# Sexecutioner (1998)

### reviewed by
Brian Koller

    Sexecutioner (1998)

    Grade: 53

Like several other cable channels, Cinemax shows soft porn films late at night. As you would expect, most of these aren't very good. Made quickly with a low budget, acting, script, story and sets are secondary to presenting erotic cinematography featuring the bodies of some very beautiful women.

"Sexecutioner", at first glance, seems like just another one of these male fantasy skin flicks, which hardly anybody bothers to see from beginning to end. (They come in the middle, so to speak.) The cast is full of no-names. The plot is ridiculous and seems fabricated to throw in lengthy gratuitous sex scenes. There's some occasional bad acting here as well.

The 'story' has Mr. X taking a gig as executioner for a California penitentiary. X is dressed from head to toe in a black robe, with only eyes showing. Before throwing the switch to the electric chair, X insists on spending some quality time alone with the doomed death row inmates. At which time, it is revealed that Mr. X is actually Alexandra (Jennifer Thomas), a beautiful woman who proceeds to tease and torture the convicts. These include mass murderer Melnick (Robert M. Shaw, who gives the best performance), cannibal Decker (Kenny McCabe) and fiance Swanson (C. Johnston). There's also subplots involving the publicity-hungry warden (Skip Dumas), and his guards, drunken Hank (Bob Cain) and single mother Wanda (Loryn Miller). Jamaica Charley has a good cameo as an erotic dancer.

But besides the obvious quality of the writhing bodies of the female leads, there's something else that's good about the obscure soft porn film "Sexecutioner". It's the writing and direction served up by J.T. Finch, who throws in plenty of cynical, black humor. And while the sex scenes generally detract from the film's momentum, there is at least an attempt to incorporate them within the plot.

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