Studio: Red Light District
Director: John Strong
Cast: Sasha Gray, Naomi, everybody else

Portions of this review originally appeared on Fleshbot

This two-disc movie, containing two individually-packaged DVDs of first Naomi, then Sasha Grey being gangbanged, really is of tremendous value to people who like to watch women getting gangbanged.

It's difficult sometimes to figure out what to watch for. Both women are porntastically receptive, and this is a movie that does not get off on a woman being surprised or cajoled into being septuple-teamed. In fact, both Naomi and Grey appear, if not sincere (Naomi), then enthusiastic and receptive.

Director Strong gets all the right angles and doesn't worry about shot composure any more than what is necessary to see all the right parts at the right time, a commitment to simplicity that other gonzo directors should take heed of. Naomi and Grey are each the star of her own disc, and each appears in sequences increasing in ganginess until she is almost lost in a forest of packages.

Naomi is whippet thin with an ass that Brian Surewood seeks to frame and put in a museum. Throughout the movie, people just can't believe her ass. It is astounding. But Naomi is a little too camera friendly, and her porn mugging would shame Fred Willard. By the end of the DVD, the pasted-on whorishness has started to unravel, and - who can blame her? - she looks genuinely uncomfortable.

Grey on the other hand seems like the real thing. While dialogue isn't the point here, there was an exchange that speaks volumes.

VOICE IN THE CROWD: Whore.
GREY: Don't you call me a whore you fucking motherfucker! This is my fucking cock! (SHE slaps a fellow's dick out of his own hand.)
VOICE IN THE CROWD: Shut up.

In the end (and everywhere else), both women are used most harshly. It seems Grey had the upper hand throughout but that Naomi just endured it. In that way the discs, which each follow the same formula, are very different.

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Studio: Pink Visual
Director: Jonas, Rico
Cast: Brooke, Brea, Ariel, Denise, Naomi, Hailey, Amy Ried, Ashley, Naomi

Portions of this review originally appeared on Fleshbot

This movie opens cold. There is no jingle, credits sequence, or scrolling exposition about Emperor Palpatine. Instead we are suddenly following Hailey (we don't even bother with a last name until Amy Ried) as she searches for someone to indoctrinate. She finds Brea, sullenly eating a quesadilla. Like each scene, the intended will ask who the guy with the camera is, and the director will reply that he's casting a TV show. Exit to the Sex Couch.

Each scene presents a vaguely plausible setup, and what is always compelling about these movies is that the initial meeting is in a public place. I ate at that taco stand! I've been to that furniture store! Pasta Roma has good slices!

We know that everyone involved had a blood test and showed two forms of ID before cameras even rolled, but the variables - the disapproving look of the furniture store owner, for example, sets these faux documentaries apart.

My favorite scenes are between Naomi and Brooke and Ried and Denise. The last scene, between Ashley and Ariel, stretches believability just a little bit as Ariel feels compelled to say, "I've never seen a naked women before."

Porn would crumble and disappear into the ground if there wasn't at least the possibility that the woman with the shaved pussy, piercings, and coccygeal tattoo wasn't lying.

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