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Loose Ends IV: The Ultimate Tail (1988 Video)

All-star kink

[12 May 2024]

This Bruce Seven "spectacular" surprised me: I've seen dozens of his self-indulgent videos, mostly with him in the cast featuring his fetishes like flogging and fondling the girls in his cast and watching them dance around for him , but here is a VHS resembling a real porn movie. However, it soon becomes evident it's just a set of kinky vignettes loosely stuck together.

Raven Touchstone's screenplay is the glue to tie the footage together, in the form of inevitable star Bionca playing a twin who finds her sister's diary and rather vicariously relives sis' debauchery by reading it (and masturbating). Of course, in a Pavlovian way we experience that endless series of kinky sex by watching the video, one-step removed just as the twin heroine Bionca is.

Porn, including this example (which won an industry award as Best SPECIALTY Tape -even that phony category separating it from the mainstream) is consumed in gonzo fashion -only the sex counts. Seven packs in far more XXX this time, even though the BDSM and frequent near-fisting (i.e., 4-finger action instead of a full fist) is the point of it all.

P. S.: Jon Dough is quite busy in several scenes, just using a pseudonym (Jan Sanders) in the credits.

The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

Welcome horror spoof

[12 May 2024]

One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Jacques Tourneur; Produced by Sam Arkoff and James Nicholson for American-International Pictures. Screenplay by Richard Matheson; Photographed by Floyd Crosby; Edited by Anthony Carras; Music by Les Baxter; Production Design by Daniel Haller. Starring: Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Joyce Jameson, Boris Karloff, Basil Rathbone, Beverly Hills, Joe E. Brown, Alan DeWitt, Linda Rogers and Buddy Mason.

Valuable one-of-a-kind spoof of horror films which rounds up several of the old veterans, who ham it up outrageously. Silly, but it saves a lot of time for non-genre folks who don't want to sit through innumerable campy originals to groove on cliches and macabre humor, as Price & Lorre play luckless morticians who kill rich folks to drum up business.

All the King's Ladies (1981 Video)

An Adam for every Eve

[12 May 2024]

Juliet Anderson as Aunt Peg is indelibly engraved in Adult Cinema history, but her directing career never took flight. This fledgling effort is disappointing, in a rather aimless story about a gigolo service.

Perry Mann is poor casting in the title role of King, who runs Eden, the company motto being: "An Adam for every Eve". His female clientele also gets phone sex from him, with the movie beginning as Rhona Jo Petty masturbates while Perry sweet talks to her on the phone. All the while, his sexy secretary Mai Lin is giving our antihero a blow job.

Director Juliet likes to give her scenes a lovely look, emphasizing nature and flowers in the frame. Even a "roughie" segment of client Serena, looking fresh and virginal, attacked by Michael Morrison for outdoor forced sex, including whipping, is scored to classical music reminiscent of a vintage Ken Russell fantasy scene.

Morrison and fellow gigolo Jon Martin complain about being overworked and the King threatens to fire them. That sets in motion the movie's only real plot element, as they videotape surrepttiously sex in order to blackmail him into giving them thieir jobs back, with raises.

Movie culminates in a modest orgy, for the women's anual Scorpio party, arranged by Sharon Mitchell, who also has sex testing out three of King's gigolos. One highlight is a lesbian scene for Mai Lin with fleshy Holly McCall, staged in a hot tub.

Overall, Juliet's movie, including a teasing cameo for her stripping and getting into the hot tub with Mann as a potential investor in Eden, is rather uneventful, and the short sex scenes are quite dated by today's audience tastes.

Transfixed: Bare Bedfellows (2024) Season 1, Episode 141

Where is Stella Adler when you need her?

[12 May 2024]

I'm aware that Gonzo has conquered the world of porn, but I wasn't prepared for a stud named Shadow to set a new low in "reading" his lines of dialogue. Start to finish this "Transfixed" clunker is more of a parody of TS porn than the real thing.

