Sinfully Yours (Hollywood Video) Review

Distributor: Hollywood Video Edition Details: Standard DVD Movie Specs: Genres: Classic, Feature Film, Incest Run Time: 85 minutes Rated: XXX Release Year: 1985 Director: Hal Freeman Written by: Ted Newsom Cast: Stevie Taylor, Eric Edwards, Christy Canyon, Tony Martino (as Chuck Martin), Pamela Jennings (as Pam Jennings), Marc Wallice Release Specs: Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono Subtitles: none Video: Full Frame, 1.33:1 Video Format: NTSC Format: DVD Regional Code (for DVD/Blu-ray): 0 (All) Number of discs: 1

Sinfully Yours is one of the adult movies made during the transition from film to video and, sadly, ends up being one of the movies shot on video. The director, Hal Freeman, has shot on film titles in his filmography, however, sadly Sinfully Yours succumbs to some of the problems that plagued the adult industry during the shot on video period.

Sinfully Yours represents itself to be a plotted movie, however, for all intensive purposes, it is an all sex movie. The movie is one of those where people reflect on sex they had in the past premise that became way too overly prolific during the shot on video age.

For Sinfully Yours, the set-up is that Mark Robinson (Eric Edwards) and Paula (Stevie Taylor) are moving from their house of three years. While the movers empty the house, the two reminisce about all the sex that has happened over the least three years in their house.

Sinfully Yours has a good cast, with carryovers from the shot on film era prior including cast members that have a proven ability to act — such as Eric Edwards. However, acting talent has been completely wasted in this title since there is no material for them to use. Not even enough to really give any dimensions to any of the characters involved.

The sex scenes look nice. The cast does a good job with them and Freeman, who is a five-year veteran at this point in the adult industry, knows how to capture the sexual action well. However, the sex scenes are marred by the lack of character development in the movie. One of the scenes, for instance, has incest themes to it, but since the characters are introduced just for each sex scene, in essence, it is just like all other others in the movie.

The movie has been shot well which isn't surprising since it was shot by Richard Pepin, using his adult pseudonym Richard Christopher. However, the movie comes across looking cheap since almost all of the locations are located at the one house, or at least they appear to be.

Even though Sinfully Yours looks good, the end product resembles so many other adult movies that were shot on video and came out in the 80s. Fans of one, or more, of the stars may want to add this movie to their collection due to the star. However, fans of the genre or casual fans of the industry will be best off giving Sinfully Yours a pass.

Hollywood Video has done a good job with their DVD release of Sinfully Yours. Sinfully Yours was shot on video and Hollywood Video appears to have used the original video masters for the movie. Sinfully Yours is presented in the academy aspect ratio of 1.33:1 in 480i. The video looks good with good color representation. There are some glitches contained in the video, however, that is to be expected in any title this old that was shot on video. Other than the glitches the video looks good and is about the best one could expect for a shot on video title of this age.

Sinfully Yours is presented with an English Dolby Digital 2.0 monaural sounding Stereo audio track. The audio level for the release is very low, however, the dialog is clear and can be understood throughout the entire movie.

Hollywood Video hasn't included any extras on the release.

Sinfully Yours is rather standard fare to have come out of the 80s shot on video adult entertainment market. The sex scenes look good and the movie has a strong cast, however, despite masquerading as a feature the movie is essentially an all sex release. As a result, Sinfully Yours is a hard movie to recommend unless you are a fan of the stars. Hollywood Video has done a good job with their release with good video quality and decent audio but no extras.

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