Femme Fatale, Rebecca Romijn Seduces Everyone

Erotic to the max. The lovely Rebecca Romijn in white lingerie...black lingerie...black leather... getting boinked by bikers, and Antonio Banderas. The eroticism doesn't end here...she makes passionate lesbian love to the beautiful Rie Rasmussen.  Full nudity.  Panting.  Sweating. Orgasming. Steamy, to say the least. What's the film about? That would be a spoiler...when it ends, you'll know...not until then. The erotic film is by Brian De Palma. He has a way with eroticism that borders on soft-core. Just ask Angie Dickinson, who was boinked in the shower in "Dressed to Kill." Our film today is 2002's "Femme Fatale." Don't be fooled by the plot description below...it is irrelevant to what this film is about. To watch me discuss this film on YouTube's The Dame Taft Movie Show, click this link. DTMS Femme Fatale

Sophisticated thieves, led by Black Tie (Eriq Ebouaney) are going to rob the Cannes Film Festival of diamonds, which adorn babe actresses. His operative Laure (Romijn) masquerades as a photographer. Her job is to follow sultry starlet Veronica (Rasmussen) into the lady's room, seduce her, have vicious and loud lesbian sex with her, and steal the jewels. Yep, this scene unfolds in great detail. Uh oh...the deal was no guns and no one gets hurt. When Black Tie pulls a gun to blow away Veronica, Laure levels him. Now Laure gets away with the diamonds. Black Tie will head to prison. Veronica? She'll have a love affair with Laure that will last years.  Wait...what?

If Alfred Hitchcock's mind was dirtier, he would have made this film. Enter Brian DePalma. Enter Antonio Banderas as Bardo...a paparazzi who snaps Laure's picture when she is the wife of the U.S. Ambassador to France (Peter Coyote). Losing you? You have no idea. Did I mention the bath, being thrown off the balcony of the Sheraton, being mistaken for a French mother...no? You'll see. All that is mixed with Laure displaying the most erotic lingerie and undergarments as she seduces Bardo. A little later on, she'll don black stiletto leather boots, and BDSM type lingerie and also seduce Bardo, but not before seducing bar thugs. I'm not making sense, you say? Ah, but I am...just watch the movie. You won't believe what I have left out or where all this is going.  Hitchcock would have been proud...and aroused.

Is Laure the protagonist or the antagonist? Is this seductress really in love with Bardo, or does she plan to murder him? Is there a shot that Laure makes it to the end credits? Seduction.  Betrayal. Murder. More seduction. For an arousing film that you will absolutely understand (maybe not, actually) before the end credits, see "Femme Fatale," and be aroused in a Cinemax After Dark type of way. 

 

Sorority Girl, Babes in Swimsuits, Spankings, and Catfights

Ah, sorority girls.  Ah, Roger Corman! What a duo. Sorority girls, all nubile and beautiful.  Sorority girls, as vicious as ferocious cats.  Petty...jealous...manipulative...and ready to pull hair, wrestle in the surf, or spank the snot out of a sister. Today we look at a film about a sorority at the University of Southern California...and the slaps, spankings, and catfights that are included.  Let us look at the Roger Corman picture, 1957's "Sorority Girl." 

Major league b***h, and sorority sister Sabra (Susan Cabot) is a rich girl from Malibu. She's also a...well, not a good person.  When her mom (Fay Baker) cuts her off from the family money and allowance, Sabra becomes desperate.  The evil dame sets her sights on her sisters.  She humiliates a pledge, Ellie (Barbara Cowan).  When Ellie does not do the exercise program Sabra demands her to do, a vicious paddle spanking ensues. Now Sabra is jealous because her roomie Rita (Barboura Morris) has a BF with money. The boyfriend is Mort (Dick Miller), who owns a bar. Sabra finds out the sultry Terry (Joan Lora) has secrets and finds out what those secrets are.  Now Sabra blackmails Terry.  Sabra also finds out a pretty blonde pledge had become pregnant.  Tina (June Kenney) is with child and her boyfriend left. Tina works at Mort's bar and Sabra arranges it so Tina blackmails Mort for money. Tina did not want to, but Sabra blackmails her into blackmailing Mort.

Where is this all going?  Well, Mort is smart...he has to be when surrounded by nubile college babes.  The petty blackmail scheme will backfire and now Tina is in mortal danger.  Sabra doesn't care about the welfare of the pledges or her sorority sisters.  She even tries to seduce Mort away from Rita. Catfights will ensue, including some catfights in the surf while clad in swimsuits.  I know what you are thinking, an inspiration for Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (GLOW).  Maybe.  The film is prurient, brutal, and sad.  Exploitation indeed, but not the feel good film of 1957. 

