Satan's Slave (1976), AKA Evil Heritage, is a British attempt at Satanic horror. Candace Glendenning is a young woman with psychic ability who goes on holiday with her parents to visit an uncle and cousin she didn't know she had. As they arrive, the car crashes and both of her parents burn to death in an explosion. As she begins to recover, she makes friends with the cousin, which seems to anger the uncle. Whilst out for a stroll, she has a vision of a witch, Monika Ringwald, being stripped, branded, whipped, then burned at the stake. The girl being burned morphs into her. When she arrives back at the house, she has sex with her first cousin, and plans to escape with him. Then she has a vision of being sacrificed by her uncle and cousin to reanimate a long dead powerful witch. She fleas, after stabbing her cousin to death in the eye with a nail file, and runs into her dead father, very much alive, who tells her it has all been a bad dream. She is left with her uncle, who shows her the body of her cousin with the nail file still in his eye.

I gave up questioning the plot early on, although there are plenty of questions to ask, such as why we see the persecution of Monika Ringwald, other than the full frontal nudity, or why does the father pop up after he was burned to death and buried? Glendenning also does full frontal while she is imagining her torture ceremony, and we see a naked unknown women leading the torture.

IMDb readers have this at 4.0. The video quality is simply awful, the plot nonsensical, and the eye stabbing the only real bit of gore. This is another in the Horrible Horrors collection, and only has merit as a bad movie. C.

Other Crap:

• The "buildings of disaster" series emphasizes our society's fascination with tragic and terrible events.
• Remember, there's no "D" in Ohio. Browns score 35 in the second half - and lose!!! Cleveland's QB went 30 for 39 for 413 yards and 5 TDs - and lost 58-48, as Cincy's Rudy Johnson rushed for 200+. It was a wild one. The Browns were down by two TD's, 34-20, then came back to take a 48-44 lead, but the Bengals then put up two more TDs to win it. Their combined 106 points was the most scored in a game since the AFL-NFL merger nearly 40 years ago.
• USA administration says Ukrainian election was stolen from the candidate they backed. I don't know anything about the guy who stole the election, but Kerry should have hired that sumbitch!
• Mike Nichols says there was a Portman topless scene in Closer, he cut it, and it will definitely NOT be on the DVD: "There were two seconds of film where you saw her topless. She opened her shirt and that was it, but now that moment has taken on a life of its own. I've heard that you can see the footage online, which is not true. The truth is I had a deal with Natalie. Basically I said, 'It's your body. You decide if the two seconds are in the film.' It was not my call because it's her body. Natalie said, 'I don't want to be walking down the street and see a guy who has seen my tits.' So I took it out." (Nichols also insists that the topless scene will not be on the DVD version.)
• NBC Sports chairman Dick Ebersol survived a charter plane crash that killed at least two people Sunday.
• Julia Roberts has twins, and no longer needs the Brockovich Bra. In addition to those twins, she also has two healthy babies - one male, one female.
• Thanksgiving Weekend Box Office: a disaster for Alexander. It opened in 6th position, behind Tim Allen's crappy Christmas movie and four holdovers. The other big story of the week - the Incredibles, now in its fourth week, actually moved up one place, from third to second. As "fourth weekends" go, it was the fourth best of all time, and the only ones ahead of it are the super heavyweights: Titanic, Spidey 2, and The Phantom Menace, all of which eventually exceeded $400 million.
• Christmas with the Kranks - as reviewed by that gentle, subtle master of refinement, The Filthy Critic
• FilmJerk's informative Early Report for November 28, 2004
• Sacred Cheese Sandwich Update. Jim takes the holy sandwich to a casino, where its miraculous properties deliver a $200 profit.
• This is awesome. Communism: Threat to Liberty. Comic book from 1961.
• The seventy most beautiful words in the English language.
• The Jerry Seinfeld Dictionary of Terms and Phrases.
• Here's the trailer for Darkness, a new horror flick with Anna Paquin
• The first look at the trailer from Fabled "One can expect darkness and density from a film that opens with a quote from Kafka ('a belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light'), and first-time writer/director Ari Kirschenbaum delivers both in this 2002-made psycho-brooder."
• The trailer for I Am David: " An extraordinary family adventure, 'I Am David' follows a twelve year-old boy as he boldly escapes from an East European prison camp and makes an incredible personal journey to freedom. Fleeing with only a compass, half a loaf of bread and a sealed, secret letter he must carry across the continent, David cannot foresee the dramatic odyssey that awaits him. From stowing away on a ship bound for Italy, to facing his fears of the dangerous outside world, to the unexpected revelation of his true identity, David discovers for the first time the real meaning of courage, trust, laughter and hope."
• The first trailer for A Love Song for Bobby Long. Drama with Scarlett Johansson and Vinny Barbarino. Even includes some near-nudity from Scarlett.
• Excellent CNN report on TV's longest-running quiz show: That's Academic. Former quiz kids shown in the report include Hillary Clinton and George Stephanopoulos
• Astronomy POD: - Doomed Star Eta Carinae. The variety of the universe never ceases to amaze.

