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Payback (1999): The Celluloid Dungeon
Payback (IMDB) is a 1999 neo-noir crime thriller, starring Mel Gibson. In The Celluloid Closet, Vito Russo talked about the phase of American movies in which queer film characters existed mainly as...
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Review: Eric Stanton & the History of the Bizarre Underground, by Richard...
Richard Pérez Seves has written a thorough and visually engrossing study of fetish artist Eric Stanton and the world he lived in. Stanton was one of the major artists to define the post-WWII American...
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High Anxiety (1977): The Celluloid Dungeon
High Anxiety (1977) (IMDB) is a comedy film, directed by Mel Brooks, written and directed by Mel Brooks and Ron Clark. High Anxiety is Mel Brooks’ parody of Alfred Hitchcock’s thrillers, which often...
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The Ilsa Principle
In my research, I’ve observed patterns in the past that we still see today. Cover of Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk For instance, in the 1830s, a woman named Maria Monk turned up in New York City....
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Personal Services (1987): The Celluloid Dungeon
Personal Services (1987) is a comedy-drama directed by Terry Jones. The DVD I had begins with text that says “This film is a fiction. The author’s inspiration was a book about Cynthia Payne. However...
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Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000): The Celluloid Dungeon
Not every film I study in this project has a lot to say about sadomasochism. In some cases, these may be single scenes or even brief moments. Dancing at the Blue Iguana (2000) is a semi-improvised...
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Venus in Furs (1967): The Celluloid Dungeon
Poster Venus in Furs (1967) IMDB As far as I know, this is the first feature film adaptation of Venus in Furs, or more accurately the first to bear that name. (According to IMDB, there was a short...
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Review: Gene Bilbrew Revealed, by Richard Perez Seves
GENE BILBREW REVEALED: The Unsung Legacy of a Fetish Art Pioneer (African American Artists Series) is the latest in Richard Pérez Seves’ series of biographies of fetish artists and publishers. Pérez...
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Venus in Furs (1995): The Celluloid Dungeon
Poster Written, produced and directed by Victor Nieuwenhuijs. Starring Anne van de Ven as Wanda, and André Arend van de Noord as Severin. IMDB (Unless otherwise stated, all quotes are from English...
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The Duke of Burgundy (2014): The Celluloid Dungeon
The Duke of Burgundy (IMDB) is a 2014 drama film written and directed by Peter Strickland, and starring Chiara D’Anna as Evelyn and Sidse Babett Knudsen as Cynthia. Shot in the UK and Hungary. One of...
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The Image (1975): The Celluloid Dungeon
The Image (1975), also known as The Punishment of Anne, is an erotic drama directed by Radley Metzger, which he adapted from the novel L’Image (1956) by “Jean de Berg”, a pseudonym of Catherine...
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The Abnormal Female (1969): The Celluloid Dungeon
The Abnormal Female (IMDB) is a 1969 exploitation film, a collection of softcore sexual vignettes loosely tied together by the voiceover narration of a psychiatrist and his female patients talking...
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The Girls on F Street (1966): The Celluloid Dungeon
The Girls on F Street, also known as The Maidens of Fetish Street, is a 1966 exploitation film (IMDB), directed by Saul Resnick. A lot of the film is padded out with the voiceover sermonizing, and...
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One Night at McCool’s (2001): The Celluloid Dungeon
One Night at McCool’s (IMDB) is a 2001 sex comedy film. Three men become obsessed with one beautiful woman, resulting in a tangle of sex, greed, and murder. (Though it’s rated R, there’s no actual...
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Secret Diary of a Call Girl: The Celluloid Dungeon
Secret Diary of a Call Girl (IMDB) is a British dramedy TV series focusing on Belle, also known as Hannah (played by Billie Piper), a young woman experiences in different kinds of sex work. Belle...
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DaVinci’s Inquest: The Celluloid Dungeon
IMDB First aired 18 November 1998 DaVinci’s Inquest was a Canadian crime drama that aired from 1998 to 2005. The lead character of coroner Dominic DaVinci is based on real-life Vancouver coroner and...
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Castle: The Celluloid Dungeon
Castle S02E16, “The Mistress Always Spanks Twice”, March 8, 2010 IMDB Another day, another dead sex worker. Sooner or later it seems every police or lawyer show does an episode about BDSM. Castle,...
View ArticleLaw & Order: SVU S11E12: The Celluloid Dungeon
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S11E12 “Shadow”. Aired Jan 13, 2010 At least there’s one police procedural show with BDSM that doesn’t begin with the discovery of a dead sex worker. The premise...
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Law & Order S01E10 “Prisoner of Love”: The Celluloid Dungeon
Another episode bucks the cliche by not opening with the discovery of a dead sex worker. This time it’s a controversial artist named Victor Moore (loosely modeled on Robert Mapplethorpe, who died in...
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Bound (2015): The Celluloid Dungeon
Bound (2015) (not to be confused with Bound (1996), the lesbian-noir thriller directed by the Wachowskis) has an interesting pedigree. It was made by The Asylum, best known as the producers of...
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