/sapphic/ - Sapphic Dreams

Couldn’t find a trailer for Fräulein Doktor from 1969, but it looks interesting to say the least, and it is based on the true story of a German spy during World War I.

卍/Manji from 1964 is an absolute mess. A lot of the characters and lines made me think of Tommy Wiseau; there are some absolute baffeling scenes and outrageous dialogue, and all the characters are either scheming and manipulative bitches or (willingly) gullible fools (for love).

It was an interesting view into Japanese society in 1964; if it hadn’t been for a few modern objects, I never could have guessed when it was supposed to take place. The clothes and interiors are identical to those I have seen in samurai films. Bizarre!

The contract they signed in blood and the ritual is very interesting and weird, and the idea of becoming siblings by mixing/drinking blood and signing a contract is soemthing I have only encountered in the Norse sagas before; makes you wonder how common this practice was in the 1960s and if it is still around today.

Other than that there is not much to like about this 1964 film. Hated the characters, and visually it is nothing special, unless you count the two leads who are very handsome in their outfits and in various stages of undress.

Legend of the Seeker is a fantasy show that ran for two season from 2008-2010 and was created by Sam Raimi. Can’t say I am familiar with any of the main actors/actresses, but Ted Raimi (Twin Peaks & deadwax) & Charisma Carpenter (Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Angel) are in it, probably in small roles, but still. According to Wikipedia it is based on a fantasy series, though the series does not follow the events of the source material.

>>3374

Tried to two-part first episode and it was bad. Really bad. Every cliché in the book is here in a muddled fantasy mess. The vague Prophecy (capital P), hero who happens to be a kind farmer’s son who also happens to be handsome and ripped, the cartoonishly evil villain, and then you have a number of Jewish revenge/power fantasies thrown into the mix and some dubious CGI.

Beautiful scenery though, since like Xena the show was filmed in New Zealand.

One user claimed the shows gets better in the second season, but I am not sitting though hours of this nonsense just to see Charisma Carpenter in an all-leather outfit.

Any idea if Defiance is worth getting into? Think it was brought up back in the lesbian kino threads on /tv/ back in the day. If I remember correctly Julie Benz is in it.

>>3376

Sonofabitch Fiddlesticks! Every time I find a new show it turns out to be absolute shite and not even worth pirating.

Saw a lot of familiar faces in the season recap, in addition to Benz: Grant Bowler (Stingers), Jaime Murray (Dexter) & Mia Kirshner (30 Days of Night: Dark Days). Kirshner was really memorable in 30 Days of Night: Dark Days from 2010 as the vampire queen Lilith. She even bathes in blood like Elizabeth Báthory, though I think they used a body double for the scene where she gets up from the blood bath all nude.

It is so frustrating to see all these qts (Benz, Murray & Kirshner) in a show, only for it to be trash. It’s all so tiresome.

Went back to check the end credits of Slither (2006) to see if it was based on the Halkin novel, and ended up rewatching some of the scenes with the mayor; by far my favourite character in the film.

>>3377

>Kirshner was really memorable in 30 Days of Night: Dark Days from 2010 as the vampire queen Lilith.

Oooh I got a copy of this months back. Haven't watched it yet but didn't realise Kirshner was in it. Fun times ahead. I never watched Dexter but know Benz from Buffy and Murray from Fright Night 2. Bowler is usually a great watch. He's very likeable. He hosted a show here called The Mole which was fun.

>ended up rewatching some of the scenes with the mayor; by far my favourite character in the film.

<I don't care if your a lesbo. You don't deserve this shit

Man I have to watch this one again. Remember kekking non stop.

<I think there's something wrong with me

She explodes right after that doesn't she? Ok. That's it. Finding a copy now.

>>3378

I am probably in a tiny minority here, but I like Dark Days more than the first film. Kiele Sanchez is a far better Stella and Kirshner as Lilith is far better than the male villain in the original. In the graphic novel the vilain and vampires were far more threatening, but in the first film they came off as edgy tryhards.

