“Masquerade ball” is taken literally in Oh Man! Studios’ tale of sex, self-importance and the supernatural, titled Masque. Brett Matthews is “Prospero,” a prudish prince of Wall Street who, fearing infection from a plague sweeping the land, invites 11 of his closest and most trusted friends to join him locked away from the world and all its sins. There they can “live their lives in quiet restraint.”

To commemorate the start of their new monastic life, he throws a costume party. In order to keep the goings-on “tasteful,” he forbids anyone to wear the lusty color red. Sound familiar? To anyone who’s ever taken a high school literature class it should – it’s the plot of Edgar Allan Poe’s classic “The Masque of the Red Death.” In writer/director Jett Blakk’s imaginative update, the virus is called “The Red Sex” because it quickly causes those infected to “joyously succumb to acts of carnality with disturbing urgency.”

The costumes are grand, gothic and worn by a passel of porn’s most gorgeous guys. At midnight, however, Prospero notices that a mysterious 13th member has joined the already unsettling celebration of celibacy, and he’s wearing little more than a scarlet hat, cape and ruby-hued mask as a disguise. Gliding silently through the party guests, the otherworldly outsider softly touches each, immediately beginning their decent into a malestrom of nut-busting and butt-thrusting that makes up the bulk of the film.

We’re not kept waiting long to discover who the interloper is, though. It’s Jacob Slader, and he, too, discards what there is of his outfit just like everyone else.

Basically an all-sex feature, Masque is refreshingly smart and skillfully produced – not to mention it sizzles in all the right places! Feature-length orgies risk having all the bits run together, but there are quite a few genuinely prick-thickening moments to be experienced here nonetheless. Among them is watching Andrew Addams suck two cocks at the same time; however, even he’s outdone by Danny Lopez, who manages to cram a phenomenal three bulging blue-veiners down his gullet!

Starting out dressed like an Egyptian pharaoh, Chris Dano slams Danny’s lively little love-hole like he’s trying to crack the long studied “riddle of the sphincter.” Shortly after, Zackery Pierce rings Antonio’s bells while getting his own keister devoured by hairy horn-dog Ty Hudson. The way Zack turns around and sticks it to Ty is pretty eye-popping, too – especially when Hud the hunk spews his goo while Pierce continues drilling deeper and deeper into his beefy behind. Changing partners again, Hudson subjects Sean Steele to some fierce fornicating and, at one point, even picks him up while doing it!

Finally, the ball butter really starts churning, leading to a spunk-drenched showdown that has all those assembled standing over Jacob, taking turns coating his mouthwatering torso in the rich, creamy nectar of their loins. Slader finally gives their puritanical host his much deserved “cum” uppance by setting his long pent-up passions free.

Twinks, daddies, muscled, slender, furry or smooth, this dreamy bakers dozen of brawny dudes encompasses a wide variety of masculine types that will please every sexual taste, and the action is every bit as astounding as you’d expect from them! The costumes are an elegant starting point to disrobe from, and the near-psychedelic set by Cream Soda is in an interesting, albeit loose, interpretation of the multicolored rooms so key in the original version.

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HIT THE STRATOSPHERE ***

Oh Man! Studios

Directed and written by Jett Blakk

Starring: Brett Matthews, Jacob Slater, Zackery Pierce, Nick Mazzaro, Ty Hudson, Corbin Mich-aels, Chris Dano, The Dicksman, Scott Wild, Andrew Addams, Sean Steel, Antonio York and Danny Lopez