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 Countdown
(Cazzo Films Productions with Centaur Films)
Directed by Sven Jungbluth
Starring Thom Barron, Franko Potente, Christopher Scharff,
Darius Akin, Wolff Black, Eduardo Cortez, Jake Corwin,
Josh Ford, Damion Fox, Timmi Franks, Felix Groth, John
Hawk, Maria Lehman, Karl Johnson, Ben Jones, Lupus Lincoln,
Will Ride, Max Schneider, Anthony Spell, Wade Steele,
Tim Vinzent, and Willy Wonder
Thank fucking god for those perverted
Germans! Just when I thought porn had begun a new phase
of suffering as a result of what I will call “genrization” (that
is, the catering/marketing to porn audiences though incessant “genre
films” like “jock porn,” “S&M
porn,” etc.), director Sven Jungbluth of Cazzo
Films Productions pair up with Centaur Films to release,
no, UNLEASH, “Countdown” – the hands-down,
best fucking piece of foreign-made smut I have seen since
I don’t even remember. For the sake of brevity
(because I could write a term paper on this film quite
frankly), I will give you the premise of “Countdown” (released
in good ole Deutschland as “Bei Anruf Thom,” translated: “Thom
Barron Calling”), and then tell you why I think
it’s so amazing. So the premise is this: Thom Barron
calls his super cute man-boy friend Franko Potente pick
his sorry ass up across town. Thom gives Franko 2 hours
to get there, otherwise he is gonna call someone else.
Franko embarks on a long run across the city where he
has many encounters and missed-encounters (of the pornographic
kind, naturally) that hang on this narrative thread.
Now it’s the mix of these encounters that makes
this flick so damn good. It is thoroughly anti-genre
by being multi-genre; there is a little something for
almost everyone because of the numerous, well-shot, well-casted
scenes. Like a porn potpourri, “Countdown” has
D/S, S/M, B/D, several interracial scenes, a bi-sex scenario,
a body worship sequence in the beginning, humiliation,
exhibitionism/voyeurism, public sex, tea rooms, stripping,
cum-facials, absurdly huge penises (cut and uncut), kidnapping,
sex in a moving vehicle, a solo scene, JUST TO NAME A
FEW! The models range from well-muscled to lean and smooth,
hairy to completely smoothed, pierced and tattooed to
completely unmarked flesh, a 13” inch cock to a
vagina (I said there was a bi-sex scene!), and every
single one of them is attractive relative to the look
and the genre of film such a model would likely fall
into. The models have full-erections, give blowjobs with
real gusto, look like they are actually enjoying themselves,
KISS (I love seeing that!), and look, well, real. Part
of that is probably because it seems like there isn’t
too much loop editing to make it seem like the models
fucked longer than they actually did, the lighting doesn’t
make them look like they don’t have pores, and
a refreshing absence of noticeable make-up. It seems
like real time sex, even though Franko has two hours
to get across town and this movie is only 100 minutes.
And the real kicker for me (as a bloke who has studied
cultural theory), is that this porn is ‘thinking
man’s’ smut. The various scenes touch upon
racial eroticized violence/rape fantasy, sex as performativity,
the boundaries of sexual risk, and racial politics that
seem totally fucked up at one point, but then gets turned
on its head at another. These are just some of the things
a cultural theory student could write up on. And oh yeah,
did I mention the hot models enough? Like woofy newcomer
Christoph Scharff, a Swiss high school teacher in ‘real
life,’ who was also recently featured in Unzipped
magazine! Okay, I didn’t give you the scene breakdown,
but you have to believe me (and I really am a porn snob),
this flick is a must-have. And now I can’t wait
to see what Centaur and Cazzo Films put out next!
To purchase Countdown, go to www.centaurfilms.com
or call 800.446.8843 Daniel
Lee
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