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Kiana Madeira and Olivia Scott Welch in "Fear Street Part 3: 1666" (2021) - IMDB

Bad things are happening in a small rural settlement. The villagers blame two young women, Sarah and Hannah, for supposedly summoning the devil. The two are arrested in the middle of the night and taken to a tree to be hung. Sarah loves Hannah (in a girlfriend way) and wants her to live. So she makes up a story that she is a witch and possessed Hannah's mind. The villagers buy the lie. Hannah is set free while Sarah is hanged and then thrown into a shallow grave.

No nudity in this one (probably thanks to Netflix and their political correctness bullshit). During her arrest, it is implied that Hannah's dress is ripped open so she can be searched for a devil's mark. But the camera cuts away before it gets interesting.

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I almost watched this myself, since it sounded like it might have a good scene or two. Kinda glad I didn't bother. But I am a little curious now. I'm betting that the "innocent" one really is a witch, or develops witchly powers in order to get vengeance. That's how it usually goes, anyway. Although it seems like in more current films they try to throw a twist or two in at the end.
 
There is a twist:

Sarah is innocent. And she is not a witch.

The trilogy evolves around the myth that when the witch Sarah Feir was hanged, she cursed the town, which makes random citizens turn crazy every now an then and kill a bunch of people. In fact, Sarah was framed by someone else who made a pact with the devil and used her as scapegoat.

Before watching, I also had hoped for more, since a review I read praised the "Fear Street" trilogy as some of the best horror movies recently released. I would say, it is mix of "Stranger Things" and "American Horror Story", though it was not quite as scary and especially part 2 and 3 had some pacing issues. The trilogy was carried by the actors, who did a really good job in my opinion.

There is another spectacular bondage/torture scene in part 2, where a girl gets tied to a tree, is beaten up and a part of her skin is burned with a lighter. I did not share images of this scene on purpose, since by my calculations, the actress who played the girl was still underage when the movie was shot.
 
I was re-watching one of the greats: Godfather Part II. I couldn't resist posting this. Lame scene, I know, but after all, this isn't just any mainstream film, but one of the best film sequels of all time (if not the best) and and it scored a ton of Academy Awards, including Best Picture. If only this nightclub scene had been worthy of the rest of the movie.

A young virgin is being offered up in sacrifice to the apparently superbly endowed "Superman."

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Michael looks disappointed and frustrated. What? he is thinking, We're not gonna get to see any full frontal nudity? No whips? No chains?

And indeed, we don't. The scene cuts at that point, and all we get from it is the knowledge that Michael now knows beyond doubt that it was his brother Fredo who betrayed him and almost got him and his wife and children killed.

Just think how much better this scene could have been!
 
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harvested for cloning by the evil Dr. Squalus. Imagine the possibilities for medical advancement and cures for cancer!
Not entirely unlike the true story of the HeLa cell line that was harvested from a woman named Henrietta Lacks, who died of cervical cancer in 1951, and has been instrumental in cellular research and treatment of a number of diseases including cancer up to the present day. Though that story lacks the sadistic slant, there was an element of exploitation.
 
Ghost Machine (2009)


Some geeks “borrow” an experimental virtual reality system for a gaming night in an sort-of abandoned former black site. Over the course of the evening they begin to witness paranormal phenomena both within and without the game and arrive at the conclusion that their cyber toy has unlocked the vengeful spirit of a female prisoner (played by Icelandic singer and voice actress Halla Vilhjálmsdóttir) who had been interrogated and killed in the facility years ago.

Weakish plot aside, this flick is a rare find in that it heavily depicts the elusive strappado torture. In flashback scenes we witness the prisoner being manhandled into the basement and suspended in a drastic way – a motif later to return in combination with various characters, most notably the geeks’ soldier-friend Jess (Rachael Taylor). She, too, gets the full hook treatment including pain-distorted face and gasps for air.

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Let’s not fool ourselves: Ghost Machine has a lot of “skip” moments. But the relevant scenes are gritty, and although the stills do not quite provide it, the camera work does a decent job in creating the illusion of actual and/or unsecured body suspension.
 
