The Creepers Family: Part 4

Girlfriends Films deserves much credit for reinvigorating the Lesbian Cinema genre over the past two decades, but this episode in a failed series for the label points up the company's weaknesses.

Girlfriends features generally are shot without a script (and rarely are any screen credits beyond the names of the actresses displayed), and the cast winging it is terrible and embarrassing here. The first reel or two consists of endless yammering by the soap opera's bad girl Angela Sommers, frequently getting stammered reactions from the rest of the cast as she insistently tells them what to do and spreads endless rumors.

The sort of confrontational dialog that dominates this feature was pioneered by Andy Warhol in the 1960s in his breakthrough films like "The Chelsea Girls", "Nude Restaurant" and "I, A Man", and was largely ridiculed at the time. But it has set the standard for thousands of untalented pornographers who rely on such drivel for their set-up scenes before moving on to the main event of explicit sex.

Keeping this from being an all-female cast is a brief appearance by the local priest Father Fogerty (an unidentified Marcus London type), who along with parishioner Kobe Lee is visiting star Zoey Holloway to encourage her to resist her lesbian tendencies. In prior episodes (the feature is preceded by a 1-minute recap featuring various actresses from Parts 1-3) we saw Zoey give in, and of course the final segment here will have her going Sapphic once more.

Much of the non-sex action has Angela and others name-dropping numerous characters who are absent from Part 4 but part of the ensemble story. Chief among these is Zoey's husband Claudio, off in Italy for an extended period to tend to business and family matters, and the wife will play while hubby's away.

Lee is a very poor actress, a refugee from the world of fetish videos, and whenever I see her name in the credits I expect an oriental beauty to show up rather than a plain, WASPy lady. Her mainstream credits are few and far between, later returning to the religious porn genre in the Girlsway opus "A Mother's Prayer". Sommers literally dominates their scene together, hardly a stretch for Lee the bondage girl.

The label's favorite ploy of May/December action is executed by Veronica Snow having at Charmane Star, a talented Asian actress who generally appears in boy/girl scenes. Angela sort of match-making the pairing is very awkwardly developed, again a victim of the improvised dialog expediency.

Heather Starlet brightens things up, gossiping with Shyla Jennings and then humping her in what is presumably the video's main scene for the fans, spotlighted them on the DVD cover.



A subplot of Angela scheming to have step-sister Zoey sell the house they're staying at (as Claudio isn't returning there anytime soon) leads to Zoey taking in a boarder, in the form of built-like-a-stripper Raquel Sieb, outfitted with glasses on as she is supposedly in town for a nursing studies seminar. An utterly pointless cameo (uncredited) by Syren DeMer is thrown in as Zoey greets the guest, leading to a finale of the mature ladies humping away, supposedly a first crack at lesbian love for Raquel that is immediately contradicted by her prowess in the Sapphic arts.