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This collection of satirical sketches about television was released in 1974, the heyday of obvious pop-culture humor along the lines Cheech and Chong. With Saturday Night Live still a few years away, Chevy Chase made an appearance here, and one can see the acute sensibility that would redefine television comedy in its early form. Some of the gags work well but most are pretty dispensable; some are a bit crude. On the plus side, it's nice to see Richard Belzer (from TV's Homicide) in his sharp-tongued, formative stage. While not brilliant, the film did serve as one influence on the rise of ironic humor in the '70s. --Tom Keogh

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A little dated but still has its moments.......2007-04-04

I first saw this movie when I was in college in the mid 1970s. It was pretty radical for its time as it predated the original Saturday Night Live. It is made up of a number of individual bits, most of which were topical at the time. There are references to 2001 A Space Odyssey, the Watergate hearings, Vietnam, counterculture drug dealers, etc. and features the first screen appearances of Chevy Chase and Richard Belzer.
If you are nostalgic for those times and willing to suffer some misses along with the real laughs, this movie is for you.

Take It For What It Is.......2007-03-12

The movie was made quickly and "spontaneously," so it is not as slick as you might have come to expect from a full-out "movie."

That being said, for those who can remember what TV was like in the 1960s, this movie is a classic. And you get to see really funny samples of comedic talents when they were really young, such as Richard Belzer and Chevy Chase.

Loved it.

Feed Your Head.......2007-02-25

I'll probably revise this later because it's been many years since I saw this. But back in the 70's this was a late night and drive in favorite. Like I said I haven't seen it for many years and I'm guessing that it's probably not as funny as it used to be afer a few tokes, but I think it'll still be worth a watch because this was the beginning of the kind of humor we found later in SNL. Much of the humor is subtle and can easily go over your head if you're not aware of what's going on, but if you are then there's a lot of fun here. In fact I still remember having to take a second look at the end VD talk to realize what that puppet actually was...It was the absurdity that made it so funny....

How fun was the 70's?.......2007-01-18

Fun movie, some of the bits run a little long, but overall entertaining.

Funny movie, terrible DVD transfer.......2006-05-12

A lot of the skits are dated but the non-dated stuff is hilarious. Unless you are a baby boomer you won't get the dated jokes, unless you know about Pop culture of the early 70's. The DVD video quality is awful though, they could have did a better transfer. The video is dull and grainy. Its also a Pan & Scan 4:3 ratio! What happened to the widescreen??

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Never go wrong with JS
A softcore, haunted house parody, lesbian fest.
BUY THIS!!!
This is not 3-D at all
Julie Strain the most Beautiful Ghost I ever saw,,,,

13 Erotic Ghosts
Starring: Felony , Richard Gabai , Aria Giovanni , Jay Richardson , and Nicole Specht
Manufacturer: Retromedia
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ASIN: B000AYYV7E
Release Date: 2005-10-11

Description

When a TV crew investigates some spooky goings-on at a creepy old school for girls, they find a bevy of comely apparitions that are all too willing to show themselves in the ectoplasmic altogether. Filmed in 3-D! Stars Julie Strain, Aria Giovanni, Richard Gabai, Jay Richardson.

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Never go wrong with JS.......2006-08-11

If you are looking for campy, fun, erotic, beautiful girls ... this is it. You can never go wrong with Julie Strain. If you know JS, then you know what to expect.

I recommend this movie, its what movies ar meant to be, fun and in this case erotic too,

A softcore, haunted house parody, lesbian fest........2006-02-07

13 Erotic Ghost sounded like a real winner. Tragedy strikes at an old girls school, which leaves the place haunted. Fast forward to the present day, when a film crew wants to document the ghosts. So the rest of the movie is just them observing lesbian ghost romps, except for the female member of the crew (Mia Zottoli) who also participates in the action. Overall, it was good, but there was a lot of room for improvement.

There are six sex scenes. Three are girl/girl: Mia and Nicole Specht, Felony and Aria Giovanni, and Felony and Nicole. These are all very good except for some audio problems that I'll comment on later.

Two are girl/girl/girl: Julie Strain and The Porcelain Twinz (Zen and Zero) are in both of these. Unfortunately, these scenes are the weakest in the movie. They are played mostly for comedy and don't really generate much heat.

The final scene is the best and really ends the movie on a high note. Nicole and Felony go at it again, with Mia watching. Quite a few times, Nicole and Felony step over the line into hardcore territory with no hesitation. Then Aria joins in on the action. When her needs are met, Mia decides to jump in too.