Will Sabra get hers by the end of the film?  Will all the beautiful sorority girls survive to the end credits?  Will anyone beat Sabra in a catfight?  For a neat exploitation film from a moviemaker who knows how to make them, see "Sorority Girl" and enjoy the cheesecake and the brutality.    

Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold, Gunslinger Babe in Search of Herself

All you peeps offended by 'cultural appropriation'...bug off!!! Today we look at a film where the sultry blonde Laurene Landon plays a half-Apache babe, mowing down a bunch of Mexican bandits, in search of her true heritage.  The tall leggy blonde in a B style western is just so satisfying.  1984's "Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold" will be high on thrills and sex appeal as Ms. Landon romps through the Mexican and southwestern landscapes.

As the film begins, Yellow Hair (Landon) is getting owned by an Apache hunk. Fortunately she'll rebound and decimate him.  This is fortunate for her, as in the Apache tribe, the first hunk that conquers her...gets her.  Now she is off to Mexico to rescue her half-brother, the Pecos Kid (Ken Roberson).  He is a charmer and has run afoul of a Mexican colonel, Torres (Luis Lorenzo).  As Yellow Hair arrives and saves the Kid, Torres' henchman, Flores (Aldo Sambrell), arrives at the Apache reservation and kills Yellow Hair's mother.  Now yellow Hair and the Kid head off into the Mexican desert to find the lost fortress of gold.  Both for different reasons.  The Kid wants wealth.  Yellow Hair believes the secret to her heritage is located in the lost fortress.

The fortress is guarded by some wickedly evil Indians, the Tulapins.  The Tulapins have murdered many of Colonel Torres soldiers in the most horrible and gory ways...you'll see. The Kid and Yellow Hair will have to battle a barrage of rattlesnakes and Tulapin scouts to get to the fortress.  Also, Colonel Torres and Flores are pursuing the duo...they also seek the gold.  Ambushes and traps abound as Yellow Hair and the Kid head to the lost fortress.  Uh oh...some trickery and horrifying revelations are also waiting to destroy Yellow Hair.  Alas, the Tulapin chief, Shayowteewah (Cihangir Gaffari) has special and deviant plans for the beautiful blonde gunslinger.

Comical and vicious, Laurene Landon as an action heroine makes this film so worthwhile.  Will Yellow Hair and The Kid realize their love for each other?  Does Shayoteewah have a special place for the nubile Yellow Hair on his sacrificial altar?  Will Yellow Hair's decimation of her Mexican and Indian foes get her banned by the modern day PC police?  However un-PC this film is...it is a lot of fun and Laurene Landon is a lot more appealing than anything in those two new "Wonder Women" movie monstrosities.  Rile your PC buddies and enjoy "Yellow Hair and the Fortress of Gold."

Skinemax Uncut, The Rise and Legacy of Cinemax After Dark

Yes...I proudly state Christine Nguyen is one of my favorite actresses. I don't mumble when I say that, nor would I mumble in averring Veronica Lake, Kate Beckinsale, and Beverly Garland are also some of my favorite actresses. I know, I hear you. Ms. Nguyen was different, she has a number of softcore pieces on her resume. Right...and she does them well.  Those shower scenes when she is all alone and she takes her hand and...well, you know. Or when she's in bed and some babe walks in and...well, you saw the same movie. In 1990 this would have been a secret...in 2026, it brings a yawn for a reaction. Yesteryear is gone, and now we can proudly proclaim we were keyed in on Cinemax after 10pm. What an era, the 80s and 90s softcore smut! Thanks to B. Harrison Smith, in his new book, Skinemax Uncut (Bear Manor Media),  we can freely read all about Cinemax After Dark without hiding its cover from passengers sitting next to us on the airplane flight.

After a wonderful forward by Ms. Nguyen, Mr. Smith follows with the definitive work on softcore titillation that many of us grew up with.  Back then, we kept secret about it. Now we look back fondly, as the deviance of kids today includes rough, forbidden, and maybe illegal porn. Yes, you fans of what we got on Skinemax can claim the moral superiority. What lamebrain would not eagerly watch an Emmanuelle film, especially Skinemax' Krista Allen spectacular Emmanuelle in Space. The author tells us about many of Skinemax' shows and original programming.  The plots, reason for, history of, and offshoots of them are discussed.  Legends in our mind, leftover from out teens and twenties.. are babes like Monique Parent, Shannon Tweed, and Sylvia Kristel.  These after-hour vixens are frequent subjects in this one, as are the movie makers like Fred Olen Ray and David DeCoteau. 