Dark Days was a direct to DVD film, shot on a low budget in Canada, so keep that mind. In addition to the bloodbath there is also another interesting Hammer horror (Lust for a Vampire) similarity in Dark Days. Though according to the audio commentary tracks they feigned innocence about that part, claiming they had never encountered that bit in vampire fiction before.

Dammit, I forgot: Julie Benz was of course also in Dexter! I lost interest around season 4, I think. After they killed off Benz’ character the show took a massive nosedive. They are in the process of bringing it back now.

>Bowler is usually a great watch. He's very likeable. He hosted a show here called The Mole which was fun.

Yeah, for some reason he gives me Sean Bean vibes; a likeable guy who could make just about anything watchable. Except Defiance though.

>>3379

For some reason I have two copies on DVD, but never seen it in HD.

It falls into the same sub-genre as WolfCop and the recent The Wolf of Snow Hollow. Robert Forster from Twin Peaks: The Return plays the town Sheriff, I think it was his last role: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=q03zOoH-hGo

>>3380

>but in the first film they came off as edgy tryhards.

I don't recall thinking much of the first one.

>another interesting Hammer horror (Lust for a Vampire) similarity in Dark Days.

Mmm will see if I can spot it.

>They are in the process of bringing it back now.

Like everything.

>tiresome.jpeg

That reminds me, watching Slither brought The Night of the Creeps and The Faculty to mind, the latter is, of course, being remade. And The Craft. Odds on both being woke abominations?

>Yeah, for some reason he gives me Sean Bean vibes

Similar eye structure I guess.

>The Wolf of Snow Hollow.

Interesting font choice. When did leads go from SNAGs to overtly camp? Looks fun enough. Have you watched it?

>>3381

>I don't recall thinking much of the first one.

Hear, hear! It is pretty overrated IMHO. It could not decide what it wanted to be, and the changes they made from the graphic novel were not for the better, with the exception of turning the male lead white. In the graphic novel the husband and wife cop leads are happily married, but in the film they had to ruin that, making them go through separation.

The director went on to direct the second Twilight film.

>That reminds me, watching Slither brought The Night of the Creeps and The Faculty to mind, the latter is, of course, being remade. And The Craft. Odds on both being woke abominations?

Not seen the two first films; only thing I know about The Faculty is that Clea DuVall is in it as a sort of Goth character(?). Are they worth checking out?

Heard that The Craft sequel (or remake?) is woke as hell and really bad. And this was regular people saying it was woke and bad, not some redpilled shitposter. It has all the current year points, including; female director, female writer, “persons of colour”, a transsexual character (presumably played by an actual transsexual individual?).

>Similar eye structure I guess.

…it’s… it’s the eyes.

>When did leads go from SNAGs to overtly camp?

Good question; the lead is also the writer/director in this case. A real Tommy Wiseau auteur.

>Have you watched it?

Yes! Back in October. One of the better throwbacks to the 1980s IMHO; it has the same pacing and atmosphere as those films, and some really beautiful scenes.

When you think about it the lead is really kind of a tragic character; he is struggling with alcoholism, lack of respect at work (his dad is the town Sheriff), failing to connect with his semi-estranged teenage daughter who comes to live with him, and on top of that you have a series of ghastly murders. It could have done with some tweaks to the script, making the lead a more sympathetic character, or maybe tone him down a little.

Not as much as a comedy as Slither, but if you like that horror/comedy combination set in a small American town with the local law-enforcement as the main characters, then you will no doubt enjoy it.

After the trainwreck that was 卍 from 1964 I am more than a bit hesitant to check out the remakes (1983, 1998 & 2006).

>>3382

>only thing I know about The Faculty is that Clea DuVall is in it as a sort of Goth character(?)

She's like a typical 90s lesbian but not a lesbian and that's the joke. The Faculty is very much your standard 90s teen horror. Great cast from memory. Stereotypical characters that begin to twist. The lesbian that isn't a lesbian, the sensitive jock, the talented druggie, the appealing nerd, the HBIC that is more than skin deep etc. Haven't watched it in years but it's one of those comfy ones you can watch periodically.

I think you'd really get a kick out of The Night of the Creeps. Very 80s. Would fit perfectly in the 80s thread now that I think about it. A kick ass cop teams up with rag tag kids to take on killer slugs from outer space.

