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CRAP:
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The Curious Dr. Humpp
1969
Brainscan's
comments:
The
Curious Dr. Humpp is a
50's scifi monster movie
(The Brain That Would Not
Die) as though it were
filmed in the 70's by Russ
Meyer. So Dr. Humpp
- now there's some
subtlety right there -
sends out a henchmonster
to capture folks as they
engage in sexual
activity. He is not
discriminating. Boy
on girl? He gets
em. Girl on
girl? Them,
too. (I guess that
makes him the Bi-Curious
Dr. Humpp.) A gal
engaged in autoerotic
fingerplay? Yup, her
too. And a
stripper. Did I
mention the
stripper? Even a
foursome of self-described
hippies. Why, you
ask, does he want or need
people doing the sexy
thing? Because the
good doctor isolates from
them the elixir of life
for a brain in a jar that
just keeps on
living. Fine, fine,
sure, sure. The
point is this: the whole
kind-of-plot thing is
designed to get a bunch of
women nekkid as often as
possible. The
hippies, alone, go on
forever, which is both
good and bad because those
gals were the ones I could
not identify. The
women for whom name and
face/body could be matched
were Gloria Pratt as the
stripper, Greta Williams
as the self-pleasuring gal
who finds a partner
post-kidnapping, Mary
Albano as one of the
lesbians (the other?
I dunno) and Susana
Beltran as Dr. Humpp's
faithful nurse. Now,
Ms. Beltran is worthy of
special note because she
possessed the kind of
hooters women pay big
bucks to get but fail
every time.
Seriously, if augmentation
surgery gave every woman
those hooties there would
be many more plastic
surgeons and lots of happy
men. Anyway, the
movie goes along and there
is this protagonist
newspaper reporter who has
the James Bondian ability
to turn a woman to his
side by pairing up with
them and finds a gun and
alerts the authorities and
it all comes crashing
down. Yay.
Today: a
clip of the hippie
foursome
and a clip of Susana
Beltran, with a
collage below
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The
Stranger Within
(2013)
Johnny's
comments
The
Stranger Within is a
Danish made B thriller,
although it is mostly
set on a fictional
Mediterranean island.
World famous actress
Emily Moore (Estella
Warren, OK, that's a
stretch...) is kidnapped
and raped by a deranged
fan after a triumphant
showing on stage. The
kidnapping is seemingly
about a woman who died
in Emily's house not
long before, but also
police save Emily, the
kidnapper gets away.
Some time later, Emily
is encouraged to get
away to their island
home by her psychiarist
husband Robert (William
Baldwin) as she is
having trouble getting
back into acting. One
night, the couple are
disturbed by a frantic
knock on the door by
Sarah (Sarah Butler),
who is covered in the
blood of her boyfriend
who apparently died in a
hiking accident. The
couple help Sarah get
back on her feet, but
something is not quite
right about her and
Emily does not want her
hanging around the
house, particularly as
she thinks Sarah is out
to usurp her. Maybe
Emily's just a little
nuts...
I love a B-thriller,
mainly because every
once in a while you come
across a good one. The
Stranger Within has a
promising start, but the
third act is a complete
write-off, absolutely
terrible and makes
little sense,
particularly when things
are set up and then
completely abandoned
later for a nonsensical
ending. We never find
out who the kidnapper is
or what the relevance of
the dead girl was. And
why did Sarah
inexplicably come back
to the house after she
was banished when it
turns out she's not a
stalker at all? Ugh...
Hey, I totally watched
this movie because
Estella Warren was great
in the over-the-top Blue
Seduction and of course
because of Sarah Butler
from the I Spit On Your
Grave remake
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