My Invisible Playmate

I just watched another feature in this genre "Invisible Lover" from the team of director Bud Lee and writer George Kaplan, but this earlier attempt "My Invisible Playmate" is much better.

Both VCA releases were shot at the atmospheric location Dry Gulch Ranch in California, with "Lover" concerning Bridgette Kerkove as in fact an invisible childhood playmate for star Steve Hatcher, who stays on as his erstwhile guardian angel later in life.

For "Playmate" Kaplan's story premise is science fiction instead, mocked by his use of silly jargon (referring at one point to "adjusting the Michelin harmonics") and a very cheap and unconvincing set at the Ranch with antiquated equipment like oscilloscopes subbing for the story's futuristic gear.

Ian Daniels, with a modern short-cropped haircut instead of his long locks of the period, is the scientist/businessman who is being sabotaged by greedy associates Alec Metro and Shaena Steele (a fine actress, new to me 20 years later).

Dee is the beautiful "invisible" heroine, mute for the first half of the show, as a woman from another dimension who Ian has succeeded in transporting to ours, but with significant kinks in his process yet to be ironed out.

When he succeeds in perfecting the process (aided by a twist of knobs on an oscilloscope by Dee) two other aliens appear at the ranch in the form of Mark Vega (another unknown porn player, perhaps unsuccessful due to his undersized cock) and Allysin Chaines.

Lee exploits the comical side of this story by having Ian play dumb later on regarding the aliens -earlier everyone thought he was nuts and were trying to have him labeled incompetent to remove him from his company, but now that Dee and the other aliens have become visible Ian pretends NOT to see them, confounding the rest of the cast.

Sex scenes, especially by Dee and Shaena, are quite arousing, and despite the cheap special effects the show is eminently watchable.

One odd touch is that one of the musical cues from porno Library Music on the soundtrack closely resembles the "Letters" piano theme played endlessly on Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show" routine where he hunches over to pen letters, a very strange resonance while watching a 2000 porn video here.