Influence: Emily Willis

Upon turning 18, the entitled Emily Willis is dismissed from her cushy home by her stepmother, who sees the young woman as a waste of potential. With Willis suddenly on her own, she finds herself a job selling vacuums door-to-door — a profession at which she excels by using her feminine wiles to her advantage. But when she happens upon Kayden Kross’ door, the young woman enters a world of sexual wonder that awakens something visceral inside her.

“Influence: Emily Willis” combines focused content from multiple Vixen brands to create a single vision. The film incorporates the Slayed, Deeper, Vixen, Blacked and Tushy brands with Willis (winner of XBIZ’s 2022 Best Performer Showcase Sex Scene alongside Mick Blue and Dante Colle) as the lead. Kross brings her excellent eye for visual storytelling and her impressive writing skills to this film, and she assembles an impressive cast to bring her tale to life.

Slayed is Vixen’s newly founded lesbian-centric brand, and the opening scene of this film is certainly a showcase for its content. There’s a lot of non-verbal storytelling that happens in the scene, with Kross and Willis both doing an excellent job of conveying the quiet intensity, curiosity and awakening that drives the opening act. There’s absolutely a BDSM vibe to this scene, but it’s not overly aggressive. The color palette of the scene screams lust and passion, and Willis’ face echoes those emotions from the moment Kross starts spanking her.

As she grows more comfortable in Kross’ world of carnal indulgence, Willis begins to realize what she’s missing by limiting herself to being Kross’ plaything. When she decides she’d like a sex puppy of her own, Kross realizes her protege is ready for the next step. She introduces her to Mick Blue, who will act as her manager, and effectively turns Willis loose on the world of debauchery. With her newfound agency, Willis charges full bore into her sexual liberty and has a rousing three-way with Blue and Dante Colle that sees both men absolutely wreck her. She gets throated, holed, DPed, and downright destroyed, and she can’t get enough. A gaping anal cream pie followed by a jackhammering facial caps the action and is everything Deeper stands for sexually. Willis’ mother reemerges as a foil for her, which propels the story from exposition to rising action. Willis must find her footing and learn to stand on her own, and who better to help her than Manuel Ferrara? Ferrara fucks Willis in a gorgeous pool, with the city skyline providing a mood setting backdrop. This is luxury sex at its finest, folks.

Blacked’s contribution to the tale is a gangbang featuring Willis getting used by Isiah Maxwell, Tee Reel, Rob Piper XXX and Anton Harden. Willis embraces her inner slut fully and completely, allowing the four studs to annihilate every available hole on her body in raunchy fashion. Choking, spitting, slapping, DP — it’s all here, and it serves as the “and she lived happily ever after” of the story.

The film presents an encore scene that allows the audience to see Willis’ life after embracing her true nature. We find her mentoring her own puppy Elsa Jean, who’s looking for a new manager to help her take the next step in her career. Willis has become a true teacher in her own right, and she guides Jean in the same way Kross once guided her. It’s a nice epilogue to the story, and hot damn, the sex is awesome too!

Willis certainly earned the opportunity to have a showcase feature, and she makes the most of her chance. This is her strongest acting performance and one of the best sexual performances of her career. Kross proves once again why she’s been collecting so much hardware at awards shows over the past few years; the woman knows how to direct fantastic porn.