Jerry Ross was a porn writer-producer who specialized in couples films that approximated real (mainstream) movies but with plenty of explicit sex included. This one starring John Leslie as a horny ghost is quite successful at providing content that could be called "family entertainment" if our society were truly open-minded, rather than Puritanical (and getting more so by the minute in the age of MAGA).
With cutesy, uncredited nude angels in Heaven watching the feckless humans misbehaving below (only Ginger Lynn is obviously identifiable), we witness Leslie's comical and often sexy antics as a ghost after he's killed on his motorcycle by reckless driver Eric Edwards, a hit and run. Edwards is excellent as a detestable cad, who spends the rest of the movie doing casting couch auditions with pretty young women for a role to host a late-night cable soft porn show titled "Midnight Fantasies".
An aspiring actress auditioning is star of the movie Desiree Lane, who's too timid to put out for Eric, but dates him anyway, while she's grieving for Leslie, who by coincidence was her guitarist boyfriend. After several plot twists and lots of sex, poetic justice has Eric dying when his Lincoln crashes over a cifff pursued by ghost Leslie, and the happy ending, not very credible but well-played by Eric, has Leslie living on in Eric's body for a lasting romance with Desiree.
Ross's script has Lesie visible as a ghost to only selected people, and errs in the finale with Eric's body not shown to have survived the fiery crash. But that's nitpicking -once the ghost gimmick is accepted, it's anything goes time.
My favorite scene is somewhat unique in movies: horny ghost Leslie has sex with Desiree's cue but bitchy roommate Kim Carson while Kim is asleep. The sex with a sleeper fetish (usually limited in movies to kinky fondling) is very well-directed by Tim McDonald, with moody half-lighting, and makes for an unusual (say, unnatural?) eroticism.
Part of what makes the film work is the casting of four talented leads, with both Leslie and Edwards 39 years old, while Kim and Desiree are 22. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.
With cutesy, uncredited nude angels in Heaven watching the feckless humans misbehaving below (only Ginger Lynn is obviously identifiable), we witness Leslie's comical and often sexy antics as a ghost after he's killed on his motorcycle by reckless driver Eric Edwards, a hit and run. Edwards is excellent as a detestable cad, who spends the rest of the movie doing casting couch auditions with pretty young women for a role to host a late-night cable soft porn show titled "Midnight Fantasies".
An aspiring actress auditioning is star of the movie Desiree Lane, who's too timid to put out for Eric, but dates him anyway, while she's grieving for Leslie, who by coincidence was her guitarist boyfriend. After several plot twists and lots of sex, poetic justice has Eric dying when his Lincoln crashes over a cifff pursued by ghost Leslie, and the happy ending, not very credible but well-played by Eric, has Leslie living on in Eric's body for a lasting romance with Desiree.
Ross's script has Lesie visible as a ghost to only selected people, and errs in the finale with Eric's body not shown to have survived the fiery crash. But that's nitpicking -once the ghost gimmick is accepted, it's anything goes time.
My favorite scene is somewhat unique in movies: horny ghost Leslie has sex with Desiree's cue but bitchy roommate Kim Carson while Kim is asleep. The sex with a sleeper fetish (usually limited in movies to kinky fondling) is very well-directed by Tim McDonald, with moody half-lighting, and makes for an unusual (say, unnatural?) eroticism.
Part of what makes the film work is the casting of four talented leads, with both Leslie and Edwards 39 years old, while Kim and Desiree are 22. Hint, hint, nudge, nudge.