All the women are beautiful and hot, I just wish that Julie and the Twinz had been used more effectively. Other than that, the only problem is the audio. During many of the sex scenes, the overdubbing is very poor. The sounds of the actresses don't match up well at all with the action.

The 3D gimmick was a complete waste. With the glasses on, I couldn't see anything that even remotely looked 3D. Fortunately, it doesn't affect the video, and if you watch it without the glasses, it looks fine.

Retromedia has released better videos. However, if you're familiar with their stuff, and you really like lesbian action, I recommend this one.

BUY THIS!!!.......2005-03-14

This movie is great. My wife loved it as well. We had to wait, backorder and all, for 3-4 months to get this dvd. But it was worth the wait. You don't even have to watch till the end...

This is not 3-D at all.......2003-09-03

If you are interested in a silly DTV movie with lots of naked girls (including Julie Strain), by all means this won't disappoint. However, if you are intrigued by the 3-D idea then forget this one. Not one second was actually shot in stereoscopic 3-D at all. What the makers have TRIED to do is exploit something called The Pulfrich Illusion. This technique can give the impression of depth in a flat movie if the camera and background move in different directions. This has been tried, usually without success, in Super Bowl half times, music videos, cartoons, even sitcoms. They did not understand how to do do it and even with the glasses on there is very little if any depth to be seen, and certainly not anything which should be advertised as being "in 3-D". Shoot out the passanger window of a car moving at 25 MPH and then watch the video with the glasses and you will see more of the pulfrich effect than you will in 13 EROTIC GHOSTS.

Julie Strain the most Beautiful Ghost I ever saw,,,,.......2003-05-03

13 Erotic Ghost,is a fantastic movie,,, Julie Strain is at her best in this movie,,,, only Julie can walk into a room and light up the whole room like she does,,,with her radiant smile, her natural wit, and humor,, and her natural beauty,,,,, If you love Julie, like I love her,,, you will want to see this movie,,,It has alot of Lesbian ghosts, doing their thing,, but Julie has a way of introducing humor that makes even their antics funny and humorous,,Julie is such a talented actress; and even though their was not a formal script and the actresses and actors adlibbed, they did a great job, a must see if you are a die-hard Julie Strain Fan like I am....

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Alien Reality Show Targets Earth

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Starring: Chris Porter , Shauna O'Brien , Bettie Dewar , Jana Cova , and Sasha Peralto
Director: Chuck Cirino
Manufacturer: Xenon
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B0000V42AS
Release Date: 2004-01-13

Description

The sadistically sexy Queen Sartanika has a kinky plan for Earth's conquest and tries to enlist Top Heavy, a — shall we say — buoyant all-girl rock band, to do her dirty work. Can these patriotic Earth girls match their wits with the evil Queen before the last reel?

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Alien Reality Show Targets Earth.......2004-02-14

An alien reality show, Plunder That Planet, has targeted Earth for the next conquest. An evil alien queen plans to locate the planets sexual nexus and drain all of the sexual energy from the planet. The nexus seems to be somewhere in a girl rock band that likes to take off their tops. But the girls don't like being a target and fight back.

Goofy MCs, Evil Tyrants, The Bimbo Limbo, special effects, and lots of bare skin await in the science fiction spoof of reality television. Special appearances by Julie Strain and the Porcelain Twinz.

This disk is packed with plenty of extras including the usual picture gallery, deleted scenes, and more.

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The Last Temptation in Thailand

Manufacturer: Customflix
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Travel | Special Interests | Genres | DVD | Video
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Thailand Fever

ASIN: B000RES61E
Release Date: 2007-05-29

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Even as I worked on this project I didn't know if it was real or not. But if you ask me about it, I will deny it all... Mixing genres like most people mix drinks, the "Last Temptation in Thailand" is a reality based lie wrapped in a philosopher's illusion of truth. The Buddha said desire causes pain, but I went to Thailand anyway. My story begins on the road to Bangkok. It ends hot on a cold trail to nowhere - a six month odyssey through ancient temples, whore-bars and even a brush with love. The open road called, I had no choice, I had to go. The Buddha headed out on the open road over 2500 ago years to face his final temptation under the Bodhi tree. When the gods sent down the most beautiful goddess in the heavens to tempt his mortal soul the accounts read, "He almost wavered, but then he wavered not". Me? I waver with even the slightest hint of a comely bargirl nearby. Thailand is a place where not only are the footsteps of the Buddha still echoing in the sands of time, but where the women are free and the men don't mind paying the price. Every desire has it's price, though, as I end up paying for love like most men pay for a cold beer and find the whole thing kind of liberating. So when love finally knocks on my door I know it's time to go, lest I pay the ultimate price... freedom is a hell of thing to lose to any woman's charms. Finally, hearing echoes of the Buddha's ancient call to moksha or liberation, I hop aboard a boat to nowhere sailing through the beatific seas of Thailand. Hot on a cold trail, I hear rumors that the illusive Buddha was last seen somewhere in a bar down south... I had no choice, I had to go.

