Behind the Mask

Its title hints at two minutes of quality footage coming at the end of this fairly outlandish Bizarre release. That's when the unique fetish performer Latex Lucy shows her face without any mask or latex covering hiding her features.

Before that happens we get half a dozen Hungarian-made fetish vignettes from the "House of Taboo" series that are alternately sexy and turn-offy, trying to push the limits of the genre the way Tanya Hyde did in her classic British videos a decade earlier. Anonymous filmmaker working for the DDF label doesn't have an ounce of Tanya's style or feel for the cinema medium, however.

One segment, in which black latex clad Kyra Hot is dom to Latex Lucy's pink latex body suit's sub, is erotic enough, and is repeated in its entirety in Bizarre's better followup release titled "Latex Desires". There's other fresh material here that gets high marks for strangeness, particularly "Latex in the Tub" involving Lucy and Mugur with some freaky "glass-between" tantalizing sex action involving the glass door of the shower, and the usual fetish nonsense of Mugur humping away wearing a gas mask (and noisy, labored breathing sounds as a result) and nothing else.

Other outre episode is called "Lady in a Footlocker", with Lucy's legs dangling out of holes in a footlocker, which also has a hole providing egress to her pussy - a strange episode that reminded me of magician's acts as well as fetish videos about cramming some poor woman into a small box or cage. The mean-spirited nature of this genre, despite its deafening protests about good clean fun for volunteer subs and slaves, comes to the surface in routines like this one.

The big magilla is the segment "Fisting the Furniture" in which veteran French actor Bruno SX orders Lucy to manhandle the lovely actress Lucia Love, who I recently saw in a mainstream porn feature "Lena" from Britain's JoyBear label. There is a quick fade-out in this release, omitting entirely the promised (on the DVD liner) fisting.

Bizarre reissued this segment a year later on "Latex Desires" with the two minutes of extreme fisting restored, no longer fearing censorship for some reason. However, the label lost any lingering respect from me by palming off the new DVD as a "Bizarre production", hiding any admission that it was from Hungary's DDF company in the typical bamboozling mode pornographers love to fall back upon. DDF is hardly obscure these days, issuing numerous popular big-bust titles in its DD Busty series, which puts to shame the predecessors (e.g. Big Top, Score and Brazzers) operating in that DD-cup and above universe.

Seeing Lucy's face unveiled in the brief finale is quite a treat. She has a serene expression and seems like a human Kewpie doll with her outrageous hour glass figure and smooth facial features. I have no idea what traditional fetish fans think of this stuff, but it certainly is the logical extension of the long John Willie/Bettie Page tradition brought into the 21st Century.