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Porn Parodies Once Were King, But Now the Genre Is a Tough Sell By Rhett Pardon The arrival last year of Wicked Pictures’ porn lampoon, Captain Marvel XXX: An Axel Braun Parody, was eagerly anticipated by fans of Braun’s work. But those same fans, who seek out satire with their flesh, are seeing less and less of the adult film genre. Simply put: The parody market, riding a viable wave for almost a decade, isn’t what it used to be. Two of the top parody directors in the biz — Will Ryder and Braun — are finding the genre a tough sell, particularly because production money isn’t
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raining down on such titles and because so many of the takeoffs that mock some of Hollywood’s most iconic titles have already been done. “The parody genre will always have sentimental appeal because of the familiarity factor, but nobody is buying anymore,” Ryder told YNOT. “People were nostalgic about the TV shows of their youth, so it created quite a sensation for about a 10-year period to mix that with sex.” “Sadly, the porn audience, while bigger than ever
