'Sex & Zen' Filmmakers Announce 4D Follow-Up

HONG KONG—The filmmaker of last year’s big-budget 3D adult film, 3D Sex & Zen: Extreme Extacy, is going even bigger and better for the sequel. Producer Stephen Shiu is intent on using vibrating seat technology for 4D Sex and Zen: Slayer of a Thousand from the Mysterious East. The film, 3D Sex & Zen, broke James Cameron's 3D sci-fi thriller Avatar’s opening day box office record in Hong Kong in April and has earned more than $1 million at the box office in Australia. Censorship laws prohibited the movie from being screened in China, but audiences crossed the border into Hong Kong in droves to see it. The film’s distributor enticed crowds by offering special ladies’ night screenings of the movie featuring appearances by male cast members. Interestingly enough, vibrating seats aren’t a new gimmick. Producer-director William Castle used them in his 1959 camp horror classic, The Tingler. The devices that made the seats “buzz” were small surplus vibrators left over from World War II.