Get Soft With Dr Snuggles

Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 82 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

This episode, we’re joined by our good bud Carlo, from Crud Buddies and the Notes From the Back Row podcast. And all of us are wrapped up into a fatal cuddle from the master David DeCoteau, as we check out his 1989 proto-erotic thriller Deadly Embrace! It’s sort of like an erotic thriller, in that it’s about an affair that turns deadly - a very familiar erotic thriller plot - but also there’s about 50 minutes where people mostly just talk on the phone to each other. On the plus side, it does star Jan-Michael Vincent, Linnea Quigley and Ken Abraham, and DeCoteau’s camera is all about Ken Abraham in this movie, so that at least is a lot of fun.

And we talk about the film’s female lead, Mindi Miller (aka Ty Randolph). Miller was not only an actor, but also a stunt performer, model, bodybuilder and - more recently - a skin care esthetician. She also had a rather famous boyfriend in the ‘70s! As a bonus, not only do you get to hear all about that, you get to hear her (in a clip from another podcast) talk about how her ex-boyfriend can still time travel and visit her in dreams even though he’s long dead.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 81 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

This time, we’re joined by Shannon Tweed superfan Tanner (who runs the StrippedToKill account on Instagram). But never let it be said Get Soft choose the easy roads or obvious films: instead of going for one of her big name projects, we decided to talk about Powerplay, a 1999 erotic thriller slash sort of comedy? Something like that. It is a weird one, either way - after the death of her step father, a ‘90s hot young woman chases down the gold digging black widow who was responsible for his demise. She also brings along her 40-something boyfriend, who has zero charisma, and even less idea of how to track someone down with any kind of subtlety. There’s kickboxing, there’s some serious, serious gore, strange comic relief, a soundtrack that makes at least half the cast of the show cry with laughter, and copious amounts of Shannon Tweed acting evil.

Of course, you can’t have a Shannon Tweed superfan on the show without talking about the life and career of the queen of erotic thrillers. We chart the rise and rise of Shannon Tweed from mink farm to Playboy mansion, all the way to reality show superstardom with Gene Simmons.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 80 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

This time around, we finish up the final three episodes of Submission, the 2016 BDSM drama series by the great Jacky St James! The first three episodes didn’t go down great with the gang - will things pick up? Can a truly shocking final twist redeem the show? At the very least, we did receive a nice note from Jacky St James saying she liked our discussion of the first three episodes, so there’s that.

Plus, having talked about Jacky last time, we take a look at the life and career of the biggest name star of the show: the legendary Raylin Joy, better known as Skin Diamond! Joy got into porn almost without really meaning to make a career out of it, but then became a superstar. She left the industry in 2016, so we check out some of what she’s been doing since - music and modelling, mostly!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 79 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

We haven’t done a TV show for almost 12 months now, since we finished our run on Hot Springs Hotel, so it’s well past time we looked at that wild corner of the softcore landscape. From weirdo ‘90s comedy, this time we’re moving into the most contemporary thing we’ve ever done: the 2016, six episode BDSM drama series, Submission! We’re joined once again by the legendary Pinky for this dizzying mix of pleasure and pain. Submission is the softcore debut for writer, director and co-creator Jacky St. James, who is responsible for the phenomenally successful hardcore series The Submission of Emma Marx, which - much like this series - attempted to redefine BDSM fiction following that whole 50 Shades business. But will a bunch of people who have absolutely no experience or particular interest in BDSM submit to the show’s charms?

And, of course, we look into the life and career of Jacky St. James, one of the most important and successful female writer/directors in modern hardcore. Astonishingly, she got into the business when she won a script writing competition, which is cool, but also means she gets asked to retell the story every single time she’s interviewed, which seems like it would get tiring.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 78 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

It’s been a while since we’ve done a British film, and even longer since we’ve done a good old raunchy British sex comedy. So, this episode, the core trio check out 1974’s Confessions of a Sex Maniac, aka The Man Who Couldn’t Get Enough! An unusually unprofessional, sex obsessed young architect decides to design a building based on the perfect breast, but of course he needs to find the perfect breast first. Those Brits, right? What a bunch. Turns out the movie is sort of like a sex comedy, but without actual jokes. So that’s odd.

For some reason, it stars Roger Lloyd Pack, who’s probably best known from either one of the Harry Potter movies, The Vicar of Dibley, or Only Fools and Horses, depending on how old you are and if you’re from either the UK or a British colony. But he was also a Shakespearean actor, and fiercely left wing, pro-union, and pro-public education, public broadcasting, public health, and public transport.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 77 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

This episode, we’re joined by Movie Melt and Songs on Trial’s own Matt, which generally means two things: we’re drinking, and we’re doing something weird. Both are applicable in this case. We check out 1999 but also kind of 1997’s Eve’s Beach Fantasy, starring April Adams, who was briefly sort of a big deal in hardcore between 1994 and 1997. This is her only softcore appearance, but also it sort of wasn’t, because Eve’s Beach Fantasy is really repurposed and re-edited 1997 hardcore film Forbidden. Somehow, this softcore version is 87 minutes long when the hardcore version is only 80 minutes. Why? Well, it is certainly not a case of more plot being added, that’s for sure.

