Yes, this Surrender flick is not as good as The Exotic House Of Wax or Lolita 2000 but the girls are so sexy.If you're searching for good sex scenes, including a very good lesbian act, this movie is for you!!!
9 Reviews
Pretty fun
berw21 May 2002
Weird combination of titillating young men lust...
dwpollar7 October 2001
1st watched 10/7/2001 - 3 out of 10(Dir-Madison Monroe): Weird combination of titillating young men lust with wild-eyed young women's romantic thoughts are thrown together in what is ultimately an un-satisfying collaboration in this story. It is basically the tale of a women writer who is in a rut in her romance novelization direction and is told to take a vacation abroad to gather more ideas and winds up at a old inn that is known for spurring-up romance. She comes across an account of the beginnings of the inn and we are then thrown into the original story alongside this writer's current situation. This film is made by a company who thrives it's success on it's r' rated brand of porn and doesn't dissapoint if you're looking for that but the story is pretty trite and silly and missable.
Not very good.
dbrown-07020414 July 2004
Warning: Spoilers
This review contains spoilers.
Phantom Love is another take on the "european castle with a steamy past" story. A woman goes away on a vacation to get through a bout of writer's block. She is given a diary which chronicles the past sexual exploits of a woman who used to live in the castle. She reads the diary and we get to see the adventures played out live.
There are seven sex scenes. Six are boy/girl and one is girl/girl. None of them impressed me. The majority of each scene consisted of the participants removing each other's clothes and engaging in foreplay. To be fair, some of the foreplay was pretty good, especially in the lesbian scene. Lot's of good kissing there. But once they got to what should have been the hot and heavy action, it either wrapped up too quickly or everything was filmed almost entirely from the waist up. "Orgasms" were almost non-existent. This is softcore that you can watch with your grandmother.
There is much better stuff than this. I don't recommend this one.
Phantom Love is another take on the "european castle with a steamy past" story. A woman goes away on a vacation to get through a bout of writer's block. She is given a diary which chronicles the past sexual exploits of a woman who used to live in the castle. She reads the diary and we get to see the adventures played out live.
There are seven sex scenes. Six are boy/girl and one is girl/girl. None of them impressed me. The majority of each scene consisted of the participants removing each other's clothes and engaging in foreplay. To be fair, some of the foreplay was pretty good, especially in the lesbian scene. Lot's of good kissing there. But once they got to what should have been the hot and heavy action, it either wrapped up too quickly or everything was filmed almost entirely from the waist up. "Orgasms" were almost non-existent. This is softcore that you can watch with your grandmother.
There is much better stuff than this. I don't recommend this one.
Trying to have it both ways
lor_20 September 2020
Cable softcore romantic movie "Phantom Love" opens with a cornball damsel in distress story replete with crummy swordfight and timid sex scene, making fun in pantomime with voiceover the genre.
It turns out to be novelist Ellen handing in her latest pirate saga to her publisher, who advises her to get inspiration (suggesting his childhood stomping grounds of Florence, Italy as a travel location) to come up with some fresh ideas for future books.
Everything here is old-hat and flatly presented, even the structure of a romance novelist imagining and presenting her fictional work. Griffin Drew stars in the story within the story taken from a 19th Century journal Ellen reads (and cribs from) as the strong woman who must save her family estate, Tamarind Manor (where Ellen is currently staying in Hollywood-set Florence, a b&b).
Griffin must choose between marrying a wealthy man to save the family legacy or go with the man she loves. Along the way half a dozen softcore sex scenes are included.
This sort of entertainment was frequently produced for cable TV two decades ago, sometimes even casting big-name Adult stars like India Summer and Kaylani Lei, but has gone out of fashion, often replaced by censored versions of hardcore porn movies. It's easy to see why, given how stale and tired this movie is, almost acknowledged in the early scenes of self-mockery.
It turns out to be novelist Ellen handing in her latest pirate saga to her publisher, who advises her to get inspiration (suggesting his childhood stomping grounds of Florence, Italy as a travel location) to come up with some fresh ideas for future books.
Everything here is old-hat and flatly presented, even the structure of a romance novelist imagining and presenting her fictional work. Griffin Drew stars in the story within the story taken from a 19th Century journal Ellen reads (and cribs from) as the strong woman who must save her family estate, Tamarind Manor (where Ellen is currently staying in Hollywood-set Florence, a b&b).
Griffin must choose between marrying a wealthy man to save the family legacy or go with the man she loves. Along the way half a dozen softcore sex scenes are included.
This sort of entertainment was frequently produced for cable TV two decades ago, sometimes even casting big-name Adult stars like India Summer and Kaylani Lei, but has gone out of fashion, often replaced by censored versions of hardcore porn movies. It's easy to see why, given how stale and tired this movie is, almost acknowledged in the early scenes of self-mockery.