>Heard that The Craft sequel (or remake?) is woke as hell and really bad. And this was regular people saying it was woke and bad,

Get woke. Go broke.

>…it’s… it’s the eyes.

Kek

>the lead is also the writer/director in this case. A real Tommy Wiseau auteur.

Ah that explains it.

>if you like that horror/comedy combination set in a small American town with the local law-enforcement as the main characters, then you will no doubt enjoy it.

Will add it to the list.

>After the trainwreck that was 卍 from 1964 I am more than a bit hesitant to check out the remakes (1983, 1998 & 2006).

Haven't even got a copy of this yet. Didn't read your rundown in case spoilers. Worth even watching it?

>>3384

I’ll add both to my backlog. Tom Atkins is in Night of the Creeps, and that alone might make it worth watching. He’s another one of those likeable actors. On the audio commentary track to Halloween III: Season of the Witch they called him “a really knackered Tom Selleck”, which I can sorta agree with.

>Haven't even got a copy of [卍] yet. Didn't read your rundown in case spoilers. Worth even watching it?

No. Avoid. It felt a lot longer than its running time, and I just wanted to shake the characters and tell them to get a grip. Not sure if it is just me, but some of the shenanigans in it felt almost farcical. If you want to laugh at all the insanity and get angry at the characters, then go ahead and give it a watch.

Was just perusing one my regular torrent sites and came across Below Her Mouth from 2016/7 by pure (happy) accident. It has neon lights and girls kissing on the poster – what more could you want? Judging by the trailer it is pretty lewd. Elise Bauman is in it too!

Below Her Mouth - Official Trailer HD: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=UlahbaaJqog

>>3392

>they called him “a really knackered Tom Selleck”, which I can sorta agree with.

Kek I can see that.

>No. Avoid.

Will do.

>It has neon lights and girls kissing on the poster – what more could you want?

A good story. I remember watching this a few years back and thinking it sucked. Can barely remember it now, just that it had a lot of sexy scenes.

>Elise Bauman is in it too!

Only by you mentioning it I think I remember her being someone's PA and only being in it for a minute or two in a couple of scenes. Really unlikable characters. I think there was some ridiculous bath masturbation scene near the beginning and it was all down hill from there.

Kek, I still have the file. Will webm it. Embarrassed for the actress tbh.

Ok, only 10 mins in but have to rant.

>Focus on nature immediately brought Picnic at Hanging Rock to mind.

This might be good

>Focus on the workers at dinner

Going to be woke isn't it

>Her keeper is being made out to be an ignorant bitch.

There's nothing in the novella about corporal punishment. Why add such things in? They want us to hate her keeper (so it's fine when she dies)? In the novella, the family are not at all fundamentalist christian nutters or anti science, or anti-female empowerment at all. Further proof that this will be revisionist woke dreck. Let me guess, Carmilla will be her liberator? Only 10 mins in. Not a good start.

Anyways, will check back in when finished.

>>3397

Boring…

>Laura is into psychic surgery kek

BTW why do movies always invert descriptions? Carmilla is blonde and Lara is brunette in the movie. Like The House of Mirth. All characters but one have red hair in the movie adaptation. In the novel the one character with red hair is the brunette in the movie.

Ahh the old fainting game. We used to play this as kids, so fucking dangerous.

nature scenes are cool

nightmares are retarded

lesbianism wasn't even the issue in the novella.

>doc and governess get it on

random

kek are they going to do an exorcism? And when did the father leave? If you are going to fuck with a story so much, why not make your own film? This isn't an adaptation, it's a boring shitty film with the title Carmilla tacked on. Shameful display.

What a let down. If someone is not familiar with the original story, they would think an innocent girl was killed for being a lesbian outsider. But I guess that was the intention wasn't it. Sneaky little fuckers.

>>3398

>>3397

I think getting the hair-colour wrong is the least of this film’s problems. They also got her name wrong; Lara instead of Laura. Why even

Was not a fan of the exaggerated incest and earthworm sounds – the scenery is fine, but the amped up sounds rubbed me wrong way, just like a lot of the music in this film.