Something I've watched today. El Diabolico (1977) a western where a malevolent medallion is compelling his owners to rape and brand their victims. Three good looking girls end up with a hot iron between their tits. One can't ask for more, too bad they don't make them like that anymore.

Videoclips at https://www.zippyshare.com/doe.1971

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By "them" do you mean branded funbags or evil medallions?
 
In one of the early episodes of Banditskiy Petersburg, Katya has a flashback. She talks about the evening some gangsters came calling.

After a hard day of work, she returns to her apartment. She turns on the light and sees a pair of gangsters in her living room. Immediately someone behind her clamps a hand over her mouth. The slender thug removes his shirt, kneels in front of her and unbuttons her shirt, talking to her all the while, and exposes her breasts. Then the big dude asks her probably the most pertinent question of this conversation-

I'm currently studying Russian (Covid hobby.) It's a very difficult language for me, a native English speaker. I'm at a rank beginner's level. But the two words I did understand were:

Где деньги? Where's the money?



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I'm not sure how they decided to resolve the issue, but they leave Katya alone. She stands in the doorway, terrified and distraught, shirt open, panties around her ankles.

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Thanks for that @Jon Smithie -- I will have to look up the video. Some time ago, I came across another flashback scene from the same series, shot in similar style. Gangsters have gagged and handcuffed husband to a radiator and force him to watch them raping his wife. Interesting direction: the rape is quite explicit, but shot without any nudity at all and indeed mostly without showing the victim except for two very short shots. Nevertheless, there is no doubt at all as to what is happening.

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Yesterday, I have seen for the first time from my archive this movie which was broadcast some weeks ago by my most favourite French-German TV channel ARTE:


This movie is not bad but also not really good, some reviews were enthusiastic, some were of the opinion "mhm, not really bad because of Monica Bellucci".
What disturbed me was the mix of really funny scenes with really shocking scenes in a story which partly could have been based on Marquis de Sade's "Justine":
A woman has to suffer because of her incredible beauty and because she is every man's dream.

For me, the most shocking scenes were really somehow torture in a sense that you do not like to look there any more but you are so shocked that you also cannot really look away.

The story of the following pictures in very few words: Malèna (Monica Bellucci) was forced by tragic circumstances - her husband disappeared in WW II and was said to have died on a battlefield - to prostitute herself and because this made it possible for her to benefit by her beauty, she was regarded by many women in her Sicillian city as a danger for their marriages and all the women seem to envy and hate her at the same time. Only a 13-year old boy - who is obsessed by her and observes all her life secretly - knows that she is a really good person and in principle was always faithful and sad about her husband's presumed fate.
One day at the end of the war, he watches in shock how angry women drag her out of a house where she even lived for some time with German soldiers.
These hateful women beat her up and cut her hair in a kind of violence like I have never seen it before done by women in such a movie which is rather a tragic-comical comedy up to this point:

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In the German version, one man says: "I cannot look at this any more but this is a fight between women and I am not suicidal enough to intervene!"

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But what makes the end rather unrealistic is that her husband returns as a kind of a lonesome war hero, the boy writes him a letter that his wife only loved him - no matter what the envy people were telling him - and that she went to Messina. One year later, both return and as a couple again. Why should she ever come back to such a city?

And now, the best for me in this movie are the looks of the actors (or the "non-looks") , for example when both are going together again through this city on a Sunday:

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... and suddenly, her honour seems to be restored again for all because her husband stands to / by her and all are stunned but greeting them both:

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And maybe the best scenes for the actors of this movie are at the end on the market, where all are meeting again. Even the women who almost killed her are now greeting her again and the looks are "interesting":

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On the way home, some oranges fall from her basket and the boy - the only one who watched all her life and knew all the truth - is happy to talk to her for the first time and being able to help her and wishes her "good luck" for the future. She is surprised but shows a little smile.
He says from the off as an old man: "This was the only woman in my life I could never ever have forgotten!"

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