Very misleading title.
jpmarin-143171 February 2022
Warning: Spoilers
We're lead to believe that this movie takes place inside of a haunted mansion but it's not haunted at all. It's really just an ordinary mansion with a backstory about a woman who falls in love with the right guy. How many B movies like that already exist? Too many to count.
To love a ghost
kosmasp22 July 2022
Another title for the movie - maybe to get some more interest going for the movie itself? Who knows ... in Germany they remarket movies with different titles - sometimes getting a new audience to watch movies they didn't seemed interested in the first place.
Have to admit, not sure what the target audience is. Those who love romantic movies, but don't mind a modicum of flesh being shown? Is there such a thing? Even so, do they not have a standard, that the movie does not really reach? Maybe it is an invisible goal (no pun intended) ... you decide, but the story is quite weak at best, while the actors I reckon try their best. Not much saving grace in this one.
Have to admit, not sure what the target audience is. Those who love romantic movies, but don't mind a modicum of flesh being shown? Is there such a thing? Even so, do they not have a standard, that the movie does not really reach? Maybe it is an invisible goal (no pun intended) ... you decide, but the story is quite weak at best, while the actors I reckon try their best. Not much saving grace in this one.
Yum
frenzy-327 February 2002
I have seen plenty of Skinemax flicks in my life but this is the best one. All the women are hot. The scenes are long. A fantastic lesbian scene. Why do people that write comments about movies like this talk about plot or acting? If its late at night and you got the urge.......Phantom Love will take care of you.
Softcore Love Story
ladymidath14 March 2022
I saw this under the title of To Love A Ghost on Tubi. I thought it was going to be similar to Meridian but not as good. At least Meridian had decent acting and a better story. Still this isn't too bad but the acting is not great and while the sex scenes are entertaining, the rest of the story isn't.
Not one of Full Moon's best which is a shame because they can make some pretty good movies.
Not one of Full Moon's best which is a shame because they can make some pretty good movies.
A remarkable performance by Griffin Drew.......I give it a A.
Smooth B28 June 2001
"Phantom Love" really surprised me. I didn't think it would be as good as it ended up being. I'm gonna talk about various plot elements, so if you really.....REALLY want to see this movie, don't look down!
Michelle von Flotow stars as a romance novelist looking for inspiration for her next book. She takes a few days off and heads to Florence. The lady of the house leaves a book on her bed one night and she begins reading.....that's when the fun begins!
The rest of the movie is primarily in flashback form. Griffin Drew stars as a woman living during the turn of the century, struggling with the newly-christened women's movement of the era and the traditional values of her family. The book Michelle's character reads is her journal.
She comes back home from America after the death of a close relative. After she re-acquaints herself with her aunt and her three gorgeous cousins, she finds out she's been arranged to be married! How horrible! Although it's traditional for women in her country (it's never mentioned exactly what country, but I suppose it's a European country) to be in arranged marriages, she learned in America that a woman has control over her own destiny. She goes back and forth, learning about a man she doesn't even know and looking for true love in other places.
Yeah, I know....I made it sound like a "Lifetime Movie of the Week", but don't get me wrong. There's sex, sex, and even more sex in this flick. Michelle von Flotow only gets naked once, at the very beginning, but the rest of the girls (including Griffin) more than make up for that.
The fake-sounding accents remind me of "Hidden Beauties: The Awakening" (see my review of that flick for details) and the story wasn't all that bad.
Overall, it gets a well-deserved A.
Sex: A Women: A- Story: A Overall: A
Michelle von Flotow stars as a romance novelist looking for inspiration for her next book. She takes a few days off and heads to Florence. The lady of the house leaves a book on her bed one night and she begins reading.....that's when the fun begins!
The rest of the movie is primarily in flashback form. Griffin Drew stars as a woman living during the turn of the century, struggling with the newly-christened women's movement of the era and the traditional values of her family. The book Michelle's character reads is her journal.
She comes back home from America after the death of a close relative. After she re-acquaints herself with her aunt and her three gorgeous cousins, she finds out she's been arranged to be married! How horrible! Although it's traditional for women in her country (it's never mentioned exactly what country, but I suppose it's a European country) to be in arranged marriages, she learned in America that a woman has control over her own destiny. She goes back and forth, learning about a man she doesn't even know and looking for true love in other places.
Yeah, I know....I made it sound like a "Lifetime Movie of the Week", but don't get me wrong. There's sex, sex, and even more sex in this flick. Michelle von Flotow only gets naked once, at the very beginning, but the rest of the girls (including Griffin) more than make up for that.
The fake-sounding accents remind me of "Hidden Beauties: The Awakening" (see my review of that flick for details) and the story wasn't all that bad.
Overall, it gets a well-deserved A.
Sex: A Women: A- Story: A Overall: A
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