Maison Erotique

I suspect that Tanya Hyde is no longer a force in the stream of porn New Releases, as she pretty much displayed all her talent and tricks in classic fetish DVDs issued 10 to 20 years ago. "Maison Erotique" has less famous femmes than usual, but is otherwise techically expert as usual.

The four scenes have French titles, and the video ends with the Gallic "Fin" notation, but otherwise is indistinguishable from a score of other Harmony Films shows by the mistress/master of the art form. Isabel Ice and Claudia Rossi are the most talented of the players, but a couple of big-busters made a strong impression on me in an atmospheric scene titled "Les Catacombes".

Victorian porn is adequately simulated in "Le Vice Anglais", about corporal punishment meted out by My Lord and Lady of the manor to a fetching young housemaid, while the minimum daily requirement of d.p. is ladled out in the oddly titled "The Gimp".

Finale "Baroque" has pastel lighting effects and interracial sex with the Scandinavian import Samson Biceps (seen as a regular in Mike Beck's Swedish porn adventures), credited here with what could be his real moniker, Samson Lundberg.