The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann (1974)

Comedy-laden pornos really ain't my thing, usually, but I ended up really digging "The Private Afternoons of Pamela Mann". It's a well shot and fairly well acted XXX-classic that actually contains a pretty solid plot to boot.

A businessman hires a private investigator to keep tabs on his potentially promiscuous wife. Turns out, the frisky minx is slutting around CONSTANTLY with random guys in the park, yuppies at conference meetings, a prostitute and a couple of rapists in one very out-of-place scene, featuring Jamie Gillis. The P.I. ends up bringing footage he secretly shot of each of her sexual encounters back to the husband where they analyze it, in hopes of getting to the root cause of her nymphomania...

This is a fun one. Probably the best intentially comedic porn I've seen. Good enough characters, along with some goofy humor and arousing 'hardcore' scenes - including a hot lesbo scissoring session and a super-slo-mo cumshot. For vintage smut enthusiasts, this is a must see.

Fuk Fuk à Brasileira (1986)

Here is, yet another, Brazilian porn oddity that I'm struggling to formulate an opinion for, though I don't think it's possible. There were no English subtitles, but I honestly don't think it would've mattered either way due to how strange "Fuk Fuk à Brasileira" (aka. "Fuk Fuk the Brazilian") was.

The movie is centered around Fuk Fuk - a Brazilian midget servant - who flushes himself down the toilet to escape his male master's sexual advances. He pops out of the sewer and travels around with his dildo collection - along the way, having a freaky affair with a married woman, working in a seedy massage parlor, jerking off to a statue he stares at through a board with a hole in it, meeting a talking horse, whacking off on a Marilyn Monroe poster and getting jizzed on by a huge, robotic donger...

"Fuk Fuk" is some bizarre shit, to say the least. You can't go wrong with horny midgets wielding dildos and playing with fireworks, though. It's definitely a good time following Fuk Fuk on his strange, erotic journey so you can't go wrong, here!

Vibroboy (1994)

I'm not really sure what to make of this one. "Vibroboy" is a bat-shit crazy French 'cyber-punk' short that is just complete weirdness from beginning to end.

A transvestite returns home (to a trailer in the desert...) from unearthing Aztec artifacts in Mexico. One of which is a statue that he gives to his friend and neighbor and, during a violent domestic squabble with her abusive husband, inadvertently resurrects the evil Vibroboy... An ancient being who uses a stone dildo as a weapon...

"Vibroboy" is a hectic and fast-paced 27-minute film that was heavily influenced by Shinya Tsukamoto's classic, "Tetsuo: The Iron Man". I can't say I really liked, nor disliked "Vibroboy", as it really just sort of ends just as it gets going, but I will say it's pretty well shot with some creative camera work and cool visuals. The characters are also entertaining in how over-the-top they are - especially the crazy husband. Not a bad concept, overall.

Random Acts of Violence (2013)

I knew absolutely nothing about this flick when I put it on the other night out of boredom for a bit of a time-killer. While it was far from GREAT, it's a decent enough 'black comedy'/crime/ mockumentary.

A limey New Yorker is disgusted by the gentrification of the Big Apple since Giuliani cleaned house, so he has a camera crew follow him around as he murders random people in hopes of kick-starting a revolution. Throughout his filmed 'manifesto', he becomes increasingly aggravated by the lack of media coverage of his crimes and tensions rise between him and the director when he tries involving his girlfriend in his killing spree...

"Random Acts of Violence" is obviously another knock-off of "Man Bites Dog" - only in the form of an urban-hipster movie. It actually works well as a more of a character-driven narrative than a serial killer movie - with the main "subject" of the faux-doc being a completely hypocritical and pretentious douchebag which makes him somewhat of an enjoyably unlikable character. Again, it's nothing outstanding in the least, but I've seen far worse so I'd give it a mild recommendation if you dig dark comedies and hate hipsters.

Rambo (2008)

"Rambo" is only like one of two action movies that I can say I truly love. I'm typically not a fan of the action genre as it always feels to me like they're holding back on the violence and blood for the sake of marketing to younger audiences - replacing it with the over-utilization of cartoonish cliches. So then after 10 years since the last movie, Stallone takes the directorial reins for the fourth installment in the Rambo/First Blood series - orchestrating what is basically the "Braindead" of action films.

John Rambo is living relatively quietly in Columbia as a snake capturer when he's approached by some missionaries who want to hire him to transport them - via rickety boat - to a village in Burma to do some bullshit peace work. He reluctantly does and the village is eventually pillaged by the sadistic Burmese military who capture them for sex slavery and pig food. Rambo is then called upon again to join up with some mercenaries to rescue them...

Stallone closed out the franchise with an insanely gritty, no-holds-barred bloodbath without any  bullshit. It takes itself very seriously (which I like...) and has some very chaotic, grim and unpleasant depictions of genocide, involving up-close dismemberment, exploding bodies and even children being torched alive. Nothing is candy-coated, which makes for a satisfying conclusion which has Rambo blasting a guy at point-blank range with a .50 cal before essentially making hamburger meat out of an entire army. Guts and limbs are flying fast and furious and it's fucking epic. No snappy one-liners or romantic sub-plot to draw in the female audience. No implied violence or punches pulled. Everything is pretty much done perfectly and makes for some fast-paced, wall-to-wall carnage that will surly keep you satisfied. If you haven't seen it then you're definitely missing out.

The Town That Dreaded Sundown (2014)

Going into this, I was expecting a remake, but it actually plays out as more of a sequel/follow-up to the 1976 original. I'm getting kinda tired of non-remakes being given the same title as their predecessor just because some time has gone by - i.e. "The Thing" prequel from a few years back. It's just a confusing and stupid way to cash in. Anyways... This flick is just heap of wasted potential - dragged down by the 'modern' teen-horror influence.

According to this movie, the small town of Texarkana - famous for the real-life unsolved series of slayings from 1946, known as The Texarkana Moonlight Murders - has since embraced the legendary case of the Phantom Killer. They even have an annual screening of the original film, which, after 66 years, sparks a presumed copycat killer who is taking to lover's lanes and brutally killing local teens. One girl survives her attack and decides to investigate the mysterious Phantom Killer and the main suspects, as well as certain information that was apparently dug up for the making of the '76 film...

Early on, it looked like this one was gonna be decent enough with some pretty strong kill scenes and creative camera work. Also, the whole set-up showed some promise - particularly, the movie-within-a-movie angle, which was somewhat interesting. These 'positives' are virtually obliterated by the exhausting abundance of cliches and painfully boring characters. Seriously, the male and female leads seemed to purposely be cast for their ungodly deadpan demeanor's and inability/refusal to captivate an audience. And the icing on the cake of shit that killed this flick was the piss-poor conclusion that goes out of it's way to be a random, over-explained 'whodunnit' reveal. The dreaded "Scream"-influence rears it's ugly head again and really just extinguished any flicker of aptitude this movie had going for it, as far as I'm concerned. I'm not even a huge fan of the original "Town That Dreaded Sundown", but you should definitely stick with that film (cuz Mary Ann is in it, of course...) and don't bother with this.