When Marty Zion directed this abstract porn feature well over a decade ago, little did he expect that "Shades" in a title would someday signal BDSM lite for a distaff audience. He turns out to be a master of the dreamy, pointless "style is evevrything" format which reached its apotheosis two decades back in those Andrew Blake videos.
Here we have five segments in which the color red does make an appearance, as background decor or in the form of accessories, as we watch various beauties hump. I liked the girls employed, especially Lauren Phoenix, Cytherea and Mia Smiles, and am willing to give Zion other opportunities to do his thing in what is admittedly a tiresome genre.
Mannequins feature prominently in the foreground and background, with one of the coming to life in the form of Cytherea. She's very pretty at a young age and gives a brief squirt for the fans, the first of hundreds such Golden Showers in her bag of tricks.
I'm almost addicted to this dreamy, mindless form of Adult entertainment, immensely popular at the turn of this millennium and pretty much dead nowadays as audiences prefer in-your-face gonzo. I don't know what happened to Zion, but he had his finger on the pulse once upon a time and is worth perhaps a footnote in porn history books.
