Page 120 - AVN April 2019

THE POSSESSION OF
MRS. HYDE
AAAA 1/2
WICKED PICTURES
Wicked.com
DIRECTOR: Axel Braun
CAST: Avi Love, Reagan Foxx, Charlotte Stokely,
Kenna James, Victoria Voxxx, Seth Gamble,
Ramon Nomar, Alex Legend; Tom Byron, Jessica Drake,
Dustin Daring (Non-Sex Roles)
TIME: 146 Min.
CATEGORIES: ACTION/THRILLER
Adult movies reliably aspire to
be arousing. Others could be
described as exciting, amusing,
shocking—perhaps even touching.
But it’s a rare porn flick that qualifies
as haunting. And that emotional
effect sets this moody thriller apart.
We meet Valerie Hyde (Avi Love)
as she’s being interrogated by an
FBI agent (Jessica Drake); we flash
back to Valerie as an innocent girl
home from college—before she
began taking “medicine” from her
mom’s employer, Dr. Jekyll (Tom
Byron). As with the original Dr.
Jekyll, the formula allows the id to
dominate, and Love digs into the
role, allowing herself to become
almost feral with lust in sex scenes
with Ramon Nomar, Charlotte
Stokely and Edward Hyde (Seth
Gamble, going full sleazeball with a
pencil-thin mustache).
Of the five awards Mrs. Hyde won
at the 2019 AVN Awards, perhaps
the most significant was for Best
Screenplay, which director Axel
Braun shared with son Rikki and
father Lasse—a tribute to porn’s
most productive dynasty.
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