A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell

[jimmy olsen]

People are fucked up, how the hell can this shit be popular. 

To make it clear, I'm not arguing for censorship, just railing against the bad taste of the masses.

http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/hulucination/2010/03/02/nymphoid-barbarian-dinosaur-hell-hulu-s-mega-popular-movie-about-child

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell: Hulu's Mega-Popular Movie About Child Molestation

By Chadwick Matlin
Posted Tuesday, March 2, 2010 - 4:49pm

A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell is a 1990 film that features a girl besieged by hordes of rapists, dinosaurs, and one giant phallic monster called the "chromasaurus." At several points she is cornered, pinned down, and sexually assaulted. During one of these episodes another character removes her shirt, roughly massages mud on her breast, and assumes the missionary position. This girl, we are told, is "prepubescent." This movie doesn't just depict the lust for rape but the longings of pedophilia.

As of Monday, A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell was the most popular film on Hulu. It has been in the top five for several days, and it's doing better than Ghostbusters, The Saint, and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. (It has since fallen to No. 3 in popularity.)

The R-rated movie might not even make the cut for a Mystery Science Theater episode. The shlock is as overwhelming as the dialogue is sparse. It is a 90-minute odyssey into ratty troll costumes, claymation dinosaurs, and deserted forests. It's unadulterated camp, the kind of thing that is meant to be watched with friends after a night of burnt lungs. But alongside the low-budget effects is an unsettling narrative, and one that appears incongruous with Hulu's misson.
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Should Hulu be showing a film whose plot is so disturbing? Does a joint venture of three mainstream media corporations and a site that prides itself on the quality of its content have a special obligation to not air this kind of material? Or is Hulu the equivalent of HBO or Showtime, able to show whatever it wants, regardless of indecency codes? That the answer isn't readily apparent illustrates the odd, ad hoc norms of the Internet, and how different they are than those of analog media. It's unclear to everyone whether Hulu, as an Internet site that specializes in network TV, is beholden to one set of norms or the other.

To be clear, it is not a bare breast that makes A Nymphoid Barbarian worthy of attention. Hulu features plenty of R-rated films, many of which feature nudity or adult themes. In fact, Troma Entertainment, the film's infamous production house, has a dozen of its films available on Hulu, all of which are edgy in one way or another. Usually, their names tell the whole story—Killer Condom, Rabid Grannies, Cannibal: The Musical. For others, like the sadomasochistic softcore porno Chosen One, it's only when you watch the movie that you see milky wax poured over a naked woman's body. (In this case, Carmen Electra's.) It's the kind of thing that would air on Skinemax. For all R-rated films, Hulu requires viewers to be 17 or older, though that age limit is as unenforceable as any on the Internet.

What distinguishes A Nymphoid Barbarian are the clear overtones of pedophilia. There is hardly any dialogue in the movie, so narrations in the beginning of the film do all the storytelling. The first comes from an omniscent narrator who makes clear that our heroine has not yet reached puberty. He explains there was some type of war, and some nuclear fallout was involved. Of the humans and mutants left on this nuclear wasteland, "All of them are hot for a nymphoid barbarian in dinosaur hell." Then, to get the audience excited about the landmark achievement of the film, he explains that, "For the first time ever, the prehistoric meets the prepubescent." Later, to emphasize the point, he repeats himself, this time over a split-screen of a dinosaur and our half-clothed heroine: "The prehistoric and the prepubescent together at last."

The age and sexualization of the lead actress seem deliberately ambiguous. She certainly appears to be a woman—I was unable to determine exactly how old the actress, Linda Corwin, was at the time of filming. She says in her narration, "Sometimes when the juices start to flow, I feel like a nymphoid. ... It becomes harder and harder and harder than ever to find a decent boyfriend." And yet she's prepubescent. The film appears to want it both ways. She is a virginal child whose sex cravings go unfulfilled by the ugliness that surrounds her.

During the film, the woman is sexually assaulted twice. First, three men pin her down, and one moves his hand along her body, finally inserting it inside of her pants. (She is later rescued by a friendly barbarian with a crossbow.) Later, she is tossed onto a table by the film's main villain, a hulking man who wears a helmet made from a skull. He takes off her shirt, drools on her body, and forcibly rubs her breast. (She then clobbers him on both sides of the head with a set of bricks.)

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Depicting sexual assault on a minor is, of course, not taboo in Hollywood. In 2007, Dakota Fanning made headlines by starring in Hounddog, in which she is raped (though the assault is not graphically shown). Usually, though, these narratives serve, or at least aspire to, a higher artistic purpose. Whether or not A Nymphoid Barbarian pursues or attains any semblance of that art is debatable.

If Hulu were a broadcast network, it would likely be unable to air A Nymphoid Barbarian. Maybe late at night during "safe harbor," but even then, it approaches territory that networks have shunned at least since the Janet Jackson nipple-slip incident. As defined by the FCC, the film could be considered indecent programming:

    ...if, in context, it depicts or describes sexual or excretory organs or activities in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium. In each case, the FCC must determine whether the material describes or depicts sexual or excretory organs or activities and, if so, whether the material is "patently offensive."

But Hulu, of course, isn't a broadcast network, nor does it fall under the purview of the FCC. So it appears to skirt the FCC's definitions of indecency. Thus, it's a question of should, not if. Is Hulu right to stream A Nymphoid Barbarian, even though it can?