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a great ancient porn book was totally ruined by this horrible movie
Chinese Baroque Commedia del Arte
A Chinese Picaresque Satire?
Great fun!
What a thoroughly bizarre film.

Sex and Zen
Starring: Lawrence Ng , Kent Cheng , Lieh Lo , Amy Yip , and Isabella Chow
Director: Michael Mak
Manufacturer: Tokyo Shock
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000EOTTZO
Release Date: 2006-05-30

Description

In the Jiu Dynasty, the scholar Mei Yan Ching takes a stand against Buddhist puritanism, arguing with the masters in favour of complete sexual freedom. After taking a wife Chao Yin, the daughter of a well-to-do man, he leaves on a mission of prosthelytism. But his erotic adventures are frustrated when one woman laughs at him for only having a one-and-a-half inch penis. And so her persuades an unconventional doctor to transplant the penis from a donkey onto him. But his erotic adventures leave him the tortured sex slave of a magistrate's wife. Meanwhile the sexually frustrated Chao Yin has been trying to find satisfaction in different areas and after being raped and left pregnant is sold as a courtesan.

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a great ancient porn book was totally ruined by this horrible movie.......2007-04-27

zen? zen could mixed or linked with sex? well, in the original short novel, the monk told the guy what goes around comes around, committing adultery with other man's wife would end your wife up with other wife's husband. if you could call this 'do bad unto others, others would do bad to you' as real life philosophy, then you could call it's zen. but this movie, my goodness, was such a disaster. bad screenplay, bad actors, bad....everything you could imagine. so disgustingly directed. everybody in this pathetic x rated light porn movie was indeed 'acting' with no talent at all. so gross and so ugly. don't want to go on describing how bad it was. just skip and forget about it.

Chinese Baroque Commedia del Arte.......2004-01-08

Loosely based on the 17th Century erotic literary classic, *The Carnal Prayer Mat*, this film is at once an erotic, picaresque tale of adventure, and a Ch'an Buddhist morality play (of sorts).
Set in the late Yuan Dynasty (think: Kublai Khan), the film is a reasonably funny, and often very amusing farce, as well as a biting satire both of the manners and mores of a certain epoch in China. The film conjures up the cultural decadence at the tail-end of an age of great creative and imaginative vigor and growth...

The depths of degradation, despair and delusion are explored; ignorance, lust and aggression (the Three Poisons of classical Buddhist teaching) are present in abundance. Hallucinatory surreal scenes vie with ordinary profane reality; realism is set beside bizarre unorthodox fantasy in a mixture which recalls elements both of the Golden Ass and Don Juan, to use some (admittedly imprecise) Occidental points of reference.

In the end there is (an almost Christian) message of repentance (by the film's three principle rogues), forgiveness and redemption, but there is an equivocal sardonic irony in the message, as well.

A Chinese Picaresque Satire?.......2004-01-04

One puzzle about this film is the title: i.e. whereas there is a great deal of sex enacted in multiple variations (sometimes quite extreme) in this film, it is hard to discern the least trace of Zen, or its Chinese precursor, Ch'an Buddhism. The only overt expressions of Buddhism are of the most formalistic, prechy moralizing variety; a pietistic, perhaps ritualistic, mannerist caricature of Buddhism, perhapss--or perhaps rather a caricature of Roman Catholicism, or of any other petrified, formalistic religion. One suspects the influence of Spanish picaresque literature,...

Great fun!.......2004-01-01

If you are the kind of moviegoer who gets upset by the showing of breasts or have no sense of humor (especially the mature kind), you will not enjoy this movie. Otherwise, this movie is utterly entertaining. Lots of nice colors, beautiful women (especially Amy Yip and that Japanese actress), funny storyline, decent acting, all make this a classic that appeals to both mainstream and HK cult movie viewers. If there's a Chinatown near you you might want to get it there and save a few bucks.

What a thoroughly bizarre film........2002-09-06

Going solely by a few reviews here, I bought this film with the assumption that it would be a steamy comedy. While there are some very steamy scenes indeed, the "comedy" is so low-brow as to not even raise a chuckle.

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While a couple of the sex scenes are very good, there is one that is basically a violent rape of a battered woman, and another that is very close to rape (although the women of course end up enjoying the experience, naturally.) There is also a forced abortion, and a woman being forced into slavery, some things I wouldn't expect to find in a comedy at all.

