Remember those old Buckshot videopacs? The ones that took several old film loops from the late seventies and put them into one video? The ones with butch stars like Bruno and Rod Mitchell? "SexPack One: Four Tight Tales" seems to be a tribute to those great old flicks, both in its division into four vignettes (we've defined that word for you before -- if you don't remember, look it up) and in its focus on lusty, all-out sex between macho, naturally hairy men. Considering the directors, you could hardly expect a twink production. The allusions to the old videopacs even extend to having each segment begin with an inter-title listing the title, cast and credits.
The first episode is called "Sweat," and opens with Dean Coulter and Matt McGrath in a locker room. Athletic fetishists, get ready! You'll all remember studly, beefy Dean from his Titan Media flicks. He has a little mustache here. Matt is something of a giant in comparison, at least eight inches taller, maybe more, unusually tall for a porn performer. Matt is less thickly built than Dean, but still muscular, and VERY hairy, maybe he was named for his thick "mat" of chest hair. He even has hair on his back (and a Prince Albert in his nice-sized dick). Dean goes to town on him, eating his ass and deep-throating him with lots of slurping and gagging noises. (We also see that one of them has brought a porno magazine to the gym. It's lying on the floor in the background. Now THAT'S an icebreaker if we've ever seen one: porno in the gym bag. You could read it while you're on the Stairmaster!) Matt eats Dean's luscious ass, and Dean buries his face in Matt's fur-lined crack. These guys really seem to be into each other, especially Dean. They even do a little 69 rimming routine. We get to see Matt putting on his condom before fucking (three cheers for eroticizing safer sex). Then hairy Matt gives Dean the fucking he's been wanting. There's some intense ballplay interspersed with the fucking. Matt squirts his load onto Dean's adoring face, and Dean shoots a perfectly round blob of cum onto his hand. Dean's cum is so white it looks like cold cream.
Vignette No. 2 is "Back Yard Buddies." (You know, even these titles sound like old seventies porn.) Mark Everett and R.J. Parker are making out on a nice park bench in somebody's backyard. They have medium builds, beards and are moderately hairy -- actually, they're a little hard to tell apart. (Unlike the first scene, which had no musical soundtrack, this scene has loud techno-dance-ish music in the background. Actually, more like the foreground, it's pretty loud (one more quality reminiscent of those old silent seventies flicks with cheesy disco soundtracks). So the two make out and exchange blowjobs. R.J. eats Mark's thoroughly hairy butt and then fucks him on the park bench and up against the gardening shed. A nice big load oozes out of Mark and drips to the ground as he's bent over being fucked. R.J.'s whole body goes into trembling rigors as he comes on Mark's hairy ass.
Next, big slab-o'-furry-beef Eric Evans meets a smaller slab-of-less-furry-beef, Brent Banes. Eric's been in the porn biz many years, but unlike a lot of stars who begin to look haggard after a couple of years, Eric just looks better and better. Brent isn't classically handsome, but he has a kind of square-jawed, rugged straight-boy face that goes well with his muscular body. He looks a little bit like Vin Diesel. They're both decked out in leather harnesses and they're in a black room with a big black cube in the middle at an appropriate height for fucking (although it seems a little hard for our tastes). Brent is wearing a funny chastity belt. It's a kind of shiny metal codpiece, which Eric uses a key to open so that he can start sucking Brent's stout but thick meat. There are close-ups of the tip of Eric's tongue darting in and out of Brent's gaping piss hole. Eric's chaps come down so Brent can give him a highly enthusiastic blowjob. Like scene No. 1, this scene has no music, just slurping and moaning and a little sex talk. Quite realistic. Eric gives a long rimming to Brent's puckered hole; Brent sucks Eric some more while feeling up Eric's big muscles. (You know, that's something often missing in porn. They get these guys with fantastic bodies, but nobody ever touches each other. How can they resist?) Eric gets his own hole rimmed and finger-fucked, and then he slips on a rubber and fucks Brent, who's very expressive about his enjoyment. Brent continues to feel up Eric's body during the fuck. Both come modestly.
"Hard at Work" features Jason Branch and Blake Harper playing with their tools, so to speak, in some kind of workroom. We're not quite sure what they were doing, but it involves a staple gun and a roll of wire. It looks like they're going to put hangers on some pictures, appropriate enough for gay boys. Robert Black is watching them through the little glass window in the door. He's standing outside whacking his meat. We hope this isn't a high-school woodshop. Robert has a few days growth of beard and a huge fat tool of his own. He's also way shorter than the other two. Jason and Blake make out and finally spot Robert the spy. Naturally, they bring him in with them. After feeling up Robert's nice body, he repays them by spitting on Jason's chest. Why, that ingrate! We suspect he's going to pay for that. His hands are tied together, and he watches Blake and Jason have sex for a while, but can't touch himself. Now THERE'S an appropriate punishment. Jason sucks Blake and finger-fucks him, then slips his big dick in. Blake, one of the industry's finest bottoms, actively impales himself on Jason's schlong, while casting lusty, meaningful glances at Robert (as if to say, "Don't you wish this was you?"). After a fairly long fuck, Robert is freed from his bonds to be on the bottom of a fuck-sandwich (Jason is the meat in the middle). Blake fucks Jason who fucks Robert. We just love versatility in our men. Then Blake fucks Robert for a while. Jason and Blake are both such expert fuckers -- they're just a pleasure to watch (and probably even more fun to do it with). Robert shoots a small pool of cum on his tummy while being fucked, and then Blake and Jason have a rare simultaneous orgasm all over his chest.
