Dark Alley

11 Mar 2023 Score 70 / 100 darkalley.com Not Mobile friendly


  • Videos 4 stars
  • Pictures 3 stars
  • Unique 4 stars
  • Size 4 stars
Review score 70
  • 2 stars Cost
  • 2 stars Updates
  • 3 stars Usability
  • 4 stars Claims
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Introduction to darkalley.com

Dark Alley offers streaming DVDs for men who are into piggier sex play plus a wide variety of bareback, piss, extreme ass play and fisting. Movies are from 24 more studios including American and European production houses. There are 1,086 full-length DVDs to keep you horned up. Daddies, leather men, muscle bears in raunchy fuck action.

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Since Last Review

  • Site added 22 DVDs
  • Updates have slowed

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Video info

Videos are streaming with option for pay to download.

1,086 full-length DVDs in MP4 format. Videos stream at 770x434, 2 to 3 speeds available. Quality varies from average to good. Movies run from 60 to over 120 minutes. Downloads cost extra.

Picture info

Each DVD page has 8 to 18 large-sized thumbnails. Thumbs can be saved individually as can full-sized versions at 450x253. No slideshows or zip files. 8 to 18 pics per set.

Site issues

Email subscription pop-over on tour. No update dates, so no way to know if, when or how regularly the site updates. No mention of what happens if you go over your minutes. Site is not optimized for mobiles.

Membership cost of Dark Alley

  • Monthly 100: $9.95 (100 minutes, recurring every 30 days)
  • Monthly 250: $19.95 (250 minutes, recurring every 30 days)
  • Monthly 500: $29.95 (500 minutes, recurring every 30 days)
  • One-time Charge: $79.95 (1000 minutes, valid for 6 months)
  • A La Carte: Join free and buy minutes $.25 per minute

Dark Alley Review

Dark Alley is a DVD production company that specializes in grittier, underground gay sex, and they're well known for their dirty bareback, gangbangs, and extreme ass play scenes. Founded in 2005, Dark Alley was run by real-life couple and gay porn stars Owen Hawk and Matthias von Fistenberg. I have no idea if they're still a couple, and while Hawk is still performing, I haven't seen von Fistenberg in a while. This site offers all Dark Alley DVD titles in a video-on-demand service (VOD) that uses a pay-per-minute model. But the site also offers DVDs from 24 other bareback and fetish sex studios including Treasure Island Media, Hot Desert Knights, Dick Wadd Media, Stallion Productions, SX Video, Wurstfilm and more. It's been over two years since we reviewed the site, so let's head back and see what's happening.

The men on this site largely have athletic to well-built physiques, so you can expect muscle bears, daddies, masculine men, leather men, muscled gay porn stars, and some jocks, and DarkAlley has a chub category with nine DVDs featuring heavier men. There's also a twink category with over 100 DVDs, some featuring cute, smooth and boyish guys, but you'll have to stretch your definition of twink as many are just guys in their twenties. There are quite a few men of color here, as well. The latest DVD is called "Award Show Orgy", and it includes gay porn stars Owen Hawk, Isaac X, Jimmy Fit, Boomer Banks, