Studio: Red Light District/Forbidden Cinema
Director: James Avalon
Cast: Chasey Lain, Daisy Marie, Tory Lane, Isabella Sky, Christiana Aguchi, Savannah Stern, John West, Eric Masterson, Franko Del Toro, Reno
While Reloaded, celebrating Chasey Lain’s first non-condom work in years, and her “return”, as it were, to performing after a recent history of trainwreck behavior, was not over-hyped (and kudos to anyone involved in that decision-making process for the uncharacteristic restraint), Lain herself doesn’t seem to be the star of her own movie.
While recent events in the porn community suggest that bottom-scraping marketers will use anything to get their shitty movie noticed, I think Chasey: Reloaded might have benefited a little from addressing Lain’s recent absence from the business. Instead, she seems to play a background part in a stylized and smoking series of vignettes directed by James Avalon.
The movie is a slow burn. The first half of the project’s six scenes don’t really set the mood. Reloaded opens with a scene called “The Schoolgirl” between Lain and Lindsey Meadows. That Meadows is initially tied up and might be wearing a schoolgirl outfit is the only thing that justifies the title, because within moments she is delivering a strap-on to Lain. The setting was a little too dark for me; it would be good to have seen more of Lain; she’s a little older and the results of a decadent lifestyle look good on her. A little more light would have been nice to show the contrast between the two women, and the vignette title was a head-scratcher.
Christiana Aguchi and Eric Masterson star in the next scene, “Asian Invasion”. This, too, is an odd title, because Aguchi’s domme hat in the first few seconds of the scene suggests that she’ll be doing the invading. But it quickly turns into a standard sex scene, well-shot though it was.
“A Glass of Wine” comes next, with Savannah Stern getting double-teamed by Franko Del Toro and Reno just for spilling a little wine on her boobs. So far, the movie is murkily-lit couples’ porn, but doesn’t really catch fire.
Then comes “Girls in Bikinis”, shot on a hill in Malibu and featuring Daisy, Isabella Sky, and Lain. This is the first really fun scene of the movie, and Daisy steals it. While Lain herself hovers out of the shot (or she might have been halfway down the hill by this point), a scene that started as a threesome becomes a duet between Daisy and Sky, culminating in Daisy squirting as a result of Sky’s deft dildo skills.
My favorite episode came next. The movie’s only untitled vignette, it featured Tory Lane and John West fucking on a courtyard fountain. This is the sort of scene that should be put in a time capsule as an example of fantasy porn style that doesn’t skimp on substance. We open on a shot taken through Lane’s legs, standing in a classic hooker pose, as she regards West reading a paper (an article about lonelygirl15, as a matter of fact) on the rim of a fountain at the end of a columned path. She rips the paper out of his hand and takes over. The scene should have been called “Tory Lane Against Literacy”.
Say what you will about the useless architectural fripperies of SoCal mansions, but they’re great for shoooting porn movies.
Laine, as the producer of the movie, might have in fact picked the cast. If that is the case, she chose mostly muscly guys reminiscent of Dick Tracy villains, particularly West and Reno, but also Christian, whose scene with Lain ends the movie. That Chasey (Lain) and Tory (Lane) are both solid girls (for porn, anyway – meeting them in person, one is still amazed at how tiny they seem, so imagine how comparably tiny people like Lindsey Meadows and Christiana Aguchi are) working with big guys, the viewer has the sense that something is actually happening. That is refreshing.
The last scene was shot at night, most likely at the end of a long day of filming. Lain herself stands in a courtyard (probably the same one as before), and encounters Christian. It is yet another too-dark scene, but Laine has put together a great crew as a producer, particularly Avalon and porn veteran Sharon Kane, who art-directed superbly.
It was a shame to not see more of Lain, both in the scenes she was in and the scenes she wasn’t in, if that makes sense, in her own movie. I hope she makes more movies, and schedules her own scenes for the morning, and outside.
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