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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.

Words, pictures, and vids from ICMS
 

Racheengel (1999)

Today we've got some clips of Chiara Schoras, who has her own volume in the Encyclopedia which even includes a collage created by yours truly. This girl of German-Italian descent showed everything in a love scene in the made for TV movie "Racheengel - Stimme aus dem Dunkeln" (1999), which would probably translate as Avenging Angel, Voices from the Dark, or something like that.

• Chiara Schoras clip #1 (.wmv zipped, .avi zipped)
• Chiara Schoras clip #2 (.wmv zipped, .avi zipped)
• Chiara Schoras clip #3 (.wmv zipped, .avi zipped)
• Chiara Schoras clip #4 (.wmv zipped, .avi zipped)

That's all for today.

Yours faithfully,

ICMS

First up from the Ghost...two clips of Paget Brewster from last night's episode of the made for Showtime series "Huff". In clip #1 we see a bit of bum, but it's probably a stunt butt. In clip #2 we see Brewster in lingerie.

• Paget Brewster zipped .wmvs (1, 2)

Next up, a few clips from the Scoop family favorite, "Used Cars" (1980), starring Kurt Russell. Click here for the Scoopy.com review.

• Actress turned Director Betty Thomas doing a little strip tease and appearing topless (except for pasties). (zipped .wmv)

• Here are a couple of the other strippers we see dancing on cars from the same scene with Betty Thomas. (zipped .wmv)

• Former Pet of the Year Cheryl Rixon topless in one of the illegally broadcasted commercials made by the Used Car guys. (zipped .wmv)

"Shotgun" (1989)
Exceptionally violent videonasty about a john in full bondage gear who beats hookers to a pulp. Only available in England.

• Donna Ball: topless.
• Rhonda Gray: topless but beat up.
• Katie Caple: bra and panties.

"The Perfect Score" (2004)
PG-rated MTV comedy. No nudity.

• Erika Christensen: cleavage.
• Scarlett Johansson: major upskirt, downblouse.
• Vanessa Angel: legs.
• Rebecca Reichert: cleavage.

Paradise Falls season II, week 11
Chantal and Daniel have a catfight with wet results. Cherilee is planning a traditional Wiccan wedding in the nude so that should keep people watching for the final two weeks.

• Chantal Quesnelle: full dorsal nudity.
• Danielle Hampton: wet t-shirt.

"The Ranch"
Set in a brothel based on a real brothel in Nevada, 2004's The Ranch could have been simply a T & A sexploitation piece with lots of nudity, a very thin plot, and poor acting. Unfortunately, it wasn't......they left out most of the nudity.

The movie follows the everyday lives of several of the prostitutes. It attempts to be a serious look at the problems they face. One is getting married, but she hasn't told her intented that she's a prostitute. Another is running away from a L. A. pimp. Most of them hate the work but love the money. You get the idea. There is plenty of nudity, but even in the unrated version, it's tasteful and restrained. That would be fine if the movie had a good storyline and good acting, but unfortunately, it doesn't, so the whole thing is disappointing.

At least they tried to keep the moral right from being too outraged by emphasizing that the girls practice safe sex. Nice try, but next time either show more and turn it into a soft-porn cable flick, or get a better script and more talented acting.

• Jessica Collins
• Nicki Micheaux
• Samantha Ferris
• Paige Moss
• Jennifer Aspen