John Stagliano, a man who has helped make this addiction to the female posterior a national pastime with his Buttman videos has constructed an erotic masterpiece that compares favorable to any of the classic adult films of the past. Wild Goose Chase provides the swiftest two hours and 19 minutes of adult viewing one can imagine, with an incredible array of beautiful women and creative sexual situations that redefines the term “erotic.” Angela Summers becomes a star here and Stagliano provides the perfect blend of hot sex and creative plot. I can’t find fault at all. I hope the video retailers out there are taking note. Stagliano satirizes the detective genre of adult films as Joey Silvera plays the private dick on the trail of a missing girl, played by the lovely Julianne James in a steamy comeback. Silvera slithers into the world of lady wrestling video and become an unwilling participant. The Wild Goose Chase refers to Silvera’s deception, and he finds that this netherworld of sexual intensity is far more interesting than his own realty. Two of the hottest sex scenes ever shot on film open the story, with Julianne James entering a mysterious Hollywood shop, only to be ravaged by an unseen voyeur, and Silvera and Angela Summers getting it on in his office. Summers is so pretty in a girl-next-door vein that when she yells in orgasm, it’s beyond realistic. Once Silvera enters the wrestling world, run by Randy West for an unseen owner, the ring action seems more real than the WWF, though that may be a back-handed compliment. The girls really maul each other, as when Jeanna Fine pins Brandy Bosworth and Champagne and Patricia Kennedy nearly kill each other. That footage is particularly exciting. And there’s more amazing sex. T.T. Boy and Sean Michaels, as Los Angeles vice cops investigating the possibility that the video wrestling company is a front for a prostitution ring, grind it up with Jeanna Fine in a dressing room scene that is as sleazy as it is hot. Randy West gets it on with Patricia Kennedy, Champagne and K.C. Williams in a scene with Champagne, oral sex and three-way screwing. Much of Wild Goose Chase includes examples of the way eroticism should be portrayed but none of it loses the trademark Stagliano style, as his camera dodges and darts all around each sex scene, with specific emphasis on asses. Both Stagliano’s character in the film and Silvera have rear fetishes at no surprise to anybody familiar with Stagliano’s trademarks. The plot has enough twists and turns for those looking for story and technical qualities are nearly flawless. Unlike a spate of recent adult films, Stagliano’s camera moves with the fluidity of a video camera, so viewers cannot complain that the sex lacks the intimacy that video lends. The director has gotten around all of that. Simply stated, Wild Goose Chase ranks up there among the greatest adult movies ever made. It’s a movie, all right, but Stagliano never forgets that it’s a sex film. The retail community should rally around this film the same way it rallied around House of Dreams, so that more great films can be made, just like in 1982 |
