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Rotten, Runaway, Tanks, And Tattoos

Gram Ponante — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 11:30:01 EST

Night vision didn't work in the Paris Hilton sex tape, and it doesn't work for Rob Rotten. But at least Rotten figured it out eventually and we, the consumer, can rest assured that "Rotten Home Videos" was made with love.

Rob Rotten is the kind of maverick whose roguery I heartily endorse now or in 2012. This casually-produced (read: ultra low budget) collection of trysts with hookers, porn drifters, and other intriguing types might not win any awards whatsoever, but it does underline the fact that Rotten has the type of friends who have sex with him if he pays them, and who like him enough to not upstage his tattoos.

Ruby Knox and Daisy Tanks are both Rotten standbys from previous movies, and these scenes appear to have been shot around the time these women were working with Rotten already. India Summer and Faye Runaway both have impressive tattoos of their own, and Rotten's interlude with the latter (now out of the porn business), with his ink explosion and her lace up work on both of her pale legs, looks just about artful.

Maybe that wasn't the intention (in fact, I'm sure of it), but we have to find something to enjoy in other people's home movies, don't we?

· Punx Productions (punxproductions.com)
· Buy "Rotten Home Videos 1" (gamelink.com)

"Hardcore Circus" Isn't Clowning Around

Lux Alptraum — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:00:00 EDT

Though the circus is generally seen as family fun, innocent and appropriate for all ages, Erica McLean's "Hardcore Circus" is anything but. (Which probably explains why we like it so much.)

As the feature begins, we're introduced to Erica McLean, a hardworking, beleaguered pornographer who can't catch a break. Protesters harass her outside her office, proselytizing neighbors interrupt her masturbation time, and just as she's finally getting a chance to relax, she slips on some dog poop...and is magically whisked away to the "Hardcore Circus," "Wizard of Oz"-style.

Once inside the big top, the plot melts away (with all the hot sex going on, there wasn't any room for it). Short clips of sepia-toned circus action are interspersed with super hot freakshow sex (which we mean in the best possible way). Though all the performers put on a good show, we were especially won over by Audrey Hollander and Otto Bauer's lion taming act and Kimberly Kane and Evan Stone's, um, sex scene (we weren't totally sure what circus feat they were performing).

In what's easily the most intense scene in the film, Audrey and Otto pull out all the stops. Not only is the lion tamer/lioness act wellplayed, but we have to give extra points to Audrey for taking a whip handle in her pussy, a cock in her ass, and a riding crop slapping against her skin. (I want to go to there. No, seriously: I want to go to there.) Oh, and of course, double bonus points for Audrey then doing double anal with a cock and a whip handle. (I don't think I want to go to there, but I really, really like watching it.)

Kimberly and Evan likewise impress, with plenty of dirty talk, rough sex, and some wonderfully delicious anal sex. We always love Kimberly's intensity, and it only ramps up when she's engaged in anal action. (And if "Content" really is her best anal scene ever, we have a lot to look forward to.)

Rounding out the feature are Madison Scott and Lee Stone, Aiden Starr and Rob Rotten, Lavish Styles and Tommy Gunn, Kendra Banx and Starri Knight (the feature's sole lesbian couple, who also are the only ones to fuck out doors), Ron Jeremy and Lilly Lovely, and a very, very brief scene of Blue Iris and Tere Joyce having their way with a few men—including a dwarf.

Alas, even the hardcore circus can't stay in town for forever, and Erica McLean's eventually returned to reality, where she wakes up in bed surrounded by quite a few cast members ("...and you were there, and you were there, and you were there"). Luckily, we have the ability to return to the hardcore circus anytime we want—all we have to do is press play. We have a feeling we'll be making regular visits this summer.

· Buy "Hardcore Circus"

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Previously: Erica McLean's "Hardcore Circus" Is A True Masterpiece

Erica McLean's "Hardcore Circus" Is A True Masterpiece

DCypher — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 16:00:00 EDT

Erica McLean has outdone herself this time, assembling a bizarre and erotic cast of lovely freaks for her recent film "Hardcore Circus," and ensnaring us once more into her lascivious art. Did we mention that we love her?

