Monday, April 25, 2005

Erotic Ghost Story

Pretty weird. Had I known in advance that 'erotic' in this instance translated to 'unimaginative soft porn', I probably wouldn't have bothered taping this; blissfully ignorant, though, that's exactly what I did, duly to be puzzled when I sat down to watch it later. There just doesn't seem to be any point to this film, and it bogs seriously down near the middle when the vixen-sisters take it in turns to (fairly unerotically, but quite explicitly and at great length) shag the scholar (though I was proud of my powers of attention when, looking around online afterwards trying to work out what on earth I'd just watched, I discovered that what I'd thought was a rather abrupt conclusion to one of the torrid encounters was in fact the result of sbs having deemed the remainder of the scene to be too explicit and summarily cut it before showing the film...which didn't prevent Erotic Ghost Story from being easily the most pornographic thing I've ever seen on television). The pointless sex and random nudity didn't bother me in themselves, of course, but there was just no pay-off whatsoever (though the silly horror elements were vaguely enjoyable) - I don't think that there was anything to 'get' about this one except for the mindless titillation, though there's probably the makings of a cult film there.