Taboo became the all-time best-selling adult video last October. Now the question before the house is: Will the 1980 classic, starring Kay Parker in an incestuous affair between stepmother and stepson, do likewise on DVD? VCX is all but banking on it.
Taboo and a second adult classic, The Devil in Miss Jones starring Georgina Spelvin, will be issued in DVD format in May.
"It was always a great movie," said VCX CEO and sales manager Harry Young to AVN On The Net. "Nothing has the content this has. I've sold more of Taboo in the last couple of years than anything else altogether. And if we keep it like that on DVD, it should become the all-time best-selling adult DVD, too."
,i>Taboo stars Parker as the divorced stepmother whose insecurities and neuroses compel her to a sexual relationship with her stepson - a subject still considered extremely daring even now, in many places.
But Young is banking on a side of Taboo's appeal he sees as missing from the bulk of adult film and video being produced today - old-fashioned, storytelling filmmaking.
"You have a lot of better-looking girls today," he said. "They're beautiful. But they're not really down-to-earth, they're not really for real. You had acting (back) then. The girls now just go through the motions.
"Those old directors aren't around now, the ones who knew how to make a film and work with good acting," he continued. "Those people were professionals. Actors and directors. They had real background music. The people looked for real. And the sex was lovemaking, not a contact sport. That's exactly it. You watch a movie late at night now, and you want to watch people making love. That's what people want to watch."
Stepping into the DVD waters is a new swim for VCX. Young said there was a prospect of the company being sold some months back - the deal was never done - and the plan was "to let the new owner take on the DVD. We just got going with it now, we had time, what's the rush? We figured, eventually it's going to be that way, anyway, so take your time, do it right."