Aiden Starr, Audrey Hollander, (the recently passed) Blue Iris (RIP), Tere Joyce, Kendra Banx, Starri Knight, Kimberly Kane, Lavish Styles, Lilly Lovely, Madison Scott, Ron Jeremy, Evan Stone, Rob Rotten, Otto Bauer, Tommy Gunn, Sergio Roho, Erica McLean, and a midget in a Mardi Gras mask comprise the bulk of the cast. The movie features eight scenes and loads of wonderful extras, lavish costumes, hijinks, mayhem, ballyhoo, protestors, the sublime, the ghoulish, and the decadent. Pretty much everything but the bearded lady makes its way into this masterpiece.

Erica wanders throughout like the tiny little string that ties the narrative thread of this beautiful and lush chaos together, inspiring or moderating the erotic couplings. She even goes so far as to intimately inspect some of the girls (see also: the lovely Kimberly Kane) after they have been filled with fresh loads of piping hot cum.

In the end, the sex acts are fittingly strange, with Otto and Audrey turning in a comparably tame but smoldering and passionate scene that mesmerizes, and little Madison Scott taking the forty inches of dick Lee Stone has to offer six ways to Sunday up her every tiny luscious little orifices—literally. If this lithe blonde stunner isn't the performer of the year, we can't imagine who is.

"Hardcore Circus" comes out by month's end from Hustler. Look for it. In the meantime, put on your top hat and check out the snaps our ringmaster sent us! Happy Monday!

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Hustler Gives Us A Peek At Their "Hardcore Circus"

Lux Alptraum — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:30:01 EDT

As children, we always loved going to the circus. But somehow, we don't think that Hustler's "Hardcore Circus" is quite like the three ring that we remember. (Actually, we're pretty sure it's way better.)

Directed by Erica McLean (of "Barely Legal" fame), and starring Audrey Hollander, Kimberly Kane, Lavish Styles, Madison Scott, Kendra Banx, Starri Night, Aiden Starr, Otto Bauer, Evan Stone (pre-haircut), Tommy Gunn, Lee Stone, Rob Rotten, Blue Iris, and Ron Jeremy (as the ringmaster, of course)... well, it sure beats a trip to Barnum & Bailey's. Hell, even Cirque du Soleil is starting to pale in comparison to this take on the big top. We just hope there's only one ring—we'd hate to miss out on any of the action!

· Hardcore Circus is coming! (hustlerworld.com)

"Bong Load Girls" Are 420 (And Fellatio)-Friendly

Gram Ponante — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:30:01 EDT

Not into stoner humor, stoner coughing, stoner politics, stoner carpets, stoner music, or even John Denver? No matter. The squarest among you will coax a "Load" of your own when encountering the delicious Scarlett Pain.

Rob Rotten's years-in-the-making, self-financed homage to Humboldt County's Greatest Natural Resource is pungent with girls that are just as into pot culture as he is. "Bong Load Girls" plays like a mix tape jammed in your dealer's Pinto, except with, you know, pictures.

We meet back-to-nature masturbating girls, girls you can eat pizza with, girls that do themselves with dildos that double as bongs, and trippy girls that can't say no to Trustafarians. Rotten's movie was filmed over three years ("Is that Gia Paloma?") and is as silly and disjointed as any pothead's ramblings - but in the same way it also makes complete sense.

For the person who will fast forward through the dancing pot leaf imagery and cut right to the sex, take heart: Rotten might have required that all the female performers be 420-friendly, but you don't have to be stoned to appreciate them.

Speaking of 420, the DVD is available on that date but the VOD is ready now.

· Punx Productions (punxproductions.com)
· Buy "Bong Load Girls 1" (gamelink.com)

Back To The Future: Hustler's "Alt Chicks Fuck Better"

DCypher — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:45:17 EDT

We’re not usually big fans of compilation DVDs here at Fleshbot: chances are if you missed something the first time around it's not worth watching when it gets repackaged with other similarly forgettable scenes for a quickie comp release. But given their ubiquity in the porn marketplace they're hard to ignore, and in these days of video sharing sites some companies have taken to raiding their own faults and adding never-before-scene clips to these collections to make them more attractive. And then there's Hustler's new "tribute" to alt porn, "Alt Chicks Fuck Better".

Given the fact that most alt performers, directors, and fans look for the new and unusual in their product, we're wondering whether Hustler was trying to alienate their target audience by rereleasing a bunch of clips that most alt fans—and especially we here at Fleshbot—were already pretty familiar with. (Or maybe serious alt fans were never the target audience for this comp to begin with?) Still, upon closer examination the DVD proves to serve up an interesting slice of porn history-in-the-making for those who might have ignored or overlooked it the first time around. So maybe it's unfair to dismiss it outright, even if it’s just a crass attempt on Hustler's part to cash in on something some would argue they never really understood from day one.

