I am away over the weekend as I am leaving the country for a short vacation/city visit.
So, there won’t be a post on Sunday this week.
Also, the VIP club will get its monthly update, a little later than usual….on August 3!
That means the VIP club members will receive the password as well on August 3.
So, please be patient, it will come 😉
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I will reply to emails of course, but only once or twice a day.
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But I do have a recommendation for you folks!
My TV magazine recommended a documentary named “Waterwoman” some weeks ago which is currently still running on German TV.
I watched all 4 episodes and it was quite fascinating.
It’s about German freediving champion Anna von Boetticher who is holding several national records.
In these episodes, she is diving in Mexiko, Iceland, the Acores, and (under) Budapest…. and she is wearing smooth skin wetsuits while doing so 😉
Yeah, she isn’t exactly the youngest (52), but she looks great in these suits, is highly skilled and the episodes offer great pictures of beautiful underwater landscapes!
So I really recommend watching the episodes, even though there are some obstacles for folks outside Germany.
Yeah, the audio is German and the episodes are only available online here if you are in Germany:
Scenes from the first movie were blocked on Youtube back then and this is quite brutal (even you don’t see much) so I decided to post this one on Drive as well.
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Well, for me the scene is ….ok. Some others may like it better than me… I guess.
The shark scenes where a real shark was filmed are good, the cheap prop they used for some closeups is really… cheap.
Yeah, I know the budget was small and CGI wasn’t really an option back in 2000…but the result just looks bad.
Also, the roaring sounds of the shark are just laughable! Reminds me of Tomb Raider 2 😉
What morons come up with such fantasy sounds?
The camera work during the attack is quite bad, most likely as they couldn’t show the prop shark for too long.
On the plus side, the dive equipment is solid and there are some intense perilous moments as the divers are quite “loud”.
Ok, for me that kind of peril isn’t exciting at all… but well, others may see that differently.
Also, I wonder why they didn’t have at least one or two minutes with these women on the surface with some dialogue lines.
I mean she gets chomped by that shark and we know nothing about her and didn’t hear one word from her. That way the audience doesn’t care too much about her.
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The next scene that I will present in a future post is more interesting… at least for me.
Just a quick post for today as I don’t have enough time.
Many of you will know this Instagram account by now, but for those who don’t, check out her Instagram account …and also her Youtube channel (linked on her Insta):
Now check out this scene, which can also be found in that TV show made 4 years later:
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Well…. quite odd! They re-used the complete underwater footage here!!!
The scenario is exactly the same. The detective (Ben Gazzara!) wants to meet with a woman only to be attacked by a mysterious frogwoman in rubber!
But there are some differences (despite the different actors):
Here we actually see some very short scenes of the evil frogwoman above the water.
In the original, they fight underwater and suddenly….cut….and he is in a hospital. One of the worst cuts in the history of humankind! ARGHHHHH!
In this “remake” we see him pulling the obviously defeated frogwoman to the shore, with her mouthpiece in his hand!
But then…. I start yelling at the screen! AGAIN, they don’t show the villainess anymore except for some seconds where she is already covered in a blanket.
How bizarre is that? Why have they shown only so little of her??? I would have loved to see the defeated frogwoman in her wet rubber suit on the surface! Just add a dialogue there and show her!
The murderer is finally caught and she just vanishes without saying a word!
DAMN! Really frustrates me big time! That and that the moment of him overpowering her underwater isn’t shown properly.
However the flaws, that ending… in both versions…. in one of my all-time favorites!
It’s such a unique scenario. An evil frogwoman in rubber who wants to drown a guy in this scene ….and already did drown a woman earlier in the episode!
How often do you get that in a TV show or movie? Spoiler-Alert….Basically NEVER! 😉
Ok, it’s hard to say if the diver who actually did the diving during filming is actually a woman….since the underwater picture is rather dark… or if they used a male diver to double for the villainess.
However it is supposed to be a woman, that is 100% clear.
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So, why the same scenario and the same underwater footage?
These episodes are from different TV shows but are basically identical as the script is nearly a copy (some slight changes).
With some quick research, I found out that both TV shows were made by the same company (Roncom Films) for the same network (NBC).
The earlier show is from 1964 and the “remake” is from 1968.
So they “just” re-used footage that they shoot some years earlier.
Quite bizarre that they just remade an entire episode just some years later in a different TV show.
Don’t know why they did it, perhaps they were just lazy and recycled the script 😆
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In the original, the villainess is the secretary of the guy who was in love with the drowned woman from the beginning of the episode.
Here is a picture of the villainous redhead from the original (Fiona Volpe vibes):
Really a shame she wasn’t shown on the surface in her rubbery frogwoman suit. 🙁
In the remake, she is his personal physical therapist (and less attractive)…but that is already one of the biggest changes from the original to the remake.
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I guess you might wanna know now from which TV show that remake is?
But I only had a pretty bad copy (worse than DVD) that was black and white.
Now this movie was restored to MUCH better quality as it now has Blu-ray quality… and also got colorized!
Quite a gigantic quality upgrade. 🙂
So, I wanna present the most interesting scene from this movie today.
Preview:
Wow, you don’t see such gear often…especially on a frogwoman!
Trapped!
Nice…. 🙂
(click to enlarge)
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And here is the video:
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Ok, I don’t speak Italian but have seen subtitles for this scene….so let me give you some backstory to this scene.
She asks the guy if she could try on the FFM (does someone know the type/model?).
As he leaves he asks to take it off again…he is in a hurry as he says.
Well, as you can see she ignores that and goes diving.
He later mention to another guy that the system he gave to her was nearly empty as he was diving with it prior to giving it to her.
In the end, her father is really angry about her being that reckless while only one of the guys takes her side and defends her.
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I guess this may be one of the earliest female scuba peril scenes in existence as this movie was made in 1953!
The scenario is rather cliche and classic as she is very reckless and also gets trapped in that net.
Sadly it is not shown how she gets entangled in the net in the first place.
But I really love the scuba gear! A FFM with a single corrugated air hose… very sexy! Would love to see a scuba fight with a frogwoman equipped like that 🙂
Also interesting that there is a valve on that mask to switch from snorkel to rebreather (as the guy explains to her).
Really happy that this scene can now be watched in such a picture quality 🙂
+ one video where a woman with FFM is tied up (Breathplay)!
+ a little new Bonus for VIP club members:
An excel file with the movie title or TV show name (+episode number), a short description, my personal rating, post title, and a link to that post
*UPDATE* July 1: The list has now 280 entries and can now be found in the VIP club (will be updated regularly).
(+ a Frogwoman Org trailer version with no music, but the actual sound of all the scenes)
7 scuba fetish stories (the complete versions)….written by myself: “Vulcan down” + “Vulcan down: Part 2 – Scuba battle” + “Catwoman – The masked scuba thief” + Vulcan down – Version 2 – Angelo VS Fiona (each at least 15 pages) + “The Scuba Avenger”: Ep 1 – James (6 pages) + The Scuba Avenger”: Ep 2 – Jessica (13 pages) + The scuba instructor (2 versions)
