FORMAT: DVD
Martin Hewitt is Nick West, a radio call-in show host who offers his listeners intimate sex advice. Sometimes, the smooth-talking Nick gets so worked up during the show that he has phone sex with his listeners over the air, bringing them to orgasm as he tells them everything he’d like to do to them. He meets a stripper named Honey (Tracy Tweed, Shannon’s sister) in a bar and they immediately hit it off. She gets hassled by her possessive boss (David Carradine) and Nick intervenes and scares him and his goons off. Honey then rewards Nick with some hot sex. Later, they have sex in the studio while Nick is on the air. Afterwards, Nick wakes up to find Honey lying dead next to him. Wanted for murder, he goes on the lam and sets out to clear his name.
Night Rhythms is another solid erotic thriller from Gregory (Animals Instincts) Hippolyte (AKA: Gregory Dark). The saxophone-driven soundtrack, elegant cinematography (by Christopher Nolan’s future director of photography, Wally Pfister), and heavy-breathing, scantily clad, enormously bosomed cast help set the mood. I can’t say it’s a classic of its kind, but fans of the genre will certainly appreciate it.
The plot utilizes a standard template, but what makes it fun is the way Nick’s reputation precedes him. Even while on the run from desperate villains and pesky cops, women will drop everything just to test him out in the sack, and he is more than willing to oblige. This fuck-in-the-face-of-danger attitude is what gives Night Rhythms its charm. It’s not believable in any way, but who cares?
Hewitt is involved in nearly every sex scene. You have to wonder if he acted in this for free. I know I would’ve. There’s a great scene where he eludes the police with the help of two sexy strippers who take him back to their place for a scintillating three-way. His scenes with Tweed (one in a bar and the other in his studio where he ties her up and bangs her on his DJ console) are quite steamy.
The supporting cast is fun too. Carradine makes for an appropriately scummy villain, Sam J. (Flash Gordon) Jones puts in a fine turn as a detective, and Delia Sheppard is sexy as Nick’s producer. It takes a while before Sheppard gets in on the fun, but her hot romp with Deborah Driggs late in the picture is well worth the wait. Add in Julie Strain in an extended cameo as a horny housewife and you have a recipe for a saucy slice of late-night cable erotica.
AKA: Night Crimes.
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