Tom Byron is famous for his many fine performances in the 1980s and longevity in Adult Cinema as both performer and later on as producer/director, but to paraphrase George Lucas, he went over to the Dark Side. "Whack Attack 5" is emblematic of the stream of garbage gonzo videos he cranked out in recent decades, loaded with very big names (in this case an unusually long roster of superstars, most of whom have fleeting cameos and are not involved in the sex footage) and merely recording on tape "dirty" porn.
This one was released by Rob Black & Lizzy Borden's label, famous for breaking boundaries of censorship back in the 1990s alongside Max Hardcore. Did this trio virtually end Adult Cinema's aspirations for respectability and creativity? Not altogether, but percentage-wise, yes. To use an analogy from the current American political system, the amount of quality porn was reduced to the "below 1%" category that well-meaning but unsuccessful presidential candidates acquire in the national polls, like Asa Hutchinson currently or my acquaintance from Cleveland at CWRU back in the day (before he became a Congressman), the one and only Dennis Kucinich.
A telling scene comes early on when one blowhard wrestler (when not shooting porn, dear Rob Black also was the mini-Vince McMahon of a gonzo wrestling association) tells us about all the dirty sex the actresses will perform for our pleasure, a verbal torrent of misogyny, which director Tom Byron then happily delivers. Emphasis is on anal sex and group sex, and it's sad to watch such talented people as Ashlyn Gere (reamed personally by Tom), Alan Evans, Alexandra Nice and Ava Vincent at career low points. Byron as director is about as untalented as the clown who made a very good living cranking out those softcore "GIrls Gone Wild" junkers at the same time that this hardcore video was released.
This one was released by Rob Black & Lizzy Borden's label, famous for breaking boundaries of censorship back in the 1990s alongside Max Hardcore. Did this trio virtually end Adult Cinema's aspirations for respectability and creativity? Not altogether, but percentage-wise, yes. To use an analogy from the current American political system, the amount of quality porn was reduced to the "below 1%" category that well-meaning but unsuccessful presidential candidates acquire in the national polls, like Asa Hutchinson currently or my acquaintance from Cleveland at CWRU back in the day (before he became a Congressman), the one and only Dennis Kucinich.
A telling scene comes early on when one blowhard wrestler (when not shooting porn, dear Rob Black also was the mini-Vince McMahon of a gonzo wrestling association) tells us about all the dirty sex the actresses will perform for our pleasure, a verbal torrent of misogyny, which director Tom Byron then happily delivers. Emphasis is on anal sex and group sex, and it's sad to watch such talented people as Ashlyn Gere (reamed personally by Tom), Alan Evans, Alexandra Nice and Ava Vincent at career low points. Byron as director is about as untalented as the clown who made a very good living cranking out those softcore "GIrls Gone Wild" junkers at the same time that this hardcore video was released.