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Missing But Not Forgotten: Sparkling Cyanide

Over the Christmas period ITV3 showed the 2003 drama Sparkling Cyanide which originally contained a nude scene.

Sparkling Cyanide was a (loose) modern-day adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel that featured her lesser-known sleuth Colonel Race.  The main character was renamed to Colonel Geoffrey Reece (played by Oliver Ford-Davies) and he was aided by his wife Dr Catherine Kendall (played by Pauline Collins).

As originally broadcast in 2003 Chloe Howman is seen briefly nude getting into a shower before being interrupted by her doorbell ringing.  This scene was missing from the recent broadcast which was initially shown at 10:10am on 28th December 2016.  It was shown again after midnight on that same day's schedules at 1:00am.  It was the late night showing I checked which was, rather lazily, the same daytime-friendly version.

Missing But Not Forgotten: Dalziel and Pascoe

The Drama Channel have just shown an episode of long-running BBC detective drama Dalziel and Pascoe which originally had some nudity in it.  This was edited out for this transmission which began at 8pm.

The episode in question was the first story of Series 3 from 1998 entitled Under World.  The story was set amongst a mining community and dealt with the unsolved death of a miner.

Actress Joy Brook played a flirtatious woman prepared to use her charms to further her husband's career.  In the original broadcast she had two scenes worthy of note that were both excised. 

In the first scene she is seen almost topless as she is putting her bra back on after having sex with her ex-fiancé Colin Farr (Joe Duttine) - in the cut version the scene started late after she had re-dressed which resulted is some dialogue being missed.

The other scene is a flashback showing her undressing in a field in front of deputy mine foreman Harold Satterwaite (Russell Dixon) who is doing her a favour in return - while a man spies on them through binoculars - the cut version removed her part of the sequence entirely just showing the watching voyeur and leaving the viewer to guess at what he was seeing.

Joy Brook is perhaps best known for playing DC Kerry Holmes in The Bill from 1998-2000

 

Film Report: Grave Tales (2011)

Grave Tales (2011)

Country: UK

Director/Producer: Don Fearney

Writers: John Hamilton, Mike Murphy

Stars: Brian Murphy, Heather Darcy, Frank Scantori, Damien Thomas, Mark Sloan, Marysia Kay

This horror film is very much in the tradition of the Amicus portmanteau films of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965), The House That Dripped Blood (1970) and Tales From The Crypt (1972), in which a series of short tales were presented with a framing sequence linking them together in some way. 

It is listed on IMDB as a 2011 film and it has a copyright date of 2012, although on Marysia Kay's CV she lists it as having been something she did in 2009.

Three of the four tales have female nudity.

Framing Sequence: A young woman (Heather Darcy) visits a graveyard where she meets an elderly groundkeeper (played by George and Mildred actor Brian Murphy) who proceeds to tell her terror-filled tales of how some of the persons buried there met their untimely ends...


One Man's Meat: An alcoholic family butcher (Frank Scantori) accidentally kills a young street woman and decides his only recourse to evade justice is to dismember her and sell her as chops in his shop.  But due to the woman's unsuspected preternatural condition, customers who unwittingly consume her flesh are in for a bloody shock!

Johanna Stanton plays the young woman whom the butcher kills - she is topless on his slab as he prepares to perform the grizzly deed he has decided upon.






Callistro's Mirror: A collector of occult objects (Damien Thomas) finds an antique mirror in a junk shop that once belonged to a 17th century sorcerer.  He believes it will bring him untold fortune until he discovers its horrifying secret!

Jade Moira Lawrence and Katie Langford play the "Keepers" who live inside the mirror and are both seen topless. 





Both are similar in appearance so hopefully I've correctly worked out which is which on these collages.  (Jade Moira Lawrence can also be seen in a film called "Love Freely But Pay For Sex" and seemed to more closely resemble the one I've indicated as her)



    


The Hand: A brutal escaped prisoner (Mark Sloan) lops off the hand of the burdensome convict to whom he had been shackled.  But as he continues his bid for freedom the detached hand has other ideas!
No nudity
 

Dead Kittens: A young female singer (Marysia Kay) is plucked from obscurity to be lead singer of the girl band "Dead Kittens", not realising she has fallen into the hands of Satanists who have something deadly in mind for her career!

