Got these files in as PDFs and edited them using my trusty Fastsone Image Editor. Not really sure what the title would translate as. I think it is ‘Young Animal’ but it is Japanese and I speak and read zip thereof. There is a website connected to these two magazines at http://www.younganimal.com and I checked it out and it is not, I promise, any sort of bestiality site. If it had any such connection, even remotely, the site or the books would not be here. The images below are not nude images and fall not a type of photography form from Japan called gravure. The word can refer to a printing process or, more in line with the ‘research’ done for this post,  to a type of modeling in Japan where the models pose in usually non-nude shoots. The style ranges in its scope from modeling cosmetic products and fashion wear to borderline porn. The models have the appearance of being nymphets at best. This sort of modeling has spread across across Asia as the standard practically for product promotion. The recurring themes seems to be a coquettish nature mixed with the Japanese penchant for cosplay scenarios. The magazines have the initial appearance of being aimed at teenage girl readers and in fact a certain percentage of the readership are young girls reading the fashion tips and looking for models to imitate. But there seems to be no secret that the bulk of the readership is made of slimy old guys, er, who like looking at girls, um, in bikinis on a ski slope. The lack of nudity keeps the magazine out of the pornography category technically but there is something even more titillating about the non-nude images. One more reason why Japan is the greatest culture in all of Asia. All the girls in the magazine are over 18 as far as I can tell from the web site.

MORE ‘YOUNG ANIMALS’ HERE >>

FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN

1967/Director: Terence Fisher/Writer: Anthony Hinds

Cast: Peter Cushing, Susan Denberg, Thorley Walters, Robert Morris, Duncan Lamont

Frankenstein Created Woman is the fourth of the Hammer Frankenstein films and sees the return of Terence fisher as director after a brief absence from the helm while Freddie Francis directed The Evil of Frankenstein. Anthony Hinds is back as script writer under the familiar pseudonym John Elder. We will get to The Evil of Frankenstein another day as I will eventually get all the Hammer Frankenstein efforts reviewed then move on to the Dracula films. But I did want to clear something up that puzzled me for a while regarding the film Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell. In that film I made the error of stating in my review of that film that Baron Frankenstein shows the damage he received at the end of Frankenstein Must Be destroyed. I was recalling that from memory and I am far from an expert on the films but it would seem that in Frankenstein Created Woman Frankenstein already shows some damage to his hands. We may infer from this that the injuries were received at the end of 1964’s The Evil of Frankenstein when the castle burns down and then explodes (like in the James Whale version) though it not shown or explained. Anyway, I always wondered about his hands in that film and need to go back and rewatch Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed, a fine Terence fisher film as well, and see if his hands are gloved in that one.

MORE FRANKENSTEIN CREATED WOMAN HERE >>

I am a little more than half way through one of my long posts right now and need a break and need to keep some posts coming. So time for some eye candy and a return to my Girls With Guns fetish. It has been a while since I did a Girls With guns post and felt it was about time to get back into it. I have my first two original GWG posts listed in my sidebar under my pages section.  GWG 02 is my award winning Asian Girls themed post featuring loads of  Asian DVD covers of the CAT III variety. These  two posts wound up as pages when I moved all my posts over from a previous URL. Guess I will make GWG 03 and 04 pages eventually. After I get these up I will get back to my post on Inglourious Basterds and comparing it with three other WWII films. That should be done by tomorrow I hope.  For now lets check out this new collection of hot babes with big bad guns.

MORE GIRLS WITH GUNS RIGHT HERE FOLKS >>

THE GENE GENERATION

2007/Director: Pearry Reginald Teo/Writers: Keith Collea, Pearry Reginald Teo

Cast: Ling Bai, Alec Newman, Parry Shen, Faye Dunaway, Ethan Cohn

The Gene Generation with Chinese actress Bai Ling (or Ling Bai as it sometimes appears if you put the family name first) is one of those films that definitely falls into the category of it ‘could have been better’. The movie is not a waste of time and as the Café has evolved from its early posts I have taken a rather neutral position on most of the films I write about and I do not feel I actually recommend or pan films. I will leave that up to the reader to decide. While I cannot say I liked The Gene Generation all that much it seems to earn a post here not so much for the erratic storyline and touch and go production quality of the film itself but for the presence of lanky and luscious Bai Ling. Before talking about, and hopefully defending, the sometimes (actually usually) maligned Bai Ling I think I will say a word about my blogging process and why sometimes it is a drawback for me.

One problem I have is that I watch simply more movies than I can do decent posts on. I am not the type of person who wants to review every movie  right after I watch it, like better reviewers do I suppose. I started the Necrofiles category which is a way to skim over four or so movies at a time with comments of a brief paragraph or two at most. I work as an ESL teacher in China and the job, as well as life here at times, is draining. I may have the time to write but not the mental energy. I think over the last year I have begun to develop a writing style I like a little. I like to create a post that draws information from different sources on the net, as well as my own personal opinion, and brings them together in one place with images I either find online or make myself in the form of vidcaps, some that are pretty decent. The first thing I do when I decide to write about a film is find articles I like and make them into PDFs for future reference, get cast and crew info from IMDB or a similar site and then start collecting images and then they are all brought together in a rough form and stored as a nearly complete draft that I may save for months sometimes before I get around to writing the article. I must have over a dozen drafts now that have are laid out with images and cast/crew info but no written article. During that time of course I am watching more movies of a Uranium nature as well as mainstream films and sometimes doing posts as well on something I just watched.

MORE GENE GENERATION WITH BAI LING HERE >>

Yvonne Craig will always be remembered Batgirl in the great 1960’s TV series Batman with Adam West playing a campy caped crusader and Burt Ward as his trusted sidekick Robin the Boy Wonder. The series featured a host of great villains played by Hollywood notables like Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith and Vincent Price. Craig played Commissioner Gordon’s daughter Barbara and in a few episode donned a mask and cape to lend a hand to the dynamic duo. She sported a nifty motorcycle and had her own them song. Besides the Batman series she played in a few films along side lead men like Bing Crosby, James Coburn and Elvis. Born in the Midwest in Illinois she has an impish all American girl look but with a just a proportioned dab of the naughty brunette thrown into the mix to make her a little exotic. She was trained in ballet and dance and some of her fight sequences in Batman show her lithe agility and strength and in the famous Star Trek episode Whom Gods Destroy she does a titillating dance sequence before winding up in an insane asylum. Yvonne comes from a time when women had curves and femininity still. All the sex bombs of today have lousy tattoos, six pack abs and chronic hostile angst. In some of the selected images here I think her charm and sex appeal come through without any of the angry attitude that we have to suffer through these days. Recently saw her along aside Tommy Kirk in Mars Needs Women and expect an in depth analysis of that Z-classic soon. Also just got in How to Frame A Figg where she tempts an always antsy Don Knotts and that will show up eventually as a double feature with The Love God?, which sadly she does not star in.

MORE OF LEGGY YVONNE CRAIG HERE >>

TODAY’S MIND NUMBING FEATURE:

THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES

ENTER HERE TO SEE ASTRO ZOMBIES IN ITS ENTIRETY ALONG WITH TRAILER >>

TODAY’S FEATURE: RUSS MEYER’S

FASTER PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL!

SEE TURA SATANA KICK ASS IN FASTER PUSSYCAT, KILL, KILL! HERE >>