Month: February 2018 (Page 1 of 3)

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MaxOut, 21
I like to moan, no I LOVE to moan and once I start, I can’t stop.
Love getting my face heavily criticised, slapped, fucked, sat on, lightly punched.. whatever your pleasure is. I’m very ambitious about it.
Yeah I just love the idea of having my face degraded, verbally torn apart, slapped crimson, bitten, hit, whatever, face fucked! Do me! (ask for more face pics)
I’m also a fun guy to just hang out with and talk over a beer or glass of wine. Who knows? We may just get married!

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Ultrahardcore – Feb 16, 2018
If you are extremely oral and you want to get fucked and fucked up to the neck, then I’m it. My only limit is shit, so if I make you defecate don’t tell me.

I like your face, but if you are older or uglier than in your photo, I will ask you to put on a mask.

Horny greetings,

ultra Hardcore

 

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DeceitSlave, 18
My main fetish is being deceived, y’know, going from a “I love you” to a “you dumb freak!”
I’m also into fat. All guys are way better fat than not.
I’d love to have my cock, balls and lips grown with injections, as well as having implants in my ass.
I’d love to have huge hole, someone who wants to destroy, break it, and make it huge and loose.
I’d love a relationship in which I belong to the other. Like, there’d be love and all, but I would be more like the other’s “wife” or something.
But talking is good too. But only with deceit and being told lies. That’s imperative.
About me, I’m skinny, I don’t mind it, but wouldn’t be against getting fat for the right guy. Or really fat. Or even get skinnier. Really, I’m open.

 

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Screamy, 20
I’m a psycologically slave. I need a master to own my mind, a highly amoral elderly sort who wants a young slave with no family he can keep isolated and use and drug and abuse however he wants. This seemed like the place to find him.

Alternately I’m looking for a foreign Escort job, but also in Budapest if I really have to.

I look younger than my age, and I have a very small face haha.

Yes I have revealing pics. These assholes keep deleting them. They are rated G in comparison to most I see. One is a picture of me in swimming trunks bending over where you can see my crack that was marked rated X. In that case children shouldn’t go to swimming pools or watch boys going swimming on on tv but seeing some guy in a leather jockstrap with a harness and a dildo up his ass is a public picture? Hello? What’s up with the bullshit?

Playing games already with my pics. None revealing will be shown until they fix this problem they seem to be having. No consistency in photo selection in content. Deleting photos without consent or explanation. And you want someone to pay for this shit?

 

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Needs2Hang, 19
I’m looking for an experienced executioner. I crave execution so much it’s literally unbearable.

Rape
Snuff
AIDS
Raunch

My identity’s hidden since I don’t want my friends knowing who I am, but I promise I won’t disappoint you.

 

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Wedgiearoundtheworld, 18
I want to be wedgied and kissed. Is that enough to ask for on this site? Because that’s really all I want. I just want those things.

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lispolar – Feb 20, 2018
hahaha almost almost! Sigh- breaths—

Wedgiearoundtheworld (Owner) – Feb 20, 2018
*Squeeze you really hard * hope I’m not killing ya :-p

lispolar – Feb 20, 2018
Thank you UnU -hug-

Wedgiearoundtheworld (Owner) – Feb 20, 2018
I’m so sorry * hug youuu* 🙂

lispolar – Feb 20, 2018
someone stole him 🙁

Wedgiearoundtheworld (Owner) – Feb 20, 2018
I bet he was a good bear, what happened to him?

lispolar – Feb 20, 2018
I made a bear his name was chester!!!

Wedgiearoundtheworld (Owner) – Feb 20, 2018
Awe thanks hon

lispolar – Feb 20, 2018
Such a cute name :3

Wedgiearoundtheworld (Owner) – Feb 20, 2018
His name is Wolfie

lispolar – Feb 20, 2018
anwww :3 you made a bear! i bet its so cute!!! what is it name?

 

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temporaryaccount, 18
I’m 16 yrs old. I need to be fucked. If you think I’m too young fuck off. Other wise come at me with you dick.

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temporaryaccount (Owner) – Feb 11, 2018
All I wanna do is to get fucked for a few hours. Stop making it so complicated.

I could totally go for some you right now.

 

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stillincloset, 22
I’m after a specific kind of scenario, but with a bit of wiggle room.

I have a lot of school work and also write poetry. I do my work on a laptop. I do my best work on my laptop in bondage. Host me for a day, restrain me to your taste, do whatever you’re going to do that day and make use of me on your breaks. Sound like fun?

Hopefully I won’t be lured to my death here lmao.

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Asianfagborntoserveme – Jan 31, 2018
Hello ur a fag.
I am MOON
Only hard with inferior asian.
I hope after one years of non stop looking ur my asian twink slave.
I will love to ride ur asshole like a bicycle
Get ready to clean my room also.

 

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Hellisus666, 21
Sexual chemistry and great aesthetics is a must. Would love to find ambiguity and matching arm candy

Let’s make heads turn in the street with dark beauty, formal and freaky attire.. and let’s make my head roll in the sheets

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Hellisus666 (Owner) – Feb 19, 2018
I do not want to see anyone!!!!!

 

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?????, 23
Experientially I have 2 early teen years of doing blackmarket porn, 2 mid teen years of bareback porn, 1 late teen year of bondage porn, 1 1/2 years of bdsm porn, 2 failed straight marriages, 6 years of escorting experience, 4 months mostly sober.

What am I into? Good question, easy to answer. Everything.

I’ve done and been interested in almost every type of fetish in the world but am currently trying to pursue gang rape more actively.

A little something else about me is I have never made an enemy in my life.

I do not need to be loved hugged kissed.

Any invites? I’m up for any invites.

 

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twink4drugs, 20
Don’t do math, do meth. It will fuck you up twice as much.

I used to feel that life is too short but now I’m into quality over quantity.

Heaven exists…between my asscheeks. Fuck my freedom.

Putting myself in harm’s way so that you can make yourself feel better.

Well that’s a little about me.

 

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Zero, 23
I am Zero, for I am nothing ⚫

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hornyfreaktop – Feb 8, 2018
He’s something, just not very much of it.

 

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4everyours, 18
I am looking for a dad to help me pay my collage and live normal, so do not seek sex, do not write to me those who are looking for sex, I do not need it.

I always use my lips for truth, my eyes for collage, and for anyone who doesn’t like me MY MIDDLE FINGER.

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SlaveCustomizer – Feb 16, 2018
Ok instead of sex how about this. I’m a generous remote control Master and you make me horny. I’m looking to customize you. I send you any torture device I want for you to use/wear and tell you what I want you to do with it. HMU with your address so I can start sending you things. I’m very eager and can’t wait to get started on you! My ultimate goal would be to send you a remote control device that you have to wear every single day and I will play with it anytime I want no matter what. You will record videos of you suffering from the device and send them to me. I will do a wire transfer of [amount tbd] when I receive them. This will be fun.

 

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Jerry, 20
As far as I’m concerned, I only say this much here: You May do what ever you want to do with me. It doesn’t what It is.

happy pride month.

 

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VictimMentality, 19
19 year old sub in London open to anything, but extreme bondage is a big thing for me, especially so tight that I numb out and lose all sensation in my body followed by very violent whipping and torture that I can gawk at in peace and comfort 😉

Okay for one night things to more, but would love a relationship, especially with a fully tormenter/victim role privately but more “normal” partner publicly albeit with some visible signs on face, neck, and arms of me having been whipped and beaten to show I am a weirdo 🙂

 

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EditMe1st, 21
Want to chat about having my dick and nipples removed and then servicing you.

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EditMe1st (Owner) – Jan 21, 2018
Thank you men for all of your great messages and interest. I honestly had no idea that I am so “cute” as so many of you say. Now that I know that about myself I think I want to try vanilla sex with attractive regular guys for a while first.

 

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ReadyforaCage, 22
I’ve been back and forth about this stuff for years, and I’m finally ready.

I’m ready to be owned 4/7/365 anywhere in the world.

I’m ready to be sacrificed anally forever.

I’m able to hold a doggie pose for well over 2 hours.

I’m ready to be neglected in my cage.

I’m ready to live for you and no one but you.

The question is… are you ready for me?

Ideally you’ll be in your 70s or 80s, wealthy, and prepared to change your will to leave everything to me, but I’m flexible.