Eva Maxim is a game enough trouper, but I was embarrassed for her. As far as producer Bree Mills and director Jim Powers are concerned, any old Gay Porn stud will do when it comes to the token boy/trans segments dished out to subscribers as sort of a bonus between the promised "trans lesbian" romantic segments on the Adult Time/Gamma website.

Ridiculous excuse for a story by Lapis Afterglow has Shadow kindly giving up his bed (he lives in a one-bedroom place -that's all we see with no establishing shot of even the building facade provided) to Eva, his girlfriend's sister, while her place is being fumigated. She insists that they share his bed, not to impose on him, but he's shocked and turns away when she suddenly gets naked.

He goes to bed clothed and acts quite shy, but sneaks a peek at her rear end. She easily seduces him and both promise not to tell sis.

Mechanical sex ends with a cum shot from Shadow and Eva's reminder not to tell. That's another XXX TS gonzo scene in the can, no pun intended.

Attention all casting directors: Shadow is available to shoot porn, if you can'f find anybody else at the last minute.

Transfixed: Wrong First Impressions (2024) Season 1, Episode 140

File it under: No Money Shot

[12 May 2024]

This "Transfixed" segment from Stella Smut amplifies a recent trend in this series: Transsexual porn trying to be slightly different but merely turning into gonzo filler, but minus the "mandatory" money shot. Well-hung TS star Leilani Li performs but the show climaxes with no proof of purchase ejaculation on camea nor a creampie, the currently fashionable porn cliche.

What we have is an off-camera blind date: Li at home waiting impatiently for late arriving date Casey Calvert who rudely is glued to her cell phone -doesn't even look at Li when she picks her up to take her to a restaurant. Cut to them returning home, now cheerful after having been fed and killing some more time before it's sex on the couch action.

Stella manages to shoot this, rather self-consciously, with mainly softcore camera angles -delivering fellatio, cunnilingus and vaginal sex of a mechanical nature while the actresses ooh and ahh with fake passion. It all adds up to another 1/2 hour of porn, trans lesbian division, strictly yawnsville.

Curse of the Fly (1965)

Strays from the source

[11 May 2024]

One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Don Sharp; Produced by Robert Lippert and Jack Parsons for 20th Century-Fox release. Screenplay by Harry Spalding; Photography by Basil Emmott; Edited by Robert Winter; Music by Burt Shefter. Starring: Brian Donlevy, Carole Gray, George Baker, Michael Graham, Jeremy Wilkins, Yvette Rees, Burt Kwouk, Charles Carson, Rachel Kempson, Mary Manson, Warren Stanhope and Arnold Bell.

Ultra-cheap third entry in "The Fly" series is poor in every respect, but has a couple of interesting wrinkles: it opens spectacularly in slow motion with a "Straw Dogs" window explosion, followed by luscious Carole escaping from an insane asylum for a romp through the woods clad only in white (pointy) bra and panties. Later she strolls about endlessly in a white nightgown. The film continues the series' teleportation theme but brilliantly leaves out the fly! Purity is destroyed by the inclusion of a descriptive scene recalling the last film with a still so as not to leave a naive viewer in the dark.

The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)

Beginning of a Dynasty

[11 May 2024]

One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Terence Fisher; Produced by Anthony Hinds; Executive Producer: Michael Carreras for Hammer Films. Released in America by Warner Brothers. Screenplay by Jimmy Sangster, from Mary Shelley's novel; Photography by Jack Asher; Edited by James Needs; Music by James Bernard. Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Hazel Court, Robert Urquhart, Valerie Gaunt, Noel Hood, Marjorie Hume, Sally Walsh, Hugh Dempster, Ann Blake.

Fine, well-acted straight horror version in color of "Frankenstein", which established the popular Hammer series of horror remakes. The story is returned to its literary locale of Switzerland, and Cushing gives a vintage uncharacteristically warm performance. The film benefits from a more intelligent presentation of the ethical and scientific issues than the original. Hazel Court's mammoth jugs are in attendance and she even springs for a white nightgown.