The morbidly obese black housemaid… in Regency era England is another minor issue.

Then we get to how this film completely butchers the characters, to the point they have no semblance to their originals. Laura naming Carmilla was when I started having serious grievances with this film.

They played up the suicidal tendencies and idolisation of suicide in Styria as well. This one really goes for the old Christian hypocrisy angle though; it is so damn heavy-handed and preaching it feels like a bizarre inversion of a Christian film. LaFontaine’s passive aggressive and controlling persona, always dressed in all-black and with a cross on her dress, ends up screwing the good doctor out of nowhere.

>In the novella, the family are not at all fundamentalist christian nutters or anti science, or anti-female empowerment at all. Further proof that this will be revisionist woke dreck.

Right on! I’ve always pictured Laura’s father as a kind and caring man with whom she had a good, honest relationship. In this film, what little we see of him, he appears very distant and cold, and he is completely pushed to the side by LaFontaine, who is the villain of this story…

Carmilla may or may not be a vampiress in this! It could all be a tragic coincidence that three other girls (plus Laura) fall ill.

>What a let down. If someone is not familiar with the original story, they would think an innocent girl was killed for being a lesbian outsider. But I guess that was the intention wasn't it. Sneaky little fuckers.

Yes, I do think we are meant to assume LaFontaine, the doctor and the two other servants killed an innocent girl because they are evil, moralist Christians, using magic/witchcraft as an excuse.

Carmilla has been portrayed as a tragic and sympathetic character in numerous other adaptations, but this one wants to completely invert the character and story.

>>3400

>the scenery is fine, but the amped up sounds rubbed me wrong way

Yes!

>The morbidly obese black housemaid… in Regency era England is another minor issue.

IKR. I just started laughing. Like, why?

>Laura naming Carmilla was when I started having serious grievances with this film.

Yes, that is when it became obvious that it would deviate greatly.

>ends up screwing the good doctor out of nowhere.

Seriously, why? Just to add a sex scene? To emphasise she's a repressed old maid that still has carnal desires?

>In this film, what little we see of him, he appears very distant and cold, and he is completely pushed to the side by LaFontaine, who is the villain of this story…

>Carmilla has been portrayed as a tragic and sympathetic character in numerous other adaptations, but this one wants to completely invert the character and story.

Truly an insult to Le Fanu.

>>3402

>IKR. I just started laughing. Like, why?

Gotta meet them diversity quotas y’know? At least it made sense to have a black housemaid in the 1989 version with Meg Tilly, since it is set in the Deep South in the U.S., but this is just painful and silly.

>Yes, that is when it became obvious that it would deviate greatly.

I read your first thoughts on the opening ten minutes of the film first, so I had a suspicion of what was ahead, and an early warning sign was when the medical book Laura is looking in lacks the noticeable long-necked-s (ſ), and that took me out of the film somewhat. I like my historical accuracy, and that is such a tiny thing they could have done to help with that.

Btw., any idea what is up with Laura’s fixation on human anatomy? She sneaks into the study at night to look at medical looks with anatomical drawings, and she dreams about performing surgery… is it just a clumsy, hamfisted way of showing how she is curious about the human body/sexuality?

>Seriously, why? Just to add a sex scene? To emphasise she's a repressed old maid that still has carnal desires?

Probably the latter. Although, the gory dream scene made me think the writer/director suddenly decided she was making a gory horror film so she threw that in there. It felt really out of place in what had until then been an atmospheric Gothic horror film.

Turns out this film is considered “fresh” by Rotten Tomatoes, though I saw at least one review comment on the film screwing up by not having a vampire in an adaptation on Carmilla: http://web.archive.org/web/20200918211253/https://dailydead.com/review-taking-the-vampire-out-of-carmilla-is-a-big-mistake/

Overall this is just a bleak, depressive and moralistic perversion of the original story. Which is quite amusing, considering the film takes a stance against Christian moralism. In a quote by writer/director Emily Harris mentioned in the above review, the film is about “our tendency as humans to demonize the other.” That’s what you get when people on the left, with a SJW agenda, tries making horror, which has been called right-leaning and even reactionary:

<“We also got to reestablish our feelings of essential normality; the horror movie is innately conservative, even reactionary. Freda Jackson as the horrible melting woman in Die, Monster, Die! confirms to us that no matter how far we may be removed from the beauty of a Robert Redford or a Diana Ross, we are still light-years from true ugliness.”

