've seen and agree with your assessment - my copy too is very dim in places so it would appear to be a copy flaw regardless of the source - thought that second whipping scene very strong and the movie highlight - thanks for your effort.

LTL - clicked your link for "still of the girls" - for a moment there I thought I was viewing those bubble head bimbos being interviewed by Francis McDormand in "Fargo" - with those glazed, clueless expressions one can only imagine what the dialogue must be like.

TGG - reading over your list it would appear the makers of "Madness" had already discovered your formula.

Now with all this cheerleader stuff going on I feel an irresistible impulse to go view "House of 1000 Corpses" and "The Devil's Rejects".

Stay Well All

I've seen Nicheclips mentioned here on the board many times, but never cared much for their stuff. I have taken the time to visit some of their stores and take a look at some of their clips. However none of it has felt like anything I would be interested in. Practically every clip description I have read seems to include death as part of the plot, which is a major turn-off for me.

The "XRG Studios" store LTL linked to seems promising. I have already taken a look at the description for the sole clip currently available and don't see the mention of death (yet). I may look into this in more detail and maybe even by a clip later. Anyone know if Nicheclips carries anything in any of the stores that doesn't include death as part of the plot?

There are simply too many stores to look through and trying to find something that doesn't include death (if it even exists) feels like looking for a needle in a haystack, a haystack that's the size of the solar system that is...

How to become a GIMP movie maker...
1) Open head...
2) Remove Brain...
3) Unscrew burned-out light bulb from nearby light fixture...
4) Screw burned-out light bulb into head...
5) Open nearby trash bin...
6) Toss brain in trash bin...

John Galt: I'm glad you're back and doing reviews. Even if I never get the see the movies, I enjoy your write-ups.

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Ralphus wrote: It is too bad that apparently the only place to find most of these great Nikkatsu titles is through a bootleg site like the one you linked to.

You know, I was not aware when I ordered the vid that the retailer was not on the list of GIMP-recommended vendors. Guess I'll need to check that next time. Geez, you're right, that's the only place I was able to find it...thought I'd stumbled on the motherlode of GIMPage videos.

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Another interesting whipping scene occurs in the movie Chain Gang Girls, as seen in these pics from the Asian Cult Cinema site. (By the way, the movie's English title is inappropriate - there are no chain gangs in evidence). The whipping is set up when a group of girls is taken to the basement of a prison for punishment because a wire was found hidden in the bedding of one of them (they live dorm-style, five to a room). The girls are chained up wearing only their panties while the warden walks among them, spouting things I don't understand and randomly selecting each of them to hit with a cane to punctuate his remarks. It's a pretty tense scene, because none of the girls knows whether she will be the next to get caned. This is the best part of the movie, IMO.

BTW, Asian Cult Cinema advertises this as the unrated edition, which is probably not the version I saw.

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Regarding today's pic, Ralphus wrote: I don't know who the Hun is, but I like the way he operates

Ralphus is probably aware, as are many of you (but I'm gonna tell you anyway), that "Hun" is a term of disparagement used during World War I in reference to the German Empire in general, and German soldiers in particular, and even more specifically to Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor of the German Empire during that period. The pointy helmets reinforce the reference to that war, since they fell out of use before World War II. (Wonder when this book cover was done?) They came back into popularity among nefarious motorcycle riders during the 1960's.

The original "Huns" were invaders of the eastern perimeter of the Roman Empire in ancient times. So fearsome (and feared) were they that they were viewed as a omen of the end of civilization. In other words, the "Hun" is the antithesis of everything good and decent about humanity.

OK, sorry for boring you all with that history lesson...just thought I'd clear that up.

Anyone know if Nicheclips carries anything in any of the stores that doesn't include death as part of the plot?

There are a few actually. Off the top of my head:

Bound & Abused (the older ones, page 5 or 6 or so)
Evangeline von Winter
Kidnap & Abuse Fantasies
Garwood Media
Powershotz

There are probably a dozen or so others. From the above the only one I've seen anything from is Powershotz so can't vouch if any are any good.

There is also CF-Girls which is a sleepy/cloro site if you're into that sort of thing. Personally I'm not but still check out the store every once in a while since they've got some super cute models. Their sister-site is Dark Heart Horror that I've checked out a clip or two from. Even though DHH has some pretty cute models, unfortunately some of the ones I've really got the hots for haven't made it over to that side of the niche.

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John Galt: Yes, it's great to have you back. I loved your descriptions of Mr. Havana's problems in Pretty Little Profit. Bobbi is certainly quite appealing, but I think the weak villain would ruin the fun for me.

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YikYakker: That was an outstanding review of Nun Story: Frustration in Black. This movie looks like it delivers, even though I'm not that much into nun flicks. Leave it to the Japanese to get it right.

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You know, I have incredible respect for Amber Rayne, but I am beginning to think she doesn't know how to say "enough." Every time I see her in a bondage sex or rough sex situation, instead of screaming and crying, she is shouting "faster! harder! deeper!" It is a little off-putting. I can't picture her as a victim, which is very frustrating. Although I am not a fan of the "snuff" themed clips, I'm halfway convinced she probably dies willingly, getting one last orgasm in right before expiring. Not my idea of hot. I prefer my victims to be screaming and unwilling. (And, you know, not dying.) But the girl has stamina.

Nonetheless, I would recommend keeping an open mind when it comes to movies that feature death. One of the PKF movies I reviewed a while back, for instance, was Basement Schoolgirl, a title I liked a lot. It features beating, bondage, gagging, rape, electrical shock and forced oral. And yeah, the last 5 minutes or so she gets strangled, but so what? If that's not your thing, don't watch the ending. If you turned the DVD off before that happened, you'd probably think you just saw a really good movie.

Not every film is perfect, not every scene is guaranteed to turn your crank, but if it has enough good stuff in it, does it really matter if she dies in the end? Just remember, the actress is still very much alive. It's all just fantasy, and I refuse to believe that an hour long movie is not worthwhile if the first 55 minutes are great but the last 5 happen to include a death scene.

Quite a while back, Ralphus wrote:

My fantasies are more based in reality. I want to see something I can believe. I don't believe in super heroines, so if I saw Samantha Jo wearing a costume and a cape, I wouldn't have even ordered it. But I do like several of the torments that she was supposed to experience in the film (like shocking and burning), so I made my purchase. And even though I'm a fan of adding effects to increase the visual experience, I just didn't expect them to look so over-the-top. I didn't believe them. Fantasy blown.

If I were making that movie and had been in charge of the effects, it would have looked different. Bottom line is I didn't. The movie turned out the way you liked it, not the way I like it. But the next one I order will probably be better. I'm rarely let down by PKF. I trust John will deliver the goods most of the time.

Actually, I agree with you about the super heroine thing, though as we both know, there are a whack load of people who just eat that stuff up -- so it's quite possible we are the minority who don't get it. I can understand why the over-the-top effects spoiled the experience for you, but I offer no apologies, as that is what I requested from John and he delivered what I wanted.

Where I lose you is when you say "the next one I order will probably be better " and "John will deliver the goods most of the time", which implies that he does not do "better" work or "deliver the goods" when you are unhappy with the clip. Please understand that just because you or anyone else is dissatisfied with the content of a video, that does not necessarily mean it's a fail.

If you had said, "John will deliver the goods *I enjoy* most of the time", I would agree 100%. The reason I order customs is that so little of what is released meets my own expectations. Others are more fortunate, as there do appear to be certain themes and elements which are more popular among the community. If a lot of what is released appeals to you, then consider yourself lucky. Those of us with more eclectic and unusual preferences either wait longer to be satisfied and/or order custom material.

LTL wrote:

The point I was trying to make is that I don't think it would take anymore time or effort in trying to make a setting as realistic as possible.

That's true, depending on the setting of course. However, after ordering almost two dozen custom productions, I've learned that you cannot escape the producer's influence, no matter what is or is not in the original script. If you submit a bare-bones outline and take too much for granted, the producer may not fill in the blanks to your satisfaction (e.g., using a "realistic as possible" set). Too much detail, and it all becomes unmanageable for a no-budget production. None of my customs were completely disappointment-free, but the better ones were still a joy to receive. All I can say is that if you set your sights too high and expect producers to make inferences on your behalf, you most likely will not be satisfied with a custom video.

As far as Sexual Meurders 4. It's from a new company (at least to me). Never seen any of their stuff but this one in particular looks pretty good from the stills, mainly because of the hot looking blond with the killer body.

Kinky Love Story actually has been running since the beginning of the year and has released about 30 clips, so they are really not new anymore. They've got a pretty diverse catalog, mainly asphyx, but they also have non-fatal sleepy scenes and even a bit of blood and gore. There are both outdoor and indoor settings, and some clips with and some without bondage. Full, partial and no nudity are all represented, too. I've purchased a few of their vids, including Sexual Murders 4, and have been impressed with the variety of material.

Yet, none of what I bought from KLS has made it to my top 10%, but there are still a few things to recommend these clips. Technically, they are well produced. The image is wide-screen and very sharp; colors are rich, and the photography and editing are surprisingly competent. Sexual Murders 4 is in HD, which looks great, but unfortunately does not play well with my vid-cap option… so no pics this time (but the grabs on LTL's link will show you all you need). Most importantly, the girls are consistently hot, among the most attractive you'll find on Nicheclips. It's hard to know for sure, but this seems to be a European outfit -- and on the whole, I find overseas producers attract some of the most comely talent.

On the down side, the file sizes (especially the early productions) are unreasonably huge. The cameraman sometimes plays the perp, leading to static (tripod-mounted) and poorly framed shots when both the guy and girl are onscreen simultaneously. Also, the clips I bought have no dialogue, and the set-ups are all limited to unimaginative stalker scenarios. Without more interplay between victim and killer, it's hard for me to get excited about these videos. And finally, a common complaint: the actresses hardly react to the abuse they must endure. In Last Drop of Blood, the killer slices up his victim with one of those $2.50 joke knives, and the girl, though obviously conscious, just lies there as if asleep.

Sexual Murders 4 is probably the best of the KLS clips I have purchased so far, but it's nowhere near perfect. The blonde victim is a knock-out, so you might forgive her those quail breasts and lack of genuine terror. The "plot" is not all that original, but offers more than the usual fare. We watch our lovely heroine exercise in a bucolic meadow for about 3 minutes while being stalked by the typical ski-mask wearing, anonymous perp. He closes in… She runs… and we have a very nice chase scene for another three minutes. Once caught, she is stripped of her flimsy tank-top and tied, arms spread wide to a rusty metal structure, still wearing her pink shorts. The bondage here is passable, but her resistance is not all that credible.

She is tortured with a rather wide garrote, while simultaneously having her nipples licked by the perp. I know, this makes no sense at all, but I suppose it may be arousing to some. Things get a bit better when the girl's shorts are pulled off and we can appreciate her enticing - though somewhat skinny - bod in all its glory. The alternate fondling and garroting goes on for eight minutes while on the soundtrack we hear about 20 aircraft fly overhead. Our hapless victim gasps and writhes a bit, but does not seem all that concerned about her predicament.

Finally, the perp administers a few tugs on the garrote, and while Blondie is in mid struggle, the screen goes black and we are treated to an inter-title which states "Game Over". The next shot is of our still living victim struggling in slow motion as the camera pans in for a close up of… her left forearm! Next shot: she lies crumpled and expired on the ground. We actually do not get to see the moment of death - which will be a major disappointment for many viewers. The final few minutes show our dead heroine positioned doggy-style on some stone steps while being explicitly necro-fucked. For those wondering why she is untied during the rape, well… it's because she's a corpse at this point.

Overall, Sexual Murders 4 had a lot of potential, especially as the production values are good, the actress is delectable, there is hardcore necro action, and it unfolds in multiple outdoor settings. But this could have been so much better with just a bit more effort. At best, it rates a C.

As far as your mention of Amber Rayne, she's been turning up at a few places of late for some very Gimpible subject matter, including a 4-man gang-rape/snuff-ending clip.

Amber Rayne has made several snuff clips for Psychothrillers and GruesomeHorror, all available on Nicheclips. The PT videos are relatively recent, so those following Niche are probably aware of them. GruesomeHorror, who is not a well-known producer on the site, released some Amber clips back in 2008. If you can get past the armpit hair (a GH trademark), the first of these, Insane Convict, is actually a decent clip (especially if you like electroshock scenes, staple gun torture, and barbed wire bondage). If you don't care for snuff endings, take heart in the villain's final statement which leaves the outcome kind of ambiguous. Though Amber sure looks like a goner in her final scene, the clip description says she is "almost dead".

GIMP Poll:

Is the thrill of the hunt for films and finding those undiscovered scenes the same as it used to be, does it still generate the same level of excitement as it used to now that it takes a few clicks and a few minutes in comparison to the hours of driving from store to store?

I do not miss the many hours I spent hunting down GIMP scenes in rental stores.

Granted, once such stores began popping up, the process of finding worthwhile material improved a hundred-fold compared to the days before home video arrived. In the 1970's I sat in fleabag grindhouses (4 shows for $3.50!) watching badly scratched prints of third-tier kung fu flicks, Italian peplums and Doris Wishman soft-core abominations… only to find out that Wanda the Sadistic Hypnotist was not at all what I expected it would be. Fast forwarding is not an option in a movie theatre, so I often sat through 5 or 6 hours of complete shite to emerge out the darkness with not a thrill to remember. And remembering the one quick glimpse of anything GIMP-like was the most you could hope for in those days. No replays, unless you were willing to sit through another cycle of this tripe to catch a single brief scene.

So video stores were a blessing, right? Yes, but no less time-consuming, and no less frustrating. There was still the embarrassment of being caught publicly indulging in your perversions. It took a lot more brainwork and skulking about to find possible candidates, and there was just as little assurance that what one rented actually would deliver what was promised on the box cover. Over almost 20 years, I amassed 19 compilation tapes of my favorite GIMP scenes - about 2 hours of footage a year. Now, I can easily gather that much new material in a month, and I never have to leave my study. Sorry, it's like asking a physicist if he's nostalgic for the days when calculations were made with a slide rule.

Joanne wrote:

Would anyone of you fellow Gimpers possibly know if the old books from Star Distributors (e g the War Horrors books; see link above) are avaliable anywhere for download?

Oh wow… I never imagined these would end up online, but in time I suppose everything does. Just seeing the covers brings back lots of memories. Star Distributors had dozens of BDSM series (including some that were illustrated by DeMulatto), but the War Horrors books were as over-the-top as anything available at the time - assuming you got lucky.

Not every title was extreme, but some were degenerate beyond belief. I still have six of the books on Joanne's link, and a few others not listed there. Red Harlots, for example is quite tame, but Defiled by the Nazi Dogs… well, I just wouldn't know where to begin. Perhaps I should transcribe an excerpt… anyone interested?

What blows me away is that people are paying over $100 for these nasty beasts. They really did cost just a couple of bucks when they were originally available. I think I first saw them at paperback stores (not just porn shops either) in the late 1970's. I recall they were released in sets of four, and if you were lucky, you would find a new batch every year or so. I don't recall seeing them after 1984. I'm glad I hung on to those I bought. Combined, they could be worth $1000!

Now I'm wondering if some of the other rarities in my hardcopy S&M porn collection are in this league. I could still kick myself for tossing out about 400 Fumetti books when I moved 7 years ago. They are selling online now for $30 to $50 a piece. Sadly, I only have about 20 of them left.

In any case, like Joanne, I would love to see the full text of the War Horrors series put online as PDF books. Maybe the individual(s) who purchased them will do a good deed for us.

To pay $100 for one of these books, well I guess it's not the porn in them that makes people pay so much but as always, collectors are collectors and they pay for the book in itself so to speak. I just want the porn so two bucks is ok for that but not more. :-)

Thanks for taking the time to give us the lowdown on Kinky Love Story and review of Sexual Murders 4. Sounds like a mixed-bag with definite room for improvement.

And wrote of GruesomeHorror:

If you can get past the armpit hair (a GH trademark), the first of these, Insane Convict, is actually a decent clip (especially if you like electroshock scenes, staple gun torture, and barbed wire bondage).

I've actually brought up GruesomeHorror a while back, mentioning The Birch Ashtray (along w/the Amber stuff). I liked everything I saw from the stills.....except, the pit hair. Ultimately it was a pass because of that.

The one I really wanted to see was Wire Truth because of the water-boarding scene. But put it off since the $40.00 price seemed a little high to me since most everyone else prices their clips in the $15-$25 range. I know if you can afford multiple customs, that probably doesn't seem much, but to the rest of us working stiffs it's the difference between picking up 2, 3, or even 4 clips from someone else, to just that one.

I'd love to know some of the customs that you've ordered. Would you care to give a list (full or partial)? I'd appreciate it.

Have any of you seen Dismal? TARL just put up a few caps. You know hotties chained up AOH make my spidey sense go nuts, so wanted to ask if anyone knew of anything occurs besides the taunting scenes that appear on the caps at TARL and at the movie site above.

Separately, I'm still surprised the recent Legend of the Seeker scene wasn't talked about much on this board. I expected limited if any commentary on brianspage since those guys are all gag snobs that bust a nut if a woman puts her hand over her mouth to sneeze, but thought more would be said here.

Dismal was one of the choices of an early installment of WOHTG? back in December. You had mentioned wanting to check it out at the time. And I thought my memory was bad being an insomniac ;-)

But speaking of memory, I really don't remember too much about it other than the AOH scene was fairly long. Nothing else Gimpwise that I remember other than what was mentioned.

Yeah, I am too. This was an outstanding GIMP scene and I posted a heads-up a week in advance. Guess that's why the series is being canned...not enough interest. Well, that and the odd time slot.

Dismal certainly has some cute babes in the cast.

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LTL: Since your memory is much better than mine (even after I get a full night's sleep), do you recall whether Reborn was among your GIMPless wonders? Looks like it has potential, but maybe it's just another blood-fest.

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Here is a recent opinion about Mary Beth Buchanan's political aspirations. I don't know whether she or her opponent for the Republican nomination is worse, but the winner of the primary will face the incumbent Jason Altmire in the fall. Altmire, a Democrat, is on the hot seat for his vote against the Obama Health Care bill and for disappointing those who voted for him. So the seating of MBB in the U.S. Congress is certainly within the realm of possibility.

Actually I’ve never even heard of Reborn. Looks like it has potential, including an ethnic looking actress that may have some jhlipton appeal. Don’t know about that villain though. Check it out.

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John Galt: I hear what you're saying about the torture scene in Legend of the Seeker. As I watched it, I wished that someone had taken a blade or scissors and cut that outfit down to size a bit. It was like the one that Jessica Marais wore in a similar scene from an earlier episode (around the :35 mark of this vid). But I thought Tabrett Bethell had better abs.

We've often had discussions about which type of victim is better, a tough girl or a weepy innocent. Everyone has his own preference, although I can go either way, depending on the context and how it's pulled off. The character was one who was evolving from a heartless assassin to one who actually had a semblance of a soul, so I was interested in seeing which facet would emerge during torture, the tough girl or the more vulnerable one.

I grade a lot of Steve Power's stuff a bit differently, I have come to realize. I kind of rate his clips against each other (although I do have a weakness for some of his models). Still, it is important for me to reiterate that his clips and DVDs are pure kidnapping, bondage, torture and rape/sex from beginning to end. It is not a 45-second snatch from the middle of a larger mainstream film, or a best-you-can-hope-for AOH bondage torture scene from a television show. Some Powershotz stuff is better than others, but it always delivers. Plus, I'm a hard grader more often than not.

For all the fun I had with Pretty Little Profit, it was almost 2 solid hours of kidnapping, bondage, torture, and rape/sex. With a hot chick. In a cheerleader outfit. That's pretty awesome.

So here's a review of a Powershotz clip featuring Clarissa. It is a bondage and sexual abuse clip that I missed the first time through her catalog.

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Clarissa... Brutal Penetration (Powershotz, 2008)

This video clip begins with Clarissa on her back, on a mattress on the floor, in an extremely uncomfortable but visually exciting and sexually stimulating position. Her ankles are rope tied with about a foot of rope stretched between them. Her knees are rope tied as well, pulled back and outward far enough to keep the rope between her ankles pulled taut, feet in the air. And finally, her wrists are individually tied and pull forward, between and resting on her thighs. In this highly vulnerable position, both her shaved pussy and pink asshole are completely exposed and available for penetration play. Mmm.

Clarissa's head is raised up as she watches the masked man walk around, preparing to violate and abuse her. She wears a slightly worried expression on her pretty face. This brief intro is perfect, with Clarissa already in character.

Clarissa's acting is a little put-on, but in no way detracts from my pleasure. There's some initial face-slapping before the masked man fastens a leather gag over Clarissa's mouth, then removes it and turns it over (yeah, okay, I thought it looked like it was upside down) and refastens it. So two gag applications for the price of one!

The masked man immediately begins fingering Clarissa's asshole with one finger, then two, then three, and then four. He works those four fingers for a while as Clarissa moans in complaint. He reaches for the wooden Powershotz dildo--one of my favorite Tools of Violation from Steve's Bag of Holding--and spends some quality time fucking Clarissa's ass with it. He teases it back and forth between her swollen pink pussy lips and then shoves it up her pussy and fucks her with it.

