The Chameleon (1989)
5/10
From a bygone era
6 June 2017
It is good that these old films are getting a re-release so that a new audience - and the old - can see them again. With big hair and big shoulder pads, this one can certainly be dated; think Dynasty and Dallas. Tom Byron must have spent as much time and money as the women on his big hair. This was a time when porn filmmakers almost made it mainstream. To my mind though, there was a problem - the sex. At least these films had a plot of sorts.

Marc (Tom Byron) and Diana (Tori Welles) are a couple with a problem. Diana can morph into any woman she wants to be in order to have sex with any man she fancies, but Marc is tiring of this lifestyle and he wants Diana to give it up. The film opens with Diana seeing a psychiatrist. In the meantime, she is still carrying on with her multiple affairs. There is a neat twist right at the end.

It is the sex in these films which for me, is the main stumbling block - it is still too much like porn. There is no subtlety and not much foreplay before the blow-jobs and the doggy-style sex. The first sex scene is April West getting it from the rear, so that sets the tone. In a restroom, Tori Welles, Victoria Paris and Peter North do an awesome threesome scene when he gives Tori a shower. Hopefully there was a proper shower nearby to wash it all off. Buck Adams and Victoria Paris start off missionary but then go doggy. Even when Marc and Diana get together it ends up doggy. Porn fans should not be disappointed with this film but it probably illustrates why porn failed to go mainstream - the porn industry was its own worst enemy.
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