"Alt Chicks Fuck Better" features several moments from the altporn movement just as it was starting to take on the porn mainstream, and as such it samples from such seminal works as Eon McKai's "Art School Sluts" and the three volumes of his "Kill Girl Kill" series and maverick director Joe Gallant's "Avenue X". Among the several scenes you'll find a younger Rob Rotten carnally indoctrinating Yumi before going on to take on an anti-alt stance with his Punx Productions, and a fresh-faced Kimberly Kane when she was just an insatiable sex goddess and not yet one of our favorite directors (and insatiable sex goddess).

So really, all that’s missing to make this more of a documentary are interviews and consent. No matter what your personal take on altporn is, "Alt Chicks Fuck Better" is worthwhile as an abbreviated primer of a pornographic revolution that may best be remembered for having been co-opted by what it was originally intended to destroy. Then again, part of us thinks that you should already own most of the films it samples already, and why would you need to add another disk to your collection? Either way, take a look at our preview gallery below and experience the magic of those heady alt years all over again ... for the first time.

• Hustler DVD (hustlerdvd.com)

Deadly Weapons: "The Texas Vibrator Massacre"

Gram Ponante — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:11:23 EDT

"Despite the circumstances you found yourself in," says the detective, "you still found pleasure in this vibrating machine?"

"Yes," Roxy Deville says.

"So some good came of it."

Rob Rotten's "Texas Vibrator Massacre" is as good, if not better, than any American International Pictures release or Roger Corman movie, both low-budget drive-in fare to be consumed like popcorn, filled with summer scenes in natural lighting and lots and lots of skin. But "Massacre" is better, simply because it has more skin.

Fans of Tobe Hooper's "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" already know the plot (and the twist ending) of this movie, and can probably guess what the application of the vibrator will be. If so or if not, a fan of one makes a fan of the other.

A gang of bickering California slackers gets lost on a Texas back road. We don't know why Roxy Deville and Seth Dickens are a couple, because they sure act like an old married one as she nags and belittles him for getting lost. Meanwhile, two of their passengers have sex in the back of the truck.

They pick up a sketchy hitchhiker, who proceeds to stab the first sex-having couple, thus linking "Massacre" with every great slasher picture in that it makes sex punishable by death.

Deville escapes. She is wearing short shorts and no bra. Good. She makes it to a rustic cabin festooned with bleached cattle skulls, where she is immediately captured by a Leatherface-looking dude. Here her very credible wails and lamentations do her no good but, again, unlike this movie's non-porn inspirations, the audience gets a better view of the heroine.

Dickens and the van's other female survivor, Bella Lynn, make it to the cabin where they are greeted by Daisy Tanks and Jamie Elle, who are excellent as inbred tweaker sisters. Elle hypnotizes Dickens with her lollipop, and creepy Rob Rotten emerges to double team Lynn with Tanks.

Not all of the cast is up to the job, though, and when one performer phones in her lines, a la any other porn movie, it takes the viewer out of the scene. And so it is with Lynn. But she still looks good.

And she also pays the ultimate price; after her tryst with Rotten and Tanks, Leatherface grabs her and justifies the title. She is fucked to death.

At this point I thought about how much of this movie would have made it onto DVD if Rotten had brought the raw footage to Adam & Eve and its council of psychiatrists.

Meanwhile, Deville and Leatherface are heading into their endgame, but for one of them it goes horribly wrong. Deville is a great scream queen; America will love her because she is not afraid to get dirty.

The movie loses focus toward the end. Herschel Savage appears as a detective who debriefs a hospitalized Deville. We go through the whole movie again before Savage is revealed to not be on the right side of the law, again similar to "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".

Aside from a spotty performance or two and the unnecessary wrap-up, "Texas Vibrator Massacre" is a really good B-movie. The title indicates something a little less substantial than the movie actually is and, unlike much of its competition gunning for mainstream respectability - whatever that is - Rotten's movie wouldn't be laughed down at, say, a horror festival.