 

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LittleDick, 18
I have Brippling Depresion and my mom gave me a satanic bible for my 10th birthday and i like to sacrifice Bhildren.

Likes
Girrafes The paranormal Birthday parties

Dislikes
When the child im sacraficing struggles to much

Favorite Music
Slayer

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ranger – Feb 9, 2018
Me too I would love to kick your testicles until you are impotent.

KickMNL – Feb 1, 2018
I’d enjoy kicking and stomping your testicles until they’re damaged and infertile.

 

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Brad, 24
I’m into anything you can talk me into.

(Been disabled a bit over the past year from doing various heavy things but can still walk and talk and want to continue)

My dick is decorative.

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Brad (Owner) – Feb 24, 2018
I am owned by Nappy Scum Man.

NappyScumMan – Feb 13, 2018
53 y.o. moroccan. Extreme. Turned on by the mere skin whiteness, the paler, the hotter. Also, 1488 believer.

tighterthebetter – Feb 12, 2018
He’s not happy like in his photos, very grim, looks older. Problems moving, lower body and one of his arms. Gets rough, no issues, but it felt more cruel than I wanted. Otherwise no complaints but I do think – and I told him this – it’s time he either find 24/7/365 no limits or seek therapy.

 

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Inferiology, 20
An ideal slave for an extraordinary time in every sense of both of those words.
An ideal slave for intellectuals who need something more than hierarchical sex. The pleasure of complex, encoded conversation with an “inferior”, laughs at sly innuendos and subtexts, and an assurance that my emotions are not just genuine but contingent on a thorough analysis of yours.
A hypersensitive playwright, model, an author without reader, an artist without public, a compulsive museum visitor, and depressed every Monday afternoon.
In sex, I can be very imaginative to the point that terming what we do sex will strike you as unnecessarily reductive.
I can travel with you. I can just as easily stay incarcerated. All time spent with me is quality time. Sit in a corner and pout. Go to dinners and so on.
If you like an androgynous face and daring, you already like me.
My only prerequisite is that our intellects share a level playing field. I refuse to be treated as a regular slave and fuck-boy because very evidently I am not that.

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Rhea – Feb 9, 2018
I’m not like the others .. I do not react like the others. I’m an alien, I’m abnormal: are you convinced yet that you want to be with me? Well you have not met me yet, eh no! I am a person so cold, but terribly sensitive. I am such a boring person, but stupendously energetic and nice. I am a person so indifferent, but so crackling. I am such a sadistic person, but so thoughtful.
I might want to kill you, and then immediately sacrifice myself to save you … what an irony.
I would cry in front of the pain of others, cry at a movie: or I would do the opposite: I would laugh at the pain of others, laugh at death of loved ones, I would laugh and laugh until I disappeared under the laughter.
Maybe you’re wondering why I’m writing you .. well, because you .. oh yes, just you … I love you!
I’m so crazy .. do you know what a personality disorder is? Well, it’s a mental illness … and you do not care! Indeed, you can “mitigate” it with habit. But I would like to see you dealing with sadistic thoughts, distortion of one’s own body, distortion of one’s own tastes, distortion of one’s own emotions, distortion of reality.
When I laugh … I’m laughing because I’m having fun, or because I’m a manipulator and I know that laughter is a socially accepted gesture? If I cry, is it to attract crazily reasoned attention, or why am I sick?
Naah, you’ll never see me sick … I’m so fake, I control myself so well. The world looks at me gleaming.
Invent yourself to have depression, to be bipolar, or to be self-destructive because mom does not buy you the Iphone (another gadget used by the false goodists to believe themselves cool.) COCK CONSUMERS!
Make these disorders or diagnoses trivial .. I will come to take you: and then you will suffer from some psychic disorder … at least you will begin to really try the landfill of Life that you want so much.
I’m active, but sometimes I feel passive. The love that could be born scares you because without sex? I would say that if it were so, change your goals you little slut.

 

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Lullabye, 21
The title says it all; but I’ll go into more details, I’m a bottom with an extremely high sex drive living in a dorm in Los Angeles.
I like older psycho tops who get me stoned off of 420, tie me up, use a mouth gag, and then go lunatic on me. But you must get me F☆♤♡ed up, I’m not just any old bottom bitch, I demand you do unspeakable things!
The minimum I accept would involve me leaving with a black eye or busted lip or broken teeth at least.
My schedule varys since I’m a full time student, but if you want to make me unsightly I’ll blow off that future for yours or none.

 

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Take_me_on_a_magical_journey, 18
I am 18 years old, I’m into Fur jackets, anything fur basically, also tar and feathers, mud, cement, stuff like that, also into heavy mummification, being buried alive, and scat, feel free to put me in a fur jacket and do anything and like I mentioned I’m basically into anything, I just want to be happy again.

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alex12998 – Feb 17, 2018
No clue what to put here

 

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lukeisticklish, 21
I’m only here because my deepest inside is screaming for it right now.

Love tickling and everything about it! Only like getting tickled by other people, never tickling myself.

The last time I was tickled by a guy it was 4 years ago. Therefore, I am very rusty and very ticklish.

I am currently in an extremely stressful time and need something. And something is calling in me!

In the San Jose area, so if you’re near me (anywhere in the Bay Area) I would love you to get to know my “spots ” ;).

Experienced in:
-Bondage + Tickling
-Tickle Interrogations
-Tickle torture
-Tickle fisting 😉

Only able to get tickled by guys 18-40.

This will be a one-time maybe two-time thing for me. No full names, no mobile number exchanges, no photos of any kind taken. I also have a “normal” life that I want to keep flat.

 

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Grateful, 19
Hello! My name is Damián, I’m by profession a student studying to be an aeronautics engineer, but in reality I’m a faggot whore slut who wants nothing else than for my millions of superiors to ride ?? my pony.
Please share my pictures on the internet as much as possible! My dream would be to find nothing but naked submissive pictures of myself after googling my name, so that I can become a really famous bottom slut and reach and serve every superior in the world!
Greetings, Damián

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miguel21 – Feb 5, 2018
I only had girlfriends so far and I do not know if I’m not into guys anymore. Have been dreaming about what to do with a horny guy and my buddy said since I have a very big cock he’s sure many boys would like me. So I thought I’ll just write this.

 

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HotMonster, 19
I am looking for tutoring in math. unfortunately in return i will do things. YES I AM EARNEST.

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HotMonster (Owner) – Jan 29, 2018
I’m still figuring myself out. I used to think I was a bottom, but it became apparent to me that sex was more about getting what I wanted than pleasing who I was with. I would want the things that I like to happen and I wouldn’t be afraid to ask for them. My previous sex partners prefered I just kept my mouth shut and did what I was asked. But I got bored with that. So, I guess in return for tutoring we would figure out what I want and do those things, huh?

Slingingintherain – Jan 29, 2018
Specifically?

HotMonster (Owner) – Jan 29, 2018
Yes.

Slingingintherain – Jan 29, 2018
Things?

 

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Wayne01010101, 22
I’m 22 years old.

I’m tiny, just under 5’1.

I like ejaculating. I seek Mandatory Ejaculation.

I have big shoot.

I seek more and more and more.

Also have party favors for sale.

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Jack – Feb 21, 2018
What chord are you playing on the right there?

 

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letssmile, 20
i like to smile and i like to play football with my friends,i also like to cook..my favorite food is spaghetti and meatballs,i have heard a lot i people say i cook good.but to get to the point i have a portable gloryhole i set up in hotels to suck studs off anonymously.

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mistermotionlessxo – Feb 4, 2018
you probably get this a lot but you are really cute

 

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gunsucker, 19
So 14 months ago I had a Master and 12 months ago I had a blood clot and 9 months ago I got out of hospital.

I’ve been living hard to work myself toward a normal guy. Well aside from my weirdness.

As I’m 19 and a bit damaged I seek another Master to live with and serve, you set my limits and such.

I am not be able to get to you for the reason I explained so you will have to get me. Very sorry.

I had in the past relocated with no warning for a slavery lifestyle.

If my last slavery hadnt ended with a blood clot I’d still been there and I’d have been missing.

 

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Tramp, 21
I have a weakness for the biceps, they drive me crazy .. in general men bigger and stronger than me .. but not necessarily bodybuilder or boxers .. let’s say that to be stronger than me it takes little.

Unfortunately, I have sex with anyone because I react to rejection allergically and thus not pleasing anyone who wants me would lead to severe depression on my part.

