Dir : John Leslie
Prod : Louie T.Beagle
Wr's : John Leslie with Mark Weiss
Stars : Kathleen Jentry, John Leslie, Alexa Parks, Joey Silvera, Peter North, Laurel Canyon, Ray Victory, Veronica Hall, Buddy Love, Derek Lane, Nikki Knights, Megan Leigh, Jon Martin (NONSEX).
VCA / JOHN LESLIE PRODUCTIONS
One of Leslie's earlier productions, and by far one of his best, this moody gothic fantasy is quite unlike any other adult film I've ever seen. It certainly shows (to me, at least) that Leslie's talents are currently being terribly wasted with run-of-the-mill stuff like his recent "Dirty Tricks" or "Fresh Meat : The Series". This film is one that combines an innovative and fairly engrossing plot with some sizzling, well-directed, raw sex. It's kind of like it's sequel "Curse of the Catwoman" in terms of style and concept, but perhaps even better as in this one, the story deals with "normal" people being thrust into Leslie's weird world of animal mayhem which makes it a little easier to swallow than "Curse", in which all the characters were Catpeople or Hyenas, or some such stuff. Still, both installments in the saga are Grade "A" and here's a review of the first one :-
After a moody credits sequence, accompanied by the modern jazz wizardry of Bill Heid, we cut straight into a photo shoot, where Kathleen Jentry (looking very lovely with long hair) is taking shots of her model, Veronica Hall. In walks, Joey Silvera, seriously miscast as Jentry's football playing "stud" of a boyfriend to tell her that he is unable to take her dancing tonight and will have to go next week when he gets back from where-ever it is he's going. She gets mad and has a fight with him. He leaves, smiling, and she tells Veronica that the photo session is over.
Later that day, Jentry is walking through the park and she gets the feeling she's being followed. As she walks, she keeps looking back and eventually starts running before, after a brief but tense "stalk" sequence, she bumps straight into John Leslie, another guy in the park. He tells her that she's shaking like a leaf, introduces himself as "Chris" and then turns on the old Leslie charm, coaxing her into going for a drink with him at "The Watering Hole", a local bar. Together they go off to the bar, and have a conversation about how imagination can be scary, etc, etc, before she eventually offers to take him home which paves the way to the VCR-Combusting opening sex scene between the two of them.
Bill Heid's frenzied jazz soundtrack pounds to life as Jack Remy's skillful camera tracks the two passionate lovers across the floor of a dark apartment, towards the couch, where both partners disrobe. To begin with, she sucks him off, quite passionately before they break into an absolutely boiling bit of doggie-position sex. It's quite unlike the sort of thing you'd usually see in a sex film. Both partners really seem to genuinely "like" each other. They both grab hold of each other with intensity (Leslie's back is near bleeding at the end of scene with her nailmarks!) and frequently kiss each other, passionately. After a bit of doggie, Leslie flips her over, growls and pounds into her missionary style with a burning passion that I haven't seen in an XXX feature in ages. They both hold each other close during this, as opposed to the usual "L-Shape" screw so close to the hearts of second rate porn directors. By the end of all this, both partners are totally out of breath (Most viewers will be, too) and sweating like pigs. To finish the scene, Leslie cums on her chin and neck. Interestingly, he doesn't jerk off to achieve this shot, simply flexes his dick muscles and lets the jism fly. Very innovative. Anyhow, to end the sequence, he gives her a bit of cunnilingus, to which she responds to nicely, flinging her delicious body across the couch with great gusto. It has to be said, this scene is one of the hottest I've *EVER* seen and ranks among my top five faves of all time. The level of simple raw energy here is through the roof...
Anyway, take a breather, wipe down the couch and get back to the plot.. The next day, in the photo studio, Jentry is casually looking over some photos when she suddenly grabs her head, drops the photos and falls to the ground. Next thing you know, she's fondling her breasts and ripping off her panties! Huh? Well, anyway, when she turns her head to the camera, it turns out that she now has big hairspray-hair and lots of eye make-up. She lets out a feral growl to the camera and we cut to a shot of Leslie sitting in a bar. Shame... I was hoping for a masturbation sequence...