Although Clarissa is not in any great pain, she is very expressive and you can tell she's feeling the dildo in sometimes unexpected ways. I just love her eyes, the way they widen and dart around, then roll back and close just to snap open again.

So helpless, defenseless Clarissa endures anal and vaginal abuse as her feet twist and her toes curl until the masked man turns the dildo around and inserts the larger handle end into her pussy, eliciting more great eye action. Then he walks away, leaving the dildo sticking out of Clarissa looking for all the world like she now has a wooden erection. An interesting image.

Clarissa endures a minute or so of hard cropping on the soles of her feet, her ass, and her face and throat. The dildo comes out of Clarissa's pussy and the masked man asks if she thinks she can take the handle end up her ass. It is a rhetorical question since he proceeds to force it into her ass anyway. Clarissa's reaction is worth the price of this clip. Her eyes widen in shock and panic, her bound hands reach uselessly to stop him, and her entire doubled-over body tenses as the handle snaps past her sphincter. I had to rewind and watch that moment a couple of times, it was so awesome.

That is kind of the climax of the clip, even though it occurs about halfway through. The remainder of the clip involves the camera moving around Clarissa's severely bound body, a little more hard cropping, some breath play as the masked man pinches her nose closed, an extreme close-up of Clarissa's sex, with her face just showing up over the enticing mound of her pussy. The masked man rubs, pokes and prods the pinkest parts of her nether regions, pushing his finger into her ass and pussy.

The clip ends with Clarissa tightly bound, moaning and whimpering loudly, looking around helplessly. Close-up of her beautiful dark brown eyes and fade to black.

Dark haired, dark-eyed Clarissa is one of my favorite Powershotz models. She is slender yet shapely, and has a pretty face. It is always an absolute thrill watching her being penetrated and violated and this clip is no exception. I give this just-over-13-minute-long clip a solid B+. If you like Clarissa, the dildo handle insertion into her ass is a must-see moment.

Clarissa... Brutal Penetration is available at the Powershotz catalog site for a mere $7.50. The picture montage is excellent, and shows her bound position perfectly.

I've been away for a week, so there's a lot to catch up on.

My goodness, that was quite a long post. And in the best tradition of John Galt, lengthy but entertaining to read. Try not to stay away for a week next time, otherwise your fingers will get numb next time if you try to respond to a week's worth of posts all in one day.

I put your review of Sexual Murders 4 in the Reviews section in my Homepage URL above. Although it looks like the entire Kinky Love Story site is down at NicheClips. Hopefully it will just be temporary.

Regarding Gruesome Horror, some of their clips look quite intriguing, but also awfully expense for what you get. For instance, the clip at the top of the page entitled Megan Foxx Terminated P1 Burnt Nipples features what looks like an attractive woman getting burned with a cigar and shocked with a taser. Those are 2 things that ring my bell big time, but it's also 21 bucks for only 12 minutes. Sorry, I don't have a problem with a dollar per minute rate, but once we get past that, I'm reluctant to take a chance on an unknown company. It's too easy to screw up the illusion if they don't do it right (see PKF's recent failed attempt with Samantha Jo). Anybody seen that clip, or know if they do burning and shocking realistically?

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MAV wrote:

I'm still surprised the recent Legend of the Seeker scene wasn't talked about much on this board. I expected limited if any commentary on brianspage since those guys are all gag snobs that bust a nut if a woman puts her hand over her mouth to sneeze, but thought more would be said here.

You're forgetting where you are. We only have about 9 people who ever say anything around here, and about 900 others who probably just stop by to grab the free picture and leave. I don't think most of them even read what is posted, as evidenced by the utter lack of anybody saying thanks other than just our handful of regulars after a day where 3 separate reviews were posted. We've gone over 1000 hits a day for each of the past 7 days, and yet all I ever see is the same names here day after day.

Thank God we have a strong base of intelligent, literate posters who don't mind sharing their thoughts with others. As for the rest of you lurkers...well, it doesn't matter what I write because you're probably not reading this anyway.

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John Galt: You really like Clarissa, don't you? I agree, she's one of the more attractive and wholesome looking models in the Powershotz family. If I had her tied up in a position like that, I could think of something else to penetrate her with. Thanks for the review, your link is here: http://ralphus.net/reviews/powershotz/pow_clarissabrutal.htm

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I know some of you are fans of bondage model Dia Zerva. I know I'm a recent convert after I saw her performance in PKF's Hogtie Killer 6. Well, I was glancing through the NicheClips catalog today and saw this one. Dia is attacked and eaten by a very realistic-looking...well, I'm not sure what it is. Looks like a big furry Muppet. Don't even remember which store this is from, but the vidcaps are amusing. Here ya go:

http://nicheclips.com/77/clips/files/preview_files/thanksgiving_large.jpg

Thanks for another well detailed Powershotz review. Clarissa looks pretty nice!

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With the recent topic of PDF Readers of late, maybe you guys can help me. I just obtained a used PDF Reader (out of the truck of some guy’s car in the parking lot of some fast-food joint). When I started reading the pre-loaded material, someone walked by with their Happy-Meal and bumped my arm and the screen went blank. I want to get it fixed but am not sure what model number it is. Can someone please help me to identify it so I know where to get it fixed. Here is a picture of the PDF I have. Thanks.

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John Galt: It's good to see you're back in full form, although I have to confess I still haven't managed to get interested in Powershotz. I'm not sure why, but the stills at their site really haven't grabbed me, even though I acknowledge some of their stars are attractive.

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MAV wrote:

I'm still surprised the recent Legend of the Seeker scene wasn't talked about much on this board. I expected limited if any commentary on brianspage since those guys are all gag snobs that bust a nut if a woman puts her hand over her mouth to sneeze, but thought more would be said here.

What can I say? I've been too busy following the feuds in the Lohan and Montag families.

Thanks for the heads-up. I'll pass though. The girls are all wearing dark tops (which stay on!!!!) which means no great boob shots. Blech.

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Ralphus: You're forgetting where you are. We only have about 9 people who ever say anything around here

I think that MAV was saying that even among the regulars (or, more likely, irregulars) there wasn't a lot of comment. I didn't say anything because, like John Galt and Yik Yakker said, the costume ruined the scene for me. I'm guessing it was much the same for the other 6 or so of us.

The site style can't satisfy everyone. Boy/Girl sex is between model and her spouse or boyfriend because we don't hire male performers. We barely stay out of jail as it is. The nonconsensual theme isn't well accepted outside of this forum. We don't show the model looking all happy and ok after the shoot is over like kink.com because we think it is hoaky. Instead we try to have the scene evolve to where the victim starts to enjoy it towards the end and finally when she is set free she doesn't want to leave. If we shot snuff scenes we'd be forced to drop the nudity and penetrations by the state. Although we do shoot the occasional snuff scene as a custom request and place those scenes on the copy of the DVD that the person funding the shoot can watch. If we put them on the site we'd be shut down. Many folks like the domination, whipping and punishment without penetrations although we add wetness checks and penetration when possible. Some of our models won't do penetrations.

People have varying opinions on whether the content is extreme enough. The fake cock loses a lot of customers but oftentimes the model has no spouse to perform with and even if he could he wouldn't do it on camera. In the DVD Lessons Learned Cindy performs real cock. The Clarissa anal penetration scene is hot if you like big eyes and gagged mouth. The scenes often have a reality element to them that I believe attracts customers. Un faked reactions from models that cannot act are what sells the scenes. Many of the anal training scenes are first time anal scenes for the girls involved. Just shot an awesome one with Bailey. She just graduated high school this spring and has an incredible ass.

Ralphus the forum rocks. Many people don't have time to post but enjoy the content. The silent majority I call them. You'll never hear from them but they are out there. I'm often so busy I don't have time to get over here but appreciate the promotion that is generated by the forum and the reviews. Thanks to all that comment! There is no such thing as a bad review in the entertainment business! When they stop talking is when you need to worry.

The shoots will always be crap shoots. You roll the dice and hope for a killer scene. Every once in a while you pull one off and that is what keeps the machine running. Any Gimper that comes over and makes a purchase will get an equal amount of product for free! Thanks again John and Ralphus!

Certainly those un-faked reaction scenes are the reason THIS customer keeps coming back and carefully inspecting each new clip. That is undoubtedly the reason I am a fan. Well, that and some truly hot models in bondage.

That is a funny story about Clarissa, although it is not funny that it cost you $1500 and probably more than a few anxious moments worrying about cops with an agenda. And the National Guard? Who the hell is Clarissa that she gets the National Guard called out? Wow. I suspect you weren't in a hurry to get her back to shoot any more scenes. Just when I think it might be fun to have your job, I discover the drawbacks.

And thanks for the review clip for VL038.

Why do I care? Well there's several reasons. Reasons including images like the Red Sonja cover in my homepage link that are actually fairly common for the Red Sonja comics, the fact that Robert Rodriguez still has his name attached to it as producer and he at the very least doesn't seem to shy away from GIMP stuff, the fact the movie seems to be going for an R rating, and the end of the Jonah Hex trailer, which shows Megan Fox is willing to at least be chained up, an important fact which I really wouldn't have figured before, and I hope she's willing to go a little further.

Of course this means nothing if you're one of those Megan Fox haters, haters of warrior women type GIMP stuff, or both.

Oh, Lana Clarkson, where are you when we need you? We miss you so, rest in peace.

Well, it’s hard to complain about any of that. Still, like A Canadian, I don’t know why I haven’t been sold on Powershotz. And while your detailed review of the Clarissa movie is appreciated, I have to confess (having already experienced the shame of admitting that hogties aren’t my cup of tea) that I don’t really get the same thrill from seeing women being brutally penetrated/violated as I get from seeing them being ssttrrretchhhhed and tormented. Maybe it just ruins the fantasy for me when I behold a girl getting a workout from some other guy’s dick (or a facsimile of one). Yes, I’m sick, I have a problem. *sob*.

But your remarks bestirred me to take a virtual walk over to the Powershotz store and have another look. I am impressed with a few things: the availability of downloads, the reasonable prices and especially the search capability that allows one to slim down the selections a bit using keywords. So I plan to look for some content that suits my tastes and try it out. If I find something I like, I’ll share it with the group.

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Steve Power: Your post is appreciated, giving us (yet again) a reminder of how tough it is to be a producer of these materials. I don’t know how many potential customers fit into my admittedly narrow niche, but if you can satisfy my tastes you’ll have a regular patron. And you won’t have to risk going to jail (at least I don’t think so). -------

Dr. Yuya wrote: …last I heard the Red Sonja movie was rumored to possibly star Megan Fox…Of course this means nothing if you're one of those Megan Fox haters, haters of warrior women type GIMP stuff, or both.

I’m neither a hater of warrior women nor a hater of Megan Fox (although I do harbor bitter feelings about that graffiti she’s got scrawled all over her). And I’m hoping there will be a Red Sonja movie, and that it will be a good one. But, having already been disappointed by the Brigitte Nielsen epic of yore, I would be extremely (and pleasantly) surprised if the upcoming version a) contains good GIMPage, b) has Megan wearing the costume depicted in your link, and c) earns an R-rating for anything other than violent content.

But I did enjoy that sweaty, disheveled look she sported while chained up in the Jonah Hex trailer you linked. Thanks for keeping us a-breast of this (heh-heh) and let’s think positively.

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LTL: I once had a PDF Reader just like yours. Then it developed a leak and the stuff got all over me. My advice to you: get rid of it now and get an upgrade.

The part about Megan Fox haters, I think that they might be so do to her ever growing tattoo portfolio. What is she up to? 8 or 9 I think it is.

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With the recent series of Gimp pics of the day as inspiration, welcome to a very special A-Listers in prison installment of Which One Has The Gimp?. A-Listers in prison? The correct answer today will have a Gimp scene by one of Hollywood’s top actresses. Will it be Natalie Portman? Scarlett Johansson? Kate Beckinsale? Cate Blanchett? Glenn Close? [Oh God lets hope not]

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Today’s A-List Gimp possible correct answer includes:

Kate Beckinsale in Brokedown Palace
Natalie Portman and Scarlett Johansson in The Other Boleyn Girl
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Glenn Close and Cate Blanchett in Paradise Road

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Paradise Road ya say? Well, you will be pleased that the Gimpage is not from Glenn Close. But those that guessed this one…very good! Details on Cate Blanchett’s Gimp scene in mini review at end.

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Those that guessed Brokedown Palace, an unfortunate incorrect answer in that there is no Gimpage from the lovely Kate Beckinsale.

Brokedown Palace is about two Americans (Kate Beckinsale & Claire Danes) vacationing in Thailand. They meet a charming Australian man who sets them up as sacrificial decoys, planting drugs in their bags so the real mules can board a plane due to the commotion the arrest of the two American girls will create.

Nothing even remotely sexual, torturous, or even restraining from this Thai prison. What kinda joint are they running here? Don’t they know they have a certain reputation to live up to? Disappointing when the foreign penal system can’t produce even one good rape.

Brokedown Palace trailer

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Natalie Portman or Scarlett Johansson in The Other Boleyn Girl? OK, so this was a bit of a stretch as far as being in prison goes, but Natalie spends a little time behind bars so close enough.

Nothing from Scarlett (Damn-it!! Freakin’ directors!!!). And pretty much nothing from Natalie, although she gets raped by the King of England in a very minor scene, so still gotta consider this an incorrect answer.

Reader’s Digest version; Anne Boleyn (Natalie Portman) has her sights set on the King of England, but he fancies her younger but married sister Mary (Scarlett Johansson). The King sends for Mary much to the chagrin of Anne. Later after impregnating Mary, Anne gets back in the picture and suddenly the King is now smitten with her. Anne however plays coy, even though her target has been the King all along. The King reaches his breaking point after numerous nixings of his sexual advances and rapes Anne from behind in a very PG-13 looking scene.

I enjoyed this movie somewhat but probably more so due to Scarlett being in it as her presence alone makes most movies worthwhile (although not even Scarlett could save The Black Dalia….the only Scarlett movie I didn’t end up keeping).

The Other Boleyn Girl trailer

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Mini review of Paradise Road.

Paradise Road
Paradise Road trailer

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Paradise Road is about the advancing Japanese army who detain all American and European women during WWII in the Indo-China region. The story is based upon the recollections of those that survived the internment camps in Sumatra.

Gimp wise there is a rather nice scene in which a young Cate Blanchett is punished for speaking during a prisoner assembly. For her digression she has her hands bound behind her then forced to her knees and has a bamboo pole placed on the back of her legs so she is unable to move in any sort of deliberate fashion. She then is forced to remain in this position as there are spears planted in the ground pointed at her. She is forced to remain in the hot sun all day and through the night. The following day, exhausted under the hot mid-day sun she is to the point of passing out. The Japanese internment camp master then walks out to where Cate is being tortured and pulls his sword as he prepares to behead her.

There is also a scene of possible interest to BATS fans. Although unbound, there is a short south-east Asian BBQ scene.

As entertainment a fair to good movie rating a grade of C+/B-.

As Gimpage, a very good (although short), well done Japanese torture scene with Cate Blanchett (looking probably the best I’ve seen her look), good for a C+

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Nice segment by Cate Blanchett. Too bad we couldn’t have gotten some real Gimpage out of each and every one of the A-listers…..well, with the exception of Glenn Close of course. What? You were hoping it was Glenn? Better you than me is all I gotta say ta that….And with that, I’m outta here [I think I’m gonna be sick]. See ya next time.

I have something interesting that I want to share with the rest of you. This site, Naked Preys which has JAV titles avaliable for download seems to have an interesting little flaw in it's members area. If you visit the site's join page, here you see that it says $39.90 for 92 days.

The flaw in their members area that I mentioned has to do with that time period. I last purchased a membership with them on January 31. My membership period should have expired on May 6, ten days ago, but it is still active. I tried to log in a few minutes ago while writing this post, and my username & password went through!

If any of you are interested in downloadable JAV titles, you may want to look into buying a membership with Naked Preys. You could end up buying a membership that continues past its expiration date like I apparently did.

How to become a GIMP movie maker...
1) Open head...
2) Remove Brain...
3) Unscrew burned-out light bulb from nearby light fixture...
4) Screw burned-out light bulb into head...
5) Open nearby trash bin...
6) Toss brain in trash bin...

A lot of these online porn services are scams. I learned this the hard way last year, after signing up for a "trial" membership at a vanilla porn site. In my case, the site I joined had some fine print that said you would be automatically signed up beyond the trial period unless you cancelled your membership -- and then it ran an elaborate scheme where it claims to cancel your membership but keeps it active (I can provide more details if anyone is interested). I fought the billings on my credit card and eventually won but it was a major hassle.

Anyway, you want to be careful that your continued downloading of videos from Naked Preys isn't somehow calculated as a continuation of your membership. It's probably just a glitch, but be careful.

As for the movies themselves, I have seen a couple of them on DVD. I thought the teacher one with Ryo Takamiya -- it's listed here as Rape Prey: Otomiya -- was quite good, for those who like that sort of thing. It has some strong moments of humiliation.

Finally, it's funny that Erika Sato is listed as the "currently hottest model in Japan." In fact, Erika retired last year.

A Canadian wrote:

TGG: A word of caution -- you may want to think twice before you continue to use that Naked Preys website.

A lot of these online porn services are scams. I learned this the hard way last year, after signing up for a "trial" membership at a vanilla porn site. In my case, the site I joined had some fine print that said you would be automatically signed up beyond the trial period unless you cancelled your membership -- and then it ran an elaborate scheme where it claims to cancel your membership but keeps it active (I can provide more details if anyone is interested). I fought the billings on my credit card and eventually won but it was a major hassle.

A Canadian, your warning is understandable, but un-neccessary in this case. I am very familiar with Naked Preys, this current membership is the second one I have purchased since finding the site. Anytime I buy a membership from any site, I always cancel the re-bill after a few days if the site uses the re-bill system and keep my eye on charges on my cards. I use my credit cards for most of my normal everyday expenses and usually carry very little cash on hand. I tend to log in to the card's account information page for record keeping purposes every few days so I would notice if an un-authorized expense was placed on my card.

I've been checking the card I used when I originally purchased the membership, and the card is empty (literally, I never leave a balance on a credit card if I can help it). It's more likely a glitch in their server, or the site's webmaster has either been too busy or too distracted to purge memberships that are more than 92 days old.

How to become a GIMP movie maker...
1) Open head...
2) Remove Brain...
3) Unscrew burned-out light bulb from nearby light fixture...
4) Screw burned-out light bulb into head...
5) Open nearby trash bin...
6) Toss brain in trash bin...

TGG: It sounds like you may have stumbled across something good. But I have always found that the people who have your credit card details generally have the advantage. I hope it works out for you.

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LTL: Well, you stumped me on the latest WOHTG. Like A Canadian, I got all excited when Scarlett Johansson's name was mentioned and my mind drifted into "Imagination Land." Although I don't think Cate Blanchett is a true beauty, and there really is no action, that scene in Paradise Road is a turn-on. I rather enjoy long torture scenes of endurance (as long as the bonds are tight) where any accidental move could result in the death of the sweaty victim. Too bad they didn't think of anything more creative for her death than a boring beheading.

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Red Sonja: I'm all for a remake, even though I think Megan Fox is a bit overrated. I have found that "warrior queen" movies on occasion provide some excellent GIMP scenes (Barbarian Queen, S.H.E.), so it might be worthwhile.

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Steve Power: Thanks again for all the insight into the industry. Bizarre story about Clarissa's disappearance. It seems quite unfair that you had to pay legal fees for a crime you didn't commit and a crime that was apparently non-existent in the first place. I always think that bondage producers should write books about their experiences. I'm sure they would be fascinating reads and could also help to remove some of the negative stereotypes associated with the industry.

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John Galt wrote: Every time I see [Amber Rayne] in a bondage sex or rough sex situation, instead of screaming and crying, she is shouting "faster! harder! deeper!" It is a little off-putting. I can't picture her as a victim, which is very frustrating.

I totally agree. Yes, she seems to relish in the fact that she can endure some incredible punishment and likes to show off how "tough" she is. That's actually not what I want to see. I want to see that tough lass finally broken! I think she does have some acting ability in there, and she also has the type of body that totally turns me on: slim, tight and natural.

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Fritz wrote about Sexual Murders 4: ... blonde victim is a knock-out, so you might forgive her those quail breasts and lack of genuine terror.

For my tastes, I'd rather have a less attractive actress who can sell the scene. BTW, thanks for the information about the grind-house days. That was (thankfully) before my time. I think the advent of home video was most beneficial to us perverts.

But I have always found that the people who have your credit card details generally have the advantage. I hope it works out for you.

That's so true. I tell you, there are days I don't mind the simplicity of the money order system that Video Mayhem uses. That system brings its own issues, but at least you don't have to worry about ongoing fraud.

Thanks for the "disappointment" edition of Which One Has the GIMP?. Sorry, but once I learned the answer wasn't Scarlett Johansson, I pretty much lost interest.

And Brutus wrote:

Like A Canadian, I got all excited when Scarlett Johansson's name was mentioned and my mind drifted into "Imagination Land."

