Enrapture

My review was written in February 1990 after watching the movie on Atlas video cassette.

Chuck Vincnt's thriller "Enrapture" has several okay audience hooks but peters out in the final reel. Video fans may give it a tumble as a direct-to-video title.

Kevin Thomsen (who also co-wrote the story with Vincent) is bland but believable as an aspiring Gotham actor who works as a chauffeur for rich banker Harvey Siegel. Siegel's sexy wife, Ona Simms, is mean to her hireling at first, but comes on to him after he sees her behaving in the backseat like a prostitute with other men.

Midway through the film she's found murdered, setting up some effective plot twists. In short order Thomsen loses his job, gets fired from an acting assignment, and his girlfriend (Deborah Blaisdell) walks out on him.

Climax involves several duplicitous characters but Vincent piles too many switches into the finale to be believable.

Simms, who uses the moniker Ona Zee in Adult videos, is quite effective as the femme fatale, though even she has trouble keeping a straight face when called upon to beat up Thomsen with a baseball bat.

Fans may be surprised to see Blaisdel nearly 50 pounds heavier than she was in Vincent's other recent release "Wildest Dreams". Billed via her more famous alternate handle Tracey Adams, the actres allows some good-natured kidding of her tons-of-fun new look in her recent Adult video release "The Adventures of Buttman".

Tech credits for the New York and Toronto lensed feature are okay, except for the cramped look to studio-lensed interiors.