We’re likely all familiar with the 1989 hit movie, Back to the Future II.
Marty McFly and Doc. Brown travel to the future – 2015 to be exact (Hey, that’s the same year we live in!). While there, McFly family nemesis Biff Tannen, steals the time machine, goes back to 1955, and gives his younger self a sports almanac, allowing young Biff to place wagers on games, and never lose.
Young Biff does just that. He becomes very rich, and turns into a sort of debauched, power mad overlord of Hill Valley.
The gaudily adorned penthouse apartment atop his casino hotel (“Biff’s Pleasure Palace”), where he lives with Marty’s now breast-augmented mother, is something else.
In this post, we’re going to take a closer at it. There are some interesting things lying around! Specifically: non-fictional, real life, porn VHS tapes!
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Can you read backwards? This is Black Taboo (link nsfw) a 1984 incest themed porn movie. Here’s a zoomed in shot:
Here’s an image of the front and back cover of the original VHS tape. You can see that the font is the same:
Now, this perhaps gets even more interesting when you consider an earlier scene in BTTF II. The scene where Marty goes to what he thinks is his house, and finds that there is a now a Black family living there.
As the father is chasing Marty away, he says “…and you tell that real estate company that we ain’t sellin’, you hear! We ain’t gonna be terrorized!“. As he does, we see that other houses on the block have “BiffCo Realty” for sale signs on them.
So why exactly does Biff want to buy up all the houses? Does he have a motive beyond profit and control? I don’t know. But we do know that he wants the McFly house (where the Black family is now living), and that the Black family does not want to sell. He’s tried, but they ain’t havin’ it.
Now back to Black Taboo. This is the plot summary:
“Sonny Boy” Richardson has finally come home from Vietnam where he has spent the last ten years as a “Missing In Action” statistic. Anxiously awaiting his arrival, are his Mother Veranda; his Father Cleotus; his two sisters Valdesta and Theodora, who were just babies when he went away; his Uncle Elston; and his Uncle’s extremely attractive daughter Samantha. The Richardsons are a very close-knit family, but little do any of them realize just how close they really are until it comes time for them to welcome “Sonny Boy” back into the fold.
Perhaps Biff was browsing for some new porn – saw Black Taboo – remembered the Black family that wouldn’t sell him their house – then bought the movie.
Maybe. I’m going to say “yes”. You can say whatever you want.
Black Taboo is not the only porn Biff has. There are several, but just one more that I can identify. It’s another incest themed porn, and with it too, we can use it’s premise, and apply our speculative powers to fill in more of the BTTF II backstory.
A few different zoomed-in shots. The second one has had the colors tweaked a bit to try and bring out the lettering…
It’s harder to make out than the first one, but I’m fairly certain what we’re looking at is a copy of Playing With Fire (1983) (link nsfw).
Here are the front and back covers of the actual video:
The text on the video box in the shots from BTTF is not 1000% clear. It looks like it says “Playing With Fire” though, doesn’t it? Also, the colors (yellow lettering on a blue background) match up, as does the font. It has to be it.
A summary:
Acclaimed director Kirdy Stevens, creator of the Taboo series, does it again. In PLAYING WITH FIRE the subject is step-daughters. See what happens when Catherine (long-legged Cynthia Taylor) marries stud Danny (Randy West) and their teenage offspring get obsessed with wicked thoughts.
So…Biff, after killing George McFly, marries Lorraine and becomes step-dad to her children. Marty, Dave and Linda. On another trip to the adult video store, he sees Playing With Fire and is like “Hey, that’s hot! I wonder if Linda would ever…“
Did someone who worked on BTTF II (the set designer, or whoever) know the plots of these porn flicks? Or, while decorating Biff’s pad, where they just like “Hey, we should put out some porn movies!” (which is interesting in itself), and the ones they picked just happened to be somewhat congruent with what Biff’s character might be into?
It’s interesting either way, I think.
