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Put On Your Raincoats | Under the Bed (Aususi, Angel, Falardeau & Mills, 2019)

It looks like there's a release of this that consists of just the first two segments, but I'd suggest seeking out the third and fourth segment as they're quite a bit stronger. A few thoughts on each segment:

"Within": This one benefits from some diet Argento lighting, and plays out differently than you'd expect, considering it opens with an unkempt psycho in the woods skinning animals. There is some gore, but it's thankfully sufficiently divorced from the sex so as not to catch any hapless viewers mid-fap. To be perfectly honest once it gets to the sex it gets a bit repetitive, but I appreciate that it gives us a character who is enough of a horror movie fan to watch a maggoty, garishly lit Italian horror throwback.

"The Night They Came for Lacy": This is definitely the worst one. I suppose the sex when it happens is energetic, but the dialogue during the action barely seems related to the heroine's actions, and I had a hard time getting into this from the beginning due to how annoying I found the supporting characters. And while the cemetery set is nicely done, this is a lot more aesthetically generic on the whole.

"The Thing from the Lake": For a modern, digitally-short porno, I think this gets a good amount of visual texture from its forest environment, and thankfully avoids the generic dark grey look that a lot of modern porn opts for when aiming for a darker tone. While I wished the titular creature had more distinct makeup than green eyeshadow and gills, and I found the initial hetero encounter a bit generic, I think the subsequent lesbian encounter has a compelling sense of mystery and trepidation, filtered through the perspective of an uncertain heroine. Unlike the preceding segments, I found this genuinely erotic.

"Fertile": This one is directed by Bree Mills, and you can clearly sense her hand in the dramatic sturdiness here. The first third of this segment follows a woman trying to get pregnant and the resulting arguments with her husband. To be honest, I don't think Alina Lopez is entirely pulling off the material, but I appreciate the extent to which Mills commits to her pain. This also provides some emotional grounding for the subsequent turn to horror, when she seeks out experimental treatments from a shady doctor played by Angela White. White has many obvious charms as a performer, among which are her rather striking eyes, which she puts to great use finding sinister and seductive dimensions to her mad scientist character. If anyone wanted to make a porno giallo, or even a regular giallo, they would do well to cast her, is what I'm saying. Aesthetically, Mills' approach is a tad blunt, going from generic indie style to purple sheen to black and white, but I appreciate that the sex here has a clear sense of escalation and seems to work with the sense of horror instead of against it.

So this is definitely worth a look, although if you lack the patience for the whole thing, I'd suggest skipping to the third and fourth segment.