Naturally, we talk about April Adams herself, because she’s the big star in this one. Granted, it turns out there’s not a whole lot of info about her beyond her two and a bit years and 40-something hardcore credits, but perhaps 90 seconds of her being interviewed in Randy West’s Up And Cummers 16 will suffice?

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 76 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

We continue our look at the Femalien series this episode, and take on 1998’s surprisingly direct sequel Femalien 2! This time, we’re joined not only by Heather from sister podcast Movie Melt, but also Ash and Avery from For the Story! It’s like our cousin podcast, I guess? Nephew podcast maybe. Anyway, Kara the alien is back, but the whole story revolves around two aliens sent to find her and bring her back to the home planet. It’s a neat twist, but it does unfortunately mean there’s a significantly less Kara, which is an issue because she was kind of the highlight of the first movie.

And even though there’s less of her, we still look at the life and career of Venesa Talor: Kara herself! From lip-sync make-your-own-music-videos in her teens to writing and performing an entire musical, we talk about it all!

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 75 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

After a few very quiet years, the big news is that there’s a new softcore movie coming out soon - the third film in the Femalien series! We will, naturally, cover that, but first we need to start back at the beginning so we understand the deep lore and continuity of the series. So, this episode we look at 1996’s Femalien, from Full Moon offshoot Surrender Cinema. And for no reason other than the fact she’s an absolute delight and we adore her, we’re joined by actor, writer and director Honey Lauren! You might know her from Men Cry Bullets, Satan Was a Lady, and Vice Academy 4, 5 and 6, but you should also check out the short she wrote and directed recently, Wives of the Skies. It’s really very excellent. Femalien is packed with sex scenes that go on too long, but we all find there’s a lot to like in between.

One of the highlights of the film is the great Jacqueline Lovell. She was one of the biggest names in nude modelling in the mid-’90s, conquering the internet before anyone knew it was a thing to conquer, but she also made some really memorable performances in Full Moon films like Head of the Family. Since then, she’s written and directed a number of films herself, along with her husband.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 74 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

It’s the fourth and final installment of our ongoing look at Playboy’s Inside Out anthology series, and it’s just the lads again: Siobhan had a 98th birthday party to attend, and turns out she wasn’t entirely unhappy about missing this one anyway. Still, if there was ever a team of all-boys who could fill in for everyone’s favourite lady co-host, it’s Dr Snuggles, Drew, Texas Mike and Bobby from the ever wonderful Grindbin Podcast. Truly A-list. Or at least B+-list.

Inside Out 4 is not as weird and wonderful as previous volumes, but it’s also not as objectionable, on the plus side. It does feature appearances from the Raimi brothers - Ted in front of the camera, Sam behind it - and of course there's the third and final short from the delightful Joe Frank. It also features debut short films for both the great Robert Kubilos (I Like to Play Games, Embrace the Darkness II & III) and Antoine Fuqua, singularly one of the greatest action directors of the 21st century (Olympus Has Fallen, The Equalizer, Shooter). Have you seen Shooter yet, by the way? It’s one of the best action films ever - not a joke - and it feels like we talk about it every other week, and honestly it’s a lot more interesting to talk about than Inside Out 4. Go watch Shooter and then call our voicemail line or send us an email to tell us what you thought.

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Dr. Snuggles and friends return for episode 73 of your guide to the truly astonishing world of softcore films, and the world’s number one podcast on that subject!

Having conquered the German language last episode, the gang turn their hand to Italian, checking out crazy 1993 cousin-fucking erotic-thriller Graffiante Desiderio, aka Craving Desire! A lot of listeners would probably be familiar with Sergio Martino, famous for Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, All the Colors of the Dark, Torso, and The Suspicious Death of a Minor in the ‘70s. Well, this is what he was doing in the ‘90s. But honestly that’s not the headline here. The main reason to listen to this episode is that our guest is Pinky, the host of the greatest podcast in the history of the medium, The Pink Latex Show! To say having her appear as a guest is a dream come true would be putting it mildly. Apologies to all past and future guests, but this is the big one and we could, if we wanted, retire happy now. We won’t, but we could.

Also, we talk about the star of Graffiante Desiderio: model and actor Vittoria Belvedere! These days, she’s thrilling audiences on stage in musical theatre, appearing in roles such as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, and Maria in The Sound of Music!

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