So why did Skinemax take hold on a whole generation of adolescents and young men back in the day? The shifting morality and blurred lines between puritanical authority and the perverted id was occurring. Read all about that in this book. Also, Mr. Smith does a fine job in differentiating arousal and seduction with hardcore porn, or mere sexual intercourse. The seduction works on the thinking man.  It works on his imagination and creative senses.  It stimulates, inspires, and stokes a manly appreciation for beautiful female bodies. It also enhances the fantasies of both men and women. Porno-Sex is blunt, and a one-act slam-fest. Skinemax was seduction. The smut we watched back in the day was mild compared to today's available smut. Wait! It was different. We were into seduction...not online or streaming porn. We were about seduction, or building a relationship, or human interaction (physical and emotional)...not just watching a tally-whacker slam into womanhood. Again, yes, we students of Skinemax can indeed assert a moral superiority.

Christine Nguyen never had sex on the screen...she was an actress.  Today's deviants desire the act, close-up, with no relationship or seduction involved. Skinemax gave us this. It shaped us...not to be rapists, but to admire the human body.  Not into misogynists, but beings able to value modesty and the human condition.  Skinemax gave us plots (maybe thin, at times) and fantasies.  However thin the plots of some of the original programming might have been, it was far more mature and substantive than the latest Marvel or DC superhero nonsense. 

Eroticism is not bad...never has been...except from the peeps who are insanely angry that we may be enjoying ourselves.  Veronica Lake knew how to seduce.  Kate Beckinsale knew how to seduce.  Christine Nguyen, Krista Allen, and Sylvia Kristel knew how to seduce. Seduce requires thinking and unselfishness.  Mr. Smith's book is one of the best defenses for erotica in film or novels (Max Gunssler would be pleased).

Herald your affection for that old Skinemax after dark programming.  This book is the foremost piece on that era and the peeps that made it, ran it, appeared on it, and all us who enjoyed and were molded into adulthood with its help. The author puts in several biographical stories that will have you laughing hysterically, gasping, and rethinking the next time you order a pizza. Do yourself a favor, and conjure up some erotic images of Krista Allen seducing in space, or Sylvia Kristel seducing on the Riviera, and smile as you order this work by clicking on the Amazon link below.

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Cyclone, Heather Thomas- Biker Chick

Heather Thomas! The sultry 80s bikini babe that graced our TV sets in shows like "The Fall Guy." Maybe not as popular as that other Heather, Heather Locklear, but seems to have less issues. Always a plus when men survey talent. Talent? Yep...quite the body and quick to wear a bikini. Pair her up with Ashley Ferrare, put them in a gratuitous sweaty cleavage scenes, and even in a catfight...and we have a classic Fred Olen Ray film, 1987's "Cyclone." Oh, did I mention Hammer Glamour Girl Martine Beswick as a heavily armed femme-fatale figure? How about Count Yorga (Robert Quarry) as a Man in Black? Martin Landau? Oh, Jeffrey Combs as a mad scientist? Yep...Heather Thomas outshines, out sweats, and and out seduces all of them!

Benign mad scientist Rick (Combs) has invented a motorcycle which is bulletproof, fires guided missiles and laser beams, and has an infinity energy source. Nefarious forces in the government want to sell it to the highest bidder, but Rick won't sell...he's a good guy. His GF is Teri (Thomas). We first meet her in a wonderful sweaty cleavage gym scene with her bestie Carla (Ferrare). Teri and Rick go to a grunge club to dance where Rick is murdered by assassins who want his bike. Now Men in Black, who are corrupt, chase after Teri and Count Yorga is one of them. Now Teri is on the run because they believe Rick has left her the bike and its secrets...he did. On the run, Teri tries to find Rick's friend, a pure government spook (Troy Donahue), but as soon as she meets up with him, he's shredded by machinegun bullets.

Chases occur and Teri uses the bike's weapons to try to ward off henchmen and henchwomen.  Determined to keep the bike away from terrorists, Teri tries to find someone who is not corrupt. Her bestie, Carla? Well, see the film...they will either end up in a shower together or in a gratuitous and fiery catfight. Wait? Are all the bad guys...bad guys?  Waters (Beswick) gets an Uzi and comes looking for Teri...but to kill her or save her? Teri will fire guided missiles, shoot laser beams, jump over traffic, and look great in tight jeans as she does.  She even looks great when tortured with battery cables shoved in her groin.

Will Teri become one of Count Yorga's undead brides?  Will Carla and Teri swap spit, or punches?  Will the bikini blonde from 80s TV also have a catfight with the Hammer Glamour Girl? This is a fun one filled with gratuitous Heather Thomas scenes, car chases, explosions, and catfights. See "Cyclone" and enjoy one of Fred Olen Ray's best films, though not most well known. 

