The attractive cast and photography (artificially staged in the studio) are impressive in the otherwise sloppy Antonio Adamo movie "House of Games", shot back to back (with overlapping cast) with "Sex Experiment" for Private Video.
Story, credited to house hack Barbara Brown (whose name is on dozens of Private releases) seems to have been made up afterwards as an afterthought. Bobbi Eden is the blonde beauty Alice (also pronouced in voiceover as Elise) working in bored fashion at a call center for a phone sex service. Her lookalike co-worker Kate (played by Nikki Sunn) disappears after a night of sex at a night club and Alice vaguely searches for her but leaves that strange disappearance a mystery at the end of the movie.
Eventually we see Steve Hooper, a guy married to striking redhead Donna Marie (both are British actors in the otherwise Continental cast) as head of a vaguely Satanic styled cult, so the viewer is left to think that Kate was the victim of foul play by the cult. Nearly all of the story is presented in voice-over attributed to Alice's character but not spoken by the actress -just added later.
I found Adamo (and Brown) quite annoying in their cavalier approach to characters and names -several have different names at different times in the movie -arbitrarily. Robert Rosenberg is the male lead by virtue of having so much sex with the ladies, and is playing Alice's boyfriend, at first called Bob but later definitievly referred to bey her as Mark. Similarly she calls Donna Marie Victoria" at first and changes it later; and a new girl at work is initially called Sophia but later definitely identified as Leah. All very confusing and either sloppy (most likely) or perhaps an in-joke by the filmmakers to test an audience they assume couldn't care less about anything other than watching the beautiful girls have anal sex plus plenty of double penetrations. Also, Adamo's trademark of the actresses looking at the camera during sex and especially after the cum shots is mandatory.
Oddest touch is that voyeurism is emphasized throughout, with guys at the club watching couples have sex, yet the movie is all about phone sex.
