Filling director and star roles in the latest installment of Vivid’s Blackmaled series, Kimberly Kane puts herself up against some porn greats. Paul Thomas directed the first Blackmaled, which starred Janine; subsequent leads were taken by Vivid Girls Monique Alexander and Savanna Samson. Not surprisingly, given Kane’s intelligent direction and fierce, balls-in style, she does the title proud.

There are a couple of firsts here worth noting. Of course there’s Kane’s first d.p. But more interesting is Kane’s use of girl/girl pairings, another first in a series whose name demands interracial boy/girl action.

And there’s plenty of that here. Kane kicks things off even before the credits roll with a little BTS foreplay involving Prince Yahshua. (She explains that when they met onstage at the AVN Awards, she knew she had to have him.) Wearing motorcycle boots and a leather bikini, Kane leads him down the hall to a public restroom, where he takes her in doggie as she bends over the toilet, then takes a break to deep throat him (dripping precum and spit onto her signature bush) before riding him cowgirl, taking a jackhammer pounding as he spreads her cheeks to provide a better view. After he gives her a virtual beard of cum, she said, “I think I wore you out for your other scene.”

Speaking of wearing your partner out, Nyomi Banxxx does a damned fine job of exhausting Lily LaBeau with some vigorous pony play. Dolled up with a harness, head plume and knee-high boots, the pretty blonde is marched around a corral by the whip-wielding Banxxx, who makes her prance smartly before smacking her pussy, turning a hose on her snatch (“Make that pussy wet for me. Are you my pretty little pony?”) and mounting her with a long black strap-on. The intensely sexual femdom action, shot entirely outdoors, leaves LaBeau’s ass reddened and both women’s pussies wet (after Banxxx ditches the strap-on for some 69 and toy play).

In between this scene and the d.p., which of course is worthy of first billing, comes a scene with Bobbi Starr, Lexington Steele and a giant lemon-yellow python, which not surprisingly hits all the marks. It ends when Steele pulls out of Starr’s ass and sprays her from belly to eyelid, then sends the snake back down the hole as a frisson of pleasure engulfs both performers. That’s followed by an artsy girl/girl scene with real-life lovers Skin Diamond and Asphyxia Noir with ritualistic voodoo trappings … and a d.p. for Noir, courtesy of a glass wand and silicone dildo.

The final scene begins as a wide-screen sepia-tone dream sequence, with snippets of the other scenes thrown in. Blindfolded and tied in a stable, Kane is immobilized as Jon Jon and Tee Reel explore her body, one holding a machete against her skin, which has been painted with voodoo designs. They cut her ropes with the machete and lead her into another restroom, but this one a warmly lit, old-fashioned bathroom inside a house. They stroke her with sponges, rubbing her tits and bush until her eyes roll back.

Then, when the body paint’s gone, she crouches in the tub as they cram their cocks into her mouth for a bit before they carry her onto an old-fashioned bed with a white headstand. She’s beautifully made up and wearing a red negligee that sets her body off as nicely as the white background shows off her ebony partners. Things start off with some leisurely doggie vaginal fucking and blowjobs. But when Kane says, “I wanna give you my fucking asshole,” Jon Jon doesn’t wait to be asked a second time. “You nasty motherfucker,” she says, as he fucks her anally in sidesaddle, then stretches her top leg to the ceiling to give the camera a better view. Kane looks a little uncomfortable in reverse cowgirl, but that puts her in position for the double penetration, with Reel pulling her hair as he enters her cunt. Jon Jon and Reel switch holes for a good ride before cumming—Jon Jon on her face, and Reel on her feet. “Thank you so much for fucking me,” she says sweetly.

In addition to good work all around by the performers, just as excellent is the cinematography (by B. Skow and Scarlett Von Cutter) and art direction (by Aiden Starr, who’s seen in the BTS and a bonus scene from Kane’s Live in My Secrets).