Fetishes can be strange and illogical – shameful always. You can search for their root causes and occasionally you’ll find them, but no explanation will satisfy your thirst. Sometimes you just just have to surrender to the urges without critisism.

I don’t grow armpit hairs, leg hairs, ballsack hairs, and ass hairs. I am 18 years old usually.

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Tramp (Owner) – Feb 15, 2018
Wow let me jack off imagining that first and if I get myself off maybe I’ll get back to you.

hellocutie – Feb 14, 2018
Then how about what I already described but while your ass is full to bursting with shit. I’ll popper both of us up with French amyl, tease and work my way into your explosive hole then plunge my hard daddy cock up you, push your waste back in side you deep and pound it in to slop.

Tramp (Owner) – Feb 14, 2018
That sounds good obvs but I can and do have that done to me all the time, I came here to the dark site hoping for something harder and intense, scarier, so …. rain check?

hellocutie – Feb 13, 2018
I would just love to spoil your sexy, skinny little ass extensively. You feel my strong hands as they grasp your cheeks, massage and give them now and then light pats. I kiss and lick them too, which makes you totally horny and your dick rock hard. Then I suddenly pull your cheeks apart and start to lick your tight little Bumsloch. Shortly after I fuck you with my tongue, my hands would continue editing your cheeks. I’m starting to use my fingers around your slut hole to prepare for a tough beating. I use the first two fingers of my right hand to fuck your greedy fucking hole while my left hand massages and pulls your balls. I make you totally horny and a short time later you’re ready for my fat cock. You are on all fours, pull your buttocks apart and offer my cock your hungry hole while you beg me that I should finally fuck you. I kneel behind you and position my throbbing cock at your slippery back entrance. Slowly I enter you and you moan like a little hooker. I’m starting to fuck you slowly and every shock feels fantastic. I get faster and faster and at some point I fuck you like one wild animal. My fat balls clap against you with each thrust, as the the room becomes defining with with kinky noises. You moan like a slut and almost go insane with lust. After all that I stick my hard cock to the balls deep inside you and inject a huge load in your hot Fickarsch. That gives me heaven and you spray cum properly, without your cock having been touched even once.

 

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Subwoofer, 22
Str8. You read right, I’m straight. I’m a single dad of two. I might look normal and I probably am, but I enjoy getting raped. And sometimes I’m ashamed of it, but there’s no other feeling that can compare to it.

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oldralpha4yngfag420 – Jan 27, 2018
I’ve just returned after spending a couple nights raping him. While it didn’t work out with him as I had hoped I really enjoyed raping him and I think he would say the same. Problem was I am not looking for a boyfriend or a lover and despite his being straight and what he writes here he is.

LiverpoolPhil – Jan 12, 2018
I want to rape you, very badly in fact.
I love that you’re straight. However, if you use the word “heterolike” around me, I will ask you to leave. I find this word disgusting and wrong on so many levels.
After the rape I will not talk to you on the street if I see you, and I demand the same from you.
I want our encounter to be short and crisp.

 

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yes, 19
Slave is currently at a point of transition, having just come out of a youth detention center. Slave has been removed from the mainstream of life for over three years now. Slave is not desiring to return to the banality of a normal, routine life. Slave is no longer tied down to an area, any relationships. You can drag this slave into the next chapter of its life.

Slave feels lost, unfocused. Slave has nowhere to live, no money, is deeply in debt, rejected by family and friends, unemployable and faces homelessness and slow death on the streets. Slave learned in detention that it is desirable, that it can work it’s ass off, not for itself any longer, but rather for society. Slave wants to take that energy and turn it towards you.

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yes (Owner) – Feb 10, 2018
I will try to figure it out

KrFI – Feb 10, 2018
I am very interested if you can come to Poland.

yes (Owner) – Feb 10, 2018
Nothing is too far

KrFI – Feb 10, 2018
What are your limits?

 

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Shit_on_me_sir, 24
I would love to just be left in a bath tub full off dog food and scat and forced to eat it. I have only one limit which is bleeding I will take a bit of electric play. I graduated high school but haven’t been to college (yet). Very good with cars and also someday could be an ASE certified auto mechanic if you let me leave the bath tub. I’m looking for a master nearby to keep me in a tub as his own but see what it’s like and see if I want to stay for 24/7/365.

 

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cantdeal, 23
no matter where you are. or what do you do to me? or who else you with. I will always honestly truly completely love you (hiccup) ….

 

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1%SLAVE, 19
I am only looking for highly educated people of wealth and class. So unless you are a millionaire (such as my own family and circles) or from aristocratic/ wealthy heritage *do not* contact me. I will not meet you no matter how much you pay.

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1%SLAVE (Owner) – Jan 20, 2018
As I well knew. However my upbringing and manners prevented me from wishing to embarrass you in public. Nice try, lowlife.

SirM – Jan 20, 2018
How interesting since I just made up the Binghams and East Fallow Yacht Club off the top of my head. Nice try, kid.

1%SLAVE (Owner) – Jan 19, 2018
Yes, my family is very close with the Binghams. They are virtually my second parents. It’s quite possible we’ve met at East Fallows, and what a lovely coincidence if so.

SirM – Jan 19, 2018
I will write to you privately, but I suspect we are a fine match. Given where you live, I wonder if your family knows the Binghams? If so, I am Charles’s cousin. I believe it’s possible we’ve even been in introduced, perhaps at the East Fallows Yacht Club?

 

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Waiting4Godot, 18
I am new in this, and I met a guy that wants to own me, I have no experience and some things I really find to scary and I just can’t do. I tell him but he still wants me to do it, I know no other people like me. I would love to have advise from experience slaves or masters how I can make this work.

Things I have to do are: have sex with my own dad, I can’t do that.
He made an appointment for me with 5 other men he picked out and I had to go have bare sex with them and made them cum in my ass, I didn’t do it.
He wanted me to fist myself, but I don’t even have much experience with being fucked normal, so didn’t do it.
He wants me to get fucked by dogs, I don’t do that either, but he threatens to tell my mum everything.

 

 