This is a complicated issue for a site that aspires to be the major portal for premium video on the Web. Netflix (NFLX) allows users to stream A Nymphoid Barbarian, just as Hulu does. But the Netflix experience is far more akin to renting a DVD. Most obviously, there are no ads. I'm not sure KY Jelly (a frequent buyer of Hulu airtime) wants to advertise against images of child molestation. It is clear that Netflix is a place to watch DVDs, no matter the quality or content. Hulu, because of its far-stronger library of television shows, has a reputation for tamer fare.

Which brings us to Hulu's other problem: the reputations of Hulu's owners. It's nearly impossible to imagine News Corp. (NWS), Disney (DIS), and NBC-Universal ever making or financing a movie like A Nymphoid Barbarian. Nor would they have aired it on the same channels as their premier content like 30 Rock, House, and Lost. Yet, within Hulu, these companies are responsible both for distributing the content and airing it alongside their most marquee and family-friendly shows. The situation is as incongruous as Fox airing an uncensored Sex and the City directly after American Idol.
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Hulu itself seems uncomfortable with obscenity. It has strict rules about where its videos can be embedded, presumably to keep up its own reputation. It's unclear whether Hulu enforces these rules, but in its terms of use agreement, it tells bloggers:

    You may embed videos using the Video Player, provided you do not embed the Video Player on any website or other location that (i) contains or hosts content that is unlawful, infringing, pornographic, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, harassing, vulgar, indecent, profane, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, encourages criminal conduct, gives rise to civil liability, violates any law, rule, or regulation, infringes any right of any third party including intellectual property rights, is otherwise inappropriate or objectionable to Hulu (in Hulu's sole discretion), or (ii) links to infringing or unauthorized content (collectively, "Unsuitable Material").

It would seem to follow that Hulu would object to having its videos embedded on a site depicting child molestation. I have reached out to Hulu for comment, but it has yet to respond. I have also called Focus on the Family and the Parents Television Council to get their responses, and will update this space if I do. One could see their morals being offended by this kind of content on a site like Hulu, and we've seen how well-organized their protests can be.

UPDATE 5:46 p.m.: Dan Isett, the public-policy director at Parents Television Council, was concerned about Hulu's airing of A Nymphoid Barbarian. "Camp is one thing, but camp that's of a nature like this and easily accessible to kids is another," he said. He added, "Hulu is frankly a different animal," because of its affiliations with network broadcasters, whose brands shouldn't be associated with this kind of content.

UPDATE March 4: Hulu declined to comment on the record. Focus on the Family voiced its concern with the film, and Hulu's airing of it.

That A Nymphoid Barbarian has found such success suggests Hulu, from a business standpoint, is not wrong to host the movie. And on the Web, standards of decency tend to be decided by that kind of feedback. If something gets clicks, then it's worth having. (Just ask the Huffington Post.) So what if it's an artless 90 minutes of a prepubescent girl evading—and sometimes succumbing—to the rapists who haunt her at every turn? Hulu has made its decision. It's an Internet site.

Even though it couldn't exist without network TV.

[Viking]

Good news for the Daenyris thread.

[HisMajestyBOB]

As of Monday, A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell was the most popular film on Hulu. It has been in the top five for several days, and it's doing better than Ghostbusters, The Saint, and What's Eating Gilbert Grape. (It has since fallen to No. 3 in popularity.)

Siege, just download the movie already. You don't need to keep refreshing the site.

[Grey Fox]

Seriously, the anime lover is asking "how"?

[Razgovory]

Seriously, the anime lover is asking "how"?

That's was my first thought.

[Syt]

Killer Condom

Written by gay German cartoonist Ralf König. His "Maybe, maybe not" (Der Bewegte Mann) is far better, though.

[Josquius]

Seriously, the anime lover is asking "how"?

My first thoughts were along the lines of 'So this is a hentai flick right?'
Sounds....hilariously bad. The kind of thing I would indeed watch on drunken late night TV with friends.

[Ed Anger]

The kind of thing I would indeed watch on drunken late night TV

So every night then?

[garbon]

[Eddie Teach]

People are fucked up, how the hell can this shit be popular. 

It's not popular, it has a 1.6 rating at IMDB.

[grumbler]

People are fucked up, how the hell can this shit be popular. 

It's not popular, it has a 1.6 rating at IMDB.

  Someone is posting without reading!

As of Monday, A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell was the most popular film on Hulu

[Eddie Teach]

I read that, I disagree with the term. It was most watched, not best liked.

[grumbler]

I read that, I disagree with the term. It was most watched, not best liked.

"Most watched" is the definition of popularity for TV shows.  It is the only measure of how "liked" a show is that exists.  You can feel free to disagree, but then you are stuck with private definitions of terms that leave you unable to engage in a discussion like this.

A user rating on IMDB doesn't measure popularity, it measures the user's subjective evaluations of quality.  Shows can be low quality and popular.

Popularity on IMDB is measures by clicks within the site, and this movie is "Up 334% in popularity this week" so cannot be argued (from IMDB stats) to be "not popular."

[Josquius]

So every night then?

I'm rarely drunk and never watch TV these days

[Korea]

I'm gonna go check it out.