New MTF body swap horror movie with Vince Vaughn: "Freaky"

Freaky is a new gender bending body swap movie where Vince Vaughn, playing a psychotic mass murderer, swaps bodies with a high school girl played by Kathryn Newton.

The reviews are mixed, but many seem to find this horror slasher comedy worth watching. I have not seen it yet.

The name Freaky is clearly a reference to the more innocent body swap movie called Freaky Friday. The Atlantic calls it "The Most Purely Enjoyable Horror Movie Made in Years".

Vaugh plays the Blissfield Butcher, who murders unsuspecting teens until an Aztec dagger delivers the necessary magic needed for the swap.

Tomris Laffly writes:

"Freaky" is a fun, frisky, and nostalgic ride that delivers laughs, various inventively bloody kills, and on occasion, even some 21st-century-appropriate observations on gender norms and sexuality. Just don’t expect to be surprised a great deal by it.

Testing out new Discord chat room for sharing TG images and videos

I am testing out a new Discord chat room for transgender and crossdreamer fantasies, images, captions, stories and videos, and you can join it here.

If you are not a member of Discord, you should sign up first.

The new Discord "server"  was born out of a discussion over at the Crossdream Life forum, where many felt there was a need to make a clear divide between general discussions about crossdreamer sexuality and fantasies and the posting of erotic images for the sake of enjoying those images.

The Crossdream Life chat room remains the place to discuss transgender, queer, crossdresser and crossdreamer issues.

If you want to explore TG erotica just for the fun of it, however, you may join Xdreams.

Wicked on a Gender Bender

It isn't often the porn industry goes on a gender bender, and when  it does the results are rarely impressive. Wicked recently presented a male to female transformation story called Cursed, and it is a mixed blessing.

For some reason nearly all movies of this kind starts out with a misogynistic man offending women with his clueless and sexist behavior.

In this movie, as in many others, a witch decides to teach him a lesson. The witch in this movie is of a younger and more sexy model, that is true, but the basic storyline is the same.

Since this is a porn movie, the acting is pretty bad. There is one exception, though: Whitney Wright does a  good  job playing the role of post-transformation, post-traumatic, Ryan.

There are no bathroom scenes of the "oh God, where did my cock go" type. It actually takes some time before he realizes what has happened, and that is when his ex-girlfriend Alexa turns up at his door. This obviously ends up with him cheating on his male self as Alexa's lesbian lover.

Porn movies including gender changes most often stay away from the male to female transformer having sex with a man.

I guess this might cause some serious identity conflicts in the regular straight male audience watching the film.  This was what happened in Wicked's previous gender bender movie, Switch, where a man swapped bodies with his wife (played political porn celebrity Stormy Daniels.

Cursed, however, ends with a bizarre scene where the female Ryan meets the male Ryan and have sex together in the hope of merging their two bodies into one male one. This never makes any sense, and even less so when we find out that the witch intended to switch him back, anyway.

In other words: The gender change is mainly a silly plot device that does not really do it for people who are looking for transgender erotica.

The Sex Trip, a missed opportunity

Eddie wakes up and finds out he has become Jade Ramsey.

Anthony Cohen's movie The Sex Trip makes use of nearly all the gender bender clichés we know from Fictionmania:

Vain and misogynistic male chauvinist bastard? Check! This one is even writing books about how to trick women into sleeping with you.

Meeting wizard/witch/genie who wants to teach him the true value of love? Check! It is a homeless woman this time, and as he refuses to kiss her, he soon finds himself waking  up in a sexy woman's body.

Hilarious bathroom scene with missing penis panic and breast grabbing? Check! Although it is not that funny, and there isn't much breast grabbing. You should think... well, nevermind.

Learning to know the value of real love after having spent time as a woman? Check! So what seems like a traditional sexist movie at the start, turns out to have a pro-woman, nearly feminist, message in the end.

It is not a bad movie, per se. It presents itself as a romantic comedy, and it truly is an unpretentious romantic comedy.

Thai and Chinese MTF body swap movies

If you hurry, you might catch two recent body swap movies from Asia over at YouTube.

The two are If I Were You (Biàn shēn nánnǚ), a decent romantic comedy from China and Love Arumirai, a slapstick comedy from Thailand.

Turn on English subtitles using the Youtube settings. The Chinese movie has a few audio drop-outs.

I have written more about them over at Crossdream Life.

J.J. Abrams is planning a live-action version of the Japanese body-swap anime Your Name

Your Name must be the best body-swap movies ever made.  It is a beautiful love story, and the kind of high quality anime we have normally seen from Studio Ghibli.

The two main characters switch bodies, but in a fashion that is much more complex that we see in most movies using this plot device.

The 2016 movie was made by  Noritaka Kawaguchi and Genki Kawamura, and was a huge hit world wide. If you haven't seen it, do so now.

Deadline reports that J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens, Star Wars: Episode IX) and Lindsey Weber will produce for Bad Robot, along with Genki Kawamura.

American adaptations of films from other countries are problematic. This applies to anime, as well.  Ghost in the Shell was a fiasco. Still, I am looking forward to this one.



