I just watched Dirty Movie from VCA, and was very pleasantly surprised by what I saw. Within the last year or so VCA has become one of my favorites if not my favorite feature company. Although they aren't up to the technical level of Wicked yet, the mix of girls and original plots make them worth watching.
My porn viewing has dropped about 25 percent this year, and I stopped looking for VCA titles post-Hart/Passolini. I didn't get into the Eon McKai stuff. So I should be looking in their direction again?
In the past they had the best mix of contract stars, good sex, and technical aspects. That was back in the Juli Ashton/Stacy Valentine days. Since the beginning of the DVD period, they seem to have gone downhill.
When VCA was accquired by Flynt Distributing (Hustler), their superb library was also absorbed, including the ownership of several (if not all) of the Essex Video titles. Word has it that the desire to market / release classic DVD's is something that Flynt is not interested in. Thus, Caballero (who once was the largest adult company) is releasing many, many '80's titles - some good, some schlock, as their library also includes the Vidco titles.
OK so that explains why Essex titles are hard to find on dvd. Fortunately, Excaliburfilms released some of them on dvd (including my favorite guilty pleasure "Fleshdance").
That's too bad about Flynt. VCA had the best movies for a while. All kinds of stuff I'd want to buy, as opposed to what Hustler (by and large) puts out now.
I rather like some of the new VCA stuff. I just picked up Atomic Vixens and Joanna's Angels 2. And I dig thier roster of directors specifically Ron Royster, Joanna Angel, Benny Profane and Joe Gallant.
Dirty Auditions 14 - review by Captain Jack
Posted - Apr 25 2006 : 1:06PM