Blood Moon: Timberwolves 2

Director Steve Cruz marshals a pack of furred, primal studs for this terrific sequel to 2013’s “Timberwolves” as a pair of horny, hungry “wolf brothers” struggle to contain their appetites and literally fuck their way into all kinds of trouble.

The feature maintains a steady pace of excitement across six scenes (five duos and a threeway) and revisits and expands upon story threads from the original. Released near the beginning of the eligibility period for the 2021 XBIZ Awards, “Blood Moon” deservedly picked up several nominations, including Gay Movie of the Year.

Tech credits are particularly effective at setting the mood, including evocative lighting, editing, prosthetic makeup effects and the use of camera-mounted drone footage.

The cast of primal hunks are all similarly fit, muscled and hirsute — several are also heavily inked — and each is particularly well-cast by Cruz for their ability to turn up the heat. There isn’t a clunker scene in the bunch.

The marquee matchup is the XBIZ-nominated threesome featuring Boomer Banks, Jake Morgan and Logan Stevens. The studs are playing a game of strip poker which inevitably leads to sex. Stevens is a brawny slab of blond beefcake, while Banks is sensual, muscled, inked and very hung. Stevens’ oral worship of Banks’ thick python of a cock is drool-worthy; the fuck he delivers crackles with heat, particularly when the men flip roles and Banks gives Stevens a taste of his own medicine.

Their buddy Jake Morgan, lean and ruggedly handsome, watches them fuck and jerks himself to a satisfying climax. (He also bears a resemblance to legendary cocksman Jacob Slader.)

Dreamily handsome Adam Ramzi enjoys a seriously passionate suck-and-fuck on the couch with Ricky Larkin; Cruz’s attention to small details like a deep armpit sniff — all the better to exalt in male pheromones — lends the sex an added erotic punch. Besides being a fully dialed-in performer, Ramzi has the genuine acting chops to ably carry off his dialogue (and eventual transformation into a man-beast).

Larkin recurs opposite burly firecracker Riley Mitchel as he gives in to his sexual urges for a seriously sweat-soaked fuck on a plush leather couch. The vigorous ass-eating and blowjobs are particularly choice; after a crazy bang from a wild-eyed Larkin, Mitchel is thickly painted with seed.

Drake Masters plays one of the troubled wolf brothers and leaves a vivid impression in a rut with wholesome, butch beefcake Brian Bonds and later with bald, rugged stud Drew Sebastian. His oral-only hookup with Bonds is deliciously soaked with spit and vigorous ass-eating. Both men drop a voluminous river of cum. Later, Masters is taken in by Sebastian, a fellow man-beast, who offers sage advice and the use of his gorgeously thick, plus-sized cock. Their sweat-soaked fuck inside a tent is filled with grunting, growling intensity.

Alex Mecum (superhero-handsome, hung and machine-tooled for sex) and Sharok (brawny, passionate and quietly intense) are paired for a tasty power-exchange between two alphas; Sharok rides Mecum’s boner in a continual variety of positions as if he can’t get enough of it. The deep kissing, blowjobs and ass-eating, as in the rest of the feature, is performed by men who clearly enjoy every second.