The late Playboy founder Hugh Hefner was one of the most controversial figures in the public eye, and one of the scandals that severely tarnished his name was the alleged assault of Playboy model Dorothy Stratten.
Dorothy Stratten via The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
She was only 18 when she was hired to do a photo shoot for the famed magazine and later invited to the Playboy mansion where the assault took place. Hefner’s valet witnessed the event but was told to keep silent.
Suggested“I had hours of video, hundreds of sexy tapes”: Hugh Hefner’s Widow Reveals Playboy Mogul Filmed A-List Actors Having S*x in His Bed With Spycams Without Consent
Hugh Hefner Denied Assaulting Late Playboy Model Dorothy Stratten
Director Peter Bogdanovich, who allegedly had an affair with Dorothy Stratten, released a memoir on the model’s behalf entitled The Killing of the Unicorn:...
Dorothy Stratten via The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
She was only 18 when she was hired to do a photo shoot for the famed magazine and later invited to the Playboy mansion where the assault took place. Hefner’s valet witnessed the event but was told to keep silent.
Suggested“I had hours of video, hundreds of sexy tapes”: Hugh Hefner’s Widow Reveals Playboy Mogul Filmed A-List Actors Having S*x in His Bed With Spycams Without Consent
Hugh Hefner Denied Assaulting Late Playboy Model Dorothy Stratten
Director Peter Bogdanovich, who allegedly had an affair with Dorothy Stratten, released a memoir on the model’s behalf entitled The Killing of the Unicorn:...
- 2/27/2024
- by Ariane Cruz
- FandomWire
With striking beauty, undeniable charisma, and promising talent, Dorothy Stratten quickly rose to fame with her works in Playboy magazine. The actress had a photogenic appeal that endeared her audiences, but her life was cut short by her ex-husband who felt sidelined after her success. The Playboy Murders is a docu-series that showcases to its viewers the tragic and disturbing insight of the murder that will surely send shivers down your spine.
Dorothy Stratten with Paul Snider
The Playboy Murders looks back into the tragic end of the actresses who were once associated with Playboy. The episode which airs on ID tells the gruesome end of Dorothy Stratten, the Playmate of the Year in 1980 who was brutally murdered by her ex-husband It will share chills down your spine.
Trigger Warning
The Playboy Murders Delves Into The Horrifying Murder of Dorothy Stratten by Her Ex-Husband
In the episode of The Playboy Murders,...
Dorothy Stratten with Paul Snider
The Playboy Murders looks back into the tragic end of the actresses who were once associated with Playboy. The episode which airs on ID tells the gruesome end of Dorothy Stratten, the Playmate of the Year in 1980 who was brutally murdered by her ex-husband It will share chills down your spine.
Trigger Warning
The Playboy Murders Delves Into The Horrifying Murder of Dorothy Stratten by Her Ex-Husband
In the episode of The Playboy Murders,...
- 2/27/2024
- by Tushar Auddy
- FandomWire
Cannes Film Festival has earned the admiration of film lovers for showcasing the finest in auteur films. But for the last 60 years, the Cannes Market has provided economic oomph to the annual seaside unspoolings, with fare perhaps less artsy, but with its own special aesthetic pleasures.
Cannes Palme d’Or winner (and 2019 Fest competitor) Quentin Tarantino has waxed poetic about one of the market’s most emblematic and distinctive film companies, Crown International.
“I’ve been lamenting the fact that exploitation movies don’t exist anymore, but they do, they’re just on television,” Tarantino told Movieline in 1994. “‘Baywatch’ is as good as any Crown Intl. movie,” said Tarantino, “but without the nipples. You get all the breasts, you just don’t get the nipples…”
Founded by Newton “Red” Jacobs in 1959, the same year the market was officially launched, Crown Intl. enjoyed decades of buoyant bazaar triumphs, reaping the benefits...
Cannes Palme d’Or winner (and 2019 Fest competitor) Quentin Tarantino has waxed poetic about one of the market’s most emblematic and distinctive film companies, Crown International.
“I’ve been lamenting the fact that exploitation movies don’t exist anymore, but they do, they’re just on television,” Tarantino told Movieline in 1994. “‘Baywatch’ is as good as any Crown Intl. movie,” said Tarantino, “but without the nipples. You get all the breasts, you just don’t get the nipples…”
Founded by Newton “Red” Jacobs in 1959, the same year the market was officially launched, Crown Intl. enjoyed decades of buoyant bazaar triumphs, reaping the benefits...
- 5/13/2019
- by Steven Gaydos
- Variety Film + TV
TV series sevelopment continues on the Crown International Pictures reboot of director William Sachs 1980 comedic science fiction feature "Galaxina" (1980):
"...in the year 3008, the crew of the 'Intergalactic Space Police' cruiser 'Infinity' is on patrol duty in deep space. The ship is captained by the incompetent 'Cornelius Butt' (Avery Schreiber) and his crewmen including first officer 'Sgt. Thor' (Stephen Macht), pilot 'Pvt. Buzz McHenry' (J.D. Hinton)...