The Creation of the Humanoids (1962)

Me & Warhol both dig it

[11 May 2024]

One of my sci-fi/horror/fantasy reviews written 50 years ago: Directed by Wesley Barry. Produced by Wesley Barry and Edward J. Kay; Released by Emerson Film Enterprises. Screenplay by Jay Simms, from Jack Williamson's novel; Photography by Hal Mohr; Edited by Ace Herman; Music by Edward J. Kay; Makeup by Jack Pierce; Assistant Director: Melville Shyer. Starring: Don Megowan, Erica Elliott, Frances McCann, Don Doolittle, David Cross, Richard Vath and Reid Hammond.

Minor classic science fiction film dealing with the ultimate rivalry between declining mankind and its robot creations. Working with just a few abstract sets, Barry creates a unique style of motionless acting -both humans and robots suppress movement for entirely static stagings, with even a fight scene done with an uncanny static feel. Simms' screenplay alternates thoughtful, inventive ideas with extremely campy jokes and semi-hilarious deadpan lines.

Features "Forbidden Planet" electronic sound montages. Don is on the surveillance committee of the Order of Flesh & Blood, who finds out he's a near-perfect R-96 android. His sister is "in rapport" with a robot named Pax, their personalities having been melded in a nifty allusion to sci-fi miscegenation.

The film finishes with Don and girlfriend Erica about to be made self-propagating R-100 androids to replace the human race -the doctor addresses the viewer directly with this ironic message: "Of course, the operation was a success, or you wouldn't be here". Final frame: "End... -Point of beginning (Webster)".

Kraft Suspense Theatre: Threepersons (1964) Season 2, Episode 9

Just doesn't play

[11 May 2024]

An extremely weak screenplay and unappealing performances add up to a poor Kraft Suspense segment.

From "The Untouchables" we're used to stories of smuggling booze into America during prohibition, say, from Canada. Here it's 1923 and the odd casting of young Perry Lopez plus Vincent Gardenia are bootleggers from south of the border sneaking liquor into a small Texas town.

Ralph Meeker is the government agent trying to stop them, and he hires an ex-soldier from his command during World War I to help establish law and order.

It's John Gavin, playing a stoic Cherokee, so stoic he seems like a Cigar Store Indian at times. He has a curved "Y" brand on his cheek, something of a precursor of the famous Yellowstone TV brand almost 60 years later!

Sentimental elements include a cute Mexican shoeshine boy Rafael Campos (a bit old for the role) and Linda Lawson, a favorite of mine who's a stretch as a Cantina girl seeking a better life and trying to reconnect with her little brother (Rafael).

Various plot twists all fall with thuds, none of it believable and just pounding away at various stereotypes. Perhaps a Mel Brooks sort of humorous approach (see: "Blazing Saddles") could have saved this.

Naked City: Economy of Death (1961) Season 2, Episode 25

Ineffectual cops and hokey plot twists

[11 May 2024]

A truly lousy episode, starring Sam Jaffe, of all people, as a man driven to single-minded vengeance. Supporting cast is uninteresting (for example, Lilia Skala is wasted in a nothing role, a couple of years before her "Lilies of the Field" triumph), and Burke is a day late and a dollar short for a change. The script manages to be both pretentious and stupid, with characters convenently dropping dead at writer Sy Salkowitz's whim.

It's a clunker from start to finish. The endless, "interrupted by a time out for plot exposition" climax of a foot chase is really poor, an idiotic way to wrap things up.

Anal Intruder 2 (1988)

It's a bar (for sex service)

[11 May 2024]

Ray Victory opens a bar and the customers sit down and ask for sex in this simple and simple-minded entry of an anal-sex series. As director, the lovely actress Tina Marie should have stayed with her day job.

There's no attempt at storytelling and the sex is strictly mechanical. If the viewer's mind starts to wander (mine surely did), it's best to recall that very little was expected in the early VHS era -just some pretty girls and XXX action. Rachel Ryan is the obvious draw for this one, and its "who cares?" approach is cemented with the ending: just a shot of five of the cast members' bare butts lined up for the camera, sort of a plural depiction of the corny visual "The End" cliche.

