Tailgate, The Dutch Exterminator

Dutch horror films? "Amsterdamned" is the one that comes immediately to mind. Well, we have another. Yep, a weird one that is kind of icky. Perhaps a ballad on politeness, as rudeness is what sets the psycho off in this one. The protagonist? We don't like him. We kind of see the psycho's point of view.  Not that we condone the horrific stuff that he does, but as with much of western Europe, their arrogance is not their friend. Let us look at a 2019 film from The Netherlands, "Tailgate" (aka "Bumperkleef"), directed by Lodewijk Crijns.

As our film begins, Ed, a humongous exterminator in a white van chases down a bicyclist, mows him down, and fills him up with rat poison. You know the Dutch. Apparently the bicyclist was rude to him and cut him off on the road. Fast forward, the twerp Hans (Jeroen Spitzenberger) is herding his snotty family into the family Volvo (I know, you hate them already). His grouchy wife, Diana (Anniek Pheifer), yells at him nonstop.  His two snotty little girls (Liz Vergeer and Roosmarijn van der Hoek) bicker constantly. Late, Hans speeds in traffic and tailgates Ed and his white van. Ed goes psycho and begins terrorizing the family on the road.  The hulking Ed looks to be almost seven feet tall, and when he dons his white HAZMAT suit, and straps on his tank of rat poison, well, it's pretty scary...or as scary as you are going to get in Holland.

He sprays the family and is bent on teaching Hans and Diana manners. The kids scream in horror.  Both Hans and Diana seem to unravel as Ed continues his pursuit. Uh oh...Ed has stolen Hans' phone and knows where his parents live.  Hans' parents are battling dementia and when Ed shows up at their home, more horror. Now Hans' and family arrive at the grandparents house and do not know Ed and his rat poison have beaten him and his family there. An awkward and twisted war develops and Hans will really be put through the ringer as his snotty family is of little help.

Will Hans, and his family, survive the psycho who merely seeks politeness?  Is Ed's evil methods to instill niceness a metaphor for the iron hand used by the European Union to redefine western morality? Will Diana ever shut up and let her husband enjoy a moment of peace? This is a weird one and the villain is ominous and big.  For something a little different, from Europe, see "Tailgate." 

Green Room, Punk Rock Band Shredded

Punk Rock bands don't make the kind of victims that we pull for.  They have no talent and most are high on whatever they can shoot.  Still, by the end of this film, we are pulling for them.  Sure, not as a punk rock  band but as losers in life.  The underdog. The much heralded 2015 film we will look at today is a gore-fest, and even stars that "Star Trek" guy...the bald grouchy guy.  Our film today is "Green Room," directed by Jeremy Soulnier.

The Ain't Rights are the aforementioned band. Not much talent, but they have taken their van across country to play in gigs...that net them only a few measly dollars.  After earning only $6 at their last gig, they drive down near Portland and play at some dive filled with skinheads and neo-National Socialists. It goes...okay.  The crowd got down for their music, and even liked one of them. Pat (Anton Yelchin) is the lead singer and Sam (Alia Shawkat) is the manager. On the way out of the green room the band sees Emily (Taylor Tunes) knifed in the head by Justin (Eric Edelstein). Justin is a big one and holds the band in the room at gunpoint. Uh oh...a lot is going on at this dive bar and the owner, Darcy (Patrick Stewart) is called to manage the clean-up. Clean-up? Yeah...get rid of witnesses and preserve the operation being undertaken in the basement. 

Now Darcy wants the band to come out of the room.  Pat has gotten the gun away from Justin. Uh oh, Emily's bestie, Amber the skinhead babe (Imogen Poots) is also in the room, and she's psycho. Upset at what Justin did to Emily, she...well, it is pretty gory, you'll see. Darcy mobilizes his skinheads and neo-National Socialists to raid the green room, which is locked and barricaded. War ensues. Guns. Machetes. Boxcutters. Fire extinguishers. Attack dogs. You name it. Darcy has a lot to lose if The Ain't Rights get away.  Pat and his band have even more to lose.  Blood will be shed.  Limbs will be destroyed.  Throats will be ripped out. All very yucky.

Do our underdogs have a prayer against an army of skinheads? Will Pat develop a third chord, thus maybe gaining some talent?  Can Pat trust psycho Amber as his band wages war against the neo-National Socialists?  "Green Room" is an ominous one, with much gore, and some heartbreaking deaths.  For a good metaphor of the fate of most Punk Rock bands, see "Green Room." 

American Driller Killer, America's Bloody Decay

Detroit...Washington, DC...Memphis...Baltimore...Philadelphia...Louisville...Atlanta...New York City...Los Angeles...Chicago...take your pick. Arguably, the aforementioned cities can be termed s**t holes. The original title of 2020's "American Driller Killer" was "Detroit Driller Killer," but most major American cities can fit the bill of the setting for this vicious film with an extraordinarily high kill count. The decay of the American city's, if anyone's fault, is the fault of all of us. No elected pol in any of these cities has the brains nor desire to fix them. As Americans continue to get mowed down in these places, at a much higher rate than the Afghanistan death count, perhaps this film by Matt Jassle  should be required viewing.

