I Know What Girls Like

Veronika Rocket made the experimental porn movie "Smoker" that is often referred to as a cult film, but was far from successful. This obscure followup several years later is as sloppy and crudely made, but extremely difficult to watch, and her final effort "Villa De Sade" 4 years later was merely an all-girl bondage/fetish video.

I was immediately turned off by the early reels in which an indolent cast of characters look cool and lounge around, having sex while an avant-garde trio led by Canadian tenor sax player Robert Arron imitate the music of over 2 decades earlier: think Pharoah Sanders in his early days. I was an ardent fan at that time, eagerly waiting for each new esp-disk album release to argue about with my college chums, and hearing an imitation created in a porn context was difficult to stomach. More about Arron at the end of this review.

Rocket is famous for including forced sex and bondage in her work, heavily censored as a result, and tries for similar breakthroughs here. Rhonda Jo Petty stars and does some decent acting, but is out of place in such a low-down, intentionally ugly environment (emphasis on yucky close-ups of genitals). Rocket's milieu reminded me of the Phil Prince/Joe Davian school of "Roughies" porn made in NYC several years earlier, emphasizing BDSM and XXX content that still shocks folks today.

A veteran of this genre, David Christopher, is cast as Rhonda's husband and has a nasty sex scene with her, while a bisexual character played by Eric Clark is a voyeur watching a lesbian threesome (featuring big names Kristara Barrington and Stacey Donovan plus one-shot butch GiGi) before being gang-raped by studs Joe Simmons and Jose Morales.

The mix of explicit Gay Porn and more mainstream (boy/girl) content was a commercial no-no at the time, and certainly would have limited any interest in this in-joke titled feature. It climaxes (literally) with fan favorite Barrington approaching Joe Simmons to ask for and receive anal sex, though big Joe has to hand-force his semi-limp cock to do the deed. Movie's brief coda has Veronica Vera (of underground fame) pop up with Eric and Valeria Black on a bench outdoors, for Eric to look at the camera and express a Warholian audience insult.

Saxman Arron unfortunately gained notoriety 8 years ago when suspected of selling the heroin to his acquaintance Phillip Seymour Hoffman that caused his death, but he was never charged for that particular allegation. Having made a name for himself working with greats like David Bowie and Wyclef Jean, that's a sad, unwarranted epitaph for Arron, as well as seeing him performing music amidst people having mechanical sex in this poor video.

Considering the ladies on board, this should have been a w-h-o-l-e lot better, but the only one who registers at all is Kristara Barrington, and even her scene is pretty sleazy. The action takes place in a house party, where Rhonda Jo Petty, Stacey Donovan, and Ali Moore provide some eye candy, at least. The main male character looks decidedly unwell, and the "highlight" is his being set upon & gang raped by a group of dudes. Making this doesn't look like it was a very enjoyable experience for any one here, and the viewer's not going to be having a good time watching it, either.