Swapped in Secret (2024 Video)

Hard to swallow

[11 May 2024]

The stories lack credibility (what else is new?) in this pair of Pure Taboo segments on a DVD.

For the title scene: Some story ideas, perhaps thrown around at a Writers Room, are best left crumpled up and thrown into the wastebasket. But the policy at Pure Taboo is clearly "waste not, want not", so this Penicio Del Toro screenplay was actually shot and released, despite its obvious shortcomings.

Seth Gamble arrives home, shouting out for his wife Nancy and daughter Mara. Instead, he's greeted by cutie Tracy (ever-young looking Jane Wilde (at 25 still a believable teen character) claiming to be his daughter, as amplified by mom Nancy (Charlie Forde).

This seeming bit of gaslighting is quickly resolved: Forde tells him she's discovered his affection for stepdaughter porn via his computer, so she simply traded his real-life offspring Mara for Tracy, whose family dug the switch. Seth can't contact his real daughter and boy, is he angry.

But not angry enough to storm out of the house -instead he flees to his bedroom, and the women decide to try very hard to get him to agree to the kinky role-playing they have in mind.

This nonsensical premise seems dead in the water, but directors Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas go full steam ahead: Jane has little trouble seducing "daddy" and soon Charlie joins them for a threesome, all of them enjoying it immensely.

For "Earning Her Badges", cute Lexi Lore, in her "Preparedness Scout" uniform, is taken by her den mother Katrina Colt to meet the district commissioner (Nathan Bronson) as another step in he cadet training. Almost immediately, he touches her inappropriately, and little Lexi flees to Katrina to tell her of the incident.

But instead of reporting this to the authorities, Katrina escorts Lexi back to talk it over with Bronson. The adults indicate that this is not a problem but rather an opportunity for the teen to grow as a woman and explore boldly new adventures including sex, dangling the promise of Lexi becoming a troop leader as a result. Being a virgin, Lexi is understandably reluctant to take this step, but Katrina offers to help guide her through the experience, resulting in a three-way.

This explicit case of grooming, cashing in on the many scandals with so many institutions (including scouting) is in poor taste, but I suppose that's the whole point of Pure Taboo. For the real-life importance of having a female groomer in on the crime, one needs no look further than the Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell case, perhaps an inspiration for Penicio Del Toro's insidious script.

She Comes in Colors (1987)

Lincoln's version of Porno Chic

[11 May 2024]

Set in the world of art, "She Comes in Colors" mixes some over-dramatic acting with bits of satire for a rather unusual Fred Lincoln feature. It tries to be different and succeeds.

Sharon Mitchell plays a sculptor, dallying with her beautiful foreign model Elle Rio. She tells Elle about her painful divorce, narrating a flashback of her attempt at suicide (Hollywood cliche-style, walking into the ocean), saved by two surfers who made for a convenient threesome.

There's a gallery party hosted by Regis (Rocky Reiber), where lots of sex fills up most of the video's footage. Jerry Butler is seduced by Elle and discovers body painting with her (later to make him a great success and providing the video's catchy Rolling Stones riff title). The three prinicipals become a threesome menage and Mitch also narrates comical "where are they now?" follow-ups at the end of the movie.

Before he teamed up successfully with wife Patti Rhodes (-Lincoln), Fred was apparently open to contrasting moods and styles in one movie here, with Mitch ultra-butch in one scene and glamorous in evening gown the next. Similarly, the movie is quite serious and romantic at times, but gonzo and satirical at others.

Hot to Swap (1989 Video)

Garbled look at wife-swapping

[11 May 2024]

From Buttman, using the pseudonym "Jonny Stallion" as producer, with no director blamed, comes a very stupid feature about wife-swapping. Its uncredited screenplay is loaded with contradictions, just an excuse for five sex vignettes with a B-level Adult cast.

Damian Cashmere plays a self-pitying husband, who gets the urge to try out wife-swapping while watching content on TV on the subject, replete with a toll-free number to join in. Supposedly he sends her to a hotel room without devulging the swap concept, but subsequent scenes change that all around, as if there were rewrites and just any old footage was assembled for the final product. My impulse to blame John Stagliano for the mess remains.

