Demonlover (2003) Sepcial Edition Director's Cut is being released in a two DVD set. This I what I said the first time I watched it'

"Demonlover (2003) is a landmark film. It is so pretentious and unintelligible that even the French thought it was too arty, booing it at Cannes. Most complain that it is nearly impossible to follow this film in any detail, and advise that the viewer not try. Scoopy outlined the main plot in his review, but admitted that he was not real sure of what side some of the minor characters were on. The film was partly in French, English and Japanese. Two people would be speaking alone to each other in French, then switch to English for no apparent reason. Many scenes were overly dark, especially action scenes, further adding to the confusion.

"The filmmaker had no idea where the story would go when he started the film, and I submit that he still doesn't have an idea where the story goes. The first several scenes were coherent, if overly long, then the film degraded into nonsense and confusion. Connie Nielson does show breasts and buns. It is hard to express how much I disliked this film. At no time did it capture my interest. It is only 5 hours since I finished it, and I don't remember how it ends. I guess there are some advantages to getting older. This is a very low C-."

The special edition didn't change my opinion at all, and there was no additional nudity. The special features included a lengthy interview at some college with the writer/director, and he admitted that he did know what he was trying to make when he started. He even acknowledged that he doesn't understand it even now. His aim was to make an artsy film with youth appeal, as most young French filmgoers love mainstream Hollywood stuff. A young female student actually gave a coherent plot summary. She said it was about a woman in the sex exploitation industry that became herself exploited. In that light, the ending actually makes sense. It is still, however, a nauseatingly bad and hard to follow film. Frankly, the interview was as artsy and pretentious as the film. I think my C- was a little generous in retrospect, and am lowering it to D. A little character development and plot structure would have helped, but not enough. The brief breast exposure from Connie Nielson is not worth the rental price.

• The O'Reilly Factor interview with Jon Stewart
• A London-to-Washington flight was diverted Tuesday when it was discovered that passenger Yusuf Islam -- formerly known as singer Cat Stevens -- was on a government watch list and barred from entering the country. Whew! I guess we are winning that war on terror after all.
• Ain't It Cool reports that the legendary filmmaker Russ Meyer is dead at 82.
• Former Mexican pop superstar Gloria Trevi has been cleared of sex abuse charges after a court ruled there was not enough evidence against her.
• Iowa poll shows Bush leading, having gained 12 points since a pre-convention poll. The state went from a +6 for Kerry to a +6 for Bush.
• Courtroom Artists Sue Rosie O'Donnell. Whaaa? Did she hurt their eyes?
• Five clips from Travolta's firefighter movie, Ladder 49.
• The trailer and six clips from Incident at Loch Ness, which is supposed to be a documentary.
• Martha Stewart may get to choose her own prison. Now if it were Pete Rose, and he got a choice of prisons, here's what he would do: (1) Publicly insist he was going to a minimum security prison like Danbury. (2) Bet on Devil's Island at 1000-1 (3) Choose Devil's Island. (4) Fail to claim his winnings on his tax return before actually beginning his sentence (5) be re-assigned to Danbury as a white collar tax criminal. (6) Have to pay back all the bets.
• KERRY LOSING SUPPORT AMONG AL-QAEDA OPERATIVES. New Poll Contradicts Hastert's Claims
  • One day after House Speaker Dennis Hastert told an audience that al-Qaeda terror operatives would rather see John Kerry in the White House than President George W. Bush, a new poll of al-Qaeda terrorists shows the international terror group evenly split between the two candidates. In a poll of likely al-Qaeda madmen, 48% supported Mr. Kerry, 48% supported Mr. Bush, and 2% favored independent candidate Ralph Nader.
  • Wow! You'd think Nader could poll more than 2% among Arab madmen.
• Paris Hilton: how an average looker became a glamour queen. It may be good to be the king, but it's even better to be rich. Just ask Tori Spelling.
• Harrah's, ESPN Create Professional Poker Tour
• A Glossary of Pirate Terms
• URBAn LEGEND: In 1977, Ken Olsen, the founder and CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation, said, 'There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.' STATUS: True
• The new trailer for The Polar Express. Movie might end up sucking, but the trailer is frickin' awesome!
• John Kerry on the Letterman Show
• Beckhams to sue News of the World for claiming their marriage was troubled.
• Leonard Cohen, the godfather of gloom, turns 70.
• The TV Spot and trailers from The Grudge, a horror film starring Buffy.
• The no more Bush girls - they shave off their bushes because they want "no more Bush". (Funny, and lots of nudity)
• Election erection! (Lots of nudity)
• Selling urine is illegal?
• The Weekend Warrior - this weekend's movie openings and predictions.
  • I had not realized it before this article, but Katie Holmes has turned into the female Bryan Brown. No Katie Holmes movie has ever reached $20 million at the box office. It's kind of interesting, really, because everyone seems to like Katie, she has a big following from having grown up on TV, and she has done a good job in some of her films, notably Pieces of April. She can't seem to convert any of that goodwill into $$$$$$$$. This flick, yet another "first daughter in college" film, right on the heels of the one with Mandy Moore, is predicted to bomb in the true Katie Holmes tradition. Studio support has been virtually nil.
• You think you have a cool job? This guy gets paid to sit on a face.
• GALLUP: Reasons Why People Are Voting for Bush or Kerry?? Turns out the election is a referendum on the President himself. Most common reason to vote for Kerry - "want Bush out of office".
• LESBIAN double act TATU are making a pop U-turn - relaunching themselves as man-eating heterosexuals.
• CthulhuSex.com. "Blood, Sex and Tentacles - The magazine for connoisseurs of sensual horror"
• Weekly World News: "KIM JONG IL TURNS CANNIBAL
• First look at Jessica Alba in the Sue Storm costume.
• Three more featurettes about Team America: World Police

