1980s Nude Scenes in Film and Television

Elizabeth Berridge Naked – The Funhouse – 4K Blu ray

There are only two films in which we get to see Elizabeth Berridge naked, and one of them is X-rated while the other is only PG. And all of this started when the young actress was only 18 years old, but I suppose that was all par for the course for the 80s. So which rating do you reckon this movie – The Funhouse – got? The genre probably gives it away, but this was the film that was banned in a couple of countries and rated X, M, 18, or equivalent in a number of others. And over what? Was it the two Elizabeth Berridge nude scenes?

I wouldn’t have thought so. You see, even though they are incredibly fappable, they are not especially graphic. First of all, they’re topless only. Not only do we not get a full frontal, but we don’t even get an ass shot. Fortunately, the size of Elizabeth Berridge’s giant tits makes up for the timid nature of the camera operator. Although now that I say that, it may have been a request on the part of the actress. When the New Yorker got naked in the PG-rated Amadeus in 1984, that too was a scene where only her big bouncing boobs were on display and nothing else.

So what’s the story with the Elizabeth Berridge nude scene at the start of The Funhouse? It’s set up in a way as to pay homage to the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho but with significantly more nudity. Like, a lot more, even if it is topless only. But then why the over-the-top ratings? There are multiple theories. One is that censors confused it with The Last House on Dead End Street, which was far more deserving of the rating and had a similar alternate title. Another theory is that the original script played a part in the decision somehow – be it through screenings of deleted scenes or something else – which revealed a whole lot more graphic and gratuitous nudity.

We do get an Elizabeth Berridge topless sex scene later on in the film, but that one is so tame, that it makes the shower scene looks like a hardcore porno. And other nudity? Well, a peep show features at one point wherein the protagonists watch a trio of strippers dance around with nipple tassels, but I suspect that’s not it either. Violence? Nothing to bat an eye at. It’ll clearly remain a mystery, but for my part, I care about only one thing, which is that the film got a 4K release, which means we get quadruple the amount of pixels to enjoy Elizabeth Berridge nude in The Funhouse with.

Joyce Hyser Naked – Just One of the Guys – Blu ray

Joyce Hyser naked in the magical boob reveal scene from Just One of the Guys has got to be one of the defining moments of the 80s. Or maybe I’m thinking of it backward, and the 1980s just produced content like that because it was emblematic of the era. Off the top of my head, I’m reminded of Betsy Russell pulling her top off to flash her tits in Tomboy, which incidentally came out the exact same year as this film did – 1985. Same energy and same fap potential. What I would give to live eternally in the 80s.

The funny thing about the Just One of the Guys nude scene is that even though it has achieved iconic status, it’s not exactly long. I’m not even sure that it covers a full two seconds, but I do know that the short time it covers has made many a teenage boy’s viewing experience since the film came out. In fact, the nude shot was extremely short by design. In the commentary track for the movie, Joyce Hyser did say that when the movie was being filmed, freezeframe wasn’t a thing that people had access to, and knowing that it would become available would have, to quote her verbatim, “definitely made a big difference in my decision about whether to do this or not.” Lucky us, sitting here in this blessed future.

For those who don’t know what this Joyce Hyser nude scene is all about, we need to take a step back and describe what the movie is about. Joyce plays Terri/Terry Griffith, a high school girl out of Phoenix-or-Glendale, Arizona who transfers to another school in order to pretend to be a guy. As so often happens in 80s movieland, whimsical hilarity ensues. Part of this whimsical hilarity is Terri getting a best friend whom she has a sort of crush on, but he thinks she’s a guy. In a frustrated effort to prove to him that she’s definitely not rocking a penis down below, she rips her shirt open to reveal her majestic tits. And how lucky we are, since the actress revealed (pun intended) in the commentary track that she originally wasn’t going to do an actual nude flash, having prepared a bodysuit. This moment being immortalized on video is super important because this did end up being Joyce Hyser’s only nude scene.

And like with so many of the best nude scenes in cinematic history, the Just One of the Guys boob reveal scene gets both of the F-rated tags. Lisa Gottlieb is credited as the director, but she has revealed on multiple occasions that she was also a writer on the film, even though the studio cheated her out of the credit. The joke’s on them, because even though Lisa didn’t get all of the fame and money from an official writer’s credit, she got honored as such on the Faptuary, which at least two or three people might say is even better.