Reno (Justin Scro) is a loser who can't find a job. He writes screenplays. When the job he lands, to write the script for "Cannibal Inferno," falls through...he goes berserk. First up, after buying a power drill, is his nagging wife Carol (Alyssa Rose Schultz). He'll store her body in the shower and keep talking to her. Reno then goes out for a walk/spree. During this spree he will drill to death hookers, a mugger, and a guy wielding a baseball bat. His rampage will continue the next day after talking to the voices in his head. The punk band Splooge will be drilled.

Reno's victims don't draw much sympathy from us. They are the dregs of society...the creatures that have taken over the inner cities. It is easy to fall into that trap...and we do. You know...that trap when we believe not all human life is sacred...you don't have to admit that out loud. Then, two decent folk get it...and this serves as a wake-up call...perhaps their is something precious  about human life. After these two heartbreaking killings, we the viewer have sobered up. The trash Reno is cleaning off the Detroit streets all of a sudden are human beings to us. Humans with potential for good. This doesn't matter to Reno as the bulk of his murders are ahead.

What will Reno's ultimate death count be as the final credits roll? Is there anything in Reno's hatred that perhaps we can identify in ourselves? Is there any hope for the urban decay that has destroyed our major cities? These aren't rhetoric questions but you can answer them in private. Vicious, grim, gory, and ominous, "American Driller Killer" may be an American parable, or a warning with a call to goodness. 

Tiger's Rampage, Tiger vs. Bachelorettes

Yep, we'll be cheering for the tiger. Five beautiful, and eternally boring dames, doing boring things, being annoying, whining, giggling, and playing lame drinking games. Yep, go tiger! In a gore-fest, hauntingly loyal to the book, we will look at 2026's "Tiger's Rampage," directed by Dominic Nutter.

Hurricane hits England! Go with it. The zoo is decimated and a tiger is now loose on the countryside. It eats two zookeepers, no great loss. Gotta say, the kills are extremely gory. Here they come, a bride-to-be and her four bridesmaids for a bachelorette weekend at a rented mansion near the woods. Oh, Cindy (Francesca Weir) the bride is blind. Her boring friends, one will end up in a bikini, are ready for drinking, marijuana, hot tub frolicking, and the obligatory Truth-or-Dare game. Yawn. Lara (Sophie Jo Beman) is an outsider to the group, but we like her the best. Mya (Paige Haim) brought a bikini and is ready for the hot tub. Louise (Serena Lehman) is a hot blonde who sketches. Then Pepper (Sarah Louise Hill), who is no Angie Dickinson, but she does love crystals and other New Age garbage. I know...bring on the tiger.

Yep, it arrives.  The thing is big and CGI, but identifies as a real tiger, so for the purpose of this review we will consider it a real tiger. It doesn't like these dames either. The gals are ill equipped to battle the monster and blood will splatter all over the place. Blind Cindy will make some dumb mistakes as none of her other senses seem to have enhanced after losing her sight. Pepper's crystals will not stop the onslaught...big surprise there. Oh, even the Truth-or-Dare game won't leads to any prurient revelations. The ending? You will not believe it.  You thought shooting the SCUBA tank in "Jaws" was a great ending! Ha! The ending here is...well...let's just say that Joel and the 'bots would have had a field day with it.

Will the babes all get in bikinis and have a catfight in the hot tub that includes a real cat? Will Cindy find out that one of her girlfriends had an affair with her fiancé? Will Cindy's cane be of any use against a predatory tiger? See "Tiger's Rampage" and realize why the male species is far superior than the female species.

X, When Beauty Flees Us

This Ti West film may be the most disturbing film you will see this decade.  Everything about it is designed to make you squirm and turn your head...and I'm not just talking gore. It should also be noted that this film is the magnum opus for Mia Goth, for reasons you will understand when you see this film... if you decide to watch it. Porn! Weird sex! Gore! Rated X filmmaking! Oh, throw in a gator, for whatever that is worth.  Let us look at the Ti West vicious horror film, 2022's "X."

1979! Remember that year? AIDS wasn't a thing yet, and that is significant because the film will follow a movie crew as they make an indie porn film called "The Farmer's Daughters." Plot? Really? Wayne (Martin Henderson) is the executive producer and is able to rent a rooming house from an old farmer, Howard (Stephen Ure). Really old!  Like almost 100, or so he looks. Now Wayne can have his film shot on a real farm. Howard did not know the purpose Wayne wanted the building, but is not happy...for reasons that will disgust you. Maxine (Goth) is Wayne's GF and an "actress" in the film. Jackson (Kid Cudi) is the male lead and has a big tally-whacker. Jackson's GF and female lead is the buxom Bobby-Lynne (Brittany Snow). The sound girl, Lorraine (Jenna Ortega) is quite a dish and will eventually become an "actress" in this porn film..  Uh oh, Howard's dementia ridden wife is loose and her passions and desires are stoked when she peeps in a window and sees Jackson giving it to Bobby-Lynne.

