Sold Out / OOP
From the devious mind of filmmaker Shaun Costello comes these two rarities of gritty Times Square sleaze.
SUNNY:
Director Shaun Costello's glossy society drama drama follows high class prostitute, Sunny (Candida Royalle), who has been hired to manipulate a young society man to marry her as part of an inheritance scheme.
MORE THAN SISTERS:
In Shaun Costello's tribute to Vertigo and Sisters, a young woman has been experiencing terrifying nightmares set in an asylum. Her husband, powerless to help her, enlists the aid of a detective to investigate her past, hoping for a clue to her present visions, but what he uncovers is more shocking than anyone could imagine.
Directed by: Shaun Costello
Combined cast: Candida Royalle, Marlene Willoughby, Rick Iverson, Lynn Stevens, Jamie Gillis, Colleen Anderson, Eric Edwards, Robert Kerman
1979 / 161 minutes (combined) / Color / 1.85:1
Overall rating: 4.147059 / 5 from 34 reviews.
Sunny / More Than Sisters is a double feature from filmmaker Shaun Costello, featuring high class prostitute Sunny and a woman experiencing terrifying nightmares. Customers have mixed opinions, with some appreciating the gritty drama and others finding it a grotty porn-based fairytale.
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"Great quality for DVD--the image looks great. Nice to see the plot-heavy Hitchcock/DePalma homages in More Than Sisters. Looking forward to picking Sunny up on Blu-ray or 4k. Hopefully More Than Sisters won't be far behind."
"Shaun Costello double feature from VS ! Great commentary from the director on More than Sisters. Worth seeking out!"
"Sunny: Excellent Shaun Costello vehicle for Cadida Royale, with some standout scenes featuring Marlene Willoughby at her most theatric, this one's enormous fun. Sunny is hired by Willoughby to seduce her son, in order to better control him - he is the heir to his father's fortune, and, having got bored with mummy's sexual ministrations, is blowing it all on girls. So, Candida will be mother's proxy, bringing son to heel. Of course, Candida soon gets ideas of her own - what's to stop her marrying the son and keeping control for herself? Within this fun framework, we get some fantastically hot, well-shot scenes - Candida and son Rick Iverson fucking on opium while taking direction from a rich old european countess; Candida at the centre of an orgy during a porn photoshoot, a fabulous final orgy. There's also a fun incest angle, with Marlene blowing the chauffeur while her young son, unseen, sits watching in the car as part of his "education", mum seducing son as she catches him reading his first playboy, and a final scene where the two, masked at the orgy, are manipulated by Sunny into fucking each other, thereby removing Marlene's hold over her - except, of course, the son is already fully au fait with what's going on and promptly stands Sunny up at the altar. Hot, sexy, silly, fun, smart, and possibly Candida Royalle's best pre-Femme film. More Than Sisters: Actually pretty fun, with some hot sex, including anal, and a reasonably interesting plot, as psych Jamie Gillis tries to work out what's bothering crazy Colleen Anderson - turns out she has a psychic link with her seperated at birth twin sister, who got carted off to an insane asylum where the orderlies, nurses and doctors all got busy sexually abusing her. So yeah, there's some questionable scenes in this, though they aren't played too hard with regards to violence, and there's some rather hot scenes around it, particularly the initial consensual one between Anderson and her husband. We're also treated to various musical cues from Vertigo and Psycho (and they're really well used), as well as the always welcome presence of Marlene Willoughby as a mean old nurse. The plot does well enough at keeping interest even if it all wraps up a bit suddenly at the end, but hey ho, it's not the primary element at work here."
"Two solid efforts from the always dependable Shaun Costello. Quite like both but More Than Sisters really shines. As always if there’s a commentary with Costello, then it’s an automatic must own."
"Great double feature of Shaun Costello films. They're fairly ambitious films that VS has done a great job with, and Costello's commentary track is worth the price of admission for me."
"Adult Double Feature: Not really my cup of tea for adult cinema. Sunny is way too glossy and frivolous for my taste. More Than Sisters was more interesting but was extremely derivative of the De Palma thriller Sisters. Restoration work was well done as usual from VS."
"Love the double features"
"Great combo of erotic flicks in this one."
"sunny and funny"
"Worth owning just for Sunny alone. If you're a big Candida Royalle fan, as I am, then this is a must. She's friggin' adorable. I'm glad I picked this up before it sold out. Also, if you're a fan of the Taboo series, the plot of this should work for you."
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