- Review by Gram Ponante

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The Texas Vibrator Massacre

Studio: Punx Productions/Metro
Director: Rob Rotten
Cast: Roxy Deville, Daisy Tanks, Ruby Knox, Bella Lynn, Jaime Elle, Rob Rotten, Herschel Savage, Seth Dickens

· Metro Interactive (metrointeractive.com)
· Rob Rotten (punxproductions.com)
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DVD Review: "Little Runaway 2"

Gram Ponante — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 11:05:01 EST

Maybe you're like me and thought "Runaway" was a Night Ranger song and had to be reminded that it was Bon Jovi who sang about how daddy's girl learned fast all the things he couldn't say.

But I don't think Daisy Tanks has parents; I think she sprang fully pierced from the ground.

Read our review of the punk rock document "Little Runaway 2" after the gap.

Little Runaway 2

Studio: Powersville
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Daisy Tanks, Desire Moore, Scarlett Pain, Paris Gables, Holly Wellin, Rob Rotten, Drehyden, Jenner

Review by: Gram Ponante

One of my favorite directors is Jim Powers, whose punk rock and pop culture sensibilities always find a way into any movie he directs.

But he always stays removed enough so that his earnestness never backfires on him. In other words, he never succumbs to the notion that he's making art when he's in the entertainment business.

That is not to say that the non-porn elements of his movies aren't compelling; in fact, they are usually the most watchable non-porn scenes in porn. They are just not redolent of the director's need to justify his career in Filth.

Sometimes the pendulum swings so far back into the "entertainment" category that he leaves the camera on during painful backstage episodes. His Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes series captures many of these, but porn is such a playground of morbidity in general that there's an undercurrent of it in every movie he does. If fans of mainstream porn call what he does exploitive, he might argue that all porn is exploitive.

So what does somebody like Powers do when he makes a movie around a subject — punk rock — that he genuinely cares about? Little Runaway 2 is definitely a dirtier, sexier movie — the sex scenes, anyway — than any of the altporn Powers compares it to in his press releases, although companies criticizing "Alt" at this point (Adam & Eve's Independent Adult Cinema has been doing it recently) is like beating a dead horse.

A series of scenes revolving around last year's Punkfest 2007, Little Runaway 2 features people with the hair and the wardrobe and tattoos that seem more integral to their personalities than the poseurware Powers et al have an issue with.

Daisy Tanks, Scarlett Pain, and Paris Gables really walk the walk and fuck the fuck, rutting in dirty warehouses, buses, and on questionable mattresses. The movie also features performances by several angrily aging punk bands, including Powers' own, Killroy.

I could have done without these performances, but real fans of SoCal punk, especially those who wouldn't normally buy porn movies, might well love this as a pretty reliable document. In the behind the scenes featurette Powers captures drunkenness and belligerence, as per usual, and Rob Rotten's scenes with Daisy Tanks and Scarlett Pain made me think of alleys and back rooms of every dive-y, dangerous club I've ever found my feet sticking to the floor of. And that's a good feeling.

But the "Clockwork Orange" riff at the beginning of the movie falls flat; I'm sure there was a reason to use those Kubrickian sets and costumes beyond their availability from The Violation of Chelsie Rae, but availability of the sets seemed the primary reason.

(And the droogs in the previous movie were women, which was a plus.)

In the end, Powers is filming his friends, with some sex representative of their lifestyle thrown in. In that I would want to do similar things to Scarlett Pain as Rob Rotten does, Little Runaway 2 reaches into my Gordon Lightfoot/Ronnie James Dio world and makes me regret tossing out that mattress I got scabies on.

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Nothing Can Prepare You For "The Texas Vibrator Massacre"

DCypher — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:26:59 EST

In a vast sea of prettified porn, one tattoo-smeared renegade has set out to defy convention, and to date Rob Rotten desrves credit for two noteworthy additions to the annals of porn history: his "Porn Of The Dead" is one of (if not the) classics of hardcore zombie smut, and his take on the POV blowjob genre "Swallow My Children" was one of our favorite flicks of last year, even if it probably would've sold volumes anyway thanks to its title alone.

After a brief retirement to race dirt bikes, Rotten is back to prove that no one does horror porn better with the release of "The Texas Vibrator Massacre", which stars Ruby Knox, Daisy Tanks, Gia Paloma, Roxy DeVille, Jaime Elle, and Bella Lynn — none of whom were actually harmed (much less massacred) during the production. The vibrators, however, are another story.

