Control 4

Studio: Digital Playground
Director: Robby D.
Cast: Shay J., Jamie Lynn, Mindy Main, Sasha Grey, Whitney Stevens, Brianna Beach

Portions of this review originally appeared on Fleshbot

Digital Playground’s Control series, at least as it was explained to me, was to be the fetish volume in the company’s library. The fourth installment looks, aside from a great scene with Sasha Grey, like any other gonzo offering on DP’s shelves.

If porn is porn, then this movie is another quality Digital Playground production. But for people seeking something that doesn’t look like everything else Robby D. does, I would lose Control 4.

Let’s pretend this movie came from the days before everything needed to be so specialized in order for porn companies to stay afloat. With that in mind, Brianna Beach’s scene opening the movie is perfectly serviceable.

Interstitial shots of Jamie Lynn in various getups provide a light spray of fetish content (leather-blindfolded and guided this way and that), but then we are back to straight porn. The only scene that really lives up to the Control mission statement is Sasha Grey’s dirty interlude with a couple of fellows. Grey seems like the real thing.

New Digital Playground contract girl Shay J. and Scott Nails perform the final scene of the movie, but putting someone in leather does not make her a dominatrix, and the growing ranks of same-movies-with-different-titles that Digital Playground is releasing does not make one discernible from another.

But still, if porn is porn, then Control 4 is universal, if remote.