Q&A on T&A with the Screenwriters of The Last Exorcism and The Virginity Hit
by Mike McPadden

Writing partners and independent filmmakers Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland may seem as unlikely a team as has ever scored mainstream Hollywood success but, remarkably, audiences are enjoying two of their high-profile films on a big screen near you—right this minute!

The team’s relentlessly unnerving, Eli Roth-produced The Last Exorcism (2010) opened in first place at the box office recently and this weekend brings The Virginity Hit (2010), a one-of-a-kind teen sex comedy produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay.

What makes the Botko-Gurland conquest of the suburban Cineplex so surprising, however, is the dark, dangerous and even deranged milieus from which both emerged.

Botko scandalized film festivals worldwide throughout the late 1990s with his “dessert-umentary” series.

Bearing straight-ahead titles such as Fruitcake, Baked Alaska, Cheesecake, and Graham Cracker Cream Pie, each film depicts Botko unspeakably defiling various confections and then serving them to his despised family members.

Gurland founded the New York Underground Film Festival, produced the Al Goldstein/Screw magazine documentary Screwed (1996), and, along with Todd Phillips (Old School, The Hangover), created Frathouse (1998), an up-close look at savage hazing rituals for HBO that never aired due to legal concerns (Gurland is proud that the movie is available now only through outlaw resources).

Together, Botko and Gurland made the barbarically vicious short comedies Julie, Broken Condom and (Mr. Skin's favorite) Gramaglia, before writing and directing the terrifically uncomfortable feature Mail Order Wife (2004).

Botko and Gurland talked to Mr. Skin about sex, nudity, horror, comedy and what happens next.

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MR. SKIN: What was the first movie nude scene you remember seeing?

HUCK BOTKO: Some movie on HBO when I was in second grade. No idea what it was but there was full frontal and I remember overhearing another kid at school the next day who had seen the same movie telling everyone how you could see this woman's bush - but he would just call it her "front" because the crude adjectives hadn't entered our vocabulary yet.

ANDREW GURLAND: My dad likes to get to movies early and watch whatever else is playing at the theater until his movie starts.

When I was six, we walked into a scene that featured a guy with a ’70s mustache wearing jeans and no shirt painting a den with his girlfriend who was also wearing jeans with no shirt.

It freaked me out but is still an erotic image I hold on to. I also remember the Belushi peeping tom scene from Animal House as one of my first.

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It’s Hard to Pick Between Three Naked Girls

In a recent interview with Complex, 24 star Elisha Cuthbert has some good news and some bad news.

The bad news is that she always uses body doubles for her nude scenes. But Mr Skin already knew we weren’t seeing her rack and rump in He Was a Quiet Man and Captivity.

She also says she’s never getting naked on film. But so did Eliza Dushku, so take that with a grain of salt and a handful of lotion.

The good news is that Elisha picks out her own body doubles by closely examining their naked bodies.

Read more after the jump.

Throughout the Month of October, Count Down the Sexiest Nude Horror Movie Hotties of All Time!

Number 15: Barbara Crampton

Before the cult horror classic Re-Animator, buxom blonde Barbara Crampton was a soap opera starlet who finally busted out bare on the big screen in Brian DePalma’s kink-fest, Body Double.

But it was as the Dean's daughter in Re-Animator -- in which her extended, utterly indelible nude scene redefines the literal concept of getting head -- that Barbara forever solidified her status as a Scream Queen Supreme.

That same year, Barbara peeled down in the teen sex comedy favorite Fraternity Vacation and, from there, she became one of the mid-’80s most awesomely unclothed figures in whacked-out cinema.

Barbara nakedly re-teamed with the makers of Re-Animator for From Beyond and Castle Freak, and went topless in the gorily lovable Chopping Mall.

The screams we salute you with, Barbara Crampton, are of ecstasy. Provided by you.

From early underground efforts such as Greetings and Get to Know Your Rabbit to his Hitchcock-influenced hits Carrie, Blow Out, and Dressed to Kill to his cult favorites on the order of Sisters and Body Double, writer-director Brian De Palma has always tapped into the power of naked female skin on screen. He was born on this date in 1940.

De Palma has also helmed Scarface, Carlito’s Way, and the Rebbeca Romijn-Rie Rasmussen naked lesbian supermodel blowout Femme Fatale.

Now filming a sequel to his 1987 smash The Untouchables, Brian DePalma turns 68 today, and Mr. Skin hopes that one of the stunning starlets on the set treats him to a birthday 69. At the very least!