— Stephen King, “Why We Crave Horror Movies”

>>3405

<creates a stillness through the emphasis of naturalistic sounds.

kek

<This is where you could say the patriarchy’s fear of female sexuality and fear of women as intellectuals comes into play. Because Carmilla’s depiction as a vampire is not clear and is a matter of suspicion, it amounts to nothing more than white Christian hysteria.

That was clearly the point. To incite such notions and an expected angry response at the evil HuWhite Christian patriarchy.

<So afterward, when Lara falls ill, the film gives off the unintentional message that Lara giving in to her desires is what made her ill—that homosexuality is the cause of illness.

To a child maybe. More likely, the expectation that an educated viewer would scoff at the connection and place blame on the evil white Christian characters for their woeful ignorance.

<But, again, this isn’t a horror film, so it makes the violence even worse.

Eh, I found the Lesbian Vampire Killers 2009 release quite irksome. That one really did come across as a beating up women type of movie. This one just came across as thinly veiled propo.

<We see that violence every day. LGBTQIA+ people, especially youth, need messages of hope more than anything. Not destruction.

Agree with that one.

Agree with the overall idea of making the movie a mishmash did not work. Had the movie focused on a period in time where this could have occurred, it could make for an interesting story. But it tried to ride the coattails of Le Fanu and got rekt. I believe a successful example of paying homage or using Carmilla as inspiration would be Mulholland Drive. Clearly its own film while also providing parallels.

>any idea what is up with Laura’s fixation on human anatomy?

>is it just a clumsy, hamfisted way of showing how she is curious about the human body/sexuality?

Yes that was how I took it. Her interests are demonised and she is under the oppressive backwoods Christian governess who stifles her curiosity. Which is why I found it strange when the governess said something about not repressing feelings to Lara as advice.

>It felt really out of place in what had until then been an atmospheric Gothic horror film.

I wonder if the studio/production company required it to be included. You know how they will demand moments for the trailers etc. There may have been something like that pushed on her.

>Turns out this film is considered “fresh” by Rotten Tomatoes

RT is a shit.

>Overall this is just a bleak, depressive and moralistic perversion of the original story. Which is quite amusing, considering the film takes a stance against Christian moralism.

Masters of projection.

>horror, which has been called right-leaning and even reactionary:

Gee I wonder why a genre that primarily deals with survival and or living freely in peace and calm would be inherently conservative. As everyone knows, chaos is a ladder of beautiful progressive change. Very enjoyable and safe where everyone wins.

Was looking at the Wiki article for Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer/Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich, and according to the “In popular culture” list there is a visual reference to the painting in Portrait de la jeune fille en feu/Portrait of a Lady on Fire:

<Celine Sciamma’s 2019 drama Portrait of a Lady on Fire references ‘Wanderer above the Sea of Fog’ in one of the scenes where the protagonist Héloïse looks out to the sea, a shot also used as a poster design for the film. The framing, lighting, and character’s position as well as the rocks, sea spray, and beach are among the key parallels, rendering the reference particularly distinctive.

By accident I came across this film, and it certainly looks like there could be something sapphic going on. Btw., it is almost eerie how many (horror) films I have seen or have on my backlog involving people staying at cabins/holiday homes by a lake.

Clementine - Official Trailer - Oscilloscope Laboratories HD: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=BCf8iPh2IC4

>>3477 (nice digits)

>Was looking at the Wiki article for Der Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer/Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich,

You fucking wot. I have been thinking about this painting for the last maybe month and just yesterday or the day before saw it and thought of you.

Came across this in the Lillian Gish thread over at tvch. Sounds like Mabel had a crush on Lillian.

Think the only Lillian Gish film I’ve seen is The Night of the Hunter (1955).

<HER SMACKS ARE ALL CERTIFIED AND SCREENED.

