Prolific filmmaker Dana Vespoli did a better-than-usual job with this quartet of four scenes -similar to one-act plays - set in prison. In common with current streaming practices, each displays its own title and cast, unrelated to the others.
Vespoli appears on screen in a familiar role, laying down the law in domineering, unemotional line readings as a Homeland Security officer grilling traveler Veruca James in a vignette named "Suspicious". James has made 48-hour trips to Dubai, causing one to wonder what she's up to -could this be a terrorist (looking more like a beautiful Adult star)?
Their verbal parrying is very well-acted, followed by the requisite lesbian humping in the interrogation room, and a thoughtful coda.
Two scenes take place on the same minimalist cell set, with most shots, even during the sex footage, photographed through the prison bars. "I Don't Belong Here" has a glamorous actress Vanessa Veracruz complaining to butch cellmate Rizzo Ford about her predicament, and receiving a thorough servicing in response, despite the rough & ready gal's earlier protests of "You're not my type".
Returning to that cell (a peril of the stand-alone vignettes concept) we have "Vanity", in which Chanel Preston, a victim of extreme red hair dye, portrays a Hollywood Madam (last name Fleiss is more than a hint) who is bunking with cop killer Jay Taylor. Young Jay protests her innocence but is easily conned by the madam's seductive spiel, ending with CP's tag line: "Vanity -it gets them every time".
SPOILER:
Finale "Second Chance" opens up the claustrophobic format for a surprise ghost story that gains power from the great Vicki Chase's enigmatic presence. We don't know she's a ghost at first, but Chase's sudden appearance in Bree Daniels' cell unnerves the girl. Surprise ending is powerful, and a reminder that despite her frequent lapses into lucrative gonzo content, auteur Vespoli remains serious about her work transcending the merely porn filler footage of most of her Adult Cinema contemporaries.
Vespoli appears on screen in a familiar role, laying down the law in domineering, unemotional line readings as a Homeland Security officer grilling traveler Veruca James in a vignette named "Suspicious". James has made 48-hour trips to Dubai, causing one to wonder what she's up to -could this be a terrorist (looking more like a beautiful Adult star)?
Their verbal parrying is very well-acted, followed by the requisite lesbian humping in the interrogation room, and a thoughtful coda.
Two scenes take place on the same minimalist cell set, with most shots, even during the sex footage, photographed through the prison bars. "I Don't Belong Here" has a glamorous actress Vanessa Veracruz complaining to butch cellmate Rizzo Ford about her predicament, and receiving a thorough servicing in response, despite the rough & ready gal's earlier protests of "You're not my type".
Returning to that cell (a peril of the stand-alone vignettes concept) we have "Vanity", in which Chanel Preston, a victim of extreme red hair dye, portrays a Hollywood Madam (last name Fleiss is more than a hint) who is bunking with cop killer Jay Taylor. Young Jay protests her innocence but is easily conned by the madam's seductive spiel, ending with CP's tag line: "Vanity -it gets them every time".
SPOILER:
Finale "Second Chance" opens up the claustrophobic format for a surprise ghost story that gains power from the great Vicki Chase's enigmatic presence. We don't know she's a ghost at first, but Chase's sudden appearance in Bree Daniels' cell unnerves the girl. Surprise ending is powerful, and a reminder that despite her frequent lapses into lucrative gonzo content, auteur Vespoli remains serious about her work transcending the merely porn filler footage of most of her Adult Cinema contemporaries.