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Conan the Barbarian (1982)

By Count Rackula

Matthew Kaufman is one of the directors of the new documentary American Swing, available on DVD April 14, which tells the story of New York City’s infamous swingers’ club Plato’s Retreat.

Open from 1977 to 1985, the club was frequented by celebrities like Buck Henry and Mario Van Peebles and featured a buffet, disco, sauna, and a mattress room filled with people having anonymous sex.

The film takes a naked look at the storied establishment and includes interviews with former patrons and lots of behind-the-scenes footage. Matthew recently discussed the film in a phone interview.

Read more after the jump.

Tail from the Darkside

Welcome back, my thirsty friends, to Castle Rackula. Last week, I dug deep into the catacombs of 1980s horror movies and came up with more than a few bones.

On this visit, I would like to turn your attention to the world of horror television. In the 1980s, a slew of shows popped up in the vein of old classics The Twilight Zone and Kolchak the Night Stalker.

While shows like Tales from the Crypt, The Hunger, and Masters of Horror are well known for their copious nudity, this was not the case, sadly, with these syndicated broadcast series. But they still had their share of babes, many of whom decides to flash flesh elsewhere.

Read more after the bite.

Sin City Siren Rose McGowan to Wield Sword as Pulp Sexbomb Red Sonja. But Will She Bare Her Barbarian Boobies?

The San Diego Comic-Con continues to be a hotbed of breaking T&A-list showbiz news.

Slash Film reports that Rose McGowan has been announced to bodaciously fill the breastplate of the lead role in Red Sonja, a new epic produced by her ex-boyfriend, Robert Rodriguez (Desperado, Planet Terror).

Red Sonja herself is a hefty-mammaried medieval warrior and ass-stomping pal of Conan the Barbarian.

The flame-maned slayer became popular in classic pulp novels and comic books, where she was billed as “She-Devil with a Sword,” and mastered the fine art of modeling a chain-mail bikini.

Brigitte Nielsen initially took up the Red Sonja mantle in a 1985 movie adaptation, which may explain the origin of Flavor Flav's viking-hat fetish.

Shots of Rose McGowan clad in the character's clanky get-up appeared at Comic-Con, in addition to a pair of Red Sonja posters—one of which continues a sexy-bloody-lips trend that Mr. Skin reported on yesterday.

To see Rose McGowan in full naked bloom, grab your meat-saber and join us after the jump.

The year 1982 proved to be a landmark year for genre films, producing sci-fi favorites E.T., Blade Runner (Picture: 1) , and Tron; horror hits Poltergeist and Creepshow; and ultra-violent fantasies on the order of Conan the Barbarian (Picture: 1) and The Road Warrior.