 Pulse Ships Vivid-Alt's Bad Luck
Betties
Vivid-Alt director Octavio Winkytiki (Man's Ruin, Rebelle Rousers) is back with a new
feature called The Bad Luck Betties. "It’s about a gang of former models who are sick and tired of all the
Hollywood bullshit, so they decide to run one of the busiest drug-dealing intersections
under the East L.A. freeway interchange,” Winkytiki told AVN. "I got so upset by
the East L.A. interchange that I decided to make a movie about it!”
The Bad Luck Betties stars Smokin' Mary
Jane as the leader of the downtown girl gang, with Mika Tan, Bianca Dagger and Marie Luv
as her switchblade sisters.
"Visually, I was going for a '50s
pulp novel look," the director continued. "Like the men’s adventure
magazines; it’s all very noir, with a lot of hard lighting and shadows. I was also
very much inspired by the sets of 'West Side Story'; I really love musicals, so the art
direction and visuals are like a high school production of 'West Side Story' without a lot
of choreographed dancing."
The story-oriented porn feature runs a
full hour without the sex scenes. The hardcore footage combines the rigors of contemporary
gonzo fare with Irving Klaw-styled fetishism.
"We’ve got a double-penetration
scene with Mika Tan, and newcomer Pinky Lee pulled off a pretty good anal scene,"
said Winkytiki. "Pinky used to be a ballerina, so she combined a lot of it into the
scene itself with the big splits and the leg extensions, so it’s a lot of fun
watching that. I also have a very 60s stag loop catfight with Mary Jane and Paige Richards
with hair-pulling and wrestling. It was a lot of fun to shoot – we did a lot of leg
and stocking things."
The director also noted the movie's
"very strong emphasis on music." L.A.-based label Wild Records contributed
to the score with tracks from numerous rockabilly and garage bands on its roster. Several
of the bands will perform at a release party for the movie next Thursday.
"The soundtrack was a very big
collaborative effort," he said. "It's quirky, fun stuff."
The Bad Luck Betties DVD release is packed with bonus
material including a making-of featurette, video blogs, behind-the-scenes footage, deleted
scenes, a bonus soundtrack CD and more.
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