Site: www.basementvideos.com Cost: $4.87/three days, $19.92/month Genres:: Amateurs, Classic, Straight, Toys Condoms: Sometimes One-line summary: There’s a reason they keep these videos in the basement. Reviewer: SexHerald Staff

Rating:

There is a major disconnect between what www.BasementVideos.com advertises and what they actually offer. It is billed as an amateur site, but is really more of a “classic” porn site. I expect an amateur site to give me video of girls that look just like the ones I pass on the street every day. These girls look a lot like the ones I passed on the street in 1987, complete with poofy lacquered bangs and legwarmers. If that’s what you’re into, fine. But not when you expect a modern amateur site.

The age of the videos they’ve dredged out of the basement means, if you haven’t guessed already, that there is little or no original video content on this site. The picture galleries are a different story. I haven’t seen most of the photo shoots before, and a few of them even seem like real amateurs. The quality of the photos is also much crisper than most of the video, which was shot before the advent of digital photography.

The best feature of this whole site, in my opinion, is the description of the video clips. The creators seem to realize that their product is second-rate. I mean, how else do you wind up with descriptions like this?

“Naughty school girl in knee-highs finds out why you never talk to strangers. They always end up stripping you down, eating you out, plowing your pussy, and never delivering the goods. At least that's been my experience. Special note: Come on man, you're in a porno, you have to have a money shot."

There are dozens of similar funny and apologetic descriptions, as well as many clips without any description at all. A sense of humor can only make up for so much, though. I was left with a clear sense of disappointment and deception.

Without the bait and switch, I would have given this site a much higher rating. There is, after all, a healthy market for surplus eighties porn. If that was what you expected, this would be a fairly run-of-the-mill outlet, and the video quality would be suitable. If you paid into this site expecting typical amateur content, though, you’d be furious.