· Rob Rotten's Punx Productions (punxproductions.com)
· "The Texas Vibrator Massacre" (metrointeractive.com)

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Previously: Rob Rotten's "Swallow My Children": Yes, It's A Comedy, DVD: "Anal Swine", Porn Vegas Dispatch: Rob Rotten Is Actually A Very Nice Young Man

AVN Awards '08 Countdown: Who Was That Mystery Blowjob Woman

Gram Ponante — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:20:11 EST

When "Swallow My Children"'s Rob Rotten showed up last year dandling this lady, the Internet was atwitter. "Who is that girl?" the Internet squealed. Rotten was coy, as was the girl. Neither was ready to reveal her One True Porn Name. That changed when Rotten's white trash blowjob epic surfaced in the summer, and the mystery woman was revealed to be Daisy Tanks. So now you know, too.

· Rob Rotten's Punx Productions (punxproductions.com)

Gram's Dirty Dozen: The Year In Porn Movies

Gram Ponante — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:33:18 EST

In 2007, Fleshbot's Central Porn Processing Plant handled everything from big budget epics like "Upload" to smaller, more personal films like the Amy Fisher Sex Tape. We laughed at comedies like "Spunk'd" , lifted up our (hearts) to lighthearted romps like "Babysitters", and then watched (them) get broken with "The Skin Trade". The year also saw us journeying to sordid warehouses and the beaches of Ibiza to bring you the finest snatches of Porn's Multistained Tapestry. And you finally commented!

Join us after the gap as America's Beloved Porn Journalist Gram Ponante takes us through this year's Dirty Dozen ... in no particular order.

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"Upload"
Sex Z Pictures

Of all this year's big budget award contenders, "Upload" took the most risks with some intense hardcore scenes and a bleak futureworld storyline that would be right at home on the Sci Fi channel (minus the intense hardcore scenes). We loved Julie Night and Sandra Romain and Kylie Ireland and Hillary Scott in this movie, but it was Eva Angelina who really made us believe a world in which federal employees have sex.
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"Spunk'd"
6969 Productions

Director Justin Kane's first porn movie features Nick Manning in one of several scenery-chewing masterpiece performances this year, this time as Gashton Cootcher, host of a reality prank show that requires loads to be dropped on its celebrity foils. Silly and smart, "Spunk'd" features Penny Flame, Katie Morgan, and Aurora Snow among many others in this list's only independently-produced movie.
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"Naughty Flipside"
Naughty America

A vignette film presenting San Diego studio Naughty America's take on The Girls of Alternative Porn Casting, "Naughty Flipside" is an unabashedly fun porn movie that features a tapdancing Pinky Lee and some equally fancy footwork from Dana DeArmond. Adrianna Nicole and Lorelei Lee have a hoedown with Tommy Pistol and Sasha Grey makes her first of many appearances on this list as a mopey teen.
( Buy it here )

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"The Skin Trade"
Bad Seed

Sasha Grey plays a mopey teen who blows off Brian Surewood's head in Joe Gallant's peyote-porn about the dark side ("as a matter of fact, it's all dark") of sex for money. If "The Dharma Bums" was about an acid trip sex/killing spree instead of whatever it was about, Joe Gallant would need to direct it. Until then, watch "The Skin Trade".
( Buy it here )

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"Broken"
Teravision

Sasha Grey plays a mopey teen who blows off Dave Navarro's head in Dave Navarro's L.A.-porn about the dark side ("as a matter of fact, it's all dark") of sex for money. There is nothing fancy about this movie, which is nevertheless just a bit precious at times, but first-time director Navarro looks at the standard moody porn scene a different way and the movie benefits from it.
( Buy it here )

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"InTERActive"
Hustler/Teravision

You carry on a secret affair with neglected mob housewife Tera Patrick and together you choose your own adventure. Shot over four years, "InTERActive" features cameos from Jessica Jaymes and Hillary Scott, but the big star is Tera, who brings to the screen an accessibility that her in-person fans know but that doesn't as often show up in her movies. More please.
( Buy it here )

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"Swallow My Children"
Loaded DIgital

Rob Rotten put together a gang of greasers, longhairs, and the homeless and paired them with a really delightful gang of badass punk girls for a blowjob vignette movie that for once features Sasha Grey as a non-mopey teen sans shotgun.
( Buy it here )

