I guess I was expecting too much from LESBIAN PSYCHO ROOMMATES, hopeful the auteur Nica Noelle would deliver some fireworks on the level of that classic Judi Dench/Cate Blanchett thriller NOTES ON A SCANDAL. No such luck, but up to a point the plot twists kept me riveted to the screen.
Noelle's sleight of hand works marvelously in the setup and early reels of the piece, as cast-against-type meek Elexis Monroe gets a room in a house owned by Misty Stone and Lindsey Meadows. We later learn (and so does Elexis) that the couple are lesbians, though this is hardly a surprise since all the characters in these features are lesbians by definition.
First sex vignette is a flashback, of Misty Stone humping lovely Diane DeLuna, an Ali Larter type (now there's a mainstream actress who would be great in Adult lesbian videoland!). Scene ends with Misty going crazy -scaring the poor girl away. She did a really good job of it -DeLuna's brief career ended right there in real-life.
Diane was the previous boarder, and her clothes are still hanging in the closet, arousing (understandably) Elexis's and the audience's suspicions. Did Misty & Lindsey kill the poor girl? Or was she so frightened she just ran out and never came back for her belongings?
A week later we watch a Misty/Lindsey sex scene and so does Elexis, playing voyeuse peeking at them at their door.
SPOILER TIME:
Though Elexis has professed to be a naive virgin in her conversations with Lindsey, film takes a neat U-turn as we see Elexis at home entertaining a call girl, the utterly beautiful Aubrey Addams. Or is she just a pick-up? (Nica likes to keep us guessing.) Their lesbian tryst is quite stimulating but has a sinister twist in that Elexis has told AA that her name is Misty!
So the thriller is turned on its head as it now appears that demure Elexis, and not the deadly landlady duo, is the psycho. She tinkers with Lindsey's cell phone when she's not looking, and very soon Lindsey becomes convinced that her partner Misty is cheating on her, though latter vehemently denies it. Sure enough, Aubrey shows up at the door asking to see "Misty", and that's the last straw for Lindsey.
She literally throws Stone (credited as "Misty Brown" on screen confusingly) out of the house they own together, and good old Elexis is waiting to console her landlady. Finale is a strong sex scene for Lindsey and Elexis, but as usual Nica refuses to tidy up any plot threads at the end, just leaving them as a sexually satisfied new twosome as "THE END" card is slapped on the screen.
Will Aubrey return? What of Misty? And is EM murderous (or was Lindsey for that matter) or just a conniving lesbian who's got her gal? You can't tune in next week because this psychodrama from Noelle at Sweetheart Video is a one-off, and she's moved on to directing strictly boy/boy epics (one of which I'm sure will lift this same plot line).
Noelle's sleight of hand works marvelously in the setup and early reels of the piece, as cast-against-type meek Elexis Monroe gets a room in a house owned by Misty Stone and Lindsey Meadows. We later learn (and so does Elexis) that the couple are lesbians, though this is hardly a surprise since all the characters in these features are lesbians by definition.
First sex vignette is a flashback, of Misty Stone humping lovely Diane DeLuna, an Ali Larter type (now there's a mainstream actress who would be great in Adult lesbian videoland!). Scene ends with Misty going crazy -scaring the poor girl away. She did a really good job of it -DeLuna's brief career ended right there in real-life.
Diane was the previous boarder, and her clothes are still hanging in the closet, arousing (understandably) Elexis's and the audience's suspicions. Did Misty & Lindsey kill the poor girl? Or was she so frightened she just ran out and never came back for her belongings?
A week later we watch a Misty/Lindsey sex scene and so does Elexis, playing voyeuse peeking at them at their door.
SPOILER TIME:
Though Elexis has professed to be a naive virgin in her conversations with Lindsey, film takes a neat U-turn as we see Elexis at home entertaining a call girl, the utterly beautiful Aubrey Addams. Or is she just a pick-up? (Nica likes to keep us guessing.) Their lesbian tryst is quite stimulating but has a sinister twist in that Elexis has told AA that her name is Misty!
So the thriller is turned on its head as it now appears that demure Elexis, and not the deadly landlady duo, is the psycho. She tinkers with Lindsey's cell phone when she's not looking, and very soon Lindsey becomes convinced that her partner Misty is cheating on her, though latter vehemently denies it. Sure enough, Aubrey shows up at the door asking to see "Misty", and that's the last straw for Lindsey.
She literally throws Stone (credited as "Misty Brown" on screen confusingly) out of the house they own together, and good old Elexis is waiting to console her landlady. Finale is a strong sex scene for Lindsey and Elexis, but as usual Nica refuses to tidy up any plot threads at the end, just leaving them as a sexually satisfied new twosome as "THE END" card is slapped on the screen.
Will Aubrey return? What of Misty? And is EM murderous (or was Lindsey for that matter) or just a conniving lesbian who's got her gal? You can't tune in next week because this psychodrama from Noelle at Sweetheart Video is a one-off, and she's moved on to directing strictly boy/boy epics (one of which I'm sure will lift this same plot line).