The Adventures of Paula Peril, The Comic Book Babe in Peril

I figured it out.  The dame in this film is a cross between Ada Wong and Jill Valentine from the "Resident Evil" franchise. Clad in red and black, with some shiny boots (heels), big...er, smile...leather belt, tight turtleneck...exquisite. Yep, Valerie Perez in the title role has the look.  Sultry and full of fire and desire.  Taken from the comic book, Paula Perillo, aka Paula Peril, will indeed be in much peril.  Strung up, tied to a chair, gagged, chloroformed, hung from a beam, manhandled by brute thugs, chloroformed again, strung up again...our sultry protagonist will indeed be in peril from dangerous brutes and other sultry dames. Let us take a look at 2014's "The Adventures of Paula Peril," directed by Jason Winn, Benjamin Barak, and Savvy Lorestani. 

As our pulp exploitation tale begins, the sultry Paula Peril, an investigative reporter, is battling several thugs.  She will be knocked out, strung up, gagged, and at their mercy. She will be wearing black heeled boots, black stockings, a tight black miniskirt, a tight red top, and have her great big...smile, on display. This is the life of Paula Peril in her efforts to clean up the city as the beat reporter for the Gazette. Then she will be all decked out in a tight red evening gown showing amazing cleavage.  The formal cocktail party is also attended by her paper's society page reporter, Veronica (Marla Malcom), in her shiny blue, revealing evening gown. Veronica will be wooed by a handsome cult leader, chloroformed, tied to an altar and prepped for sacrifice. Paula to the rescue, in her evening gown.  She too will be overpowered, and look good at it.

Yep, Paula and Veronica have a love/hate relationship. The two babes are rivals but ultimately are fighting the same foes. Again, Paula will be snared, this time by evil lady crime boss Irene (Stacey Turner).  Lucky for the tied up and gagged Paula, and may I say she looks so good in her tight outfit all tied up and in peril, her cub reporter Jimmy (Stephen Hanthorn) is there to save the day.  Being chloroformed, knocked on the noggin, gagged, tied up, and even tied to railroad tracks, always clad in her tight red and black outfit and boots, is a staple of this film. Take my word for it, the comic book plot works, though we won't go into it too much here. 

If you like sultry dames, clad in tight get-ups and boots, in peril...gagged, chloroformed, tied up, hanging from a beam, with bombs or henchmen nearby, this is the film for you.  Yep, a hybrid of Jill Valentine and Ada Wong works very well.  For an alluring and fun movie night, and for comic book fans, see "The Adventures of Paula Peril."

Red Sonja, Introducing Brigitte Nielsen

Yep, her first film.  The Euro-babe will be clad in a skimpy and shiny gladiator outfit the entire film, and also be wielding a big sword.  I have bad news for the unhappy college girl culture.  If you want to make it in the world, attach yourself to a good man.  You cannot do it without him.  Empowered and independent?  Don't make me laugh.  Save us all the trouble and juts find a man.  In 1985's "Red Sonja," Sonja does just that.  She gets into a jam, starts losing, and Arnold Schwarzenegger comes along and saves her impressive a**.  Today we will take a look at this Richard Fleischer film.

Sonja (Nielsen) is left battered, bloodied, and gang raped after Queen Gedren's (Sandahl Bergman) men murder her family.  Some ghost tells Sonja to man-up and go after Gedren. Okay, Gedren is busy.  She raids the fortress of some sultry priestesses and her men massacre the babes and steal a talisman that could destroy the world.  Now Gedren has the deadly talisman and plans to harness its power so she can rule the world. One babe-priestess escapes, Varna (Janet Agren).  As she dies Varna implores Sonja to find and destroy the Talisman before Gedren harnesses its power. Kalidor (Schwarzenegger) made this all possible by saving Varna's life and then fetching Sonja who was off learning to swordfight from the Grand Master. We've all been there.  The world is about to be destroyed and Sonja is off on her own selfish interests. Fortunately, a real man came into the film and refocused this strong, independent, and empowered woman.

