How Betsy Rue didn’t become a bona fide Scream Queen is one of the greatest mysteries in recent cinema history. After her stunning performance in My Bloody Valentine 3-D you would’ve thought she’d become a household name. (Well, she IS a household name in the Lovell household.) Sadly, for whatever reason that didn’t happen. However, she did manage to find time to appear in this surprisingly not bad Found Footage horror flick set in the porn world.
Betsy stars as Ashley Saint, a porn star hesitant to appear on the “Lucky Bastard” website where fans get to live out their fantasy by fucking a real porn star. When the nerdy uptight fan (Jay Paulson) winds up shooting his wad too early, he is roundly humiliated by the crew. He then sets out to get revenge.
I’ve never been much for the Found Footage genre. However, one surefire way to get me to watch your Found Footage movie is to put Betsy Rue in there. Heck, making it a mock porno doesn’t hurt either. (The fact that it was produced by Jim Wynorski is another bonus.) It also helps that it moves fast and that there are a variety of cameras that the footage is culled from so we aren’t always relying on shaky-cam bullshit to tell the story.
At the heart of the film is Rue who gives a great performance. Not only can she play sexy and alluring, but she is also quite good during her more vulnerable scenes. As with My Bloody Valentine, she does some of her best acting while completely naked. She also kicks ass when she has to, and she keeps you watching even when the film is more or less going through the motions. Don McManus also delivers a fine performance as the asshole film director who pushes his amateur star over the edge.
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