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Inside You, A Feminist Body-Swap Movie

The body-swap theme seems to be popular among some directors these days.

Inside You is a brand new one, directed by a woman, Heather Fink, and is playing in some US theaters right now.

I haven't seen the movie yet. It is marketed as a romantic comedy, and the write-up goes like this:

Stephanie and Ryan have been dating for 5 years but their views on marriage couldn't be more different. After a botched marriage proposal and an encounter with a magical object, Stephanie and Ryan switch bodies. They navigate the wonders and challenges of the opposite sex while making unexpected discoveries about each other.

Heather Fink plays the role of the main female character herself. This is her first feature film.

To SplitSider she says:

It was important to me that the female character was not a stereotype of a woman and the male character was not a stereotype of a man. I think in real women, there are several contradictions when it comes to what being a woman is all about. So what is it really then when we switch bodies?   

Cleo/Leo, bigoted business man becomes sexy woman in this 1980s movie

It is amazing to see how many male to female transformation movies follow the exact same plot:

1. Callous and sexist boss is transformed into a sexy woman
2. Sexy woman learns how it is to be a woman facing all this crap
3. And most often: Boss learns to live as a woman

This applies to Sam, The Sex Trip, Goodbye Charlie, and Switch.

Leo/Cleo is another one, from 1989, made by porn film director Chuck Vincent and with porn actress Veronica Heart in the leading role. In spite of some nudity, this is not a porn movie, however.

You could better categorise it as some kind of romantic action comedy.  It is not good, but it is not bad either, and Veronica Heart actually knows how to act.

For readers of this blog, it is worth the time.

 

Lost in Transgender - From the history of transgender movie making

World of TG is a site mainly devoted to the erotic side of TG dreams, including captions, stories and movies.  We use stories for entertainment and in order to understand what or who we are.

Movies has been used for this purpose for a long time, and Cheryl has done an excellent job covering older transgender oriented movies over at her site Lost in Transgender.

She writes about the backstory, the actors, the directors and the times the movies were made.

The movies can sometimes be hard to get hold of, but by doing some internet searches you will be able to find some of them.

She also uses the site to promote the Tranisa crossdressing and gender bender videos in between the historical articles.

Visit Lost in Transgender here!

Paradox Alice, a full feature male to female transformation movie

Feminized has given us a short write-up om Ms. Mako's feature length movie, Paradox Alice.

Paradox Alice is a science fiction movie about a all male crew stranded in space after the Earth blows up.

This extreme situation forces nature to take desperate measures (or, at least, that is one of the explanations given) and one of the men is brutally transformed into a woman.

It is definitely a feminization fantasy of sorts, containing many of the elements found in TG captions and fiction. However, they become part of a much larger story about life, love, morals and religion.

See: Paradox Alice -- gender bending science fiction (NSFW).

The whole movie has now been uploaded to Youtube and you can watch it all here:

The Assignment -- a forced feminization fantasy or pure entertainment?

From the comic book The Assigment.

This is not a film about a transgender woman! The makers of The Assignment insist. I would say they are right about that.

This is the story about a mad scientist (played by Sigourney Weaver) who kidnaps the notorious contract killer, Frank Kitchen, and uses hormones and surgery to turn him into a woman -- for revenge.

He suddenly wakes up one day, in a dirty hotel room, with breasts and a vagina.

But that does not make him a woman, mentally, and if Michelle Rodriguez does one thing right in this movie, it is that she presents the post-op Frank Kitchen as a guy, as the hit man he truly is.

You could say that there is one trans person in this movie. Sigourney Weaver plays the role of a transmasculine woman.

I think it works as a film noir B-movie. You caught up in the action and truly wonder how it all will end, and what kind of life Frank will have in his female body.

Whether it was also meant as a feminization fantasy, I do not know, but I know that many of the visitors to this site will watch it as such.



The movie is based on the comic book The Assigment.

You will find more info on the movie and discussions over at Crossdream Life, where you will also find an interview with Walter Hill, the director of the movie, from the comic book version of the story.

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Kämpfer - Japanese anime with a gender twist

Japanese culture may seem strict and uptight, and in many ways it is. Still, when it comes to entertainment they have a very relaxed attitude to gender bending. There is even a body swap porn genre.

In anime (Japanese style animated movies) quite a few plots are based on boy being changed into girl, and that applies also to non-erotic material. Well, maybe non-erotic is not exactly the word we are looking for. There are plenty of very curvy bodies in sexy school girl uniforms, even if there is no explicit sex.

Goodbye Charlie

Given last years gender bender movies (Sam and The Sex Trip) it may make sense to go back to one of the first ones: Goodbye Charlie.

Wikipedia has this to say about the movie:

Goodbye Charlie is a 1964 comedy film about a callous womanizer who gets his just reward. It was adapted from George Axelrod's play Goodbye, Charlie and starred Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis. The play also provided the basis for Switch, with Ellen Barkin and Jimmy Smits.

I would say that it is better than all the other movies mentioned above. I like the script and I like the comedy.