I didn't mention the director, RJ (Owen Campbell). Lorraine is his GF and he goes ape when she insists on becoming an actress in his film. He storms off and is met by Pearl, who tries to seduce him (yuck!) then stabs him in the neck. Now the dementia ridden Pearl, who has her sexuality from 1920 stoked and re-awakened, tries to seduce everyone and if they rebuff her, gory death awaits. She does have a special place in her heart for Maxine and will, at one point crawl into bed with her and...well, you'll see. Maxine? She looks diminutive but she is always high on cocaine and that will give her spunk. Now, with all the porn going on in the building next to the farm house, the ancient Pearl wants sex from anyone that moves.  This causes discomfort from the youngsters on the crew, and it just may cause their demises, too. 

Gory, vicious, and very uncomfortable, this film will have you reaching over to turn it off, but your hand will never quite make it to the knob (1979 terminology). Oh, get this...the sweet young Maxine is played by Mia Goth...who also plays the ancient Pearl.  You will have to see it to believe it. For one of those horrific horror films we may not want to have seen, you will find yourself unable to change the channel.  See "X," and be warned, you won't be able to unsee it.  

Fall, Over 2000 Feet

A long way down. Over 2000 feet. I have heard there is no fear of heights...it is, in reality, a fear of jumping. You get way up there and all of a sudden the dangers are magnified.  Fear. Panic. Buzzards. Each other. No room for error.  Today we have one that plies some Alfred Hitchcock techniques that build suspense. We also have a couple of gals, neither of which we like, who must battle their own stupid choices to survive. I know, when a woman wants to be independent and empowered, find the men to come save them. Our feature today is 2022's "Fall," directed by Scott Mann.  Let's just hope some men will care enough to save these babes.

Okay, three idiots climb an angry mountain, the mountain wins. Becky (Grace Caroline Currey), her influencer buddy Hunter (Virginia Gardner), and Becky's husband Dan (Mason Gooding). Becky and Dan are so cute...too cute. Dan messes up and falls to his death, traumatizing Becky. Becky should move on, as her dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) reminds her. Instead she drowns out her sorrow with alcohol and pills. A year later, her bestie, Hunter, has a proposition for her. Climb the B-67 TV tower...2047 feet! Hunter will post on YouTube, and Becky can face her fears and demons and move on in life. Dan? Still dead...good. It takes some convincing, but Becky realizes Hunter is right, and she does need to move on so she can live. Off they go. Oh, the 2000 foot tower? Not operable anymore and in the middle of nowhere.

The tower looks daunting and is surrounded by buzzards...fit omen. At first the climb is easy...deceptively easy.  On their way up, using the tower's ladder, nuts and bolts are jarred loose from their climbing. Up, up, and away...more bolts fall loose. The geniuses don't care, there is a tragedy to move on from, and likes to be had. They get there. Hunter makes sure her cleavage is front and center...views, you know. Becky has done it. She has conquered her fear and her sorrow. Then, remember all those bolts that fell? The ladder falls off the tower, leaving the babes stuck up there. Now the two must be resourceful and figure out how to get down...other than the obvious way. This won't be easy as gravity is just waiting to give them a hand. Sure, they come up with a few bad ideas, that fail miserably. Then the buzzards come.  Only fair. Just what will the babes do? Post cleavage pics on Instagram, film YouTube segments, and bicker. Dames! Days go by.  People do not come.

Will some men, who won't do anything stupid, arrive to save these two broads?  Is Hunter's cleavage worth more than a few hits on Instagram? Will two babes, stuck in the same place for more than 10 minutes, end up murdering one another? I gotta give the moviemakers credit, it really does look realistic, like they actually filmed 2000 feet up. If you are afraid of heights, this is not the film for you. The suspense is very Hitchcockian. See "Fall," ignore the clickbait cleavage, and enjoy a suspenseful woman vs. tower movie.

 

The Power, Not the Higher One

What a weird movie. Almost hallucinogenic. Psychedelic, maybe. A techno-thriller! Right, it is from 1968. Mad scientists working on a government contract go spastic. Think of Dr. Fauci and Josef Mengele with no supervision. You know we're in trouble when the government and the military industrial complex want to study the human threshold for pain. Lab rats? Ha! People! Sure, why not? What could go wrong!? Just ask Lord Acton. Our feature today is "The Power," directed by Byron Haskin.

Mr. Nordlund (Michael Rennie) arrives from the government to provide supervision at a university's laboratory which is working on the aforementioned experiment. He is very interested in Jim Tanner's (George Hamilton) experiment in isolating the area of the brain that processes pain. The team converges for a staff meeting and the weird mad scientist Henry Hallson (Arthur O'Connell) is unnerved. Why? Ethics or pain? No! He has figured it out. He has passed out a survey and determines someone in the group has the power. What power? The power to control everyone, control nature, control physiology, control hormones, control the past and future. No, Fauci is not in this group. There is a problem, he doesn't know who the person is. He tries an experiment and this confirms he's right. Also in the group is Van Zandt (Richard Carlson), Scott (Earl Holliman), Margery Lansing (Suzanne Pleshette), and Dr. Melnicker (Nehemiah Persoff).

