Paradise Hole
2000, VCA Video

Reviewed By: P.T.
On: 10/26/00
Produced by: Sherilyn Arcane
Directed by: Jim Holliday
Starring: Sydnee Steele, Evan Stone, Tiffany Mynx, April, Jessica Drake, Daisy Chain, Bobbi Bliss, Allysin Chaynes, Keisha, Lola, Olivia, Renee LaRue, Tabitha Stevens, Joel Lawrence, Van Damage, Dale DaBone, Jim Holliday, Root Loggins
Directing: 1
Production: 2
Storyline: 2
Music: 1
Editing: 1
Costumes: 2
Dialogue: 1

 

The Sex Index ©
Tiffany Mynx with Van Damage X X                  
Sydnee Steele with Olivia and Dale DaBone X X     X   X     X  
Renee LaRue with Daisy Chain X X X             X  
Keisha with Evan Stone X X     X            
April with Evan Stone X       X            
Jessica Drake with Allysin Chaynes X   X             X  
Lola with Bobbi Bliss and Joel Lawrence X       X   X     X  
Jessica Drake with Sydnee Steele and Evan Stone X X     X         X  

 

Review:
Televangelism is a racket, legal, but still a racket. Evan Stone plays a reporter that goes undercover to expose these TV cons, but decides that the money is too good and becomes one himself. This is a great storyline, and left to someone who can write and direct it would have made a good video. Unfortunately, Jim Holliday got a hold of it.

Who keeps letting Holliday make this sophomoric drivel? He calls it "Fun & Fluff Film Noir", I call it crap. It's not funny, it's not erotic, the dialogue is inane and the camera work is terrible. The sex is luke warm at the best. It's a throw back to all those stupid movies of the early seventies that gave porn a bad image, the film quality is just better. Holliday may know a lot about porn history, but he doesn't know anything about making movies.

Besides the sick dialogue and short sex scenes, how come Evan Stone is clean shaven in all the scenes except one where he has about a week's worth of beard? How can you have a video with Tabitha Stevens in it and never even get her out of her clothes? Holliday must think he's Hitchcock or King, because he always manages to get himself into his movies. A close up of Holliday exhaling smoke, I guess we couldn't live without that one. The only scene that generated any heat was the opening scene with Tiffany Mynx and Van Damage.

If you were lured into renting this video (I hope you didn't buy it) by the large cast of stars, turn it off when the opening credits start and save yourself the agony. I wanted to give this movie a 2, because of the high powered cast, but Holliday's inability as a filmmaker made even that impossible.

PT says 1, and this is the last Holliday movie I'll ever review, enough is enough.


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Sydnee Steele