Brandi Wine plays the wife and Cashmere luckily ends up humping beautiful blonde Amanda Tyler. Buck Adams is along for the ride getting to hump two different wives, again nonsensical in terms of the video's concept.

Ass Day (2024 Video)

Black Oiler plus conversation

[11 May 2024]

Adult TIme marries another Holly Randall interview (featuring feminist pornographer Paulita Pappel) with a lesbian threesome from Gamma's All-Girl Massage series.

The talk segment from 2022 gives a feminist perspective on the porn industry, from Spanish actress-director Paulita Pappel in a wide-ranging conversation with Holly Randall.

"Ass Appreciation Day" is an all-Black, all-female massage porn scene, far from the usual casting prerogatives. August Skye and superstar Ana Foxxx go to a massage salon with freebie coupons, but unfortunately masseuse Destiny Mira informs them that they're expired. But she makes good by offering them a dual massage on the house.

Enough plot for a porn vignette, the rest being Oiler cliches and after a rather lengthy, uneventful 15-minute set-up, Destiny is destined to let her fingers wander inside her customers, leading to a hot threesome. Scene debuted on-line in November 2023, just two months before the release on the VOD titled "Asspreciation".

Doing the Harlem Shuffle (1986 Video)

Well-made period piece

[11 May 2024]

The same year (1986) that the Rolling Stones issued their hit cover song "Harlem Shuffle" comes this effective porn movie starring Taija Rae as the madam of a Harlem brothel/gambling house.

It concerns an FBI sting operation to bring down gangster Joey Silvera, who is extorting money from Taija as well as the mayor, played by Jesse Eastern. Porn director Paul Vatelli plays the G-man running the sting, and with Taija's cooperation he has hidden hand-cranked silent film cameras installed in the brothel to record Joey's receiving payoffs and having sex as evidence to put him away.

An attractive cast provides the sex action, with an obscure Black actress Crystal Onyx making a strong impression in a couple of sex scenes with her big natural breasts. Other stars include Trinity Loren, humping brothel piano player Billy Dee, plus Angel Kelly and Mauvais DeNoir as fellow prostitutes. Rae's blonde marcelled wig is too obviously fake, but her beauty is not.

One highlight is the inclusion of a 10-minute long vintage silent black & white stag movie titled "A Jazz Jag", complete with intertitles, but it's sabotaged somewhat by Vatelli having obnoxious audience heckling by the brothel viewers on the soundtrack in the manner of MS3TK, a couple of years before that popular series aired.

Balling for Dollars (1985 Video)

Loops for sale

[10 May 2024]

This 1989 compilation consists of eight scenes selected for VHS release, mostly featuring a bit of a story, enough to make it interesting. They play effectively as stand-alone loops.

Nina Hartley and Jerry Butler dominate the show, each featured in three separate segments. Nina's best is a hot interracial threesome with Angel Kelly and Billy Dee, while Butler has a comedy 3-way with Danielle and Sheri St. Claire.

Other highlights include: "Rub Down", a massage parlor scene with Buddy Love serviced by Sade (billed confusingly as "Sahara", a much bigger star name at the time) and Tracey Adams humped by Shone Taylor in a scene titled "Bound for Love", involving handcuffs.

Sleazy Rider (1988 Video)

A Buck Adams goof

[10 May 2024]

Buck Adams made some big-budget porn videos in his heyday, but this is like a backyard movie. Scenes feature little camera movement, just shot with mainly master shots, and the dialogue seems improvised and awkward. It's nearly a reversion to the Warhol 1960s approach.

No story, just Buck and his wife Taija Rae moving in next door to Jerry Butler and his wife Fallon. Jerry likes to chat and tries to be funny but all that matters here is the sex. Scenes unfold like SNL sketches but without the humor hitting the mark, they're just dull. One endless routine has Butler acting silly after smoking a joint on a bed with Taija Rae, and when it comes time for sex, Tammy White wanders into frame and substitutes for Taija -utterly pointless.

