Cousins (William Higgins)

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In-House Review - Feb 24 2011

"There's a bond between kin that master William Higgins truly understands. "Kissing cousins" do more than kiss, and anything goes when ten newcomers bare all for the ever present Higgins' cameras in this pre-condom classic. Billy and his parents visit his cousin Matt. The parents leave and the boys take turns with each other in the living room. Matt and Scott heat things up, while sitting by the pool. Lance and Tony are cleaning Cory's house and end up cleaning Cory instead. Matt, Steve, Brad and Rick have a foursome on a giant rock. Scott, Chris and John prove that they can have just as much fun in the sun as the other guys. They have a juicy threeway on a different rock. Chris gets a visit from Lee that leaves them both drenched in spunk. They head up to the mountains and wind up getting it on the Jeep. Matt takes a moment for himself as he jacks off outside."

By: Mr. Powerbar
In-House Review - Feb 24 2011

Cousins is one of director William Higgins' most popular and notorious - mainly because of Matt Ramsey, who went on to become straight-porn star Peter North. While his scenes are very good and effective (a poolside romp with a delivery man and a jack-off at the film's finale), it's the other scenes that will take your breath away. There's the squirm inducing scene with the lead's family early on (you know what's coming), an outdoor group slurp-n-fuck that ends with one of my all-time favorite mouthful-of-cum shots, a fuck on top of a jeep in full public view, and a camping expedition that ends in power fucks and beauty boys slathered in mancream. (Can you tell how much I love this movie?) Shot on film, Cousins was the first all-male film to have its own original stereo soundtrack. Feel free to use that fact as cocktail-hour trivia fodder at your next family gathering. Enough to make one give their own relatives a second glance, this majorly-winning classic is a must-add for every serious collector.

By: Keeneye Reeves
In-House Review - Feb 24 2011

Remastered and looking quite different than you may remember, Cousins is essential William Higgins, and one of the biggest-selling pre-condom films ever. The DVD looks terrific and will please most fans. It's still a tad dark at times (the campfire scene is a squinter), but that's more due to Higgins' use of natural lighting and that this was shot on film, not hi-def video. The photo gallery is a real gallery (not screenshots) of chromes shot during the film, and is a nice extra. Collection-worthy.

By: buddhawannabe

As the other reviewers indicate, this video is good all the way through, but the title, and the first half hour, promise something even better. The film starts out with Billy Gant and his family arriving from Wisconsin, to stay overnight with his cousin Matt Ramsey. There's five minutes of (non-sexual) family reunion, with dialogue that seems mostly improvised, but unselfconscious and with the feeling of reality, so that when everyone has gone to bed and Billy makes the moves on Matt, you can think of the situation as real, and Matt and Billy interact in a way that fits the situation--Matt beginning with "I'm not into this" but gradually coming (and cumming) around. Even after Billy leaves, the next day, and Matt lets himself go with the pizza delivery man, it feels like a continuation of the situation ("You won't believe this," Matt says, "but the first time I ever did this was with my cousin last night"). Then the video becomes more like the typical gay porn video of the 1980s, with unconnected incidents--or barely connected: we go from Matt and the pizza delivery man to the pizza delivery man's spoiled kept-boy brother, paying the housekeeping service for sex, but when we come back to Matt (for a surprisingly tender follow-up scene with the pizza boy), his adventures continue with no reference to the 'cousin' theme: apparently, even though he's just come out, Matt has no trouble doing it with a group on a mountaintop, and then, as other reviewers point out, Matt disappears :-( until five minutes from the end. I was looking forward to a continuing exploration of Matt's new-found sexuality, and (as per the title) a reunion with Billy for presumably more uninhibited sex. Who knows what happened--whether the actors weren't unto it, some producer-type said there was too much non-sexual action, or Higgins just lost interest in doing the kind of plot-heavy video that Jerry Douglas, for instance, would be doing in the 1990s. Absolutely a collectible and Matt's way hot, but you can't help thinking of the movie that might have been.

By: halfspidey

This is one of William Higgins' most popular pre-condom titles, and there's good reason why... It has beefcake Matt Ramsey (before he became straight porn star Peter North). And it has one uniformly hot sex scene after another. Building upon the saying " is best", the flick begins with cute blond Billy Gant visiting cousin Ramsey. Sharing a bed, one thing leads to another until Gant is happily riding Ramsey's thick "stallion". From there, the "" theme is dropped as Gant goes home (sadly, he doesn't appear anymore) & most of the flick follows Ramsey's sexcapades with other dudes. Like a true Higgins film, it has many great scenes, his trademark "slow motion" cumshots, and a staple of cute, cute boys. Another scorcher "in the William Higgins tradition!"