Feet. Get used to them. They're the new trend in adult video.

With gazillions of foot fetish tapes already nesting in the market (like birds of a feather?), the preceding comment may not strike one, exactly, as a public service announcement. But what director Mark Archer has accomplished with Barefoot Confidential  amounts to an exorbitant hop, skip and jump into new and exciting territory. Archer has integrated a knack for good foot fetish with even better storytelling. Funny and entertaining storytelling. So good, in fact, that you might mention a prenom for scripting in discussions of this tape.

Remember the brittle prose style of pulp 'generallyhave like Police Confidential? Replete with voice-overs that summon up the spirit of Jack Webb in Dragnet, three clever vignettes present hot feet and cool dialogue like, "steering with her bare feet got Tina hotter than a spark plug, jumpier than a piston, tighter than a fan belt." Add a little bit of sex (which you don't generaly see, anyway, in most foot-oriented tapes) and you ahve the makings of a classic fetish feature.

Give Brittany Andrews, too, a pre-nom for Best Tease with her impulsive body language. Andrews stars in a bit about a video scavenger hunt that's as absorbingly interactive as it is clever. And, yes, those are real, live, squishy earthworms in the Avalon/Roxanne Hall segment.

For info other than earthworm availability, call (818) 376-1936 for distribution lowdown.