Forbidden Highway

(1999)

Before and during the opening credits, the story is completely set up for some plot-driven couples erotica. Francis Cobert is being staked nearly naked to the ground in the desert, and he begins to explain how he got there.

In the first flashback, Kira Reed is doing a rather nasty Mafia type, and as she leaves, she steals his ring and cufflinks. We learn that Kira and Cobert have intertwined fates. They work for the same Russian Mafia type, who in turn answers to the man who lost his ring. Cobert's immediate boss decides to send him to LA to deliver Kira to the big boss in his prize possession, a car. Kira starts off in the trunk, but before you know it Cobert is in Kira, and having all sorts of unhealthy thoughts. Kira eventually takes off with the car, and Cobert hitches to the next town in pursuit.

Meanwhile, Mia Zottoli also works for the Russian, but has ambition, and makes her own cash deal with the big man to deliver the ring. The plot will eventually bring all the proncipal characters together, but not before lots of hanky-panky.

This is a very solid genre entry. There are four well-known women completely naked in good light having simulated sex. There is also a nifty story, and very good acting by genre standards.

For me, this is a clear C+ on our scale.

This is only available from RLDVDs.com on a dual region (1 and 4) DVD in English with Spanish subtitles. Click on the image for details.

Kira Reed, Mia Zottoli, Dee Summer and Tracy Ryan all show everything.

 

A Double Feature today.

Death Tunnel

A really bad movie. Kristin Novak shows the goods in the obligatory shower scene.

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot

Then the Time Machine goes back to 1974 for a "Babe in Bondage," Leslie Oliver

Scoop's note: most people don't realize that this film was the directorial debit of Michael Cimino, who became famous as the director of the Deer Hunter, then infamous as the director of Heaven's Gate. According to IMDb, he got back in the folding chair this year, after more than a decade's absence, to direct one part of a multi-director anthology film, To Each His Own Cinema, which consists of 33 films, each three minutes long. It seems that just about every director you can name had a hand in this film, including Polanski, Cronenberg, Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Inarritu, Atom Egoyan, Gus Van Sant, David Lynch, the Coen Brothers and more than two dozen others!!

Halloween 6

 

Jamie Lloyd, the only surviving blood relative of Michael Myers, was kidnapped by the mysterious "man in black," who is really the leader of a cult which protects Michael Myers. Jamie gives birth to Myers' child and thus the bloodline of Myers continues. She escapes from the cult but they send out Michael Myers himself to get the baby back. She manages to hide the baby but is killed by Myers. The baby is then found by Kara Strode, who takes it home. The Strodes now live in the Myers' old house and Michael doesn't take this too kindly. He sets about killing them all.

Mariah O'Brien

Marianne Hagan

Yesterday's Leftovers

Here are the vids I couldn't load yesterday because my cable connection was on the fritz.

Here are a couple of scenes worth seeing in high definition.

1. Monica Bellucci in that crazy wolf thing -(Le Pacte Des Loups) - which I called "The Citizen Kane of pre-revolutionary French, secret society, tree-talkin', kung-fu, giant ugly Muppet soap operas."
2. Kate Hudson in The Skeleton Key, a guilty pleasure summer evening movie that audiences enjoyed although critics did not.

Today's Catch

I don't really know who "zorg" is, but he came up with a real winner here. We have never even had any decent caps from Il Cappotto di Astrakan, an early Carole Bouquet film in which she looks smashing. Zorg's film clips are so nice that I was able to make some nice caps from them as well.