Wild Things

I'm still playing around with the new hi-def formats. This particular movie was on Blu-Ray. Blu-Ray caps, like HD-DVD are 1920x1080, but if the screen ratio is extremely wide, then the caps will obviously be 1920xAAAA with black space occupying an amount of space equal to 1080 minus AAAA. In this case, the caps were 794 pixels high. the blank space 286.

Denise Richards

 

 

 

 

Cat People

This one is on HD-DVD. The image quality is terrific, but HD-DVD is more difficult to work with than Blu-Ray. With Blu-Ray, the film is workable as soon as the AACS protection is lifted, but HD-DVD requires two more additional steps, and is a thorough pain in the rump.

I messed around with the color. Some of these images are the original color from the film, some have been adjusted, still others have the original color in the big image with an adjusted version in the inset. I did whatever seemed right to me.

Nastassja Kinski

 

Annette O'Toole

 

Love Lies Bleeding

This is a 2008 film (Street January 15th) which went straight to DVD. It's about a pleasant, naive young couple struggling through poverty. She's working in a supermarket. He's an Iraq vet with an assault conviction which makes it difficult for him to get any job at all. Because of their restricted cash flow, they live in an apartment building so run-down and infested with crime that they are terrorized by their own neighbors, some gangbangers who steal their possessions with impunity.

One day the gangbangers get into a massive shoot-out with some dirty feds, and the Iraq vet stumbles upon the scene, which seems to be nothing but corpses and a satchel full of money, which he expropriates opportunistically. Unfortunately for him one of the corpses is not quite dead yet, and is a lunatic crooked agent played by Christian Slater channeling The Joker. Slater tracks the fugitive couple through a few states, and they finally decide to return the money to get him off their back - straight swap, money for freedom. Slater, being quite the little Iago, likes to be evil just for the sheer joy of it, so he's is planning to take the money and kill them as well. The Albuquerque police also into the mix, since a savvy local detective immediately figures out that the young couple will probably be killed needlessly by the ruthless, lawbreaking feds. This leads up to a three-way chase and a final shoot-out with guns and shotguns blazing.

It's a routine and predictable script of no special merit, but I found it watchable because the couple is extremely naive and likeable, while Slater's character is deranged enough to provide some menace.

There is just a tiny bit of nudity from Jenna Dewan, which is a shame because she's a cutie. Here's the film clip. Sample capture below.

 

Eaten Alive

(1980)

Today we have part 2 of "Eaten Alive" with plenty of full frontal nudity.

Me Me Lai shows it all as she is poked by three different guys in a jungle ceremony. Later things get a little bloody for Me Me. Caps and 3 clips.

Paola Senatore topless and then lots of full frontal nudity in a bloody ending as she becomes snack food for the cannibals. Caps and 5 clips.

 

Finally, three more clips of Paola and Me Me.