Wild Things (1985) User Reviews

wild at first before a lot of cooling

[delphiaa · 6/10 · 7 May 2012]

Alex Derenzy's "Wild Things" is a collection of stories with sexual adventure as the theme. Jill Ferari is the hostess, introducing scenes. The first one is most temperature rising with the worse acting and a foursome: Ashley Welles and Mauvais DeNoir just escaped prison, still in their orange jumpsuits and navigate the terrain in the sun. Their sights set on Patti Petite and husband Billy Dee. He's going to Colombia for some reason. They attack the two in bed. Mauvais ties Billy hands before making him her slave. Patti is annoyed at his submission. "Billy don't enjoy it!..That pig!" but she gives in to Ashley. Ashley gives back and so does Mauvais on Billy before entering. But Ashley aggressively goes for him, saying she had enough of women for 5 years. He takes her from the back, then his wife facing him on top, then from the back before finishing on her and over the two fugitives in a compromising position. The couple tied up the distracted duo and reveal that Billy is an undercover cop.

A bearded Hershel Savage waits outside for Kimberly Carson to arrive. She shows up in her car then they take his and go to his place. They show good acting in their dialogue about a "business deal" going on for 2 years to get her pregnant cause her husband, Joe, can't do it. She's frustrated and hates the arrangement. After her Savage interrupts her prayer, she promises to give all of herself this last time.

The 3rd scene show that film is the original unedited version with a bland scene with Traci Lords and Jamie Gillis. She's a high-schooler equipped with parochial school skirt and blouse (got to wonder whose idea this was]. She invites Mr. Luigi the gardener to her living room since the parents aren't home. Gillis does a sleazy voice-over a la "dirty older man" of how she and other girls her age make him feel and what he's doing to her. ***wow! the closeness to reality** In the re-edited version, this scene gets replaced with Elle Rio with Jon Martin and Tom Byron. Elle made dates for the same time so she made up for it.

Tess Ferre enjoys "Playgirl" (was that Ron Jeremy in the photo?) as Buck Adams, her jealous husband,looks on. He smartens up and seize the mood.

The phone rings while Ali Moore and Christy Canyon enters. Christy goes upstairs and answers. She tells her friend to use a condom with her boyfriend Paul or even better get a girlfriend "cause boyfriends aren't worth the trip to Planned Parenthood" (activism?). She hung up and get intimate with her girlfriend Patty (Moore).

John Leslie role-plays as an ex-con intruder overpowering his wife (Robin Cannes) who gives in to the carnal game.

The movie ends with Jill Ferari's self-loving.

The first scene sets the bar high then the excitement level decrease.A noticeable problem with many "golden age" productions using film is the grainy-dull-lack-of-detail feel to them. Still a good show for its performers and classic appeal.

They Make Everything Groovy !

[Nodriesrespect · 8/10 · 1 January 2008]

As porn's theatrical era was drawing to a close, genre pioneer Alex De Renzy – who exploited the notorious Screening Room theater in the early '70s – came full circle, returning to the short subjects ("loops" being the correct industry term) that had jump-started his career. Collections thereof like BALL BUSTERS and DIRTY GIRLS can't help but feel feather-weight next to the director's far more elaborate classics from the previous decade, revered romps he seemed now quite content to merely serialize, albeit with well above average results as proved by BABYFACE 2 and PRETTY PEACHES 2 & 3. Sexually, the Old Master never lost his golden touch though, even when resorting to the "grab bag" approach that inevitably marks most of these so-called "loop carriers", a format perhaps not invented but certainly perfected by Howard Ziehm with movies like HONEYPIE, HOT COOKIES and SWEET CAKES.

Narrated in disarming airhead fashion by fly by night starlet Jill Ferrari (who appeared all too briefly in movies like Lawrence T. Cole's atmospheric HOUSE OF STRANGE DESIRES and John Seeman's cult film waiting to happen MISSING PIECES), WILD THINGS is comprised of a series of sexual scenarios attempting to fulfill the promise held by the title. Things get off to a rocky start with what is undoubtedly the weakest segment as the happy home of Patti Petite and Billy Dee is invaded by escaped convicts Ashley Grant (also in the director's scorching LET'S GET IT ON) and Mauvais DeNoire, an overlooked black starlet who made a touching contribution to Sam Weston's RED GARTER. A chemistry deficit keeps this sequence from firing on all cylinders. Fortunately, there's better in store. Kimberly Carson provides a sympathetic miniature as a woman seeking the help from sex surrogate Herschel Savage to attain the conception her husband's incapable of, leading to a tender tryst to the strains of "Danny Boy", inspired scoring to say the least ! Curvy Tess Ferre (the girl in the weird opening scene of Paul G. Vatelli's uneven BEVERLY HILLS COX) and Buck Adams attempt to alleviate marital boredom through ever more outlandish sexual positions while another betrothed pair, bountiful Robin Cannes (who played a memorable part – lusting after brother Craig Roberts – in Kirdy Stevens' sublime TABOO IV) and John Leslie, engage in burglar and victim role-playing to the same end.

The best stuff is saved for last with an all time Sapphic scorcher between superstar Christy Canyon and achingly pretty Ali Moore, star of Jerome Bronson's amusing Getting' READY, that could serve as a demo piece for fledgling pornographers on how to shoot and edit this type of material for maximum knockout effect. The remaining sequence depends on which version of the movie you happen to come across. Originally, De Renzy had crafted a terrific remake of his legendary '70s loop PAROCHIAL PASSION PRINCESS with Traci Lords in all too appropriate Catholic schoolgirl outfit making horny gardener Jamie Gillis – whose filthy interior monologue really makes the scene – a very happy man indeed. As everyone's well aware by now, Lords was revealed as being under age when she made most of her subsequently retracted and/or re-edited romps. Therefore, the director replaced it with an almost equally scalding set-up involving Brazilian bombshell Elle Rio (memorable in Fred Lincoln's SHE COMES IN COLORS) who has inadvertently invited both of her boyfriends, Jon Martin and Tom Byron, on the same day with the guys teaching her a lesson in front and rear double penetration. While I'm slightly inclined towards Traci's tease number, it would be hard to deny that De Renzy went to great lengths to make up for its enforced absence. If, like me, you're lucky enough to come across the French video release (as LE SEXE SAUVAGE) however, you will find that you can have your cake and eat it too as this is the only version to the best of my knowledge that actually includes both loops. Ah, bliss !

Film is wild, but a few scenes are well..tame

[hollywoodshack · 8/10 · 1 March 2022]

I mainly found this film because I discovered Traci Lords was in it with Jamie Gillis. It seemed the big names in bay area porn at the time didn't feel much enthusiasm for Traci, not being champagne drinking cigar smoking buddies with her agent like her stepdad was. The Mitchells and DeRenzy both featured her in one scene and clipped it out later. The scene compared to most of her work was pretty tame. Jamie Gillis plays a dirty old gardener who meets naughty Traci in her school uniform for a rather mundane cum shot. The other scenes are much better for the movie as a whole, more fast paced and continuous. Kim Carson also makes the tame list as a religious zealot who wants surrogate partner Savage to position himself better for making her baby. The opening with the escaped female convicts was the best, then sort of downhill from there. Traci's underage exclusion was very much like the 50's blacklist, victimizing her and those she worked for without proof any intentional crime ever happened. I could even compare it to Baldwin and the Rust shooting accident, as far as we know now. Ferrar, the film's narrator, appears to have had a few too many gin and tonics.