Okay, joining Kalidor and Sonja is the little boy Prince Tarn (Ernie Reyes, Jr.) and his helpful valet Falkon (Paul L. Smith). Sonja ditches Kalidor and the other three proceed. They get in a jam when a dragon has them holed up in a cave. Kalidor comes and saves the day. Kalidor expresses interest in having passionate pre-marital sex with Sonja. She tells him she will have no man unless he beats her in a fair fight. A subtle invitation perhaps? Okay, back to the plot. Queen Gedren is waiting for Sonja and wants to kill the warrior herself.  A final battle looms and we wonder how Kalidor will save Sonja's a** in the inevitable catfight with swords.

Will Sonja realize she needs a man in her life if she plans on any kind of success?  Will Kalidor sicken of Sonja's talk of empowerment and independence and move onto Sheena (Tanya Roberts)?  Are babes in skimpy gladiator costumes wielding swords and needing hunks a plot that we need to see more of now that wokeness is dying?  See "Red Sonja" and treat yourself to a man's movie.  

Opposing Force, Stripped, Hosed Down, and Violated

Ah, the 80s.  In the 80s, when you want to look nostalgically back at the 70s you hire Anthony Zerbe and Richard Roundtree for your film. Two great actors, but not the reason why we watch today's film. Lisa Eichhorn!  A real babe!  Many today do not recognize the name. Today's feature is her magnum opus where she will be an Air Force babe, dressed like a stewardess (love those old female military uniforms), stripped, hosed down, humiliated, and yes...violated...ouch! By the enemy?  Nope!  Our feature today is 1986's "Opposing Force," directed by Eric Karson.

Lt. Casey (Eichhorn) arrives in The Philippines, Clark AFB, to begin Escape and Evasion training. Her, and several other Air Force guys will be dropped into a jungle and hunted down, captured, and will go through a realistic simulation of a Vietnamese prison camp. Major Logan (Tom Skerritt) and her team up, but this will do no good.  Soon, everyone is captured and brought in. The camp is run by Colonel Becker (Zerbe) and his main sergeant, Stafford (Roundtree).  Becker's men take glee in beating up and humiliating the students.  This is, of course, what these training schools do. Then Casey catches the eye of Becker and let's just say the evil colonel may go a little off curriculum.  Casey will be made to strip.  She'll be hosed down.  In fairness, so will everyone else.  It will get worse for her.  Becker does bring up a good point when he asks her if she has any idea what the Vietcong would do to her.  We know.

Inadvertently, this film makes a great case for getting women out of combat.  Though this is not the film's intention, we as viewers are all thinking the same thing. We also know what is coming.  The ultimate violation.  Becker will be brutal and torture her as he does the dirty deed.  Logan, who was sort of watching out for Casey is pushed too far when he sees Casey after the brutality.  Now Logan goes bananas and rebels.  He also tries to get his brainwashed men to rebel along with him.  This won't be easy.  Even Casey has been broken down.

Was Becker doing Casey a favor in showing her what would be in store for her if she were ever captured by the enemy?  Could this point been driven home by on-line training followed by a 10 question multiple choice exam?  Will people watch this film and see a message about how the military needs to change, or do they just want to see Lisa Eichhorn naked and wet? This film works as an exploitation film, but not as social commentary.  For brutality, grenades, machineguns, jungle warfare, and torture, see "Opposing Force."     

Duchess, Babe Murders Everyone!

Neil Marshall has made so many movies of babes manning up and killing their way to righteousness.  We all remember "The Descent," "Doomsday," or "Dog Soldiers." Those featured a femme-werewolf, Eden Sinclair (Rhona Mitra) as a commando, and babes fighting monsters underground.  Today's feature is his newest film, "Duchess," from 2024.  In this one a really sizzling blonde resorts to bloody revenge when her man is brutally murdered and she is left for dead.  Like Joe Biden may find out, when you set out to murder someone...be sure to murder them.

Small time hustler Scarlett (Charlotte Kirk), plies her pickpocketing trade on club dancefloors.  Clad in an alluring white evening gown she catches the attention of the suave diamond gangster Robert (Philip Winchester). After Scarlett's current BF beats the crap out of her, Robert moves in and now the two are quite the couple. Their love affair will be torrid and we will see Scarlett in evening gowns, kinky lingerie, bikinis, leather, or nothing at all.  Robert shows her his business and the duo go to the Canary Islands where he has his oceanside mansion. Robert's trusted men are Danny (Sean Pertwee) and Baraka (Hoji Fortuna).  All is well.  Uh oh...Robert has a lot of friends in his organization...you know what that means.  Betrayal hits hard and both Scarlett and Robert are brought out into the desert and murdered...although Scarlett doesn't die.  She's back.

