Eric Edwards completes what was obviously a dream project by enhancing the story of the first movie, and adding some satisfying twists and turns of Ashlyn Gere's seeming mental breakdown. What is real? What is merely in her imagination? Long before director Chris Nolan patented this type of storytelling, Edwards does a pretty good job of sorting out and presenting complicated details concerning fantasy vs. Reality.
Several scenes from Part I are repeated here, along with star Ashlyn talking directly to the camera to set the context and explain what's happening. It's enough material to let Part II stand alone and make sense without the necessity of also watching Part I.
Movie opens with Gere out to get revenge on her publisher boss Peter North for suppressing her own writing career (not taking a woman seriously), which caused her to become a ghostwriter utilizing men to front for her, the guys serving sort of like Woody Allen in the blacklist drama "The Front".
But Edwards takes this one step further into fantasyland, as the major Front writer played by director Edwards himself turns out to be wholly fictitious, merely existing in Gere's fertile imagination. As in Part I of "Mirage" the theme of ghostwriting is mirrored in actual ghosts figuring in the narrative particularly in a ghost town out West that appears as part of the story.
Eroticism is of course central to this Adult film, and artfully integrated into the story as Gere is plagued by erotic dreams and nightmares. Especially interesting are the revelations, right through to the final scene, of questioning her reality altogether as events she dreams appear in the writings attributed to her or to her male alter egos. Is Gere's character real? (Obviously not in the sense she is merely a character in a porn film for starters!)
Britt Morgan and Tom Chapman (called Tom Thomas in the credits) are added to the cast for Part II as Gere's co-workers, prominent both in story and sexual content, while Nina Hartley, who stole Part I in an unnamed sex role returns in Part II playing a ghost as a saloon girl from the Old West who easily seduces Chapman, while Mike Horner takes on a new role at the end of Part I, important to Part iI.
Julian Keen is credited with composing and performing the musical score, which is quite varied and a major force in many scenes.
Several scenes from Part I are repeated here, along with star Ashlyn talking directly to the camera to set the context and explain what's happening. It's enough material to let Part II stand alone and make sense without the necessity of also watching Part I.
Movie opens with Gere out to get revenge on her publisher boss Peter North for suppressing her own writing career (not taking a woman seriously), which caused her to become a ghostwriter utilizing men to front for her, the guys serving sort of like Woody Allen in the blacklist drama "The Front".
But Edwards takes this one step further into fantasyland, as the major Front writer played by director Edwards himself turns out to be wholly fictitious, merely existing in Gere's fertile imagination. As in Part I of "Mirage" the theme of ghostwriting is mirrored in actual ghosts figuring in the narrative particularly in a ghost town out West that appears as part of the story.
Eroticism is of course central to this Adult film, and artfully integrated into the story as Gere is plagued by erotic dreams and nightmares. Especially interesting are the revelations, right through to the final scene, of questioning her reality altogether as events she dreams appear in the writings attributed to her or to her male alter egos. Is Gere's character real? (Obviously not in the sense she is merely a character in a porn film for starters!)
Britt Morgan and Tom Chapman (called Tom Thomas in the credits) are added to the cast for Part II as Gere's co-workers, prominent both in story and sexual content, while Nina Hartley, who stole Part I in an unnamed sex role returns in Part II playing a ghost as a saloon girl from the Old West who easily seduces Chapman, while Mike Horner takes on a new role at the end of Part I, important to Part iI.
Julian Keen is credited with composing and performing the musical score, which is quite varied and a major force in many scenes.