Witchboard (1985) is a low budget horror effort by first time directors and producers that revolves around a Ouija Board. It was very successful earning $7.37M against a $2M budget. Tawney Kitaen and her live in boyfriend Todd Allen are throwing a party, and she has invited an ex boyfriend, Stephan Nichols. Nichols still has a thing for her, and is no longer speaking to Allen, even though they were like brothers growing up. Allen is unable to show emotion due to his childhood.

Nichols is rather pompous, has a lot of money, and is a University Professor, while Allen does construction. Nichols brings his Ouija Board to the party, and he and Kitaen contact someone. Allen's wisecracks piss off the ghost, and bad things start happening. Kitaen becomes addicted to the board, and ends up in huge trouble when an evil spirit possesses her.

The nudity is totally gratuitous, when the ghost locks her in a shower stall, and turns on the hot water. It is shot from the top while she is struggling to get out, and then we see her break out a door and get out of the shower, showing full frontal with no obscuring steam. IMDb readers have this at 4.9 of 10. It was popular enough at the time it was released to spawn a sequel. I think the reason for the poor modern scores is that it simply takes much more to shock us now. I didn't really care about any of the characters, and found the plot rather predictable, so found it a slow watch. There really was nothing technically wrong with the film, and the acting was fine. The special makeup effects were very primitive by even contemporary standards. 30 years ago, this was a C+. Today, it is closer to C-. Horror that isn't terrifying is not great horror.

• Charlie is back from his summer holiday, and Charlie's French Cinema Nudity site (aka Chuque's Chiques) has been updated.

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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.

O'Dell

• Shiloh is right on top of the hot new stuff, as usual. Here is Jennifer O'Dell's guest appearance on the much discussed Nip/Tuck ( .avi- zip) (.wmv - zip).

• And here she is in The Lost World .(avi- zip) (.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.

If you like busty, topless B-movie babes, then the Ghost has a treat for you today! From co-directors Fred Olen Ray and Jim Wynorski...Here are the stars of "Dinosaur Island" (1994).

• Antonia Dorian, topless (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
• Antonia Dorian zipped .wmvs (1, 2)

• Griffin Drew, more toplessness. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
• Griffin Drew zipped .wmvs (1, 2, 3)

• Michelle Bauer, yup, also topless. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
• Michelle Bauer zipped .wmv

• Antonia Dorian and Michelle Bauer (1, 2)
• All 3 in a group nude scene (1, 2)
• Group nude scene zipped .wmvs (1, 2, 3, 4)

This thoughtful 2004 comedy won't please everyone, but I thought it was funny and at the same time had quite a message....well, actually two. Be careful what you wish for, and be happy with what you have.

After living together for fives years, and rapidly approaching their announced wedding date, Alice informs Ed that they both should have sex with other people until the wedding. She wants to put spice back into a relationship that had grown predictable. Besides, she hadn't really had much sexual experience before they got together, and wanted to know what she was missing, before marriage.

Sensing impending disaster, Ed is against it, but Alice insists. As you might imagine, all sorts of problems ensue as they both wind up in a sexual merry-go-round. When Alice realizes her mistake, it may be too late.

The script is excellent, the acting first-rate, and while not everyone will like this low-impact comedy, I enjoyed it a lot.

• Nicole Marie Lenz
• Shanna Moakler

PISCOPO FOR GOVERNOR?
I'd Prefer Eddie Murphy - Joe Piscopo, who used to play the annoying "Jersey Guy" who'd ask "You from Jersey?" on "Saturday Night Live," may run for governor of New Jersey as an independent. Piscopo says he's a lifelong Democrat, but Jim McGreevey embarrassed the party and "career politicians are killing us." He said some "prominent business guys" want to finance his run, "but they've assured me I wouldn't be beholden to them."