That night...Hallson is murdered in the most unusual way. Enter Detective Corlane (Gary Merrill). Oh, Tanner and Lansing are lovers. Guess what Corlane finds out. Tanner has no verifiable past.  His university and past employments, listed on his resume, have never heard of him. Now fired, Lansing tries to figure out who is framing him and who is the one with the power. He visits Hallson's widow (Yvonne De Carlo)...she is now happier that her husband is dead. Uh oh...she can't even remember her husband. Tanner heads into the California desert to track down a name written on Hallson's notepad.  The team members die in weird circumstances, one by one, and Tanner finds that everyone who knows of this mystery man, either has been brainwashed, or dies. Only Margery seeks to help Tanner clear his name and figure out who this superior being is.

Confused? Well, the ending will pull all this together and provide a proper moral for possessing this almost absolute power.  Is Tanner really a fraud, and is he the one with the power?  Is the nubile Margery, who doesn't seem to be vital for the project, too helpful, thus the one with the power? If Tanner is not the one with the power, why doesn't the being with the power just kill him? It'll take you several minutes to figure out what you just saw beyond the end credits.  Still, it is worth it.  See "The Power" and revisit one of the greatest warnings delivered to humanity. 

Dungeons of Ecstasy, Bondage Made Boring

Bondage! A babe strung up in a dungeon to be stripped and violated. Light and kinky torture. Hunks, with sixpack abs fighting over a helpless maiden. Grunting. Whimpering. More bondage. Even better! This is a Charles Band film from Full Moon Features. The problem? This movie does everything it can to be a Rated PG family film. Can bondage and kinky torture be boring? Can a dungeon filled with kinky lingerie be boring? Can a babe begin to take her clothes off and people like you and me yell, "Stop!  No!"? Let us look at 2026's "Dungeons of Ecstasy." Great title, right?

Emily (Nicole Mattox), an annoying babe, and her husband Luke (Eric Guilmette), a hunk, are lovey-dovey...almost too cute. The couple is in a bad car crash and Emily is now in a coma. Luke? Good question. Eventually Emily wakes up and is told Luke divorced her. Emily can't believe it, rehabs, gets well, and goes to Italy to find her ex. Yep...finds him after being in Italy for 10 seconds. She follows him to a weird castle known as either "The Fortress" or "The Dungeon." She knows her husband is there. Turns out the guy says his name is Lucian and denies knowing Emily. Jonah (Felix Merback) is Lucan's #1 man. They look gay, but I guess they aren't.

Turns out, according to Jonah, Lucian invites babes to the castle, puts them through trials, and turns them into...well, you'll see. Don't worry, it is not as exciting as it should be. Now Lucian is putting Emily through the trials which include bondage, stripping, kinky and playful torture, and endless boring conversation. Jonah, meanwhile, is willing to betray Lucian and run off with Emily. Emily kind of likes being in a dungeon, strung up, in bondage, enduring ticklish torture.  Typical dame. Now Emily has to remind herself why she came to Italy.  Lucian has to either get her ready to be sold to an Arab sheikh, or to admit he was married to her.  Jonah? He's up to something.

Sounds interesting? Sure, in an "Escape from Witch Mountain" type way. You'll be shouting at the screen, "Where's the whip!?"  We'll get tickling when we want pain and passion. It is almost like Charles Band found out his mother was going to be at the screening and changed the plot. Still, "Dungeons of Ecstasy" is a fun watch, and anytime a babe is strung up in a dungeon in a Full Moon Features film, it is a worthwhile take. 

   

Fair Game, Aussie High-School Babes in Peril

In peril!  Babes in Australia, high school and grown up, all in peril. From who? Satanist rapists! Well, these rapists may indeed emanate from the occult, as they drive hearses.  The violation and torture may not be easy to watch in this film, as the victims, most of them, aren't quite of age. An obvious lesbian subtext also exists in which an adult babe seduces one of the schoolgirls. Brutal, and not the feel good film from Down Under.  Our feature today is "Fair Game" (aka "Desolation Angels"), directed by Christopher Fitchett.  

Three pretty high school girls have a deviant plan. Sneak off to Liz's (Marie O'Loughlin) parents seaside cottage, listen to music, paint their nails, talk about orgasms, and imbibe in adult beverages. To their credit, no boys allowed. Jilly (Kim Trengove) is also along, as is Joanne (Kerry Mack). Getting there was not easy. On the way, the trio was terrorized on the road by two hearses. The menacing black vehicles bore the license plate numbers END-666 and HEX-777. The hearses are occupied by rapist perverts Trevor (Nield Schneider), Jerry (Paul Alexander), and Vinny (Jay Mannering). The perverts also spot the babe Pamela (Karen West) driving to the seaside resort. Pamela? In short, she just stole $22,000 and is on the run with the cash (think Janet Leigh from "Psycho"). By chance, Pamela will meet Jilly at the resort, and lesbian sparks will fly. Now Liz cares deeply for Pamela. Relevant?  This is a moot point as the creeps arrive.

