Just be sure to get off our lawn afterward. Call it a history lesson if you must, since many of these films still impact popular culture 40 years after their release. So it’s with a whiff of nostalgia that we present this list of “classic” adult films worth revisiting. We sometimes wish modern porn was a little more like the glory hole days of the 1970s, when women were afflicted with clitorises in their throats and courageous cheerleaders with fringed bangs could bang their way to financial prosperity. It plays surprisingly well in softcore mode and is a good example to would-be crossover directors on how to come up with a finished product that will appeal to both markets, X and XXX.This article originally appeared on AlterNet.Ĭall us old-fashioned, but lately we miss the simpler times, when pornographic films involved actual cameras and not grainy, night-vision cell phone footage when images of Japanese teenagers getting penetrated by squid tentacles wasn’t something we could easily Google when posting “revenge porn” of ex-lovers would never have entered our thoughts because it didn’t exist. It ran 69 minutes compared to the hardcore 80 minute edition, with evidently alternate angles (fellatio strictly invisible with camera behind the woman's head) and other tricks to avoid any & all penetration or money shots. I saw the softcore version of the video from Purgatory (appropriately) Films in England, distributed by video company Salvation. I thought he did overreach in a stressed Jesus portrait on Ava's wall, however. Though SPFX are modest, Raven does create some interesting imagery as he depicts hell/limbo/purgatory. Perhaps the most arousing sequence is a nod to GOLDFINGER, with Evan Stone servicing two girls who are covered with golden makeup (a la Shirley Eaton) as Ava watches, on an impressive (for porn) set carpeted with fake snow. The women are all quite beautiful in this opus, including Jessica Drake who has emerged as a porn superstar in the decade since it was shot. Hence, the nightmares, which unfold in the time-honored structure dating back to AN INCIDENT AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE. Her husband Randy Spears is as slimily dislikable as usual, plotting to kill off Ava by hiring a couple arsonists to truss her up and burn her alive. Fortunately for her Savage is cast as a submissive type, not typical of his thousand or so other porn roles. Adult Video News, as quoted on the video box, took this to be pegging the video at "closet communists" in the audience, but as delivered by Ava it has little impact. Early in the video she has a lengthy diatribe to shout at boss Herschel Savage, basically taking on our whole culture in America and the rat race of making a living. It's presented as a wild nightmare for wifey Ava Vincent/Jewel Valmont, a lovely blonde who is skilled in sex scenes but not much of an actress. I give him a B for effort, and recommend the video only to tolerant intellectually-minded porn fans. With LIMBO, Michael Raven tries to create a surreal nightmare that is to be taken seriously, but the results are decidedly mixed. I have a love/hate relationship with pretentiousness in the porn genre: at times I'm bowled over by a filmmaker's audaciousness, but just as often am repelled by pitiful overreaching, which merely shows up a director's lack of talent.
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