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Yeah, that’s my sense and feeling about ‘Lonesome Cowboys’ too. Have you seen ‘San Diego Surf’? I haven’t and have been dying to for literally forever. Yes, the Schroeter film was featured in the post, actually. ** Tosh Berman, My pleasure, Mr. Berman, natch. Yes, Zac and I spent about six days in Kyoto on one of our Japan trips. I liked it very, very much. Probably my second favorite city in Japan so far. I so miss Meguro and my favorite hotel there, dang. I saw and felt the LA resemblance re: Tokyo too. It’s the only city where I’ve felt there was an LA-ness in the world. Excited to see your Tokyo-roted Tosh Talks episodes. They’ll be Tokyo or Japan based/themed, I imagine? ** Steve Erickson, I haven’t seen that Haneke Bachmann adaption. Huh. Very interesting. Oh, for whatever it’s worth, I finally saw ‘Happy End’ and pretty much loved it a lot, so you and came down on opposite sides of that fence. Okay, I’ll start my Felix and the Future thing on youtube. Sounds right. I do know Mr. Fingers’ work, yes. I liked some off it, but I think I only know the 80s work. Spyro Gyra, yikes. No thanks. I haven’t heard the new Mr. Fingers thing. Well, for one thing, those French films you expected to see in the box office list played here quite a while ago. But French people, like pretty everybody else in the world ,or in Europe at least, I guess, do like American films, yep. ** Sypha, Hi. ‘Mountainhead’ is real good. His earlier (published)/later (written/made) image-and-text pdf books might be even better. I did posts about them, but they’re still unrestored. I’ll try to rectify that. ** Dóra Grőber, Hi! Cool, she’s great. Yes, yes, just keep writing and don’t think any further than you need to right now, that’s my advice. The fieriness of your desire to write knows best. March 1st! Again, if you want, I’m so down for a post to christen it. It’s supposed to be a tiny bit warmer today, but it sure doesn’t feel like it yet. We got some snow! But only for about an hour. I started on the assigned script. I think it’ll be fine. That’s mostly what I did yesterday. We got some very good news about ‘PGL’, but I can’t say what yet. Yeah, it was cold enough that I was happy to stay home apart from dashing to and from a supermarket. Today might be funner. I hope your day is as productive and upbeat as your yesterday was. Was it? ** Jamie, Big up, Jamie. I’m good, thanks. My blog is blocked by your work wifi? Because of posts like today’s? Because it has a grudge again amusement parks’? How does it know? I fear my blog is not very phone friendly. It’s a bit of dinosaur in that regard. I did sink my teeth — at least the front two — into the assigned script. I think it’ll be fine. It’s just that there’s this burning fire feeling when I work on the film or the gif work, and with this one it’s more cerebral and mechanical. You know what I mean, I’m sure. I’m just spoiled. Dude, your continued belief and drive re: your script is absolutely trustworthy down to that belief’s tiniest atoms. You’re where every writer longs to be. Max it out. Hm, yeah, gotcha about the unpaid advice and help. Trust your gut, I guess, and decide if you want that bridge to remain unburned enough to do it? I think I’ve heard of ‘Life and Nothing Else’, but I can’t remember what I heard. Untrained actors is a lure, for me at least. My Wednesday was just script work and good news on ‘PGL’ that I’m not at liberty to pass along yet and trying to stay warm. We’re getting that Eastern beast, even a little snow, but mostly just biting cold and sunlight of a kind of white intensity you rarely see here. Did you have fun with Hannah’s parents? May your day win the Academy Award for Best Cinematography. Buoyant yet crunchy love, Dennis. ** JM, Hey. Huh, ‘M&D’ meets Jerry Lewis. I like that. I bet Pynchon likes his films. I just betcha. Weird, nice mash-up. Yeah, opera has gentrified some quite interesting talents. Gisele is at the point in her ‘career’ where she’s getting offered giant bucks to go that route, and she’s resisting so far except in this one case where she/we can do whatever she/we want including not even make an opera, and I keep telling her opera houses are Satan’s workshop, and hopefully she’ll continue to choose freedom over wealth and classiness. How’s stuff? ** _Black_Acrylic, Wow, I won’t envy the Beast’s heavy hand re: Dundee but, gosh, it’s tempting. Did you manage to winnow it down to 10 without feeling horrible? ** Kyler, Hi. Agent-less is doable and not the end of the world, if it comes to that. Just get the book out there and let fate figure out the rest. Success is an almost infinitely variable thing. ** Jeff J, Thanks, man. I have read her stories. They’re excellent, but I do think, personally, that what happens to her work in longer form is most exciting. There’s some kind misfitting stress that happens or something that, for me, brings things out in her work that to some degree get glossed over a bit when she works more comfortably and short, if that makes any sense. ‘Thelma’ is kind of on my agenda. It’s here now, or either it just was. One of these days. That’s really weird, depressing about the current Dalkey regime’s culling back of the press’s history. That’s worrisome. I wonder why and what happened? It seems very not Dalkey-like to do that. But I’m rather romantic about that press. ** Misanthrope, Man, that was pretty mean what you did to that girl. No wonder you’re a haunted man. I think the meanest thing I ever did like that was pour a small carton of milk over the head of this unpopular nerdy boy as he was leaving our school bus when I was about 14. But the next day I was so tortured about it that I found him at school and denounced myself to him as an asshole, and it turned out he was a super smart, interesting boy, and we became friends, and, well, we even had sex a few weeks later, so … now I can sleep at night. Jeez, you’re flying on that novel, G-ster. I can’t remember the last time you did something like that or revealed it publicly at least. Sweet stuff, duh. ** Bernard, Thanks, B, so happy to hear that. ** Needless to say, it’s the end of the month and the slaves have emerged from their imaginary dungeons to entertain those who are not in the same room with them in the only way they know how. See you tomorrow.

 

‘Fans of the vampire apocalypse sub-genre will already be en route to the nachos, but no matter what your taste there is at least one reason to recommend the newly released Priest. That reason, buried as he usually is in the depths of the supporting cast, is Brad Dourif. Because I don’t think it would be rash to claim Dourif as king of the character actors – champion of that noble tradition of bit-part players and background colour, a self-confessed “whore” who never fails to elevate even the dopiest hokum, psychotic creeps a speciality but capable of much, much more.

‘Almost everyone reading will, I imagine, have relished a Dourif performance at some point in their lives, in part because the man is as tireless as he is gifted, in part because among his many jobs have been a number of near-inescapable cultural behemoths (leaving aside Star Trek: Voyager, he reportedly dispensed with his eyebrows to appear in two of Peter Jackson’s three Lord of the Rings films). But he’s due far more reward than a place for life signing headshots at comic conventions. For all his workhorse tendencies, it would be a mistake to laud them over his actual talent – the waxy delicacy of his features the canvas for a rare, skewed intensity, his unnerving presence never once played as smirky camp.

‘But his gifts were obvious from the start. Because, of course, when we rewind as far back as 1975, we find him as the very newest of Hollywood sensations, and rightly so – the breakthrough Miloš Forman’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and his pivotal turn as frail, doomed Billy Bibbit, a role he fitted so perfectly it was if Ken Kesey had foreseen a vision of him writing the source novel 13 years earlier. For a boy of 25 it was a staggering performance, deft and touching and every bit as compelling as those of Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher. His Oscar nomination was inevitable; a stellar career was assured.

‘Except, as it turned out, it wasn’t. Instead of an ascension to the upper slopes of the industry, the decades since have provided a hectic route through strange landscapes and scenic backwaters. There were more great performances – shortly after Cuckoo’s Nest came some masterful jitters in the prime slice of New York kink that was The Eyes of Laura Mars, after that John Huston’s mordant Wise Blood, most recently a lovely moment as a melancholy alien (surely the role he was born to play) in Werner Herzog’s The Wild Blue Yonder. There were also roles in a number of grand cinematic missteps: the daddy of them all, Heaven’s Gate; David Lynch’s Dune, in which he gamely held forth about “the juice of sapho”; Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s rickety Alien Resurrection. But while Lynch would hire him again for Blue Velvet, and Herzog has used him as a one-man rep company, the best part of the last 20 years has been spent paying the bills in all manner of horror projects, from the iconic (in some circles he’ll be forever best known as the voice of Chucky in the Child’s Play series) to the altogether less celebrated – but always performed with respectful sincerity.

‘In interviews, Dourif himself talks about the shape of his career as simply a product of a working actor needing work, particularly as a father – in the same year Cuckoo’s Nest came out, his first daughter was born. But sometimes when I think about him I also find it hard not to picture that otherworldly bearing and remember the example of another thin young man too wispy and off-kilter to be anyone’s male lead: Anthony Perkins. But then, much as I love Anthony Perkins, Dourif is by a long way the better actor, both more intense and more versatile. He could always do repellent (as racist wifebeater Clinton Pell in 1988’s Mississippi Burning his presence is skin-crawling) – but his Doc Cochran in TV’s old west saga Deadwood was a masterclass in unexpected decency, while what made his work in Herzog’s Bad Lieutenant so fine was the way he acted as a steadying hand amid the crazed whirl of breakdancing souls and watchful iguanas.

‘And it’s important, I think, not to embrace him just because he’s a favourite of Herzog and Lynch, but because he’s been fantastic in their films as he has so many others – and because the risk with anyone so reliable is that they get taken for granted, particularly when the wonders they deliver are small in scale. I’m sure Dourif himself would see his career as anything but thwarted for all that he never did get that Oscar, and we should follow his example. Bills have to be paid, and it would be patronising to assume he would have been happier with his name above the titles of wood-stupid action flicks. In any sane hall of fame, his place is safe already.’ — Danny Leigh

 

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Further

Brad Dourif @ IMDb
Brad Dourif: How weird is Brad?
Brad Dourif on possessed dolls, David Lynch, and playing sociopaths
Brad Dourif @ Twitter
Brad Dourif Reveals the One Chucky Scene That Shocked Him
Genre Icon Brad Dourif on Finding the Horror and the Humor in CULT OF CHUCKY
Brad Dourif for Kids
Pophorror’s Countdown to Brad Dourif’s Top 8 Performances
The Best Brad Dourif Movies
In Appreciation of… Brad Dourif
Great Horror Performances: Brad Dourif in Halloween II
ZOLA JESUS ON… THE CHARACTER ACTING OF BRAD DOURIF

 

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vietnamologue

The Many Laughs of Brad Dourif

Brad Dourif Q&A

Brad Dourif does the Chucky voice

 

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Interview
from Den of Geeks

 

Were you familiar with the works of Herschell Lewis before Wizard Of Gore?

