4/10
With a mix of positive and negative aspects of the previous films and the addition of nice comedy touches, it sometimes feels like a crossover remake of the two films.
26 September 2020
I thought this movie was going to be just as bad as the previous one, but at least the story told is more fun and appealing, which worked to make it more than just a bunch of erotic scenes. Set in Los Angeles, this film begins with a situation worthy of a Brazilian soap opera: the rich and powerful banker Ivan Greer comes home thinking of finding his wife and comes face to face with his maid, with whom he has a torrid affair, having sex with the pool guy while his own wife, tired of knowing his affair, is quietly in the garden. The scene ends with a fight between husband and wife and the promiscuous maid being sent away with her two daughters, Violet and Ivy. Years later, Greer is a widower and Violet reappears to infiltrate the family home and try to avenge her mother.

Honestly, this film is far from good and sounds like a mixture of elements, good and bad, from the previous films. There is a lot of the first film here, in fact it is almost like a remake although it's not and try to associate with it by revealing that Ivy and Violet are sisters. This is a highly forced connection since it was quite evident in the first film that the girl's real name is not Ivy. The script is minimally logical and interesting, the characters are reasonably well-developed and there are nice touches of sexy humor in the middle of the story (that threesome between girls that never happened or the bondage session between Violet and Mr. Greer, just to mention some moments). As with the second film, the way Violet ends up living in that house is totally unbelievable. On the other hand, she is truly malevolent, but it's a malice justified by a past humiliation, which means that she doesn't get to have half the gratuitous perversity of the first film and doesn't justify what she does against her former childhood friend. Another problem with this film is the sudden and hurried ending: for example, it is never really clear what happens to Greer, although the film suggests his death.

The cast is effectively led by Jaime Pressly, in his first film. She's very beautiful, sexy and looks great naked. I don't know if the film left good memories for the actress, who has already proved to be quite conservative about more intimate scenes, but the fact is that she got the job done. Michael Des Barres is good at the role of Greer, a mature wealthy man with a thing for attractive young girls who seem to try to suppress. I also really liked Susan Tyrrell, and the way she's the first to notice the main character's bad intentions. Much less interesting was the work of Megan Edwards and Greg Vaughan, the first one being too focused on herself to look what was happening around her and the second being very undeveloped, being there only to be seduced and unfaithful.

Being a low budget film and with little money to spend, it's a totally forgettable film in technical aspects, in that it has everything you really need without having anything to stand out particularly for the positive: a warm and uninteresting cinematography, just like the sets and costumes, where only the dominatrix costume occasionally used by Pressly stands out. The film has no effects and the sound leaves a little to be desired in terms of quality. The soundtrack did not seduce me in the least either.
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