Marysia Kay is seen topless while changing into an outfit for a music video shoot and again when her smock is ripped open whilst lying on a sacrifice altar

  

 

 

 

 

Introducing Credits

Something a bit different for this post that may be of passing interest to some.

Mainly drawn from data compiled for the Rare British Film Reviews part of the site, here is a rundown of actors who received "Introducing" credits.  Some went on to become household names whereas others were rarely seen again.  Of course many actors make their first appearances without any fanfare but these are the ones where the filmmakers chose to celebrate a newcomer with a special credit.

Listed in chronological order.

The more familiar names are highlighted in bold.

"Introducing" credits

Beat Girl (1960) - Gillian Hills

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) - Hylda Baker

The City of the Dead (1960) - Venetia Stevenson

Travelling Light (1960) - Yannick Philouze

A Matter of WHO (1961) - Richard Briers

A Taste of Honey (1961) - Rita Tushingham

During One Night (1961) - Don Borisenko and Susan Hampshire

The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961) - Edward Judd

A Kind of Loving (1962) - June Ritchie

The Wild and the Willing (1962) - Ian McShane

My Bare Lady (1963) - Nina Huntredos

That Kind of Girl (1963) - Margaret Rose Keil

The Pink Panther (1963) - Fran Jeffries

The Servant (1963) - James Fox

French Dressing (1964) - Alita Naughton

The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb (1964) - Jeanne Roland

The Leather Boys (1964) - Colin Campbell

The Three Lives of Thomasina (1964) - Karen Dotrice and Matthew Garber

Die, Monster, Die! (1965) - Suzan Farmer

Ferry Cross the Mersey (1965) - Julie Samuel

Licensed to Kill (1965) - Tom Adams

Shakespeare Wallah (1965) - Felicity Kendal

The Pleasure Girls (1965) - Rosemary Nicols

Up Jumped a Swagman (1965) - Suzy Kendall

What's New Pussycat (1965) - Woody Allen

Deadlier Than the Male (1966) - Virginia North

Death Is a Woman (1966) - Patsy Ann Noble

Doctor in Clover (1966) - Elizabeth Ercy

Funeral in Berlin (1966) - Eva Renzi

The Psychopath (1966) - Judy Huxtable

Theatre of Death (1966) - Jenny Till

Africa - Texas Style (1967) - Charles Malinda

Eye of the Devil (1967) - Sharon Tate

Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) - Prunella Ransome

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967) - Barry Evans

The Viking Queen (1967) - Carita

The White Bus (1967) - Patricia Healey

To Sir, with Love (1967) - Lulu

Torture Garden (1967) - Barbara Ewing

Two a Penny (1967) - Ann Holloway

Baby Love (1968) - Linda Hayden

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) - Virginia Wetherell

Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher (1968) - Robin Phillips

Her Private Hell (1968) - Jeannette Wild

If.... (1968) - Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Robert Swann and Christine Noonan

Inspector Clouseau (1968) - Delia Boccardo

Loving Feeling (1968) - Françoise Pascal

Witchfinder General (1968) - Hilary Dwyer

Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969) - Connie Kreski

Clegg (1969) aka Harry and the Hookers - Gilbert Wynne

Come Back Peter (1969) aka Some Like It Sexy - Mary and Madeleine Collinson

Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (1969) - Scott Hylands

One Brief Summer (1969) - Felicity Gibson

Some Girls Do (1969) - Sydne Rome

The Bed Sitting Room (1969) - Marty Feldman

The Best House in London (1969) - Carol Friday and Marie Rogers

The Body Stealers (1969) - Lorna Wilde

The Desperados (1969) - Benjamin Edney

The Haunted House of Horror (1969) - Mark Wynter

The Valley of Gwangi (1969) - Curtis Arden

Walk a Crooked Path (1969) - Clive Endersby

What's Good for the Goose (1969) - Sally Geeson

A Day at the Beach (1970) - Beatrice Edney (as an adult actress she was known as Beatie Edney)

