Studio: JM Productions
Director: Jim Powers
Cast: Tanner Mayes, Johnny Thrust, Porno Dan, Lacey Lane, Dana DeArmond, Brooke Scott, Ashley Blue, Sophie Dee
It’s not always a trainwreck on a porn set, but when it is, Jim Powers knows he can recoup some of his expenses with another edition of “Porn’s Most Outrageous Outtakes.” Enter Tanner Mayes.
Tanner Mayes takes up the entirety of “Porn’s Most Outrageous Outtakes 4” in a daylong meltdown on the set of “Lesbian Bukkake 15.” To tell you the truth, I didn’t even watch the bukkake, as outtakes on Jim Powers movies are infinitely more compelling and disturbing.
But is it sexy? What’s amazing is that the pixieish Mayes is naked throughout the movie, running this way and that, sprawling, crying, trashing offices, topless, spreading her labia (to exhibit some chafing for the camera), and cussing out production staff and other performers. It’s like “Let It Be” if the Beatles were a talented but doomed bukkake band from Chatsworth.
While there are incidental shots of sex, the movie is a documentary better than anything a basic cable sweeps week porn expose could contrive, or any “Family Business” or “Real Sex” put together.
The beautiful Mayes had been out partying the night before until at least 2 a.m. She was three hours late for today’s shoot. She reveals that last night she skipped out on a cab fare, passed out in her apartment, naked, and was revived by police, whom she scratched. That is what the crew would be dealing with.
A BTS cameraperson follows her throughout the day, and at one point tells her that “you are my only job.” Mayes squats over the performer Lacey Lane in order to come in the latter’s face, but Lane notices red marks on Mayes’ thighs. Mayes storms out of the room, the first of several threats to quit.
What Lane can be forgiven to have assumed was a staph infection Mayes says is chafing from short underwear. “Like when you’re on a water ride.” Mayes escalates the more anyone tries to calm her down, and the viewer is left with the feeling that if Mayes isn’t heavily medicated, she should be.
And we watch this because it is as titillating and empty as porn is.
By and large, there isn’t too big of a pay gap for women in porn. Sasha Grey might pick up a hefty check, but even that is not an order of magnitude greater than what an unknown newcomer might get in a bukkake. What I’m saying is that money doesn’t seem to be the reason why Jim Powers has such a huge archive of meltdowns documented in this series and on the Behind the Scenes segments of his other movies.
Instead, it seems to be the nature of his sets and the volatility of the cast. There is also something about the fact that everything that is documented can and will be sold, so that people who are unburdened with a sense of shame have no motivation to not control themselves when they sense a freakout coming.
In bonus scenes there are less spectacular but just as grim encounters with Sophie Dee and the zaftig, cum-drunk Brooke Scott.
The only things missing from this movie are physical violence, a drug overdose, and police intervention. Otherwise “Porn’s Most Outrageous Outtakes 4” is a perfect accounting of why you should leave porn to the professionals.
Portions of this review also appeared on Fleshbot
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