Hidden Beauties (1999)

That was an excellent one.

A brilliant film that helped define a genre

A story that's too fascinating to pass by...

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

The plot, what little there is of it, bears more than a passing resemblance that famous old fairy tale, but there are three of them - and more besides. Thank you Surrender Cinema, you know what your customers want. Lord Isherwood has three hot chicks on the go, but when they find out they deal with him the only way three hot horny chicks know how. When the governess finds out, she condemns them to one hundred years sleep. When a group of Americans inherit the castle, the beauties are roused and aroused and ready to make up for lost time.The film itself is not going to win any awards but there is compensation in the form of the Surrender Cinema actresses. The sex scenes are the usual soft core stuff but there is plenty of it throughout the film including the three beauties taking a shower together. The connecting scenes could have done with a bit more research. Apparently, the national airline in England is Lufthansa, we only drive Trabants and we drive on the right hand side of the road. Oh yes, we still use the horse and cart. Oh well, you can't win them all.

These playboy model wannabes have great looks and step mechanically through the show. It's just too bad they don't have a good story or sharp direction to follow so the viewer can connect emotionally with the movie. Unlike other Surrender Cinema movies, the sex scenes look phony instead of creating a real impression. If the sound were turned on, I bet you could almost hear some guy say, "Stop, a minute so I can pull up my vanishing bikini g-string." I think about 10 minutes were wasted on atmospheric stock shots to set our characters in modern Hollywood and there is a shower scene between the three hidden beauties where only a lot of grinning and scrubbing takes place. You also might go blind watching a bright light scene with Nikki Fritz where Natasha reunites with Lord Isherwood.

Okay, the basic plot here is three gorgeous women are put under a 100-year spell and awaken, instantly horny and ready to ride anything that moves.That's it, and you know what....that's all you need.Sure, they try and put a barebones story together around that, but you don't need much more. The women in question have cute but fake-sounding accents...one sounds Irish, the other a mixture of Scottish and British, I dunno. Nikki Fritz is in this one too, faking her way through a European accent as well. They get naked a lot, which is good. Catalina and Michelle Hall (yup, that Michelle Hall) is in this one as well, rounding out a formidable cast of hot babes.The movie isn't too graining on the senses, as it lasts barely over an hour. It serves its purpose, dishing out a naked woman every three or four minutes. I just seen it again last night and it's amazing how much sex can be packed into a one hour movie, outside of a straight hardcore porno.I give it an A. Watch it for the skin and the cute accents, don't pay attention to the plot.

Three cheers to Sam Silver and Full Moon Entertainment for re-discovering this. For what it is...this movie delivers in spades. As an added plus, the musical score is surprisingly good - no kidding. I would have liked to see a more diverse cast, but the actresses they found did just fine.