"...the alien 'Maurice' (Lionel Mark Smith), 'Sam' (Tad Horino) and the female android 'Galaxina' (Dorothy Stratten)..."
Stratten, 'Playboy Playmate Of The Year' was killed in a murder/suicide shortly after the film's release and became the subject of director Bob Fosse's feature "Star 80" (1983).
Besides its homage and parodies of "Star Trek" (1966), "Star Wars" (1977) and "Alien" (1979), "Galaxina" is noted as having won the 'Audience Award' at the 1983 'Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film'.
Click the images to enlarge and...
"...in the year 3008, the crew of the 'Intergalactic Space Police' cruiser 'Infinity' is on patrol duty in deep space. The ship is captained by the incompetent 'Cornelius Butt' (Avery Schreiber) and his crewmen including first officer 'Sgt. Thor' (Stephen Macht), pilot 'Pvt. Buzz McHenry' (J.D. Hinton)...
"...the alien 'Maurice' (Lionel Mark Smith), 'Sam' (Tad Horino) and the female android 'Galaxina' (Dorothy Stratten)..."
Stratten, 'Playboy Playmate Of The Year' was killed in a murder/suicide shortly after the film's release and became the subject of director Bob Fosse's feature "Star 80" (1983).
Besides its homage and parodies of "Star Trek" (1966), "Star Wars" (1977) and "Alien" (1979), "Galaxina" is noted as having won the 'Audience Award' at the 1983 'Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film'.
Click the images to enlarge and...
- 12/26/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Crown International Pictures will reboot director William Sachs 1980 comedic science fiction feature "Galaxina" (1980) as a TV series:
"...in the year 3008, the crew of the 'Intergalactic Space Police' cruiser 'Infinity' is on patrol duty in deep space. The ship is captained by the incompetent 'Cornelius Butt' (Avery Schreiber) and his crewmen including first officer 'Sgt. Thor' (Stephen Macht), pilot 'Pvt. Buzz McHenry' (J.D. Hinton)...
"...the alien 'Maurice' (Lionel Mark Smith), 'Sam' (Tad Horino) and the female android 'Galaxina' (Dorothy Stratten)..."
Stratten, 'Playboy Playmate Of The Year' was killed by her loser boyfriend in a murder/suicide shortly after the film's release and became the subject of director Bob Fosse's feature "Star 80" (1983).
Besides its homage and parodies of "Star Trek" (1966), "Star Wars" (1977) and "Alien" (1979), "Galaxina" is noted as having won the 'Audience Award' at the 1983 'Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film'.
Click the images to enlarge...
"...in the year 3008, the crew of the 'Intergalactic Space Police' cruiser 'Infinity' is on patrol duty in deep space. The ship is captained by the incompetent 'Cornelius Butt' (Avery Schreiber) and his crewmen including first officer 'Sgt. Thor' (Stephen Macht), pilot 'Pvt. Buzz McHenry' (J.D. Hinton)...
"...the alien 'Maurice' (Lionel Mark Smith), 'Sam' (Tad Horino) and the female android 'Galaxina' (Dorothy Stratten)..."
Stratten, 'Playboy Playmate Of The Year' was killed by her loser boyfriend in a murder/suicide shortly after the film's release and became the subject of director Bob Fosse's feature "Star 80" (1983).
Besides its homage and parodies of "Star Trek" (1966), "Star Wars" (1977) and "Alien" (1979), "Galaxina" is noted as having won the 'Audience Award' at the 1983 'Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film'.
Click the images to enlarge...
- 3/14/2018
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Crown International Pictures, producer of William Sachs’ 1980 low-budget science fantasy comedy movie Galaxina, is bringing a reimagined version of the pic to the small screen. The company has set writer/producer Mark A. Altman (The Librarians, Agent X) to develop and showrun a science fiction TV series based on the film, which starred the late Dorothy Stratten as Galaxina, a cybernetic being who holds the key to the discovery of the mysterious Blue Star crystal. Crown is…...
- 3/5/2018
- Deadline TV
Scream Factory released a HD-remastered version of The Incredible Melting Man on Blu-ray last year, but horror fans in the UK no longer need to worry about missing out. Although a release date has not been set, Arrow Video has confirmed that they are working on their own Blu-ray version of The Incredible Melting Man and you can take a look at the official cover art below:
“He was once the hero… now he’s the hunted! Colonel Steve West has just returned from an incredible history-making flight to Saturn when he is hospitalized with an ailment that baffles the entire medical community. His flesh is melting and to stay alive he must consume human flesh and blood. The infected Colonel West escapes from the doctors’ supervision and hides in the surrounding community where he begins to hunt for human flesh. Who can stop the Incredible Melting Man?
Featuring “excellent...