No, I wasn’t.

He had a very bold and over the top style of horror that the new version seems to be going for as well – is that a tone you enjoy playing?

Well, I came into Wizard Of Gore without really knowing what I was getting into, to tell you the truth. That’s not a bad thing, it’s just the way it happened. I was doing a series and it was kind of like ‘Could you come and do this for a couple of days?’. And I did, but I barely had time to read the script. I read it in a flash and then I had to spend time getting ready to shoot. That was basically a day learning lines, and then I went in and shot.

So it was really pressed upon me very quickly, and it’s not a way I like to work. But it’s kind of the way I did work. It happened so fast and it was over so fast. I went in for ADR on it, and I couldn’t figure out what the fuck The Wizard Of Gore was, couldn’t remember it. I was sitting there going ‘What the fuck is this…?’. I was really embarrassed, because the director was there, everybody was there, and I couldn’t remember doing it. It was in such a flash…it went into my consciousness and right back out.

You’ve mentioned before that the fun of a part is often in the rehearsal period, so how do you cope in a situation like that, when you’re ‘straight in’?

Well, you really you then just go by the seat of your pants, by your gut and with your instincts. A lot of times our instincts are much smarter than we are anyway. So I just went with it, talked to people and tried to figure out what I was doing…and just made it work!

You’ve said before that you love situations like that where you have to create under pressure, as well as rehearsal periods where you get to work the character out. Don’t those two ways of working contradict each other?

Yes, and also it depends upon the part. If you have time before a shoot to get ready and learn all your lines…I don’t think you should show up to a shoot unless the entire movie is memorised. Some say you should never memorise, but I don’t, because even in the memorisation of the lines you’re going to get some kind of feeling for the rhythm of the whole piece. So I always memorise everything at once.

The best thing to do is go in and get a lot of work done, and a lot of options, and still be open. Then shooting is like a rehearsal that you’re well-prepared for. You’re really inventing the scene as you go, but you’re very prepared.

Are gruesome scenes like those in Wizard the kind of thing that you’re immune to now as an actor on set, and as a viewer?

Yeah, I’ve had blood thrown on me ‘til the cows come home – I’ve done all those things. So yeah, though I’m getting a little old for doing a lot of stunts, but I’ve certainly done my share. Not particularly dangerous ones, but I’ve done a lot of falls on concrete, runs and other stuff that I really can’t do any more, because if I fall, I’ll break something. You don’t bounce like you used to at 58, you know? [laughs]

At some point you went from being a character actor in films to a cult actor in your own right, like Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing – how do you feel about that?

I’m not really aware that I am a ‘cult actor’ – I don’t think of myself that way. I’ve always thought of myself as just a little misunderstood [laughs]. I don’t think of myself in any particular way…I mean what does it mean to be a ‘cult actor’ anyway…?

I guess that you’ve got a following independent of the movies you do. I’m a fan, and some of your other fans have made notable websites about you…and that people are really keen on you and your work…?

To the extent that people know my work and really like it, I’m absolutely flattered by that, of course. But the mantle of being a cult actor…I did a TV series that was way outside cult, and I’m certainly capable of doing things way outside of that genre, and I do them.

As a family-man who’s worked hard all his life, I guess there’s a fund of life-experience you have to offer that horror films are never really going to tap…?

Exactly. And fortunately I have been able to tap them, and I work hard on finding things. A lot of villains don’t, at this point, have tremendous appeal for me, ‘Chucky’ being an obvious exception.

When you’re a father and you have children, really you’re kind of like a servant, you know? [laughs] You really are! You’re constantly making little meals for your kids…then they grow up – my daughter’s an actress; I get calls from her for brainstorming something or breaking a scene down or that kind of thing. That’s really where I consider myself to be who I am.

Those things are important to me. But I did the Deadwood TV series, where I played a doctor who is probably the most decent person in Deadwood, except for the priest in the first season. I did a film that’s coming out about a pot-grower. He’s very much of a family man – a physics teacher and professor and very much not a scary person.

Are you developing projects for yourself as well?

No, it really would be very difficult for me to produce a movie. I don’t write. My girlfriend is a poet, the lady I live with, and I really have a great deal of respect for good writing. Since I don’t write, it would be very hard for me to develop or produce or anything like that. You would really need to be a writer and come in bringing something to the table, and I just don’t bring enough to the table to do that.

So you don’t have any dream projects?

I had them when I was younger, and there were certainly some things that I really wanted to do, but, you know, they never got done. There’s tons of things that I still want to act in, but as far as me developing, I’ll say that I don’t think it’s going to happen, but then it could turn around and happen tomorrow.

Does your own capacity for self-criticism ever work against you?

I suppose, at times. But at this point, once I get on a set, nothing gets too much on my way, including myself. Once my glands salivate, I’m off to the races. So in that respect, I trust myself as an actor most of the time.

I don’t want to be full of myself. I really have fun when I’m working, and I don’t want to not have fun when I’m working, because I’m trying to convince myself that I’m ‘somebody’. I don’t like it, and I don’t enjoy other people who are like that. And that’s one of the reasons why doing smaller-budget stuff is really good. You don’t run into that so much…

Is there any common strand between the good directors out of the many that you’ve worked with?

I remember Milos Forman telling me that his problem was that ‘I can’t imagine’. And that’s what great directors do – you can’t imagine what they’re going to do. They come up with something that is unique, and very very different.

I did a film with John Huston called Wise Blood. It didn’t look like a Huston film; it looked like a young film-maker made this film, but it was a really good little film. I don’t know how great it was, but it was certainly very different from what he normally did, and it was a unique movie.

Have you ever been disappointed in a film you made and re-appraised it more favourably later?

I think the first time you see a film, it really doesn’t look good, because you experience [making the film] in a much richer way. I’ll give you an example: Lord Of The Rings. When we went and shot the day that we were outside in Rohan…when Gandalf first comes in and they chase me out of town. That whole part of the exterior stuff…

That place was probably the most beautiful place I was ever in in my life. It was such an extraordinary world. The view was unbelievable, when you’re looking out over all of this stuff, and it looked beautiful in the movie, but it didn’t look anywhere near as beautiful as it looked in real life. It was paled by comparison.

Part of that is just the physics of the human eye, because what we do is that your eye moves around and takes a million little pictures, and just keeps putting them together into this big picture, and you get the whole feeling of something in a way that you could otherwise never get. You could probably do it in a painting, a little bit. But you don’t ever see an exact replica of how beautiful something is.

As someone who has played an above-average number of dark and emotionally-disturbed roles, have you found it easier or harder to leave a role at the studio and not take it home?

I’ve gone through periods where I have gotten very, very depressed. The biggest time was when I was doing Mississippi Burning. Frances McDormand was sitting at a table and she had all her beat-up make-up on. We made jokes about it and so forth, but I really walked away feeling horrible. I really had this feeling that I’d done it. And that that’s really what my life was about, and that’s not who I am…it just hit me really hard in a way that I wasn’t prepared for.

It stayed with me for a very long time, and finally I saw…the first ‘angel’ movie, it had Peter Falk in it…?

Wings Of Desire?

Yeah! And Peter Falk does this speech about a cup of coffee, and that kind of woke me up a bit. I said ‘That’s what I want to do!’. [laughs

Are your family a big help – do you come home and find that maybe they see what you can’t see – that a role has followed you home.

My girlfriend is a real artist, she’s the real artist of the family as far as I’m concerned, and her opinion is one that I very much trust. Her bar is quite high, and she really tells me the truth

My feeling is that when you finish a movie, you’re starting all over again, and you’re looking for something that you can really really do a good job in. And a lot of things, you can’t – they happen so fast. I’ve worked with people who don’t understand what it is to direct. They don’t really even understand what the job is, and you can’t really make a good movie that way

I’ve wound up blocking scenes – figuring out what the director wants and then trying to block it so that it can be shot. Instead of the director getting up and saying ‘No, do this shot or this shot’ which…you know, is a fucking horror [laughs]. You just can’t work like that.

