Date sent: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 17:25:53 -0400
From: Sergej Kravinoff <[email protected]>
Organization: Spiderweb
Subject: REVIEW: The Hardcore Collection 8
KRAVEN'S REVIEWS 5
Title: The Hardcore Collection, Volume 8
Director: Max Hardcore
Starring: Max Hardcore, C.J. Bennett, Misty Barlow, Marilyn Martin, Vanessa Chase, Sandy, Becky, Delilah, Somona, Sean Michaels, Tim Lake, Mike South
Company: L.B.O. Entertainment
Year: 1995
Duration: 2 hours
Rating: 6 (using Rog's 1-10 Scale)
Comment: This is a compilation of some early Max Hardcore (aka Max Steiner) stuff, issued by L.B.O. in 1995, but suspectedly most - if not all - of the scenes are recorded a couple of years earlier.
Scene 1: C.J. Bennett. Black hair which she wears in bow, barely average looks, OK body, wears white shirt, black leather panties connected to some leather stripes which tangle her body, black painted nails. She stands on Max's patio leaned over a table with her ass in the air, leather panties pulled to the side, fingering herself. Max, smiling under his black cowboy hat, exits from the house and starts fingering her pussy. Then he fucks her doggy-style in the some position. Change to her kneeling and blowing him. Then change to anal doggy with some good camera angles. Her ass cheeks are quite nice. Sudden change to missionary anal. There's this annoying "porn muzak" which drowns their sounds of love and/or the dialogue (if there is one). Max doesn't utter a single word during the whole scene, which is a shame, him being a master of dirty talk. After an edit he jerks off in her face and she sucks his dick. Some good moments of her round ass being pounded, but otherwise this scene is not memorable. The overall impression is lowered by the director's bad habit of doing edits when changing positions (btw this is often done in Private movies, and since Max has worked a lot as a director for Private one may see a connection here). I like to see the dick go from one orifice to another, not just suddenly being in a new one without me knowing how it got there.
Scene 2: Misty Barlow. Long light-brown curly hair, nice body, lies in a swimsuit on her stomach, sunbathing next to Max's swimming pool, touching and rotating her ass cheeks. Suddenly she is sucking Max's dick, which has arrived out of nowhere. Porn muzak and blowjob in slow motion - this stuff has really aged! Max pulls her swimsuit crotch to the side and starts fingering her. Then sudden change to him fucking her in the ass from behind. Change to missionary anal. Some decent exit and reinsertion shots in slow-motion. After an edit he jerks off in her face. The slow-motion shots indicate that this scene belongs to Max's "experimental" phase. Luckily he did not use his in those days much advertised revolutionary "splatter-cam" effects (which meant him jerking off on the camera lens).
Scene 3: Marilyn Martin. Long blonde hair, average looks, slim body, quite a hot lady, blowing long-dicked black stud Sean Michaels in desert landscape. She takes off her white panties but keep her red sweater on as she lays down on her back (on a comfortable rock?) and spreads her legs for some black-tongue cunnilingus. Nice blonde pussy. Then Sean fucks her doggy-style. Good camera-work. Max appears from out of nowhere, starts commenting the action and then comes up with a plan worth consideration: "I have an idea. Let's dp her!" Change to RAC with Max on the ground. Sean enters her pussy from above. Sean changes from her pussy to her mouth and back. Suddenly, without warning, the night has fallen over the desert and we can hardly distinguish the boys blowing their nuts in her face. This must be one of Max's earlier recordings.
Scene 4: Vanessa Chase. Pretty brunette, short stylish hair, cute face, petite body with nice small tits and a well-shaped ass. She sits on a sofa in casa de Max sucking a lollipop and wearing a white shirt, a colorful short skirt and white socks. She puts on a pair of high-healed white shoes which happen to lie on the table. Then she lays back in the sofa, touching her crotch, exposiing her panties which are white with a pattern of small blue and purple hearts. Max shows up. At first she seems a bit embarrased being caught playing with herself but apparently she finds herself in the situation quickly. Soon, she sits in his lap as he fingers her panty-crotch and her pussy. Unfortunately the annoying music drowns any dirty talk. Still this is a hot scene. Some great panty shots. Max rips her panties partly apart (I'm not particularly fond of that brutal practice of his; it's so much nicer to make room for your fingers, your cock or whatever by pulling them gently to the side) and unties her shirt, revealing her beautiful small tits. Then he lays her back in the sofa with her legs up in the air and starts licking and fingering her pussy and asshole. He borrows her lollipop, inserts in her pussy and licks it off himself; then he reinserts it and invites her to try the taste. Kinky! Change to him sitting back in the sofa and her sucking his dick while he rubs her pussy with the lollipop. Then sudden shift to RAC, unfortunately we don't get to see the insertion. Good view of her from the front, asshole impaled on cock, panties pulled to the side, skirt pulled up, open shirt with tits exposed, white socks and shoes still on. Vanessa is hot! Change to some brief anal spoon and then anal doggy in real nice postion and camera angle. Unfortunately the scene ends to quickly with him jerking off over her non-dilated asshole. Despite irritating music, over-editing and absence of insertion and exit shots, a pretty good scene with dirty old Max and the lovely Vanessa Chase having a good time.
