Two Moon Junction

Music is wonderful, camera work is outstanding, and the sex scenes increase in intensity throughout the film. The plot is simply a Southern pot-boiler about Sherilyn Fenn trying to chose between her vanilla fiancee and the ultra-hot carnival guy who makes her engines run (he looks like Michael Hutchence of INXS on steroids!). Throw in Louise Fletcher as a wise and iron-fisted grandmother who wants to see her make the "right" choice, and she'll kill anybody to make sure it happens! Also included are choice cameos by Kristy McNicol as a bi-sexual party girl, and Tattoo from Fantasy Island in his last role! It's a hot hoot!

No special features here, but the DVD is a vast improvement over the video. Zalman King movies rely on visuals and music, so this is the only way to watch! Definitely worth the price of admission if you like your erotica served with sexy saxophones and white clothes everywhere! For some reason EVERY character in the movie wheres WHITE constantly. They must have spent most of the budget on bleach! Also watch for a pre-teen Milla Jovovich making an appearance as one of the little sisters.

For [the money] you'll have a sensual blast!


If Truman Capote wrote softcore skin flicks   July 28, 2005
Brent A. Anthonisen (Alpharetta, GA, USA)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful

...quick, think of as many Southern (by this I mean American Deep South) stereotypes as you can. Now imagine a series of down-side-of-their-career actors (and I'm talking Oscar winners, here...Louise Fletcher, Burl Ives) supporting then-unknowns Sherilyn Fenn and Richard Tyson whose main selling points are that they look absolutely smoking hot wearing nothing at all with the proper lighting and a hint of vaseline on the camera lens.

With that in mind, I shamelessly offer this, the only softcore movie that I think enough of to actually own. It's basically a trashy romance novel come to life...the plot is as predictable as anyone could ever expect, and character development is...well, there IS a reason for nudity in a film like this, after all. The love scenes are of course scorching hot and terrifically filmed (Zalman King could be considered the Francis Ford Coppola of this genre, after all), and Richard Tyson is so completely over-the-top as a carnival worker with a SERIOUS Jim Morrison complex that it is hard not to be entertained. Kristy McNicol provides a mild diversion (as well as fashion tips involving rouge and angora sweaters that should be helpful to SOMEONE), the aforementioned Ives and Fletcher are suitably (if not unintentionally comically) menacing, and just when you think things couldn't possibly get any stranger there's Herve Villechaize as a cheapskate traveling carnival owner and all of a sudden we're watching MTV's "The Surreal Life", except the nude scenes aren't blurred out this time.

"Two Moon Junction" is campy, trashy, perhaps even exploitative, but it is also quite accomplished within its genre. You're probably not watching this with the hope of experiencing master thespianism (that's THESPianism) anyway, so sit back, unplug your brain for an hour and a half, and take it all in. And don't worry about watching this as a "date movie", either...I have yet to meet a woman who hasn't seen this movie and who doesn't like it at least as much as I do. That alone should be sufficient recommendation for you to check it out.


An erotic guilty pleasure!!   January 9, 2001
Scott Sloan (Colorado Springs, Co. USA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful

My wife was the person who recommended this movie to me, and needless to say I was quite happy with the result. Two Moon Junction is sexy, and satisfying for the both the male, and female viewers. The on screen couple of Tyson, and Fenn have smouldering chemistry, and their love scenes were quite sensual, and filled with heat. Nice cameo by Louise Fletcher who i always love to see in a overpowering and menacing role. No this movie is not rocket science, but it is well worth an evenings entertainment. No one has mentioned the cool ending, and hope that you will give it a watch.


a true coming of age movie   May 6, 2001
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

I saw this movie the summer after graduating from college while I was trying to choose between marrying a law student or dumping him for a summer with a construction worker. I was living with a sorority sister and she and I both LOVED this movie (I still regret not finding out which scenes she liked best). Needless to say, Fenn's choice, as a sorority belle, of a respectable marriage or lust with a carny, sidetracked temporarily by Kristy McNichol, really spoke to me. It got me hooked onto soft-core porn, especially those with bi-experimental themes. And gave me a whole new respect for southern belles. This is a classic and a must-see for any curious woman who still loves her men.