(2018) Porndermic DOCUMENTARY

Depicts the industry during the 1990's when HIV became an epidemic and became more of a serious problem than STD. And how the disease was able to be tracked, traced and located toward to one of it's own actors/ actresses. Conducted by former porn actress, Sharon Mitchell also employed for the screening by way of blood testing. We not only see interviews by people involve in the industry, but their reactions how some found out at the time the incurable disease may be one of their own.

Not too graphic in terms of nudity as it dwells much on interviews and the kind of detective work done on the possible culprit. We also find out how this one person is able to get away with it for so long, despite being in the industry for a very long time. The reactions both before and after and the result of this actor or actress currently doing. Insightful despite not a popular subject matter.

As a documentary this was okay. As a step back into adult videos this movie was awesome. There was a nice balance of fact, conjecture, and good ole gratuitous nudity to keep it interesting. After all, this was about porn. However, what this show was not about, was the description offered by Showtime and TMC. I quote from TMC "The porn addition epidemic is examined, including teenage cellphone users and an oil executive." There was absolutely no oil exec, no teenage cellphone use, or porn addition anywhere in the show. There was however a show about an epidemic, just not the one they described. The HIV epidemic in the porn industry was the main focus of this documentary, and the acknowledgment of patient zero, Marc Wallice.

The entirety of this documentary could have been told in about 15 minutes, but it's awkwardly stretched into an hour and a half. After the first 20 minutes it becomes painfully repetitive, and it's got an atrocious soundtrack to boot. A lot of the 'industry insiders' who are interviewed are so dumb it's hard to sympathise with them, let alone view them as credible sources of information. You also have to question the ethics of the filmmakers for uncritically giving a platform to some idiot who openly claims that AIDS is a government conspiracy to kill off "undesirables". Very classy! Save yourself the trouble and simply read the Wikipedia article called, "STDs in the Porn Industry". This amateurish garbage isn't worth your valuable time.