Hey, could have been worse. Could have been Glenn. :-[)

But I hear ya. Scarlett would have been my first choice too. As a matter of fact the order would have went:

1/Scarlett
Whooosh (to illustrate the sound of a big dropoff until we get to #2....even though I do like Kate Beckinsale quite a lot)
2/Kate Beckinsale
3/Natalie Portman
4/Cate Blanchett

And I don't want to hear anything about Glenn being an acquired taste. ;-)

I'm trying to back up my collection since my PC is on its last legs. I purchased the Daniusoft converter and its helped me a lot (converting WMVs so I can crop, etc.) but I'm having trouble using it with some basic DVDs. For some reason, not all of the VOB files come out right. They either don't get read (0 bytes) or they come out with messed up audio. Any tips? thanks!

LTL: Thanks as always for the latest edition of Which One Has The Gimp. And thanks especially for making it so easy that I cruised to my third straight victory. I didn't have to guess this time, either. I've mentioned the scene from Paradise Road here before; in fact, I even posted a number of stills from it on the forum a while back.

I'm not in agreement with your grade of C+, though. I think this is an outstanding mainstream scene, worthy of an A in my book. Even though one could say that not a lot happens, that's really the point. It's a long, slow torture she endures, it goes on during the day, then all through the night and then the following day under the hot sun, forced to endure this position. If you lean forward or back, the spears will spike you. And the barbed wire behind your knees ensures you'll be experiencing plenty of pain if you move. Give the Japanese credit for coming up with the most ingenious ways to torture women.

Thanks also for the mention of Natalie Portman's rape scene in The Other Boleyn Girl. Doesn't sound like much but hey, it's still Natalie Portman getting raped, and that's entertainment to me.

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

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Steve Power: Wow, quite a story about you being a suspect in Clarissa's disappearance. Well, of course the cops suspected you. This is a man who makes bondage films! If you tie up girls for a living, you're naturally a sleazeball who could have easily taken advantage of her while she was tied up and done unmentionable things to her. Heck, you probably had her tied up in your basement while the police were questioning you. Sounds like an episode of "Criminal Minds". That's likely the perception the public has for bondage producers. Sorry it cost so much just to clear your name.

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Possible Red Sonja movie with Megan Fox: Come on, guys. This place is sounding more like Brian's Page every day. Number one, what are the chances that this movie will have a bondage scene in the first place? Forget about what the comic did, I guarantee that Red Sonja will not be a victim, she'll be a butt-kicking heroine because today's movies are about empowered women. Take it to the house. As for Megan Fox, she's hot with a capital H, but I think speculating that somehow she'll become a Girl In Merciless Peril is just someone's wet dream.

Here, enjoy this picture. It's about as close as we'll get to seeing what we really want.

http://ralphus.net/dailypic/Megan_Fox04.jpg

LTL - got another one right but only because I'd already seen "Paradise Road" - that scene with Cate is among my all-time favorites in mainstream viewing - so passive yet so vicious all in one.

John Galt - now that looks like an interesting Powershotz entry - will have to check that one out.

Quite some time back we were running a poll question asking if we had ever viewed a movie that was brutal enough to evoke sympathy for the victim - the responses, as I recall, were as varied as there are posters to this forum - my post stated something to the effect that perhaps such a movie existed but I had yet to see it - well, I've now seen it.

So Saturday night the wife runs to the local vanilla video store and returns with a couple movies - great.... a night of chick flicks - we begin to watch one that for the first 85 minutes was an utter yawn-fest - the final 10 minutes or so contain a brutal home invasion/bondage rape sequence that made me wince.

"The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael" is a British film from about 5 years ago - with a title like that I was expecting a gay fuel movie rather than anything Gimp-worthy - it depicts a schoolboy descending into drugs and degradation supposedly caused by the variety of manifestations we refer to as teen angst - he and his droogs enter the home of a well-to-do 40 year old couple - the wife is a very nice looking blonde - the husband is tied to the coffee table and the wife is handcuffed and struggling on the floor and the boys begin to violate her in any number of ways.

Midway through the scene I'm saying to myself "Okay boys, you've played your games and had your fun, now just let it go and walk away" - they didn't and continued - they produce a couple of "implements" and I again said to myself "no, don't do this" - but they did - it leads to the lady's demise - perhaps this is what "Funny Games" should have been to add that "zip" I found lacking in that production.

It may be that I've grown soft with the passing years - I can say with absolute certainty I found this one brutal and relentless to the point of wishing those boys would stop - if other Gimpers have viewed this scene I'd like to know if you were as disturbed by it as I.

Anyway, youtube has the trailer at the above link and the last few seconds show the beginning of the sequence which is rather lengthy.

Stay Well All

Right near the beginning we see a crime scene in which a young woman was raped and murdered. Then it flashes to a scene in which we see the man raping and killing her. The woman is covered in blood and scratches and she's fighting back diligently. I can't put my finger on it, but there was something frightening and sad about it. But at the same time, I did feel a little excited and then I felt bad for feeling that way about this particular movie.

There's a huge difference between movies that are made with the intention to appeal to those of us who like rape and torture, and movies that are made to show us how bad that is in real life. "El Secreto de sus Ojos" is a pretty serious film, if it were campier or had a different story, I might have felt entirely different about that scene. It seems to be the context that makes a difference.

I'm babbling. Here's the IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305806/

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Yeah, yeah, I know, everybody thinks Scarlet is hot stuff - and she is. But for my money, Kate Beckinsale ranks way above her. I can't look at this woman without feeling a burning desire to tie her up and take her home. Guess I just dig dark-haired Eurobabes. She's a goddess - unfortunately, she's not a GIMP Goddess.

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I've got a hankering to do a review of Women in Cell Block 9, even though we already have a write-up on file. My reasons are: a) it's a classic that I want to see again and write about, and b) this is a flick that just cries out for a review with screen caps. So it's going on my to-view-and-review list.

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Aliens on Crack doesn't have any GIMPage in it, but that's not the worst thing about it. It's a steaming pile that completely wastes opportunities presented by the three hot/cute babes in the cast, and it's not even very funny. Just wanted to warn you all. At least it didn't cost me anything.

Humm.....And I thought Paradise Road was going to be an under the radar, obscured by Glenn Close on the cover, title.

Oh well......that can only mean the possibility that the foreign films might once again be broken out in the near future. Heeehee hee hee haaaa [evil laugh].

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Speaking of foreign films, thanks to both Jane von Detlefson & Sloth for the heads up on El secreto de sus ojos & The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael, with “El secreto de sus ojos” being an Oscar winner no less.

There's a huge difference between movies that are made with the intention to appeal to those of us who like rape and torture, and movies that are made to show us how bad that is in real life.

Exactly.

To me, it's gotta be erotic. Yes, I want the woman to look helpless, and in the case of a torture scene, I want it to look like the villain is dishing out the punishment.

But I have no interest in seeing scenes where I think someone might really be suffering. And when it comes to rape scenes, I like credibility but not reality. In other words, the woman being raped has to look credibly helpless, but at the same time the scene needs a certain level of sexiness.

That may explain why I'm a fan of the rape scenes in the Ginger movies, even though I know they don't look anything like real rapes. Maybe it's because they don't look anything like real rapes that I can enjoy them. The victim's helplessness is always convincing while, at the same time, there is clearly an attempt to create moments that are arousing and are clearly fictional -- which makes it a guilt-free experience for the viewer. Definitely works for me.

Along the same lines, when I watch whipping scenes, I prefer the ones that don't show any blood. Sorry, but blood isn't sexy, and a convincing victim and villain can pull it off without the blood.

This is also my freshman attempt to incorporate images in a review to spice it up. So if it initially looks like crap, bear with me.

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Bailey... Rod Discipline (Powershotz, 2010)

This clip begins with young, shaggy haired blond Bailey already tied fast to the discipline bench on her hands and knees, ropes binding her wrists and shoulders to the uprights, and ankles tied together, completely naked and ready for abuse and violation at the hands of the Masked Man.

Bailey is not unattractive. She has a facial stud positioned like an old-fashioned beauty mark, above and to the right of her mouth. She has a shapely body and no visible tattoos in this clip, but there are a couple of butterfly tattoos high on her pubis. Nice breasts, great feet. It is easy to believe she might attract the attention of a kidnapper-rapist.

We join the action as the Masked Man puts his hand over Bailey's mouth, pulls her head up, and cups her chin with one hand while he runs the other hand up and down her ass and pussy. Bailey does a decent job of appearing reluctant, humiliated, embarrassed and discomfited. The Masked Man squirts some lubricant onto the top of her ass crack and Bailey shivers and whimpers as the cool viscous liquid flows slowly through the valley, over her asshole and down her shaved pink slit. Excellent reaction.

The Masked man continues taunting and verbally abusing Bailey as he works his hand, fingers and thumb up and down her tender sex, palpating her asshole, and then pushing his thumb and fingers into both of her holes several times. It is a long, slow, and thoroughly enjoyable violation--at least for the Masked Man and the viewers. As the victim, Bailey's predicament is less fun for her. Occasional spanking punctuates Bailey's abusive violations.

Based on Bailey's spirited responses to the digital penetration perpetrated on her pussy and ass, I am understandably excited when, at about the halfway point of the clip, the Masked Man introduces The Glass Rod. He shows it to Bailey and graciously gives her the chance to lubricate it with her saliva as he pushes it deep into her throat and gags her. Then he moves around to her backside.

First, the Masked Man fucks Bailey's pussy, pushing it in and pulling it completely out numerous times. Bailey does not get used to it, crying out and struggling with each repeat penetration. Next, the Masked Man shoves it into her ass, which elicits an even greater outcry and struggle from the helpless girl.

After about 7 minutes of sometimes vigorous rod sodomy, there's a loud cry and a video cut where I suspect Bailey invoked her safe word, and the final minute of the clip is finger fucking, which Bailey is still not used to.

This 17-minute clip is wall-to-wall anal and vaginal violation action. Judging by Bailey's expressions, her frequently labored breathing, and the way her bound feet bounce around and her toes curl, I think she is less-than-halfway acting and more-than-halfway real-life experiencing. This kind of reaction is what I look for in Powershotz videos and this one pays off. I will be interested to see the larger story arc that this is obviously a part of.

This clip is a solid B+. The real-life reactions by Bailey make for mesmerizing viewing, instilling (in me, anyway) a strong desire to see this fresh high school grad put to even more abuse and humiliation. Bailey is one of Steve's newer models, so hopefully there is plenty more to come. The clip, Bailey... Rod Discipline, is available for download at the Powershotz catalog store for $9.75.

I took a look at some of Bailey's other titles, and the one that caught my attention is Bailey - Dog Breeder. If you decide to review the "Bailey" series, I'd love to read about that clip.

Thanks for your information, and oh yes if you post excerpts from your books it would be just great... Anything will do! And, yes, what a dream to get to buy all the War Horror books on pdf... At AdultBookCovers.net they have some of them, and at a moderate pricing, 2 $ each for pdf-s. And with a substantial discount if you by many of them. But, they don't have all the titles, not yet anyway... I hope there is a way for them to catch up. Do you know how many of the War Horrors titles there are out there, totally? I see new covers all the time...

Thanks a million for the pointer to AdultBookCovers.net! I didn't realize any of the War Horrors series was available online. I found nine of them at this site and bought them all. The good news is all nine are ones I don't already own; the bad news is they tend to be relatively tame (despite having titles like The Nazi Butcher and Soviet Sadist's Slave :-). At $2 a pop, they are cheaper than the originals - and the PDFs are good-quality and easy to read. I do hope they make more of this series available in the future.

I have no idea how many titles there were in the War Horrors series, but given the many covers that are turning up online, there are a lot more than I ever suspected. I had always assumed there had been around two dozen or so in total, but it's got to be a whole bunch more than that.

Oh yes… and here is an excerpt from Defiled by the Nazi Dogs which shows how OTT these strokers sometimes got. Not much in the era of alt.sex.stories - but in the early 80's, this was pretty extreme stuff (especially when you consider I bought this paperback at a subway news-stand).

And Ralphus: Where are you unearthing the War Horrors art you are posting here on GIMP? I don't see these titles on either AdultBookCovers or the first site Joanne posted.

LTL wrote:

I've actually brought up GruesomeHorror a while back, mentioning The Birch Ashtray (along w/the Amber stuff). I liked everything I saw from the stills.....except, the pit hair. Ultimately it was a pass because of that.

The one I really wanted to see was Wire Truth because of the water-boarding scene. But put it off since the $40.00 price seemed a little high to me since most everyone else prices their clips in the $15-$25 range. I know if you can afford multiple customs, that probably doesn't seem much, but to the rest of us working stiffs it's the difference between picking up 2, 3, or even 4 clips from someone else, to just that one.

I have both "Birch Ashtray" (I really think they meant to call it "Bitch Astray" though - the clip has nothing to do with a birch ashtray, or even an oak or maple one :-) and Wire Truth. Though I think Insane Convict is better than either of these, all GruesomeHorror productions follow the same formula: beautiful girl (spy, mafia moll, terrorist, etc) is tied up in a dank basement and is tortured for information. The tortures usually include electroshock, burning, beating, and a few variants like the water boarding and occasional choking. In general, the victim is killed at the end (shooting, asphyx, electrocution), but in three or four of those I purchased, she either survives or her fate is ambiguous.

For someone like me, who is quite fond of the formula, I should be pleased - but GruesomeHorror is still a very frustrating producer. All the clips I purchased have this insane need to showcase body hair. It's not just that the girl has a bit of pit fuzz, she is downright hirsute (at least for a woman). Those who like a natural bush might be cheering, but be ready for some serious undergrowth. And boy do we get to see it. The videos are punctuated with repeated zooms into extreme close-ups of all that fur. The girls are frequently rendered unconscious, which is the cue for long, lingering shots of sweaty pubes as the victims hang in their bonds.

But who am I to judge? Whoever runs GruesomeHorror is obviously making these videos for him or herself. I know they are not customs, because I have tried to contact them twice (through their website - stale since 2007) and received no response either time. They also have a very sporadic release schedule; sometimes there is nothing new for 7 or 8 months. And -as they did with their latest release- they sometimes issue a "part 1" with no indication when or if part 2 will ever arrive. Finally, they also try to sell you absolutely dire minute long 3D animations - avoid these at all costs.

Yet in spite of all the negatives, I buy from them because I enjoy the GH formula and find the production quality of their material first rate. Whoever directs these clips knows something about shooting, lighting, and editing. The actresses (invariably porn stars) are gorgeous (again, if you get past the excess hair), and the GIMP action and bondage is very credible. GH prices are high, and frankly JohnM, CoH and Psychothrillers are able to match them on the quality scale at half the cost - but if you are into interrogation, electro-torture, beating and burning, they might be worth it for you.

Ralphus: I'm not sure whether GruesomeHorror FX will meet your expectations. The electro scenes do not have the sparkler effects that turned you off of Deadly Interrogation 2, but there are humming noises which may or may not be realistic. The burning looked very real to me, but again… you probably have to take a risk and buy a clip to see if it works for you. But beware… as I said, the Megen Foxx Terminated video is only the first segment of a multi-part production which may never be concluded.

Sorry… that's a lot of info on GH, with not much about the specific clips. Perhaps I should review some of them in more detail (and with vidcaps) to give folks a better idea of what they are like. I feel like I am the only person purchasing them. Any interest?

jhlipton wrote:

I'd love to know some of the customs that you've ordered. Would you care to give a list (full or partial)? I'd appreciate it.

One thing I've been wanting to do for some time is share my experiences ordering custom videos. I could easily write a book on this topic, and probably would if I got started… so I have to be careful not to go overboard here. But it would not be very helpful if I just list the titles and no other information. So here is a short history which includes many but not all the videos I have commissioned…

My first custom productions were ordered from Lissa Noble back in 1999. At the time she ran a company called Drop Dead Gorgeous (DDG) which produced much of the material for Necrobabes. Lissa made two customs for me: Bomber Babe and Gia Tortures her Captive, both featuring Lissa as the victim. The first of these is still available at the Dark Fantasies Nicheclips store.

A little later, I commissioned a number of vids from Bailey Arnett (Panic Productions, Alternate Reality). Among those were The Final Shipment (with Nikki Steele), The Serum (Tanya Welch), and Out with a Bang (Shannon Black). I ordered two from KHP, both featuring Britton. One is untitled and I don't think it was ever released publicly. The other is simply called Britton's Torture. For some reason, few producers keep the titles of the submitted scripts, so most of my customs have been renamed with sometimes less than informative alternatives. As for KHP, the owner shut down his operation about a month ago.

I commissioned one from Todd Tjersland who runs several Nicheclip stores, including Brutal Tales, Pure Terror and Gruntfilms. My video was released as Eliminator 2, stars Paris Kennedy, and is still available from Grunt. Most recently, I have given all my business to either JohnM (Deadly Interrogation 1 with Paris and Deadly Interrogation 2 with Samantha Jo) or Casualties of Horror (The Serum 1 with Paris and The Serum 2 with Kristina Cross).

Along the way, I ordered two customs from a producer who will remain nameless because he stiffed me on the second production. I have also ordered directly from some fetish actresses including Tanya Danielle and Amber Michaels. None of these were made available publicly. There were several others as well, but that's all I can remember off the top of my head. Each experience has a story behind it, and if anyone wants to know more, I'll be happy to answer any questions. If you want to buy any of the ones I listed here because you liked one of the others, be aware that they vary widely in quality, and I am by no means happy with all of them. That said, I have been very pleased with PKF (John) and Casualties of Horror (which unfortunately seems to have curtailed production). Bailey also did very good work when she was running ARP.

YikYakker wrote:

I've got a hankering to do a review of Women in Cell Block 9, even though we already have a write-up on file. My reasons are: a) it's a classic that I want to see again and write about, and b) this is a flick that just cries out for a review with screen caps. So it's going on my to-view-and-review list.

One of my all-time favorites! I had thought of doing a vid-cap based review as well, but will now wait eagerly for your evaluation instead. Although Women in Cell Block 9 is supposedly a "mainstream" movie (as much as any Franco film can be considered mainstream), it is clearly made by someone with a GIMP obsession and targets an audience of GIMPers. I'm looking forward to your review.

A Canadian wrote:

Along the same lines, when I watch whipping scenes, I prefer the ones that don't show any blood. Sorry, but blood isn't sexy, and a convincing victim and villain can pull it off without the blood.

I agree a convincing victim and villain can pull off a whipping scene without blood, but for me, a bloody whipping is always far sexier. It's more realistic, it's more brutal, and it adds a lot of emphasis to the victim's suffering. Most of the Red Feline productions feature whippings with quite a lot of bloodletting, so there must be others who feel the same way.

It is great to have access to the internet and not have to depend on local video stores or figuring out how to get mags and videos (VHS) delivered via mail in a private way, but jeez! Teraz won't sell their stuff in digital format except on DVD's, and NicheClips can't figure out how to take money except on a piece of paper sent via snail mail!!

Fascinating videography of custom ordered titles. I'm envious. I also appreciated your take on several of the active snuff theme websites. I'm not a snuff aficionado, but sometimes I find an exception.

With apologies to petelobo, I am not overly fond of hairy women either. The best thing about the 70s is that most of the pubic hair stayed there. Have you considered writing a forced underarm and pubic shaving sequence into the beginning of your custom shoots? That would allow for crotch close-ups, add the thrill of razor work in a very sensitive area by a nervous victim or a cruel captor (ooh, imagine using a straight razor), and enhance the humiliation factor. And you end up with no pit or pubic fur. That sounds like it has potential. And who knows, you might even find a use for the straight razor later....

So how detailed are your scripts and how closely, generally, are they followed? Do you request specific actresses or is it luck of the draw? I'm curious, and the GIMP forum is as good a place as any to expound on your experiences.

Someone else post, please, so I don't make it three in a row later tonight. Thank you.

Nice review of Bailey... Rod Discipline with pics and everything. Nice work!

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Fritz

Thanks for the additional info on GruesomeHorror!

And wrote: Perhaps I should review some of them in more detail (and with vidcaps) to give folks a better idea of what they are like. I feel like I am the only person purchasing them. Any interest?

I for one would welcome any additional reviews you would care give us.

And wrote in reply to jhlipton's custom inquiry:

I commissioned one from Todd Tjersland who runs several Nicheclip stores, including Brutal Tales, Pure Terror and Gruntfilms.

I didn't know about the owner of Nicheclips having a hand in the 3 stores mentioned above. I think that's totally bizarre after finding out that Orgasmagoria was owned by one of the owners (don't know if it's the same same guy) of Nicheclips. From what little I did see from Orgasmagoria, I liked some quite a bit.

If it is the same person, it's kinda strange that he would venture into those 3 other companies and not offer Orgasmagoria clips anymore.

Also, since you did mention Brutal Tales, any feedback on them? I bought a clip from 'em a long time ago when they first got started but the clip was so terrible that I swore I would never get anything from them again. I mean it was horrible! Cheesily done with No-Name Jane making these ridicules faces. Lying there on the ground as she flops her tongue from one side of her mouth to the other as she's being strangled. She doesn't even try to fight (as she's unbound) or pull the hands away from around her throat. Plus you can clearly see gaps between her throat and the perps hands. Just lies there twitching and making stupid faces. Totally lame! A shame too as I think the actress who finally settled on the name No-Name Jane looks pretty nice.