A Touch of the Other (1970) - Helene Francoise

Every Home Should Have One (1970) - Julie Ege

Groupie Girl (1970) - Esme Johns

No Blade of Grass (1970) - Lynne Frederick, Nigel Rathbone and Christopher Lofthouse

Tam Lin (1970) - Stephanie Beacham

Crucible of Horror (1970) - Sharon Gurney

The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) - Hildegard Neil

Too Late the Hero (1970) - Ken Takakura

Toomorrow (1970) - Benny Thomas, Karl Chambers, Olivia Newton-John and Vic Cooper

Assault (1971) - Lesley-Anne Down and James Laurenson

Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971) - Mark Edwards

Bread (1971) - Yocki Rhodes

Flight of the Doves (1971) - Helen Raye

Friends (1971) - Sean Bury and Anicée Alvina

Kidnapped (1971) - Lawrence Douglas and Vivien Heilbron

Lust for a Vampire (1971) - Yutte Stensgaard (receives an "introducing" credit in the film's theatrical trailer but not in the actual film's credits.  She had appeared in several films beforehand and this was in fact one of her very last roles before leaving the acting profession).

Melody (1971) - Tracy Hyde

Not Tonight, Darling! (1971) - Nicki Howorth

Revenge (1971) - Tom Marshall and Zuleika Robson

Secrets (1971) - Tarka Kings

Straw Dogs (1971) - Ken Hutchison

The Go-Between (1971) - Dominic Guard

The Horrors of Burke and Hare (1971) - Françoise Pascal (although she also received an introducing credit in Loving Feeling from 1968)

The Road Builder (1971) - Nicholas Clay

The Ski Bum (1971) - Lori Shelle

Up the Chastity Belt (1971) - Anne Aston

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? (1971) - Chloe Franks (although she had already appeared in smaller roles in some earlier films by this point)

Au Pair Girls (1972) - Nancie Wait

Demons of the Mind (1972) - Shane Briant

Disciple of Death (1972) - Marguerite Hardiman

Dr Phibes Rises Again (1972) - Valli Kemp

Four Dimensions of Greta (1972) - Leena Skoog

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (1972) - Michael Petrovitch

Pulp (1972) - Nadia Cassini

Rentadick (1972) - Richard Beckinsale

The Pied Piper (1972) - Cathryn Harrison

The Ragman's Daughter (1972) - Simon Rouse and Victoria Tennant

Tower of Evil (1972) - Gary Hamilton

Vampire Circus (1972) - Serena and Milovan Weber

Virgin Witch (1972) - Ann Michelle and Vicki Michelle (Ann had been in a film called Psychomania the previous year)

Because of the Cats (1973) - Sebastian Graham Jones

Live and Let Die (1973) - Jane Seymour

Never Mind the Quality Feel the Width (1973) - Bernard Stone

Not Now Darling (1973) - Trudi Van Doorn and Jackie Pallo (Trudi Van Doorn had previously already appeared in a 1971 sci-fi film called Quest for Love)

Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973) - Sue Longhurst, Felicity Devonshire, Victoria Burgoyne and Jan Servais

The National Health (1973) - Sheila Scott-Wilkinson and Neville Aurelius

The Optimists (1973) - Donna Mullane and John Chaffey

Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974) - Nancy Blair

Can You Keep It Up for a Week? (1974) - Jill Damas

House of Whipcord (1974) - Penny Irving

Persecution (1974) - Mark Weavers

Vampyres (1974) - Marianne Morris and Anulka Dziubinska

Zappers Blade of Vengeance (1974) - Jason Kemp

Farewell, My Lovely (1975) - Jack O'Halloran

Girls Come First (1975) - Rikki Howard

Legend of the Werewolf (1975) - David Rintoul

Mandingo (1975) - Ken Norton

One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) - Andrew Dove and Max Harris

Overlord (1975) - Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam and Sam Sewell

Side by Side (1975) - Stephanie De Sykes and Billy Boyle (Billy Boyle had previously had a prominent role in 1970's Groupie Girl)

The Adolescents (1975) - Koo Stark

The Ghoul (1975) - Don Henderson

The Lifetaker (1975) - Lea Dregorn

The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) - Janie Greenspun

A Little Night Music (1977) - Lesley Dunlop

Adventures of a Private Eye (1977) - Christopher Neil

Black Joy (1977) - Paul Medford

Cruel Passion (1977) - Lydia Lisle

French Quarter (1977) - Alisha Fontaine (she had previously appeared in 5 other films starting in 1971)

