Deviant Obsession (2002) Reviews

• EXCELLENT EROTIC THRILLER

  bazdol2002-06-07

  A nicely done thriller with plenty of sex in it. I saw it on late night TV. There are two hardcore stars in it, Lauen Montgomery and Venus. Thankfully, Gabriella Hall has just a small part.

• Great Skinemax fare

  dmacewen2009-04-26

  Great softcore sex, revealing and sexy, and plenty of it. Ignore the ignoramus who doesn't realize that raunchy IS sexy if done the right way. If you "erotic," go watch that Red Shoes Diary junk. If you want hot and exciting softcore done properly, this is the movie to watch. If you like the more explicit Skinemax films, you'll like this one. Great softcore sex, revealing and sexy, and plenty of it. Ignore the ignoramus who doesn't realize that raunchy IS sexy if done the right way. If you "erotic," go watch that Red Shoes Diary junk. If you want hot and exciting softcore done properly, this is the movie to watch. If you like the more explicit Skinemax films, you'll like this one.

• Why did B-movies get so cheap?

  sleeplessman2002-10-09

  This low-budget erotic thriller that has some good points, but a lot more bad one. The plot revolves around a female lawyer trying to clear her lover who is accused of murdering his wife. Being a soft-core film, that entails her going undercover at a strip club and having sex with possible suspects. As plots go for this type of genre, not to bad. The script is okay, and the story makes enough sense for someone up at 2 AM watching this not to notice too many plot holes. But everything else in the film seems cheap. The lead actors aren't that bad, but pretty much all the supporting ones are unbelievably bad (one girl seems like she is drunk and/or high). The cinematography is badly lit, with everything looking grainy and ugly. The sound is so terrible that you can barely hear what people are saying. The worst thing in this movie is the reason you're watching it-the sex. The reason people watch these things is for hot sex scenes featuring really hot girls in Red Shoe Diary situations. The sex scenes aren't hot they're sleazy, shot in that porno style where everything is just a master shot of two people going at it. The woman also look like they are refuges from a porn shoot. I'm not trying to be rude or mean here, but they all have that breast implants and a burned out/weathered look. Even the title, "Deviant Obsession", sounds like a Hardcore flick. Not that I don't have anything against porn - in fact I love it. But I want my soft-core and my hard-core separate. What ever happened to actresses like Shannon Tweed, Jacqueline Lovell, Shannon Whirry and Kim Dawson? Women that could act and who would totally arouse you? And what happened to B erotic thrillers like Body Chemistry, Nighteyes and even Stripped to Kill. Sure, none of these where masterpieces, but at least they felt like movies. Plus, they were pushing the envelope, going beyond Hollywood's relatively prude stance on sex, sexual obsessions and perversions. Now they just make hard-core films without the hard-core sex.

• It's not bad....lots of moaning helps boost "Sex" grade...B-

  Smooth B2003-01-03

  These films aren't too imaginative with the titles, are they? This is the umpteenth film I've seen with some combination of the words "obsession", "passion", or "desire" in the title. Too many to count. Oh well, this is just me ranting, let's get to the story. L.A. attorney Mike Hathaway seems to have it all--a successful practice, a trustworthy lawfirm partner, a beautiful wife at home--and a girlfriend on the side, a fellow attorney played by Brick Randall (weird name, cute girl). During one of his sexual escapades with his girlfriend, some photos were taken. These photos eventually make the rounds back to his wife Evelyn (Gabriella Hall in a pseudo-cameo role, she was only in one scene). Obviously, Evelyn kicks him out and he ends up at a strip club to drink his problems away. In walks a mysterious woman who wishes to keep things anonymous, and Mike goes off to bang the mystery lady in a cheap motel nearby. Be sure to notice her entrance; she's talking to someone on a cell phone about Mike, giving away that she was there for a reason. The next morning, the woman is gone, and Mike returns to his house to find his wife dead! I guess the story begins here....finally. There were three witnesses that saw Mike with the mystery lady (a stripper, her boyfriend and the cheap motel desk clerk), but suddenly they have selective amnesia and can't remember seeing him with her. Mike's alibi, "I was having sex with a woman at the time, but I don't know her name" seems pretty flimsy. Since these three people are the only ones who can vouch for his presence at places other than the murder scene, Mike is charged with Evelyn's murder. It's quite obvious these people were in on it, so how can this be proved? The pretty female attorney has an idea. She'll go undercover as a stripper at the club Mike went to in order to get close to the stripper-witness and her boyfriend, a bartender at the club. Of course, this involves her getting naked frequently. Oh joy!!! Her idea is very similar to Flower's idea in "Deviant Desires", but I guess we can overlook it this one time. The rest of the movie is a cakewalk from here. Eventually the truth comes out and the mastermind is revealed. *SPOILER ALERT* Mike's partner was behind it all. I know this comes as a shock to most of you. I say this sarcastically because it was that obvious. *CONTINUE READING* This movie does have some recycled plot elements in it and some bad acting by the male actors. The women involved were plucked right out of hardcore porn, which excuses their lack of acting ability and explains their frequent moaning during the sex scenes. I had to turn down the volume....they were just that loud. I just love that realism! Thankfully, like most Skinemax movies, you're in and out in about 90 minutes. A watchable film, not too bad and somewhat better than average. Women: B- (It would be a C+, but Gabriella's presence for one scene boosts the grade slightly. Granted, she's not naked, but it's Gabriella Hall, folks. Brick Randall is built like a brickhouse, pun very much intended.) Sex: B+ (Moaning that's not canned into the scene is a plus. These girls moaned like there was no tomorrow. Too much side-to-side action, though.) Story: D+ (The "mystery" was like the one in "Sinful Temptations"--a bit too obvious.) Overall: B- (It's riding the fence between C+ and B-, but the extra moaning and a glimpse of Gabriella pushed it over the top.)

• Good as TVMA movies go

  ronnie0a2016-12-16

  This is an erotic B-movie made to fit within the TVMA Rating. The plot has a female lawyer try to prove her lover is innocent of killing his wife. As usual with TVMA, the plot gives way to stretches of erotica that will fit within the Rating, and the characters are played by former porn stars who now work in films that just simulate sex. Although the scenes seem at times to be disjointed from the story line, this is overall good example of TVMA Rated fare. I was happy with the effort put into scene transition attempting to reduce the disjointed scene transitions typical of these movies, and with the size of the cast that allowed for more plot development than typical.