I was wondering if they had gotten any better? Honestly, from the stills I see, it doesn't seem like they have.

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petelobo wrote:

I love the fact that Gruesome Horror also has downloadable clips, and especially the use of electro and burning. Throw in a little whipping and they'd be perfect! Unfortunately, it appears there is no way to pay for them except by mail order--kind of difficult and frustrating in you live outside the US.

If you go through Nicheclips you would have to initially set up your account via snail mail. After that, and your account is set up, you should be able to fund your account by CC.

Maybe find a cheap clip you want to initially set up the account with.

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Caption for the pic of the day: We found this paperback in MAV's backpack

MAV look.....AOH (Pro Villain Productions).

There is a lengthy struggle scene, during which Hazel is choked, hand gagged, thrown to the ground, and has her ankles and wrists bound using duct tape. She is also duct tape gagged. There's a part where her captor tries to tape her wrists to her ankles, but it's a fail. Then he drives off, leaving Hazel struggling on the ground in the woods. (*sigh* Yes, with her hands duct taped in front, she could have taken off the tape gag and freed her ankles. It's not perfect.)

He returns shortly with a platform dragging behind his ATV, on which he places Hazel and drives back to the hideout with her in tow. It would have been awesome if he had just roped her feet to the back of the ATV and dragged her back, but since she is topless, that would have left her body in a much less appealing state. So I'm glad he didn't. But it would have been awesome.

The whole escape, chase, capture and return episode occupies the first third of the clip (about 6 minutes).

Inside the hideout, Hazel is stripped naked and duct taped spread-eagled on top of a nice wooden dining table. And Hazel looks very appealing in a naked spread-eagle. The entire time she is begging to be let go and acting scared. Hazel does pretty good Frightened Victim.

Once Hazel is taped to the table, her captor pulls her up to where her head is hanging back off the end of the table and forces her to swallow his cock. Hazel's struggles as he force-feeds her his (real) cock are great. Her legs thrash so much she tears one foot free of her duct-tape bond. Her body arches up and she shakes her head trying to escape. Tears fill her eyes and she gasps for breath. It is a wholly believable forced oral sex ordeal. That takes up the second third of the clip.

In the final sequence, Hazel is briefly leashed and led around like a dog. Then she is brought up onto her knees for more forced oral sex, culminating in her captor ejaculating in her mouth. During this sequence, Hazel's hands and feet are not bound, and her captor keeps ordering her to keep her hands behind her back. Hands bound behind her back would have been nicer. The actual cock sucking is vigorous, deep and brutal.

Hazel's assailant keeps his hand on the back of her head, forcing her to go deep each time he forces her down on his cock. Hazel chokes and gags a lot, and she is not acting. When he lets her come up for air, she is gasping to catch her breath and shaking from exertion, tears streaming from her eyes and saliva covering her cheeks and chin. This goes on for almost 5 minutes and it is very nice.

The clip ends with Hazel seated on a stool, awaiting her next abuse.

I have never seen anyone ever do a better forced oral sex scene than Hazel. She really looks like she is in distress, she is always in character as the victim, she chokes and gags and shakes, and tears stream down her face. Contrast this with the gals you see in Cock Brutality or any of the rough oral sex sites, where it is apparent they are doing it for the money. Or the "forced" cock sucking on the bondage web sites where they basically take it in stride. Or Amber Rayne, god bless her, who begs for more no matter how rough it gets. Hazel is the Mistress of Forced Oral Sex, and I openly challenge anyone to show me someone who does it better. There are other Hazel clips I have reviewed that include forced oral sex that are just as impressive.

So, this clip gets an enthusiastic A. The escape-chase-capture-wrestle-subdue part was wasted on me, but if you like that sort of thing (A Canadian) it was fairly realistic. I am a sucker for naked spread-eagled babes, and adding rough cock sucking to it was the icing on the cake. And the final rough oral sex on her knees could have only been better if her hands had been tied behind her back. Her wrists were bound during the spread-eagle part. So yeah, even with that boring first third and not enough bondage at the very end, this was a stand-out clip if you are a fan of forced cock sucking. Or of Hazel.

Hazel... Paying the Price is available for download in the Powershotz catalog store for $9.50. The kidnap and abuse storyline from which this clip derives is on the Forced Fantasy Fuckettes DVD (VL-034), which I have not seen. But just so you know.

Look. Another two posts in a row!

There's a huge difference between movies that are made with the intention to appeal to those of us who like rape and torture, and movies that are made to show us how bad that is in real life.

Just to add my two cents to the discussion. Real rape is pretty horrid. I doubt too many women look their best while being raped, with their faces all red and snot coming out their nose, etc. I think a lot of us get into the fantasy but don't want anything bad to come to the woman in real life. That's probably why I like ZFX movies so much. They are realistic enough in theme but with just enough fantasy mixed in that we can relax knowing that we're just watching a cleverly-filmed illusion. I doubt that to a trained eye that anyone would be fooled into thinking that these evil things are really happening to the girls. And Rick's best movies have a slightly campy male point of view that enhances the fantasy for the viewer.

The Secret in Their Eyes (that's the English title for that film that disturbed Jane) sounds like one of those films that shows rape for being the ugly crime that it really is, and then it's not fun anymore unless you're a true sadist. The Girl Next Door only showed us the unpleasant aftereffects that rape and torture had on a young woman without letting us really enjoy the thrill of inflicting that abuse onto her. It's a powerful film but more sad than erotic. I really disliked The Accused with Jodie Foster, too. Not a "fun" rape at all.

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Fritz wrote:

Where are you unearthing the War Horrors art you are posting here on GIMP? I don't see these titles on either AdultBookCovers or the first site Joanne posted.

Gosh, I don't know where I got them all. I collect everything I can find that I like. One group I belong to is called The Golden Age Of Erotic Adult Books although it's pretty much stagnant with very few postings anymore. That's probably where I got some of them.

Also, thanks for the info on GruesomeHorror. When I find time, I may take a chance on one of them to see if they satisfy my twisted desires. Good burning scenes are hard to find.

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John Galt: Oh boy, John's got a new toy and he can't resist playing with it. I like adding pictures to reviews; it gives them more of an impact that mere words alone. As long as everyone uses the HTML practice site, we shouldn't have any more issues like what occurred tonight. I use it all the time and I would recommend that everyone use it if you're doing tricky HTML work and you want to make sure it looks okay before it gets posted. I'm going to have Scribbler add a link to it on the SIGN THE FORUM page.

As for the reviews themselves, I can see you're playing Santa Claus again handing out your big bag of A's to anything from Powershotz that rings your bell. Hey, it's your review, no problem, but from reading your description of the Hazel clip, along with seeing that big ol' ugly tattoo on her shoulder, there's no way I would go that high myself. So her captor tries to tape her wrists to her ankles, but fails? Then why even show it? Just to tease us into showing what could have been good bondage? And then he tapes her hands in front? You say it's not perfect? No, it's not even good. Sorry, there's your fail right there.

And then during the forced oral, she's unbound, and the guy keeps telling her to put her hands behind her back? You know how to fix that? How about actually TYING her hands behind her? Duh. It's stupid-ass lame-o bondage, or the utter lack of even trying, that just makes me want to rip my hair out in frustration. How can it be forced if, realistically, she could just as easily get up and start running? These are bondage films! That means women are supposed to be tied up. It's like I commented on Brutus' review of the Swedish movie last week, if you can't even do the bondage right, it's not likely the rest of the movie will work.

The links for your 2 reviews are http://ralphus.net/reviews/powershotz/pow_baileyroddiscipline.htm and http://ralphus.net/reviews/powershotz/pow_hazelpaying.htm

Also… as LTL points out, you don't need to use snail mail forever when ordering from Nicheclips. I was fortunate enough to do business with them when they first set up shop, and have had CC access ever since. Now, you'll need to order your first clip by mail, but after that they apparently set you up with a credit card account.

John Galt wrote:

Fascinating videography of custom ordered titles. I'm envious. I also appreciated your take on several of the active snuff theme websites. I'm not a snuff aficionado, but sometimes I find an exception.

Thanks. Nicheclips began by hosting only a few snuff and bug-crush vendors, an admittedly odd combo except that both are the KoD when it comes to engaging credit card processors (hence Nicheclip's somewhat indirect payment options). As their roster of merchants expanded, Niche included standard BDSM, sleepy and rape themed producers, so I don't understand why others are complaining they can find nothing but snuff clips there. Further, the non-snuff Clips4Sale site offers a plethora of fetish vendors who cater to virtually every other conceivable GIMP variant.

Which brings me to another point: I've often wondered why those who do not prefer their victims tits-up at the end of a video do not simply stop watching before the death scene. I've viewed many excellent GIMP clips where I was disappointed that I could not add the heroine's demise, but those in the "let 'er live" camp do have the option of keeping the girl around by just hitting the stop button. Or am I missing something here? Is the mere knowledge that the victim dies enough to turn some folks off the rest of the action?

Have you considered writing a forced underarm and pubic shaving sequence into the beginning of your custom shoots?

As I mentioned in my previous post, I've never ordered a custom from GruesomeHorror because they did not reply to my inquiries. As a result, there's no need for a shaving sequence - and frankly, that's just fine with me. If GH ever were to make a custom for me, I'd insist on well groomed starlets from the get-go. However, I now know this will never happen, as the company only (best Frank voice now) "does it their way".

So how detailed are your scripts and how closely, generally, are they followed? Do you request specific actresses or is it luck of the draw? I'm curious, and the GIMP forum is as good a place as any to expound on your experiences.

The easiest way to answer that first question is to post an actual script. Here is the one I sent John for Deadly Interrogation 2 (with its original title intact). I tend to write very descriptive outlines, and no, I do not expect every last detail to show up in the final production. I feel I've done well if about three quarters of what I ask for makes it into the final cut - so I tend to ask for a lot. I was pleased with Deadly Interrogation 2, but for those who have the clip, you'll notice that there are some significant discrepancies between it and the original script.

In this case, I am partly to blame because what I requested was too complex for what is a very low-budget production. Further --and I hope John doesn't mind me being transparent about this-- it was a somewhat troubled shoot, so not everything went as planned (perhaps an understatement). The first Deadly Interrogation video (featuring Paris Kennedy) was also directed for me by John and was a much smoother production. So there is always a risk, and you never get everything you want. But despite the miscues, I was happy with both these customs, and will surely commission John for more in the future. I know he reads this forum, so again, apologies to John if I've pulled the curtain back a bit too far. Perhaps he'll chime in with his own perspective.

As for actress selection, that is the one aspect of the custom process where I will not compromise. I have scuttled several negotiations entirely, and dropped a few producers because a suitable star could not be found. With one exception, every custom I ordered featured the girl I requested. The exception, again, was Deadly Interrogation 2. In this case, John and I considered several actresses for the lead role - first Dia Zerva, then Samantha Jo, and finally (at my insistence) Tristen Dane. Well, Tristen was a no show (troubled shoot, remember?), and with my blessing, I had John substitute Sam Jo at the 11th hour. She did a fantastic job, and I am actually glad things didn't go as planned in this case.

LTL wrote:

I didn't know about the owner of Nicheclips having a hand in the 3 stores mentioned above. I think that's totally bizarre after finding out that Orgasmagoria was owned by one of the owners (don't know if it's the same same guy) of Nicheclips. From what little I did see from Orgasmagoria, I liked some quite a bit.

If it is the same person, it's kinda strange that he would venture into those 3 other companies and not offer Orgasmagoria clips anymore.

Actually, Todd Tjersland has no connection with Nicheclips other than being a vendor at the site. The three stores I mentioned are his, but they have nothing to do with Orgasmagoria. Todd is based in Washington State and used to run a distribution company called Threat Video in the 1990's. Later (2002) he started Astaroth Entertainment and began producing high-end (i.e., very expensive) erotic horror customs and marketing the videos online. I tried to commission him back in 2003, but could not get a quote for under $4000, which was too rich for my blood.

Orgasmagoria produced numerous very well-made GIMP-snuff clips between 2002 and 2006. It was run under the Closet Case Entertainment and Hot Visions companies by someone named Lorenzo, who was based in Florida. Lorenzo and his brother/partner opened Nicheclips and, from what I'm told, they've moved from producing videos to providing the distribution mechanism. I assume the latter affords a more profitable business model. Why Lorenzo does not release the old Orgasmagoria clips via a Nicheclips store of his own remains a mystery.

Also, since you did mention Brutal Tales, any feedback on them? I bought a clip from 'em a long time ago when they first got started but the clip was so terrible that I swore I would never get anything from them again.

If GruesomeHorror is a frustrating producer, then Todd and his current triple threat of companies (including Brutal tales) have got them beat by an order of magnitude. When he ran Astaroth seven years ago, he produced some outstanding erotic horror videos, many featuring Taylor St. Claire (a so-so porn actress with curves like the Monaco Grand Prix) and über-villain Rod Fontana. The flicks were expertly shot and edited and even had original music. Some of these early productions included the Witch Torture and Nazi Torture Dungeon series, which are still available at Todd's Gruntfilm store on Niche.

I couldn't afford Todd's Astaroth prices in 2003, but once he opened his Gruntfilms enterprise (initially a custom production company), his rates dropped considerably. He also offered Paris Kennedy (one of my favorite fetish actresses) in his line-up, so I thought this would be a great custom opportunity. Unfortunately, to compete in the quantity-over-quality market that developed as more producers opened Nicheclips stores, Todd could not maintain the production values of his Astaroth videos. My custom (Eliminator 2) ended up a mess, and most of what has been released at any of his stores since has been repetitive and uninspiring. Aside from my custom, I've purchased about ten or so clips from his stores (and none at all for over a year), and the best ones can charitably be described as MOR. Of late, Todd does not take the GIMP fetish all that seriously, and loves to yuck it up with over-acting, goofy accents, and laughable effects - a far cry from his early endeavors. But all his stores have survived, and they hold their own in the top 25, so someone seems to be enjoying his work.

A same too as I think the actress who finally settled on the name No-Name Jane looks pretty nice.

Noname Jane is actually porn star and author Violet Blue, born Ada Mae Johnson. She is hot, and has starred in dozens of Todd's videos, but somehow he manages to infuse her with all the eroticism of a doorstop. Compare her photo in the Wikipedia entry with any of her Brutal Tales preview pics and you'll get the idea. More wasted opportunities from what could be a first-rate production company.

Regarding the rape discussion....the reason I get so pissed at the banks for not granting powershotz a business account is because the scenes contain no biting, kicking, scratching, assaults with deadly weapons, bruising, blood, or injury of any kind. Yet they call it promoting violence against women. The reality is that the scenes encourage those on the edge of actually raping someone to wack off....thereby reducing their need to do it and stopping rape at its source. It's a therapeutic drug that targets those with the greatest need. Some day the idiots will figure out that people need to fantasize about kinky shit or they go nuts. If you can watch a person tortured to death in bloody detail and obviously a lot of people want to watch that then you should be able to watch a rape scene where the women actually comes out alive at the end. Unless your society has a stick up its ass about admitting to its sexual kink.

I just got Student Blackmail with Hunter (I don't recall the number) and man, is she HOT! The consensual sex is enough to get me going, and watching her die while Max fingers her pussy is awesome. I wish she had made some noise while dying, but that's a detail.

I know he reads this forum, so again, apologies to John if I've pulled the curtain back a bit too far. Perhaps he'll chime in with his own perspective.

That would be nice. It is always an unexpected pleasure when Steve Power, Sgt Major, Jane von Detlefson, and other players post to the GIMP forum. The behind-the-scenes details add immeasurably to my appreciation of the products. Whether it is Steve discussing the "disappearance" of Clarissa or Jane von Detlefson mentioning her fear of being dunked upside down in a bucket of water in a recent production, it is just nice to have some "insider" information.

As for Noname Jane, I have scenes of her as Violet Blue from SocietySM that are very nice. She is a hottie. I didn't realize she was the same person, nor did I know the story of her name change. Interesting.

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Ralphus: Well, I actually buy the overwhelming majority of the Powershotz stuff I review. So how big an idiot would I have to be to consistently buy clips or DVDs that I didn't like? Since I am looking for the best clips, unless I completely missed the boat or Steve completely messed up, my grades will be on the higher side. It's not quite the same thing as finding a small GIMP scene in the middle of a mainstream flick and rating it accordingly.

A huge factor in Steve's favor is that I have gotten pretty good at reading his descriptions and scrutinizing his photo montages, making me a highly discriminating customer. I have my favorite models. I have my favorite Powershotz set-ups, predicaments, equipment and tools. I know going in what I am expecting, and my grade generally reflects whether or not I was satisfied.

And the occasional unexpected real-life reactions I find in Powershotz clips just push my buttons. Really, it is as close as you're going to get to watching an actual assault without crossing the line. Check out the photo montage of the new Aubrey and Tatum clip and tell me if you aren't curious to see what causes Tatum to scream like that (lower left hand corner) when Aubrey employs the strap-on. These aren't experienced actresses; they just aren't good enough to fake some things.

I try very hard to provide detailed descriptions and call attention to the parts I think missed the mark, but I am not so far gone that one or two litmus test items crash the whole production for me. I really dislike that shoulder patch tattoo on Hazel, but I would tie her down and do her in a heartbeat.

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Speaking of which, I was watching a pre-show interview for one of the Kink productions in which the talk briefly turned to tattoos. The model--I think it might have been Cherry Torn--acknowledged that a lot of people prefer fewer or no tattoos on models. Her tone indicated that she didn't understand, or maybe dismissed it as a ridiculous notion, that "kinky" viewers would be so discriminating. It was an odd bit of dialog, and I came away thinking, no, she doesn't get it. As I recall (without pulling up her folder), I think Cherry has a series on tattoos down the length of her back that resemble bows. (But she's still a hottie, although lately she seems to be approaching the Amber Rayne level of taking abuse and asking for more.)

Anyway, I thought it was interesting since it means that folks in the industry are beginning to hear those preferences and maybe we will start seeing less skin ink in the future. We can only hope.

Fritz will know what's there and what's not, but judging by the preview picture, it looks like everything except the pussy stapling is there (the costume is also somewhat different and she winds up barefoot, not in boots).

Electro-pussy with sparks -- check. Nipple burning -- check. Peter Gabriel Sledgehammer -- check. And it ends with a gutting. And it stars Samantha Jo, who is one of John's best. You should at least check out the description and preview.

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Fritz wrote (of Brutal Tales): More wasted opportunities from what could be a first-rate production company.

Tell me about it. As I started watching the (only) clip, I was thinking...”This is some nice camera work. Very good lighting too....sets up the right atmosphere, creating a very creepy mood....especially with a fireplace going in the background.” But then not too much later it's like “WTF....this sucks!”

You had brought up the customs you've made; well when Brutal Tales was just getting started they were offering a free custom to a lucky winner who purchased one of their clips. That was pretty much another reason I bought from them. Anyway, to make a long story short, they claimed I was runner-up and could get a custom made for the dirt-cheap price of $250.00. After seeing the substance of their productions I was like.....”Cool, thanks....I'll get back to you.”

I really disliked The Accused with Jodie Foster, too. Not a "fun" rape at all.

It's funny -- I liked that movie, while at the same time I agree with Ralphus' point. That's because I liked the final moments leading up to the actual rape, when Jodie Foster is on the pinball machine and realizes what is going to happen to her, but can't really escape. Once it gets into the depiction of the gang rape, it no longer works for me -- too brutal.

I love Deadly Interrogation 1. It's a bit over the top -- how many times is Paris shot before she dies? -- but she sells it. Brutal and nasty, just the way I like it.

Thanks! Judging by the bullet wounds, Paris takes 41 slugs, including the final coup-de-grace to the head. But only 19 of those shots are shown on screen. John (and Paris) did an incredible job on this one.

John Galt wrote:

Perversely, after reading your original script, now I'm reluctant to track down and watch Deadly Interrogation 2. I suspect the best bits are not there, for obvious reasons (primarily budget).

Sorry… I think I left the wrong impression here. There are discrepancies between my script and the final video, but not because John could not deliver on the more ambitious effects or because of budgetary constraints. Stuff like that would have been obvious when I first submitted the proposal, and John is very upfront about revealing what he can and cannot do. In fact, he was able to deliver scenes in Deadly Interrogation 2 that I initially thought were not feasible.

To my mind, the discrepancies are more the result of the director getting lost in the details, especially while trying to shoot under difficult circumstances. A long, involved script like the one I wrote is just begging to cause trouble for a producer. That's why I'm happy with a 75% hit rate when it comes to mirroring all the highlights. I think Deadly Interrogation 2 got there, but I had secretly hoped for more because I knew John had hit well over 90% with the first installment.

Please don't pass up DI2 because you think the "best bits" are not there. If you enjoy this type of production, you won't be disappointed (unless the sparkling electro-shock effects or other weirdness spoils it for you). As jhlipton points out in a later post, all the big-ticket tortures are there. He also correctly identified two miscues. The outfits (which I had provided) were not used as expected (the black bra and panties were for the first scene, and the white dress was to be used without undergarments after our heroine embarks on her mission. John had her wear them together - not what I wanted). The boots needed to be removed for logistical reasons: they caused Samantha Jo to slide around uncomfortably once she was strung up (and as much as I like the boots, their removal was not a big deal). The pussy stapling is actually in the final production, though maybe not very evident in the preview pics.

