Joanna Angel has carved out her own special audience, and that's fine, but the few videos she's directed that have come my way, namely because she likes to cast a personal favorite of mine, Sheridan Love, are truly terrible. May she continue to do her own thing, but her audience deserves better quality.
This one, which has already spawned a follow-up, looks so crummy and is so amateurishly directed that it brings back ancient debates (dating back to the lamentable ascendancy of Troma in the '80s) about "bad on purpose". Sure, there were self-appointed cult films like "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" but generally that argument ended when tens of thousands of actual amateurs entered the home-video market in the '90s.
But Angel and her tattooed band of players don't make movies, they just horse around. In this assignment, they play dress up as anime or comic book or other pop culture figures, and hump each other or run around aimlessly in backyard home-movie fashion. The costumes and make-up are lousy, and even a veteran cameraman like Mike Quasar, with thousands of credits to his name and a latter-day specialty of working with female directors, turns in a sub par job.
Sheridan, who supposedly wrote the script as well, does her lesbian thing while Larkin Love delivers an adequate, but hardly show-stopping, impression of Elvira. You know we're in a decadent time period when imitating Elvira, herself a parody of quite a few earlier fantasy icons like Vampira, is considered worth including.