Scarlett is irate at the murder of her lover.  She gathers in a lot of diamonds and meets with Charlie (Stephanie Beacham), the #1 diamond broker in the world.  If Scarlet can murder everyone of the peeps who were in on the betrayal, dozens of them, Charlie will do business with her. Now Scarlett, Danny, and Baraka begin murdering thugs in the Canary Islands.  Machineguns, knives, power tools, fire, shot guns, etc.  Sometimes, Scarlett will be clad in kinky lingerie as she pumps the shotgun. Dozens will die as Scarlett feeds her way to Robert's former assistant, Tom (Colin Egglesfield).  Tom ain't no idiot and he also has surprises in store for Scarlett and her buddies.  

Does Scarlett have a prayer at inflicting revenge on half the population of the Canary Islands?  Will she be reduced to a bikini or lingerie in her final battle for justice?  Are there any catfights in store for the sultry blonde Scarlett?  This is an erotic one with a lot of steamy moments...and kills.  The blood will splatter all over the place as our femme fatale displays a homicidal attitude.  See "Duchess," and learn to drool over dangerous women. 
  

Dr. Sex, Case Studies in Nude Women

You will feel like a Peeping Tom after seeing this one. Today we have a classic exploitation film from one of the best.  This one, heavy on nudity and exotic dancing, will bring out your prurient side.  Sultry dames dancing nude...keeping house nude...bathing...taking off their undies...posing nude for artists...and men gawking and drooling at the spectacle.  Our feature today is 1964's "Dr. Sex," directed by Ted V. Mikels.

A weird sex-therapist, Dr. Sex (Victor Izay), is writing a text book with the most prurient case studies he can find.  He is assisted by the sultry Dr, Lovejoy (Julia Calda), who wants to party.  The duo is trying to convince the nerdy Dr. Schmutz (Max Joseph) to submit some of his case studies.  The trio tell the stories of their most intriguing and baffling case studies in their careers as sex-therapists. What unfolds is a cacophony of nudity, perversion, and sultry dames frolicking, wriggling, and jiggling.

Stories will be told of a house haunted by sultry dames, all nude, who keep house for the pervert owner.  Then the story of a Peeping Tom who watches a babe return home and gratuitously undress and take a sensual bath.  Then an exhibitionist babe who is having just too much fun posing nude for an artist.  Lovejoy even tells of putting herself in the experimental therapy of her patients which will require her to be nude.

Are you sensing a theme yet?  The cases are unusual, and the women are all sultry.  Dr. Lovejoy is eager to knock off early and party...orgy?  Schmutz is a square but he too has weird cases.  The stories border on the ridiculous and one may wonder if they are mere fantasies of the therapist trio.  This film has no redeeming qualities other than arousing the viewer...and that's okay!  For a dirty, smutty, and fantastic movie watching experience, "Dr. Sex" is the perfect one to view as wokeness is thrown out of the building. 

  

Jennie: Wife/Child, Sultry Blondes Wriggling and Jiggling

There is a whole lot of wriggling and jiggling going on in this film.  May I say...it is a man's film!  Burp, grunt, and scratch yourself...a movie for men who like Pabst Blue Ribbon and Camels.  There are two sultry blondes in this film who were cast for their wriggling and jiggling abilities.  Their plights?  Well, let us just say you men will be pleased.  For some gratuitous exploitation let us look at the rarely seen feature, 1968's "Jennie: Wife/Child," directed by Robert Carl Cohen and James Landis.

Jennie (Beverly Lunsford) is a sultry blonde 20-year-old wife.  She married the much older farmer, Albert (Jack Lester). Albert has a bad heart and Jennie was convinced her wriggling and jiggling could have sent him to the hereafter after some vicious carnal activities.  Oops, Albert hangs on. He is a miser and Jennie wants the finer things.  She wants new sexy dresses, to go dancing, and sex with hunks...Albert is no hunk.  Mario (Jim Reader) is a sweaty hunk and Albert's farmhand. Mario has orders never to go in the farmhouse or speak to Jennie.  Jennie pushes the issue when Albert has his back turned.  She does everything she can to seduce Mario to include gratuitous skinny-dipping.  Mario sweats a lot and tries to avoid the seductress...to no avail.  Mario does like girls, and to Jennie's jealous self, he really likes town floozie Lulu (Virginia Wood).