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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.

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.

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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.

Psycho Cop Returns, aka Psycho Cop 2 (1993) is a movie looking for a genre. The story of a vengeful cop set loose in a high-rise office building at night, peopled by child-like employees without adult supervision (picture the Bush White House), PC2 is full of ridiculous situations. None of them is funny. And it is full of folks getting sent to their graves by unusual means. None of them is scary. And it has a demonic figure acting as a cop. He's not funny or scary. An 0-fer-3, that's this movie.

As Beavis would say after watching Psycho Cop Returns, "This sucks like nothing has ever sucked before." And he would be right-- not that it is any worse than Hitcher in the Dark, for example. How could anything BE worse than that? It's just that PC2 sucks in ways unique to a shop-worn, hackneyed, oft-done movie with all the usual conventions, but without the defining push to make it fish or fowl. Instead, it is just plain foul.

It has this one extended scene, however: a scene of near perfection. The office studs have hired three strippers to come and do their jobs on site. Strippers who make house calls. The three are played by: 1) Julie Strain, in one of her early roles; 2) Melanie Good, a B-movie actress whose legs are even longer than Julie's and whose hooters are larger and much more natural than Julie's; 3) one-timer, Priscilla Huckleberry, with a body to rivals to Melanie's. All three show off boobs and bum, although Julie has the nips mostly covered by star-shaped pasties (WTF?! Julie Strain covering up her breasts? A sight never before seen by human eyes... but wait a week and you will).

Priscilla Huckleberry is my fave. She is on screen the longest, she is fair of face and fantastic of form, but this was her only movie. So I have a plan. We'll bring her back in an all-girl remake of Tombstone. And Priscilla will play the Val Kilmer/Doc Holliday role. And, and.. when Johnny Ringo... make that Joanie Ringo... goes spoiling for a fight and asks who is woman enough to fight her, we'll have Priscilla stand up and say, "I'm your...." Naw, it wouldn't work.

Three other women sorta show some goodies. Kimberly Speiss gets caught bare-assed boffing in the copier room (okay, the movie was made in the Clinton White House), while Brittany Ashland and Cara Lee Froten play "actresses" in a porno loop the boys are watching when the strippers arrive. Most of their exposure...the double B's again... is seen in short clips as the credits role.

