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Spanish Uprising
Rating: 3 Stars
Produced and written by Scott Masters. Directed by John Travis. Videography by Charles Stevens. Edited by Tom Cutter. Music by Rock Hard. Starring Rafael Carreras, Antonio Marquez, Lucas Foz, David Chelsea, Adrian Reyes, Mario Perez, Mario DeLazarius, Alejandro Dominguez, Luis Casas, Jose Luis Vasquez, Andres Colmenares, and Matheus Rocha.
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Rafael Carreras and Antonio Marquez are tooling across northern Spain in a red convertible. Their goals are the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the cathedral at Burgos, and a cruisy park. But deep in the countryside, near a remote, apparently abandoned villa, they run out of gas. Stranded, they try to decide what to do. Meanwhile, behind them, eerie presences in period costume peek through windows and around corners. As these ectoplasmic caballeros begin to materialize, they assume contemporary trappings like designer underwear and thong-shaped tan lines. They pursue sex with Marquez, Carreras, or one another; then they vanish. Succinctly describing one such encounter, Marquez notes, "He came and he went."

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I> Spanish Uprising bears some similarities to Cazzo Film's Among Men, another recent gay adult video where living human beings have sex with spirits in a haunted country house, but it has its own seductive qualities. Five duos involving Marquez or Carreras all have a poignant sexual urgency, although Carreras gains an edge in scenes with Adrian Reyes, whose openmouthed face gets inundated with spooge, and David Chelsea, who ejaculates while being fucked. A dream montage intercutting the exertions of three spirit couples doesn't quite work, but the episode that follows is unrelentingly erotic. Despite the failure of ghostly efforts to draw Marquez and Carreras into an orgy, the five-man bachannal that does take place is one of the few times John Travis's skill at directing group sex has ever seemed to rival Chi Chi LaRue's. Spain clearly agrees with Travis. Portions of this video and last year's Barcelona Bound contain his best work in years, and smolderingly elegant Rafael Carreras may well be the most alluring Travis protégé since young Jeff Stryker.