Thanks to the guy who recommended me this Chinese movie!
100% sure that I would have never seen this one without a recommendation as Chinese movies mostly are never shown outside of China.
Preview:
His hands are on her tank valve!
He attacks her!
Is she dead?
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And here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
I bet you are confused right now! 😉
Well, I was too… until the guy who recommended this one explained it to me.
I would love to watch the whole movie, but since I don’t speak Chinese, that doesn’t make sense.
I hardly doubt this movie will ever get subtitles or a dub.
The overall story is seemingly that he wants to drown his wife and then get the insurance money, claiming she died by accident.
But he then gets stuck in a time loop(!) and in one version he kills her again (version 2 in the video), perhaps in others too but it isn’t shown on screen.
In the end, he gets out of the time loop (as he doesn’t kill her in version 3 in the video)… and there seems to be a happy ending.
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Now to the different versions:
Version 3 is interesting as the audience thinks he will turn off her air once again, but actually, he doesn’t do it this time.
Version 1 is shot quite weirdly as big parts of the action aren’t shown properly. It’s cut too fast and she drowns nearly instantly.
Version 2 is the most interesting and best for me. It’s shown how he turns off her air, and the struggle is a little longer. She fights back a little more, but still drowns very fast. Certainly, there is a lot of room for improvement, but it’s a good and thrilling scene for me.
So, it’s time for the fourth video of the 2nd video shoot of “Project F”!
As mentioned in the previous posts, the videos from that shoot will be pretty short, but action-packed, as we tried some simple action scenarios.
In this video, you can find 2 takes as we tried a “Swimmer VS Frogwoman” scenario.
Swimmer Kara and Frogwoman Lucy in “Swimmer VS Frogwoman”, 1080p, 60 frames, 1:47 minutes
Some preview pictures:
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+ a short teaser:
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Video contains:
1 frogwoman, 1 swimmer with a snorkel mask, neoprene, 2 smooth skin wetsuits, scuba peril, scuba fight, modern scuba gear,
1 hood, fins
Lethal or non-lethal ending for at least one of them?
Spoiler title
Non-lethal
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Background info:
I think the “Swimmer VS Diver” scenario is always interesting, even though most of these rare scenarios in the movies end with the death of the swimmer in 99% of all cases.
I would like to build in some surprises in a long, scripted version so it won’t be the standard outcome. Or maybe the expected outcome and some surprises on the way to it. I won’t spoil it here 😉
In these two test takes, we tested that scenario.
Several problems make this scenario challenging.
First of all the swimmer has no air source underwater (surprise!) and therefore she can’t stay down for long during such a fight. That makes filming more difficult, of course.
We tested in the shallow end of the pool to stay on the safe side. In the long and scripted version, I would like to use the deep end.
The swimmer has no weights, so she is very buoyant, especially as she is wearing a full neoprene suit here, which increases her buoyancy. The diver must pull her underwater and keep her there… which isn’t very easy.
In the full-scripted long video, we will add more weights to the frogwoman, which should help, even if it will make normal swimming more difficult for her. Perhaps she will wear a 2nd weight belt that she would drop once her evil job is finished. 😉
The snorkel mask we used here isn’t so good for the scenario.
At the end of take 1, the mask started to fill with water, which wasn’t supposed to happen as Frogwoman Lucy didn’t attack it prior.
Maybe we use swimming goggles for the long, scripted video.
Fun facts:
At the very end of take 2, you can see how Kara yanked the mask of Lucy away from her face so it flooded completely.
The first time that Frogwoman Lucy was blind underwater and close to defeat.
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Editing:
I used some filters (10% more brightness in gamma and gain, text).
Where to watch it?
It’s not available in the VIP Club anymore (as videos from Video shot 8 came in).
Get the video any time you want in a video package:
This is kind of a cheat post in terms of female divers… but I think you will find it interesting!
Thanks a LOT to the guy who recommended me this movie.
There is also quite an even better male scuba peril/fight scene in it, maybe I will add that to the post as well in the next weeks.
Preview:
Concentration!
Someone is waiting for her! Someone who wants her to stay underwater….
Scuba…
….fight!
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And here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
Damn, what I would give if we had the female cliff divers and (at least) one female diver!
