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Of all the anthologies available on video, the series Inside Out from Playboy Video productions is surely among the weirdest. There are three volumes of one-hundred minutes each, but the distributor is maximising profits by splitting each volume into two separate tapes. I have sampled the tape Daring Games whose centrepiece is a bizarre story of erotic deceit called "The Diaries" written and directed by Lizzie Borden (Love Crimes, 1992), and starring Joe Dallesandro. All of the episodes mix a few touches of very soft porn with an outlandish narrative twist, usually of a supernatural variety. Given the fairly basic television production values, this makes the stories seem like average segments from Freddy's Nightmares with a few bare breasts thrown in. However, "My Better Half", in which a man discovers his sensitive side by making love with the "physical manifestation of his female alter ego", has to be seen to be disbelieved. MORE anthologies: Aria, The Blues, Fallen Angels, Lumiere and Company, Strangers, Tales from the Darkside Vol.1, Wild Palms, Four Rooms, Dark Whispers: Volume 1 © Adrian Martin January 1994 |