I’d be remiss not to mention the Joyce Hyser bikini scene at the pool near the beginning of the film. Although there’s no nudity in it, it acts as a sort of foil to the nude scene, showing a much more feminine side of the Terri. Also, that body is amazing, even though the actress said that she wasn’t feeling great that day, commenting that she felt that her “belly’s a little poofy.” Personally, I have no complaints in the fappability department. Unfortunately, this is the only time and place we’ll ever likely see Joyce Hyser naked. I think a whole lot of people were expecting to see both Joyce and Nichole Hiltz nude in 2003’s Act of Revenge, but alas, that did not materialize, and even that was two full decades ago. But let’s not dwell on what was not and instead enjoy what was, and that is the incredible Joyce Hyser nude scene from Just One of the Guys.

Betsy Russell Naked – Tomboy – Blu ray

I’m very pleased to be brining you this footage of Betsy Russell naked today because it was requested by you, most esteemed fappers. While requests are nothing new, last week was the first time we had gotten to do a YOU CHOOSE for the next post to be covered. The choice was between Betsy Russell in Tomboy and Dominique Swain in Overlord. Betsy won by a significant margin, and now here we are. I plan on keeping the YOU CHOOSE tweets as a recurring phenomenon, so if you would like to throw in your votes for picking the next post, you can find all of those on the official Twitter profile.

“But why wouldn’t I just go into Google, Bing, or Denny’s(‘s?) Facebook profile and type in ‘betsy russell nude’ if I wanted to see this?” To take in the wonders of modern color correction, of course. Take this movie, for example. Tomboy came out in 1985, which isn’t that long ago, and yet the film – as in the physical film from which the blu ray was digitized – is just not in great shape. The grain isn’t awful, but there’s plenty of damage throughout it. Nothing some tender loving care can’t sort out, though. At least until they rediscover some long-thought-lost reel that they digitize into a 4K UHD blu ray. Or maybe it’ll be 8K by then. The future looks bright. Anyway.

The first time we see Betsy Russell nude in Tomboy is quite literally during the opening credits. The film starts with her in the shower, soaping up while upbeat 80s music plays. Now admittedly, there isn’t as much nudity in this opening scene as I’m letting on. In fact, almost none of it is actually visible on screen. Her ass is so covered in suds, that you have to use your imagination to fill in the gaps. There is a brief flash of nip during some sideboob as the camera pans down her body, but that’s about it.

There’s a Betsy Russell sex scene toward the end of the movie, but it falls into much of the same trap as the opening credits. Don’t get me wrong, though. There are a few nude shots in that one, so it’s much better. It starts with the scene of the race car driver she’s with ripping her shirt open, sending buttons flying in all direction. Betsy plays Tommy the tomboy, so of course, in 80s film logic, that means that she never wears a bra. That in turn means that we get some nice bouncing boobage when her shirt opens up. Unfortunately, the only other shot of her nips is when her breasts get unglued from the guy she’s with as they’re having sex on the floor and he peels off of her. The shot is quite dark, but it’s nothing a little color correction can’t fix.

The best moment we have of Betsy Russell topless in Tomboy is that famous scene. You know the one. She’s just crawled out of a river that she rode her bike into and she’s soaking wet. So what do you do in this situation? Take your top off right there in public, of course. Again, no bra. Thank you, 1980s – the last truly great era. As for her work after that, if any of you are wondering why you feel like you can recognize Betsy but can’t quite place her, she played Jill Tuck in the Saw films. We’ve got some great nudity from Kristi Somers from the same movie coming up, but for now, enjoy all of the Betsy Russell nude scenes in Tomboy.

Linda Blair Naked – Savage Streets – Blu ray

When people watched the infamous projectile vomit scene from The Exorcist for the first time, I don’t imagine many of them thought that at any point in the future, fappers would be seeking out pictures of Linda Blair naked. Yet as it turns out, when little Regan MacNeil grew up and stopped being possessed by Satan or Pazuzu or Helen Thomas or whoever it was, she actually turned out quite attractive. What’s more, she went through a phase of getting naked in movie after movie, keeping a lot of fappers happy through the 80s and early 90s.

Linda Blair’s nude debut was in a 1983 film called Chained Heat, and there are few important things to note about that. The first is that it’s a sleazy women-in-prison film. Very nice. The second is that it has no relation to the seven million other films with “Chained Heat” in the title produced by Lloyd A. Simandl which, with the partial exception of Chained Heat II, are just literal pornography with literal porn stars in the roles, not films with actresses. The third – and this is where I have to hold back tears as I type – is that not only has Chained Heat not been released on blu ray, there hasn’t even been an HD streaming release. Sure, it gets recut and released on DVD a million times over, but I just can’t fap to DVD nudes anymore. I’ve been too spoilt. My God, even regular blu rays are slowly becoming unfappable as 4K becomes the norm.