<Tʜᴇʀᴇ is an appealing young Gish,

<With a quirk to her mouth, and I wish

<I might have the delight

<Of being the knight

<She kisses — it must be delish!

>>3499

>Sounds like Mabel had a crush on Lillian.

The best!

Imagine being able to list addresses like that again.

>Think the only Lillian Gish film I’ve seen is The Night of the Hunter (1955).

Same tbh.

>>3477

>By accident I came across this film, and it certainly looks like there could be something sapphic going on

Mmm, the comments are saying it is a let down.

>Btw., it is almost eerie how many (horror) films I have seen or have on my backlog involving people staying at cabins/holiday homes by a lake.

Must be the in setting as of late. Watching the trailer reminded me of What Keeps You Alive. There are tons that have come out in the past few years and coming out that have that setting. Feels very 80s to me.

>>3503

>Mmm, the comments are saying it is a let down.

Sorta got that sneaking suspicion from the trailer myself. And my backlog is already so damn long, I am not sure I am gonna bother with it.

Was looking for an update on the Blu-ray release of The Kindred (it is coming “first quarter of 2021”), when I found out Daughters of Darkness has a 4K release with a ton of special features (including three audio commentary tracks).

>Must be the in setting as of late. Watching the trailer reminded me of What Keeps You Alive. There are tons that have come out in the past few years and coming out that have that setting. Feels very 80s to me.

Yeah, just without the masked killer picking up the fornicating teens one by one.

What Keeps You Alive, The Beach House (by the ocean, but still), Black Bear, What Lies Below…

>>3479

Think it was this cover artwork for the Collected Poems of H. P. Lovecraft by artist Frank Utpatel that made me look it up; it shows a solitary figure, presumably HPL himself, sitting on the top of a hill at night looking at a body of water. Since I made that connection it has been on my mind as well. Must be that synchronicity.

Btw., I just looked that up, and the concept (“synchronizität”) was first introduced by Carl Jung – started reading about him when I found out he had a dream that is eerily similar to HPL’s short story The Rats in the Walls… wew!

>>3507

>Yeah, just without the masked killer picking up the fornicating teens one by one.

Lol yes!

>when I found out Daughters of Darkness has a 4K release with a ton of special features (including three audio commentary tracks).

Speaking of synchronicity, I think I saw Barbara Crampton say a few times on twitter that Daughters of Darkness is one of her favourite movies. She'll be happy about this release.

>>3512

Also, speaking of Crampton. Some guy on twitter has been mashing her face on to movie scenes and the like. Quite impressive.

>>3008

Got a few webms from watching Compulsion a while back.

>>3555

>>3540

>They already adulterate movies now with cutting and digital changes, so I can't imagine it will take long.

And they already used a CGI Peter Cushing in one of the Disney Star Wars films, so as long as the family can be paid off they can keep making money off actors and actresses decades after they have died. What a time to be alive!

>Something about Casey Affleck just pisses me off.

Only thing I remember him from is the stop-motion animated film ParaNorman, where he voiced one of the characters – /ourgirl/ Anna Kendrick voices a character too! His brother Ben really pisses me off though; will not watch anything he is in.

>Is the red head a clone of Saoirse Ronan?

She did not give me Saoirse vibes, but there is something familiar about her.

Seen two threads over at tvch claiming Saoirse is an actual lesbian, probably because of Ammonite.

>Phil Spector

He was a music producer, right? Who married one of his artists? Think I saw a pic of him with some crazy hair.

>The Haunting of Morella

Came across that one by accident a way back, but had no idea it was /sapphic/ approved. What a pleasant surprise! Need to find a copy with any seeders then. The one I found earlier was dead.

Roger Corman adapted Morella in the 1962 film Tales of Terror along with two other Poe tales; The Black Cat (which combined the story with The Cask of Amontillado) & The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar. The Morella segment is by far my favourite of the film – I really want that dressing-gown Vincent Price’s character wears in this.

Pretty sure the 1990s adaptation was made by Corman’s company too, and there should be some special features included on the Blu-ray release if I remember correctly.