Anyways, Jentry approaches Leslie and suggests that weird things have been happening to her since she did it with him. He confesses that she is actually a cat trapped in a human's body. He explains that all the people in the world are actually part of a huge jungle and each one of them has a different animalistic characteristic. There are lots of hyenas (men who travel around in packs and laugh a lot) and snakes, etc, etc, but very few cats. She is very priveleged indeed. He then explains that the catwoman who sleeps with the King of the Cats will eventually inherit the throne of the jungle. Naturally she thinks he's talking out of his ass and she storms up and shouts "I'm not a cat! I'm a human being!" or something like that. He tells her to stop and watch the ways of the jungle. Next we see a barfight break out behind her, between Ray Victory and some other guy. Ray wins and the wimp's chick, Laurel Canyon, is all over Ray. Because she thinks he's so tough, she unzips his pants there and then in the bar (in front of some 20 people or so!) and gives him a BJ.
This paves the way to the next sex scene. Ray and Laurel engage in some heated doggie pounding across a bar stool for a minute or so, in full view of the large bar patronage. Soon, Kathleen, being the Catwoman and some kind of super-sexual creature, strips off her clothes, reveals a very well toned body indeed and begins dancing like there is no tomorrow. Unlike so many other porn stars who try to dance and fail, Kathleen Jentry is a woman whose biggest asset lies in her dancing (see "Dance Fire" among others). She can *DANCE* ladies and gents! She does a highly erotic and turbo-charged little routine around the bar and gives a fondle or two to Ray, who looks baffled by the whole thing. Leslie sits there smiling, knowing that his assumption is correct and she *is* the Catwoman. After several minutes of frantically shot & blisteringly hot dancing as well as some heated barstool sex, Ray shoots a weak load on Laurel's ass and the scene ends with Kathleen looking very embarrassed as everyone walks off, leaving her naked on the bar, doing the splits! Hmmm...
Cut now to a totally irrelevant interlude that the film would have been much better without. Jentry is at the photo studio with Veronica Hall and is chatting with her about the encounter with Leslie. They have a really badly written (and badly executed) conversation before Derek Lane (Groan...) the male model waltzes in wearing only his undies. In a ridiculous sequence thoroughly out of place with the rest of the movie, Derek says that he can't pose for the photo 'cause he has a hard-on from just looking at Jentry. Thus, Veronica comes to the conclusion that the only way to get rid of it would be if she slept with him. Thus we get an okay scene with Veronica and Derek in the photo studio. They go through the usual positions (mish/doggie and oral) and some fairly nicely done reverse cowgirl as well, but she's not exactly an "A" List star and he's a pain in the butt, so the scene doesn't work all that well. To finish with, he shoots a massive load from her crotch to her shoulders, showering everything in between with his fluids. This scene may have been okay in another film but it just seemed like a grave comedown from the previous two.
Anyway, back to the real plot, we have Jentry and her blonde bimbo buddy (played convincingly by blonde bimbo Alexa Parks) sitting in the bar, having a chat about this and that. Soon they're approached by Buddy Love (a guy who *really* gives me the creeps) and Peter North, as two "hyenas" stalking their prey. Basically this means that they're on the prowl for pussy and think they've found what they want in these two tasty morsels at the table. Jentry is above all this and walks off, leaving Alexa to have a short conversation with the guys, before they all walk off into the bathroom. Meanwhile, Joey Silvera has entered the bar and walks up to Jentry, asking what she's doing in a dump like this and wonders if she may want to go out for dinner. Being as she's now the Catwoman, she just gives him lots of sexual retorts to his questions. This freaks him out (dunno why, I'd have liked it) and he storms out. As he walks out, she strolls over to the table where Leslie is sitting and he begins to explain some more about this Cat stuff. Apparently, he is the King of Cats and wants her for his Queen. However, before she can become the Queen of the Jungle, she has to venture into the darkest part, the Cats' lair.
However, before we get this, we cut back to Alexa, Buddy and Peter who are now in the bathroom. Before you can say "firehose" Peter has his schlong dangling out his pants and is ready to rumble. Alexa works the two studs over, in and around the urinals, giving some oral work to one of them, whilst the other takes her, either doggie or reverse cowgirl. The reverse cowgirl is a highlight, very hot and well shot indeed. Throughout the whole scene, there is a kind of unpleasant atmosphere which adds to the desired effect of a sleazy bar encounter. That said, it works in the scene's favour and this is actually a very hot little number indeed. Alexa gives a lot of enthusiasm here and really seems to be having a good time. Pete gives his usual blank expressions and Buddy just scares me with his wide-eyed glare and Hannibal Lector style grin, but you can ignore these two quite easily. The scene's climax is quite interesting. They stuff Alexa into a urinal and jerk off at a distance from her. However, because both of these guys resemble heavily shaken beer cans when they pop off, they give her a total sperm bath obliteration here. She looks pretty drenched at the end of it, but still keeps a smile on her face and a hand between her legs! Good scene, well lit and well performed.