So sadly, we have yet to get a real crystal clear look at Linda Blair nude in Chained Heat, and it’s uncertain whether we ever will. And that brings me right around to Savage Streets. Excepting her role in a segment of Imps*, Savage Streets was Linda Blair’s very next film after Chained Heat, and as you can see from the images and video around you, this one did get a blu ray release. The video quality is actually absolute ass at quite a lot of points, but making use of some digital trickery to clean up an imperfect blu ray will always yield infinitely better results than – may the Heavens forgive me for speaking of this evil – using AI upscaling on very low resolution footage.

There’s only one scene in Savage Streets in which we get a proper look at Linda Blair topless, and that’s the one where she’s in a bathtub, but we do get a few shots of inner sideboob in her high school locker room and nipples showing through her wet shirts as she fights with another girl in their school showers (while Linda is inexplicably wearing no bra). Before I run out of space, dishonorable mention for 1985’s Red Heat, another women-in-prison film with Linda Blair nude scenes that we may never see in high definition. Even the DVD is hard to find for the one since it seemed to have gotten a very limited release. Why do they torment us so? And so I leave you with what is likely the best footage we do or will ever have of Linda Blair naked.

Rebecca Perle Naked – Savage Streets – Blu ray

Because I’m on a kick of nude scene that flew under the radar because they were overshadowed by a more famous actress doing the same in the same movie, today’s offering is the voluptuous Rebecca Perle naked in Savage Streets. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, the most high profile example (on the part of the overshadowed actress) I’ve got – and that probably exists – is Demi Moore whose incredible nude scene in Blame It on Rio was ignored at the time and continues to be forgotten thanks to Michelle Johnson’s presence (and constant nudity) in the movie. The most high profile example on the part of the overshadowing actress has got to be Scarlett Johansson and her long-awaited nude debut overshadowing Lynsey Taylor Mackey and her almost entirely unchlothed performance in Under The Skin.

Maybe I need a tag for these kinds of nude scenes. There is something special about them. They’re like dramatically tragic renaissance paintings. Take this Rebecca Perle nude scene, for example. Look at those juicy big tits and tell me why she shouldn’t be dominating all of the talk regarding nudity in Savage Streets. There is no reason… except for the fact that we get a Linda Blair nude scene in the same film, and only a year after Linda’s nude debut in the women-in-prison film Chained Heat too. Linnea Quigley has a nude scene in Savage Streets as well, but frankly, I think that would distract attention more if it was one of the rare movies in which she didn’t get naked. Not that I’m complaining, of course.

This movie is actually the first to offer us humble viewers a Rebecca Perle nude scene. I suppose her earlier role as a voice actress on The Kid Super Power Hour with Shazam! didn’t exactly lend itself to that kind of thing. It would also end up being one of only three in total. She had a pretty long topless scene in Stitches, in which a group of leering med students watch her examine her naked self in a mirror… but it’s actually visible from the side they’re on. Saucy. Then there was 1986’s Heartbreak Ridge, in which her naked body gets flashed for a brief moment as she drops her towel while coming out of a shower. By this point, she’d already been demoted to playing a character named only “Student in Shower,” so it’s not surprising that she had only two more roles after this, and sadly, the potential for any more nude scenes was extinguished.

But hey, if you want to see a Rebecca Perle topless fight with (a sadly dressed) Linda Blair, you cannot possibly do better than Savage Streets. It did actually take me by surprise when it happened since there are a number of rather lewd scenes involving Our Becky early in the film, but never actual proper nudity. Not from her anyway. It’s almost an hour into the film when her top gets ripped off during a classroom brawl, after all of the aforementioned, so it was a nice little present from the movie. Incidentally, the same could be said for Linda Blair, who gets quite a few teases in locker room scenes but only gets her only honest-to-god nude scene in the second hour of the feature.

Speaking of locker rooms, it’s obviously unsurprising, given the setting of the movie, that a lot of the nudity in Savage Streets is the famously forgivably gratuitous locker room nudity that 80s cinema was so fond of sliding past the censors. We’ve got a scene of Rebecca Perle in her bra and panties, and then another wherein she’s in a locker room fight (of course she is), still in her bra and panties, but because this fight is happening under the shower heads (of course it is), her lingerie is all wet and see-through. Not bad, sleazy 80s film studios. Not bad. I couldn’t decide where to draw the line between lewdness that classifies as nudity and that which does not, so I’ve just captured it all. Enjoy Rebecca Perle nude (by whichever definition you choose to employ) in Savage Streets below.