Zombie (1979) is a film that I covered several years ago. My review at the time is worth repeating.

"Zombie (1979) is Lucio Fulci's attempt to push the envelope as far as he could from the standpoint of gore, and features many hideous Zombies, which love eating live human flesh. There is also a scene where a large splinter is run into a woman's eye. I learned several things from this film:

"Zombies are dead, which means they move slowly. Slow motion evil guys are not very frightening.

"When you are skin-diving topless and encounter a Zombie and a shark, the Zombie is the lesser of the two evils.

"Underwater Zombies don't like being kicked in the nuts.

"The only way to hurt a Zombie is a head shot. Blows, bullets, etc to the body are ignored (except underwater testicles).

"Olga Karlatos has nice breasts, buns and bush.

"Auretta Gay has nice breasts and buns, and swims in a g-string.

"IMDB readers have this at 5.7 of 10. Critics were unimpressed as well. The DVD transfer is wretched. It is dark, and full of color noise. I did my best to clean it up. D+."

Aretta Gay has a lengthy scene wearing only a g-string ad scuba gear, half of it under water. Problem was, she didn't know how to swim. She got lessons from a crew member who wasn't that good himself, and practiced in the hotel swimming pool. When the day came to shoot the scene, she was afraid to jump in the ocean, so she was thrown in. She panicked, and the crew member who had been teaching her jumped in to save her, but was not a strong enough swimmer, and both were in danger of drowning. Someone else jumped in, and was promptly hit in the head with a life ring someone tossed out. A fourth person dove in and cracked is head open on her scuba tank, requiring many stitches.

At one point Fulci got frustrated that the person driving their boat couldn't get it in gear. He grabbed the controls, managed to get it in reverse, and ran the boat into the dock, poking a huge hole in the side. All of the effects were done live, and as many as possible on the actors rather than dummies. The cast and crew talk about 18 hour days, but remember the filming fondly, and every one praises Fulci.

The film was named Zombi 2, but the title screen of this version calls it just Zombie. Night of the Living Dead, evidently, was considered Zombi in Italy, and was distributed by Dario Argento. This film was ground breaking for its time, and launched a long and successful horror career for Fulci. It was enormously popular when released, and very profitable. Any true genre fan will want to own this new edition, both for its historical value, and because of the priceless insights offered in the special features. The proper score is C+. If you are a Zombie sort of person, this is a four star effort.

• Athens Dream - naked Olympians Check out swimmer Brooke Hanson. I guess pubic hair would slow her down.
• I just LOVE women's Olympic volleyball
• Olympic nudity - water sports.
• Party girl Tara Reid shows off her new boobs in a small bikini top.
• More of Tara Reid showing off her new set.
• Here are four free sample videos from Spice TV Raw.
• In honor of Tuna's review of the DVD release of Seeing Other People, here is the Playmate Gallery for Shanna Moakler, courtesy of PlayboyPlus.com
• **** DO NOT MISS THIS ****. OK, there's no actual nudity, but it's raunchy and funny. What could be better than that? The trailer for Dirty Country: the Larry Pierce Story. Larry's big song is the immortal "I Like To Fuck". I've decided that he is definitely my favorite singer since Kinky Friedman retired.

OTHER OTHER CRAP:

• Judge rules police had "probable cause" against Jacko.
• Forbes.com: The Best-Paid Athletes
• Awesome Starbucks ad
• According to our favorite newspaper, WWN, NASA BUILDS WORLD'S BIGGEST PAPER AIRPLANE
• Beautiful NASA photograph of a lighting storm. Would make a good desktop if you're looking for one.
• "Freddy vs Jason vs Ash will be one of the greatest horror movies of all time because the script shows that it understands the characters, the history of each backstory, the cliches and most of all, the genre."
• Ain't It Cool News takes a first look at the John Sayles script for Jurassic Park IV (bottom half of article)
• Here's the first trailer for the Jude Law remake of Alfie
• HOW TO HUNT WISCONSIN WHITETAIL DEER WITH A 12 POUND MOUNTAIN HOWITZER CANNON.
• Useful knowledge department. Wales bans stripteasing in limousines. Now I want to go to Wales right away, just to see a limo before they have to remove the pole.
• Sex is for sale at lap dancing clubs, a report by a London academic has found. OK, I admit the article sucks, but I want to know what courses I have to take to become that kind of academic. I want to change my major.
• Fearing defeat, President Bush begins job training. (Great picture)
• The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements
• Paul Murray's top 10 gothic novels
• Four new clips from Hero, a martial arts romance, ala Crouching Tiger.
• An exclusive trailer for Cellular Kim Basinger is being held hostage by a ruthless killer who's threatening to kill her family. Her only hope is Chris Evans, who happens to pick up her call on his cell phone.
• A trailer from Wes Anderson's new comedy, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou "Eccentric oceanographer Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) and his motley crew - Team Zissou - find themselves in troubled waters when they attempt to track down the mysterious "jaguar shark" that ate his partner while filming a documentary of their latest adventure. Zissou must also contend with a beautiful journalist (Cate Blanchett) assigned to write a profile, and a new member of the team who might possibly be his long-lost son (Owen Wilson)."
• Putting the ball in play - how much harder is is to hit .400, now that players strike out so much more?
• The History of Plumbing from 2500 B.C, to the present. Interestingly enough, the plumbing in Egypt hasn't been upgraded during that period.
• I have very bad news to report.The popular twice-a-year Woodland Park Zoo's Fall Fecal Fest, where the public can buy zoo animal shit, has been canceled this year
• Seven new clips from "Suspect Zero", a psychological crime thriller starring Aaron Eckhart, Carrie-Anne Moss, and Gandhi.
• A behind-the-scenes featurette about Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• The trailer for Remember Me, My Love , an Italian film "Remember Me, My Love," Muccino's bittersweet drama delves into the lives and loves of a modern Italian family whose individual aspirations pull at the seams of their increasingly fragile unit. As their children come of age and begin to follow their own dreams, Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) finds himself torn between a passionate affair with Alessia (Monica Bellucci) and his wife Guilia (Laura Morante), while Guilia must face her own buried desires.
• The trailers for Stage Beauty. Actor Edward "Ned" Kynaston (Billy Crudup) may well be the most desired man in all of London. The Restoration is in full swing, and enthusiastic audiences of aristocrats and commoners pack the theatres that were shuttered during the Puritans' joyless rule. With only men permitted to tread the boards, the greatest ardor is reserved for the actor who is the complete "female stage beauty" - and indisputably, Ned Kynaston is that actor. Lusted after by women and men alike, Ned commands all the perks of a star; at the same time, he is a dedicated actor who runs lines with his stage dresser Maria (Claire Danes), who quietly adores him. Every night, Ned's death scene as Desdemona in "Othello" stops the show. But the winds of change are blowing - and they sound like the rustling of women's skirts. Ironically, it is Maria who ushers in a new era with her pseudonymous portrayal of Desdemona in an after-hours pub production of "Othello." After years of men-as-women, Maria is a sensation, a novelty whose time has come. King Charles II (Rupert Everett), prodded by his saucy, stage-struck mistress Nell Gwynn (Zoe Tapper), not only overturns the ban on actresses but also prohibits men from playing female roles. Overnight, Ned's career is ruined as a host of fledgling actresses take on the parts that he once owned body and soul. Ned is headed for a has-been's twilight in tawdry attractions - that is, until Maria takes it upon herself to make an actor of him again. Finally, the masks fall away to reveal Ned and Maria's true feelings, but not before Ned undergoes a profound inner journey to discover his complete identity.
• Man Wearing Tutu and Clown Shoes Dives In Pool At Olympics. Most impressively, he finished fourth in the freestyle. Those clown shoes have some serious kicking power.
• The War of the Worlds, the classic H.G. Wells science fiction novel, will be updated by director Steven Spielberg, and will star Tom Cruise. Shooting will begin in November.
• Hell House spoof will be staged in L.A., with Bill Maher as Satan and Andy Richtewr as Jesus.
• .MP3 Bloggers ask for a divorce from Warner. It seems that the studio did the same kind of tricky stuff that marketers do at IMDb and Amazon.com, flooding the comments sections with "quote whore" stuff - effusive and obviously (to everyone but them) obsequious comments.
• Diane Lane becomes Streisand's step-daughter-in-law (Or something. They are now married to a father and son.)
• "I think we are going to piss off everybody", says Trey Parker. World Police definitely sounds like my kind of movie.
• John Kerry Has a Beer With GQ, Reveals His Admiration for Charlize Theron, a Reveals Why His Years As a Bachelor Were Not So Great
• First Lady Laura Bush's Guide to Understanding So-Called Stem Cell Research and Other Kinds of Pseudoscientific Flapdoodle

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MOVIE REVIEWS:

Words from Scoop.

.avi's from Shiloh.

.wmv files made by Scoop from Shiloh's .avi's.

NOTE: because of a unique combination of circumstances with the Windows media player and some substantial bandwidth theft, we will have to do all of our movie files in zip format. Left click on the files as you normally would to view a picture. When you get a choice, click on "save", and put it on your hard drive in the directory of your choice. UnZIP and play from there.

I know this is not especially convenient, but it allows the film clips to continue. I can protect .zip files from hot-linking in the same way I can protect still images. For some reason, if I protect .avis and .wmvs from hot-linking, they will not play in the Windows media player, and I can't get a satisfactory work-around. Perhaps I will find a better solution, but for now this new policy allows you to continue getting the movie clips you want to see, which is much preferable to my abandoning the clips altogether.

