Director : Scotty Fox
Writer : Cash Markman
Stars : Nikki Dial, Jonathan Morgan, Steve Drake, Lacy Rose, Randy West, Alex Jordan, Chaz Vincent, Christina Cruise, Rebecca Bardoux, LS Talbot.
AVICA PRODUCTIONS
Amazingly enough, considering the director, this one is actually a remarkably sensible attempt at creating a genuine laff-free porno horror film. One that combines the two genres quite nicely and even (GASP!) contains some snazzy gore F/X to boot. The sex is indifferent in quality but you could certainly do worse, and despite the sometimes confused storyline which tries to cram in way too many characters and plot twists, the film works out quite nicely. The final plot twist makes all the rest of the crap seem worthwhile. The value for money card is also played to it's full potential with 7 scenes instead of the usual 5...
We open at some kind of moonlight costume party at Nikki Dial's house. Some really cool electro-goth music (courtesy of The Vamps) is playing, and various badly costumed partygoers dance around moronically. Cut to Nikki talking to Randy West : It is established that she is a writer of vampire fiction called Anna Price (no reference to Anne Rice, there eh?) and he is her publisher. He doesn't believe vampires exist, although he does find her books very believable and highly erotic. She laughs at this and asks where his girlfriend is. He points over in the smoky distance where Alex Jordan is dressed in a cat outfit and dancing with a very well made-up Chaz Vincent. Alex is Randy's girl and Nikki implies that he should keep a close eye on her if she's hanging around with Chaz. Randy says that it's okay and he likes letting her run around with other women. However, he draws the line at men, he says (and I quote) "I won't have my collectables MAN-handled". Alex and Chaz vanish into the bathroom leaving the party in full swing outside...
After a brief bit of dialogue, Alex turns on the shower and the two girls begin to strip off. I have to admit that I do very much enjoy sex scenes in showers, so I may be a bit bias as to how much I liked this scene. Still, Chaz looks REALLY nice here, I guess Alex looks okay too, and both girls put a lot of effort into the scene. We begin with some light standing cunnilingus on Alex from Chaz and then they swap around, before moving on to some really nice fondling and general soaping down of each other, while rubbing genitals. There's some real nice camerawork from Scotty here, capturing the girl's bodies as best he possibly can.Incidentally, in this (and all the other scenes) there is a weird emphasis on biting. As Chaz goes down on Alex, she keeps yelling "Bite me! Bite me harder!", which Chaz does with gusto... My only objection to this scene is that it's too short. It only lasts about four minutes (which is short for a sex scene, I think) then abruptly stops. I was disappointed...
Still, we cut back to the party, where Nikki notices a strange man in a Dracula costume (Jonathan Morgan) standing in the mist on the band stand. He gives her the evil eye and she is mysteriously drawn to him (I wish I could master that trick). She approaches him and they begin talking. They introduce themselves, sit down on a wall and talk about their lives. He says (in a very good Transylvanian accent) that he's not from around here and is trying to get back home. He also expresses a love for her books. She is flattered and says she'd like to meet him when the party's over. However, upon looking around, she notices that all the guests have vanished (there are some great "creepy" shots of an empty garden here) and only the two of them remain. He kisses her and break into a sex scene.
Nikki looks much better here than in her later VIVID films (IMHO) and the scene is quite well lit. It's the same set that was used for the back garden in Jim Enright's "Legacy of Love" for those interested in a bit of porno trivia. Anyway, he goes down on her first for a while, she goes down on him and then it's a straightforward missionary screw atop the brick wall. They finish off with a bit of doggie before he spurts on her ass. Nikki looks very pretty here, but there's just no real passion involved. Scotty goes through the standard issue porno camera angles and the two performers just grind their way through the usual motions while waiting for their paychecks. Not a horrible scene, just a boring one.