Turns out the late Julie Strain was in some sapphic B-movies. One in particular that looks interesting is Sorceress from 1995 (or 1995 depending on which site you look) was released on Blu-ray in 2016 and in an Uncensored Director Approved Edition. The film also stars Linda Blair, Edward Albert (Galaxy of Terror) & Michael Parks (Twin Peaks''). Couldn’t find an official trailer for this one…

A full Spanish dub of the film in up on YT: VoNzM9URR78

https://www.synapsefilms.com/product/sorceress-uncensored-director-approved-edition-blu-ray/

The sequel, Sorceress II: The Tempress from 1999 is also highly /sapphic/ judging by the trailer: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=RIGBEc9MAME

The sequel co-stars Sandahl Bergman (Conan the Barbarian) & Playboy Playmate Julie K. Smith (who also starred in several Andy Sidaris films).

Also found a trailer for a sapphic Finnish 2017 film called Sorceress when I was looking for trailers: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=EeVPvSRZhvc

>>3555

>>3556

Got a decent Blu-ray rip of this way, way back, but I have yet to rewatch it. Cannot get any of the WebMs to play! This entire site is officially FUBAR.

That one memorable theme from the film is dangerously close to plagiarising Basil Poledouris’ soundtrack for Conan the Barbarian (1982); the track Orphans of Doom/The Awakening is pretty much identical to the recurring theme in Sorceress.

Most, if not all, of the sex scenes in this film feel like padding to get the runtime up. That would have been fine enough if they were hot, but they are without exception, some of the most passionless sex scenes I have seen. There are also some questionable and sloppy work here, resulting in a quick glimpses of flaccid genitals. IMHO the film would have benefited greatly from being trimmed down slightly.

Director Jim Wynorski is an alumni of the Roger Corman school of B-movie filmmaking who won a bet with Corman by shooting the 1988 remake “Not Of This Earth” (starring Traci Lords in her first post-porn acting credit) faster than Corman’s original shooting schedule.

Acting-wise Edward Albert is the best thing about this film, Julie Strain chews through the scenery as a sexy and wicked witch, and Linda Blair lets her eyes and eyebrows do most of the acting for her. Larry’s lawyer colleague is on a whole another level though – the guy is in a whole another film than Edward Albert.

There’s a pretty long, but sadly boring, threesome with Julie Strain, Rochelle Swanson & Toni Naples that is reminiscent of the lesbian dream sequence in Fulci’s Una lucertola con la pelle di donna. Got flashbacks to Wiseau’s The Room several times throughout the film, and there are some very questionable elements in the story that are forgotten or not explained at all. The ending is really something else, and I’m kinda interested to see what the sequel is like.

There are some interesting things going on in the end credits, including a misspelling, a quite clever Lovecraft reference, and a joke in the second unit credits.

SORCERESS (1995): D-Cups Meet The Devil’s Handiwork – Schlockmania!: https://archive.vn/Miu6C / http://web.archive.org/web/20160625100846/http://schlockmania.com/sorceress-1995/

Well, well, well.

>>587

The voice doesn't lie.

>>3594

Damn, I just thought he was a dweeb douchebag pretending to be a feminist ally.

Good thing he won’t be working in Tinseltown again after all this.

>>3599

>I just thought he was a dweeb douchebag pretending to be a feminist ally.

IKR?

Sapphism has a greater presence in Bones S4 with a main character Angela getting back in touch with an old college lover.

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So the next episode of Bones I began after finishing Sacrifice opens in fucking Norway.

>>3623

>Her pronunciation sounds very Swedish to my ears

Kek. I just searched how to pronounce on YT and the first result is Bones. From the MV it sounds like Norwegian has more of an ae sound than her ah sound?

>Had no idea there was sapphistry afoot in this show.

It didn't last long. They broke up later in the season. That is the only kiss they show. It's funny watching fairly recent tv and seeing how much has changed. Just showing them kissing briefly was clearly risque as they show much more of heterosexual interactions on the show. Now, it's like every single female character in television and movies is portrayed as sapphic to some degree.

>There is something realliy familiar about Angie

Taking a quick look at her IMDB nothing but Bones pops out at me.