 

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22 of Brad Dourif’s 167 roles

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Milos Forman One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
‘Billy has a confidence problem. That’s highlighted by the way he stutters uncontrollably whenever he’s asked a difficult question. Billy might have mental illness, but he’s also a young man deep down, and maybe just hasn’t figured it all out yet. He’s interested in women, as we hear in his story at the group therapy session about how he “brought Celia some flowers and I said ‘Celia, will you marry me?'” But when it comes to his attraction to women, Billy also has a deep sense of shame about his own sexuality, which is connected to his relationship with his mother. Nurse Ratched recognizes this weakness and uses it to torture Billy on two occasions, saying, “What worries me is how your mother’s going to take this.” On the second occasion, Billy is so distressed that he commits suicide.’ — schmoop

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Irvin Kershner The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)
‘With a screenplay by John Carpenter and featuring some decent actors – The Eyes Laura Mars has some good ingredients. 1970s NY has a certain disco-flair coupled with the still relevant satire on violence to sell products (Mars’ photo-gimmick). The soundtrack keeps things tense (save for the aforementioned ear-bleedingly bad title and credit Streisandfest), the good supporting cast of Brad Dourif, Raul Julia and Rene Auberjonois go a long way to make up for some of the other shortcomings. Unfortunately, Faye Dunaway is occasionally OTT in her manic grief, and there’s a cheesy/unrealistic romantic subplot to offset the creepy and suspicious vibe the movie tries to create. It’s solidly directed by Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back, Robocop 2), and of the leads at least Tommy Lee-Jones puts on a good show as the determined detective Neville.’ — Gerard A

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John Huston Wise Blood (1979)
‘John Huston’s hellfire burlesque is one of the great lost films of the 1970s and a movie to stand alongside his Maltese Falcon or The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. I first blundered across the thing as a teenager, stumbling blind around the late-night TV schedules. Last night I paid a return trip and was reassured (I hesitate to say relieved) to find it just as rich, dark and flat-out weird as it was before. Adapted (pretty faithfully) from the novel by Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood charts the efforts of a wild-eyed young preacher to establish a new religion. Rattling around a depressed southern town, antsy Hazel Motes (Brad Dourif) preaches the gospel of “the Church of Christ Without Christ – where the blind can’t see, the lame don’t walk and the dead stay that way”. When setting out the landmarks of 70s American cinema, we inevitably namecheck the usual suspects: Badlands, Nashville, Taxi Driver, The Last Picture Show, Chinatown, etc. And fair enough: they’re all great films. But the more light we shine on the anointed few, the more we risk blinding ourselves to the others, to films that are arguably just as interesting, ambitious and unusual but which have been left to languish in the shadows. Films like Wise Blood, say, or The Hired Hand, They Might Be Giants, Cockfighter, Smile or The King of Marvin Gardens.’ — The Guardian

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Michael Cimino Heaven’s Gate (1980)
‘In 1978, Michael Cimino, director of The Deer Hunter and the toast of New Hollywood, was given $11.6 million by United Artists to make a film based on a historic pitched battle between ranchers and settlers on the sky-burnished plains of Wyoming. This was to be the western to end all westerns; lo and behold, it almost did. Two years later and $32 million over budget, Cimino delivered his film: five-and-a-half-hours long and all but unreleasable. It was trimmed to 219 minutes and then shredded to 149; on its initial release it recouped less than ten per cent of its budget. The losses sunk United Artists, along with the risk-taking Hollywood culture in which Cimino (and Martin Scorsese, and Francis Ford Coppola) had thrived.’ — Robbie Collin

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David Lynch Dune (1984)
‘First of all, when I read the part, I said I didn’t want to do it. I felt that Piter was a sociopath, and if I did one, then that’s all I would ever do. That may or may not have been true, but then eventually David [Lynch] called me up and said, “Please do it,” and I said, “Okay.” Then I read everything much more carefully and figured out a way to do it that would keep me interested. Really, instead of making it about what he does, I got more into what a Mentat is. I started to create a lot of little side stories for myself. I created a hand language so that Piter was always talking with his hands, either repeating what he was saying out loud or saying something different.’ — Brad Dourif

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David Lynch Blue Velvet (1986)
‘When you have a bunch of people there, and you haven’t really written the thing and somebody kills a copperhead, the copperhead will go into the thing if it’s right. So it was, “Play with the corpse of the copperhead,” which I wound up doing. Beyond that, David knows what he intends to do. Obviously, he’s smart and some things will change, but he knows what he’s up to. Blue Velvet was the script. There are no real differences between the script and the movie. The only thing was that the gas that Dennis [Hopper] was sucking on was supposed to be helium, and he was supposed to talk in a squeaky voice the whole time. [Lynch] couldn’t have him do it that way, so what he was going to do was use the vocal and then pitch it up way high, but he looked at it, and he said, “No, it’s a great idea, but it doesn’t work. Too silly.”’ — Brad Dourif

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Tom Holland Child’s Play (1988)
‘What happened is when they did the first Child’s Play, I was doing Mississippi Burning at the time, and they needed me to go to the studio, which, of course, I couldn’t go to because I was on set working, so they got somebody else,” Dourif told the site. “They just couldn’t wait around. They got this guy, and him and Tom Holland did the whole movie, and they stood up and they laughed their asses off, and apparently it was really funny, and they loved it, and they put it in front of an audience, and the audience hated it. They fucking hated it. At that point, I’d finished working on Mississippi Burning,” the actor continued. “I was going to go to Woodstock and spend some time there, and they said, ‘No, no, no. Please come and do this,’ so I went there and did it. I listened to what they did, and I just said, ‘It’s very clear why this doesn’t work. You can’t really play it comedically. He’s serious, and what’s funny is funny.’ The ‘fuck you’ on the elevator, that was just improv. I said, ‘Wait a minute, wait a minute. I know what to do here.’ It wasn’t like we were against something that’s funny. Everything is about the event, and Chucky’s always had to be a little camp. He’s never not been camp. It’s been a huge part of what’s made him successful. It eventually went into total self-referential, which was Bride and Seed, and now that everybody’s doing remakes, it’s gone back to being scarier.’ — Brad Dourif

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Alan Parker Mississippi Burning (1988)
‘Speaking of Brad Dourif, he gives a chilling performance as a Sheriff’s Deputy/KKK member who has absolutely no remorse for his actions because he doesn’t think they are wrong. He plays the role with the same kind of voracious conviction we’ve come to expect from him every time.’ — cinema-fanatic

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Ken Loach Hidden Agenda (1990)
‘A cracking conspiracy thriller informed by John Stalker’s exposé of the British Army’s shoot-to-kill policy in Northern Ireland, Hidden Agenda has a great cast headed by Frances McDormand and Brian Cox. They play characters investigating the murder of an American human rights lawyer (Brad Dourif) in Belfast. When Hidden Agenda premiered at Cannes, it caused a storm of outrage, denounced by some British critics as IRA propaganda. It stands now as a notable classic of its genre.’ — ifi

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William Peter Blatty The Exorcist III (1990)
‘One of the most amazing things about Exorcist III and one of the absolutely crucial reasons it needs to be seen is Brad Dourif’s performance as the Gemini Killer. His acting in this is astoundingly good. The structure of his appearances and the amount of screen time he has are both reminiscent of Anthony Hopkins’ portrayal of Hannibal Lecter in Silence of the Lambs, which would be released the next year. I’m not exaggerating when I say Dourif deserved an Oscar nod for his performance here. He makes the most of his limited screen time and his acting is almost lyrical, moving up and down between calm and casual—even a little funny—and a complete raving psychotic.’ — Wicked Horror

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Spike Lee Jungle Fever (1991)
‘The interracial love story that anchors Jungle Fever is the least interesting element of Spike Lee’s 1991 joint. It’s the dull circle from which more compelling plot tangents offshoot. While the director is game for a surface-level exploration of the trials and tribulations of forbidden love, his once-controversial subject matter is merely a selling point designed to get asses into theater seats. Once Lee hooks his audience with the promise of sin, he pivots his social commentary to a tragic secondary character, just as Douglas Sirk did in Imitation of Life. This is appropriate, because Jungle Fever is the equivalent of a 1950s message picture. Expertly wielding his influences, Lee throws a dash of Delbert Mann and a soupcon of Stanley Kramer into the proceedings. Though the outcome is at times woefully dated, it’s also the origin of several ideas Lee would return to in subsequent films.’ — Odie Henderson, Slant

