Sexual Healer

From: Joey Markham ([email protected])
Subject: REVIEW: "Sexual Healer"
Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 11:55:22 -0400 (EDT)




SEXUAL HEALER
director: Aja.   Vidco, 1991.
running time: 79 mins.

cast: Sunny McKay, Kelly Blue, Alice Springs, Sheila Kelly, Randy Spears,
 Tom Byron, Mel Bourne.

rating: 5 out of 10 stars (or Imperial rating: 2.00 / 4.00 )



Sunny and Randy play therapists who bring their sexually repressed (or pent
up) patients to the beautiful outback of Australia for a little field trip.
One day as they're relaxing and enjoying the scenery, Alice comes out of
the forest and presents Randy with a branch she pulled off a berry bush and
asks if they're edible.  He comes up with a brilliant plan, that he later
shares with Sunny, about telling the group not to eat those berries because
there's some legend about certain mind-altering substances contained in
them that make people do out of the ordinary things.  That makes the group
curious to experiment a little, so they head out and gobble down the 
seriously harmless fruit behind the therapists' backs.  What results, of
course, is an awakening of sorts that has these patients realizing the
sexual beasts hidden within them.  Randy's plan works and, in the end,
everyone has a revitalized attitude they never seemed to be aware of (which
they brought out by themselves, naturally).


(Scene 1): Kelly Blue, Tom Byron

- Fading in on this scene, we can hear Aja briefly call out "action!".
Kelly and Tom are wolfing down berries, then eventually eachother.  The
Aussie blonde (or rather, the blonde with dark roots :-) gives Tom head
then they do missionary, doggy, spoon, and cowgirl positions.  Tom's
laying down as Kelly jerks him off, but none of it hits her.  One of the
many reasons why I like Kelly a lot, besides her cute accent, is that she
shows spirit (most of the time - the earlier videos she and her gal pals
did for John T. Bone were very tame).  I get the feeling that Kelly's a
spunky gal who's very much carefree, full of energy, and really loves
being a woman (her mannerisms suggest she loves flaunting herself like a
little girl - but all in good fun :-).  Here, she has her smaller set of
implants (which she had pumped up even more when she hit America) that
looked fine but you can still see the noticeable scars.

(Scene 2): Sheila Kelly, Mel Bourne

- Two stars who never made it big on the American porn market, Sheila and
Mel crank out a foreign scene that could have pleased, but the only gripe
I have with Bourne is in most of his performances they rarely show him
penetrating in longshots (when they do, he is so closely pressed up to his
female partner that you'll either think that Tom Byron is the stunt dick
in close-ups or Mel just has the weirdest way of fucking this side of
Kelly Jaye giving head).  Not to diss Mel, though.  He seems like a 
happy-go-lucky bloke who sort of resembles Woody Harrelson.  He also seems
like a fellow who is lost in his own world but his presence will make you
feel that he is very much harmless.  Sheila Kelly is a dirty blonde with
great natural breasts, a slim bod, a thick mane of beautiful shoulder
length, dirty blonde, model-type hair (the kind that looks perfect whichever
way she sways it) but a tiny, sort of scrunched-up face that looks just a
little too small for her head.  They get into missionary for a bit, and
THEN she gives him head (is that how they do it in Oz? :-).  Their cowgirl
is heated, but short.  A cumshot on her ass (from the spoon position) ends
the scene.

(Scene 3): Alice Springs, Randy Spears

- Out on a hiking expedition, Randy sits alone with Alice and tries to get
her to open up a little.  He hands her a few berries and soon enough she's
stripping down for sex.  Spontaneous moments are always a joy to see:
Alice is quickly undressing Randy by pulling down his pants but she can't
slide them off because she didn't take off his boots first.  This makes
her realize she's rushing into things and she bursts out with a silent
laugh (you know, the kind where you look like you're laughing but no noises
are coming out of your mouth? :-).  She gives him head, they do a 69,
followed by mish, spoon, and doggy, then Randy cums on her ass.  There
isn't much variety in camera angles and the heat level doesn't rise much.

(Scene 4): Sunny McKay, Kelly Blue

- Sunny and Kelly (one of Randy's patients) are sitting down riverside,
getting to know eachother.  The girl/girl scene that develops is pretty
warm but Sunny looks absolutely incredible with her hair (which is kept
up in a bun most of the time) flowing down.  She looks like the kind of
girl who grew up surrounded by nature and wilderness and I don't know how
many of you have seen those old commercials for Timotei shampoo, but the
blonde that cavorts around the springtime meadows swaying her hair around
can easily be replaced by Sunny.  Her hair is also perfectly straight here,
and I wish she would have kept this look a lot more often in her American
flicks (I can only think of a few: "Behind Blue Eyes 3" and "Torch" plus
all of her Aussie-made movies).  They each reach orgasm but the action 
leading up to it is slow moving.

(Scene 5): Alice Springs, Mel Bourne

- After spying on Sunny and Kelly, Alice and Mel sneak off into another
part of the woods for a little fun of their own.  They lay down on the
grass and start kissing, then he gets into a little pussy eating before
more of the same Tom Byron stunt dicking (why are they trying to fool us?
Do they think we were Bourne yesterday?  Er..).  Anyhow, the only thing
these two have in common is that their stage names are taken from places
in Australia.  Mel looks generally confused (but still an affable lad)
and perky little Alice looks like she's just going along for the money.
They only do spoon and doggy positions (when they flip over to get into
doggy, grass covers part of their outer thighs - nice).  Alice gets a weak
cumshot on her chest.

(Scene 6): Sunny McKay, Randy Spears, Tom Byron

- Before heading back to the States, Sunny and Randy munch on a few berries
for the fun of it and get into some boning action with the help of Tom.
The sex takes place on some wagon in the middle of the woods.  McKay, once
again, looks like pure sunshine but this scene ends up as a quickie with
a double cumshot on her chest.

All the sex scenes take place in the great outdoors (what a refreshing
change from poorly lit studios).  Some of the scenery is quite lovely 
(though not entirely 'breathtaking') and the music seems to compliment the
moods quite well (except scene one: what the hell kind of music was that??
A man's voice can be heard singing but he goes off-key several times.
That gets my nomination for one of the worst soundtracks ever used in a
porn scene).  There are some editing glitches but what's even more flawed
is the sex.  Sunny, Alice, and Kelly are lovely (Sheila doesn't do much
for me) but they just didn't hold their own strongly enough.  Mel Bourne
is part of the reason (in his respective boinks) but poor camera angles
and barely any variation also contribute to the downfall of this production.
Got the X-rated blues?  You best be looking elsewhere instead of relying
on this "Sexual Healer" for relief.  Just watching everybody eating all
those berries is enough to give you a stomach ache in itself.


Joey Markham
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