Joseph Andrews (1977) - Natalie Ogle

Jubilee (1977) - Adam Ant

Stand Up Virgin Soldiers (1977) - Pamela Stephenson and Fiesta Mei Ling

The Black Panther (1977) - Debbie Farrington

Carry on Emmannuelle (1978) - Suzanne Danielle

Give Us Tomorrow (1978) - Donna Evans and Alan Guy

Killer's Moon (1978) - Georgina Kean and Allison Elliott

Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978) - Debbie Ash and Caroline Argyle

The Boys from Brazil (1978) - Jeremy Black

The Stud (1978) - Emma Jacobs

The Water Babies (1978) - Tommy Pender and Samantha Gates

Warlords of Atlantis (1978) - Lea Brodie (she was previously known as Lea Dregorn under which name she had previously received an "introducing" credit for the 1975 film The Lifetaker)

A Touch of the Sun (1979) - Edwin Manda

Arabian Adventure (1979) - Emma Samms

Bloody Kids (1979) - Richard Thomas and Peter Clark (not the famous Richard Thomas from The Waltons)

That Summer! (1979) - Ray Winstone, Julie Shipley, Tony London and Emily Moore

The Golden Lady (1979) - Christina World (although under the name Ina Skriver she had appeared in several prior films)

The Human Factor (1979) - Iman

The Passage (1979) - Paul Clemens and Robert Rhys

The World Is Full of Married Men (1979) - Sherrie Lee Cronn

Sex with the Stars (1980) - Martin Burrows

Sweet William (1980) - Geraldine James

The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1980) - Helen of Troy, Tenpole-Tudor, Alan Jones, Faye Hart

The Long Good Friday (1980) - Derek Thompson

Eye of the Needle (1981) - Philip Martin Brown

Memoirs of a Survivor (1981) - Leonie Mellinger

The Appointment (1981) - Samantha Weysom

Five Days One Summer (1982) - Betsy Brantley and Lambert Wilson

Nutcracker (1982) - Finola Hughes

The House Where Evil Dwells (1982) - Mako Hattori

Venom (1982) - Lance Holcomb

Curse of the Pink Panther (1983) - Ted Wass

G.B.H. (1983) - Brett Sinclair and Jane Cunliffe

Screamtime (1983) - David Van Day

Xtro (1983) - Maryam d'Abo and Simon Nash

Dutch Girls (1985) - Gusta Gerritsen

Letter to Brezhnev (1985) - Tracey Lea and Angela Clarke

Lifeforce (1985) - Mathilda May

Dogs in Space (1986) - Michael Hutchence

Into the Darkness (1986) - Polly Pleasence

Salomé (1986) - Jo Champa

The Fantasist (1986) - Moira Harris

The Girl (1986) - Clare Powney

Day of the Panther (1988) - Paris Jefferson

Sheherazade (1990) - Catherine Zeta Jones

The Turning (1992) - Gillian Anderson

Sparrow (1993) - Angela Bettis & Johnathon Schaech

Pervirella (1997) - Emily Booth (as Emily Bouffante)

The Cat's Meow (2001) - Claudia Harrison & Claudie Blakley

Rulers and Dealers (2006) - Freema Agyeman

Anyone know of any that I've missed?

Film Report: Dark Matter (2014)

Dark Matter (2014)
Country: UK
Director: Maurice Smith
Stars: Dominic O'Flyn, Gina Purcell, Jamie-Jodie Shanks

Gifted space scientist James Reynolds (Dominic O'Flynn) has gone into a pit of despair following the death of his wife Christine in a car accident.  In the months that follow this tragedy he shuts himself away at home, dropping out of everyday life, until one night a meteorite lands in his back garden.  His curiosity is piqued by its strange properties and he suspects it may be a seed.  He cultivates it in his bath and it grows speedily into the form of a young woman, fresh and innocent and full of wonder about the world.  James names her Stellar (Jamie-Jodie Shanks) and takes to the role of her worldly educator.  The alien ingénue swiftly learns how to behave and communicate, but as her alien intellect matures what seemed like a miracle turns into a nightmare when Stellar's true purpose in coming to Earth is revealed and we learn how inextricably linked the recent traumatic events in James' life have been.