“He was once the hero… now he’s the hunted! Colonel Steve West has just returned from an incredible history-making flight to Saturn when he is hospitalized with an ailment that baffles the entire medical community. His flesh is melting and to stay alive he must consume human flesh and blood. The infected Colonel West escapes from the doctors’ supervision and hides in the surrounding community where he begins to hunt for human flesh. Who can stop the Incredible Melting Man?
Featuring “excellent...
- 4/10/2014
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Chicago – Scream Factory, the horror branch of the great Shout Factory, continues to impress with an ambitious slate of catalog films making their HD debut in the coming months, many of which were announced at Comic-Con last month (“Nightbreed”!). They also seem to be upping their release rate, unleashing two horror flicks last week, John Carpenter’s beloved “The Fog” and the truly horrendous “The Incredible Melting Man,” a cultural curiosity but a crap film.
One of the many things so remarkable about the Shout Factory releases is the honesty drawn from the interview subjects on them. What other studio would not only land Jamie Lee Curtis for an extended interview to talk about not only “The Fog” but her filmography of that scream queen era in general and include the fact that she doesn’t particularly like John Carpenter’s follow-up to “Halloween.” “I am surprised that it has...
One of the many things so remarkable about the Shout Factory releases is the honesty drawn from the interview subjects on them. What other studio would not only land Jamie Lee Curtis for an extended interview to talk about not only “The Fog” but her filmography of that scream queen era in general and include the fact that she doesn’t particularly like John Carpenter’s follow-up to “Halloween.” “I am surprised that it has...
- 8/6/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
With its Blu-ray release less than a week away, Scream Factory has released The Incredible Melting Man trailer and a number of clips. For any readers that may not be familiar with The Incredible Melting Man, the 1977 cult classic was directed and written by William Sachs, and stars Alex Rebar as an astronaut who returns from a mission to Saturn and begins to slowly melt away:
“He was once the hero… now he’s the hunted! Colonel Steve West has just returned from an incredible history-making flight to Saturn when he is hospitalized with an ailment that baffles the entire medical community. His flesh is melting and to stay alive he must consume human flesh and blood. The infected Colonel West escapes from the doctors’ supervision and hides in the surrounding community where he begins to hunt for human flesh. Who can stop the Incredible Melting Man?
Featuring “excellent makeup...
“He was once the hero… now he’s the hunted! Colonel Steve West has just returned from an incredible history-making flight to Saturn when he is hospitalized with an ailment that baffles the entire medical community. His flesh is melting and to stay alive he must consume human flesh and blood. The infected Colonel West escapes from the doctors’ supervision and hides in the surrounding community where he begins to hunt for human flesh. Who can stop the Incredible Melting Man?
Featuring “excellent makeup...
- 7/25/2013
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Directed by: Pat Tremblay
Written by: Pat Tremblay
Starring: Navin Pratap, Jamie Abrams
I’ve never been a fan of online reviews in which the writer eviscerates a film with unbridled nastiness.
These are often first-person tirades about how difficult the film was to endure and how they would rather "put an arm in a meat grinder, poke an eye out with a stick" or some other such intolerable action rather than watch the film again. I don’t believe that these kinds of “reviews” are productive or very fair to the people involved. But about 20 minutes into Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass, my mind began composing the very kind of snarky, mean-spirited essay I hold in such contempt. Quite frankly, my time may have been better spent with that meat grinder…
I watch a lot of really terrible independent films, many of them of the horror and science fiction variety.
Written by: Pat Tremblay
Starring: Navin Pratap, Jamie Abrams
I’ve never been a fan of online reviews in which the writer eviscerates a film with unbridled nastiness.
These are often first-person tirades about how difficult the film was to endure and how they would rather "put an arm in a meat grinder, poke an eye out with a stick" or some other such intolerable action rather than watch the film again. I don’t believe that these kinds of “reviews” are productive or very fair to the people involved. But about 20 minutes into Hellacious Acres: The Case of John Glass, my mind began composing the very kind of snarky, mean-spirited essay I hold in such contempt. Quite frankly, my time may have been better spent with that meat grinder…
I watch a lot of really terrible independent films, many of them of the horror and science fiction variety.
- 5/11/2012
- by Bradley Harding
- Planet Fury
My science-fiction itch was not scratched sufficiently by Andrew Niccol's disappointing In Time, which opens wide in the U.S. today, and so I sought solace in a film that I've never seen before, The Incredible Melting Man, which sounded from its premise like a horror-science fiction hybrid. Released in December 1977, The Incredible Melting Man is an endearingly awful creature feature, without much horror or science fiction, although it can boast of gloriously gloopy special effects and make-up by Rick Baker. Written and directed by William Sachs, who would go on to make such deathless classics as Van Nuys Blvd. (filmed in my hometown!), Galaxina, and Hot Chili, the film follows what happens to the only astronaut to survive a disastrous space flight to Saturn....
- 10/29/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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