Our “director” Cindy Lou Sutters (the voice of Carolyn Brandt) tells us all about her latest porn starlet discovery, Mary (Lovie Goldmine), whom she christens “Red Heat” on account of her fiery crimson locks. When Mary finds out her boyfriend (Pierre Agostino) is cheating on her, she goes crazy and stabs him to death in the shower. Mary then goes out and kills more people, effectively leaving her director in the lurch. Desperate, Cindy must go and find other starlets in order to complete production. Meanwhile, a mugger on a motorcycle goes around holding people up and stealing their wallets. It’s only a matter of time before the two of them meet.
Red Heat almost feels like director Ray Dennis Steckler’s trial run for The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher as both films have divergent plot lines and lots of sex and stabbings. (Although I guess it would be more accurate to say The Las Vegas Serial Killer because of the setting and the mugger character.) Like many of his other pornos, it’s not very sexy (to be fair, it's far from his worst) and features a lot of blowjob scenes. Some of the dubbed dialogue during the sex is good for a laugh (“That’s enough kissing! Let’s see some tit!”), but the dubbed moaning and sucking sounds are wildly overdone.
There might’ve been enough material here to make a decent movie, but the fact is there’s just way too much padding gumming up the works. The endless shots of people wandering around Las Vegas, random waterskiing scenes, and porn inserts that have nothing to do with the plot get to be a bit much after a while. Steckler also manages to further stretch out the running time by filming the cum shots in slow motion, one of which is set to the familiar tune of “The Hell Raisers”, the theme song from Doris Wishman’s Another Day, Another Man. (In fact, a lot of the movie resembles one of Wishman’s XXX films.)
Steckler’s directorial signatures are abundantly clear. We get lots of footage of the Las Vegas Strip, constant narration due to the fact the film was shot silently, plenty of stabbing scenes, and a multitude of long blowjobs. Of the usual company of Steckler Stock Players, there’s the usual cronies like Carolyn Brandt and Pierre Agostino. Most everyone else in the cast (according to IMDb) were also in Steckler’s Perverted Passion.
AKA: Nancy.
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