Dark Matter is a science fiction horror which initially seems very promising telling the tale of an innocent foundling from the stars coming into the life of a broken man in need of a purpose.  Had that facet been the full sweep of the story it might have been rather good.  But Stellar's naïve endearing phase doesn’t last for long and as her awareness of purpose blooms the story slides into baffling incomprehensibility.  Its scope is one of galaxy saving proportions, with timeslips and alternate realities thrown in, but it's all played out on a scale too small to match the story's ambitions with most of the galactic drama being merely referred to in exposition.

On the female nudity side Jamie-Jodie Shanks who plays Stellar is seen naked in a shower when James washes away her birthing encrustments to reveal her fully formed body; and again when she is playing joyfully in the rain enjoying new sensations

Jamie-Jodie Shanks in Dark Matter

Gina Purcell plays James' colleague Valerie who comes to his house to check up on him and becomes heavily embroiled in the action.  She is seen topless a few times with the main occasion being a sex scene set in an alternate reality where she is James' wife.

Gina Purcell in Dark Matter

Site Update: American and Canadian TV Actresses

A new section has been added to the Actress Database part of the site.

The new section features any actresses seen on American and Canadian TV shows that are not already featured in other sections (for instance British actress and big-name Hollywood actresses).

The section begins with 294 actresses and 567 entries.

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Movie Pick: Cradle Of Fear (2001)

Film: Cradle of Fear (2001)
Channel: Horror Channel
When: Friday 8th April at 10:55pm

Cradle of Fear is a horror anthology of four gruesome tales.  The most notable nudity is a couple of scenes featuring Emily Booth (who is currently the evening continuity announcer for the Horror Channel).  Other actresses with nudity in the film are Eileen Daly, Emma Rice and Rebecca Eden.

I don't know if this has been shown on TV before but it is certainly a Freeview première.

Emily Booth

Eileen Daly

Rebecca Eden

Emma Rice

Newly Added Guide: Game of Thrones

A guide for Game of Thrones has been added to the GUIDES area of the main site.

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Site Update: Paparazzi Classics

The Paparazzi Classics section of the main site has long been neglected having remained un-updated since February 2009.

But now it has at last been brought up to date with fresh entries and has had a design overhaul to boot.  This includes the addition of a side index. When last updated the page had 201 names and 332 entries.  The new version launches with 425 names and 849 entries.

In addition to the main list of detailed entries, the foot of the page contains a supplementary list of the names for whom paparazzi pictures have also been noted but who are not currently judged to be high-profile enough to be detailed on the list  - those entries are not included in the stated count.

The intention is that it will now be updated on a more regular basis.  When new entries start to appear the names involved will be listed at the top of the page and the entries themselves will be shown in red.

The direct URL is the same as before:-
http://www.toplessreview.altervista.org/TopRevClassics.htm

Example Screenshot of new layout

ABOUT: The Paparazzi Classics page contains a list of tabloid newspaper type paparazzi pictures for UK celebrities, or those who are well known in the UK

Film Report: Anarchy Parlor (2014)

Anarchy Parlor (2014) 
aka: Parlor
Country: USA
Writers/Directors: Devon Downs and Kenny Gage
Stars: Robert LaSardo, Jordan James Smith, Tiffany DeMarco, Sara Fabel, Ben Whalen, Claire Garvey, Anthony Del Negro, Beth Humphreys, Joey Fisher


Anarchy Parlor (spelt the American way) is a 2014 horror film made in Lithuania with a cast of American, British and local actors.  The story involves a group of six twenty something friends who are on holiday in Lithuania out to have a good time.  At a party they meet a heavily tattooed woman called Uta (Sara Fabel) who works as an apprentice at a local tattoo parlour.  Amy (Tiffany DeMarco) decides she would like a tattoo and Brock (Ben Whalen) fancies his chances with Uta so they both head off to the parlour.  There they meet the tattooist (Robert LaSardo) who is an artisan of his profession and has a reassuring way that puts Amy at her ease unaware that he is hiding a dark purpose behind his serenity.  Meanwhile Uta takes Brock downstairs to the basement for what he thinks will be some kinky fun.  But Uta was a lure and soon Brock and Amy are prisoners in the basement in which the tattooist efficiently carries out a grisly sideline in skinning people alive to procure highly-prized human leather for which the rich trophy-hunting elite will pay handsomely.  The rest of the group eventually set about trying to find/rescue their missing friends and when they too visit the parlour seeking information their own lives are placed in similar peril ...

