Giving credit where credit is due, at least Pleasure Maze attempts to be different. Utilizing stylized sets, a sci-fi plot, and a bleak outlook of the future, this film certainly looks different than 98% of the product available on the market. It is a shame that it is not entirely successful.

In the future, androids are used for sex and the Pleasure Maze is where technicians break them in. In a series of encounters, new droids are given the treatment by various employees of the company. The only problem is that each model has its flaws, which only become evident upon testing. Kind of like American cars.

The test runs all occur in one room with an elevated square bed. the sex scene are spectacular. Highly notable is stacey Donovan who seems to enjoy herself immensely in a lengthy and erotic session with Jerry Butler. The climactic encounter between Amber Lynn and Joey Silvera is one of the best I have seen in a while; well-photographed and intensely sexual.

Pleasure Maze seems to want to be a more accessible version of Cafe Flesh crossed with a less raunchy New Wave Hookers. If only the atmosphere had been less cold and sterile (an attitude exemplified by Joanna Storm), perhaps this film would have been a classic. Nonetheless, Pleasure Maze can stand on its own as one of the most original film of the new year.