Lulu, after many drinks and a naked motorcycle ride, seduces Mario and this does not please Jennie. In fact, the slightly older Lulu has more experience seducing and no husband.  Wriggling and jiggling seem to be what floozie Lulu was born for. Albert humiliates Jennie by forcing her to engage in a very rigid type of marital sex.  Jennie finally successfully seduces Mario, and has quite a roll in the hay with him.  Now Jennie plots.  She wants the finer things so bad.  She plots a robbery of Albert, and an escape with Mario.  Uh oh... this doesn't go well and now Mario and Jennie are in mortal danger.  Enter Lulu again.  Thank our lucky stars for Lulu...what she does next will shock and arouse you.  Then the ending!  Wow!  We did not expect this...and us guys will be cheering!  As wokeness is thrown into the ash heap of history, this film takes on great relevance.

Will Lulu and Jennie engage in what seems to be an inevitable catfight?  Will a wriggling and jiggling competition lead to an orgy of all four characters in this film?  Will rolls in the hay and skinny-dipping make comebacks as popular film tropes here in 2025?  Seductive, gratuitous, and all entertainment, see "Jenni: Wife/Child."      

The Pom Pom Girls, Short Skirts, Tight Sweaters, and Cheers

As both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were annihilated and humiliated during last election season, wokeness is on the run. No more ugly babe-wannabes with tattoos, shaved heads, and weird piercings. Today we look at a film with babes the way we like them...nubile, flirtatious, unmarred, and happy. Cheerleaders will frolic, high-kick, catfight, make passionate love, and roll around in bikinis in the surf.  Oh, yes...roll around in mud pits, too.  Made in 1976, during the end of the horror that was the Gerald Ford Administration, "The Pom Pom Girls" (directed by Joseph Ruben) is a perfect accompaniment to 1974's "The Swinging Cheerleaders."  Incidentally, these films, taken as a pair, are the magnum opus of Rainbeaux Smith.

As the film begins, the cheerleaders, captained by Laurie (Ashley) practice their routines in bikinis at the beach. They'll finish practice and roll around in the surf. Laurie and Sally (Lisa Reeves) will hook up with two jock football players, Jessie (Michael Mullins) and Johnny (Robert Carradine). Laurie is Jessie's girl. Unbeknownst to her, so is fellow cheerleader Sue Ann (Susan Player). Johnny and Sally will also get together.  Pre-marital sex will occur.  Jessie will boink Sue Anne in the back of his van and Laurie in her bed. Cheerleaders frolicking in mud...relevant to the plot?  You decide. Roxanne seems to be along for the ride but does get felt up by football jocks enough.  The high school kids must beware their rival high school who are always out to mess with them.

Cheerleaders frolic in the sand dunes.  Cheerleaders frolic in the surf.  The highlight of this film is when Laurie, Sally, Sue Anne, Roxanne, and all the other Rosedale High cheerleaders have a knock down drag out catfight with the Hardin High cheerleaders during the football game. Cheerleaders chased by the sheriff.  Cheerleaders banged by jocks. Cheerleaders doused with a firehose. We'll get to see the cheerleaders dressing in their outfits before the big game.  We'll see tension between Laurie and Sue Anne as they get dressed.  Yes, I know, this all seems metaphorical of the Gerald Ford presidency.  Let's not get political.  In an age of wokeness, as the wokeness is in the process of being annihilated, we can only hope for more movies like this and less with grouchy actresses who insist on being called actors trying to tout stupid "social causes" in their films.

Some critics see "The Pom Pom Girls" as a metaphor of the Ford Administration, while others see it differently.  They see it, especially as nubile babes are endangered and pawed, as an ominous foreshadowing of the horrors ushered in by the Carter Administration.  America was going through hard times in the 1970s, but thank your lucky stars we had nubile cheerleaders with a proclivity to frolic, love, and bounce up and down in either cheerleader outfits or bikinis.  May the spirit of Rainbeaux Smith return to us in the form of better films and roles for actresses as wokeness is catapulted out the window.  See "The Pom Pom Girls," and if your feeling vigorous, virile, and potent, see it in a double feature with "The Swinging Cheerleaders."