Else Cinema review

Else Cinema review | Mr. Pink's Porn Reviews
MrPinks.com review date - 11/06/2023

Overview:
Part of the Erik Lust empire, Else Cinema takes a slightly different path to audience arousal than either Lust Cinema or XConfessions, opting for a softcore style that’s less sexually explicit but still profoundly exciting. Else Cinema began in 2005 and has since then amassed a hefty catalog of softcore titles both standalone and series. With a diverse cast of adult performers largely drawn from the European and American industries, and covering a wide range of gender identities and sexual identities, orientations, physical types, and erotic attitudes, Else Cinema is a compelling and artistic take on porn for the softcore set. The joy of sex shines brightly here but Else Cinema is also keen to explore the darker side of desire in beautifully crafted sex thrillers and character dramas. Promising its members, who pay as little as $7.99-a-month for access, a socially conscious, equitable, and performer-focused take on art porn, Else Cinema could be perfect for anyone wishing porn would chill with the anal gaping, endless cock shots, and tired tropes of old.

Pros:
Else Cinema comes from the mind (and office) of Erika Lust, where sensuality and eroticism sit very comfortably next to artistic ambition and character-driven scripts. A softcore take on the extended Lust catalog, Else Cinema makes a solid alternative to explicit porn, one suited to the artistically inclined viewer.

The performers seen in Else Cinema films cover a wide range of body types, sexual orientations, gender identities, and nationalities. Here you’ll find notable American pornstars working alongside lesser known European talents, plenty of real-life couples, and inspired erotic artists. The films themselves range from heterosexual hookups and all-male threesomes to orgies that include almost every kind of sexual identity.

Else Cinema presents its catalog in HD video streams hitting 720p and 1080p at their highest resolution. Streams play smoothly and offer good detail to showcase the artistically ambitious cinematography and production design. Like most of the Erika Lust catalog, Else Cinema sits right between erotically-focused porn and European art cinema.

Access to Else Cinema can cost as little as $7.99-a-month (in a 12 month subscription) or as much as $11.95 for a single month. For this price members receive streaming access to approximately 270 erotic films, 18 series (some licensed from other studios), and four erotic audio plays, as well as a live TV component that makes for an interesting way to discover something new.

Cons:
Else Cinema does not appear to host any exclusive content and instead opts for softcore re-edits of existing Lust titles available elsewhere. This is a little disappointing as creating high quality softcore porn requires more than just a tighter, shorter, less explicit edit. Else Cinema still delivers quality, but the lack of exclusive content may frustrate some viewers.

Video streams are capped at 1080p HD resolutions with no 4K options available. The high artistic quality and production standard of Else Cinema’s work makes the lack of 4K especially disappointing. 4K Ultra-HD would really allow this excellent content to look its best, if indeed it was originally shot in a UHD master format.

Other Erika Lust sites hide their download links behind a “we will email you a link upon request” system that, frankly, is already frustrating. The fact that Else Cinema offers no downloads whatsoever may just be the final straw for some prospective members still trying to decide whether or not to grab a membership.

Conclusion:
Most porn fans simply aren’t interested in softcore smut. That said, with Erika Lust at the helm, Else Cinema could just be the most compelling case for softcore ever. Great for women and couples who find mainstream porn’s relentless focus on explicit shots - the more explicit, the better - off-putting to say the least, Else Cinema does a very good job delivering erotic character-driven encounters not lacking intensity or passion. Videos are only available to stream, not download, and reach a good but hardly excellent 1080p HD max resolution. A few photos are thrown in for good measure but the focus here is squarely on streaming videos. Consider Else Cinema your softcore adult Netflix and you could be very easily satisfied with what’s on offer, especially if your taste is far more diverse than the porno mainstream. If you’re after a truly complete adult entertainment package, Else Cinema probably won’t fit the bill.