Needless to say, Charlie comes back as a woman after being murdered. A sexy vamp of a woman. And although Charlie takes to his new life a bit too quickly in my opinion, the drama that unfolds is worth watching.

Not that everyone agrees with me. In 1964 the New York Times wrote the following:

GEORGE AXELROD'S play, "Goodbye, Charlie," was bad enough on the stage. On the screen, it is a bleak conglomeration of outrageous whimsies and stupidities. And it has Debbie Reynolds and Tony Curtis so sadly cast in distasteful roles that it causes even a hardened moviegoer to turn away from it in pain and shame.

Ouch!

You can watch it now, if you like, as the whole movie is available on YouTube.

Sam becomes Sam in this MTF transformation movie

Nicholas Brooks has made a comedy about Sam, a misgynistic a**hole, who is transformed into a Sam, a petite brunette of great beauty.

It looks very much like a crossdreamer fantasy to me. There is even the much used TG fiction motive: The old man in the "curiosity" shop bringing on all the magic.

Brooks is the son of Mel Brooks, who is also listed as executive producer of Sam.

Sam is starring Natalie Knepp, Sean Kleier, Stacy Keach, Morgan Fairchild, Bryan Batt, James McCaffrey and Tom Pelphrey.

Det movie is apparently to be made available on DVD and via streaming services in October this year.

Transgender Movie - Eva Robins in 'Mascara' (1987)

Lost in Transgender tells the story og the 19080s movie Mascara, where trans actress Eva Robins plays the role of a trans woman performs in a secret sex club.

Eva Robins was born male in 1958, but developed naturally feminine features and breasts during puberty, despite being a normal boy growing up, her body failed to masculine like the other boys of her age.

From the age of about thirteen she says she felt she wanted to be a female. When she was sixteen, she started oestrogen treatments. By the age of twenty-one she was living completely as a woman.

Read all about it over at Lost in Transgender.

Tranisa is back with a new feminization movie fantasy

Some of you will be familiar with the Tranisa film company, which has delivered a large number of crossdressing and feminization movies over the year.

Now they are back with a new movie called "Waking Up as a Girl". The title is a dead giveaway. Tranisa says this about the movie:

"Is being turned into a real girl as much fun as you fantasize about? The last thing you remember is a bright light and then darkness. You were on your way home tired from working too hard, but now you’re in bed safe and sound. On waking you realize that things are somehow different. You’re a women…are you dreaming?…You’ve secretly wanted this to happen, but now it has you’re not sure how to feel. Have you suddenly turned into a girl?

Your mother and sister are on hand to help, but they can only confirm that you’re a girl and always have been. What has happened? Have you moved into an alternate reality where you have always been female? You can’t convince them that yesterday you were Stephen a man.

Life has to go on and you’re late for work. Your mother and Sister help you get dressed into the finest of girls’ clothes. A bra and matching panties, stockings and a sexy dress to tease the boys. Finished with your bag full of makeup you’re ready for work."

I really like the movie. Mind you, this is a short fantasy with no explicit sex, but it sets the scene for dreams about a future life as a woman i a funny and sexy way.

Starring Samantha Alexandra, Sapphire Blue and Red.

The transformation movie can be bought over at Tranisa.com!

Tomboy, A Revenger's Tale of Forced Feminization

A forced feminized hit man.
(Photo from movie set)

Controversial move this one, but Michelle Rodriguez is to play a hit man that is put under the knife by Sigourney Weaver (who plays the doctor) and turned into a woman.

The Hollywood Reporter writes:

"The script, written by Hill from a story by Denis Hamill, centers on an ace assassin who is double-crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as "The Doctor," who turns him into a woman. The hitman (now a hitwoman) sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie, who also has secrets."

The movie is expected in theatres next year.

(Someone has to tell them that a tomboy is female expressing masculine behavior, and not the other way around)

Three Degrees off Center Gender Bending Movies

The Hit Girl is one of many movies from Three Degrees off Center, one of the most prolific producers of non-porographic gender bender fantasies.

Below we have included a cut from the movie, about a hit man who suddenly finds himself in the body of a teenage girl. Much hilarity follows. 

Three Degrees off Center is also responsible for a web series on a male to female transformation called The Wand of Change. You can watch the first episode here:

The Hit Girl facebook page.

Three Degrees Off Center

The Danish Girl, a Transgender Journey

The Danish girl is a movie about  Lili Elbe and her girl friend Gerda Wegener.

The movie looks at Lili and Gerda's marriage and work as Einar Wegener, the Danish MTF transgender becomes  Lili, one of the first transgender women who underwent gender confirmation surgery.

Eddie Redmayne playsthe role of Lili.

Transparent New Series About Late in Life Sexual Transition

From Advocate : Jill Soloway's transgender TV project gets picked up for a season with promises of more trans characters.

Streaming television is about to get more Transparent, as Amazon Studios announced Monday that it picked up the family drama about a late-in-life transgender woman struggling to come out to her grown children. Written, directed, and produced by Jill Soloway (Six Feet Under, The United States of Tara) and starring Jeffrey Tambor as Maura, Transparent will see a full 10-episode run, available for purchase or streaming on Amazon's Prime Instant Video service.