Now, we return to Jentry and Leslie, as he takes her to the Cats' lair, which turns out to be a dark, crimson-lit room with lots of exotic looking trees everywhere. Two guys in cat make-up (Jon Martin and someone else who I don't recognize) sit in each corner, just idly rubbing their cocks, whilst two pretty young things (Megan Leigh and Nikki Knights) lie naked in the middle of the jungle wearing make-up straight out of the first "New Wave Hookers" film with outrageous haircuts to match. Leslie explains that the guys are the "Pride" and the gals are potential "Queens". If Jentry wants to be the supreme Catwoman she will have to first satisfy the Pride and the Queens. Thus we get a g/g/g scene, while the two guys just stand by and jerk off.
Needless to say, Jentry satisfies the Queens, not to mention the gobsmacked viewer. This is a remarkably hot, toy free lesbian scene with all three girls just scrambling over each other and licking every available orifice. It's hard to describe the scene in words, as there's no real order to how the scene progresses, it's just an all-out "every girl for herself" mad rush. There's an interesting part where Jentry achieves clitoral stimulation by rubbing herself along Nikki's leg which is very well shot and I thought it to be tremendously erotic as well, but maybe that's just me? Anyhow, it ends with the guys letting loose with *VERY* weak pop shots in their hands and the gals looking positively worn out...
"Is that it?" wonders Jentry, realizing that we've come to the standard 5 scenes required for a porn movie. "Not quite. There's one more task you must complete before you can become the Queen of the Cats" explains Leslie. Her final task is that must display prowess in the field of hunting. Her prey being the average human male. Cut to the bar :
Joey is wandering around the bar looking for Kathleen and all the other patrons are giving him funny looks. As he is looking around, we get some weird P.O.V. shots of Kathleen following him. She finally moves in close to her prey and the rest of the folks in the bar hastily make themselves scarse. Joey turns round, shocked, and she pushes him on to the bar for a steamy sex scene which makes an interesting contrast with the first scene. In the opener of the movie, Jentry played the submissive part, with Leslie very much being the driving force of the coupling, whereas here *she* is very much in control and giving Joey a real run for his money. We start with a nice BJ, before moving on to some missionary atop the bar. Jentry's body moves like a finely honed machine in perfect synchronicity with Silvera's, both partners performing *for* the viewing pleasure of the audience. After the mish, we get a truly lovely reverse cowgirl for a satisfactory amount of time, before finishing off with some passionate cowgirl. To finish the scene, Jentry pulls him out and jerks him off. The semen goes a-flyin' all the way across Joey's body (unfortunately) and he almost commits the porno-cardinal sin of giving himself a facial! (Not quite, thank God) As the scene finishes, Leslie enters, wide-eyed and looking quite madly in love. He grabs Kathleen and very passionately indeed plants a smacker of a kiss on her lips, before the two of them leave the bar and go running in the subways, leaving Joey looking wasted on top of the bar. FADE TO BLACK : END
Phew... A fine movie. Although the level of hi-octane sexuality can't quite keep up to the standards set in the opening scene, all the scenes are pretty hot (except the Derek/Veronica one which is average) and the plot is good enough to keep you hooked. The stars of the show here (aside from Jentry, obviously) though are Bill Heid and Jack Remy. The soundtrack is certainly one of the best I've ever heard, perfectly suiting the moody camerawork (Remy's touch) and gothic sets. I could also recommend this one as a "Couples" film. It's got a plot, no facials, no anals, very little g/g stuff and the first scene contains some *real* heat which isn't often displayed in sex films. I can't really do justice to the movie simply by reviewing it, you really have to go and see it, so without further adieu, I'll just give it a very high (by any level, not just my picky standards) 3.95 on the Imperial Scale and then I'll shut up.
Happy viewing!