Review: We are introduced to the story of Ferdinand "Ferdy" Hooper (Richard Kerman) by our host Sterling Rod. It seems that life is about to change for Ferdy. For today he is a loser working as a Prize Consultant for Wheatos Cereal, but now he has entered a different place called "The Erogenous Zone".
As our tale starts, Ferdy's newest campaign gets upstaged by a junior executive, he's the laughing stock of the office, and he can't get a date. When his boss Miss. Roxxoff (Hart) rejects his newest advertising campaigns, he is fired from his job. Just when things are at their worst, he gets a call from his friend Jake who claims to have a magical watch to show him. Jake demonstrates that the watch stops time for any reason, but it is especially effective for sex. When ladies get into the watch's field they get horny, really horny, and all their inhibitions melt away. Jake, just before he died, bequeathed his watch and fortune to Ferdy.
Then Ferdy begins to remake his life. First he uses the watch's power to make a couple have sex right on the street. Then he moves on to other targets. He gets back at one of the bitchy secretaries when he stops time and takes her to an S&M club, but even a month later, he still has his sights set on getting back at Miss. Roxxoff. When he finally gets to her, will it be his crowning moment or will this be his undoing?
This is porn right on the edge of the end of an era. Once the eighties were in full swing, features like this would be a thing of the past as the home video market would take over. Porn would begin its steady decline into slick, plastic mediocrity. This is still the era of blue movies where bodies were not perfect, hair was not taboo, and the story was still half the fun.
The film's two main stars are both legends in their own rites. Robert Kerman a.k.a. R. Bolla or Richard Bolla would appear in over 100 XXX films. Yet most genre movie fans may know him from his roles in Italian cannibal films such as Cannibal Holocaust or Lenzi's Cannibal Ferox. He even turned up in a small role as a tugboat captain in 2002's Spider Man. Kerman is genuinely entertaining here, and his acting is every bit as good as in mainstream fare. Veronica Hart was one of the biggest names in adult film of the 1970's and in her career she appeared in over 130 such flicks. In recent years she has become a producer of adult titles as well as making some appearances in mainstream film. Her life was the inspiration for part of Paul Thomas Anderson's Boogie Nights, and Anderson would later cast Hart for a part in his film Magnolia.
The best part of this flick is the story. The sex is varied, and I do mean varied. Be prepared for some strange stuff at times. Anyone who is a fan of modern porn will probably find the lack of graphic close-ups and short length of scenes unsuited to their tastes, but I found most of them quite interesting as examples of erotic film. The main plotline is obviously ripped from the Twilight Zone episode "A Kind of Stopwatch", and anyone who knows the episode will find the ending predictable. This is a film that is really one of the last of its kind. With the advent of video, production values plummeted and any kind of semblance to a story is discarded for the most part in modern pornography. Check this one out to remember when it wasn't porn and it was Adult Film. A time when the men were average, the boobs were real, and it was ok to like the stories. Fullscreen, in English, no subtitles. Quality B
Directed by: Robert Michaels
Starring: Veronica Hart, Annie Sprinkle, and Robert Kerman
