Johnny Moronic’s comments:

Carnal Vessels is a low budget body swap comedy where two on-off lovers Olivia (Arnijka Larcombe-Weate) and Alex (Daniel Simpson) go on a date but after coming to an impasse as to what they want to do in their relationship, they decide they’d rather have sex. But during sex, they swap bodies and now they have to deal with this. Alex now Olivia finds out Olivia now Alex is seeing a boy named James (Dylan Stumer) on the side and he/she decides to confront him but doesn’t know where he is. He/she ends up at a pub where they decide to flirt with the trivia quizmaster Kyle (Cantona Stewart) but when they go back to his place, it suddenly becomes all too real when it comes time to being intimate and he/she runs away. Olivia/Alex goes looking for Alex and ends up at her house where she finds her overly amorous mother Susan (Astrid Wells) wanting to ‘play’ with her as him which weirds her out. Alex/Olivia tries to avoid his housemate Erin (Shanay De Marco) who he had a fling with and ends up finding James. Alex/Olivia decides to be with James but Olivia/Alex tracks them down and ends up finding out something disturbing about James that she didn’t know before and now needs to save Alex/Olivia from a big mistake. Typically silly comedy which is strangely low key about the body swap stuff but it does have a few amusing moments. As the movie takes place only over a few hours, the movie seems a bit limited in exploring the possibilities of the body swap and feels a little short but it’s not bad and there’s enough silliness to keep it going for it’s 70-odd minutes without turning into a broad comedy which usually happens with these types of movies.

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Erotic crime thriller from Brazil

A lonely medical student becomes obsessed with a young screenwriter after she rejects his advances. He kidnaps her and takes her to locations from her screenplay, hoping she’ll fall for him.

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The first five are new to me, and include a full-shaved-frontal with her legs open. I’m not sure where they came from, but they seem to be the real deal.

Inspired by the success of Revenge of the Nerds and Weird Science, there was a period of “nerd chic” in the films of the mid- to late 80s and a bit beyond. Nerds got the chicks and jocks got only comeuppance. I’m assuming these films were the masturbatory fantasies of nerdy writers and directors nerdwashing their own histories while nursing the scars caused by years of wedgies.

Some of those films were entertaining.

Assault of the Party Nerds … not so much.

Well, it does have two strong positives:

1) The whole mess is over in 82 minutes. Less, if you skip the credits.
2) Some of those minutes feature Linnea topless.

The Party Nerds movie was made for $40,000 in four days, a quickie from the Jim Wynorski – Fred Olen Ray school of filmmaking, as created and assembled by that school’s star pupil, their hope for the new generation, Richard Gabai.

In the sequel, Gabai is the star, director, producer, editor, songwriter, scriptwriter, casting director, cinematographer … oh, yeah, and his band recorded the music. Now THAT is a true auteur. You can’t say the guy doesn’t know how to save a buck.

The economical use of personnel didn’t stop at Gabai himself. The female lead was the bartender at his favorite watering hole, and had never worked in a film before. She did OK, but returned to private life. Other non-showbiz buddies rounded out the cast.

There were familiar faces as well. Gabai hired Burt Ward (Robin, the Boy Wonder) to be a corporate bigwig, and Ward showed up with his wife, so Ward’s wife in real life became the bigwig’s wife in the script. Actress Tane McClure also laid down some vocal tracks, and her singing is pretty decent, although nobody will mistake her voice for Whitney Houston’s. Other cast members include Rhonda “Up All Night” Shear and Arte “Verrrry Interestink” Johnson.

The shooting schedule was doubled to eight days for the sequel, so you can bet that the production values are positively lavish, as reflected in the care that went into the DVD box, which refers to the geeky lads as the “Part Nerds.” No idea what the other part is. Possibly Pekinese.

Everyone becomes a suspect when the models at a model agency become the victims of a serial killer.

From the UK.

Zalda shows the full monty. This is her only film credit. Although the film credits her as “Zalda,” IMDb calls her “Zelda,” and that is the name she uses in her social media accounts. She only has four subscribers on YouTube, and hasn’t posted in years, but she did a burlesque show you may like.

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Chynna Rae Shurts in A Haunting in Ravenwood (2021)

A newlywed couple arrives at the house of the husband’s late wife, where the flowers have been maintained to the dead woman’s memory. Soon, eerie events lead the new wife to believe she is losing her mind.

I’m not familiar with Chynna Rae. IMDb says: “Chynna Rae Shurts is known for Beware the Boogeyman (2024), Revenge of the Boogeyman (2025) and Breakin’ All the Ghouls (not yet released).” She has been credited as the assistant director on several films.

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But what a face!