Isabel Is The Reigning Queen!

Isabel managed to go over JUSTINE for the number ONE spot in August. Before the results from Amazon came in, JUSTINE jumped back up to be the best seller of the month for a day or two; however Isabel gave an impressive good fight. On the last day and just before the report from amazon, JUSTINE and Isabel were tied for the first place. When the report from Amazon came, when it seemed that JUSTINE would prevail, Isabel kept gaining ground and by the end of the last day of August The Passion of Isabel was the best seller!

The results of the end of the month show some surprises, AristoCrux came up, beating even Agent X, one of the sure fire old films. These are the results:

1.- The Passion of Isabel – 694 points
2.- JUSTINE – 687 points
3.- Maleficarum – 365 points
4.- Le Marquis de la Croix – 157 points
5.- BARBAZUL – 119 points
6.- Dead But Dreaming – 82 points
7.- Sirwiñakuy – 70 points
8.- AristoCrux – 69 points
9.- Martyr – 67 points
10.- Agent X – 66 points

The last few days at the GIMP forum saw lot of back and forth discussion about The Passion of Isabel and my posts, so much that I don’t think it would be a good idea for me to respond to each and everyone of those posts, so, I’ll just comment about some of them and in more general terms … I think. I will not respond to silly comments about the 50 shades of red in the whipping marks.

Alright, let me vent about what I see as the real problem I have with Margot. It has nothing to do with the movies themselves; I would feel this way whether they were utter dreck or better than Citizen Kane. It’s that she comes here and to CruxForums and maybe other sites, posts her advertisements and skedaddles. She NEVER reads a story, comments on a pic or in any way participates in the discussions of either site on anything other than her movies. I find that disrespectful and whatever she or Amy did at some point in the past doesn’t change that. So Margot, if you want me to care about your movies, go to Cruxforum and read one of my stories. Or anyone’s stories there or here. Because it should be a two way street.
windar

Both the CruxForums and CruxFoundation are thread base forums, in both cases I have threads in areas that the people who run those forums have reserved them as “commercial” for the purpose of promoting outside work like ours. There are hundreds of threads in each of those forums, and I don’t think everyone reads and/or comments on them all. You would have to go over each one of those threads and read the entire conversations going back days, months, years, to find my contributions, which do exist buried somewhere there. My commercial threads in those two forums have very high number of hits, thus a lot of people are interested in following what I have to say, and there are no complaints about holy cows there because those not interested in my eloquence simply do not go in to read me. That’s not the case in the GIMP forum, where there’s ONE main page and there’s no way of knowing how many people actually like to read me except for the stats I get from the links I post. It’s obvious that for each complainer and nay sayer I get at least 200 hits to my links.

Margot just recently responded to my criticism of Jac with a copy pasted defending post from crux forums along with an explanation of him practicing a “less is more” approach Im just not understanding…and a subtle comparison of Jac to Academy Award winner Jack Lemmon. So I know… if I can read nonsense like that and still realize the importance of Margot and her posts to this forum these whiners can do likewise. Hell… without her posts over the last few weeks thered of barely been any notable forum activity whatsoever…it seems dumb to whine about one of the few contributer who have even been around lately doing thier part and contributing. And though I may not like many things about Red Feline and the direction they’ve taken in the last two years even so most of her still turn me on more than the deluge of art of women with needles through thier tits or other depictions of acts I find completely unappealing. Again…RF isn’t exactly rocking my world but theyre still closer than many to doing it as far as I can see. And to any who think shes “paying Ralphus”…probably know little to nothing of this board’s history or why its even still around. Go check back on posts a few years…
Dr Yuya

While I appreciate the positive aspects of the good Dr comments, I feel I must clear up a couple of things. I was not comparing our Jac to Jack Lemmon, one of the greatest comedian actors of all time, I was just pointing out that Blake Edwards needed him to play against character for his role in Days of Wine and Roses. I could also have commented about Jack Palance, playing good old Rodin in Jess Franco’s Justine. Palance went totally to the overacting side, overplaying the character to the hilt. Our Jac decided to go the opposite, giving him a more sinister feeling, just as he does in his role of Torquemada in The Passion.

Another issue I’d like to clarify is concerned with the direction we took in the last two years. It was almost two years ago that we finished shooting Pygmalion, it will be two years at the end of this year when we completed shooting JUSTINE. After completing JUSTINE our work practically stopped while Jac went into the rain forest to shoot a documentary for NatGeo, while, at the same time, he was totally involved in the post production of both, JUSTINE and Pygmalion. Amy too was busy with those two films, apart from getting her masters degree and teaching film at a university in the US.

Jac began this year by taking our company through an old ground, the Red Feline style of movies, with The Passion of Isabel. So, the last couple of years were mostly a transition period between the cycle that ended when Amy decided to return to the US and the new cycle that starts with The Passion and the work that is to come. The direction we’ll be taking now is a blank page at this point. However, the direction we took almost ten years ago, might be at the crux of the matter. It was in 2008 that we produced Amy’s first film, Sirwiñakuy, which led to us getting involved in big production budget movies like Maleficarum, BARBAZUL, Le Marquis de la Croix and so on. So, if the comment about the direction we took is about all those movies, then it’s practically a decade worth of productions. I know, it all seems like yesterday, but its almost ten years and we all kind of grew a lot older since then. BTW, the direction we took after 2008, has Ralphus as a culprit, he put down a good amount of cash that made Maleficarum possible. If there ever was a cash transaction between our company and our dear Ralphus, it was that.

(…) I thought Pachamama was going for a more ambitious project that would be more than kink.com style torture porn. Obviously my opinion is my own and I will not even debate those who disagree with me. If they enjoy this production, then that is all that matters. I just felt that I had to voice my disappointment and give advance warning of what to expect to those who have not yet purchased the movie.
Michael Max

Bea is beautiful and convincing in her suffering … admittedly nice visuals … people looking for a video of a beautiful woman suffering would be pleased...
Michael Max

For a ‘bad’ review, Mr Max gives a lot of kudos to The Passion. This film was never intended to be as ambitious as our big budget movies like Maleficarum, Dead But Dreaming or BARBAZUL, with a display of production values worthy of Hammer films. No, The Passion was an intense study of the torture of a beautiful woman. That was the intention and that’s what the film is. A very intimate performance where only two people were involved in the entire production and no one else took part in it, NO CREW at all! I have to emphasise that.