Other discrepancies will seem relatively minor. For example, the heroine appears to be already dead when she is gutted in the final scene, while in the script she is eviscerated because she stubbornly refuses to die. Things like that won't matter much for casual viewers; in fact those who buy the clip at Niche will not be aware of them at all. Simply put, if you want an OTT torture-snuff clip, I think you will find this one doesn't pull any punches.

LTL wrote:

Anyway, to make a long story short, they claimed I was runner-up and could get a custom made for the dirt-cheap price of $250.00.

If nothing else, Todd knows how to market his wares. Just read the descriptions for some of his clips. I think he describes one of his videos as "The Ben Hur of cattle prod torture movies" -- or something like that :-). Although virtually all his recent output will disappoint discriminating GIMPers, the eight or nine videos he produced during his Astaroth period are worth the price. That said, I think you were wise to turn down your runner-up "prize".

Todd does have talent, and has produced some ambitious low-budget horror and exploitation features like Necro Files 1 and 2 (check him out on IMDB), but he's succumbed to the curse of Nicheclips mass production, and is willing to forfeit quality to maintain a 3-clip per week schedule. He's honest about this, at least - and saves his best work for the fem-dom videos he has been producing for a very different group of connoisseurs.

I want it long, straight, curly, fuzzy
Snaggy, shaggy, ratty, matty
Oily, greasy, fleecy, shining
Gleaming, steaming, flaxen, waxen
Knotted, polka-dotted; Twisted, beaded, braided
Powdered, flowered, and confettied
Bangled, tangled, spangled and spaghettied!

And I distinctly remember that freedom also included freedom from deodorants and therefore freedom for rank body odor. I won't even try to verbalize my thoughts about the olfactory characteristics of certain 70's crotches.

We won't go into the wide flare-leg slacks and Romeo puff sleeved shirts, of which I am happy to announce that all existent pictures of a youthful me so dressed have been burned. Although sadly you can still see guys in old porn movies dressed like that, although their Romeo puff sleeved shirts were unbuttoned to the navel with a gold medallion nestled in their curly chest hairs while I had the nascent intelligence not to reveal my mostly concave fish-white chest. What an era to have lived through not knowing any better.

Did you ever get your puffy shirt back after that Seinfeld episode? ;-)

But speaking of hair in the '70s - I once dated a girl back then, and I was wearing one of those shirts opened up to the navel to show my chest hair. She buttoned me back up. Guess that sent a message.

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The Lindsay Lohan Career Death Watch continues...

Anyway, I think these developments bear monitoring by those of us who are (or may be) concerned about what liberties we have left.

That's true. If you're not careful, you could end up like Canada. Or, even worse, Australia.

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Aubrey and Tatum... Can't Get It In (Powershotz, 2010)

This clip begins with Tatum completely naked and spread-eagled on the bed. Her slender wrists and ankles are leather cuffed, with chains attached to the cuffs and secured to the bed. Tatum is spread-eagled the way I prefer: stretched tight with very little play in her arms or legs.

The Masked Man walks in with Aubrey, who is also naked except she is wearing a strap-on with a largish cock sticking out of it. I don't know what story has transpired to this point, but it appears that the Masked Man is calling the shots and he is forcing Aubrey to fuck Tatum or else he will. Aubrey is reluctant to hurt her friend but apparently feels she will cause less pain to her friend. I can see it as a humiliation thing, being forced to fuck her own friend.

First comes the lubrication part. The Masked Man and Aubrey both lubricate Tatum's wide-open pussy. The oil is cold, and there are a few delicious moments when Tatum reacts strongly to the cold liquid being applied. The Masked Man orders Aubrey to lubricate Tatum.

There's about 15 seconds when the cameraman does his best Blair Witch Project imitation, bouncing the camera around in the most annoying way. Nothing of great consequence happens during this distracting transition, but it was still... distracting. I don't know that it couldn't have been edited out completely, but I'm not the director.

The Masked Man continues ordering Aubrey to lubricate both the cock and Tatum, including inside of Tatum's pussy, and directs her to insert three fingers at one point. Tatum is noticeably discomfited by the penetration, which ratchets up my enjoyment of the scene immeasurably.

After several minutes of lubricating and finger fucking, the Masked Man orders Aubrey to "fuck the bitch." Aubrey says, "Sorry I have to do this," as she climbs between Tatum's outstretched legs. Aubrey tries to fuck Tatum, but evidently, not having been born with a penis, she has difficulty inserting it into the helpless Tatum in her spread-eagle position. The Masked Man is nothing if not accommodating, though, so he unfastens Tatum's ankles and refastens them just below her wrists, so that her legs are pulled back and apart. Even Aubrey can fuck Tatum in this position.

Aubrey still has a little difficulty, though, poking the cock into Tatum and then not being able to drive it deep, and so pulling it back out and poking it in again. Tatum is hurting, and tells her to put it in and leave it in, before she calls for a "time out" (which you can just barely catch before the scene is cut). Then suddenly the cock is inside of Tatum and Aubrey is rocking back and forth, fucking Tatum. Tatum is initially in some pain, but gets used to it after a minute or so. Alas.

Then Tatum tells Aubrey, "Harder." I would have preferred she not say that, of course. But even so, it looks like Tatum is getting off on being fucked roughly. Her breathing is labored and coming in short gasps, and perspiration is building up on her throat and face. I personally like that fuck-them-until-they're-covered-in-sweat look.

Aubrey goes to town fucking Tatum, Tatum rocks back and forth, the headboard of the bed comes dangerously close to crashing up against the wall, Tatum gasps out to Aubrey to touch her clit, which Aubrey does, the fucking gets harder and finally deeper, and we fade out before anyone has a climax. More to come in the next clip, I guess.

Tatum is an attractive victim, with a slender lissome body and smallish breasts. All I could see was a small tattoo low on the front of her hip. Aubrey has a fuller body, with at least two other larger tattoos, one on the side of her belly and the other a tramp stamp (middle of the lower back). Not much was required from Aubrey in this clip, but she managed to keep up the rhythm when it came to fucking Tatum. Tatum did a pretty good job of being painfully fucked except, of course, she did safe word out at a crucial point when the pain got to be too much.

The threat level in this clip is low from the start. As a rape clip, it doesn't work at all. As a humiliation clip, it works initially, but loses that aspect as Tatum begins enjoying the sex. What this clip excels at is catching some wonderful real-life reactions from a naked, helplessly spread-eagled Tatum as she is assaulted with cold lubricant, finger fucked, and painfully violated with the fairly large plastic strap-on cock. Both her facial expressions, her body language, and her small cries and gasps reveal her discomfort, if not her pain. So obviously I really enjoyed seeing Tatum endure the painful aspects of the shoot, and for that it was an extremely worthwhile clip for me. But as a GIMP clip, it was weak, if not mildly disappointing. So GIMP-wise, I give it a C- at best.

Aubrey and Tatum... Can't Get It In is just over 9 minutes long and is available for download at the Powershotz catalog store for only $5.50.

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Matt: I have to go with Hypatia Lee...I'm a sucker for raven-haired beauties, and evidently Hypatia is nice and flexible and doesn't mind getting physical.

Making up for lost time in a big way! Thanks for the nice review of Aubrey and Tatum... Can't Get It In.

I'm not really sure that that one would do much for me though. In general I tend not to like anything with leather straps and cuffs. My first reaction whenever I see anything like that is “amateur.” I'm not saying that's the case necessarily here, I'm just saying, in general.

I guess the reason I get that reaction is because of all the amateur porn videos out there that, whenever they venture into bondage, it's usually cuffs and straps because they really don't know what to do. Either that or they use really loose ropes that the girl can escape from. That's also usually the case with cuffs & straps too....if the girl really wanted to, she could probably fairly easily get out of cuffs. Give me good 'ol ropes, telephone line, or cord anytime.

(Hey, someone had to say it.)

This is going to come as a shock to LTL, but I'd go for Angel Kelly (who met once and was really nice!). Otherwise, I'd go with Hypatia Lee, but taking advantage of her Cherokee heritage. For thew white girls, Stacey Donovan was smokin' hot, and had the innocent look I love.

Good topic, though!

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And speaking of LTL: Either that or they use really loose ropes that the girl can escape from. That's also usually the case with cuffs & straps too....if the girl really wanted to, she could probably fairly easily get out of cuffs.

Cuffs make more sense if the abuser is in a hurry, or isn't supposed to be an expert rigger. Shibari looks nice, but who's going to take the time when there's a hot young pussy to rape? The nice thing about leather cuffs is that you can get them tight (and the girl is NOT going to get out of them) without cutting off circulation or otherwise harming the actress.

A few names I might add would include Christy Canyon, Victoria Paris, Selena Steele, Britt Morgan and Kathleen Jentry.

YikYakker wrote:

The Lindsay Lohan Career Death Watch continues...

Talking about Ms. Lohan, for some reason I keep finding myself cracking hysterically everytime some new bit of info about here legal troubles comes up on TV in my area.

How to become a GIMP movie maker...
1) Open head...
2) Remove Brain...
3) Unscrew burned-out light bulb from nearby light fixture...
4) Screw burned-out light bulb into head...
5) Open nearby trash bin...
6) Toss brain in trash bin...

So does anyone know what the criteria is for the judging? All I found was that the top 20 from stage 2 would be judged. Judged how?

Anyway, good luck to all nominated.

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jhlipton wrote:

This is going to come as a shock to LTL, but I'd go for Angel Kelly....

Actually I am surprised! I had no idea that you liked women who wore big gaudy earrings. ;-)

If they're big enough, they can double as cuffs (I didn't want the rhyme, but I'm not going to change it...)

I'm going from memory, but there's a scene where a mobster's moll (Angel) has pissed off the mobster. She tries to please him by blowing the guy in the back of his limo, but after the guy cums, he's still annoyed with her. The mobster tells her the only way she can make amends is to let the mobster's buddy fuck her on the back trunk of the limo, while a bunch of other guys watch. Reluctantly, Angel agrees to do it.

As I recall, the scene with the mobster's buddy nailing Angel is very good. The movie was shot in 35 mm and Angel looks beautiful in this scene. And because she has been pressured to do this against her will, it's a scene that has some appeal for GIMPers. There are also some amusing cutaways to the mobster, who is still sitting in the back of his limo, listening to the sounds of his girlfriend getting tapped while the crowd cheers on the action.

My recollection is the movie overall is only so-so, but I've never forgotten Angel's scene.

John Galt: Thanks for the very well-written review of the Powershotz clip. It sounds like fair criticism of the action and it's somewhat refreshing to see that you don't give all their stuff glowing reviews. Many of the movies I've seen from Powershotz have some great moments swimming in a sea of mediocrity. For me, this clip would be a fail just based on Tatum telling her attacker to fuck her harder. Nothing ruins a scene quicker than the hint of consensuality, and that's about as blatant as it gets.

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

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Poll question: Which porn star from the '80s would you have liked to see do GIMP work? Here's a few for your perusal, and feel free to add any others: Ginger Lynn, Tori Welles, Barbara Dare, Hypatia Lee, and of course, the Ivory Snow/Insatiable girl, the late Marilyn Chambers.

John Galt mentioned Ginger Lynn. Back in the mid-1980s, during the height of her cuteness, Ginger Lynn had a bondage-sex scene in Jailhouse Girls. She puts up a tiny bit of resistance, but it's mainly in the rape database just because she's bound while it happens. There's also another scene where there's no bondage, but it's a better scene. Ginger is raped by a prison guard and does at least object and cry out while being raped from behind.

I agree, the Sex and Submission page you linked only had me wishing she was 25 years younger when it was shot. Women have a shelf life, and she was well past her prime by then.

You know, I really thought Hypatia Lee was dead. I heard she had faked her own death, but then I thought she had died for real afterward. Apparently that's not true. Wikipedia still lists her as being alive, and she has a MySpace page with some recent pics of herself, too.

That Getting Physical clip that YikYakker linked was super sexy. She had great hair. Definitely didn't look like your stereotypical porn star.

I honestly didn't want much porn in the 1980s because even then I knew that without ropes, it would usually be a boring experience, and I was right. I remember checking out a Traci Lords film because it had a picture of her blindfolded on the back of the box, but it turned out to have no bondage. Too bad, because she had an incredible pair of tits and was quite an enthusiastic performer. Too bad she didn't go the route of exploitation films once her porn career ended.

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Death Spa clip: I hate the way Anubis edits his clips. By only showing us the woman in bondage, he completely removes all the great dialogue that helps give the scene its strength. For instance, when the hero asks the lady villain where Laura is, she replies, "Working on her tan". Then this classic line: "Careful, one flick of a button and she's fried chicken!' Not to mention "You're gonna watch Laura BURN!" Oh well, that's another 1980s GIMP scene that's not on DVD, so at least it's better than nothing.

I'm think for best paysite, all 40 or so judges have to join the top 20 paysites to check out their pay areas. Judge Simon Cowell was outraged when he learned all the judges weren't going to get courtesy memberships to all the sites.

For best retailer, all 40 or so judges have to engage in retail with each of the top 20 retailers. Many judges balked at this cause many of the retailers didn't have anything they wanted to buy, or the prices were too high, and for some reason, some places don't allow returns.

For best product, all 40 or so judges have to buy, rent or borrow each product and try them out. This is why some of the judges are pretty sick now, after having shared products among themselves to save on expenses. Afterall, they're expected to spring for limos to go to the awards event.

For best company, no idea.

For best bondage movie, wait, that's not a category. Why in the world would I think this would be a category?! Nevermind.

Well, look's like the 22nd has come and gone. The awards have apparently been postponed due to manufacturing problems. You see, a good number of oompa loompas are needed to jump up and down on the awards to flatten them so they can be sent out as jpegs, but as many know all the oompa loompas went on strike when they learned they weren't eligible to be judges.

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'80s porn stars for GIMP scenes: Hypatia Lee is a good choice. I thought Annette Haven was one of the hottest actresses of that era, as was Shauna Grant.

Truthfully, I don't know that many porn actresses after the mid-1980s, having lost all interest in vanilla porn by that time.

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John Galt: Nice reviews of the Powershotz videos. The new visual effects are an added bonus to the superb writing.

For best product, all 40 or so judges have to buy, rent or borrow each product and try them out. This is why some of the judges are pretty sick now, after having shared products among themselves to save on expenses. Afterall, they're expected to spring for limos to go to the awards event.

Yeeeeeeee.....though I'm kinda surprised that hasn't been turned into a horror flick yet. I can see it now.....”The Sex-Toy that Ate Cleveland!”

Movie synopsis: After an on-location porno shoot the bus load of cast and crew get into a tragic traffic accident and are all kilt (that's killed to the average person). With no one left to retrieve the over-used sex toy accidentally left in the cabin in the woods. It begins to grow fur and takes on a life of it's own, killing everything it gets in contact with. Da Howwa.... (“The Horror” for those not fluent in Fudenese).

and wrote:

The awards have apparently been postponed due to manufacturing problems. You see, a good number of oompa loompas are needed to jump up and down on the awards to flatten them so they can be sent out as jpegs, but as many know all the oompa loompas went on strike when they learned they weren't eligible to be judges.

Well I hope that the delay isn't an indication that there's been a disqualification. After all, Ralphus does have connections with the said group flatteneners. ;-)

Then I clicked on the BA forum link (upper right) to see if any recent posts. Nothing since may 12th. I note that of the subforums: Off-topic/Introductions subforum has a grand total of 1 topic, and subforum 2010 Awards has a total of 8 topics. Then at the bottom of the page are the statistics claiming Total topics of 1260. I count 9, but they count 1260. Must be new math they're using. Topics x 140 = Total topics.

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If you like sleazy pulp covers as much as I do, you may find a few more of them here. Bondage is not the major theme at this site, but some of the artwork looks interesting.

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Speaking of, our friend Covers3 is back up and posting new artwork, after being out of commission for a while. I've been visiting this site every day since its inception. He's been doing great work for a long time.

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I've been pretty hard on Lindsay Lohan, and I should express some feelings of shame...but I probably won't. Instead, I will point out that LL is not the only young celeb who seems headed for trouble. Take this gal. What she really needs to do is find a role with a really fantastic GIMP scene in a movie that goes straight to DVD. She becomes a cult fave with an appreciative fan base, her husband cuts her loose, and she goes on to do more of the same. Well, one can dream.

My old PC had been having hardware problems (flaky motherboard) for about six months, and when I picked up some malware that I could not remove without a disk wipe, I decided to build a new PC. Athlon hex-core, Windows 7 64-bit, Adobe CS5 Creative Suite--all of the latest stuff that takes my standard habitual ways of getting work done and throws them out the window. ;-)

This little adventure has set me back a few weeks on running a new batch of comic book covers, but I should be able to keep up daily posts of the pulps with only a little scrambling.

Covers

Actually, I never got around to reviewing SSPD-067 last year (I did list the star, Emi Harukaze, as my favorite actress of 2009) but it's a film that is worth checking out. Although the movie gets a little too vanilla-porn-like near the end, it nonetheless has some strong moments and is better than average.

"Special Night" Here are the detailed PICTURES

In addition, many of my movies are available at my new webshop...where Credit Card and Paypal are accepted. https://www.flickrocket.com/eshop/Catalog.aspx?SCID=2172&CID=2172

Thanks,

JohnM

This is a kidnapping and bondage DVD, with a brief introductory stalking and kidnapping sequence, followed by several lengthy bondage scenes.  It features Page, a very young-looking, slender, and as far as I can tell, tattoo-free blond. And when I say young-looking, I mean it is frighteningly easy to imagine Page being younger than, say, 18 years old. So if you like young victims, this might be a must-see DVD.

Page is not dressed in a schoolgirl outfit, thankfully, since that might have been too much, but instead is walking down the city street in a thin hot pink top, tight low-slung jeans and white tennis shoes. She is being spied upon, and sure enough the Masked Man jumps out and manhandles her into his van. He quickly zip-ties her wrists (behind her back) and her ankles. She cries out in pain, so he cloth gags her. There is some random spanking and groping.

Page cries for help through her gag all the way back to the Masked Man's lair. She also struggles futilely for the entire seven minutes it takes to get there. The Masked Man unbinds her ankles and carries her over his shoulder to his work area, where he shackles her ankles. The Masked Man engages in more taunting, spanking, groping, lifting her top to expose her small but lovely breasts, and forces her to her knees.

Suddenly, about fourteen minutes in, Page is not gagged any longer, and her wrists and ankles are also unbound. She is forced to remove her top, which she does reluctantly, and modestly keeps one arm covering her breasts the entire time. That's a nice touch, communicating embarrassment and shame. When the Masked Man orders her to raise her arms straight up, she looks angry but helpless as she slowly complies. Page is actually very good throughout this DVD, acting the unwilling plaything while the Masked Man instructs her.

Page's wrists are tied behind her back and her knees and ankles are tied together. She is cloth gagged. More groping, choking, spanking, cropping and taunting. The Masked Man orders her to perform by struggling and rolling around while she is topless. He wants her to work up a sweat, but sadly she does not. Nevertheless, the Masked Man and I take great pleasure reveling in Page's semi-nude helplessness for the next thirteen minutes or so.

In the next scene, about 33 minutes into the DVD, Page is huddled in the corner, still topless, when the Masked Man orders her to take off her pants, which she slowly does. Wearing only her tennis shoes and black panties, Page is made to sit on a stool as the Masked Man duct tapes her wrists, knees, ankles, and mouth, all the while feeling her up. Page struggles helplessly for several minutes. Near the end of this scene, the Masked Man returns, harshly (!) rips off the duct tape gag, and inserts a red ballgag into Page's pretty mouth instead.

The panties come down (but not off) at the 53 minute mark, and Page is bent over the stool and whipped with a belt and hand spanked by her tormentor. She is still duct tape bound at wrists, knees and ankles.

At one hour in, Page is settled onto the floor, face down. The Masked Man carefully removes the duct tape bonds, and while he's at it, he finally removes Page's panties as well. So now she is wearing only her white tennis shoes. And what a tender young slender body she has.

The Masked Man leads Page over to a wooden dining table and forces her to lay on her stomach on the table top. She is then rope tied face down on the table and cloth gagged. We watch her struggle helplessly for probably about ten more minutes, during which time she manages to roll over and tries to sit up. But soon enough, the Masked Man returns, rolls her back over, bends her knees back, and turns her bondage into a hogtie. She continues to feebly struggle.

At twenty minutes after the hour, the Masked Man walks back in scene and unties her wrists, removes the cloth gag, then unties her ankles and knees. He orders her onto her hands and knees on the table for his visual inspection. But Page's table top time has come to an end.

The final twelve minute scene begins with the Masked Man tossing Page onto a mattress on the floor. He orders her to (finally!) remove her shoes and socks, so that she is now totally naked. Yum, but only briefly as he has her put her shoes back on. With Page face down on the mattress, her hands are bound behind her back with rubber hose, then her ankles are also bound together with rubber hose. There's some hand gagging before the Masked Man stuffs one of her socks into her mouth and cloth gags her again. He spanks her very hard, and generally treats her very roughly before finally pulling her feet back and hogtying her. She ends up hogtied, gagged and blindfolded as we fade out.

