28.1.08

HALO PARK comes with the best erotica ever!

No, I don't mean "Debbie Does Dallas", "Deep Throat" and all those classics that are so mainstream, they're now blasé. I mean REAL classics from the Golden Age or Erotica.

One of the first titles to come from the company is 1976's Blow Dry, an XXX-rated take on "Shampoo". This big-budget artsy New York comedy, directed by Joey Vincent under the alias "Laser Scepter", tells the story of Warren Peece (Pepe Valentine, a.k.a. Michael King), an ambitious, virile hairdresser with dreams of opening his own salon, who sleeps his way to the top (and the bottom) on his way there.

Cast includes Helen Madigan (a.k.a. Jennifer Mason), Crystal Sync (a.k.a. Petula Smith) and oriental Peonies Jong, Jamie Gillis and the legendary R. Bolla (who also provides an excellent commentary track).


The other title is 1985's Emmanuelle Goes to Cannes (or "The Elementary Stud", one of their less lawsuit-prone titles), a french comedy directed by Jean-Marie Pallardy and starring the Marilyn Monroe lookalike Olinka Hardiman as the title character.

In this one, Emmanuelle dreams of being a movie star. In reality, she works as a stripper in a sleazy nightclub where she is forced by her manager and boyfriend Frank to sleep with the wealthy clients. When she catches him inflagranti with a colleague, she finally summons up the courage to run away in the hope of making her dream come true.

At the Cannes film festival, she meets a movie producer. Though he's more interested in her body than her acting skills, he gives her a leading role in a cheap porn movie, which is a box-office flop. Left alone and unable to pay her bills she prostitutes herself until Frank finally arrives and pulls her out of her despair. Cast also includes Zeta Whitehouse, Paola Farrow, Glynis Whitman and the omnipresent Gabriel Pontello.

Other titles you can expect from Halo Park are Naked and Lustful (La Donneuse, 1975), another Pallardy delicacy starring Beba Loncar, and Confessions of a Teenage Peanut Butter Freak (1976), directed by Zachary Strong (as "Gerald Graystone") and starring Helen Madison again (this time as "Jennifer Mason"), Constance Money, Sharon Taylor and über-stud John Holmes. Wait and see, it will be worthy.

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