Torrid Tales

Racquel Darrian, Nikki Tyler and Madelyn Knight enjoy a lesbian love-making session which includes a retelling by Racquel and Nikki of how they were made love to by a she-male whilst on a road trip through Canada. The two belt on a strap-on penis to Madelyn and have her make love to them both as they revisit their torrid night of hardcore action with a chick-with-a-d***. Both former Penthouse hotties perform oral sex on Knight's plastic unit which will drive any viewer - male or female - wild. Great scene for kinky couples, lesbians or any single guy who enjoys drooling over three of the most sensational bodies in the adult film industry.

Shooting on 35mm film adds immensely to the success of Paul Thomas's venture into the short vignette format with this well-regarded Vivid release of yesteryear. It's far better than the generally mindless competition (see most obviously "Playgirl TV" compilations).

Final of four segments is the most imaginative, a pantomime set in the woods titled "The River", featuring busty starlets Jessica James and Bridgette Monroe rather than the usual Vivid contract superstars. The bucolic setting adds romance to a simple threesome, with Gerry Pike the lucky recipient of some 2 on 1 dick action. I enjoyed this idyll immensely.

But as other IMDb reviewers have already noted, star power is what gets folks attention, even more so now but certainly two decades back when Vivid was in its ascendancy.

Clearly, the lesbian 3-way match-up of contract girls Racquel Darrian and Nikki Tyler with the beautiful less-sung Madelyn Knight is a powerful vignette titled "The Gift", especially since PT emphasizes acting, dialog and a nice edge, rather than falling back on all-sex. It has a fine ending too, as we learn that what seemed like genuine drama and conflict was merely habitual role-playing as the scene is turned on its head.

Darrian also stars in "Three on a Match", opposite her man Derrick Lane, who thereby doesn't need to wear a condom. It's a well-directed fantasy threesome with Jon Dough the third wheel (wearing a condom), and also has a nice trick ending.

Most peculiar of the four segments is "The Guest Room", a bit structurally unsound, but stimulating nonetheless. The least porn-star like of the Vivid girls Melissa Hill (and perhaps the label's best actress) is the mysterious inhabitant of a couple's guest room, in a tantalizing and in its own way suspenseful tale of the "what is real, what is fantasy?" mode. Hill and Missy provide plenty of sexual heat, though casting Alex Sanders was, for me at least, a turn-off.

The film has three scenes. The first is Penthouse centerfold Racquel Darrian luring two guys up to her apartment for a tag-team. The second is a couples scene with the girls getting together for the guys to watch. The finale is Racquel, fellow Penthouse Pet (the blonde) Nikki Tyler and Cheri magazine hottie Madelyn Knight in a lesbian threesome. Very, very hot. All girls are perfect 10's! A classic. The girls all go down on each other, before Knight uses a strap-on to get both the girls off. Very well filmed.