A very classy banner. For a girl not known for her class. Ass, yes. Class, no.

Type of Site: Performer
Address: www.enterbelladonna.com 
Price: 
$19.95/7-day trial; $34.95/month
Date of Review: 
October, 2006
Pornreports Rating: 

    

Review:

We felt a bit conflicted going into this one. As you know, we don't much care for the "official sites" of professional pornstars. They tend to just be impersonal storefronts where all you get is some scenes from their movies, little interaction, and virtually no web-only content they're producing exclusively for their site. On the other hand, we are really big Belladonna fans. She reminds us a bit of Jeanna Fine in the way her performance takes every scene up a notch even though she's not a glamorous (at least in the conventional way) porn goddess. Though that comparison only goes so far. Jeanna was a great talker. Bella doesn't do as much of that, but she is an electric physical performer. Even when she's not the center of attention she never gives up on a scene and keeps working it in the background.

Plus she's an unbelievably dirty freak. Absolutely the equal of any of the Internet's extreme queens, like Holly. So when we came to review Enter Belladonna (nice name, by the way) we were really hoping her site wouldn't disappoint.

For the most part it doesn't. If you're a big Bella fan you're going to get a lot of her here, all available for download in QuickTime format video with a very respectable playback of 1600 kb/s and 480x360 (that's for the highest quality available; there are two other options for people with slower connections). Now most of these videos are from Bella's studio films, and they all seem to come from her Evil Angel co-productions (Fetish Fanatics, Bella's Fucking Girls, Evil Pink, etc.), thoug this site is not part of the Evil Angel network (the group of sites headlined by Buttman.com). When we visited she had 19 DVDs up, broken down into scenes. This is the major content area of the site, so if you are a really big Bella fan and already own all of these movies this site is not going to be such a great deal. However, if you don't have these titles it is very worthwhile since we haven't seen them available anywhere else. 

The rest of the site is just so-so. There is a section of "web-only" material but it is mostly made up of photo galleries. The pictures in these galleries are pretty disappointing. We looked at quite a few galleries and they all seemed to be only 500x750. We were expecting something a bit bigger. Navigation and functionality was also hit-and-miss. In the fetish section there was only one "bdsm" clip listed, but you'll see semi-bdsm action elsewhere. Under "watersports" there were only 11 photo galleries of Bella pissing but no video. However, if you check out the cam show archive you'll find two high quality videos of Bella pissing. So there's stuff in various places where you might not expect it. We also got a disturbing number of error messages for a site that's been going now for at least three years. In the About Me section clicking on the "bio" link only brought up a "couldn't execute query" message. It was a message that we got a few times in this area. Also the Forum link didn't seem to be working at all, but merely bumped us out to the main entry page.

Is this a personal site? Not very, though it does score a lot higher in this regard than most pornstar sites. There were some nice extras like interesting prizes offered in her contests (Bella's original "ass art," drawn with a marker stuck in her shithole), the gallery of "girls caught" (caught pissing, that is), and an index of five audio clips of Bella farting after anal sex (yeah, thanks for that). And there are a number of behind-the-scenes photo galleries of Bella around the house, at appearances, on the road, etc. So that's not bad.

We were a little concerned though at the updates for some of these more personal extras. As far as breaking down the DVDs, that's coming along nicely, if at an irregular pace (18 scenes added in the month before our visit, but only one in the month after). As for the other stuff, we weren't so sure. The "In the News" page hadn't updated in over two years. There were no cam shows scheduled, and the archives only had 10. Now granted these were much better than the usual camshow shit. They're actually good quality home movies. But only 10 in three years?

So we started out conflicted and that's where we ended up. This is a good collection of all of Bella's most recent studio work, but this is material which hardcore fans of Bella will probably already be familiar with. It has some nice personal galleries, but not a lot. Video quality is very good but picture quality is disappointing. Updates are frequent but also erratic. The monthly membership is definitely expensive, but when we got the trial rate (which is also expensive) it gave us full access.

Good, but just short of very good. Though we would recommend it to those of you who aren't that familiar with Bella's work and are curious to see what all the fuss is about.

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