After they finish, Jonathan bites Nikki's neck and she sucks blood from his finger. Fade to black. It's morning and Nikki wakes up, topless, in her backyard to the smiling face of JB, who plays the gardener. They have a conversation, then he cuts his finger whilst pruning the hedge. She sucks his blood with much gusto and he looks really shocked. By now, I think we've got the idea that Nikki is turning into a vampire. Now, on to the next plot twist. Cut to the office of Steve Drake, private detective. Nikki is dressed in black and asking for his services as a PI. She wants to locate Jonathan, and knows that Steve is the best in the business when it comes to finding missing persons. He agrees to take the case and sets to work on it. It doesn't take long 'til he gets a lead and he meets Jonathan at an abandoned airfield. Jon offers to take him up for a ride in a glider and Steve agrees. We are now treated to some nifty flight sequences (inappropriate, considering what sort of film we're supposedly watching) intercut with shots of Jon and Steve talking in the cockpit. Jon tells him that he's an age-old vampiric count and needs to get back to his homeland or some such junk. Then he tells Steve that he's going to crash the plane and fly out of the window in the form of a bat... (???) This he does (terrible special FX) and we see Steve plummet to his supposed death in a badly acted and totally gratuitous sequence...
Now on to another irrelevant interlude. Lacy Rose sits at a picnic table with an uncredited Rebecca Bardoux, telling Becky how she met a really weird woman last night dressed in black who paid to watch her and her boyfriend fuck. We flash back and see TT Boy and Lacy taking their clothes off. He begins biting her nipples before moving on to her crotch to perform some bite-oriented cunnilingus, whilst Nikki sits naked in a chair masturbating quite passionately to the whole affair. I always thought Nikki was particularly good with solo scenes (see also "Sodom and Gomorrah") so I enjoyed this bit quite a lot. She continues to frantically rub herself as Lacy starts to go down on TT. The biting thing reaches a nasty extreme here as she actually bites into the head of his cock several times (fairly lightly, yes, but still looks painful) in between licks and sucks. Moving along swiftly, we now get to a fine reverse cowgirl with Lacy giving it loads on the noise front and Scotty getting in some really nice full-body shots, to boot. After a satisfactory amount of this (all which is very good) we move on to some doggie, before TT dons a rubber and goes for the anal angle. This is the only anal in the film, but it's quite a good one, with Lacy really getting into the swing of things and biting into the sheets of the bed and stuff like that, screaming and shouting. Eventually TT shoots his load on her ass, as Nikki reaches a wild climax in the chair. Then Nikki takes a leap for TT. We get a close-up shot of his face, sweaty and terrified and then fade back to Lacy and Rebecca at the picnic table. Definately the best scene in the movie...
Lacy is shaken by the whole affair (I guess Nikki bit TT or something but it's not properly explained) but Rebecca knows the best way to cumfort her >-) [evil grin]. They begin to break into a nice outdoor g/g scene, starting with Rebecca going down on Lacy. Then, out of the blue, Lacy dons a strap-on and rams down Rebecca's throat, before very quickly bending her over the table and screwing her doggie style with the strap-on. All of this happens so quick, though, that if you blink you'll miss it. As swift as all that happened, Lacy pulls out the double-ended dildo and they begin slamming their asses together and making good use of the tools at hand. Sadly, this only goes on for about 20 seconds, then the scene ends, making it a total of two minutes which really pissed me off, as this could have been a great scene. Lacy looked nice and Rebecca looked REALLY good, but for some stoopid reason (probably bad editing or something) Scotty chose to cut the scene short. Pity.. Grave pity...
Cut back to the original plot now, with Nikki looking at her fangs in the mirror and smiling to herself. In walks Steve, uninvited and covered in band-aids (very silly. The guy's just been in a plane crash for God's sake!!). He tells her that he knows all about the vampirism and is determined to bring her down. She gets pissed and lifts him a couple of foot off the ground. He gets scared, screams a lot (BADDDD acting) and runs away. Cut now to a ritzy restaurant where Jonathan is having dinner with Nikki. He tells her that she will have to kill people if she wants to continue living and she gets very upset about it. He tells her that he's going to kill Steve and let her have his blood or something.