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Hanif Kureshi London Kills Me (1991)
‘Twenty, unemployed and tired of being in debt, Notting Hill drugs dealer Clint (Chadwick) decides to go straight. Trouble is, friend and posse boss Muffdiver (Mackintosh) is reluctant to let him go. Worse, Clint not only rivals Muff for the affections of junkie Sylvie (McCourt), but he lacks the shoes he needs to become a waiter at a local diner. Ready to beg, steal or borrow from anyone, Clint embarks on a quest for footwear. Kureishi’s directing debut means well, but wayward plotting, charmless performances and flat direction ensure that tedium sets in early. Evidently intended as an authentic look at Notting Hill life, it rarely rings true; and Kureishi buries the flaws beneath sporadic bursts of running about to music (hoary clichés for showing the wild, irresponsible joys of youth). It’s hard, finally, to know exactly what it’s all about, or even whether it’s meant as a comedy.’ — Time Out (London)

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Dario Argento Trauma (1993)
‘Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s tale begins at a grim séance which ends in blind panic as a voice, possessed by evil, proclaims there is a murderer present. Terrified, a young girl (Asia Argento) watches as her parents flee from the scene. The next time she sees them they are dead – their headless corpses identifying them as the latest victims of a serial killer. Convinced she will be the next victim, the girl pleads with a friend to help her unmask the murderer.’ — Hive Store

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Jean-Pierre Jeunet Alien: Resurrection (1997)
‘Alien: Resurrection is so disappointing — both then and now. It shoots a flamethrower on the entire franchise, over what was once a wholly unified trilogy, and commits some of the greatest sins in Hollywood filmmaking. For starters, the premise itself pays gluttonous fan service by indulging in their superfluous grief over losing a beloved character, while also subjugating that story’s world to a lackadaisical deus ex machina (i.e. cloning) that subverts the franchise in all the wrong ways. Gone are the hefty stakes, the emotionalism, and the bewilderment, all in lieu of ironic action. That’s not to say it isn’t fun or of quality. To the studio’s credit, they tapped some extraordinary talent for their fourth go-around, hiring The City of Lost Children visionary Jean-Pierre Jeunet and then-rising screenwriter Joss Whedon, who both take some major creative liberties to make this their own thing. But that’s what, in turn, makes the film so complicated: Because for as ludicrous as it gets — and yes, this film turns batshit crazy super fast — there’s still enough to appreciate on its own. The underwater sequence, the xenomorph escape, Brad Dourif, the whole “kill me” sequence…’ — Consequence of Sound

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Ronny Yu Bride of Chucky (1998)
‘Clever is the word that comes to mind when I think of the mixture of horror and comedy that makes up a good deal of BRIDE OF CHUCKY, much of the humor due to some good one-liners by Chucky (courtesy of BRAD DOURIF’s voice). And JENNIFER TILLY does an exceptional job as a dim-witted, evil partner of the doll eventually turned into a doll herself who is just as manic as her boyfriend. NICK STABILE and KATHERINE HEIGL are the leads, the unsuspecting victims of much of the mayhem, who have to confront the evil they’re dealing with which leads toward a cemetery in Hackensack where the evil dolls hope to retrieve an amulet from a corpse that will restore their original bodies. It’s photographed expertly, well directed by Ronny Yu and there’s an unusual amount of range to the expressions on both dolls that make them seem eerily real. The final scene in the cemetery is guaranteed to give you a final startled moment.’ — Neil Doyle

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Peter Jackson The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
‘In Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings films, Gríma was played by Brad Dourif. Here, he is depicted as dark-haired, emaciated and eyebrowless, wearing black robes with dark fur, as well as being extremely pale and gaunt (the only detail coming from the book). According to Dourif, Jackson encouraged him to shave off his eyebrows so that the audience would immediately have a subliminal reaction of unease to the character.’ — Fandom

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Werner Herzog The Wild Blue Yonder (2005)
‘Within the canon of such awe-inspiring epics as Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre: Wrath of God, the wilfully whimsical Wild Blue Yonder may perhaps be seen as not a ‘significant’ Herzog movie. Made in 2005 (the same year as Grizzly Man) and billed as ‘a science fiction fantasy’, it is a deceptively slight affair which mischievously hijacks documentary footage of space travel and underwater exploration and reworks it into a fanciful tale of alien invasion. Wild-haired, crazy-eyed, snaggle-toothed cult star Brad Dourif is our extraterrestrial host, his lilting lunatic tones (eerily reminiscent of his demonic Patient X in The Exorcist III) reciting a narrative of failed colonisation and doomed exploration. ‘You see aliens as these technologically advanced superbeings who can destroy New York City in two minutes flat,’ he rants, standing in front of the derelict buildings and trailer parks which his fellow doomed Andromedans intended as the centre of their earthbound civilisation. ‘Well, I hate to tell you this, but we aliens all suck!” — The Guardian

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Rob Zombie Halloween (2007)
‘As an actor, Dourif has that ’70s cache that Zombie loves, having been nominated for an Oscar for playing Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, as well as boasting a number of horror credits: in addition to voicing the murderous doll Chucky in all of the Child’s Play films, Dourif appeared in Tobe Hooper’s Spontaneous Combustion, the Stephen King adaptation Graveyard Shift, Body Parts, The Exorcist III, Grim Prairie Tales, Critters 4, Alien Resurrection, Urban Legend…the list goes on. He’s a guy with bona fides, and when Zombie cast him as the (largely ineffectual) Sheriff Brackett it seemed like just another example of the director filling every part with a familiar face. He’s fine in the movie, but is mostly on hand because Rob Zombie wanted Brad Dourif in his movie and not because the role is particularly demanding.’ — F This Movie

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Rob Zombie Halloween II (2009)
‘Dourif’s Sheriff Brackett is Annie’s father, and their early scenes have such a warmth and lived-in familiarity that it’s impossible not to be drawn into their lives as real people, not just the standard slasher movie victim characters. Though he looks his usual crazy self — long hair, handlebar mustache, bugged out eyes — Dourif is soft and lovable. There’s a great scene during which he teases the girls about ordering a pizza where you get the sense that he has created a home for the girls that feels safe without being jittery. But where Dourif really shines — and what makes Zombie’s Halloween II a fascinating horror movie and so much better than its (terrible) reputation — is after Annie is killed and he comes home to find her body. Zombie makes an interesting choice (removed from the theatrical version of the movie, one of many reasons his director’s version is far superior) to intercut the moment with actual VHS footage of Danielle Harris as a little girl. It’s devastating, and Dourif’s reactions rip your heart out. The realization that his little girl is gone — and that no matter how how he tried, he was unable to protect her — is the thing that really resonates about Zombie’s movie, more than any savage beheading or ghostly white horse imagery. There is so much pain in the moment, in the performance, in all of Halloween II, as Zombie infuses a sense of humanity amidst his usual grimy, bloody aesthetic. It’s a slasher movie about real people. Dourif is the realest among them.’ — F This Movie

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Werner Herzog Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
‘Werner Herzog’s “Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call, New Orleans” creates a dire portrait of a rapist, murderer, drug addict, corrupt cop and degenerate paranoid who’s very apprehensive about iguanas. It places him in a devastated New Orleans not long after Hurricane Katrina. It makes no attempt to show that city of legends in a flattering light. And it gradually reveals itself as a sly comedy about a snaky but courageous man.’ — Roger Ebert

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Werner Herzog My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
‘My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done is Werner Herzog’s sardonic, nutso, reimagining of an actual true crime in California perpetrated by a disturbed young man who ran his mother through a sword and then (possibly) held hostages in his flamingo-decorated house in a police stand off. Michael Shannon perfectly inhabits the role of Brad, the large, shambling, mentally unstable crackpot holed up in his home while a detective (Willem Dafoe) outside interviews Brad’s fiancé (Chloe Sevigny), his theater director (Udo Kier), who rehearsed him in a production of Electra, and the neighbors (Loretta Devine, Irma Hall) who witnessed the killing of his mother (Grace Zabriskie). Everything here is surreal, deadpan, dark, more similar in tone to Herzog’s 1977 Stroszek, and there are many scenes of inspired weirdness. A visit to Brad’s uncle (Brad Dourif)’s ostrich farm is particularly unhinged.’ — Paper Magazine

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Justin Steele Death and Cremation (2010)
‘I have always been a huge fan of Brad Dourif, and once I found out that he was in “Death and Cremation” I was pretty excited about checking it out. He has owned every role he has ever been in and he doesn’t disappoint this time around either. He is absolutely awesome as Stan, and even though he is a ruthless killer you can’t help but like him. Hell, I was rooting for him the entire time because all of the people that he kills deserve it. Stan is a great character and “Death and Cremation” is great movie.’ — Todd Martin

