The makers of "Pure Taboo" product know their audience: porn fans addicted to negativity, The inverted values of this series (mistakenly associated with the word "taboo") require evil to triumph over good and misogyny to rule forever.
Title segment lives up to that dictum, in a very obvious and relentlessly downbeat story of a young girl (not very impressive starlet Nikki Sweet) going to meet the parents of boyfriend Joshua Lewis. Directing team of Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas telegraph every little plot twist as Syren De Mer and especially Dick Chibbles as stepmommy and stepdaddy are sinister from the git-go, and sure enough, sweet little Sweet is in for a rude awakening.
Chibbles trots out a video camera as a family heirloom and shows the girl a collection of DVD-Rs that have been shot as "home movies". Very soon he's setting up the camera in the bedroom that Josh & Nikki will be sharing, and without much coaxing, she improbably agrees to having sex on camera. Bree Mills' screenplay is utterly unconvincing and the scene falls apart at this point, simultaneously with it going into gonzo mode for tedious XXX footage for the duration.
Gimmick is that Dick and son Josh want the new girl to first have sex with stepmom/wife Syren De Mer, with Josh soon joining in for a threesome. The fans are spared seeing unappealing Chibbles naked or having sex: Phew!
Mills has no ending or actual interesting twist to wrap up the overlong vignette -it simply ends with the disk filed away. Are these mad killers who have sex with unsuspecting (but way gullible) young ladies, and then wipe them out? What happens next? The viewer is left with not even a hint for closure -Josh's money shot is meant to end the show, the general porn assumption.
The other segment, titled "Thou Shalt Not Covet", violates the Prime Directive of Pure Taboo: evil does not triumph. That's because the script is so heavy-handed it's meant to present topical social criticism, so poorly handled that it has zero impact. No uplift here.
Instead of directing, Michael Vegas stars as an extreme right-wing priest and bigot, a chance for Mike to overact as if auditioning for a remake of "Inherit the Wind". He's styled with one of his goofball hairdos, and there's no attempt to make him look like a straight-laced priest of the church.
Hefty Mona Azar plays one of his parishioners, who visits him to make final plans for her wedding, which he will officiate. She brings her betrothed, Spencer Bradley, and priest Vegas is aghast to discover she's not a male. Horrors! What blasphemy is this?!
In an era when we have to deal with and worry about Clarence Thomas and Ron DeSantis on seemingly a daily basis, it's hardly entertaining or enlightening to listen to Vegas shouting pure hate and intolerance at the two ladies who have the temerity to try and involve him in facilitating a same-sex marriage. In real-life it's highly likely such unions will be abolished in the next year or two but here we can witness in a porno context, of all places, a victory against intolerance. The fact that the script is ludicrous, namely the two women first criticize the hambone priest and then have lesbian sex in front of him to turn him on and create a threesome (in which Vegas conveniently steps totally out of character to service the ladies like a seasoned porn stud -which he is - is par for the course.
It should be obvious that for such a drama to make sense or hold water it has to be minimally believable, but these pornoggrahers don't care. They would care if a police state enforced a ban on pornography -certainly high on DeSantis' future agenda.
Title segment lives up to that dictum, in a very obvious and relentlessly downbeat story of a young girl (not very impressive starlet Nikki Sweet) going to meet the parents of boyfriend Joshua Lewis. Directing team of Siouxsie Q and Michael Vegas telegraph every little plot twist as Syren De Mer and especially Dick Chibbles as stepmommy and stepdaddy are sinister from the git-go, and sure enough, sweet little Sweet is in for a rude awakening.
Chibbles trots out a video camera as a family heirloom and shows the girl a collection of DVD-Rs that have been shot as "home movies". Very soon he's setting up the camera in the bedroom that Josh & Nikki will be sharing, and without much coaxing, she improbably agrees to having sex on camera. Bree Mills' screenplay is utterly unconvincing and the scene falls apart at this point, simultaneously with it going into gonzo mode for tedious XXX footage for the duration.
Gimmick is that Dick and son Josh want the new girl to first have sex with stepmom/wife Syren De Mer, with Josh soon joining in for a threesome. The fans are spared seeing unappealing Chibbles naked or having sex: Phew!
Mills has no ending or actual interesting twist to wrap up the overlong vignette -it simply ends with the disk filed away. Are these mad killers who have sex with unsuspecting (but way gullible) young ladies, and then wipe them out? What happens next? The viewer is left with not even a hint for closure -Josh's money shot is meant to end the show, the general porn assumption.
The other segment, titled "Thou Shalt Not Covet", violates the Prime Directive of Pure Taboo: evil does not triumph. That's because the script is so heavy-handed it's meant to present topical social criticism, so poorly handled that it has zero impact. No uplift here.
Instead of directing, Michael Vegas stars as an extreme right-wing priest and bigot, a chance for Mike to overact as if auditioning for a remake of "Inherit the Wind". He's styled with one of his goofball hairdos, and there's no attempt to make him look like a straight-laced priest of the church.
Hefty Mona Azar plays one of his parishioners, who visits him to make final plans for her wedding, which he will officiate. She brings her betrothed, Spencer Bradley, and priest Vegas is aghast to discover she's not a male. Horrors! What blasphemy is this?!
In an era when we have to deal with and worry about Clarence Thomas and Ron DeSantis on seemingly a daily basis, it's hardly entertaining or enlightening to listen to Vegas shouting pure hate and intolerance at the two ladies who have the temerity to try and involve him in facilitating a same-sex marriage. In real-life it's highly likely such unions will be abolished in the next year or two but here we can witness in a porno context, of all places, a victory against intolerance. The fact that the script is ludicrous, namely the two women first criticize the hambone priest and then have lesbian sex in front of him to turn him on and create a threesome (in which Vegas conveniently steps totally out of character to service the ladies like a seasoned porn stud -which he is - is par for the course.
It should be obvious that for such a drama to make sense or hold water it has to be minimally believable, but these pornoggrahers don't care. They would care if a police state enforced a ban on pornography -certainly high on DeSantis' future agenda.