But still, the scene is very interesting as the scuba fight is well done and quite long. 🙂
You might wanna know the background story behind this:
The naughty scuba killer killed her brother earlier in the movie and (obviously) wants to kill her as well.
This is a French TV movie, and I doubt there will be a dub or subs for this one. And my French from school isn’t good enough to watch the whole movie.
The police anticipated that move and set up a trap for the bad guy. The scuba diver with the blue wetsuit is the hero of the movie.
It’s quite strange that both divers were very close to her landing spot, but seemingly the bad guy didn’t notice the police diver before… which is odd as divers make a lot of bubbles (unless they use rebreathers).
But ok, that is basically my only complaint (besides the gender issue) with this scene.
The scuba fight is filmed well in my opinion, and it takes the detective quite some strength and time to disarm the evil diver that never had a real chance as there are also additional police divers at the scene to intervene.
The detective uses these huge twins tank in all his scuba scenes in the movie. Well, quite a BIG air supply! And he actually needed that earlier on 😉
2 hoods, fins, regulator stealing, fight over treasure
Lethal or non-lethal ending for at least one of them?
Spoiler title
Non-lethal
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Background info:
This is the first video with Frogwoman Ruby in action! And she did a fine job without any prior scuba experience. She used to play underwater rugby in the past for a while and that may be the reason why she is pretty fearless and was a good match for Frogwoman Lucy. 🙂
She also had no problems
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with Lucy closing the air valve on her tank (we tested it once on the surface).
Sometimes it wasn’t easy for me to keep up with the two, as they made good use of the space they had in that deep pool as they swam at a pretty high pace.
At the beginning of the video (before the fight), you will notice
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blue bars over certain small areas of the screen (for about 20 seconds in total).
Sorry for that, but the frogwomen are visible all the time, so it’s not such a big issue. I had to do it since the security diver was visible in these parts of the video and …..well…. he wasn’t supposed to be visible 😉 A mistake that won’t happen again.
I was glad that I could use the stunning Cressi Triton suit this time, and it looked great on Ruby. Perhaps I will buy that suit again in M or L.
I found it as a real bargain (in comparison to its normal price) in size S. But that suit is too small for most women …in this size…
For a test video that has basically no script, I am really happy with the result. It was a good test to see how the Frogwomen would handle such a fight scene and react to certain aspects.
Certainly wanna use that “fight over treasure” scenario in the future again, but then with a detailed script (incl. storyline), and a proper ending.
Fun facts:
Check out how Ruby is clearing her mask in the background as Lucy has found the gold coin.
The gold coin was a standard Greek coin (from before they got the Euro as well).
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Editing:
I used some filters (10% more brightness in gamma and gain, text).
As I mentioned before, the audio here was challenging, with a sound the camera picked up from the pool machinery.
So far, I haven’t figured out how to suppress that sound without damaging the “wanted” audio. But well, it isn’t really a big issue here as the 3 regulators here make a lot of noise so that background noise isn’t really distracting (as you can hear in the preview teaser video above).
Where to watch it?
It’s not available in the VIP Club anymore (as videos from Video shot 8 came in).
Get the video any time you want in a video package:
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…. 🙂
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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 🙂
Now to a woman who really wants to dive with sharks!
The backstory is rather sad, but it’s a very interesting (short) movie and it has some nice scuba scenes in it.
Check out the storyline on the IMDB page if you like (see below).
This is a rather old recommendation I got some years back. Thanks! Now it’s time to post about it 😉
Preview:
Quite a beauty 🙂
Vintage style scuba mask
An underwater meeting with sharks!
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And here is the video:
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I made a cut with the first scene as she is having a flashback that is very sad and tragic.
I didn’t cut anything out of the scuba scene itself.
It’s rather a short scene so I only included it because of the perilous element.
The second scene is much more interesting for me.
Really great close-ups of her face. And a nice vintage-style mask, even though I don’t like that see-through material/color.
The scenes with the sharks and the beautiful music are really well done.
And it’s got to have a peaceful scuba scene with sharks here for a change, after all, that is 10 times more realistic than 99% of the shark movie scenes.
I know this movie since it came out in 2015 and got the UK DVD back then (for some reason it wasn’t released on Bluray?).