One of the thugs breaks into Pamela's cabin and what he does to her will make you wince.  Humiliation, torture, and rape won't be all of it. The other creeps begin terrorizing our three high school girls. The creeps want to rape them and slit their throats.  The frightened girls have no choice but to fight back. Shotguns, spearguns, knives, and fists all come into play.  The gals will take a humiliating beating.  The creeps will also find themselves in a fight fore their lives.  What happens next will be ominous and heartbreaking.  

Will Jilly be able to save Pamela, and continue exploring her sexuality with the adult babe?  Will the three underage lovelies be violated by the fiends in hearses?  Just who will get shot with the speargun and where will they get shot? No part of this film will bring a smile to your face or provide some comic relief.  Brutal.  Prurient.  Disgusting.  A true horror film in the style of "I Spit on Yor Grave." See "Fair Game" and understand the perverted undertone of Australian culture back in the 1980s.

Baba Yaga, Euro-Babe Lured by Lesbian Witch

Ah, Giallo! Euro-Babes, often nude, and in peril. Many die horribly in these films, in states of undress.  In this one, nudity will rule.  So will S&M and bondage imagery.  So will Nationalist Socialist fetish imagery.  So will erotic lesbianism, and nude fashion models in peril. No, not the remake of "The Green Mile," but a prurient Italian horror film.  Let us look at 1973's "Baba Yaga," directed by Corrado Farina.

Valentina (Isabella De Funes) is a fashion photographer who captures sultry fashion models in provocative states of undress or in fetish poses. Hey, it beats an exciting career in electronics. Rebuffing Arno (George Eastman), a hunk filmmaker, she is given a ride home by the mysterious old witch, Baba Yaga (Carroll Baker). Baba Yaga will go on to entrance Valentina and curses Valentina's camera. Now whenever Valentina shoots a model with her camera...yep, the camera might as well be a gun. With models dying or becoming seriously wounded, Valentina realizes Baba Yaga might be otherworldly. Baba Yaga gives Valentina a fetish doll, Annette (Ely Galleani). Initially Annette is a doll in a S&M costume. Annette attacks the sultry model Romina (Daniela Balzaretti). I think Baba Yaga was jealous of Romina.

Okay, Valentina is continually drawn to baba Yaga's old mansion, which has its own portal to Hell in it. In the US, we have feature walls, and subway tile backsplash, in Rome, they have portals to hell. In Baba Yaga's place, Annette becomes a real person. Baba Yaga wants Valentina for carnal pleasure and to bring her to hell with her. Valentina kind of wants that, but the aforementioned Arno is quite the hunk and handsome enough for her to choose men over women. Whipping and torture will result. 

Will Baba Yaga complete her entrancement over Valentina and bring her to Hell as a lesbian lover? Will Annette string up Valentina, rip her clothes off, and whip her into submission? Will Arno be as useless as most Italian men, or will he muster enough guts and go fight for the woman he lusts for? This is an erotic one and I'm sure there is a Rated X version out there. For a steamy good time, see "Baba Yaga" and wince every time a nubile Euro-Babe is whipped while strung up.   

Hotline, Wonder Woman has a Speargun

Lynda Carter! We all know her as Wonder Woman in that 1970s campy TV show. The actress did indeed make it to the 1980s and gave a go at so-called serious roles. She will be remembered for none of those. Today we look at a CBS Saturday Night movie which appeared on October 16,1982. This Made-For-TV thriller casts Wonder Woman as a damsel in much peril and sadly, she will not emerge unscathed. It won't be easy to see the dame we know as Wonder Woman be humiliated and reduced to a crying victim.  Let us look at 1982's "Hotline," directed by Jerry Jameson.

The sultry Brianne (Carter) is a young widow tending bar at Kyle's. Kyle (Monte Markham) has eyes for his endeared bartender.  His buddy, the A-List actor Tom Hunter (Steve Forrest) also has eyes for her.  Then, so does a new customer, Justin (Granville Van Dusen). Justin wins and will even have a lot of pre-marital sex with Wonder Woman, even in the hot tub. Justin, a psychologist, runs a night crisis hotline and figures since Brianne is a bartender, she'd be a great operator. Brianne agrees and quickly talks to troubled youths and abused dames. She also tends bar and has a speargun behind it in case any customer gets too fresh.  After all, she is Wonder Woman. Then he calls. Who is he? Therein lies the mystery.  He only talks to Brianne and confesses to several murders where beautiful women were tortured, humiliated, and beheaded.  Brianne tries to get more information.

Justin is convinced this caller is a fraud.  Brianne does detective work and begins to draw clues to his identity.  Now the killer tells Brianne he will do to her what he did to the other babes in his life. Brianne is scared and Justin insists on sleeping with her every night to guard her. Tom, the A-List actor gets more and more unhinged, as he is divorcing his wife in hopes of landing Wonder Woman.  Justin is smooth and all too calm...of course he is engaging in pre-marital sex with Wonder Woman, which has to be a calming action.  Uh oh...the killer is serious.  What happens to Wonder Woman may be difficult to watch, but will she survive?