>A shame NCIS was so boring, ’cause that Goth chick at the lab was pretty damn qt tbh.

I never watched it. Coming out as the USA invaded Iraq, it reeked too heavily of propaganda to stomach.

>Also, that clip where they kiss, at first I thought they were in the autopsy room. That would be a bit weird if they made out right next to a corpse, but kind of funny too.

Kek, they have characters making out in the lab, but none right next to a corpse that I can remember. There must be some decorum!

>>3637

Seen it mention on the /tv/ lesbian core chart, and I think it was on TV years ago, but I missed it.

It is a “period piece”, right?

>>3628

She is putting way too much emphasis on the e at the end.

The pronunciation is listed on Wiktionary: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/skalle#Norwegian_Nynorsk

The Swedish entry has an audio pronunciation of the word; note that she says “en skalle/“a skull” in that example

The easiest way to get the pronunciation right might be to take the Old Norse “skalli” and switch the “i” at the end with an “e” like in “eh”.

>It didn't last long. They broke up later in the season.

Booh! Lame!

The first time I really noticed a lesbian relationship in a TV-series, was on The Tribe (the Kiwi post-apocalyptic series from the very late ’90s/early ’00s), and it was only much later I found out they had actually shot a kiss that ended up on the cutting-room floor because they chickened out from airing it. They have uploaded that missing scene on YT now, and they expand on their relationship in one of the official books that continue the story.

Never really noticed Willow/Tara on BtVS back in the day.

>Now, it's like every single female character in television and movies is portrayed as sapphic to some degree.

Yeah, now it feels shoehorned in there and cheap, like they are only doing it to score social brownie points from blue checkmarks on Twitter.

>I never watched it. Coming out as the USA invaded Iraq, it reeked too heavily of propaganda to stomach.

Don’t really remember much from the show, only that it felt restricted by having the military setting. Saw a bit of JAG back in the day – feel like that show went on for ever too, and I remember one of the main characters losing one or both legs in Iraq? Also it had Catherine Bell in a uniform.

>Kek, they have characters making out in the lab, but none right next to a corpse that I can remember. There must be some decorum!

Screw that! If I directed an episode I’d have one of them just push the body off the autopsy table and have them climb on and continue without missing a beat.

The World to Come is out!

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Just got Bliss of my backlog last night, pic only tangentially related :^).

I wonder if it was influenced by Cosmatos' work, lots of parallels to Mandy.

One thing I noticed right away was that Clive was played by the same actor from Like Me (the guy from the store that gets robbed).

The movie overall was a visual feast and very entertaining, and the ending was a bit of a surprise. I had been guessing for the entire movie that the painting was a portal to hell she was unknowingly creating. So it was a bit of a twist to me. When I saw Dante enter the movie and the faces of the people she'd been killing in the painting I thought this was a confirmation of my theory, only to find out I was completely wrong in the end.

I must say, however, that as technically impressive specially as it was (specially considering the tight budget) it felt a bit empty. The intensity of the drug binges challenged my suspension of disbelief too, specially in the first part.

About the sunlight, I think it's weird that we see her exposed to it before that lethal sunrise with no ill effects.

Overall, entertaining and it keeps you thinking as it goes, but at least for me it didn't leave me with much in the end. I think the type of criticism some people (unfairly) give Refn, that he puts things in his movies because he thinks they look cool but without substance, applies here.

And now that I dropped his name, there's obvious parallels to draw to The Neon Demon except there's no transmission of the powers but just depredation.

Reminiscing of the film to write this I also thought of Vampire's Kiss, while the context couldn't be more different, the failed suicide with a gun is common to both. I had subtitles enabled so when I read "gun clicks" I thought it'd be empty.

My biggest complaint about the movie is that it didn't leave me thinking much about it after watching. But it'd be unfair to say it's bad because of that. It is what it is, and at least it doesn't pretend to be much more even if the visuals are incredibly slick. It's largely a wish-fulfillment movie with sex, drugs and rock & roll. Disposable, sure. But it's a movie you have a good time watching.

>>3651

Posted a reply over at the new club house: https://8chan.moe/sapphic/res/10.html#q19