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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Things that make you go boi-i-i-ng: this week’s theme is the inventive employment of grotesque rubber appendages in the service of one-of-a-kind, whacked-out sexploitation chestnuts.

Sex in the Comics (1973), fresh on DVD from Just for the Hell of It video, freakily brings ancient funny-paper characters to life with live humans donning psychotic-episode-inducing latex masks, unnerving editing techniques, limp dicks, unsuckled bosoms, and authentically insane concepts of eroticism.

From Troma DVD comes Getting Lucky (1990), the legendary Green Magic adventure half-remembered by viewers of USA Up All Night in which a leprechaun in a beer bottle shrinks a nerd so small he can – and does – get lost in a cheerleaders’ pubic hair.

Go. Bounce along now. Read.

Heidi Angers One Nation with Halloween Costume, Delights Another with Jiggly Cleavage Commercial

No one does Halloween like Heidi Klum. While all the other stars half-heartedly don wigs or maybe a plain mask, hottie Heidi goes all out with ultra-elaborate, one-of-a-kind outfits that drop jaws. This year, she outdid even herself when she slipped into bright blue spandex and showed up to her annual party as Kali, the Hindu goddess of death and destruction. However, Hindu leaders aren't as excited about the costume, saying:

"Goddess Kali is highly revered in Hinduism and she is meant to be worshipped in temples and not to be used in clubs for publicity stunts or thrown around loosely for dramatic effects."

And speaking of dramatic and loose, after the cut you can check out the Heidi's brand new commercial for Guitar Hero: World Tour, in which she replicates Tom Cruise's Risky Business dance. In nothing but bra, panties, and socks. Jiggle, jiggle, jiggle!

Each Tuesday, be sure to check in with Mr. Skin to get the complete skinny right here on the hottest DVD releases. Here is the randy round-up for the week of September 16, 2008.

Teen Sex Comedy classic rampages into theaters, gets bush on this date in 1984.

In the wake of the early-1980s Teen Sex Comedy explosion ignited by Porky's that went on to include Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Risky Business, Valley Girl, and The Last American Virgin, the geek-centric Revenge of the Nerds rip-roared into theaters powered by a novel premise: What if the guys who never won—at sports, at romance, or at life—finally did?

More on the answer to that question, along with the power of the declaration "We've got bush!" after the jump.