It was the type of movie director Scotty Fox had handled well in the past: story-driven, dialogue-heavy, with, for the time, state of the art video effects. He pulled it off with "See Thru," "Spanish Fly," and "The Cockateer," among many others, and had won an AVN award as Best Director for the latter. And it was his idea that Cash Markman write this porn version of "The Shadow," which had just been relaunched as a big screen movie. But when it came time to shoot "Long, Dark Shadow," in conjunction with another ambitious porno called "Kia Unmasked," Fox's heart was no longer in it. The casting of Christina Angel in the lead, with her poor English that made it almost impossible to understand anything she said, added to the problems. The video editors complained that numerous pages in the script were not represented on the tapes they had been given, and other key moments in the story's plot were marred by poor audio, or rushed production. They were helpless to "fix it in post." Legend was reluctant to release the movie, and held up its sister production, "Kia Unmasked," by nearly a year. When "Long, Dark Shadow" appeared in late 1994, the reviews were cruel. The sales were even worse. Scotty had already shot a few more movies for Legend, also below standard, and was moving toward his departure from porn and self-imposed exile to Europe.