Scene 5: Sandy. Cute petite asian girl, wearing white shirt, white panties, white socks, white high-healed shoes (same ones as in the previous scene?), cheap jewelry and a white ribbon in her hair. Scene starts with close-up of Max licking her pussy with her panties pulled to the side. Shift to her blowing him accompanied by the ever-present muzak. Sudden change to missionary anal (unfortunately no insertion showed) with pulled up skirt and panties pulled to the side, open shirt. Good deep pounding shot in some good angles. Shift to intense doggy anal. Max has a good day, no doubt about it! After an edit he jerks off into her mouth and she sucks him good. A fairly good scene despite the muzak and the edits.
Scene 6: Becky. Short dark stylish hair, pretty face, wears cheap jewelry (same neckless as in last scene?) a red top and high-cut white panties, white socks and (those same?!) white high-heals once again. She's down on her knees blowing Max and licking his balls. Shift to her on all fours with Max fingering her intensely (four fingers) while holding her panties to the side with his other hand. Sudden change to brief missionary ass-fucking. Then RAC, providing a nice view of her high-cut panties to the side (her panties reminds me a bit of those worn by Kaitlyn Ashley in Max's classic scen with her from Video Games - check out Rog's review of that one). Shift to doggy anal with some nice exits and reinsertions, could have lasted longer. Finally he jerks off on her ass-hole. Cum pours down over her asshole, over her pussy, over her panty-fabric as he reinserts his dick into her sticky backdoor. Isn't this what life is all about?
Scene 7: Delilah with Max and Max's buddy Tim Lake. Delilah is a mature quite sexy woman wearing white high heals (again!), a blue skirt and a white top, both pulled up already at the outset of this scene. She lies on her back on a camping-bed as Max and Tim takes turns licking and fingering her. Turn to Tim fucking her briefly in the missionary position; then she blows him. Sudden change to Max fucking her doggy-style. Nice round ass-cheeks in full-grown-woman style. Brief RC with Max before she positions herself on all fours. Tim fingers her asshole but it's Max who gets to fuck it. Good views of "the ass-master" giving her his best. No muzak, I suddenly notice, what a relief! One can hear her moan and groan. Possible A2M as Max turns her around and cums in her mouth. She sucks his dick good. Shift to Tim fucking her pussy in the missionary position. "Give her a cream pie!" says buddy Max och Tim obliges. Good view of her pussy sticky with cum and Tim sweaping it around with his dick ends this decent scene.
Scene 8: Sonoma, Mike South and Max. Somona has shoulder-long dark fluffy hair, barely average looks, ethnic. She wears some glittery lingerie. and heavy lipstick. She plays with her pussy as Mike South joins and starts fingering her. After a while he puts two fingers into her asshole. She blows him. Then he fucks her missionary-style. We discover that she wears black (!) high heals. Then sudden change to semi-close-up ass-fucking with her on her back with legs pulled up. No muzak disturbs the action. When the picture turns to full-screen we see that it's Max, not Mike, who pounds her ass. After an edit Max cums in her face. Nothing special, this last scene of the tape.
Final comment: I would hesitate to call Max Hardcore/Steiner the greatest director of contemporary adult movies, but he's certainly the most innovative and influential. He's never been afraid to break new ground and sometimes this has lead him into dead alleys (splatter-cam, choke-fucking, in my view) but other times it has resulted in significant advances of the genre (rough anal sex a la Max, his distinctive style of dirty talking), which later have been refined by himself or by other directors. In this collection his style is however not mature. We find too much porn muzak and bad editing. The anal sequences and too brief and in most cases they lack a convincing ending (like e.g. a tunnel shot or an A2M). The dirty dialogue, perhaps Max's most significant trademark, is almost completely absent. Still, this early work of an upcoming master is historically important and no doubt has its erotic moments, in particular in the scenes with Vanessa Chase (scene 4) and Becky (scene 6).
Review by Kraven the Hunter (Sergej Kravinoff). Comments or questions may be sent to [email protected]
"Oh, there's still a world out there for you to torture and feed upon ... entrails to chew up ... minds to spit out -- but you know that you now longer have Kraven in your power -- and that not only scares you -- it saddens you." (from Kraven's Last Hunt)