Cash Markman aka Marc Cushman wrote and directed hundreds of poor XXX comedies, but this attempt at a serious mood is truly a disaster. The mega-clunker plays like a rejected script for the late great Rod Serling's TV series "Night Gallery".
Randy Spears is Mr. One Note, playing a rotten character in rotten monotone fashion that is deadly dull. He's a still photographer of the cheesecake persuasion, whose wall is covered with black & white stills of his favorite models. We later learn that each of these is the first photograph he took of each of them and in some stupid attempt at a fantasy premise, he's captured each of their souls forever.
Cash/Marc's pretentious script with his usual unimaginative dialog keeps stressing this unworkable gimmick, leading to a predictable "ironic" ending that is a true groaner. Along for the ride is Eric Masterson as Randy's assistant, unconvincing in a Casper Milquetoast role unbecoming to this talented porno farceur/stud.
Principal femme role goes to Brittany Skye, who also narrates to the camera and reads all her dumb lines without conviction. But the billing goes to superstar of the previous decade Chasey Lain in a relatively minor role thanks to the marquee value of her name, paired with exotic Latina Paola Rey in a threesome scene.
Sets are ridiculously cheap and the attractive female cast wasted. First sex scene has Shy Love flashing her big buck teeth, doing a Sharon Stone styled uncrossing of legs to reveal shaved vagina, and then delivering anal sex at the outset of the show -a dumb structural move by Cash. Some scenes are so poorly written and directed that perhaps Mr. Markman/Cushman was trying for comedy after all, in the "so bad it's good" Troma tradition.
NOTE: I recently viewed Markman's 2008 Penthouse release "Picturesque" starring Evan Stone in the Randy Spears role, a very slight altering of the fantasy premise/story line of "Picture Perfect", and just as bad.
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