Is Justin just a little too sweet and helpful to be a legitimate boyfriend? Will Brianne pull out the Golden Lariat, twirl it around Justice while in the hot tub, and...actually, I withdraw this question...I was getting too prurient.  Is the killer anyone Brianne knows?  Linda Carter looks great in this and even out of her Wonder Woman costume, or even naked in the hot tub, we are happy to see her.  For a pretty good and deviant babe-in-peril TV-Made move, see "Hotline."   

Prompt, A Dirty One From Charles Band

What if you get into AI and create images that arouse you...really arouse?  Your sexual fantasies are now strictly AI...and that's fine with you. Dirty!  Smutty!  Forbidden!  Then, what if you find out that AI is prompting you. If AI tells you to go right...do you go right?  If it tells you to go left...do you go left?  Only fair, right? Then AI tells you to engage in steamy and erotic lesbian sex...do you do it? Us guys out here hope you do.  AI hopes you do. Steamy lesbian sex...in the shower...in outer space...in bed...in the office... you name it. Wait!  Sorry, AI names it. Let us look at the most dirty and erotic film of 2025.  Our feature today is Charles Band's "Prompt."

Taylor (Lilly Bell) is an AI creator.  She creates AI ad campaigns for technology companies. All very sexy. In her spare time she creates AI scenes of hot babes, naked and sweaty, having passionate sex. Taylor masturbates to these images. Not a lesbian, yet, Taylor even invites an old BF (Ian S. Peterson) over for sex in front of these images. Not just these lesbian erotica creations. See a hunk (Jax Cody) enters these images. As the created babes are sharing passion, the mystery man peers at Taylor who is masturbating. The hunk seems aroused by Taylor's self-satisfaction. Taylor is uber aroused that the hunk is watching her. She wants him.  The hunk looks like he wants her. He'll only show up when Taylor creates AI scenes of hot lesbians making out and having sex.

Taylor really wants to have sex with a woman, thus invites her big-boobed bestie Sara (Elliott Woods) over. Taylor wants to show Sara the hunk that has obsessed her. Taylor also wants to get in Sara's yoga pants. Sara is skeptical. Desperate her efforts to conjure up the hunk, Taylor prompts images and scenes of lesbians having passionate sex.  Taylor will do anything to get the hunk of her AI program to appear...and Sara may just have to submit.

What will Taylor do to Sara?  Exactly what will Taylor be prepared to do for this AI hunk who seems to lust after her? Who is in charge, the creator or the creation? Erotic and steamy.  Dirty and taboo. This would have been a perfect movie for the old Cinemax After Dark slot. See "Prompt" and relax, as you do not have to tell anyone you watched it.    

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Cookers, Meth-Addicts and Ghosts

Yeah there are ghosts in this one. Sadly, they are not the horrific part of this film. The real horror is what meth does to you. Or, if not you, to a loved one. In this film, there will be three meth-addicts who will not fare well, even without ghosts in the haunted house they cook in. Our feature today is 2001's "Cookers," directed by Dan Mintz.

This one starts out innocent enough...not really. Hector (Brad Hunt) has apparently ripped off a dealer of some really nice white powder...pharmaceutical grade. Naturally he needs to get out of Dodge and drives his white van to a big abandoned house in the woods. With him is his sultry GF Dorena (Cyia Batten). Dorena is creeped out by the house in the woods right away, though Hector reminds her they don't have a choice. Arriving is Hector's buddy, the redneck Merle (Patrick McGraw). He will keep an eye on them and bring them food and supplies. Dorena and Hector set up a meth lab in an upstairs bedroom and begin cooking, and their product is fine! The duo can't refrain from their own stuff and smoke it or shoot it up. Now their grip on reality is almost non-existent. Then they hook Merle...and he loves it. One night the trio smoke the stuff as Merle tells them the history of the local woods. A missing girl and perhaps a murdering dad may prowl the woods. Urban legend?

Urban legend or not, in their states, Hector and Dorena insert the two ghostly figures into their reality. Now both are seeing ghosts...either the little girl or the dad, who is known in these parts as the Shadow Man. Eventually, Hector's dead grandma will show up. Paranoia also creeps in, though with these three, the paranoia is probably appropriate. The trio get more and more hooked on their own stuff and their ability to decipher reality from fiction is gone. Merle begins wondering if it would be a good idea just to rip off Hector and Dorena.  After all, those two aren't in a position to do anything about it. The beautiful Dorena gets less and less so as she will even begin losing her teeth. Then the ghosts become more aggressive.

Is there even a remote chance that this trio will survive to the end credits? Is the missing girl and her dad a mere urban legend or do their spirits haunt this abandoned house in the woods? What are Merle's plans, and is he more of a danger to our cookers than ghosts and their  own stuff? This is a creepy one that may be considered a slow burn. For a meth-horror tale, see "Cookers" and stay off the stuff! 