The credits don't match the cast list, with a big fat guy (Varmint) another pesky neighbor who gets to hump Tammy White. A guy named Dutch, likely the production manager, pops up to fix Buck's broken motorcycle.

Fans get to see Taija Rae (her name misspelled Taja in the credits) having plenty of sex. Her name is Carla but hubby Buck calls her B. J. and sure enough, in the middle of a dull scene he calls her over and she gives him a blow job. Later, Jerry asks if B. J. stands for blow job, after witnessing her with Adams, and she corrects him: it stands for Bouncing Jugs.

Hard Bodies (1989)

Sex and exercise

[10 May 2024]

If listening to inane dialogue is your thing, here's "Hard Bodies", one of the duller VHS porn features out there. It concerns a new gym, where folks go in search of pick-ups and sex.

There really is no story, and the acting is thoroughly incompetent, especially by the guys. Star Johnny Ace has a big dick, and that's about it for him.

Nina DePonca has the lead role, a nothing assignment. Jade East plays an aerobics instructor who feels sorry for Johnny as he gets tired out at her class, and so works on his dick.

Busty blonde Heather Torrance is diverting in a couple of mechanical sex scenes, but she displays dirty feet, traditionally a sure sign of a cheap, lousy porn video. One actor involved in a 3-way doesn't even get a screen credit.

Route 66: A Long Piece of Mischief (1962) Season 2, Episode 15

Indigestible mix of humiliation, meanness and pathos

[10 May 2024]

Silliphant sure bit off more than he could chew with this melodramatic story, investigating the Loca Subculture of the Week in the form of rodeo. Set in Mesquite, Texas, it's the springboard for strong performances by Audrey Totter, Albert Salmi and as a surprisingly effective villain for a change: Ben Johnson. However, the content is unsavory and beyond condescending.

In fact, I was soon struck that I was watching not human drama, but rather distorted melodrama right out of Tod Browning's horror classic "Freaks". We have the close-knit rodeo culture, with M & M outsiders, who impact what's going on there, but not convincingly. Milner narrates the show as one long flashback in a melancholy way, contradicting the 100% phony "upbeat" climax Silliphant has tacked on to the pathetic story.

Salmi represents the overwhelming theme of humiliation, a once-top dog rodeo star who has a stump for a hand after a rodeo accident and now makes his living as a clown. He thinks he's taking on all the watchers' pain and suffering, almost a Christ complex, whlle Ben Johnson and Slim Pickens are rodeo riders who spend all their three time pranking, goading and humiliating him.

To their sadism is added that of the onlookers, who are laughing at Salmi's antics as a clown in performance one minute and delighting in watching him get beat up by the pranksters the next. Only Mahari comes to his rescue and provides the show's low-point with an impassioned monologue near the end trying to punch up Salmi's self-esteem. Totter is terrific wallowing in her unending grief, reiving the death of her husband Al, her partner as headliners in an equestrian act, now suicidally drowning herself in drink.

Rodeo has been used as a metaphor in movies, especially the spate rodeo-themed films like "Junior Bonner" and "The Honkers" shot one decade after this show, but rarely exploited so clumsily as Silliphant did this time around.

The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)

Good, old-fashioned movie values

[10 May 2024]

Writer-Producer Mark Frost and director Bill Paxton delivered a powerful, old-fashioned drama of an unlikely hero you can't help but root for. Stallone's achievement with "Rocky" confirmed the enduring emotional lift such stories can achieve on screen, and three decades later this real-life golf story confirms that fact -holding up well yet 20 more years since.

The late, great actor Bill Paxton got solid, underplayed performances from his cast, LaBoeuf, Dillane and clearly Elias Koteas as our proletarian hero's unyielding dad.

I see the Disney release was not successful at the box office -a bit out of step with then-current tastes. Whether made by Redford ("Bagger Vance") or in this case just one of two features directed by Paxton before his untimely death, it seems the public has moved on from the simple, intrinsic values of movies where the little guy bucks the system and conquers. Splashy SPFX and superheroes, however infantile, now rule the roost.

