'While Mortals Sleep' - MiamisFF Review
While Mortals Sleep is enthralling quick-fix horror that offers thrills and excitement with such a short runtime and left me truly impressed with all levels of filmmaking.

Join Girl Candy's lesbian masseuses in four sexy vignettes that give new meaning to the term "happy ending." Exotic beauty Dana Vespoli consoles hot young client Asa Akira about her impending breakup. But when Asa tells Dana she's hoping to "explore a bit" sexually, Dana gets the ball rolling with a massage that leaves nothing to the imagination. Meanwhile slender brunette Jasmine Jem (a certified masseuse in real life) helps shy blonde teen Chastity Lynn overcome her anxiety in the most sexually satisfying of ways. Gorgeous Skin Diamond offers some physical therapy to voluptuous beauty Sovereign Syre, and Shay Foxxx tricks young masseuse Star Nine into massaging much more than her lower back.
While Mortals Sleep is enthralling quick-fix horror that offers thrills and excitement with such a short runtime and left me truly impressed with all levels of filmmaking.
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