SUMMARY: Page is kidnapped off the street, then over the course of several scenes lasting an hour and twenty minutes she is stripped naked, a piece of clothing per scene. In each scene she is bound and gagged differently. She is taunted, slapped, spanked, whipped with a belt, groped, choked, explored (externally) and made to perform for the Masked Man's pleasure. Most importantly, all of the bondage is spot-on, without those annoying hands-in-front or easy-to-slip-out-of bondage situations. (You know what I mean.)

The DVD has the standard high Powershotz production values. There was a slip up at the 32:22 minute mark where the cameraman says "cut," asks about a blinking yellow light, which the Masked Man says is okay, then says "action'" and goes on. Of course, the bit didn't get edited out. But oh well. It did not diminish my enjoyment of Page's bondage ordeal. It could have been his evil but videography-challenged henchman, filming the helpless Page for sharing with their fellow evil perverts, after all.

For a straightforward bondage extravaganza, this is an exemplary DVD. It does not hurt that Page looks so dangerously young and stays in character as a frightened but at times defiant teen victim the entire time. I would have liked to see her violated, of course, but for those aficionados of helpless young babes struggling futilely in different bound positions, while being moderately physically abused, this delivers. The threat level was moderate, in my opinion. I would give this a C for GIMP. Good marks for bondage and abuse, as well as for Page's youthful look, acting ability and staying in character, but no really harsh abuse, rape or even genital fondling keeps me from going higher.

Binding Dilemma is available at the Powershotz on-line store for only $40.

It's too bad the movie only rates a C but I'm sure it will appeal to some.

Meanwhile, I'm feeling intimidated by the visuals that are now supporting the reviews these days. I thought it was a big deal when I learned the HTML codes for putting words in bold, but I guess I'm still far behind the times.

Except that Barbarella sure seemed to be having a REALLY good time in the Excessive Machine. In fact, she blew all its fuses!

“The energy cables are shrinking -- you’ve turned them into faggots!”

Re the review of Binding Dilemma: The Masked Man orders her to perform by struggling and rolling around while she is topless. He wants her to work up a sweat, but sadly she does not.

Hell, that ain't the way to do it. Any sado pervert knows the way to make a topless girl get sweaty is to force her to do exercises. Jumping jacks are especially good.

Shauna was able to convey a sense of innocence even while sucking and fucking. Very good choice!

As for Binding Dilemma, I like 'em young, but unfortunately Page doesn't do much for me. Plus the movie doesn't really sound all that extreme. The review I'm waiting for is Hoosier Daddy, since I've seen the stills and Delila rings my bell in a big way. It's all about casting, casting, casting. Let's hope Steve knew what to do with her. Depending on your grade, I'm willing to cough up some coin to see if this one delivers.

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

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A Canadian: Regarding adding pics to reviews, don't be intimidated. I think I was the first one here to do it when I reviewed Goon Squad last year. LTL and YikYakker followed by spicing up their reviews with picture links. And John Galt's look best of all, incorporating small pics into the actual text. But while they're nice, there's no requirement that reviews have to have pictures. If anyone wants to review a movie, don't be feel you have to be an HTML expert and copy the big guys. I don't even know the formula to do what Galt is doing, although it may not be that complicated. Bottom line is that any contribution is appreciated, so if you can't do pics, don't let that stop you from adding to the forum.

She was also the female lead in The Disappearance of Alice Creed which apparently has some GIMPness. Anyone seen it?

Gemma Arterton...was also the female lead in The Disappearance of Alice Creed which apparently has some GIMPness. Anyone seen it?

It isn't out yet. Apparently it's due to open at some film festivals in the UK and elsewhere sometime this month, though, but nowhere near the US. No DVD release is scheduled as of now. Trust me, I've been keeping an eye out for it. Last December, I listed it in my Year End Wrap-Up. Here's what I wrote:

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Most Eagerly Awaited DVD Release of Next Year - The Disappearance of Alice Creed, in which British beauty Gemma Arterton is kidnapped, stripped naked, ballgagged and tied spreadeagled on a bed for nearly the entire movie, according to reports on the Internet.

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It could turn out to be a disappointment GIMP-wise, and the info I'm hearing may not be entirely accurate, but it definitely should be worth checking out. And it's Gemma Arterton, one of the most beautiful women in movies today, playing the victim. I hear she's also being tapped to replace Megan Fox in the new Transformers movie.

Amen to that. While I like adding pics to my reviews, it sure does slow down the process...it's a lot of work.

John Galt's work is terrific. I don't understand how he works his magic, so I'm not even going to attempt it. (Heh-heh - 'don't try this at home'!)

But if you've got any scenes or flicks to describe, by all means please do so. We'll all appreciate it, and we can catch up with the visual aids later.

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A Canadian wrote: I'm feeling intimidated by the visuals that are now supporting the reviews these days.

I haven't tried incorporating pictures within a review yet, and my last one simply had links to some stills I created and uploaded to Photobucket. (There were 2,000 views, or about 400 for each pic, in the week of that review!) It wasn't that difficult after I got used to the program to make the vidcaps, but it does take time.

This raises a question: Do people prefer the pics or the links in the reviews? I personally like the links because they add to the humor, especially in LTL's reviews. Also, the links make it easier for me to hide the nature of what I am reading in case my kids suddenly barge into the room.

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From the Bondage Awards site: I should have the results posted later today around 9pm EST.

We begin with Delila Darling in her room, gloriously naked except for a pair of skimpy lace panties. She sits down and straps on a pair of sexy high heels (while we get a tour of her incredible pale nude body). She dresses in a long golden gown, does her make up, and takes a cell phone call during which she discusses tonight's prom. The stage is set. She drives to the prom and pauses to refresh her lip gloss in the rear view mirror just long enough for the Masked Man to back his van up next to her in what was a surprisingly subtle but spooky background activity. He leaps out and uses a stun gun to render her unconscious. No struggle, just zap and she is down. In his van, her wrists are cuffed behind her back, her ankles are shackled, and she is cloth gagged.

There's a nice long scene of Delila struggling and rolling around in the back of the van and being taunted by the Masked Man. Delila plays the angry, confused, helpless and frightened victim well. She is still in her prom dress but it gets hiked up a lot. The van comes to a stop and the Masked Man stuns Delila unconscious again, tosses her over his shoulder, and carries her into his lair.

Once inside the lair, Delila is revived and forced up onto her knees to suck The Plastic Cock. She resists, and there is some face slapping and rough handling until she is reluctantly taking the cock into her pretty mouth. There's some nice deep-throating and gagging. She is still dressed in her prom dress, with her ankles and wrists still shackled, but of course she is no longer cloth gagged. She is cock gagged instead. And when the plastic cock "cums," white viscous goo spews out of Delila's mouth as she defiantly does not swallow it as ordered. Then she calls the Masked Man a sick fuck and he slaps her around. It is a nice moderately rough sequence.

In the next scene, the Masked Man walks the groggy Delia over to and belts her face down on a long 2x12 board sitting on two sawhorses. Still dressed in her gown and strappy high heels, the semi-conscious Delila's wrists are chained to her ankles. Delila is brought around with an ammonia inhalant. There's some standard spanking and groping. The Masked Man rips the gown up the back between her legs to reveal her white lacy panties, which he promptly tears off to expose Delila's pussy. More spanking and taunting as Delila makes angry, helpless victim noises as best she can through the cloth gag.

The Masked Man shows her the glass rod to let her know what's coming, then spends the next few minutes fucking her pussy (without any lubricant, which is a nice touch), followed by a little over one minute of bare-ass flogging. Then out comes the lubricant and for the next 6 minutes Delila is sodomized using the glass rod. There are some delicious close-ups of Delila's smooth pink pussy and asshole, and a really nice bit where the Masked Man squirts oil onto the top of her crack and we watch it roll down the flawless white alley to her ass, which puckers when she feels it hit home. Mmm.

No tears or crying, and no sudden screams indicating painful penetration, but Delila does moan, whine and protest to show humiliation and discomfort. The scene ends with the Masked Man using the stun gun to knock her out again, and we are treated to a tour of her unconscious and partially nude body.

The next scene begins with Delila cuffed and chained to an X-frame standing upright leaned back at about a 60-degree angle. She is still wearing the prom dress, which is draped artfully over her stretched-out body, covering one leg and contrasting nicely with the other luscious pale leg exposed. She is still unconscious and cloth gagged.

The Masked Man rouses her with an ammonia inhalant once more, then rips the neck strap of the dress to expose Delila's creamy white breasts, coral nipples, and a series of moles under her right breast that I read as Morse Code for "touch me here." The Masked Man proceeds to rip and tear the prom dress until he has her completely naked, and although he seems to have some difficulty doing it, I enjoyed every second. No obvious piercings, but Delila has a single small tattoo high on her right thigh.

More taunting, groping, caressing, exploring and choking. I would have done it for a lot longer and gone down on her as well.

There's a sudden scene cut and the X-frame is now suspended flat, with Delila stretched out horizontally across it. The Masked Man returns with the Powershotz finger vibrator and goes to work on Delila, who reacts strongly to the touch of the vibrator. Lots of struggling and screaming, which is very loud even through the cloth gag. You can tell she is reacting naturally because she coughs and her face is fully flushed. Delila's slender body is also visibly tense and arched as she endures the vibrator, which I thought was hot as hell. Delila's ordeal goes on for 8-1/2 glorious minutes. I was waiting for him to fuck her with the vibrator, which I suspect would have had her spasming uncontrollably, but sadly he did not. *sigh*

Next, the Masked Man exits and walks back in with The Plastic Cock emerging through his pants. Delila is still chained to the horizontal X-frame, at just the right height off the ground for fucking. (Mr Havana, take note.) He squirts lubricating oil on her pussy, then on the plastic cock, then fucks her. I would have fucked her a lot harder and a lot deeper, but then again I wouldn't have used a plastic cock, so I guess I'm comparing apples to oranges. It is a wonderful scene, and although Delila's noises aren't terrified-and-in-pain rape noises, she's playing a believable rape victim, both angry and frightened.

After about 3 minutes, the Masked Man unchains her ankles so he can hold her legs apart and lift them up and continue fucking her in slightly different positions, leg-wise. Okay, the Devil's Advocate in me took note of the fact that she was still wearing her high heels and it would have been very easy for her to kick those heels into the eye holes of his ski mask and do some real damage. So don't try this at home without removing the victim's weaponized shoes first.

The Masked Man fucks Delila for another 3-1/2 minutes, then stun guns her again. Once more we are given a brief tour of Delila's unconscious naked body. Including her sexy moles. Mmm again. Fade to black.

In the final scene, the Masked Man drags a naked Delila into the bedroom by her feet. (Strangely, I found myself wondering about rug burn.) He lifts her onto the bed and rearranges her a bit before he settles on face down. He cuffs a spreader bar between her ankles, pulls her ass-up onto her knees, and cuffs her wrists to her ankles so that she is bent over on her knees. She is still cloth gagged. He rouses her with an ammonia inhalant again.

First the Masked Man fucks Delila's ass with the glass rod for a short minute, then out comes The Plastic Cock and he fucks her ass some more. I am of course a little disappointed he doesn't line himself up, take hold of her creamy white hips and pound her deep and hard. Still, he does a decent job of sodomy, climaxing the scene with a simulated ejaculation in her ass.

At this point, the rape purists might want to stop the player, because the last brief scene has Delila laying face up on the bed, looking scrumptious, by the way, as the Masked Man tells her she can go. She asks if she can stay because she's never been fucked like that before. Personally, I would keep her, but it kind of takes away from the whole kidnap, rape and discard GIMP storyline.

However, this shoot was a custom request, and the customer asked for an execution ending wherein the helpless Delila is brutally bludgeoned to death. So there's an alternate ending that, for understandable legal and billing company reasons, will never show up on the Powershotz site nor on the DVD that is for sale in the Powershotz catalog. But, you know, it was shot. So if you really like Delila Darling and this DVD sounds enticing, well, there's a place to make a request when you order the DVD on the Powershotz website. In the words of Eric Idle, "Know what I mean, know what I mean, nudge nudge wink wink, say no more."

SUMMARY: Beautiful prom queen Delila Darling is kidnapped, cuffed, cloth gagged, repeatedly shocked with a stun gun, groped and taunted, forced to give a blowjob and take a load in her mouth, chained face down wrist-to-ankle and sodomized with a glass rod, flogged, chained to an X-frame, stripped naked, felt up and explored, vibrated to the point of screaming, fucked while chained to the X-frame, shackled wrist-to-ankle on a bed and sodomized with a glass rod before being fucked and sodomized with a cock until her assailant cums in her ass. What's not to like? The production values were the polished Powershotz standard. The infrequent and unobtrusive fades and split screens were nice touches, I thought. Delila Darling is absolutely gorgeous and performance-wise, she acquitted herself nicely.

In short, this is an hour and a half of pure GIMP (with no unnecessary filler albeit with a non-GIMP final 30 seconds) starring a smoking hot model. This is a Powershotz production at its finest, and it gets a well-deserved A. With the alternate highly GIMP ending, maybe an A+. Hoosier Daddy is available for $45 at the Powershotz DVD store.

Thanks for another nice Powershotz review of Binding Dilemma. Page certainly is very attractive and has a very nice youthful look about her.

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Brutus' inquiry:

This raises a question: Do people prefer the pics or the links in the reviews? I personally like the links because they add to the humor, especially in LTL's reviews. Also, the links make it easier for me to hide the nature of what I am reading in case my kids suddenly barge into the room.

I like both. I like Ralphus' & John Galt's pictures integrated into the layout, and the links. Brutus' latest review was especially entertaining with the humorous captions added to the pics that wouldn't have had the same effect if there were just there. It's also kinda fun not knowing exactly what's going to be on the other end.....although, depending on who's posting, you sometimes have a pretty good idea (Hey jhlipton....no one mentioned anything about chocolate ;-])

As well, I think Powershotz should get a jpeg award for the film's clever title.

From the Bondage Awards site: I should have the results posted later today around 9pm EST.

Tick, tock, tick, tock...

It looks like it was a tough year for the GIMPers and for the Luvbights. Oh, well. I would have liked to have seen Jane von Detlefson win but I think Jane and the rest of us operate too far outside of the bondage world's mainstream. So be it.

A real change in the results this year compared to the past 2 years. The most glaring change is the absence of the Luvights, who won 4 Golds the first year, and 3 Golds and a Silver last year, with only Dee Luvbight finishing second for Best Model. No doubt, that was the impetus for John to make drastic changes in the way votes are counted. This year, Dee Luvbight wasn't even in the Top 20 finalists. And no Luvbights even made the Top 10 in any category.

In our category, there were only 3 of the Top 10 finishers who repeated from last year. So not winning again certainly doesn't make us unique. Like Canadian noted, we're a bit extreme to be accepted by a wide audience. But we've got our loyal readers and I thank all of you for getting us as far as we did in this year's balloting.

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John Galt: Wow, an A for Hoosier Daddy? I'm thisclose to ordering it from Steve. The consensual ending you mentioned nearly made me puke, but the alternate execution version sounds much more palatable. Thanks for mentioning that; good to know there's another version out there.

I'm having technical troubles transcribing your review (all those damn pictures are giving me fits) but I hope to have it uploaded soon.

I am looking for an adult oriented social networking website. I need to find someplace where I can host screencaps from a very old Japanese Adult Video title that I have. I have considered Dark Fetish Network and did at one time create a profile at the site. Dark Fetish Network turned out to be just too extreme for my tastes and I didn't hang around for long before deciding to delete the profile and leave.

I did a google search on this subject, but it wound up becoming like looking for a needle in a haystack. The search turned up just too many choices and without knowing what audience the social networking site is targeted to, I couldn't decide which to consider. Anyone know of social networking sites that are targeted toward GIMPers without having the excessive extremes that were present at Dark Fetish Network?

How to become a GIMP movie maker...
1) Open head...
2) Remove Brain...
3) Unscrew burned-out light bulb from nearby light fixture...
4) Screw burned-out light bulb into head...
5) Open nearby trash bin...
6) Toss brain in trash bin...

i have found a new movie with female whipping.

title: Bathory

year: 2009

i think its a german version from the "blood-baroness-bathory" theme with anna fries.

inside a 10 seconds scenes with 3 girls on a market-place and one 20 sec scene with a girl in dungeon.

in the movie you can find move on a short rackscene (15 sec), girl chained in dungeon, in cages, branding torture and burning at stake - scenes.

round about a nice movie for collectors.

for pics from all relevant scenes visit my group - i will upload today at afternoon.

greets TARL

at last: sry for all interested guys - i have limited the membership of the group - in moment we have arrived the limit - please wait. thx for your understanding.

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TARL: Whew! I'm glad I didn't wait any longer to join your group. Thanks, man. Looking forward to your post of the Bathory movie. Just curious...is that a Bound Heat production?

to "Bathory": correction: its a czechoslovakian movie with a film budget rised up to 380 million czech crowns, from MIG-Filmgroup and Jakubisko Films with Anna Friel, Karel Rodan and the old Franco Nero.

pics upload in 5 min.

Delila really appealed to me and is now on my Must Watch list. Sadly, I think she is moving in more of a vanilla porn direction, which is a shame because I could watch her being stripped, bound, abused and violated all day long. Happily, Steve has some more Delila stuff in the can, so Delila aficionados can look forward to a little more Powershotz-flavored Delila Darling GIMP.

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A Canadian: The Masked Man, who is not Steve in this instance, by the way, but I suspect Delila's husband, the lucky stiff, does speak the words, "Who's your daddy?" at one point in the movie. I almost missed it, so rapt was I with the action and Delila's mesmerizing presence. But I also thought it was an inspired title. Maybe even jpeg-award inspired, although obviously the jpeg awarding is way overrated now.

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Ralphus: I knew you would rag on the standard ending, so I was really pleased when Steve said I could mention the original custom shoot ending. You might like this Powershotz production, even if Delila isn't burned at the stake in the end.

I mentioned the review and the GIMP forum to Delila via her MySpace account, so maybe she will drop by and post a comment. Or take out a restraining order. But it would be way cooler if she posted.

So in retrospect it seems clear that the amount of vanilla bondage out there is so huge that the chances of a more specializing and interesting site winning any "bondage" awards is minimal. Which also means that past awards to sites such as this and to its members is really quite extraordinary.

GIMP should just give out its own "MErciless Awards" (which could be abbreviated the "ME"s -- oh, wait, I think another group uses that name).

What I discovered is that the Bondage Awards should be renamed the GIP awards because the sites that received awards certainly have no M in them. They are to GIMP what vanilla is to bondage. Yawn.

Something tells me you wouldn't get along too well with my old friend, Bondage Dave.

In case you've never heard of him, he was a guy who used to post on YouTied and was only interested in vanilla bondage. He would get outraged if anyone uploaded a clip with anything GIMP, posting dramatic comments with lots of CAPS and exclamation marks!!!! He had a particular hate-on for Ralphus, Brutus and me.

I suppose you have to give him credit for making a name for himself. It's been almost two years since YouTied was launched for its brief run, and no one has been able to forget Bondage Dave. Believe me, I've tried.

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Bondage Awards: WE WUZ ROBBED!! Actually, I didn't think we had much of a chance either. I agree that the BondageDaves of the world outnumber the GIMPers. (I'm talking about people into "love bondage," not whiny obnoxious morons.) This and other sites into more extreme fetishes are definitely at a disadvantage.

I think Ralphus may have to inform Jeff Gord that he won some awards again. Congratulations Jeff!

I know that the Luvbights have some friends here but I am happy to see them shut out. After Mick Luvbight defended all their awards last year, I checked out their site--and lost interest in about 2 minutes. There are tons of pics there, but it seems 99 percent of them are of his wife, including many vacation photos. And if you're not into her, you will not be into the site. The photography is average at best, certainly not close to the quality of some of the other Bondage Award candidates in the photography category.

I know many people don't take the awards seriously, and there are definitely glaring flaws in the voting system. But they are a fun diversion and it's nice publicity for the people who win. I also admire John's efforts to improve this project.

Ah yes, those were the good old days...YouTied and Bondage Dave. Like you said, it's hard to think of one without thinking of the other. I have the feeling that if, by some miracle, YouTied ever did resurrect itself, Bondage Dave would be right there as well.

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I checked out TARL's pics from the Bathory movie, and it is not a Bound Heat production (they have a few films based on the same theme).

The film-makers must have spent most of those 380 million Czech crowns on sets, costumes and cinematography because the movie sure looks expensive. The critics at IMDb have given it mixed reviews.

GIMPwise, there is an interesting scene of a naked woman chained, face against a dungeon wall, being branded with a hot iron. Also, two women get burned at the stake. I didn't catch a scene with whipping, but the branded woman appeared to have the marks from one. There are also indications of AOH bondage, as the pics show close-ups of bound wrists.

There is also a scene of a naked woman being raped outdoors by a soldier. I don't think the woman is Anna Friel.

Some of the torture scenes involve crones, and there's also a lot of blood in evidence. These will undoubtedly turn off some folks.

