Nic Cramer is capable of cranking out a fine film (see his "Looker" features), but "Dare" isn't one of them.
Lovely Ava Vincent is the increasingly paranoid heroine, haunted for no obvious reason by pesky Evan Stone, who keeps materializing in fantasy fashion to tell her "I dare you".
Basically, he represents a frequent Adult Cinema trope, goading her to open up and live life to the fullest, breaking out of her shell. In XXX land this always equates to free love, and the film's sex scenes are frequently arousing, especially with Nikita Denise as a sex-show night club performer and dancer. But Cramer's pretentiousness becomes wearying, especially when he lays his themes and ideas on the line didactically in later reels.
SPOILER:
Ava surmises, probably before the viewer gets Nic's drift, that she might just be a fictional character in puppet master (or pseudo-James Patterson) Evan's mind, and sure enough, the feature ends with Stone at his word-processor taking the place (same computer and set) where Ava has sat previously, typing "The End" to the fictional story in which she was the lead. It's not a very interesting or even clever way to tie up the narrative, bordering on cornball.
Like much of porn that tries for something better, I'm thinking especially of David Stanley's many interesting but gimmicky scripts, I always feel like Rod Serling or Alfred Hitchcock would have rejected this out of hand if submitted for his TV series of suspense tales as merely half-baked.
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