There are a couple of Buddhist sentiments tossed in at the beginning and at the end, but by and large, this is just soft core porn - the story line makes little sense, and is just a cheap way to get from one sex scene to the next. I'd expect that in flat-out pornographic films, but in something trying to pass itself off as something else...well, I was disappointed.

Some of the colors, fabrics and textures are very lovely, but it's obviously a low-budget film. The actors and actresses are generally attractive, and if all you want is some soft-core porn to pass an hour or so, this might just be your movie.

Bear in mind that it's subtitled, although with the level of diaglogue that's present, you might just as well leave it off.

Overall, very disappointing.

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Robotrix (Remastered & Uncut Edition) DVD
Director: Jamie Luk
Manufacturer: Fortune Star / Joy Sales
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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1 disc package (region 0 NTSC).

Improved English subtitles.

Uncut HK Released Version, longer than their previous DVD release.

Photo Gallery with Posters, Lobby Cards, Press Materials.

Not Suitable for Children under 18.

ASIN: B000TIL6IS

Product Description

Robocop meets Red Shoe Diaries in this cheerfully cheesy sci-fi-exploitation flick directed by Jamie Luk. Set in the near future when robot technology has created some strikingly human-like products, the film opens with loonball Japanese scientist pervert Ryuichi Sakamoto (Lam Chung), transferring his consciousness into one of his cyborg creations, which immediately becomes a killing and raping machine. One of its victims is police officer Selena Lam (Chikako Aoyama), whose body and mind get resurrected and transformed into the ass-kicking android Eve-27 by Dr. Sara (Hiu-Dan Hui). The scientist also downloads her own personality into Ann (Amy Yip), her well-endowed robot assistant, who longs to experience sexual congress. Together the three follow the trail of dead prostitutes back to Sakamoto and his fiendish creation.

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Sex and Zen II (Remastered Edition) DVD
Starring: Xu Jin Jiang , and Ben Ng
Director: Chin Man Kei
Manufacturer: Mei Ah Entertainment
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

1 disc package (region 0 NTSC)
Remastered Edition
English and Chinese Subtitles
Not Suitable for Children Under 18

ASIN: B000VNJ5KM

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Product Description Kin is worried that his daughter will be screwed by other men as a result of his own misconduct. He forces Yau to wear a 'Virginity Armor' to protect her from being screwed. During school days, Yau is discovered to be a girl by Fa Dou and he intends to rape her but being hurt by her' Virginity Armor' Kin rapes his daughter-in-law Siu Tsiu. Since then, murdering cases happen one after another in Kin's house...

Sex and Zen (Digitally Remastered Special Edition) DVD

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Sex and Zen (Digitally Remastered Special Edition) DVD
Director: Michael Mak
Manufacturer: Joy Sales
ProductGroup: DVD
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Director's Interview

ASIN: B000PRKHRO

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A recently married scholar goes on a quest for knowledge of other people's wives, based on his philosophical differences with the Sack Monk. He encounters the Flying Thief, who agrees to help him find women, but only if he attains a penis as big as a horse's. The scholar has a surgeon attach said unit, and he's off and running on his mission, only to find that there are obstacles to his new lifestyle, such as jealous husbands and treacherous females.

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Never go wrong with JS
A softcore, haunted house parody, lesbian fest.
BUY THIS!!!
This is not 3-D at all
Julie Strain the most Beautiful Ghost I ever saw,,,,

13 Erotic Ghosts
Starring: Felony , Richard Gabai , Aria Giovanni , Jay Richardson , and Nicole Specht
Manufacturer: Retro Media
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: B000065U3G
Release Date: 2002-05-21

Customer Reviews:

Never go wrong with JS.......2006-08-11

A softcore, haunted house parody, lesbian fest........2006-02-07

BUY THIS!!!.......2005-03-14

This movie is great. My wife loved it as well. We had to wait, backorder and all, for 3-4 months to get this dvd. But it was worth the wait. You don't even have to watch till the end...

This is not 3-D at all.......2003-09-03

Julie Strain the most Beautiful Ghost I ever saw,,,,.......2003-05-03

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Sex and Zen 2

ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

ASIN: B000EGYSHQ

Product Description

Kin is worried that his daughter will be screwed by other men as a result of his own misconduct. He forces Yau to wear a 'Virginity Armor' to protect her from being screwed. During school days, Yau is discovered to be a girl by Fa Dou and he intends to rape her but being hurt by her' Virginity Armor' Kin rapes his daughter-in-law Siu Tsiu. Since then, murdering cases happen one after another in Kin's house...

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