Super Sex (1986) User Reviews (3)

Terrific, simple erotic effort (for a change) from Troy/Carlos

[lor_ · 19 October 2015]

Watching "Super Sex" I felt like a baseball player breaking out of a prolonged batting slump. After going about 0 for 20 viewing stinkers directed by Troy Benny aka Carlos Tobalina, I put this new Vinegar Syndrome DVD into my player and was pleasantly surprised (almost flabbergasted) by a high-quality porn film.

Nice aspect of Tobalina owning his own filmmaking equipment and studio is that the 1986 feature is shot on 35mm film, rather than the videotape then an industry standard. This also means that starlets of the time, such as Melissa Melendez and Shari St. Clair, are preserved at least once on motion picture film.

Simple format has 2 shrinks (Sasha Gabor plus a familiar face who isn't credited) listening to the sex problems, usually disturbing dreams, of pretty female patients, in a series of crisp, thankfully brief (by modern standards) XXX vignettes. The sex scenes are well-performed by the gals, often with the shrinks or other actors, and thankfully missing is Tobalina's usual contrived, stupid stories. Film's simplicity, without action scenes or various locations, turns out to be a big plus - for once the prolific director doesn't bite off more than he can chew.

Movie chalks up 10 distinct sex vignettes, some with repeat patients. Some stars are uncredited, including St. Clair as a horny receptionist who listens in via the office intercom to the patients' lurid tales and masturbates; she also joins in with the doc for additional "therapy".

Jeannie Pepper, the most popular Black star of this period, is uncredited as a patient who is hypnotized by Dr. Rosenberg (Sasha Gabor) to imagine she is actually having sex with the movie star she dreams about. Tobalina's joke is simple but quite effective, since the shrink Rosenberg trades in his bad grey-dye job hairdo for Gabor's usual black locks and presto change-o! It's Burt Reynolds!

There's also an interesting incest fantasy as a big-breasted blonde patient Nicolde relates her dream about having sex with her parents, when they were 20 years younger, and we're treated to a hot threesome involving mom Trinity Loren and dad Robert Bullock. This quality scene is ruined by a typical Tobalina failing (he doubled as cinematographer) as the first half of the sex action is blurred (just a tiny oval in middle of frame crisp and visible) with a clouding effect to represent it being a dream. This gimmick is arbitrarily dropped for clear vision in the second half, but shouldn't have been employed at all.

Another typical flaw is easily overlooked, namely Carlos editing a sex scene out of sequence involving a repeat patient -he is never very careful about his footage as long as it delivers the daily requirement of explicit sex. Best thing in this movie is the total absence of his usual boring orgy.

This film apparently sank like a stone, coming out after theatrical domestic use of porn had been supplanted by home video. It's ironic that one of his best films is among the least known while famous stinkers still attract modern interest via their name recognition, but thankfully Vinegar Syndrome seems to be releasing everything. I hope they get access and issue his earlier work, mainly soft-core, which at least on paper is of more interest than his assembly line orgies -I'm thinking of rarities like "Infrasexum", "Sexual Ecstasy of the Macumba", "Tonite I Love You", "Last Tango in Acapulco" and "Sexual Kung Fu in Hong Kong".

Not Quite Super

[NoDakTatum · 1/10 · 15 October 2023]

Carlos Tobalina returns with another filmed porn movie (in the age of videotaped porn for home use), and a story that almost lasts as long as the movie. An older psychiatrist and his battle-axe receptionist take a vacation, leaving the practice to a younger doctor and a new receptionist. The new doctor begins sleeping with his attractive female patients, the new receptionist gets in on the action, but then the older doctor returns. He sees the success his practice is having, fires his receptionist, and begins sleeping with assorted patients himself.

I'm not familiar enough with adult actors and actresses to assign them character names, with the exception of an unbilled Nina Hartley. The "older" doctor, under some pretty good aged makeup, makes full use of his resemblance to Burt Reynolds in the final scene. Tobalina cowrote the screenplay, according to sometimes iffy porn credits, but he should have ended the film when the older doctor came back from vacation. Instead, we get some vignette-style sex scenes that don't propel the story forward. The energy of the first half, with its synthesizer musical score and some nice camerawork, degenerates into bad ad-libbing and bored couplings, with the exception of the Burt Reynolds inspired finale. The music and decor scream 1980's, I suppose that's worth something.

Above Average Tobalina

[Michael_Elliott · 4 July 2020]

Super Sex (1986)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

For a Carlos Tobalina film this one here isn't two bad and centers on a couple shrinks who are willing to listen and help their patients. The patients all suffer from some sort of sexual issue so the doctors don't mind getting in there and helping relieve some of the problems.

SUPER SEX was obviously done without too much money, which is usually the case with these Tobalina pictures but I found this one here to be rather well-made and it certainly featured some of the better cinematography that I've seen from any of the director's work. Usually the editing and cinematography are pretty bland to say the least but that wasn't the case here and in the end this was a more entertaining picture.

It certainly doesn't hurt that the director lined up some attractive women and many of the stories are a lot better than you'd expect. I really liked the early stuff dealing with the fantasies that the women were having but there are also some pretty silly stories as well and especially the sequence with the husband who announces that he wants to see another man bang his wife. Her reaction was rather priceless to say the least!