Pure Taboo: Earning Her Badges (2023) Season 7, Episode 53

Grooming counts

[10 May 2024]

Cute Lexi Lore, in her "Preparedness Scout" uniform, is taken by her den mother Katrina Colt to meet the district commissioner (Nathan Bronson) as another step in he cadet training. Almost immediately, he touches her inappropriately, and little Lexi flees to Katrina to tell her of the incident.

But instead of reporting this to the authorities, Katrina escorts Lexi back to talk it over with Bronson. The adults indicate that this is not a problem but rather an opportunity for the teen to grow as a woman and explore boldly new adventures including sex, dangling the promise of Lexi becoming a troop leader as a result. Being a virgin, Lexi is understandably reluctant to take this step, but Katrina offers to help guide her through the experience, resulting in a three-way.

This explicit case of grooming, cashing in on the many scandals with so many institutions (including scouting) is in poor taste, but I suppose that's the whole point of Pure Taboo. For the real-life importance of having a female groomer in on the crime, one needs no look further than the Jeffrey Epstein/Ghislaine Maxwell case, perhaps an inspiration for Penicio Del Toro's insidious script.

Pure Taboo: Swapped in Secret (2023) Season 7, Episode 51

Leave your brain at the door

[10 May 2024]

Some story ideas, perhaps thrown around at a Writers Room, are best left crumpled up and thrown into the wastebasket. But the policy at Pure Taboo is clearly "waste not, want not", so this Penicio Del Toro screenplay was actually shot and released, despite its obvious shortcomings.

Seth Gamble arrives home, shouting out for his wife Nancy and daughter Mara. Instead, he's greeted by cutie Tracy (ever-young looking Jane Wilde (at 25 still a believable teen character) claiming to be his daughter, as amplified by mom Nancy (Charlie Forde).

This seeming bit of gaslighting is quickly resolved: Forde tells him she's discovered his affection for stepdaughter porn via his computer, so she simply traded his real-life offspring Mara for Tracy, whose family dug the switch. Seth can't contact his real daughter and boy, is he angry.

But not angry enough to storm out of the house -instead he flees to his bedroom, and the women decide to try very hard to get him to agree to the kinky role-playing they have in mind.

This nonsensical premise seems dead in the water, but directors Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas go full steam ahead: Jane has little trouble seducing "daddy" and soon Charlie joins them for a threesome, all of them enjoying it immensely.

Soft Caresses (1988)

The power of pools

[10 May 2024]

A truly pointless set of loosely related porn vignettes opens with Don Fernando quoting Freud, trying to convince us that something "deep" is undergirding this nonsense. No, it's just porn by the pound with the hook of a swimming pool used to link the scenes.

Don gets to hump Jade East, after which he introduces an anecdote of Buddy Love having sex with Nikki Randall, his neighbor, also meeting by a swimming pool. Tony Montana shows up at the pool to introduce skinny dippers Ray Victory and Brandi Wine, who make love by the pool. The Tony has sex with blonde Jessica Longe and then Frankie Leigh.

What does it all mean? You'd have to ask Sigmund Freud about that weighty question.

Political Party (1985)

Dirty politico?

[10 May 2024]

This rather vague porn feature concerns plenty of free lovin' at a vacation cabin, with a very minor title hook about politics thrown in tangentially.

From the opening shot of two couples in a hot tub, the idea of swapping and hedonism is firmly established, and we witness stars Tammy White and busty Robin Cannes free lovers with Greg Derek and Steve Drake.

Enter Rick Savage, seeming out of place wearing a suit and tie as he treks through a nearby forest with two hot babes: Bunny Bleu and Keli Richards. They seek refuge from the quartet and are invited to share their cabin, but Greg becomes incensed when he learns Rick is a politician, likely anti-porn and personal freedoms.

But he comes around when it becomes clear that Rick is as oversexed as the rest of the cast, leading to all seven of them having an orgy in the vacation cabin. A happy ending, porno style.