Back with Steve, he is telling Randy West all about Nikki's encounter with the vampire and is trying to make someone else believe his story. They walk off into the drawing room, leaving Alex alone in the living room. It's no surprise when Jonathan appears, hypnotizes her and starts to fuck her in front of the fireplace. It's another short (under 4 minute) screw and it's fairly standard issue stuff as well. There's cunnilingus to begin with (with a LOT of biting going on), then some bite-free fellatio, predictably followed by some doggie and ending with a bit of missionary and pop shot on her pussy. Yawn. Alex doesn't look THAT good and both partners appear to be really bored with the scene. On the positive side, the set is quite nice and looks new? (Great...)
Are you ready for another irrelevant interlude? Steve is sitting in his office with his new girlfriend, played by Christina Cruise, who, AFAIK has not appeared in anything else. I've never seen (or heard of) her before, so I'm assuming that this is her only appearance. That said, I wouldn't worry too much as she's nothing to write home about. She's a fairly attractive brunette who probably could be quite nice if it weren't for two absolutely FOUL silly-cone implants that stick out about a mile from her chest and look as hard as rocks. Yeuck. Why DO these women brutalize themselves so? Anyway, the idea is that Steve has got her drunk and is trying to get her to fuck him, even though she keeps saying she's a virgin (The tits and general attitude prevent this from being convincing. You need someone like Micki Lynn or KC Williams to play the virgin role). Anyway, eventually he gets his way and they screw over the desk. It's not too bad I guess, but again it's just production line sex. He starts off by sucking on her football sized tits (this doesn't look like much fun. Even when he squeezes them hard, they don't move. This a real bad tit-job ladies and gents) before moving on to some cunnilingus (no biting). Then he stands up, while she sucks him off. I was expecting her to pull the old hand-job-with-a-bit-of-tongue-work so dear to the hearts of today's wannabe porn starlets but she actually delivers a fairly good BJ. This is followed up by some doggie over the desk, then (YAaawwWWWN) some missionary before the voluminous pop shot on her belly. She walks away, Jonathan enters. Suspense music booms and they get into an argument. Christina walks in, just as Jonathan turns his head around. Steve steals this moment to grab a nearby broomstick and PLUNGE IT through Jonathan's heart! Blood everywhere! Jonathan screams and dies...
Now we are in a darkened room, decorated with red ribbons and housing a coffin in the middle of it (Nice set). Nikki leads Randy in by the hand and offers to fuck him in the coffin. AND WHOOMPH! We're moving on to the next scene, just like that. I guess Scotty realized he was approaching the end of the tape... Again, this is just a really average, run-of-the-mill, heat-free screw. Maybe I'm just getting a bit cynical because I've seen so many of these movies and want something new, but this does seem awfully mediocre. Nikki looks good, and the whole thing takes place in a coffin which is kind of a cool idea, but nonetheless it's just the old oral/oral/doggie/mish combo that we've seen so many times before. It's not a HORRIBLE scene, she does look AWFULLY nice, but it's just not as good as it could have been. It ends with Randy shouting "I'm gonna cum all over you!!", before delivering a typical Randy-blast (ie nothing at all) on her crotch.
Now we get the final plot twist, which in all fairness is pretty nifty so I'd better not tell you what happens. But basically, Jon isn't dead and LS Talbot makes a brief cameo appearance. That's all I'll say. You'll have to watch it yourself to find out the rest...
Which you may or may not want to do. It's not a bad film at all, the plot is above average (despite getting tied up and off-topic on several thousand occasions), there's more scenes than usual and none of the girls are repulsive. I don't know what the problem is really. I guess it's just because all the scenes were so damn "Normal". Not even a single facial (Very bad... very bad indeed...) was a disappointment too. I was expecting at least one. I mean, we got an anal, why no facial?? Overall, I'd give it a 2.90 on the Imperial Scale. It's worth a rental, and you'll probably love it if you're a big Nikki Dial fan as she's featured prominently, but hardened pornophiles should stray away. May be good viewing for first timers or "couples"... YMMV
Happy viewing!