Seduction Cinema DVD Review: The Erotic Ghost
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2000 - 72 minutes/fullscreen
Directed by John Bacchus
DVD Available From: Seduction Cinema
Article written by Mark Engle
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SIGH! Gone are the inventive days of Black Emmanuelle,
Joe D'Amato, Jess Franco, Edwige Fenech, Soledad Miranda,
Erika Blanc and so on. The seventies and eighties are gone and a new
breed of erotic filmmakers are here to breath new life or make fast
buck.
You pick the choice! Either way, one is going to need serious CPR after
all is said and done. Well, at least John Bacchus uses a
slight horror bent to his erotica films. It's a step in the right
direction, just not enough edge to keep the interest going. With other
films under his belt like The Erotic Witch Project and Mistress
Frankenstein, THE EROTIC GHOST is just more of the same;
phony lesbian sex. Not enough to make it porn, but not enough
exploitation to keep it different from all the standards.
PLOT
Doris is bored. She has a dull home life and husband who ignores
her. She would rather sleep through their sexual
activities than howl, "Be my Daddy" per his request. Her life changes
when the woman of her dreams shows up in the form of a
ghost…a naked ghost that is! With the husband Robert off at work they
are soon frolicking all over the house and satisfying
every whim. This goes on for 2 or 3 scenes intermixed with the hubby's
boring day at the office that is laced with all sorts of
humor and set to Celtic folk music! Later, whether Doris is yearning for
more or just to keep the audience happy, she ventures
to the basement to find two woman dressed in cheap Halloween sexy Devil
outfits kissing each other. She watches in horror as
the two devils make it. Meanwhile, Robert goes Postal at work, kills a
coworker and is rewarded with a promotion. Yup, the
office scenes are that silly (admittedly some of the jokes work)! Doris
on the other hand after running away from her "demons"
is taken captive by the two in red and punished by being part of a
threesome! Tough world isn't it? Alas, all is a fantasy until a
door-to-door makeup saleslady shows up at her home and happens to be the
exact image of her fantasy ghost!
CONCLUSION
I guess my favorite scene in the whole film would have to be the
two devils and Doris threesome. Not because I found it
erotic, but because at one point the demons rip off her white panties,
pleasure her with a slight oral satisfaction…camera cuts to
new angle…her panties are back on while the demons lick her
nipples…camera cuts to new angle…panties back off! Now,
during another scene, I have to ask what is the point of having a girl
suck on another girls strap-on black dildo? Neither seem to
get any satisfaction over this ritual yet they continue at it for at
least five minutes? I know that this is primarily aimed at a male
audience, but some realism would be nice! Another point of realism that
is missed is during several oral sex scenes. Come on, if
a girl is going to have an orgasm this way, it won't be while the
other's mouth is four inches away from her privates! At least
much of the erotica in the past had the illusion to look real!
As far as the women go, Darian Caine as Doris has a natural beauty
to her that helps the film along while Tammy Parks
as the ghost has a hard look that is getting to be popular in today's
adult market. She's not my style and neither were the other
two as the devils. Still, to each their own.
Oh well, I'm off to watch Vampyros Lesbos. Erotic Ghost just wasn't
enough.
The Nameless Horror
wrote:
> SIGH! Gone are the inventive days of Black Emmanuelle,
>Joe D'Amato, Jess Franco, Edwige Fenech, Soledad Miranda,
>Erika Blanc and so on. The seventies and eighties are gone and a new
>breed of erotic filmmakers are here to breath new life or make fast
>buck.
>Not enough to make it porn, but not enough
>exploitation to keep it different from all the standards.
Well, these movies are not intended to be "real" movies. They are, in
some senses of the word, 'porn', just soft-core porn instead of
hard-core.
So it's made with a really low budget and shot in a hurry. Welcome to
the world of entry-level moviemaking.
I would guess that the market for it is similar to that for, say, the
stuff from Playboy. But I don't really know quite where it fits in,
because I've only seen one video store in my locality that sells the
stuff. To my knowledge, unlike Spice Entertainment, which has a deal
with the Playboy Channel, this stuff doesn't go to cable, and adult
video stores don't bother with it either. (Understandably; if people
buy it by mistake, they could have dissatisfied customers.)
Maybe it's sold by mail order to people particularly in states that
attempt to ban hard-core material. Their marketing and distribution is
essentially invisible to me, so I don't know where they're getting
their money from. (Although not hardcore, their movies, with constant
nudity and so on still don't qualify for an R rating, so they also
sell R-rated versions of their features. What those are for is even
more mystifying to me. Maybe I don't go to enough video stores.)
CultCuts
> On Sun, 03 Jun 2001 23:54:38 GMT, CultCuts <cult...@icehouse.net>
> wrote:
>
> > SIGH! Gone are the inventive days of Black Emmanuelle,
> >Joe D'Amato, Jess Franco, Edwige Fenech, Soledad Miranda,
> >Erika Blanc and so on. The seventies and eighties are gone and a new
> >breed of erotic filmmakers are here to breath new life or make fast
> >buck.
>
> >Not enough to make it porn, but not enough
> >exploitation to keep it different from all the standards.
>
> Well, these movies are not intended to be "real" movies.
Of course not, but neither was erotica from days gone past which was
better and what my original point was.
> They are, in
> some senses of the word, 'porn', just soft-core porn instead of
> hard-core.
Sure, loosely, it is porn. But the quality is far inferior to erotica
from the seventies and early eighties.
>
>
> So it's made with a really low budget and shot in a hurry. Welcome to
> the world of entry-level moviemaking.
Ummm, I've been dealing with entry level and low budget filmmaking for
years. This stuff is just bad. People like Jess Franco, Roberto Bianchi,
Jean Rollins and Joe D'Amato for example did films much better for a lot
less money. That is why I gave it a negative review. It's crap! Just
because it is entry level filmmaking, does not mean I need to give it any
special favors!
>
>
> I would guess that the market for it is similar to that for, say, the
> stuff from Playboy. But I don't really know quite where it fits in,
> because I've only seen one video store in my locality that sells the
> stuff. To my knowledge, unlike Spice Entertainment, which has a deal
> with the Playboy Channel, this stuff doesn't go to cable, and adult
> video stores don't bother with it either. (Understandably; if people
> buy it by mistake, they could have dissatisfied customers.)
Yup. But they do sell it to late night cable.
>
>
> Maybe it's sold by mail order to people particularly in states that
> attempt to ban hard-core material. Their marketing and distribution is
> essentially invisible to me, so I don't know where they're getting
> their money from. (Although not hardcore, their movies, with constant
> nudity and so on still don't qualify for an R rating, so they also
> sell R-rated versions of their features. What those are for is even
> more mystifying to me. Maybe I don't go to enough video stores.)
Yes, it is mystifying to me as well, but so was USA UP ALL NIGHT. They
took really bad T&A comedy films from the seventies and eighties, cut out
all the nudity and then showed them with commercials up the ying yang!
What's the point, but for some reason, people still tuned in.
I have seen most of their titles listed on late night Cinemax so there
seems to be some market in which they are selling.
Mark
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