Mia

Mia Farrow was actually an important showbiz figure back in the day. Polanski films, Altman films. The waif was actually married to Sinatra at one time. What was that all about?

• Mia Farrow in A Wedding. Although this is an Altman film (a very bad one), it has never been released on DVD. ( .avi- zip) (.wmv - zip).

• Mia Farrow in Rosemary's Baby. This one did make it to DVD, and you can see the caps in Tuna's section. ( .avi- zip) (.wmv - zip).

Bonus

• Helen Shaver in The Believers ( .avi- zip) (.wmv - zip).

Two .wmv conversions from Scoop

If you're into small chests, today is your day. First Farrow, and now Joanna Going. I don't know what there is about her, and I can't really explain her appeal, but I find Joanna really sexy.

• Joanna Going in Keys to Tulsa, a grade-B noir, but one with some nice nudity. I said, "Barely watchable, but kind of fascinatingly over-the-top.", and neither of us could figure out what the fuck was going on, ala The Big Sleep. It's like watching a Foghorn Leghorn impersonating contest. (.wmv - zip).

• More of Joanna Going in Keys to Tulsa (.wmv - zip).

Perhaps these tips will help if you have trouble with the codecs for these movies:

Shiloh says:

FYI when I hypercam vids to make the file size smaller I use DivX MPEG-4 Fast-Motion for the video compressor, then I use virtualdub to compress the audio. The properties for the vids says the video codec:  DivX Decoder Filter & audio codec:  Morgan Stream Switcher which I'm not familiar with. When I compress the audio with virtualdub I use MPEG Layer-3.  A friend of mine told me about compressing the audio about (6) mos. ago. Like I said previously, only been capping for a year & a half & I'm no expert. Hopefully this info will help members with the proper codecs for my vids.

 

When I cap big brother's I use hypercam mostly & sdp & asfrecorder if the set up allows me. I stopped using camtasia cause the file sizes were always too big, could never figure out the process, over my head lol, plus it cost too much to buy in my opinion.

A reader says:

You mentioned that some users were having trouble with the videos on your site. There is a tool designed to determine what codec is needed for a video. http://www.headbands.com/gspot/ Hope this is useful to you or your users.

Scoop says:

I made the .wmv versions of each video. The codecs for these: Windows Video V8, Windows Audio 9. The upside of these is that you know the codecs, and they'll play in the Windows Media Player. The downside is that they are slightly larger, and slightly lower quality.

First up from the Ghost...
Yesterday we had a request for 'caps of Paige Moss in the made for Showtime movie "The Ranch". Well how about a video of her topless and gettin' it from behind instead!

• Paige Moss

• Paige Moss

Next up...the Ghost takes a look at another late 80's low-budget favorite, "Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama" (1988).

• Brinke Stevens bares all 3 B's as she showers up. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
• Brinke Stevens zipped .wmvs (1, 2)

• Michelle Bauer baring her big'uns in links 1-11, pubes in #12, then being shy in #13. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
• Michelle Bauer zipped .wmvs. Topless in all, plus far off frontal views in #4. (personally, I like #1 the best) (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Brinke Stevens and Michelle Bauer in the same scene. Stevens is still showering while Bauer is topless, but not joining her. (1, 2, 3)
• Stevens and Bauer zipped .wmv

"Dorm Daze"
This 2003 entry in the National Lampoon comedy series is not the best of the bunch, but make no mistake, it's hilarious, silly, sometimes neurotic, and basically a lot of fun.

Set in a co-ed dorm just before Christmas, a student hires a prostitute (that he's never seen) named Dominique for his virgin brother, also a student at the school. Meantime, another student awaits the arrival of a French foreign exchange student (who he's never seen), and she's also named....ready, class?.....Dominique.

The craziness that ensues when they are mistaken for one another continues to escalate throughout the movie. Then throw in another case of mistaken identity as another female student is mistaken for a hitman and sent $30,000 in a purse, which, guess what....looks just like the purse belonging to still another student. Now, in the middle of the Dominique confusion, we have people running around crazily trying to find the right purse.

You get the idea. It's absolutely nuts, and many of the scenes will have you rolling on the floor with laughter.

In case you're wondering why the Lohmann collage is so weirdly colored, her whole part was a dream sequence, filmed through a ton of filters to make it hazy, very yellowish/orange, and barely visible. In fact, I didn't really know what she was doing until I started working with the caps. The collage sucks, but compared to the original footage, it ain't bad.

• Katie Lohmann
• The Women of "Dorm Daze"

OPRAH GETS JURY DUTY
The Trials Of Being Oprah - Monday in Chicago, Oprah Winfrey was picked to serve on the jury of a murder trial. She told reporters she didn't think they'd take her because she's too opinionated, but they did. She said she hopes the trial doesn't take longer than a week because she's got shows to shoot. The judge allowed her no celebrity treatment other than using a special entrance to avoid crowds.