Terror Among Us, Rapist vs. Stewardesses

Rapist wins. So sad. Today we have a grim one. The January 14, 1981 Wednesday Night Movie on CBS. This will be a difficult one to watch as sultry stewardesses are beaten, tied up, gagged, humiliated, and raped. The last 30 minutes of this film will make you wince and turn your head. Beautiful women in stewardess uniforms will go down to defeat. Five weeks earlier, John Lennon was murdered in New York City. We all heard the news from Howard Cosell during Monday Night Football. In the booth, too was Don Meredith who stars in this film. This won't be the feel good film of 1981, "Terror Among Us," directed by Paul Krasny.

Rapist Delbert (Ted Shackelford) is released on parole thanks to his liberal probation officer Connie (Jennifer Salt). Detective Tom Stockwell (Meredith) is irate as he knows Delbert will rape again. Delbert gets a job for a laundry service and makes deliveries to an apartment occupied by five sultry stewardesses. He sneaks into their apartment, smells their underwear, and sometimes takes a bra or panties. We first meet the stewardesses at the pool as they frolic in bikinis...and that's the first time Delbert sees them. Now he's transfixed on them and their garments. Jen (Sarah Purcell) is the most senior of the cabin crew and it is her undies that are stolen. Cathy (Pat Klous) is the most inexperienced and is dating a married man. Delbert goes home at night, satisfies himself in his bathroom, and yells at his grouchy live in girl Sara (Sharon Spelman).

Tom tries to put together a case to put Delbert back in the joint as Connie does everything she can to foil him. Then Delbert sneaks into Vickie's (Kim Lankford) only to be beat up by her husband. Vickie is a stewardess in the same building. Tom now thinks he can put Delbert away but technicalities and Connie prevent this.  Delbert gets more psycho and heads over to the stewardesses' pad and what happens next is vicious and evil. The pretty stewardesses won't emerge pretty or unsoiled, sadly. Now Connie is no longer liberal and her and Tom have their work cut out for them. Jen's willingness to die for her friends may have saved some lives in the end, but not anyone's purity. 

What did Jen do and will she survive?  Will Connie or Tom blow the Delbert pervert away, or will they let justice work the way its supposed to? Of the five stewardesses, will any survive Delbert? This is a grimy one and we see the carnage coming a mile away as soon as the movie begins.  No humor here, just prurient evil and heartbreak.  See "Terror Among Us," and squirm as beautiful stewardesses are horribly violated.  

Bloodlust! Hunks, Babes, Crossbows, Leeches, and Quicksand

Almost 30 years prior to our film being released, the Fay Wray classic "The Most Dangerous Game" was released.  The shocking pre-code horror film set a standard which has been copied every few years, it seems.  Pre-code or not, the 1932 Fay Wray classic is mild horror to modern audiences.  This 1961 version is incredibly unsettling and if you do not like leeches, this is not the film for you.  The images in 1961's "Bloodlust!" are disturbing and definitely would not have been allowed in 1932. Let us take a closer look at "Bloodlust!" starring the dad from "The Brady Bunch," and directed by Ralph Brooke.

Hunks and babes on a ship row to an island to investigate. Uncharted. Never a good idea. Johnny (Robert Reed) is the head hunk, and his gal is the Fay Wray lookalike, Betty (June Kenney). Betty regularly beats up Johnny as she is a maven with Judo. Also on board is the dweeb Pete (Eugene Persson), and his gal, the sultry brunette Jeanne (Joan Lora). Never mind the boat captain, the drunk Tony (Troy Patterson). Almost immediately, on the island, they meet Dr. Balleau (Wilton Graff). He has a sultry wife, Sandra (Lilyan Chauvin). Sandra is having an affair with an existing prisoner, Dean (Walter Brooke). The four new castaways feel something is wrong and see many of the taxidermy trophies bagged by the maniacal doctor.  Sandra and Dean think they have concealed their affair from the doctor, but, of course, have not.

It gets worse. The four sneak around at night and find the doctor's secret laboratory filled with body parts, human skin, and a brunette in a fish tank. Yep, Dr. Balleau hunts anyone who washes up on the island. He uses crossbows, rifles, pistols, and spears.  In one heartbreaking scene, Sandra clad in a smart white swimsuit and Dean are skewered in an embrace by a spear. Now the four realize they are next.  Dr. Balleau believes he is being fair by giving the team a weapon. Now the hunt begins and Johnny and Dean are set out into the jungle to be hunted.  Betty and Jeanne? Having just murdered his sultry wife, the doctor keeps them locked up for future intimacies.  Now Betty and Jeanne try to escape before the doctor can make them into his personal sex-toys.  Johnny and Dean battle quicksand, leeches, crazed convicts, and the pursuing Dr. Balleau.

Will Betty and Jeanne manage to escape the mansion of Dr. Balleau, and the uncharted island?  Will Dr. Balleau stuff his wife and pose her as his latest trophy clad in that hot swimsuit?  If Betty can beat up "The Brady Bunch" dad with her Judo, can she also beat up the psycho doctor?  This is almost a carbon copy of the earlier Fay Wray film, though, I'll repeat, the gore and ominous images are far greater than the 1932 film.  For one of the grossest leech-scenes in movie history, and babes who know how to fight, see "Bloodlust!"  