Can't judge a movie solely from the stills, but it seems to hold some interest for pyro fans.

I agree with everyone in that we were at somewhat of a disadvantage on the awards front. But the judges should look at all aspects of the site. Take some things into consideration….make some allowances. I mean it’s not our fault jhlipton frequents this site. Give the site the benefit of the doubt in spite of. ;-])

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Yet another very nice review, this time of Hoosier Daddy. Sounds very interesting!

I don't know whether to call that sick or brilliant. Perhaps a bit of both?

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Canadian: at least for the jhlipton-like edition

I don't care for bludgeoning, by and large. Steve's done some light asphyx -- if Delila was taken out that way, I might be interested.

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Ralphus: The consensual ending you mentioned nearly made me puke, but the alternate execution version sounds much more palatable.

Or you could turn off the movie before it turns consensual...

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re the Bondage Awards: the name explains it all. It is meant to represent what most people like in bondage. As such, it's going to gravitate toward "vanilla", since votes from any sort of fetishist will counter-act the votes from another sort. So blaming the Awards for doing what it says in the name seems kind of silly. I'm kind of surprised that some of the winners are as extreme as they are (such as Gord and Kink).

sry - i know the problems with whipping and screens - is not easy to make good screens from this kind - the whip bite to quick :O)

scene first are pics 008 and 009, second scene pics from 046 to 052.

greets TARL

Only problem is, apparently you can see the movie on your side of the world, but we Westerners apparently have to wait since it's not out on DVD yet in the states. Why is it all the good stuff comes out first in other countries and we always have to wait? I'm still waiting on that Lacey Chabert electroshock movie that LTL reviewed a while back.

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jhlipton wrote:

re the Bondage Awards: the name explains it all. It is meant to represent what most people like in bondage. As such, it's going to gravitate toward "vanilla", since votes from any sort of fetishist will counter-act the votes from another sort. So blaming the Awards for doing what it says in the name seems kind of silly.

To quote a troll on YouTied (when I posted a rape clip there): "Hey asshole, the name of the site is YouTied, not YouRaped!' Likewise, it's not the Rape Awards, or the Torture Awards, but the Bondage Awards. The type of stuff we dig here is more extreme than what most mainstream bondage fans can handle. And yeah, vanilla is going to be more popular, although in my mind, it's not nearly as interesting or as much fun as the stuff we gravitate towards. Consensual bondage, for the most part, is crap. And you can quote me on that.

I'm kind of surprised that some of the winners are as extreme as they are (such as Gord and Kink).

Hmmm...you think Gord is extreme? I like Jeff Gord, and I think he's taken bondage and created something that is unique and refreshingly different, although I don't really consider his work "extreme". As an artist, I think he's one of the most creative out there. I voted for him in a few categories, and I'm glad that he won. I think he was among the most deserving of the final nominees. But again, different doesn't really equate to extreme in my book.

I'm not a fan of Kink.com. Same with Hogtied. I knew they would both win because they're so huge. I guess one could describe their bondage as extreme (well, as "extreme" as the laws allow in this day and age) and I guess most of today's bondage fans think that since they combine sex with bondage that they must be the best thing out there. But nearly everything I see from them bores me. The bondage may be great but the scenarios are consensual, the action is repetitive and ultimately it's just a means to another end...to find a way to make the woman cum. Yawn. Give me a ZFX vid instead.

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Steve Power wrote:

People need to remember that most dvd titles sell under 20 copies.

Good God! Once again another perfect example of how little these producers make after poring their time and money into making bondage entertainment for us. Guys, if you think Delila is hot and want to see her abused on video, whip out the credit card and support Steve's endeavors. It's a tiny niche market and it's hard enough to make a living with all those file-sharing bootleggers out there. Steve, put me down for the alternate version of Hoosier Daddy.

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John Galt: Speaking of which, the direct link for your review is in my Homepage URL above. Another excellent and well-written review, thanks.

Let's do some math.

Over 40,000 votes. So I'll guess 41,000. Now these are votes, not voters!

41,000 votes / 10 categories = 4,100 approximate voters.

Let's revise this guess to note that some voters may not have voted in all 10 categories, I'll guess average to be 7: 41.000 votes / 7 categories = about 5,857 voters or so.

Wait...some, or actually a lot of voters voted multiple times cause they didn't read the new rules change saying you can only vote once for a nominee in a category, not once per day during the multiple days of voting. I read promotion from a number of sites telling their fans to vote for them often or daily. Also on this site some voted for us more than once when Ralphus discovered that the voting form page didn't restrict multiple votes for same nominees. (Duplicates were removed later.) Need to do some guesswork here. Hmmm...so 41,000 votes - 20,000 dups (guessing) = 21,000. 21,000 votes / 7 categories = 3,000 voters.

Granted, these are rough guesses, but I actually think I'm being generous.

So 3,000 voters or so. But wait, what about the people who voted twice or 3 times from multiple IP locations (home computer, work computer, relative's computer, friend's computer, cellphone, library computer). If 30% of voters voted from 2 locations, and 10% voted from 3 locations: 3000 x 30% = 900, 3000 x 10% = 300 then 900 voters account for 1800 votes and 300 voters account for 900 votes, so of apparent 3,000 voters, 450 account for double voters, so subtotal 2,550 voters, and then 100 account for 3x voters, so lose 200, then 2,350 actual voters guesstimated. Actually, I think a higher percentage probably voted from 2 or more computers, or computer and cellphone with browser, so I'm underestimating.

That's my guesstimate of about how many actual voters participated. 2,350.

2,350 or so voters voting for a category with say 5 nominees, might be somewhat useful to know the results of that, but that's not really the case with these awards. Each category has way more nominees, so the breakdown of how many votes it might take to win is fairly low.

For example, let's look at just the Best Free Bondage Website category. There are 85 nominees. Out of the guesstimated voters 2,350, not all of them probably voted in this category. Let's say about 15% didn't, so about 2,000 voters did. Assuming every nominee probably got one or two votes, that leaves 1,830 voters to determine the rankings of the 85 nominees. How this would break down, well, who knows and who cares really. One could win GOLD with maybe 100 votes depending on how the spread of 1830 votes among 85 nominees is.

Then there's the judges phase after the mass (about 2,350) voters voting. What possible effect or difference could it make to have 40 to 50 judges vote again? A little bit of shifting in the ranks maybe. Worthless...unless All Panyhose Sex ranked number one and the judges tossed it realizing it's not a bondage site.

What the judges could really do to help would be before the mass voting happens, and that is to vet the large number of initial nominees. Make sure they belong in a bondage awards deal, and are in the right category. You know, so non-bondage sites like All Pantyhose Sex and the Clitoris are tossed out. And paysites moved out of the freesites category. And maybe even help revise some of the categories to reflect bondage on the web in 2010.

The Bondage Awards is a trivial annual incident and of no real consequence. At best, they're an additional link site for advertising. But they lack credibility (to me), the "over 40,000 votes" sounds impressive until you do the actual math. They should clear this up and post the total votes after compiling them, and removing duplicate votes. And post total number of voters. Should post total votes per category, and post the votes for each of the top 10 ranked winners/nominees per category. Frankly, I don't see the actual, accurate numbers forthcoming.

If the bondage awards forum is any indication, with only 46 members (as of this writing), 19 who actually posted there so far, my guess of 2,350 approx. voters might be kind of high.

I noticed the "Best" Writer is a non-fiction writer, far as I can tell. Does that mean reviewers and posters on this site are eligible? All this time I had thought that category was for fiction. How about this post I just wrote?! I think I'm a shoo-in for next year :)

I was watching Woody Allen's "What's Up Tiger Lily" last night and at a point in the movie there is a scene where one of the ladies (Tiger Lily?) is handcuffed with her arms apart to a wall with the (hero?). A bad guy comes over and pours alcohol on her face while holding a lit match and threatens her for information. For anyone who knows this movie, it's a Japanese spy movie that's over-dubbed to be a comedy. So it makes no sense and you should watch it when you're more awake than I was. Because then it really makes no sense, but is funny at times. The scene isn't incredible, but hey, it's there.

FIY: We're having a sale in our DVD Store through June 1st! Yay!

As a GIMP flick, I was not as impressed. The formal whippings (2 or 3 times), informal in-the-anger-of-the-moment whippings (quite a few), branding (1 time), burnings at the stake (2 times), racks (1 time), stabbings and knife slashings (2 times), and beheadings (all of guys so who cares) were mostly background activities while the story was moved forward by dialog or action in the foreground. There was a lot of AOH bondage and chained-to-the-wall bondage, but it was all pretty brief. In fact, all the GIMP stuff was overwhelmingly matter-of-fact in nature. No agonized pleas and tears from naked or even half-naked babes in close-up with flames rising up from below. No naked torture at all, except of course you saw naked buttocks during the branding scene. The GIMP scenes were very close to blink-and-you-missed-it.

All in all, pretty unsatisfying. It would probably be more enjoyable to look at the vidcaps and imagine your own lurid accompanying activities. My two cents. If I have the time to sit through it again and take notes and snap vidcaps, I'll do a brief review in the next day or so.

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Bathory (2008)

The story: Countess Bathory (Anna Friel) is married to a heroic warrior, has a relationship with famed Italian artist Caravaggio, is widowed and desired by another nobleman, Thurzo, who, when he is spurned by her, mounts a campaign to discredit the Countess Bathory, who remains attractive even as she ages (hence the slander that she bathes in virgins' blood to retain her beauty), and succeeds until she takes her own life (by fire). It is an opulent, big-budget movie, produced in Czechoslovakia, with great costumes, impressive location shots, and compelling dialog. Not a bad movie, but it is 2 hours and 16 minutes long, and the GIMP bits are brief and scattered throughout.

The IMDB entry is here.

The flashes of GIMP are as follow:

10:15 - Countess Bathory is bent over the side of her own bed and brutally raped (possibly sodomized) by her own drunk husband, both of them fully clothed. It causes her to have a miscarriage. It lasts maybe 10 seconds.

11:30 - Thurzo is having sex with a maid, but when the countess stumbles in upon them, the maid acts like she is being raped. It lasts 10 seconds at the most.

18:30 - Several naked women run screaming through the enemy camp during a battle, causing the profligate Catholic soldiers to stop fighting and chase them down to rape them, even though the Protestant Count Bathory suspects it is a Muslim trap, which it is. Random flashes of naked harlots running and being clumsily fallen upon by fully armored Catholic soldiers until the Turkish Muslim soldiers jump out of the tents and kill or capture them. From first running naked harlot in the background to last running naked harlot in the background, it is 30 seconds, but fleeing naked harlots are not seen the entire time.

25:20 - While en route to Transylvania, Countess Bathory's coach passes a field in which two female-looking persons are tied back-to-back being burned at the stake while Catholic or Protestant religious types stand around harmonizing. It is a back-lit and indistinct scene that goes for about 10 seconds.

31:10 - After Count Bathory sleeps with random servant girls while recuperating from a wound, Countess Bathory orders every servant girl whipped. Brief panning scene of four or five girls fully clothed tied wrists to post being whipped that flashes by in 5 seconds.

38:45 - Countess Bathory holds a servant girl's hand over a flame to compel her to answer a question. Her answer prompts the countess to crop her skirts as she flees around the room. It goes for about 15 seconds.

01:08:58 - In a drug-induced rage, Countess Bathory stabs a servant girl to death with a pair of hair clippers in a 10-second rampage.

01:22:20 - Some random girl is chained face toward a dungeon wall, naked, and branded on her butt, then on her leg in the background during a conversation. The torture scene lasts about 15 seconds.

01:30:53 - Two maids are rope-tied hands in front and bent over a bathtub about to be cut and bled but are rescued at the last minute in a 10-second scene interrupted by an outside shot of soldiers on horses.

01:50:30 - Half a dozen or so completely clad girls are chained all in a row to a dungeon wall in preparation for some dire purpose, but they are rescued and released. Their scene is interspersed between action scenes, but you maybe see them whining piteously for 5 or 10 seconds total.

01:53:20 - The serving woman who betrayed the countess is hanging by her wrists off the ground, being whipped. You can see one of her breasts but it is nothing to look at, really. She is not a babe. Quick flashes, but maybe 4 or 5 seconds in all.

01:58:45 - Two old hags are chained AOH against a dungeon wall being questioned. When they don't like the answer one gives, they pull on her wrist restraints to stretch her. Lasts 10 or 15 seconds.

02:00:00 - Two girls are tied to crosses back-to-back and hoisted into the air over a pyre and burned, although all you see for the most part is smoke as they scream. Maybe 15 seconds.

And as for miscellaneous nudity:

32:50 - Brief 2-second flash of Anna Friel's naked butt while she is being painted by the Italian painter.

40:00 - Random topless girls, one dead in a morgue but the others standing idly around as the countess plays the harpsichord (or whatever). It lasts 15 seconds, tops.

54:48 - Anna Friel's breasts as she lounges in a bath of red-tinted water for 4 seconds.

01:06:10 - During an over-lighted artsy drug-induced dream sequence, we see Anna Friel briefly nude for, oh, about 26 seconds on and off.

01:11:00 - Anna Friel's breasts in the red-tinted bathwater again for 5 seconds.

01:11:56 - Hana Vagnerova (Margita) is standing nude bathing while the Catholic novice watches from above for 15 seconds.

01:16:50 - Distant shot of Anna Friel's breasts while she is bathing again for about 10 seconds.

01:48:05 - Anna Friel's breasts in red bathwater again for 3 seconds.

SUMMARY:This was just too much movie and not enough GIMP for me, and what of it there was, was extremely brief, and for the most part, lacking in nudity. I was unimpressed, and really too tired to add vidcaps. Check out Tarl's Yahoo Group for pictures. I am being generous to give this a D.

I think it's interesting that the GIMPage is done in the background-scenery, matter-of-fact way that you described. It reminds me of the way sprinklings of nudity snuck into mainstream films during the sixties, before it became widespread during the late 60s to early 80s period. You also wrote: It would probably be more enjoyable to look at the vidcaps and imagine your own lurid accompanying activities.

And thanks to TARL for giving us the opportunity to do so.

I don’t know if you were talking about the movie concept or the video game they altered because of, but the movie has actually won a few awards…..and a sequel already in the works (THC/Full Sequence) ???? :-o ????

Sohowmany of you tried the game? I suck at video games....got eaten right away by the horrid ass-to-mouth centipede.

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Thanks for your guesstimated scenario of the Bondage Awards.

You’re probably right, I looked at their forum a month or so ago and it seemed it was mainly the moderator’s answers to just a small group of individuals questions.

But I am curious. Are there really that many people into vanilla B&D? I could be wrong….and I’m not saying any woman would really want to be kidnapped or raped by a stranger, but as far as fantasy goes I would think it still centers on force and/or helplessness. I really can’t see how bondage becomes a turn on (from either end) if it’s like “Yes, tie me up….make love to me”, accompanied with all the come-hither looks and actions that go with consensuality. Bondage kinda defeats the purpose at that point in my estimation.

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John Galt

Thanks for taking the time to give us the play-by-play of Bathory.

Thanks for the breakdown on Bathory. Man, what's up with all the teaser GIMP material? What's the point, for instance, of going to all the trouble to construct and shoot a burning at the stake scene if it's only going to be onscreen for 10 seconds? I took the liberty of adding up the time length of all the "good" scenes you listed: it adds up to 2 minutes and 50 seconds of GIMP material, which doesn't sound that bad until you realize that we're talking about literally 10 seconds here, 5 seconds there...and in a movie that's 2 hours and 16 minutes long, that becomes 2 hours and 13 minutes of wasted opportunities.

And where the heck did you find that movie? The only place I found it on DVD was in the PAL format, which makes it unplayable in the US unless you buy a special DVD player that plays foreign discs. I had to put "Currently Unavailable" in the buy link on your review, which is in my Homepage URL above.

Decided to try out a few from GruesomeHorror with all the discussion going on. Found another site (http://hotclips.com/store/1538/GRUESOMEHORROR/) with CC support and it seemed to have some stuff missing from NicheClips. (http://nicheclips.com/shop.php?store_id=15)

Looking back and comparing, hotclips.com has a shorter version 18:18 min opposed to 30 min of Amber Rayne Branded Electro-Tortured (doesn't have the rape segment at the end (but is higher resolution) and Commando Persuasion is identical on both sites (if you compare specs). I went for the CC site since I didn't want to deal with snail mail.

Quick impression: the camera work was good and girls are attractive ... the excess hair didn't bother me). Sweat drenched and glimmering Amber was very convincing as a victim with a language barrier between her and her interrogator. She is tied suspended in an upright position with arms overhead and legs spread wide against a chain spider web. Scene 1 involved a barbecue pit to heat two giant nails. Amber pleads and acts generally frightened as the interrogator threatens to touch her delicate skin with the hot metal (nice CGI glowing and fire SPFX) in all the right places. Scene 1 ends with him burning Amber on both sides ... each time she passes out and is slapped back to consciousness. The burning SPFX also looks pretty good for the budget.

Scene 2 involves hooking up to electrodes to her suspension cuffs (???) and using a voltage regulator on her. Come on producers... if the cuffs are not conductive, then it won't work! ... but the scene was well acted ... Amber sold it yet again ... the scene should have been longer, but she passes out twice a couple of seconds in each time. Scene 3 was missing from my version. Overall a B. Amber sold this for me.

Commando Persuasion ... stars Chayse Evans as a spy posing as a photographer infiltrating a covert military camp. She does have some big tattoos but not overbearing and has a very attractive face and body. This one is the weaker of the two. Scene 1 has Chayse drugged by a drink that immobilizes and intensifies every nerve in her body. Fondling and doggie style rape ensues by the camp commander using only a rope bridle gag.

Scene 2 has one soldier holding Chayse in an arm lock while the other throws some belly punches till unconscious. Then she is cuffed up arms apart for a little face slapping and electro-torture. Interesting use of a Jeep parked outside ensues ... with some long jumper cables hooked up to her nipples. These guys don't use radios ... the camp commander uses pistol fire to signal the car to start/stop outside ... Chayse gets jolted twice to unconsciousness and perspiration. More belly punching and slapping ensues.

Scene 3 she is tied to an upturned table legs and electro-tortured once more on the nipples. This time her convulsing knocks over a glass of alcohol that hits the wires and flames out (fast to not burn her in a CGI cloud) ... she passes out again. They untie her and put her on the table right side up (untied), noose around her neck and question her to unconsciousness. Then they tie her (arms and legs down) and she finally caves with info. The electro-torture her one more time with the jeep till she passes out. Scene 4 is another short rape scene doggie style. Overall a B-.

This is pretty decent stuff, but for the content, I don't think it is worth the price IMHO. I did like the lingering camerawork, interrogation themes, acting, electro-torture, perspiration, and creative use of some low budget SPFX.

Thanks for the nice double-header review of the GruesomeHorror titles!

I’ve been wanting to check out a few of their titles for a while but either the hair (Birch Ashtray) or the price (all the Amber ones seem to be in the $40 dollar range) have kept me from pulling the trigger.

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Speaking of Amber, there was another Amber Rayne clip I had my eye on (not Gruesomehorror or Psycho-Thrillers) but lost track of and can’t remember which Nicheclips store it’s from. Stills from the clip shows Amber chair tied and being forced to perform oral (‘bout all I can remember).

Anyone able to help ?

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Ralphus Thanks for fixing my last post. I actually typed that on the HTML test page but accidentally closed the text entry page after I hit “Display” before I copied it. So ended up copying from “Display” page but didn’t think about the codes not being there at that stage.

Oh well. Hopefully the special guest who will be hosting the upcoming installment of Which One Has The Gimp? will do a better job of it as I take the week off.

Bobbi is an attractive, shapely, dark haired lass with the best Cher hair look I've seen in a long time. She is in her cheerleader outfit, being led around on a leash, walking on all fours like a dog and being harshly cropped when she slows down. Her tormentor is Mr Havana, from Pretty Little Profit. He pulls her up onto a wooden box. On her hands and knees, Mr Havana handcuffs her wrists to the box and rope ties her ankles together. Miscellaneous groping and spanking ensues.

Mr Havana removes Bobbi's top, her industrial strength white bra, her skirt, and her tiny pink panties. And--Mr Havana gets bonus points for this--he also removes her shoes and socks so that she is completely naked. There is a lovely unscripted gasp of shock and surprise as Mr Havana reaches under Bobbi and gropes her breasts. It's that kind of unscripted flash of reality that keeps me watching Powershotz videos. Mr Havana continues to slap, spank and crop Bobbi while she is naked on her hands and knees on the box.

Mr Havana pokes some cold Vaseline up Bobbi's asshole with his pinkie while Bobbi cries out and begs him not to sodomize her. He asks if she's had orgasms before and she says no, but really--a cheerleader who hasn't had orgasms before? Isn't being a slut, like, the first requirement for being a cheerleader? Or was it just that way in all those drive-in movies?

Mr Havana brings out the finger vibrator and applies it to Bobbi's pussy and ass. Bobbi cries "no, please, stop" in her standard helpless cheerleader victim voice at first, but once he cranks the vibrator up to full speed, the timbre of her voice noticeably changes and her back arches away until Mr Havana grabs her hair and roughly jerks her back down again, at which time she grimaces and continues trying (but failing) to get away from the vaginal and anal stimulation. Another glimpse of reality shines through.

