Softcore Reviews

Director Lou Vockell has once again dipped into his substantial archives to bring us another collection of glamour models and porn stars, only this time you can almost reach out and touch the hooters…

Holy handfuls of hooter, Batman! Glori-Anne Gilbert is back in action with a new — oh wait, no she’s not. In an apparent attempt to trademark “Busty” as a softcore series (in the same way that “Bikini” now signifies a movie by Fred Olen Ray), Secret Key has retitled and re-released 2005’s “Lust Connection” as “Busty Twins”. To paraphrase Shakespeare, would a rose like Glori-Anne by any other name still be as boobalicious?

Thinking back to when The Witches of Breastwick premiered on Cinemax in early 2006, it’s hard to imagine all the hoopla surrounding this movie today. It’s already in its second release on DVD (on a disc with its sequel and added commentaries), still occasionally in the late-night loop on HBO Zone/Cinemax, and it is the subject of a recently premiered documentary. Not a bad legacy for a throwaway softcore flick filmed in a weekend…

Wednesday night in Hollywood saw the unveiling of a new behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of a softcore movie. The glitterati and paparazzi were out in force, along with, er, a lot of single guys in flannel shirts and shorts. They were all there to see Popatopolis, an entertaining documentary directed by Clay Westervelt featuring the cast and crew of the Jim Wynorski (make that H.R. Blueberry) film The Witches of Breastwick. Yes, that one—the one you saw on late-night Skinemax a couple of years ago. Often.

This is a compilation DVD featuring six of the most popular glamour girls of the 80’s and 90’s. You’ve got softcore and b-movie stars Lorissa McComas, Julie Strain, Monique Gabrielle, and Glori-Anne Gilbert as well as models and centerfolds Heidi and Danni Ashe, getting naked and enjoying themselves in a series of solo clips…