Fetish
1997, Sin City

Reviewed By: P.T.
On: 05/01/00
Produced by: Matthew Taylor
Directed by: Paul Norman
Starring: Rocki Roads, Samantha Strong, Chloe, Shelby Stevens, Raven McCall, Nadia, Toni, Mark Davis, Colt Steele, Valentino, Dick Nasty, Rick Masters, Napoleon
Directing: 1
Production: 2
Storyline: 1
Music: 2
Editing: 1
Costumes: 5
Dialogue: 1


 

The Sex Index ©
Samantha Strong with Mark Davis X       X            
Chloe with Dick Nasty, Valentino and Rick Masters X   X X            
Rocki Roads with Colt Steele       X            
Samantha Strong with Shelby Stevens   X             X  
Raven McCall with Napoleon       X            
Rocki Roads             X        


 

Review:
Paul Norman really blew it this time and Sin City looks like they may be following in Vivid's footsteps. Don't believe the box cover, Fetish is a magazine and the story focuses on an aspiring designer who becomes a model and a shoe salesman who topples the head of the magazine, of course you never really know how he does it or why. I don't know what Ernest Greene was writing about and I don't think Paul Norman did either.

While the film did deal with some fetishes (dwarf sex, feet, bdsm, shaving, and hot wax) they were so watered down as to lose all resemblance to kinky sex. What little eroticism was left, Norman managed to destroy with poor camera work, editing and directing. Then he took what could have been great scenes and clouded them up with the overuse of poorly placed special effects. Rocki's dream sequence about the dwarf and self-inflicted hot wax would have been all right if she had been doing the dwarf and he had been pouring the wax.

Rocki Roads is great to look at, and I hear she has a good stage show, but she is a terrible actress. Her lines should be limited to grunts and groans. Her lack of expression while masturbating and covering herself in wax makes one wonder why she was doing it. Her scene with Colt Steele was Ok, but Norman filled it with too many close ups that were so close you had to strain to figure out what you were looking at.

Samantha Strong has always been one of my favorite adult stars and I think she's a good actress, but she lost her character five minutes into the film.  Even with the lack of direction in the video, Samantha still managed to turn in two explosive sex scenes.

Chloe was one of the few bright spots here, her insatiable sex drive comes across loud and clear. Samantha's scenes with Mark Davis and Shelby Stevens were also hot and the costumes were outstanding.

There were major editing glitches including having Kaitlyn Ashley in the intro when she's not in the movie, filming five seconds before the director calls for action and a big blackout before end of the flick. And what is the point of having Rocki make a blatant pass at Mark Davis if she's not going to fuck him. This is a film that was poorly conceived and made.

PT says 2, if you only watch the first two scenes it's a 4.


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