[better]: Taboo+1+1980+imdb

The "story" is largely a framework for extended scenes shot on low-budget 16mm film. The dialogue is minimal, the acting is wooden by mainstream standards, and the lighting is famously flat. Yet, for fans of the genre, this aesthetic is the appeal. It captures a pre-AIDS, pre-Reagan-era rawness that later 1980s glamour productions (like those from Vivid or Wicked Pictures) would sanitize.

Enter the VCR.