Forbidden Zone Alien Abduction (1996), or Alien Abduction: Intimate Secrets is a Skinemax masterpiece that takes place mainly in a spa on ladies day. Six friends get together to cheer up one of their number, Meredyth Holmes for some reason that I didn't quite understand. The proper method is to share sexual exploits and fantasies. After the first couple of stories, we discover that three of the five had an alien encounter while traveling in Europe. Two of them alternate talking about that night, while Holmes seems to know everything about what happened to all three. The whole plot is mercifully tied up at the end by a long explanation from Holmes.

Holmes shows breasts near the beginning of the film, and briefly at the end. Floriela Grappini as a spa patron shows breasts. We also have breast exposure from Darcy De Moss, Pia Reyes and two unknowns. IMDb readers have this at 3.6 of 10. which is actually giving it too much credit. Most of the flashback scenes were shot with weird lighting and constant fades and dissolves, the other scenes in a steamy spa room. This was shot in Romania. The only IMDb comments is decidedly unfavorable. The story is preposterous, the acting non-existent, and it took me three days to suffer through the brief running time. This is a D- at best.

Chris is a 30ish middle class Brit who has drifted into a 1977 life very much like the one his parents led in the 50s and early 60s. He has a sensible wife, a baby, and a bourgeois suburban life. He is not especially happy or unhappy, but seems contented and just settled into the routine that we all seem to establish eventually.

This demi-paradise and other Eden is suddenly invaded by its own Satan in the form of an apparition from the past. An old friend named Tony shows up from Chris's late 60s' radical days. Tony has returned to England after a decade of Bohemian wanderings to find that Chris has settled into the exact world they used to make fun of. Chris has a house a mile from his parents, a long daily commute to a job he hates, a garden, and a Volvo. The friend tries to shake him up and return him to the vagabond life.

During the rest of the film, the script moves Chris back and forth among three places: his suburban nest, the sensuous temptations which Tony/Satan throws before him, and his memories of living in Paris with an older woman and dreaming of being a photographic artist and a boulevardier.

This is the sort of movie which, although a good movie in many ways, is difficult to enjoy if it doesn't relate in some direct way to your life.

Like Chris in this movie, I gave up my plans for the Bohemian life in order to build a nest very much like the one my parents had raised me in and, also like Chris, I was not without regrets about that. Because I could relate to the situations, I was therefore able to appreciate that the dialogue is crisp and witty, and that the characters are real. The script makes a sincere effort to examine Chris's motivations, and the path that led him back to suburbia. It can be thoughtful and touching, and is not a bad flick at all. If you were also an angst-ridden upper middle class product of late 60s radicalism, this may stir a lot of memories about the choices you had to make about the direction of your life.

If you can't specifically relate to this era, or these bourgeois problems, and/or if you would dislike a talky movie about a premature midlife crisis, then this is not the film for you. The exposition is fairly good, but the characters' epiphanies are all predictable and safe, so if the subject matter is not especially intriguing, and/or if you like a lot of action, you will find that this movie probably seems like your parents' dinner conversation about subjects you aren't interested in.

• Emily Watson (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Elsa Zylberstein (1, 2)

• Amanda Ryan (1, 2, 3, 4)

• Also note that Watty managed to come up with one additional look at Ryan's pubes which are not on the Region 1 DVD.

All three women have Encyclopedia volumes, if you would like to see more of them. Amanda Ryan got naked elsewhere, but never looked this good again.

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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.

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.

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.

"Sex with a Smile" (1976)
I made some 'caps of this film from a tired old VHS tape about a month ago. Recently I got ahold of a rare Chinese import DVD and was able to make some much improved upgrades.

• Barbara Bouchet, topless.
• Dayle Haddon, topless and rear nudity.
• Edwige Fenech, also showing breasts and a rear view.

Be sure to pay Graphic Response a visit at his website. www.graphic-barry.com.

Today from the Ghost....new vids of Ione Skye showing some excellent nudity in scenes from "The Rachel Papers" (1989). Skye of course will always be best remembered as John Cusack's love interest in one of the best coming of age movies ever, Cameron Crowe's "Say Anything..." (1989).

• Ione Skye zipped .wmvs. Toplessness in all, plenty of love making, great lighting and almost a full frontal view in #4. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)

The Hunger: Twisted Tales DVD collection.

"Nunc Dimitis"

• Marina Orsini: partial breast having vampire sex. She's a very famous actress in Quebec.
• Irene Contogiorgis: topless as junkie.

"The Perfect Couple"

• Claudia Besso: cleavage in her second Hunger episode and still not nekkid!
• Christina Colburn: breasts in sex scene also in her second Hunger episode again credited as Marie-Josée D'Amours. Now that's a lot better.
• Daniella Ferrera: lacey dress revealing underwear.

"Dream Sentinel"

• Alice Poon: buns and crotch shot as stripper, then topless.
• strippers: breasts.

"The Suction Method"

ACTRESS HAPPY TO BE 40
Forever A Fox - Vivica A. Fox is a Hollywood rarity: An actress who's bragging about turning 40. The "Booty Call" star told the New York Post, "Guurl, I'm excited about 40. I ain't wet behind the ears no more! I'm a woman and I'm cool with me, and if everybody don't like me, that's OK because I ain't goin' to like everybody anyway, and I'm cool with that, too." But Fox also shows no signs of age, she still wears the same sexy styles she's always worn, and she says she enjoys all those "little young fellas" who keep "checkin' her out."