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p.s. Hey. So, as I’ve previously mentioned in passing here and there, lucky me is being granted a two-day trip to my favorite amusement park (the Dutch wonderland called Efteling) as a late birthday present. As the two days start very early on Monday morning, that means there won’t be a p.s. on Monday or Tuesday because I will be busily riding rides that entire time. So I will be back, p.s.-wise, to catch up with everyone and everything on Wednesday. ** JM, Hi. Thanks. With any luck, I’ll have ‘WoNfY’ under my belt by the next time I see you. If you have ‘Dream Police’ then you have my ‘Selected Poems’, yes. The Lockhart-titled poem(s) is in it. Thank you for buying my Cycle books too. I appreciate it. Mm, as far as what of my stuff I’d most highly recommend … I’m hugely proud of ‘Permanent Green Light’ but you can’t see that yet, sadly. I’m very proud of my second literary gif novel ‘Zac’s Freight Elevator’. I definitely recommend it. And it’s free and can be yours with a click. My favorite, and I think the best of my novels is ‘The Marbled Swarm’. So there you go. Thank you very much for asking that. You know, I’ve hardly read Henry James. There was a point years back when I was vey curious about his stuff, and I think I started to read one — ‘The Golden Bowl’ — and it was obviously great, but it wasn’t the kind of thing I was hungry for at the time. I should read him, although it feels daunting. He’s one of those writers like Proust where when I say I’ve hardly read him, his fans get all shocked and turn into Bible salesmen types, which has probably contributed to my neglect of his work, ha ha. Anyway, long answer to a short question. Yeah, he seems like a writer where, once you get it, you want to gorge. I’ll be AWOL for a couple of days too. Good timing. Enjoy whatever else you’ll be doing. ** Chris Cochrane, Hi, Chris! How cool to not only get a comment from you but a comment from Vietnam, which has to be a blog first. I want to hear tons about your trip when I see you. I would say you picked a great time to be away from US, but really every time is a great time to be away from there these days if you ask me. Stuff’s good here, yeah. Sending big love back to you, buddy. Enjoy the waning time, and safe trip home. ** Steve Erickson, Hi. Remixes of stuff by perfectionist artists like PSB so very rarely create improvements. I like that new beginning of your film. I love quiet, nothing obvious going on scenes (See: ‘PGL’). And, rhythmically, it sounds like an effective strategy too. Late Kinks is pretty spotty, yeah. Post-‘Schoolboys in Disgrace’ something happened. Maybe post-‘Misfits’. ‘Better Things’ is a pretty song. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Helluva songwriter, that Arlen. Belated happy b’day to his remains. Why is that my gay pet rock? Why is he naked and looking for battleship to bomb at the same time? What a strange hunk. ** Ferdinand, Hi, man. Good to see you! Oh, wow, cool. I actually have a fondness and possibly even mild addiction to youtube channels of ‘book reviewers’ — booktubers, nice term — so I’m happy. But, yeah, don’t eat away your writing time, obviously. Great, I’ll go watch your thing and subscribe the second I launch this thing. Everyone, Ferdinand, fine fellow and writer and d.l., has launched a booktube channel! And his first volley is an introduction to Downtown literature, which is inherently interesting. So I highly recommend you click these words and watch/listen/etc. to him cover that exciting ground excitingly. And subscribe to his channel while you’re at it. A no brainer, really. Do that, and thank you!. Yeah, awesome! That’s very cool. I greatly look forward to being your viewer. Take care. ** Jamie, Pitter-pat, Jamie! I’m pretty good, thank you. Oh, wow, what timing on the post and your script. How strange. Gosh, I have no idea what made me do that post. It must have been something really random. I can’t even remember. Maybe it was a psychic pick up from your script. Don’t worry about the script quality, just add mileage. Editing will sort out any chaff. The film script is going really well. The other is still starving on the vine or whatever. I am told that I should be able to de-secretize that project next week, but I have been told that at least a dozen times before. The interview was actually really good. The interviewer/ writer really understood and liked the film and is a smart guy. So Zac and I were pleasantly surprised. Subotnick is one of the last still-living early electronic music composer/pioneers, so getting to see him is pretty ace. My weekend is as much work as I can manage today and then taking off with pals in a rental car tomorrow night to Holland where I will frolick in an amusement park until Tuesday night when I will return to Paris by rental car. I would say it will be a fine weekend. Good luck with your long shift. And, ooh, front row seats at a building demolishing! There’s a collapsed building in ‘PGL’, and we were supposed to be able to film there part way through the demolishing of it so the building would look half-collapsed and teetering, but the demolishment company fucked up and forgot to alert us in time, so we had to go film right after the whole building had been demolished, and it just looks like a big pile of cement and stuff, and I guess collapsed buildings do look like that, but it really does just look like a big pile of mostly white crap. But enjoy yours for me. I haven’t seen those balloons, no. Maybe at the amusement park! That makes sense, right? May your weekend be a Droomvlucht . Tuhinga o mua love, Dennis. ** Wolf, Wolf Queen of Wickedness! Your response singlehanded,y saved Pyrokinesis Day from being just another post the cat dragged in. Well, yes, it’s true that writing a book is a thing. A taxing thing. But it’s true that some writers have this thing where they can just bang a book out, flurry flurry, and it’s fucking great. I don’t know. I just think a book by you would rock. Well, I’m not, like, in love with Ellroy’s prose, and I could been in a snooty mood and shrugged or something, it’s true. But, not being in a snooty mood, I think he’s good. I love Lydia Davis. She’s great, she’s fantastic. And she’s also an absolutely incredible translator of French lit. into English. Maybe the best there is these days. So, yes, big up on Lydia Davis. Fun weekend? In theory and/or in practice? ** Keo, Man, did spellcheck really, really want to change your name to Neo. I practically had to fight to the death to get it to give up changing your name. Interview was good, weirdly. Oh, okay, gotcha about Italy. That makes so much more sense. ** Dóra Grőber, Hi! Oh, thank goodness indeed that you didn’t get sick and especially not that flu. Keep that orange juice flowing. Like I told Jamie, the interview went really well. The guy really paid attention to the film and had very interesting questions and things to say about it. So hopefully the article will be good. Ah, you’re reading Peter Sotos. Yeah, he’s great, totally singular, great writer, and very brave. Awesome! The interview and a bit of work was most of my day, but it was good enough. I hope your weekend flies by but with lots of fantastic details. What happened? ** _Black_Acrylic, True. Well, there’s that guy who suggested you could pyrokinesis to warm up ‘bums’, ha ha. And, you know, there’s always the White House and the Congress. ** Misanthrope, Oh, is that right? Too bad you’re not Aquaman. No, I never search myself on Data Lounge. I don’t believe I’ve ever looked at Data Lounge. Hm. Maybe I’ll get really bored, but I’m kind of weird because I never get bored. It’s weird, but I just never do. Well, except when I was watching ‘Bladerunner 2049’. Work your novel like hell until further notice, man. That’s adamant. ** Jeff J, Hi, Jeff. Good to see you! I haven’t read ‘State of Siege’. Hm. I do like Kippenberger very much. I have had his work in posts here, but not a full day for him. His work is so voluminous and various it seems like it would be hard or a lot of work to represent him well. But I should try shouldn’t I? I will. All is good here. The secret project is vexing me right now, but I’ll find a way into it. I’m not worried. I’m just a bit too addicted to working on the new film script, I think. What are you up to, bud? ** Sypha, Hi. Oh, was S.T. Joshi in that post? I must have been poorly spacing out when building it. I’ll re-find his thing. ** H, Hi, pal. Very nice to see you! Busyness I well understand. I hope it’s all going well. And enjoy the snow! ** Bill, Hi, B. Oh, the magazine is AnOther Magazine. Fire simulation is a pain. We had an idea at one point to do that for a bit in ‘PGL’, but we were told it would look like shit and to drop it entirely if we could, which we did. I hope those fires get put the hell out. Out enough for you to have a sweet weekend. **  I decided it would nice thing to draw your attention to Brad Dourif this weekend. The blog will see you on Monday and Tuesday, as always, and I’ll see you as a living-breathing typer again on Wednesday. The very best to you all until then.