The scenes of skinning are gruesome and graphically portrayed so will probably only appeal to fans of "torture" type films .  But since this isn't a blog about horror films what really concerns us here is the nudity content (which fortunately doesn't coincide with any of the "surgical" scenes).  This pleasanter side is provided by two of the British actresses involved:- Beth Humphreys and Joey Fisher, both of whom also work as topless glamour models who appeared in magazines like Zoo.  Here, however, they are doing acting jobs and are not simply bit part players.  Beth Humphreys has the larger of the two parts and is one of the main group of friends, whilst Joey Fisher is a lap dancer who goes on a date with one of the lads and unwittingly falls victim when he takes her to the tattoo parlour looking for his friends.  There is one other British actress in the group of friends called Claire Garvey who has a "topless" sex scene but carefully doesn't show any nudity.  Uta is played by a Finnish actress called Sara Fabel who has a sex scene and may be seen topless briefly although her body is heavily covered in tattoos so it was a bit hard to tell.  The lead actress playing Amy (Tiffany DeMarco) is American and doesn't have any nudity in the film.  All the boyfriends in the group are also American actors.  Local actress Gabija Urnieziute is very briefly seen topless in a bedroom scene and there are three uncredited pole dancers.

Here are collages of the scenes involving the two British actresses:-

Beth Humphreys' topless scene is on a hotel room bed having sex with her boyfriend Jesse;

Beth Humphreys

Joey Fisher is seen topless during a lengthy scene in her strip club doing a private lap dance for (again) Jesse.

Joey Fisher

School For Sex (1969) (overseas version)

School for Sex is a sex comedy film from the late 1960s about a man whose fortune has been whittled away by a series of inadvisable marriages and costly divorces to mercenary women out to fleece him.  Poorer but wiser he subsequently considers himself to be an expert on all the ways women can swindle unsuspecting men of their money.  He decides to cash in by setting up a school to pass on his knowledge to young women teaching them all the tricks they can use to profit from men's weaknesses.  In return for his free tutelage his pupils will pay him a third of everything they make once they graduate.

Like many films of that era some scenes had two versions filmed for different international markets.  The UK version did have some nudity in it from minor characters but had none from the main four students who remained clothed throughout.  Indications that an alternative stronger version was made for an overseas market has been limited to publicity photos from contemporary film magazines in which the four main students are seen fully naked.  Unfortunately however the overseas version has never been commercially released and up to now all that has ever been available has been the tamer UK version.

But now School For Sex has had a mainstream UK release on the Best of British label.  The main feature is the UK version once again, but the DVD extras include the alternative scenes from the overseas version.

Five such scenes are included in a section titled "X-Rated Scenes".

The running length of each clip in bracket (mm:ss)

New Found Fortune (1:17)

Oddly enough the first alternative scene is tamer than in the UK version.  

Newly rich Wingate's maid Polly (Maria Frost) brings in his breakfast tray and gets into bed with him letting him take off her uniform.  In the UK version she is seen topless (with a slight bit of full frontal nudity), however in the overseas version she keeps her underwear on and has no nudity.  The UK version nudity tallies with previous versions seen so is not a mistake on this DVD.  Perhaps a mix-up occurred when the two versions were originally prepared.

Swedish Massage (0:22)

Ingeberg (Jacky Berdet) gives Wingate a very vigorous massage.  

In the UK version she wears underwear, whereas in the overseas version she is topless.

Girls in a Van (2:49)

Four lawbreaking girls (Amber Dean Smith, Françoise Pascal, Cathy Howard and Sylvia Barlow) are being transported in a camper van to a correctional institution by a probation officer.  They form a plan to escape by accusing the officer of trying it on with them:- they undress and leap from the van when a policeman is passing and loudly complain about how they have been mistreated by the probation office who they say made them undress.  But they are not believed and their ploy fails.

