Dec 31, 2024

12-31-24 UPDATE

 


Well gang, 2024 was a ball buster for VZ1, but I think we've landed on our feet the last day of the year.  Over the next few days I will be restoring things to essentially to where they were right before Google curb stomped this site.

As many of you know, I tried to turn lemons into lemonade by revisiting the movies and re-posting with an artful (using air quotes when I use that word) AI filter.  Thing is, lemonade is really just watered down lemons; the site was diluted and (to keep this fruitful metaphor going) lost its zest. 

So, we're back to the old look, and I still have another 1000+ movies to restore (no exaggeration), so we're not there yet, but it'll be complete within the week for sure. This "old" theme isn't as mobile-friendly, but I think it's better to navigate for our purposes and allows me to put things into he sidebar better.  So we'll keep the old theme/look for a bit.

I'm sure you're asking - this is great and all, but isn't VZ1 just going to get shut down again?  Maybe.  But if it does, I'm going to go over to Wordpress - and hopefully will be able to get you all the link to the new site when/if that does happen.  I hate to have to start spending money (Blogger is free), but it'll just have to happen.  Adding shitty AI filters piecemeal and still getting Blogger restriction notices is for the birds.  

[You might also be asking how the hell are all these posts suddenly available again.  Well, I got a Gmail while I was in Barnes & Noble today that "your post titled [x] has been reinstated. We have re-evaluated the post titled [x] against Community Guidelines... upon review the post has been reinstated.  You may access your post at..." yada yada.  Got this for basically the whole blog.  So, here we are.  I should mention that I have to go and individually republish these posts from draft and this is taking forever.  I've sorted by label-year and am plowing my way through.]

Lastly, there will be a bit of a change around here in terms of content.  (At least for a while.)  I've become interested in some of the newer softcore releases - especially those which have come out of Mexico and other non-US countries.  When I say "newer" they're still 10+ years old, but still new compared to the bulk of VZ1's catalog.  I realize these won't interest most of you... but hey, you'll have the entire Library of Alexandria to explore while one row of shelves (2000-2014 Mexican sexploitation section, for example) gets stocked.

While it undoubtedly sucks that we've lost thousands of VZ1 readers this year - thanks to Google's smack-down and my subsequent AI filter experiment - the fact remains, we're still here. Thank you to the VZ1 readers have weathered this roller coaster of a year.

Well, my real job resumes after this holiday break, and I'll be back to traveling each week and watching sleazy movies and updating VZ1 in hotels around the country. Right now I'm going to go join the family upstairs for some drinking and games to celebrate the New Year, and will be back in the saddle soon. Cheers!





Dec 30, 2024

El sexo me divierte 2 (2016)



(AKA Sex Amuses Me 2) I've watched a ton of the Mexican sex comedies from the eighties and early nineties - so I thought it was high time to check in on how the genre is doing these days (although this is actually nearly ten years old!) I was a bit surprised at how raunchy it was (so glad to see the sex comedy hasn't been sanitized south of the border as it has in the states). But nothing could have prepared me for the clown rape. 

Dec 29, 2024

The Turnpike Killer (2009)


Supposedly the film's entire budget came from drug money; if you've seen this film, this sounds reasonable. It's yet another movie inspired by Maniac (1980).

Dec 27, 2024

Geteven (1993)


(AKA Champagne and Bullets / Road to Revenge) Sometimes cited as one of the worst movies ever made. I'd have to agree that you rarely see a film with so many layers of bad: terrible soundtrack, awful acting, insanely stupid dialog, even stupider plot, and on it goes. But it does have heart (and boobs), so let's have a look.

Dec 23, 2024

Hey, There's Naked Bodies on My TV! (1978)




TV shows from the seventies are spoofed. Happy Days, Welcome Back Kotter and Barney Miller are given the naughty treatment.

Dec 21, 2024

La nuit de la mort! (1980)


(AKA Night of Death) A young woman gets a job working at a retirement home for crazy geriatric cannibals.

Dec 20, 2024

Cash on Delivery (1992)


(Original Title: Yu ya gong wu) A romantic comedy from Hong Kong - which sort of turns into a disturbing drama in the last quarter. Starring the mega hottie Veronica Yip.

Dec 16, 2024

Tomboy (1985)


The eighties-ness is strong with this one. Featuring stone cold fox Betsy Russell, a healthy amount of gratuitous nudity, insane looking race cars, jaunty keyboard tunes, and much more.

Dec 1, 2024

Party Plane (1991)


If you liked the Party Favors (1987) or The Bikini Carwash Company (1992) films, you'll like this.  After all, it's by the same horny genius who wrote all of them - George Buck Flower, a regular on VZ1. It's a sexy airplane movie that would fit well with Pacific Banana (1980) and Bikini Airways (2003).