Wow, I want to play pool at this place.  As soon as I hit play on the clip, I started taking screencaps.  After about six of them, I realized there was just too much good stuff to capture with stills.  Just watch the video (below).  It comes from Joy, a 1983 French film being released on DVD next month by Severin Films (the guys who bought Birdemic) for the first time in the U.S.

Adapted for the screen from Joy Laurey’s popular erotic novels, JOY (1983) and JOY AND JOAN (1985) became international sensations in the early ’80s thanks to their daring depiction of sexuality, seductive tone and sensuous settings.
Fittingly, JOY was restored using a print discovered in the screening room of a Paris brothel, while JOY AND JOAN was restored from a print seized in a Marseilles vice raid. JOY boasts an additional 12 minutes of footage, including the complete ‘secret orgy dungeon’ sequence.

Aw, you had me at “Paris brothel,” but ‘Secret Orgy Dungeon’ is my middle name.

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Back in July, I posted a trailer for Birdemic, from writer/director James Nguyen, a movie that arguably looks stranger than After Last Season.  My original description of the trailer:

It begins with more than a full minute of completely actionless landscape shots set to unmixed audio from the camera mic.  Uh, dude?  Those shouldn’t be in the movie, let alone the trailer.  But just when you’re like, “Hey, where’s the birdpocalypse I was promised?”  You hit the 1:08 mark and BOOM!  THERE’S THE F*CKING BIRDPOCALYPSE!

In short, it looks like something that was made by an autistic high school student, which was enough to capture the interest of me and countless other internet trolls.  Now, as a result, THR reports that Severin has bought the distribution rights, describing it as a “romantic thriller”, with plans for a theatrical release later this year.

The film revolves around a young couple trapped in a small Northern California town under siege by homicidal birds. Paying homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” “Birdemic” includes an appearance by “Birds” star Tippi Hedren.

Between this guy, William Hung, and After Last Season, it truly is a good time to be a clueless Asian.  But I don’t begrudge them their ironic success.  I’m all for it.  I’ll even go see this in a theater for the kitsch value.  Just as long as we can all stop pretending Bob Saget is funny.  Deal?
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