Released | Nov 01st, 1989 |
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Running Time | 85 |
Director | Eric Edwards |
Company | Intropics Video |
Cast | Peter North, Alex Storm, Rachel Ryan, Staci Lords, Joey Silvera, Ariel Knight, Jesse Eastern |
Critical Rating | AAAA |
Genre | Feature |
Hell hath no fury like cliche-riddled hell videos. Fortunately, that's not the case here. Director Eric Edwards' personal vision of hell (he goes into a whole funny bit on this at the tail end) is a helluva lot funnier than anything I've seen so far —including a TV network parody with commercials for bizarre products that's worked beautifully into the story, oh, and sexy, too.
Rachel Ryan plays satan's wife. She wears an eyepatch and looks like Kurt Russell's Snake Plitkin character in Escape From New York. Jesse Eastern is her minion-doofus, Melvin, condemned for pocketing money on an adult video distribution company. Ryan decides that hell needs a change of scenery, what with all the bad people there, it craves "a sweet, cookie baking piece of virginal flesh." Bingo, Staci Lords. Lords is about to marry Joey Silvera, and has all this sugar and romance about her, you want to regurgitate. She's got the character down to a "T".
Every performance in this highly entertaining entry is kookie and marvelously off-beat. Eastern, who perhaps doesn't get enough credit, plays Melvin with the wince of a Manhattan entertainment critic. It's rollicksome. The sex is highly arousing made even better with fascinating set design and backdrop pieces. This is certifiably Edwards' best work to date and a darkhorse candidate for feature of the year. Don't miss this one!