In the UK version they wear underwear (or swimwear as they call it in the dialogue) whereas in the overseas version they take everything off.

Girls Arrive (4:00)

Following on shortly after the previous scene.  Here the four girls arrive at the school, getting out of the van and waiting to be taken in.  Cathy Howard heads off alone to make out with her boyfriend, whilst the other three girls go inside the mansion and are introduced to school principal Wingate.

In the UK version the girls are still wearing their underwear, whereas in the overseas version they are still naked.  For Cathy Howard's scene with her boyfriend she is naked lying on the lawn with him in both versions, but in the UK version she keeps her arms covering her breasts whereas she doesn't cover herself in the overseas version.

One oddity in the overseas version is that when the three girls are being introduced to Wingate the camera pans from feet to face in close-up for each in both versions showing Francoise Pascal and Sylvia Barlow fully nude in the overseas version - whereas for Amber Dean Smith's turn she is suddenly wearing underwear for the close-up moment, although not in the wide shots.  Despite this it is a different take from the UK version because her hair is arranged differently.

An Education (3:52)

This part has two consecutive scenes

Amber Dean Smith: She takes off her clothes in the lounge while rehearsing a test situation of seducing a rich old man.

In the UK version she keeps on her bra and pants; in the overseas version she takes everything off.

Sylvia Barlow: She is being taught by Wingate how to give a man an irresistible massage.

In the UK version she is wearing a negligee; in the overseas version she has nothing on.

One expected difference not included is where Françoise Pascal is being taught seduction techniques on a bed; in the UK version she has her bra on although in contemporary magazine publicity photos she is shown topless in this scene.  It is unclear if this scene was overlooked for the DVD extras or if there was no difference between the two versions.

If there were any other differences between the two versions those scenes were not included on the DVD.

Film Report: Bloodlust (2014)

Bloodlust (2014)
aka: Bloodless
Country: UK
Writer/Director: Richard Johnstone
Stars: Patrick Wilde, Angela Zahra, Bill Fellows, Victoria Hopkins, Louis Murrall, Anna Scott, Lucas Hansen

Bloodlust is a UK horror film about a disparate group of couples who have all separately applied to take part in a medical drugs trial being held at a remote castle.  The coordinator in charge of the trial (Patrick Wilde) sets out very strict rules and forbids any contact with the outside world confiscating all means of mobile communication.  They are told they are free to leave whenever they want but only those who stay the distance will be paid the not inconsiderable fee on offer.  After a few days one couple find the regime too extreme and decide to leave but discover to their cost that leaving was not really an option after all as they are set upon by something predatory and hungry once they have said their goodbyes to the others and left the castle grounds.  Those that remain are soon fighting for their lives as they discover the true nature of the trial organisers and the real reason they have been lured here.

The nudity to mention in this film comes from Victoria Hopkins playing one of the main trial volunteers.  She is an Australian actress who works mostly in the UK on low-budget horror films such as this.  The nudity is brief and comes when she is reaching for a towel after coming out of the shower.

Victoria Hopkins in Bloodlust

Film Report: Demon Baby (2014)

Demon Baby (2014)
aka: Little Devil
aka: Wandering Rose
Country: UK
Director: Corrie Greenop / Writers: Corrie Greenop, Lee Phillips
Stars: Carina Birrell, David Wayman, Cameron Jack

Engaged couple Rose (Carina Birrell) and Theo (David Wayman) are taking a camping holiday in the Scottish highlands.  Theo is full of enthusiasm for exploring the great outdoors and eagerly looking forward to becoming a father following Rose's recent news that she had fallen pregnant.  Theo is loving and attentive but Rose is feeling despondent and remote having done something she knows will shatter him when he finds out.  In the meantime Rose keeps having nightmarish visions that she cannot control, and as Theo becomes increasingly concerned about her, she begins to question her own sanity.