Stillwatch, Lynda Carter vs. Angie Dickinson

Two of the sultriest actresses of 1970s TV made it to the 80s. Lynda Carter was the fetish queen in "Wonder Woman," and Angie Dickinson was the sexy cop, often undercover, in "Policewoman." what would you give to see a catfight between these two? Embroiled in her own political scandal, with her marriage to Robert Altman in the 1980s, Lynda Carter helped produce our film for today, a thriller about a political scandal. Throwing rocks in glass houses, I know. Therein lies the question, a catfight between the blonde and the brunette queens of 1970s TV, will it happen? Our feature today is 1987's CBS TV-movie (premiering on February 10), "Stillwatch," directed by Rod Holcomb.

Angie Dickinson entered the 1980s naked in the shower while some hunk screws her brains out. Michael Caine will then shred her to pieces. In our film today, she is Senator Abigail Winslow, about to be named Vice President after the current VP gets ill. What can stop her? Her past.  Her secret past. Enter an investigative reporter, Patricia (Carter). She is summoned by news editor Luther Pelham (Stuart Whitman) to do a puff piece on the senator. Uh oh...Patricia may not be Patricia.  Yep, amnesia as a kid, after her parents were murdered, she was adopted and had her name changed. Patricia moves into the DC townhouse the murders occurred. A kind hearted parapsychologist neighbor, Lila (Louise Latham) tries to help her remember the night of the murders...mistake. 

Uh oh, Patricia rekindles romance with a senator she was the mistress of several years ago, Sam (Don Murray).  When Sam two times on her, Patricia's puff piece turns into a hit piece on the senator. See, Sam seems to prefer Policewoman over Wonder Woman. All forgiven, and now Patricia and Abigail are friends again.  This won't last.  Lila does a decent job hypnotizing Patricia, thus bringing back more memories of the night her parents were murdered.  Partial memories are dangerous, and now  it appears someone is trying to kill Patricia. Even worse, Patricia's investigation into Abigail's life reveal that the two babes have something very deviant and evil in common. Catfight brewing? Can you imagine, Wonder Woman vs. Policewoman...in a tub of Jell-O? 

Just what is the connection that links Patricia to Abigail?  Who exactly murdered Patricia's mom and dad? Can this weird neighbor/parapsychologist be trusted? This film is very hard to find as I believe Lynda Carter realized the irony about her making a film about political scandal. See "Stillwatch," and watch the coming fireworks between Wonder  Woman and Policewoman.

Pretty Poison, Anthony Perkins as a Psycho

In 1960, Anthony Perkins was a psycho killer in Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho." As Norman Bates he became the most famous psycho in film history. In 1968...Mr. Perkins plays a psycho killer again. This time there are some twists. Is he the protagonist or antagonist? Sure, that question is applicable to both films. Now you divorced guys will see where this film is going, but set and filmed in western Massachusetts, our feature today is "Pretty Poison," directed by Noel Black. 

Mr. Azenauer (John Randolph) isn't totally sure of allowing his charge, Dennis Pitt (Perkins) out on parole. He has quite an imagination and does not seem sorry about being a 15-year old arsonist who murdered his aunt. Dennis still claims he was sane when he did it. Azenauer gets Dennis a job in Winslow, Massachusetts at a chemical plant. He immediately sees the Winslow High School High Steppers rehearse and focuses on the beautiful blonde flag girl Sue Ann (Tuesday Weld). He needs to impress her so acts as if he is a CIA operative in town on a secret mission. She's wide-eyed and gullible and believes him. Dennis recruits her to be a CIA operative in training, unpaid, and Sue Ann is thrilled. Sue Ann's strict mother (Beverly Garland) is strict and intends to keep her from dating strange men. Sue Ann is bent on being the best CIA operative any 17 year old high school student can be.

Dennis seems to have a good plan as he concocts a mission to stop the chemical company from dumping chemicals into the river. Sue Ann is thrilled she is being included. Uh oh...Dennis' perfect plan hits a few unexpected snags and now the fantasy changes.  Dennis begins to realize living in a fantasy world is not sustainable. Sue Ann? She's just getting started. Uh oh...it turns out Dennis is not the real psycho here.  Yep, the pretty Sue Ann may be a very pretty poison and Dennis is in too deep to avoid the train wreck that is coming fast. Death, destruction, and dismemberment follow.  Now the mess is a big one.  A mess that even Dennis' great imagination could never of foresaw. Now the world is falling apart.  Not for Sue Ann!  She's just starting to have fun.

Is Sue Ann, in reality, perfect for CIA employment?  Could Dennis have gained wisdom from talking to a few divorced men about sultry dames that seem so perfect?  Will Dennis and Sue Ann present themselves for a "Bonnie and Clyde" or "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" type ending?  Shocking and deep, the ending will be a fantastic one that will haunt everyone in this film who remains alive at the end credits.  See "Pretty Poison," and enjoy Anthony Perkins as a loon and Tuesday Weld as a psycho seductress.