Vipers

This is a movie that shows why a made-for-cable flick works. It has good-looking actors and more importantly, HOT actresses!! The plot isn't likely to fool or surprise anyone even remotely into movies, but for what it's worth, here's the summary- Morgan gets a job as a caretaker/gardener at Michelle von Flotow's place and he of course gets into an affair with her, unbeknownst to her surgeon husband. The jerk husband has a daughter from his first marriage, played by Shayna Ryan, who runs back from college and doesn't have much to do except a couple of hot love scenes. Also, ex-Playboy playmate Taimie Hannum's here, playing Rosa, the maid. She's a bonafied hottie, and gets to show off her incredibly sexy body in two hot love scenes with the surgeon guy!! Anyway, Michelle apparently gets threatening letters from a mysterious source, and convinced that it's from her husband, tries to get Morgan to kill him. That's as far as the story goes, but who cares? All anyone cares about is the sex and there's plenty of it, especially between von Flotow and Burke Morgan. These two have about six very, very hot and passionate scenes that burn up the screen! They have real chemistry between them. There's also a HOT foursome sex scene with all the women and Burke Morgan!! There's more than enough love scenes here to keep fans of such movies happy.

There's a version of this movie ("Dark Passion") in the video stores with the sex scenes cut down to a few seconds each. Basically, they fade out as soon as they get started. The picture is rather pointless without them.

This movie follows a predictable formula of sex scenes loosely connected by a trivial story. It's a shame because some of the actresses are quite attractive and talented. For instance Michelle von Flotow is quite beautiful and shows emotion well although she could learn how to walk .

One scene will illustrate what I mean. Ms Flotow invites the "hero" to dinner and kisses him lightly when he leaves. She gazes wistfully at him from a balcony, he notices, turns around grabs a ladder from somewhere, climbs up to balcony and proceeds to kiss her passionately and carries her off to bed!

Shades of the three musketeers!

The many sex scenes are so similar they could have been made by computer.

Kudos from the outset to the writer and director for keeping this one in familiar territory. The plot is pretty simple: young out-of-work stud finds job at posh mansion owned by wealthy jerk with lonely wife. Add adultery, murder and a couple of red herrings, shake gently, roll the credits.

The women are, of course, the attraction here. All handle their respective roles well. In point of fact, they could each have pulled off the other roles. In any event, they are the stars, and the cameraman knows it.

The men are, as men usually are in these movies, slightly dense and pretty much self-serving. The hubby isn't happy being married and chases after the maid. The stud not only goes running after the wife, and eventually the daughter from the hubby's previous marriage, but has a very entertaining fantasy in which all three women jump in bed with him (Yeah, that was germane to the plot). Neither man sees the swerves and dangers right in front of them. Oh well, why spoil a good ride.

In short, "Vipers" is a basic tale of lust, greed and double-cross. It leans toward film noir, but lacks the dark texture. The scenery is great, especially Shayna Ryan. It is worth a look if you're in the mood for escapist entertainment that doesn't tax the brain cells.

An excellent soft core film with a good screenplay, good production values, photography and other things that make this film close to a mainstream production. Blake and Michelle do an excellent acting job; he is one of the few male soft core actors that I can stand (Bobby Johnston is another).

It deserves to be on VHS or better yet, on DVD.