Uncle Scoopy's Fun House

Since I am now considered a long time contributor/member I thought I might take a trip down memory lane all the way back to my first contribution, submitted on January 25, 1999. Oh dear, it's really a long time. It was even another century. Since the first two seasons of "Dallas" are available on DVD now, what better way is there to bring this to the attention of whom it interests than by submitting clips of Bobby's sweet secretary Phyllis, played by Deborah Tranelli. She let it all hang out in the still hard-to-find movie "Naked Vengeance".

The Video Movie Guide 1999 considers this film a turkey. It says : "Unpleasant exploitation flick about a woman who seeks vengeance after she is raped and her parents murdered. Available both in R and unrated versions; we suggest that you avoid both".

Well I don't agree. I think it is one of the better and cleverer movies in its genre - way better than Death Wish II - and I have Robert Hofman's Film Encyclopedia to back me up. It reads: "A harsh and thrilling drama with a good acting from Tranelli. Her husband is murdered after 5 years of marriage. She returns to her parents. She's raped right in their home, and the parents, too, are killed. When Tranelli is nursed back to health, she seeks revenge on the murderers. Shot in December 1984 by Filipino Santiago in California." Since I first reviewed this in 1999, a few more reviews have appeared on the IMDb and they are also positive. One is even from someone who claims he worked on the production. What puzzles me is that this film is still not available on DVD anywhere, as far as I know.

That's it for today. Tomorrow I'll be back with Deborah's second nude appearance when she is in charge of events.

The clips are from an NTSC VHS tape transferred to DVD and the conversion problem PAL > NTSC still subsists. VCR outputs NTSC tape in PAL 60 instead of NTSC and DVD-Recorder can only handle PAL 50 and NTSC. Hence the black bar on the bottom of the clips that show a bit of the top part of the image. However no or very little material that's important to Fun House readers is lost.

(Scoop's note: this distortion is eliminated in the .wmv versions, which I made from ICMS's avi's.)

You can find collages from this film as well as a detailed comparison between the R-rated and unrated version of and collages from this film in the back issues in the weekend edition of September 13, 1999 in the Saturday section.

Let's continue today with Deborah Tranelli's second nude scene in "Naked Vengeance". Debbie is now recovered from her injuries, decides to reverse the roles and goes a revenge rampage. We see her attract the attention of one of her molesters in a way that Charles Bronson never did, thank goodness. The "poor" guy thinks she's coming for more but as you will see in these clips he ends up with less. And look at the grin on her face when she man-handles him so badly.

Almost six years have passed since my first contribution to the Fun House. I never thought my bad quality vidcaps back then would have appeared on the Fun House. But they did and you, Scoopy, even published the accompanying text with them. I also never imagined that nearly six years later I would still be contributing to this excellent celebrity nudity page and I can never thank you, Scoop, enough for giving me this opportunity. Even when I didn't contribute anything for more than a year I still was looking forward each day to read the new issue. And now that I'm feeling like contributing again, there's still an open space for me on the Fun House. I know I'm getting repetitive, but thanks once again.

That's enough violent and corny stuff for now, my next contribution will be much more idyllic.