Seduction Cinema is pretty hit or miss with some of their softcore erotica titles, but the ones that they play straight usually work out better than the parody releases, especially when they feature the lovely and talented Misty Mundae in the lead. Witness exhibit A - The Seduction Of Misty Mundae, a tribute to the softcore sleaze of old from such masters of skin flick movies as Nick Phillips and Joe Sarno.

The plot, which by admission only really exists to link together the randy set pieces, follows an eighteen year old girl named Misty (played by… Misty Mundae.. go figure) who takes a train ride out to visit her Aunt Inga (Julien Wells). Inga is a very sexually aware woman who is very much in touch with her carnal instincts and on the first night of her visit, Misty wakes up in the middle of the night only to hear her aunt letting her fingers do the walking while taking a relaxing bubble bath. Rather than turn away and pretend it never happened, like most of us would, Misty watches in wild eyed amazement as her aunt does the dirty deed – and she seems to become intrigued and aroused by it all.

When Misty wakes up the next morning, it's once again business as usual. The two girls spend the day getting to know one another better, going for lunch, hanging out, shopping – things like that. The more time she spends at her aunt's house the more Misty starts to learn from her, however and she's soon experimenting on herself using the technique she saw her aunt demonstrate the other night. To further blossom into womanhood she decides to fool around with the boy next door as well. What Misty is really after though, is the touch of another woman and the only woman around who might be able to make this happen for her is, you guessed it, Aunt Inga. Misty sets her plan into motion, but will her aunt take the bait or be repulsed by her unnatural and incestuous desires?

Director Michael Raso openly admits that Sarno's work influenced this picture, and you can see it from the opening scene right up until the last. More of an homage than a blatant rip off, however, Raso's movie is effective in evoking the ghosts of sex movies past. He lights the film with some obvious low budget flair and photographs the action slow enough and without the need for over the top flash bulb editing or gratuitous extreme close up shots. The movie looks really nice, really subtle, and even classy in spots.

Of course, you're not going to watch this movie for the cinematography and languid dreamlike pacing alone, right? Right! You want to see naked ladies, and naked ladies you shall see. The sex isn't of the hardcore variety here but at times it does come dangerously close. Wells and Mundae are both fine looking woman and turn in surprisingly realistic performances here. Misty in particular does an excellent job of portraying that doe-eyed innocence that has earned her so many fans over the last few years and it works really well in the context of the story glues all of the hot scenes together.

The DVD

Video:

The 1.78.1 anamorphic widescreen video on this release looks better than most Seduction Cinema titles as it was shot on film and not on video (or at least it sure looks that way). There's a bit of grain and a few spots where the lighting could have been a bit better but overall this is a pretty solid effort in the video department. Colors look good, black levels stay strong and flesh tones, as important as they are in a movie such as this, come through looking life like and natural – as it should be. There's some mild line shimmering in a few spots but no problems with mpeg compression artifacts and there's a reasonably good level of both foreground and background detail present in the image. Nice job.