Built for Filth

Studio: 1st Strike
Director: The Kerkoves
Cast: Audrey Hollander, Bridgette Kerkove, Mandy Bright, Britney Madison, Bianca Pureheart, Brandi Lyons

1st Strike makes movies that are the equivalent of the rain-bloated dirty magazines everyone found behind his junior high school as a kid. No one ever fell in love with the girls in those magazines, and I’ve developed a theory that the farther away from your dad’s/uncles/older brother’s porn stash you got, the scarier the sex became.

It was always Playboys and Penthouses under the bed where I grew up, but you’d have to go to the burned out apartment building up the street to find the Hustlers, and into the woods to find the really “these girls don’t feel pretty” stuff.

Built for Filth opens with Bridgette Kerkove and Audrey Hollander on a bed, playing with butt plugs. Neither looks wholesome, And the stock grimaces and porn sneers look frightening.

In movies like this, I always like to find some humanity in the BTS section.

“Man, I swear my ass just swallows cock. I love it,” says Audrey Hollander frankly in Behind the Scenes footage, and that’s all I need. That sort of introspection makes me feel better.

I’m left to think about what went so wrong in the Kerkove household, why Audrey is on the box if Bridgette is given top billing, and why Britney Madison is wearing leather, fishnets, and a butt plug by the pool.