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"Ibiza Sex Party 2"
Private

I just flew in from Barcelona and I've paid a little extra for the hooker to smile at me every now and then, for Christ's sake. There's coke on my dick and house music playing - loud, I don't care how much this vacation is going to cost. This is that movie!
( Buy it here )

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"Babysitters"
Digital Playground

Everything you might want from a Digital Playground movie is here, for a fifth of the price of "Pirates" (remember "Pirates"?) - and we don't mean "Babysitters" will cost you a fifth of the price of "Pirates", just that it cost Digital Playground a fifth of the price of "Pirates". This movie showed up when we expected to see "Pirates 2" but, frankly, we found this much more accessible and less fraught with high expectations, which means that it arrived without hype. "Babysitters" also has the largest amount - four - of Digital Playground's contract girls in 2007.
( Buy it here )

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"Amy Fisher Caught on Tape"
Red Light District

Maybe in future iterations of Fleshbot's constantly-changing page layout we will get a sidebar. If so, this movie would be in its own category under "Best Celebrity Sex Tape". No great shakes as compared with other standard-issue porns, "Amy Fisher" is nevertheless hands down the best celebrity sex tape this year. Why? Well, there's sex in it, for one, and Fisher is the embodiment of the Long Island hot MILF aesthetic. Watching this movie you will say, "I could shoot Amy in the face - but not with bullets."
( Buy it here )

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"The Pleasure Principle"
Wicked

Wicked has had a lot of expertly-directed, slickly packaged movies this year, including "Operation Desert Stormy" and "Coming Home", but Carmen Hart was adorable in this modest "It's OK to Enjoy Sex" movie for couples. Of all the contract girls, Hart is the most reminiscent of the groovy porn stars of antiquity, like Marilyn Chambers, Seka, and Christy Canyon.
( Buy it here )

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"The Intern"
Lucas Entertainment

The second sidebar would be The Best (And Only) Gay Film Straight-Tagged Fleshbot Watched This Year. I have evidence that that people who watch a lot of gay porn liked this breezy comedy set in a New York gay studio too, and I performed due diligence by asking around if all gay-themed porn was as good as "The Intern", and was told that No, Breeder, It Is Not. So I lucked out. Buy this for your girlfriend, Girlfriend, and show her that you're not threatened by the size of Ben Andrews.
( Buy it here )

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BAKER'S DOZEN:

"Porn's Most Outrageous Outtakes 2"
JM Productions

Director Jim Powers narrates an often chilling backstage look at some of his sets with a combination of weariness and glee. While Powers usually directs rougher fare which you might expect to spawn breakdowns, tears, regret, and fights, his sardonic humor has a place in each porn company. This movie reminds us that for every high-gloss example of empowerment through porn, there are fifty times as many stories that confirm porn's detractors' worst suspicions.
( Buy it here )

Rob Rotten's "Swallow My Children": Yes, It's A Comedy

Gram Ponante — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 22:51:50 EDT

Petaluma's own Rob Rotten is back with a very funny movie about blowjobs, "Swallow My Children". He said that all he had when he pitched this film (yes, porn movies need to be pitched, too) was the title, with no thought that the move would morph into something more akin to "Jackass" with BJs. But that's what happened.

"Swallow My Children" is also the only movie I'm aware of that credits its actors in little sperm representations of themselves.

Read our review after the gap.

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Swallow My Children

Studio: Metro
Director: Rob Rotten
Cast: Mercedes Santos, Marsha Lord, Sasha Grey, Herather Gables, Roxy Deville, Laurie Vargas, Whitney Stevens, Daisy Tanks, Brandi, Britney Stevens, Leighlani Red, Allison Pierce, Chavon Taylor, Fayth Deluca, Kaylee Love Cox, Jocelyn Jaden

Review by: - Gram Ponante

Rob Rotten's Swallow My Children is a love letter to Acton, CA, which Rotten (because I can't find anyone else who says it) describes as "the energy capital of the world". Acton, situated on the wrong side of Magic Mountain and in the vicinity of various high desert nuclear tests, is like a blend of Los Angeles and a disaffected desert Hell. We should all live there in order to complete our transformations.

Rotten combines people from the neighborhood with many performers you've never seen before (or perhaps will never see again), along with the rough and ready likes of Sasha Grey, Alison Pierce, and Roxy Deville to present a blowjob movie that is so much more than a blowjob movie; it is like a little piece of punk art and something that should go on the Acton Chamber of Commerce's website.

