Can a porn movie be scary and sexy at the same time? It can if you're director Michael Raven and you’re at the helm of The Visitors - one of the spookiest adult features I have ever seen.

There’s a lot to admire about The Visitors DVD release, but let’s start with the movie itself. This is a simple story, shot on what appears to be a modest budget (or at least a mid-range one), but yet it’s one of the best adult releases of 2006. Why, you ask? Story...plain and simple. Raven, who often lets his music video style get the best of him, doesn’t bombard the viewer with too many quick cuts or fancy visuals. He lets the story drive the movie, and we all appreciate that.

Also, Raven makes the extremely smart move of never giving us a direct look at the aliens...they exist in the shadows (aptly, Raven originally wanted to call this movie “The Shadow People”), and because we never get to see exactly what they look like or find out their true purpose, it makes the movie that much more scary. As any horror filmmaker worth his salt will tell you, a movie monster is much more terrifying when you don’t let the audience see it...that’s because the monster we create in our mind’s eye is almost always much more terrifying than anything a filmmaker could put on-screen.

But hey, you want to know about the sex, right? Raven’s story doesn’t skimp on the erotic action, with five boy/girl scenes and one alien abduction involving star Kimberly Kane and an alien probe. Remember those horror movies from the 80s where having sex on camera also meant that you were next on the serial killer’s menu? Raven does a similar thing here, where shortly after the sex, the participants are abducted. So after the “moans and groans,” get ready for some additional screaming.

As if the film alone wasn’t enough reason to pick this one up, Wicked Pictures has gone all-out with the bonus features, providing a second DVD in this set that is just loaded with material (and some pretty nifty menus, to boot). The second DVD is divided up into four different sections: “Classified Recon,” “Analysis Database,” “Auxiliary Stimulus,” and “Intelligence Report”.

The “Classified Recon” section is full of behind the scenes material, starting with a 24-minute making-of featurette entitled Incident At Desert City. “Analysis Database” is where you’ll find all the sexually-themed bonus material, starting with a 15-minute look at some of the sex in the movie from the crew’s point of view. The “Auxiliary Stimulus” section of Disc 2 contains 3-minutes worth of bloopers/outtakes from the movie. “Intelligence Report” is the area of Disc 2 where you’ll find all the slide shows, with separate sections for the female stars, the sex scenes, the overall movie, and behind the scenes photos. Cast biographies are also located in this section.

If there’s a downside to The Visitors, it’s that the movie leaves you wanting more. Who are these mysterious aliens? Where do they come from? What do they want? The truth is still out there, but until Wicked decides to green-light a sequel, we’ll have this release of The Visitors for those late nights when we’re looking to be both aroused and scared at the same time.