A Rare Ring Gag in A Mainstream Film

"Say AAAAAH? How can I NOT say Aaaaaaah?"
Seen here an image from "The Unborn" by all reports a mediocre 1990 horror flick about giving birth to the devil's child, or something like it. Odette Yustman's character voluntarily submits to bondage and gaggage for exorcism-related reasons. Gags like these show up in Japanese bondage imagery a lot, much more than in US bondage imagery. Guess this is an example of cross-cultural influence at work. Huzzah!

Upcoming New "First" for Ring Gags

"Oh, well, at least it's not duct tape -- that stuff tastes terrible."
Image source: vidcap from "The Unborn."

The trailer for the upcoming (2009) flick The Unborn reveals it will bring forth a new first for bondage scenes in mainstream movies: the first ring gag in a mainstream production.

My "Firsts" chart lists "Tokyo Decadence" as the first ring gag in a mainstream film, but it's a problematical ring gag -- one of those rings set in a large leather gag, with what appears to be one of those devices you put in sinks to strain out large foodstuffs inside it.

Thhere's also the matter of "mainstream." Tokyo Decadence primarily played the art house circuit in the US but never really made the megaplexes. It's got enough strong sexual bondage imagery that it's regarded as softcore porn by some. However, it did show up in Blockbuster and most of the other big video rental outfits. So it's kinda mainstream and it's kinda not.

The Unborn is produced by Michael Bay ("Transformers") and written and directed by David S. Goyer ("Ghost Rider" and "Blade: The Series") it's pure-D mainstream stuff. If it shows up in theaters come 2009, and it almost certainly will, consider who's behind it, I'll put it on the Firsts Chart.

Makes the Oscars pale by comparison, eh?