Unfortunately, the movie was not shot in Acton at all, but in one of the standard-issue porn McMansions here in Los Angeles.

"Then why did you mention Acton?" I asked Rotten.

"There was this brand-new 18-year-old girl who was asking us a good place to visit in California," Rotten said. "I couldn't think of a worse place than Acton, so that showed up in the movie."

As "Acton" is mentioned early in the flick, and as Rotten improvised most of the ridiculous scenes with a variety of white trash characters, Swallow My Children seems like what The Kentucky Fried Movie would have been had fellatio been involved.

The movie is very silly, and Rotten has chosen performers that look sexy in natural light, in bare feet, with minimal makeup.

"I tell people not to come with the porn heels and the stupid porn bikinis," Rotten said.

Best line:: "What are you doing in my tub? Maybe the piss can wait!"

There are also scenarios in which a blowjob is traded for the return of a retarded uncle's bike, an unlikely tryst on a roof with porn-ratty Tony Tedeschi, and some trampolines. After Dirty Harry's, the best line is: "Can I borrow your weight room? Mine's being worked on."

The secret to an effective porn movie (at least for a male audience) is juicy women having sex with loopy undesirables. "Swallow My Children" is an effective porn movie.

"Swallow My Children", though everyone in it is tatted out with metal playing in the background, is so silly, well lit, and populated with healthy vixens that it seems wholesome. After all, isn't a blowjob the friendliest gesture one can make? It's when penetration happens that people get all possessive.

· Rob Rotten's "Swallow My Children" Trailer (punxproducttions.com)
· Metro Interactive (metrointeractive.com)

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Previously: Porn Reviews Archive

Photoplay: Rob Rotten's "Scurvy Girls 2"

Gram Ponante — Thu, 31 May 2007 21:54:33 EDT

Rob Rotten's porn setups—the reason why people are having sex in the first place—are as high concept as anyone's. But Rotten eschews cable guys, pool cleaners, and pizza delivery dudes. Instead, he begins by dressing his female performers in 80's New Wave slutwear and presents motivations like "Someone is watching you urinate and you get angry. Angry enough to have sex with them."

Check out what should have happened in "Repo Man" after the gap. - GP

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First off, none of these girls actually has scurvy, though the ill-lit bathrooms featured in the movie are reminiscent of 19th century sailing ships. And Rotten's Nadsat boxcover introduction ("packed to the ol' gulliver with splendid Molodoy devotchkas") also sends the wrong message. But not one of the performers in "Scurvy Girls 2" seems out of place in her surroundings, which is more than you can say for various pirate movies.

The person below is not the same as the person above. Am I racist if I think all punk girls look the same?

Remember, it's not Porn Valley's version of altporn if the viewer can detect the performer's personal investment.

· Rob Rotten (punxproductions.com)
· Buy "Scurvy Girls 2" (gamelink.com)

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Previously: Photoplay Archive

Rob Rotten Wants You To Swallow His Children

Fleshbot — Thu, 17 May 2007 12:45:25 EDT

You might think that punk porn auteur Rob Rotten would have a hard time following up such titles as "Anal Swine" and "Sperm Sponges", but if there's anything else the director is known for besides his penchant for droogspeak and having the word ~~"prison"~~ "poison" tattooed on his dick, it's his pluckiness. So we can't help but be excited about his next all-blowjob opus "Swallow My Children", even though he's barely finished filming it—and especially because the press release from the company that's releasing it is a classic of its kind: "First, I want to apologize to anyone who may be offended by the title of Rob Rotten's new movie. I want to state unequivocally that absolutely no people were actually swallowed during the production of this movie. True, several million sperm-cells were indeed ingested as they passed through the gullets of several attractive and thirsty—or is it hungry?—ladies ...(B)ut it should be noted that absent contact with a fertile ovary, the swimmers cannot technically be considered people and as such, Rob cannot be charged with murder." Try arguing with that kind of logic.

· "Rob Rotten: Curse the Beasts and the Children" (avn.com)
· Rob Rotten's Punx Productions (punxproductions.com)
· Thumbnail via "Scurvy Girls 2"
· Metro Interactive (metrointeractive.com)

Previously: Porn Vegas Dispatch: Rob Rotten Is Actually A Very Nice Young Man, DVD: "Anal Swine", DVD: "Porn Of The Dead"