Asylum: The Review
If we had watched Asylum without any film credits and had never seen star Erik Rhodes we probably wouldn't know that it was a Falcon film.--it's that much of a departure from the Falcon "brand". It's dark, creepy, has a very prominent fetish feel, and for the most part works very well. There are a few weak plot points and it's much too short (never thought we'd say that about any of today's porn flicks) but the overall strengths of new faces and an elaborate setting more than make up it.
Asylum takes place in a real former mental hospital (see Falcon's Haunted Asylum) and where reporter Erik Rhodes sneaks in to do investigating on the facility. It all happens after hours so he's able to move about and witness all manner of bizarre activity---mostly experimentation and mental torture of the inmates by the staff. How Rhodes sneaks in is a bit macabre but it sets the tone for the rest of the flick.
Erik Rhodes is sneaked in via the morgue with the help of the janitor played by Leo Giamani. Rhodes pays him off monetarily but Leo wants ore than bucks. So naturally they have a flip-flop scene right there in the morgue. It was actually the first time we've seen Leo with more than a few lines. And you know what? He does a decent job and his voice is very sexy---it would be a shame if someone as muscular and hung wound up having a dumbshit voice. The two have a hot scene together although we wish Rhodes' salty tongue was directed towards dirty sex talk as opposed to tough-guy expletives. And Leo Giamani has come a long way since he first started doing erotica and looked tentative.
Then Erik Rhodes takes his video camera to record some of the secret abuse. He spies on a resident TJ Hawke having fun with long plastic tubes, colored liquids and patient Dominic Pacifico on a table with his legs in stirrups. It may start off looking like torture but it looks like Pacifico enjoys every second.
Next up is Diesel Washington as a guard who taunts one of the patients in a padded cell. The patient is Ryan Raz who has some kind of addiction to dildos. Washington brings a jumbo back of dildos into the cell and dangles them in front of Raz as the prelude to a game of mental torture and hot sex. As always Diesel Washington relishes his role as a nasty top and Ryan Raz gets to act over the top since he's playing a kook.
The final sex scene (yes, we told you it was short) is a three-way with Erik Rhodes, Ty Colt & Rod Daily.
Rhodes spies on Ty Colt (although the scene is dark so it's not that clear) and gets caught, with doctors Colt & Daily having a little fun experimenting on him with electricity. Naturally it's a turn on for all and they have an old-fashioned gangbang. Ty Colt is great eye candy and has a deep-voiced sexiness that works as a nice contrast to his young jock look but he's a little stiff in the acting department. That said he can work on that since he's hot in this sex scene---he's stiff where it counts.
The abrupt ending leads one to believe that there could be a sequel to Asylum although we've heard nothing to that effect. It was probably hard enough to get use of the hospital location as is. As for the title "star" of this film, it really is used to good effect creating the proper horrific ambiance for the video. As we mentioned above there's a non-Falcon feel to Asylum that works well and that the studio might consider doing more often.
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