Bobbi is crying out pretty loudly at this point, so Mr Havana fastens a blue ball gag into her mouth. Then it is back to the vibrator and this time Mr Havana not only overstimulates her clit, he also fucks her ass with the vibrator. Mr Havana smacks her ass and commands her to bark like a dog but all she really does is whine like a puppy while she is being sodomized with the vibrator. Her anal vibrator violation continues for a while but ends all too soon.

However, Mr Havana pulls out the long wooden Powershotz dildo next, lubes it up in front of Bobbi's worried face, then moves around behind her and forces it up her tight ass as Bobbi whimpers and shifts into rapid breathing mode. Mr Havana goes nice and slow so that Bobbi can feel every inch penetrate deeper inside of her. It is a very gratifying sequence.

Next up, Mr Havana undresses and makes Bobbi suck his cock before he fucks her. This time, Mr Havana had the foresight to position Bobbi on a shorter platform, so he can stand in front of and behind her without the box he needed in Pretty Little Profit. He is also a little harder than he was in the last DVD, although not hard enough, in my opinion, to ream her good. But he does her anyway. And it goes pretty well, with Mr Havana pounding away at her pussy, and Bobbi's tits bouncing back and forth and all, until Bobbi starts crying "oh, yes, yes, yes, fuck me please" and there goes the modicum of nonconsensuality we had going. Damn.

Mr Havana does take a moment to sodomize Bobbi briefly while he's at it, but he doesn't use much force to do it, so it isn't as satisfying a sodomy as it could be, if you know what I mean.

The scene ends with a plastic stunt cock squirting "semen" into Bobbi's mouth. You can tell it's the "stunt cock" because it is pink and large and Mr Havana's is brown and not large. Bobbi spits most of it back out, and there's a part of me wondering, for purely intellectual reasons, what exactly that white goo is and what it tastes like. But anyway, the stunt cock fucks Bobbi's mouth pretty aggressively to close out the scene.

Next up, Bobbi is still naked on her hands and knees on the box, but with her hair pulled back in such a way that I thought it was Clarissa at first. Mr Havana is fingering Bobbi's ass. He applies more Vaseline to her ass and inserts a fairly large glass butt plug in an all-too-short sequence that is awesome, as Bobbi's voice and expression change dramatically the farther in he forces the plug. More real-life reaction, the hallmark of Powershotz productions.

Mr Havana ropes the butt plug in place as Bobbi complains about how much it hurts. Mr Havana rope ties Bobbi's hands behind her back and shackles her ankles. He slaps, spanks and gropes her a bit, then ball gags her with a pink ball gag. Mr Havana pulls her cheerleader skirt back on and forces her into the small wooden box. Inexplicably, Mr Havana removes the ball gag and allows her to beg not to be sold but to be his personal slave girl. He re-gags her and closes her up inside. Then he decides to keep her after all. He drags the box out to his van and loads it in the back. It would have been nice to hear Bobbi crying out as the box was jostled around but I'm betting she wasn't really in it by this time. Fade out. End of Bobbi.

Penni: At 45:40, we fade in on Penni, who is completely naked and fastened head-down on the long curved wooden board. Her wrists are in leather restraints, but attached to the board with metal clips that make a lot of noise as she struggles. Her ankles are also fastened into leather restraints and attached by metal clips, and pulled slightly apart. Penni has longish brown hair and a more robust body than Bobbi. She is wearing a thin black choker.

The Masked Man caresses Penni's pussy and breasts and generally plays with her helpless nude body. He crops her all over, including between her thighs and on her clit. The Masked Man produces a bottle of oil and mentions to Penni he stores it in the refrigerator before squirting it onto her squirming torso. He moves his hands in that slow, enjoyable way that the Masked Man usually does, making you wonder how it would feel to slide your hands and fingers over Penni's taut breasts, scraping your palm against her hard coral nipples, and easing down Penni's gyrating body and slipping between her legs and sliding a finger or two languorously between her swollen pussy lips.

But anyway. We get six minutes of Penni being oiled up, with some hand gagging and tickling thrown in for good measure. Then out comes the finger vibrator and we get two minutes of Penni being overstimulated. It all ends with Penni smiling and responding to something the Masked Man says, but thankfully the sound has been muted so it doesn't completely spoil the whole helpless naked babe being nonconsensually groped and overstimulated vibe.

Next scene, Penni is standing at the whipping post, naked except for a pair of high heels, with her feet fastened apart on the base and her wrists fastened together in front of her at waist height. Her hair is pulled back into a ponytail that is quite fetching. The Masked Man engages in some preliminary hand gagging, choking, and groping before he starts flogging her backside with considerably more force than I'm used to seeing in Powershotz videos. He whacks the hell out of her ass for a minute and a half solid, takes time out to stick his finger down her throat, then forces her to count as he whacks her ass twelve more times. By the time he's done, Penni is close to tears. Mmm.

Next up, some humiliation as the Masked Man forces Penni to massage his cock with her bound hands as he runs his hands all over her naked body. Penni looks absolutely shamed and humiliated by the ordeal, which makes for very exciting viewing. Poor Penni.

The next scene has the Masked Man manhandling Penni onto a mattress on the floor. He binds her wrists together behind her head, elbows up in the air. The Masked Man lays Penni down on her back and rope ties her calves to her thighs. We get several minutes of the Masked Man running his hands and fingers all over Penni's helpless body, including some bits where he spread her ass cheeks apart and superficially explores her nether orifices.

At 1:18, we have Penni AOH, wrists bound together, standing on a box, and absolutely nude. Her knees are belted together. The box is pulled out from under her and she is left hanging in midair by her wrists, swaying back and forth. The Masked Man flogs her ass, legs, belly and pussy as she swings freely around the room, gaining momentum with each impact of the flogger. Once again, this is pretty harsh flogging. And Penni looks pretty awesome swinging there in midair.

Penni is told she must beg for cock if she wants down. She resists for the longest time, during which the Masked Man continues to flog her mercilessly. When Penni finally says she will suck the Masked Man's cock, he leaves her swinging. Fade out.

SUMMARY: The Bobbi bits featured better sexual violation than in Pretty Little Profit. Bobbi stayed in character as the abducted teen cheerleader the entire time, even though her acting ability was strained. There were some wonderful moments where she definitely felt the vibrator and wooden dildo in unexpected and borderline painful ways, which I really enjoyed watching. Sadly, she ended up asking to be fucked and begging to remain Mr Havana's sex slave, which took the GIMP edge off. But then again, she was folded up and locked in a small wooden box in the end, which was kind of cool.

The Penni bits were surprisingly effective. I liked the oiling up and vibrating episode, even though it ended awkwardly. Penni was reacting honestly to the over-stimulation. When Penni was flogged at the post, though, the DVD's Penni sequence really hit its stride. Her flogging was very harsh, and she was almost in tears by the end, which was quite the turn-on. And hanging AOH and swinging freely while being whacked mercilessly by the flogger is always a crowd pleaser. As much as I would prefer to abduct and violate Bobbi, brutally flogging Penni while she hangs by her wrists and sways helplessly in midair sounds like a GIMP dream.

So, I would have to say this gets a GIMP rating of B. I bought it for Bobbi, and her sexual violation scenes were nice enough. But Penni's hard flogging and AOH hanging in midair while also being flogged was sweet. And this DVD has the hardest flogging I've seen in a Powershotz feature to date.

Slave Trained Teens II is available at the Powershotz on-line store for $45.

Maybe not for our crowd, but in the general bondage world, wrapping women up and using them as furniture... It's a little out there, yeah.

Kink.com (with all its subsidiaries) may be consensual, but it's hardly "love bondage". Whatever, I like it; you don't; ain't no big thing.

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LTL: I don’t know if you were talking about the movie concept or the video game they altered

The game, which I also sucked at.

Are there really that many people into vanilla B&D?

Oh, yes! Check out "shibari" which is bondage as an art-form.

Your review link is in my Homepage URL above.

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John Galt: Sorry it's been so quiet since you posted your last review and no one has thanked you yet. I suspect a lot of people are out celebrating the long weekend and haven't checked in yet. Slave Trained Teens II looks like a mixture of stuff I like along with other stuff I don't, but Bobbi is adorable and a bound cheerleader movie is always worth a look. Great job describing the play by play on this one, too.

Your review is here: http://ralphus.net/reviews/powershotz/pow_slavetrainedteens2.htm

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ghosting: The Snidely Whiplash cartoons? I don't really have that many of them is the problem. And a lot of the ones I do have don't have a whipping theme. If there's interest, I could run some as the daily pics sometime in the future.

I guess LTL chose me for this edition of Which One Has The Gimp? since all the choices are single syllable one-word titles. Oh sure, because I look young; keep it simple. But A; you don’t know how old I am. And B; F*ck You.
Sorry, I’m a little sensitive still…but I’m working on it.

Today’s Gimp possibilities include:

Push
Scar
and
Scarce

Scarce? Filled with bondage, torture, and female nudity with some hot looking women, but…..no Gimpage. So, wrongo!

Scarce is about 3 buddies who head home after a weekend of skiing & partying in Colorado. On the drive home they become lost during a snow storm and end up on the doorstep of some savage country cannibals.

Basically the same formula as Hostel in that there’s partying, hot women, and female nudity early in the movie, but when it’s time for bondage & torture…..it’s exclusively 100% male.

I suppose it’s not a bad flick…..if you can put up with the male tortures and stuff. And yet another story they note as inspired by Ed Gein.

Scarce trailer

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Push? Well I guess I can give you a 1/32 of a point for this one. It has an oh so brief snippet of Camilla Bello tape gagged and in the back seat of a car.

Push is about a government psychic development program….and quite possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen. The film takes place in China where group of Americans are trying to evade the authorities in charge of the program. There they encounter locals with similar abilities. This is also what makes this movie so bad. You get these Chinese locals that go through Kung-Fu motions….including their screaming war faces, but instead of going through their physical deal, instead there is just close ups of their faces as glass shatters and things explode. I almost stopped watching, but then it started to go away from that and more into the story of the individuals with different abilities. But of course, the ending climatic scene returns to the Kung-Fu faces in an ultra-lame ending, then I was pissed off that I stuck through it.

One of the few things it had going is it stars a budding Dakota Fanning. What? How can you call me a perv….she’s older than I am. ;-)

Push trailer

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Scar? Got it! Very Good!

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Mini mainstream movie review of Scar.

Scar
Scar trailer

Aunt Joan (played by Angela Bettis) is in town for her niece’s graduation (played by Kirby Bliss Blanton). Joan is familiar with the town as it’s the same one she grew up in. The same town in which a madman tortured her, scaring her face, and tortured and killed her best friend years ago as a teen. After a while Joan begins to get flashbacks of her ordeal as a teenager. Then at a school pep rally a girl turns ups dead in the lake. Has the madman returned?

Gimp wise Scar starts off with scenes of Joan and her best friend as teenagers. One night the two girls decide to check out the funeral home with the good-looking funeral director. Peering through the window of the funeral home Joan accidentally hurts herself and is discovered by the director who brings them in to perform a little first-aid to the injured girl. Once in the house he asks one of the girls to help him gather the first-aid supplies. He later returns alone and chloroforms the injured Joan. Later after she comes to she finds herself and her friend strapped to tables. The funeral director now begins his torture of both girls (scalpel cuts, staple gun, removal of teeth, cutting of tongues, etc.) explaining that either girl can end the torment and be freed at anytime by telling him to kill her friend. Both girls endure loads of torture as each is unwilling to tell him to end it. Finally Joan gives in after a few cuts to the face, telling him to kill her best friend.

The next segment is in the present as Joan, Joan’s niece, and her best friend have been captured. The tortures are aimed mainly at the niece and her friend but Joan still gets the business end of an electric cattle prod a time or two.

The niece and her best friend are tortured similarly to how Joan and her best friend were years before. After a while the friend has superglue poured over her face then has a rubber glove pressed to her face, suffocating her to death.

Entertainment wise, fair effort I guess. Nothing real special as far as story goes. Grade C

Gimp wise, no nudity in any of the bondage/torture segments but the segments are very long in length (possibly 20+ minutes cumulatively). Joan and her friend endure scalpel cuts, alcohol poured into the wounds, staple gun, etc. before Joan ends it by telling the funeral director to kill her friend.

Similar events with the present day occurrences as both past and present get a little bloody. The good part in both segments is that Joan as a teenager, and Joan’s niece are kept relatively clean (not as bloodied as their friends) so you can still enjoy their reactions to the torment.

Five victims (including Joan and Joan as a teen), lengthy on-screen times, plus good reactions to the torment get this one a C+

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Pretty gory stuff…but still nothing compared to the carnage on the floor of the stock exchange.

Well that’s it Gimppopotamus’s. Before I go, somebody told be that Lindz might be hanging around here. If she is, I’ve got some unfinished business with that skank-ass-hoe.

The obvious solution is to get out the Flogolator, which will whack Penni hard in random locations (set in the programming specs). That way you can watch the flogging of Penni while enjoying Bobbi's tasty treats. It's a two-fer!

(Steve, feel free to use this idea in your next two-girl extravaganza.)

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The LTL Broadcasting Network: One of the few things it had going is it stars a budding Dakota Fanning.

Good thing they can't read minds yet -- when I saw Natalie Portman in the "Leon" (aka "The Professional) at age 13, my mind went all sorts of non-PC places.

How can you call me a perv….she’s older than I am.

And I bet you poop less than your mentor!

Gimp wise, no nudity in any of the bondage/torture segments but the segments are very long in length (possibly 20+ minutes cumulatively).

May be worth a Netflix rental, but this guy has hot cuties totally at his mercy and doesn't cut away their tops. Idiot. Or gay. Or both.

Originally released as Crushed, but released on DVD as She's Crushed, the movie begins eerily enough, in black and white, with the sound of a crying woman, flashes of bound wrists and blood splashing on the floor, a woman tied standing with her face covered in blood as a man protests, "I won't do it!" even though he goes on to strangle the bloodied woman by hand. Cut to titles, which display over a background of gaudily lit scenes of a scantily clad female body on the ground, I think. It has that over-lit and over-colored quality I associate with bad 70s movies.

The movie is about a psycho gal (Tara) with a high nasally voice that grates and a nose that gives Sarah Jessica Parker a run for her money. She obsesses on this guy (Ray) and pretty much destroys his life. He is a dweeb with a bitch for a girlfriend (Maddy) and everyone in his life is unlikeable. This is a movie with no sympathetic characters. And it is filmed in a wholly pedestrian manner. It hits you over the head with impending doom. It is tiresome.

We get to watch Tara shave her underarm hair with a butcher knife, so if you don't like underarm hair, yay. We also witness her doing a job search on the telephone during which she has a meltdown, the scariest part of which is that one of the jobs she was applying for was at a daycare.

Ray gets drunk. Tara picks him up. He wakes up the next morning in bed with her. She walks up to him the next day. He says we need to talk. She asks if he's breaking up with her. It turns out Tara is on some kind of medication and her counselor/doctor is fucking her. You just know how this is going to go.

It takes 22 minutes until we see Tara go postal, when she walks up to Ray and a coworker and starts to talk about how Ray tied her up and slapped her around and told her to piss herself. If that had happened, it might have made watching this flick to this point worthwhile. It did not, of course.

So Ray picks up his girlfriend's son from school and talks to this pretty girl and Tara sees them. At 26:30 we see that girl covered in blood with a cloth gag in her bleeding mouth, tied in a chair, with rivulets of blood running down her legs. Tara is cutting her with a scalpel. Then she stabs her a few times. She kicks the chair over backwards and straddles her and next thing we know Tara is stepping into the shower, covered in blood. While she is showering, we get speeded-up flashbacks to her slashing the girl.

At 30:30, we find out via flashbacks that Tara was raped, but the entire 30-second sequence is shot in quick flashes of blurry close-ups with other angles superimposed over the primary picture, so it is pretty unsatisfying. Then there's a quick-cut sequence of Tara in her underwear in a bare room, being held captive maybe. There's a picture of a butcher knife in her mouth with blood pouring out. She pulls one of her own teeth and blood oozes out. Then we see her in a hospital, rocking back and forth so the whole prisoner-in-the-room bit was likely all a hallucination.

At about 40 minutes in, we see Ray's boss in the trunk of his car as Tara stabs her a few more times to finish her off. When Ray pulls out his phone to call the police, Tara hits herself, tears her own clothes, and says she'll tell the police that Ray raped and killed his boss, then tried to do the same to her. So they bury her, which gives Tara the opportunity to mangle the body with the shovel and once again she ends up covered in blood.

At 45:30 we see Ray's buddy from Iraq doing coke and having sex with a hot blond wearing only panties (only nudity in this flick). Tara shows up, kills the guy (he's in a wheelchair), attacks the girl, beats her senseless, then stuffs her hand down the garbage disposal and turns it on, then stomps her unconscious. She drags her into another room, and we get to see the backside of her body (she's wearing a thong). Next we see Tara taking the claw end of a hammer to the girl's mouth and prying out her teeth one by one.

She picks up and murders Ray's (male) coworker in a particularly gruesome fashion. Then she picks up and kills Cassie, another of Ray's coworkers, thinking it is his girlfriend, Maddy. Then Maddy comes along while Tara is holding Ray prisoner, so Tara gets the drop on Maddy. It is 1:02:00 into the movie. We're all in Tara's basement. Ray is tied to a chair. Maddy is tied AOH.

Tara cuts her own stomach with a butcher knife. Then she tears off Maddy's dress (leaving her in a huge white bra and what looks like running shorts), and at some point cuts Maddy's stomach, but we only see the bloody cut afterward.

The next segment is done in short blackouts. Tara proceeds to skin Maddy's legs. She slices her with the knife. She drives a spike through both of her feet into the floor, then uses a blowtorch to burn her toes. Then she cuts off her toes with the knife. Then she bashes her toes with a hammer. (Tara hates feet!) Finally, Tara suggests that if Ray really loved Maddy, he would kill her to end the suffering. Maddy asks Ray to kill her. Ray takes the knife to kill her, but cuts her down instead. Maddy gets the jump on Tara, but Tara grabs the knife and stabs Maddy in the stomach, killing her. The torture and murder of Maddy took ten and a half minutes, although there's a time out in the middle when Tara's doctor comes to the door. Tara goes on to murder Maddy's adolescent son and then eventually murder Ray. Oops. I should have said "spoiler alert!"

If you like torture porn, then you might like this movie. I did not like it at all. The GIMP stuff was not titillating in the least, just lots of blood and violence and screaming and not enough GIMP nudity (which was all from only one girl) and absolutely no GIMP sex. Plus, Tara creeped me out. To review: There was the hand in the garbage disposal bit. Various slashings, stabbings and murders of extraneous characters. And of course, ten and a half minutes of slicing, knifing, skinning, driving spikes through feet, burning toes with a blowtorch, slicing off toes and bashing the mutilated feet with a hammer on one female victim, which counts as a lot of GIMP. But, you know, it was not fun. I will grudgingly give this a C on technical GIMP (not enough nudity), but an F for personally exciting GIMP. It just was not my thing.

This was an unpleasant experience for me. Your mileage may vary, and in fact I suspect for a few well-known contributors, it will. So enjoy.

The IMDB entry for the movie is here. It is available from Amazon here.

I guess Slave Trained Teens II is the best of the bunch. I have no real interest in the gore films, even though scary movies can have a GIMP impact if they're done right. It doesn't look like you guys saw anything that met that criteria.

Tell LTL that I extended my winning streak once again by correctly picking Scar as the right movie. Once again, just a lucky guess, but a win is a win, dammit! I'm not sure about the torture scenes in this movie, since they look awfully bloody, but if this ever turns up on DVD in the US, I will try to check it out. Once again, I really want access to your source for finding foreign films that aren't available in this country. You and John Galt must have some secret connections that you're not telling us about.

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

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John Galt: Good lord, man, you're trying to break a record aren't you? What is it, you're not allowed to eat unless you review a movie every day? Whatever the reason, thanks for your prodigious output of reviews over the past several days.

You're actually wrong about one thing. She's Crushed wasn't reviewed by LTL, nor was it the E-Trade baby. It was actually our friend Bluetylerrose who posted about it a while back, teasing us by calling it the best mainstream GIMPer films in years. MAV saw it and said it was too much for him. I took the bait and also rented it from Netflix.

And even though I suspect you think I'm one of those "well-known contributors" who would get into it, if that's the case, wrong again. I'm of the same opinion that you are...I hated it, too. Way too bloody and really not effective at bringing out my Inner Sadist, because it was just too over-the-top and gory. And this from a guy who doesn't have a problem with the whole concept of Torture Porn, provided it's done right. Too often, though, today's filmmakers miss the boat on what we want to see. In case any of them are reading, here it is again. Please take notes.

Captivity, bondage, nudity and suffering: YES

Bucketsful of blood, dismemberment and gore: NO

Maybe one of these days they'll get it right, but I'm not holding my breath.

Your direct link is here: http://ralphus.net/reviews/mainstream/shescrushed.htm