Demon Baby is the film's American title and its DVD cover art is clearly trying to gear it as a horror film.  Whilst the film does at times steer you into thinking in terms of a supernatural explanation, it is not ultimately of that genre and so may lead the viewer to an ending they were not expecting.
For its UK release it has been renamed again as Little Devil - this again sounds as though it is being aimed at the horror market.
The original title of the film was Wandering Rose which is somewhat vague but not misleading.

The nudity in this film comes from Scottish actress Carina Birrell in a scene in which her character is taking a shower.

Carina Birrell in Demon Baby (Little Devil)

Carina Birrell has previously been seen topless in episode 5 of the second series in BBC3's lesbian relationship drama Lip Service in 2012.

Film Report: Dark Vision (2015)

Dark Vision (2015)
Country: UK
Director: Darren Flaxstone / Writers: Darren Flaxstone, Bernie Hodges
Stars: Bernie Hodges, Suzie Latham, Judith Haley, Alicia Ancel, Oliver Park, Simon Pearce

Charismatic TV medium and hypnotist Spencer Knights (Bernie Hodges) presents an internet- steamed paranormal reality show called Mind-Full which visits Britain's spookiest locations and uncovers their dark secrets with the help of an intrepid celebrity guest seeking to overcome deep-rooted fears by means of Spencer's mind control techniques.  In the latest instalment, Spencer and his guest, along with a small crew, are staying overnight in the catacombs beneath the notoriously haunted Baylock's Folly where children were kept safe from the Black Death in the 15th century only to suffer at the hands of a Satanist madman instead.  Multiple hidden cameras cover every move as they explore the vast network of tunnels beneath the towering edifice.  Spencer spins an atmospheric tale for his viewers ramping up the intrigue, scares and drama - but something unexpected is going on, terrifying things that weren't scripted are occurring and it appears the team have disturbed a stalking evil spirit from which some of them may well not escape alive ...

Dark Vision is an effective and atmospheric British horror tale that does something refreshingly different with its premise.  There is also an encompassing story (which does seem a bit redundant) in which Spencer Knights and his crew are meant to be in a competition in which several rival paranormal shows are vying to get the most ratings and this is what drives Knights to do a reckless thing which awakens the evil spirit.  But we never see anything of these rival shows and are only updated on the "leaderboard" via occasional progress update captions and a few mentions in the dialogue.  The main story is good enough to have worked just as well without the need for what seems to be a largely immaterial plot intricacy.

The nudity comes from British actress Alicia Ancel who plays the celebrity guest Marva Clewes, a former hot soap actress with a pathological fear of the dark.

She has a lovemaking scene with the broadcast engineer in his technical van in which she is seen topless a couple of times.

Alicia Ancel in Dark Vision

Film Report: The Maid (2014)

The Maid (2014)
Country: UK
Writer/Director: Paul Emmanuel
Stars: Claire Kahane, Ryan Cerenko, Keith Hill

Plot: Emotionally troubled and angry-with-world American teenager Jack (Ryan Cerenko) has come on an unwanted trip to England to visit his hated British father David (Keith Hill).  Jack shuns all efforts his father makes to build bridges and blames him for everything wrong about his life.  It is Jack's 18th birthday soon but he hates his birthday because it reminds him his mother died giving birth to him.  His father's second marriage failed and now living with an uncle in the States he feels like an orphan who has never had a proper family. David employs a 20-something French maid called Maria (Claire Kahane) who tries to understand the pain Jack is feeling.  Jack finds her fascinating and soon develops a massive crush on her making his stay bearable.  Maria has hidden sorrows of her own and eventually that helps her empathise with him and a soul-searching relationship develops between the two of them that enables them both to grow and perhaps forgive those they judge to have wronged them.

Claire Kahane plays her role as Maria with a convincing French accent, so-much-so that whilst watching I assumed that she was a real French actress working abroad.  But it turns out she is an English actress who has worked on a number of projects although this appears to be her first lead role in a feature film.  Ryan Cerenko is also a British actor so (presumably) he too was putting on the American accent he uses.

There are two topless scenes which both feature Claire Kahane.  In the first she opens her blouse and lowers her bra cups when she grants Jack's request to kiss her breasts; later on she is topless in a bedroom when she and Jack have a lovemaking scene.

Claire Kahane in The Maid