DAC quote taken from lukeford.com:

"Gregory Dark hit his stride with New Wave Hookers 2... one of my favorite adult movies along with John Leslie's Raw Meat and Radley Metzger's Misty Beethoven. Gregory is not influential. Few people understand his stuff because it's so dark and intellectual."


So, unbenownst to him I once met David Aaron Clark in 93 at an Annie Sprinkle performance in NYC. He seemed cool for a fat raincoat creep journalist, but there was an air of arrogance that emanated from him like creepy b.o. Of course, he was covering the "event" for Screw at that time, but to me reading Screw was like staring at the scrawl on bathroom stalls. Meaning, I never really bothered to buy it b/c who would stoopidly drop good 'ol dirty dough scratched together for glossy pink cooze glints in all color porn magazines for Al Slobstein’s over-priced perverted N.Y. Post w/ some insights to sleaze and personal ads for city call girls which meant zilch in the suburbs. Basically, it was an overpriced Village Voice about sex. BORING!
Eventually, as his bio sez Clark moved out to Frisco and started directing. One of his "works" I glanced at was Poison Candy mainly b/c I liked Eden Rae, so all you really need to know about that "movie" was it has awful camera work and banal sex plus that idiot Kid Vegas. It made me hit eject in a New York second. The only other abomination I saw of his was Salome De Luxxx, I don't know why, but the pretentiously moronic name alone should have stopped me...
Anyway, onto the task at hand and not sully this Gregory Dark defence w/ Clark's hapless antics, but much of today's extreme porn and over the top gonzo owes more to Dark (unconsciously maybe) in subject matter and towards pushing the envelope of taboo to extensions of boundries that reflect the current frustrations of a culture constantly hurtling on the highways towards decline which is great for depravity. Dark had already hit his high water mark w/ the original New Wave Hookers and it IS the BEST porn movie of all time shot on film and meant to be watched on a big screen in murky Deuce-like theaters through cig smoke haze and foul lube in the air. Sure, I only saw it on early VHS, but it still brought that sleazy vibe described above to my sunroom at night shades pulled tight. Sadly, years later I’d think New Wave Hookers 2 was a disaster actually though his perverse fascination w/ the psychological facets of his performers through brilliantly scripted likewise visually skewed scenarios he got the most even out of the least motivated whores around. The bare bones thing perverts probably grasped on a primal level about Dark was his evil eye for detail and ability to capture his subjects in action through the growing artistic contempt of his final years in porn aptly revealed in The Shocking Truth 2 w/ gal pal dominatrix Star Chandler. Ironically, one his last works yet his BEST gonzo movie right before he ditched porn towards greener pasture$ in made for MTV videos. Yeah, I thought Rob Black's early movies aped Dark's style, but that irreverant maniac Black has lost his touch since then. Don't worry, he'll find it again hopefully through Salome aka Kami.