With bucket loads of adult films being produced each year, it is not surprising that some of them seem to have been made without the benefit of a script. Night on the Wild Side (aka The Bigger the Better) is one of those slippery outings they squeezed in between. It features some well known eighties performers thrown together with nothing much to work with except each others bodies. Kay Parker checks into the Wild Side, some kind of vague swingers club where 'anything can happen' (as long as it involves carnal pleasures). Playing it coy and innocent for once, Kay doesn't swing the same way as the others and fails to understand what she has walked into (nor does the viewer). At first she tries to go to sleep, but the moaning and groaning coming from every other place in the building arouses her suspicion, prompting her to have a look.
John Holmes plays the bartender at the Wilde Side, and he joins a couple sitting at the bar in a threesome that lasts basically the entire movie. Or at least they are still going at it every time naive Kay walks past. Janey Robbins arrives in full Dominatrix mode to take on three men at once, giving them instructions all the way. Up till now it had seemed like Kay, who has just broken up with someone, simply wandered into a sex club. But unfortunately director Charles DeSantos has something else in mind. A naked man carrying a big mask or a statue of some kind starts giving incomprehensible hints to Kay that she has walked into some kind of fantasy of her own making. Kay bumps into Janey on the stairs and asks her exactly what state or city she's in (the helicopter shots that bookend each sex scene look like New York to me). Unfortunately for her, Janey is not much help, insuring her that "The Wild Side is a part of your self conscious that you can't control". Then she makes a pass at her. Before long some other people (who were just crawling on the floor anyway) join in on the stairs. But once again Kay splits to hide in the bathroom, which is already occupied by a couple in Flagrante Delicto.
The helicopter shots are replaced by those of a full moon, as we move from location to a cheap, minimalistic set that seems to have been put together for a completely different movie. Two jewel thieves climb into a bedroom and find Janey in red lingerie. Soon she's ordering them around too. I guess they had this lying around from another picture or something, and decided to cut it in here when they were running short. Finally Kay Parker finds the dream lover she's been looking for and all the pieces fit (as far as this movie is concerned, anyway). She still finishes earlier than the John Holmes trio though, which might be one for the record books. They could just as well have released a compilation of old material and come up with exactly the same movie as this.
5 out of 10
John Holmes plays the bartender at the Wilde Side, and he joins a couple sitting at the bar in a threesome that lasts basically the entire movie. Or at least they are still going at it every time naive Kay walks past. Janey Robbins arrives in full Dominatrix mode to take on three men at once, giving them instructions all the way. Up till now it had seemed like Kay, who has just broken up with someone, simply wandered into a sex club. But unfortunately director Charles DeSantos has something else in mind. A naked man carrying a big mask or a statue of some kind starts giving incomprehensible hints to Kay that she has walked into some kind of fantasy of her own making. Kay bumps into Janey on the stairs and asks her exactly what state or city she's in (the helicopter shots that bookend each sex scene look like New York to me). Unfortunately for her, Janey is not much help, insuring her that "The Wild Side is a part of your self conscious that you can't control". Then she makes a pass at her. Before long some other people (who were just crawling on the floor anyway) join in on the stairs. But once again Kay splits to hide in the bathroom, which is already occupied by a couple in Flagrante Delicto.
The helicopter shots are replaced by those of a full moon, as we move from location to a cheap, minimalistic set that seems to have been put together for a completely different movie. Two jewel thieves climb into a bedroom and find Janey in red lingerie. Soon she's ordering them around too. I guess they had this lying around from another picture or something, and decided to cut it in here when they were running short. Finally Kay Parker finds the dream lover she's been looking for and all the pieces fit (as far as this movie is concerned, anyway). She still finishes earlier than the John Holmes trio though, which might be one for the record books. They could just as well have released a compilation of old material and come up with exactly the same movie as this.
5 out of 10