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Trial Run

Adventures in Romance

Starring: Natalia, Adrian Sullivan, Mistress Eve, Minax, Dante, Samantha, Darkluv, Dylan and Tony Erik.
Directed by Marianna Beck and Jack Heffercamp
Will Appeal To: Real people (okay, real kinky people), fetishists, couples and anyone bored with the same ol’ same ol’ from the big porn movie companies.
From: Libido Films
2005

I was really looking forward to watching this flick because I knew it would be different. I got a copy months ago, long before it  became available, and it’s been tough keeping it a secret! See, the directors asked if I’d provide them with a blurb for their box cover. Cool! The version I watched was so hot off the presses that there were bars and time codes and stuff. They were right to have me give this a sneak peek. I’ve loved everything Libido Films has come out with thus far; I was even an extra in one they made years ago: Ecstatic Moments. And I’ve been a fan of Jack and Marianna since back in their Libido magazine days when we were all wedded to our printed product. Sigh. Anyway, enough of the mutual admiration society and on with the DVD review!

There’s a plot here, so I won’t just give you a run down of the sex scenes as I usually do. The film opens onto sex almost immediately, though, which doesn’t always happen in plot-driven scripts. Our poor protagonist has sex happening all around her so she places an online personal to search for Mr. Right. Or at least Mr. Raunch!

Without giving away any of that plot, I can tell you there are five deliciously different sex scenes in this video and every one was hot in its own way. In addition, each scene fit perfectly into the plot and moved the story along. You’ll see much masturbation, a carnal couple, a fantasy sequence that’s almost an orgy, a blindfolded BDSM-ish interlude and a romantic date that utilizes rose petals, gumdrops, cookies and a vibrator. This is about as far from the ordinary porn in-out as you’ll find. Really inventive and erotic stuff!

My favorite scene stars Mistress Eve as a delightfully devious domme. Could be her frightening resemblance to yours truly: red hair, a tiara, a corset and tutu. Hmm. She’s got her sub boy in frilly panties and clown makeup. I mean clown sex, c’mon! What more can you ask for? That should say it all, but I’ll go on! She commands him to suck her strap-on while he jerks off. This lucky sub even gets to worship her orally; I guffawed out loud when she screamed “That’s it! Get your white makeup all over my thighs!” Huzzah! She fists him. She masturbates. He performs stunts. She climaxes with a Hitachi Magic Wand. He sprays his load all over her black patent leather stilettos. And licks it off! And all of this to clown music! Clownie’s a keeper! I had to rewind and watch this scene twice. It made me that happy!

The sex here is sex you might actually have. With a real live person, as opposed to a porn starlet. I mean, how many of you out there get into that stock porn position with the man on the bottom, seated, and the woman squatting over his cock while standing on the guy’s thighs? That is absolutely strictly for the cameras. Real people would never exert that much energy. Or strain their muscles to that degree! God forbid there are guys out there who want their dates to act out any of the sex they see in porn movies. Yipes! I digress.

I enjoyed every minute of this video and didn’t press the fast forward button once. Not once! It was entertaining, well written and a turn-on. Let me put it this way: Trial Run is the kind of porn I’d be making if I were to get behind a camera. And that, my friends, is probably the ultimate compliment!

[Written July 2006]