It was recommended to me at least 6 or 7 times since then but I didn’t make a post until today.
Why? Well, I was unsure about what to post about this movie. If I would post every scene that is somehow (scuba and/or wetsuit) interesting to this blog… I would have to post at least 70% of the movie…. as here the main actress is in a wetsuit for basically the whole movie(!) except for some flashbacks and…
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…the very first and last minutes of the movie.
So, I decided now to focus on the scuba part of the movie and cut out some minutes where the villain is just starring down at the ice for loooooooong.
What happened before the video scenes?
Well, basically the woman realized that her husband is a murderous psycho and he wants to kill her.
He is a scuba instructor and has special plans for her after he drugged and kidnapped her…
Preview:
The crazy guy has special plans….
….for our frogwoman!
How much air is left?
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Here is the video:
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Watch the video before you continue!
Well, quite a sinister and crazy dude!
And that is just the part where she has her scuba tank… there is a lot more to come.
First, let’s start with some things I don’t like about this scene:
The whole aspect of how much air is in her tank is quite weird. Right before the video starts he empties her full tank from 3000 PSI down to 1000 PSI in a matter of seconds by sucking on the regulator and pushing the “air shower” (the translated german term) button on it. That would never ever work that fast. Plus why does he use the “air shower” button and has the regulator in his mouth? That wouldn’t work for long as someone can’t take in that much air. And it would take much longer than in the movie.
Plus the whole air pocket aspect. Is it possible that there is such a big air pocket on a lake under the ice? I mean the exhaled air from her tank would be there for sure, but that would be completely useless as this air is already “used. (*EDIT: My mistake)
In two takes the camera focuses on her depth instead of her gas gauge!
Well….why? I mean she is just under the ice the whole time and has only one way to go (up). The audience knows that, so why show it twice?
Perhaps, as the gauge is near zero… the movie makers confused it with the gas gauge?
Very odd….
And then the gas gauge very quickly goes from 1000 down to near zero in a matter of seconds! How is that possible? Or is that supposed to be a time-lapse?
However, there are a lot of positive aspects for me as well:
It’s quite a unique setting! I mean a guy who wants to drown a woman but puts a wetsuit and a scuba tank on her?
Certainly never seen that in any other movie….
The whole “running out of air” while the killer is just above her is very suspenseful!
The frogwoman is attractive and her wetsuit is quite nice. Of course, I would have preferred a black smooth skin wetsuit, but well, this way the heroine is very “flashy”.
And as the villain here is 100% evil and crazy… it’s a very intense survival scene…and that’s only the start for her.
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About the whole movie:
There a very long takes of him just staring down at the ice. I mean the movie has only a length of about 70 minutes but it seems like they had to include a lot of overly long takes to even get to that length.
Plus his whole plan is kind of odd. I mean ok, he is crazy.
His whole plan for her is quite odd. I mean he certainly wants her to suffer before she dies.
He gives her a scuba tank but it is only one-third full.
So I guess he was “worried” that she might freeze to death before drowning? Even I can only guess how long someone could actually survive the ice-cold water, even with …an inappropriate… wetsuit on.
He gives her a wetsuit but that is only a little protection when the water temperature is around zero (celsius).
He straps the regulator to the back of the tank so she has to struggle a lot to even reach it.
Plus he is there on the ice but basically can’t see anything of her struggle, except some silhouettes and some air bubbles.
I guess he enjoys the whole situation big time, otherwise, he wouldn’t have come up with such a complicated scenario for her.
I am pretty sure that the screenwriter might have some aqua fetishes 😉
The flashbacks are interesting and important to the story, but too long for my taste and drag down the intensity a little.
I guess I will make a special cut of the whole movie where I cut out the flashbacks and overly long scenes of the villain doing nothing but starring for loooong takes.
But this movie is very much unique and very suspenseful, as I am cheering for her to find a way to get out of this horrible situation.
Yeah, this is a low-budget production and the acting isn’t always very good (especially the wooden villain) but certainly a very interesting scenario that you won’t find like this in any other movie.
Certainly, a movie that you should know and I can only recommend watching the whole thing!
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Here are two posters of the movie (minus the title):
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Very good motives in my opinion! Even the right one looks like bad CGI.
