Film: The Maddams Family (1993)
Director: Herschel Savage
Starring: Ona Zee, Mike Horner, Ron Jeremy
Written by: Cash Markman
Beyond function, I don’t really care about porn. I like the absurd stories and personalities which populated smut of the 70s, but otherwise it’s all interchangeable to me. I guess I’m of the opinion – in both life and in porn – that if a person doesn’t have anything interesting to say, then shut up, get to business, and stop trying to make yourself a star.
Still, there’s always been one dirty film which never fails to bring a smile to my face when it comes to mind: a wonderfully absurd parody of The Addams Family in which the family opens up a whorehouse. For some reason I’ve always found porn parody names to be hilarious (see: Forrest Hump, Spongebob Sorepants), and in its own Oscar Wilde-like wordplay Maddams Family delivers. The whole Addams clan gets new names: Morticia is now Whoreticia, Lurch becomes Crotch, Cousin It is, well, I’m sure you can guess. And that disembodied hand that was an Addams family hallmark – guess what it does.
The stars of the show, however, are Cortez, the Maddams patriarch, and moronic man-child Uncle Pester, played by Ron Jeremy. While Pester’s bumbling eroticism and comparisons of sex acts to ice cream are delightful, the swashbuckling Cortez is just brilliant. Actor Mike Horner could have coasted on a pinstripe suit, pencil mustache, pilfered lines, and a boner, but instead his Cortez runs on all cylinders: cracking wise about the arms industry, somersaulting around his backyard, competing in what is essentially a one-man fencing match with his Frankenstein butler, and engaging in some fine spastic humping. The man is gold.
I’ve always thought that porn actors are kind of like stand-up comedians, and that there ought to be an element of comedy involved in the act of screwing on camera. The Maddams Family seems to agree with me. I’ve seen a great many mainstream comedies that made me laugh far less than this dirty film. The ability to get off to it is a strong bonus.
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