So I'm sorta glad I watched this movie and perhaps it should be required viewing of all who desire to make either slashers or comedies. Nothing like an abject failure to teach us what to avoid.

• Brittany Ashland
• Cara Lee Froten
• Kimberly Speiss
• Melanie Good
• Priscilla Huckleberry (1, 2)

Today the Ghost takes a look at the 1995 Skinemax flick "Sorceress". Directed by Jim Wynorski and starring Julie Strain.

• Big Julie is topless in a couple of scenes. (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Julie Strain zipped .wmvs. #1 features her rubbing oil all over herself. In #3 she's riding a dude. In #4, Strain and the dude are joined by Toni Naples. (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Kristi Ducati, the co-star of both "Bikini Carwash Company" movies in a shower scene. (1, 2, 3)
• Kristi Ducati zipped .wmvs. #1 has some brief rear nudity and pube views. (1, 2)

• Rochelle Swanson. In 'caps 1 and 2 she's blonde and nekkid in a love scene. In the others she's brunette and topless. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
• Rochelle Swanson zipped .wmvs. Links 1 and 2 are the blonde love scene. (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Toni Naples topless.
• Toni Naples (zipped .wmv), topless in a different scene.

• Julie Strain, Rochelle Swanson and Toni Naples in a 3-way lesbo scene. (1, 2, 3, 4)
• Julie Strain, Rochelle Swanson and Toni Naples zipped .wmvs (1, 2, 3)

"Carrie"
This is the 2002 Carrie remake. The story is slightly different and there's a lot less nudity. Angela Bettis is Carrie and, although naked, everything is hidden. The same goes for the rest of the cast. Emilie de Ravin, Katherine Isabelle and Chelan Simmons are the bitches. Michaela Mann is the next door neighbour who sunbakes topless.

• Angela Bettis (1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
• Emilie de Ravin (1, 2)
• Katherine Isabelle
• Chelan Simmons
• Michaela Mann (1, 2)
• Unknown

"Next Stop, Greenwich Village"
Ellen Greene goes topless in Next Stop, Greenwich Village.

• Ellen Greene (1, 2, 3)

"Women Film Desire"
Women Film Desire is a documentary about how female directors have filmed the sex in movies, There are snatches from a variety of films, which means there's probably a lot of nudity still to cap. From the African Mossane there is Magou Seck and a woman I couldn't identify. There's a completely naked Sabine Mamou from Documenteur - An Emotion Picture. There's various degrees of nakedness in Happiness, La Cuisine Rouge and L'Opéra Mouffe. Tying the whole thing together was a naked woman with a map of the world painted on her.

• Magou Seck (1, 2)
• Unknown from African Mossane (1, 2)
• Sabine Mamou
• Unknown from Happiness
• Unknown from La Cuisine Rouge
• Unknown from L'Opéra Mouffe
• Unknown with map of the world painted on her body (1, 2, 3)

"The Seventh Sign"
A very pregnant Demi Moore getting naked in The Seventh Sign.

• Demi Moore (1, 2)

"A Head for Business"
Topless and rear views of Claire Keim in A Head for Business.

• Claire Keim (1, 2)

"Dead Cold"
The main nudity in Dead Cold comes from a topless Alina Thompson. Lysette Anthony gets naked but we don't see anything.

• Alina Thompson (1, 2)
• Lysette Anthony (1, 2, 3)

"Wisegirls"
Wisegirls is a chick flick with no nudity, just lots of cleavage by Mira Sorvino and Mariah Carey.

• Mira Sorvino (1, 2)
• Mariah Carey (1, 2)

CARMEN ELECTRA IS NEW GINGER GRANT
Just Sit Right Back... - The reality show version of the sitcom "Gilligan's Island" finally has a "movie star": the Ginger Grant role will be filled by Carmen Electra. Star People reports that Electra will fly to Mexico for two weeks to tape the show in which she and six non-famous people try to figure out how to get off an island.