If you like this kind of muscular, hairy man, then you'll enjoy "SexPack One: Four Tight Tales" as much as your Emperor did. What's even more remarkable is that this is the first effort from Raging Stallion. Much of the credit for its success goes to videographers Lester Moore and Leif Gobo. The photography is excellent. Most shots encompass the entire bodies of both men, and there's a minimum of long, boring close-ups. It's a real pleasure to be able to see the faces and big muscles of the performers while they're in action. And the action is down and dirty. It doesn't have that staged feel to it that some productions do, and all the performers are enthusiastic and hunky. Except for scene No. 2, there's no music, and the natural slurping and moaning adds a lot to the realism of each scene. And there were a lot more than just four "tight tales" here. Nine to be exact. (Har har. Just a little imperial humor there.)
The DVD includes the full-length feature; a blooper with Brent Banes and Eric Evans; a photo gallery from "SexPack Two: A Kinky Twist"; multi-language main menus (English, French, German, Spanish); full-motion chapter selections (and sub-menu scene jumps); and no regional coding.
A VHS + DVD Review by The Porn Emperor
I had barely even read about Dean Coulter's Titan "farewell" video, when a package arrived from Big Daddy from a new outfit called Raging Stallion Studios. Located in San Francisco, Raging Stallion and its bad-ass brother, Centaurian Pictures, was formed by Chris Ward and J.D. Slater, promising "Modern Classics for the New Millennium." It also bagged a bunch of "exclusives" including Dean Coulter, Matt McGrath, and Mark Everett.
Sex Pack One - Four Tight Tales, is suppose to replicate the legendary "Bullet Packs" of the 1970s. Since I was watching Sesame Street in the 1970's, Ward explains on his Web site at www.ragingstallion.com that Bullet Packs had longer scenes, at 20 - 30 minutes each. This Sex Pack features 4 such scenes, each treated as a mini-movie, making a large cast in a production such as this easy to identify. (Ward scores points with the reviewer!)
First up is "Sweat," with Dean Coulter and Matt McGrath. Raging Stallion is very lucky to have these bucks in its stables, and this scene steams up the screen from the inside! There's no music in this scene, which takes place in a locker room setting, similar to Man's Country, (or so I have been told, wink), and the acoustics, coupled with the manly grunts and groans of Coulter and McGrath give added sizzle. Coulter looks buff and sexy, and McGrath's beefy frame towers over him. Coulter watches for daddy McGrath's approval as he slobbers hungrily on McGrath's pierced rod and then takes his balls and holds them in his cheek. Do you remember the Stretch Armstrong doll that you could stretch to it's limits? Coulter does that with McGrath's low-hangers. McGrath and Coulter try various positions as Coulter takes McGrath's rod, piercing and all. Its nice to finally see sex that makes the performers sweat!
"Back Yard Buddies," pairs Mark Everett and R.J. Parker. Parker spends a bit too much time sucking Everett's uninterested dick. (Of course, nothing compares to the six years I spent doing that same thing in my first relationship.) It's obvious that Everett is the bottom here. Don't get me wrong. These fellas make great eye candy, but Parker should have just gotten right down to fucking Everett, because they really shine when the action gets going. Parker is an expert at making a meal out of an ass sandwich. There is a great set-up in this scene that shows us Parker fucking Everett from behind. Everett is bent over, and he squirts a monster load, all the while Everett is thrusting. Parker seems to strain to get his load onto Everett's back.
Eric Evans and Brent Banes pair up for "Men on Black," a leather fantasy which finds the duo trussed up in requisite harnesses and chaps. Banes' wears some contraption that actually locks up his cock and balls. Evans terrorizes Banes' ass for a bit and then unleashes Banes meat from its pen. Banes has an average-length schlong, but it's thick, with a nice set of balls. Evans has no trouble being a good cocksucker, and Banes grunts his approval, as the camera moves in for an extreme close-up of Banes' glistening cock head. When it's time for Banes to rough house Evan's cock, again it's not extraordinary in the length department but thick, with low hangers that I swear look like sweet, ripe peaches. Evans finally fucks Banes and breaks into a sweat, pecs glistening under a carpet of thick dark fur.
"Hard at Work," features main squeezes Blake Harper and Jason Branch (Top and Bottom of 1999, respectively) teamed with Zeus Man 1999, Robert Black. Harper and Branch catch Black watching them through a window as they work. As punishment, they tie Black to a pipe, slap him around and decide a little ass spanking is in order. (Where was my call for this audition?) Branch spits in Black's crack and fingers his hole. Branch does most of the tough talking, "spread that ass boy...etc." This scene has no music, so there are plenty of natural sounds of bare hands slapping tight ass. While the scene is erotic, it never crosses over into the heavy S&M category. (Bondage lite?) Black is forced to watch from a distance as Branch spit shines Harper's pole and fingers his hairy chute. (What's the difference between Blake Harper and a bowling ball? You can only get three fingers in a bowling ball. Ba-dump-bum). Suddenly and unexplainably, Black gets free, and there is a hot shot from below of Branch fucking Black while Harper plows Branch. Black ends up on his back this time with Harper taking a turn at topping. (Again, I wonder how to get invited to a weekend at the Harper/Branch house.) Black squirts with Harper inside him. Black kneels, and Branch and Harper show impeccable timing by creaming together onto Black's chest. (Is it any wonder that these fellas are award-winners?)
With state-of-the-art equipment and digital technology and the editing talents of Chris Ward himself, Raging Stallion Studios is in a position to offer continued high-quality new product to the porn market. They are also the exclusive distributors for the old Chris Rage Videos. You can get all the information and some great pictures at www.ragingstallion.com. Ward tells me most of the action is in the can for Sex Pack Two - A Kinky Twist, again featuring Coulter. Ward may try to film one more scene before a May release. I know. How about a gay porn reviewer, who meets Matt McGrath, Dean Coulter and Eric Evans at an awards program in Chicago, and, well...
- Harry Bayer