Darkdrive was a straight-to-DVD sci-fi film that attracted no special attention (3.1 at IMDb), but had a surprising number of noteworthy elements surrounding it:
- Some of its soundtrack was incorporated into the opening sequence of South Park.
- This movie and Carnosaur 3 were the first two films ever offered on DVD in the UK. Only God knows why.
- Some of its concepts showed up two years later in The Matrix, including the actual term “the matrix.”
- The nude scene made our list of the Top Nude Scenes of 1997, and that was no small achievement against one of the strongest fields of any year in history.
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Julie Benz did a topless scene in another 1997 movie, a short called Eating Las Vegas
She went on to more significant roles, but with minimal nudity, most famously as Dexter’s girlfriend (then wife). She had plenty of nude scenes in the first three seasons of that series, but they were never very explicit:
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Underrated badonk on her
Today I learned another slang term for buttocks.
Man, if I had known this when I was watching Buffy…
The Buffy effect. We couldn’t get any of the leads, so when she showed up naked and well lit, there ya go.
Tragedy we never got ANY of the leads. Just Benz and then Charisma Carpenter’s robo-hooters.