Posted By
Mel Martin
February 22, 2012 at 6:51am
I guess 3D films are too limiting for some film makers. Stephen Shui, who had worked on the Hong Kong produced 3D adult film Sex and Zen, plans a sequel to the film in what he calls ‘4D’.
Shui explained to Channel NewsAsia that he wants the sequel to be shown in theaters with seats that vibrate at various points during the film. One can only imagine what could be happening on screen as the seats begin to shake.
Shui added that the sequel, which is tentatively named 4D Sex And Zen: Slayer Of A Thousand From The Mysterious East, will also address a key complaint filmgoers had leveled at the first film.
"They felt that the racy scenes in the first film were not intense enough. This time we will be paying more attention to that, and will be enlisting the aid of experts from Japan to direct these scenes," according to Shiu.
The producer is hoping to surpass the box office take of the first film, which grossed $40 million in Hong Kong, was was one of the highest grossing films there last year. The film took in $3.2 million in the US.
Having shaking theater seats is nothing new in the cinema. For the 1959 film The Tingler with Vincent Price, Producer/Director William Castle came up with ‘Percepto’, a gimmick that put vibrating motors under some theater seats when the film played in larger cities. The motors were war surplus vibrators left over from World War II. Equipping the theaters added a reported $250,000 to the film budget. Castle also dabbled in 3D in a pair of 3D Technicolor westerns, Jesse James vs. the Daltons and Fort Di. In the film 13 Ghosts Castle used anaglyphic glasses but not for 3D. At certain points in the film you could see the ghosts terrorizing a family by looking through the red part of the glasses. If you look through the blue half of the glasses, all you saw were the actors running around the set reacting to things you couldn’t see.
No release date has been set for 4D Sex and Zen, but I’m sure filmgoers can’t wait.