Money Plane, Casino in the Sky

Yep, Denise Richards is in this! So is Thomas Jane and Kelsey Grammer. However, stealing the show is the lovely Katrina Norman as the sexy but deadly stewardess. We have a heist one today, filled with sultry stewardesses, gunfights, double-crosses, and high-tech intrigue. Then, of course, Katrina Norman fighting off thugs with her shiny red stewardess stilettos. Yes, Denise Richards is in this...sadly, it is a yawner of a role. Our feature today is 2020's "Money Plane," directed by Andrew Lawrence.

Jack (Adam Copeland), who is married in this film to the irrelevant Denise Richards, and his gang are unsuccessful in stealing a $40 million painting. Also in the gang is killer Isabella (Norman), and IT guy Trey (Patrick Lamont, Jr.). There are more, and all played well.  Grouch (Grammer), hired the Jack to do the theft, holds Jack responsible for the failed mission. Grouch believes Jack owes him $40 million. Now Grouch gives Jack and his team a method to make things right...one last heist that, if successful, will secure the futures for everyone on the team. Jack has little choice as Grouch threatens to kill Denise Richards if Jack doesn't do the job. Enter Harry (Thomas Jane)...he's Jack's Plan B...you'll see, but no spoilers here. Now Jack masquerades as a ruthless human trafficker to get on the money plane for some high-stakes gambling.  Every passenger/gambler is one of the worst criminals in the world.

Isabella? She masquerades as a sultry stewardess and is assigned to look for the loot. Trey masquerades as Jack's assistant and is tasked to find the server and steal all the crypto-currency. The highlights of this film are when Isabella is found out and has fights to the death with some of the criminals and money plane crew. Jack is in charge of taking over the cockpit and piloting the plane to a secured location. Many bad guys will die, and Isabella will keep looking fine in her tight red stewardess uniform and stilettos. Grouch monitors this all from his mansion unaware that Jack has a Plan B.

Will the team successfully rob the money plane?  What is Jack's Plan B? Will Isabella also serve those little bags of peanuts to go with killing and carenage? I know, we are all hoping Jack dumps Denise Richards and takes up with the assassin Isabella...you'll have to watch the film to see if this plays out. For some fun exploitation and alluring stewardess carnage, see "Money Plane." 

Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw, Wonder Woman Naked

Wonder Woman naked? Yep. Lynda Carter helped a lot of adolescent boys through puberty in the 1970s in her TV portrayal of "Wonder Woman." The series ran from 1975 through 1979 and she put forth a wholesome image of an American superheroine. Kind of.  Her costume drew our eyes to certain assets that teenaged kids should not have been gawking at. Still, in the show, she never stripped...though in 1976, Lynda Carter did perform naked and in the throes of pre-marital sex in our film today. Yep, Wonder Woman, or Lynda Carter had a lot of sex scenes in which she was nude with...Marjoe Gortner? Yep. He was the pervert, psycho National Guardsman in "Earthquake," in sensurround! Today we look at a cross between "Bonnie and Clyde" and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

It begins, Lyle (Gortner) steals a car and spots Bobbie Jo...and the two fall instantly in love. Now she and him hit the road as Lyle is a wanted man. They commit robberies, join up with Bobbie Jo's sister Pearl (Merrie Lynn Ross), a stripper and her psychopath BF Slick (Jesse Vint). Oh, Bobbie Jo's bestie, Essie (Belinda Balaski) joins them. Uh oh, Lyle and Slick try to rob a place and Lyle murders a security guard. The quintet skinny-dip, make passionate pre-marital sex, and skinny-dip some more.  After some more robberies and even a bank robbery, the cops gun down Essie.  Now the gang hits banks and even Bobbie Jo machineguns innocent people. The sheriff (Gene Drew) becomes obsessed and stops at nothing to catch them.  More shootouts occur and deputies keep getting killed.

Having seen the two aforementioned films, we know that this is headed toward a brutal ending.  Even worse, during the first half of the film it was easy to see Lyle and Slick as the psychopathic influences in this film.  By the end, Bobbie Jo is the most psycho of them all.  Knowing Lynda Carter as "Wonder Woman," this is hard for us to see.  When she is dressed, she is in tight jeans, a tied-up blouse highlighting cleavage, and a bare midriff.  Lynda Carter and the camera, are good friends, no doubt. The film escalates in brutality and the killings get more and more twisted.  The ending?  Oh, my!  

Is Lynda Carter in tight jeans and a bare midriff, or even totally nude, too beautiful to get shot-gunned by a vindictive sheriff?   Was this role as a psycho-babe therapeutic to Lynda Carter who was in the midst of portraying a wholesome good-gal?  Does the fact that she skinny-dipped so often mean Bobbie Jo will die horribly...as it does in slasher films?  This is a sobering and alluring film.  Bloody erotica, if you must.  For a prurient good time, see "Bobbie Jo and the Outlaw."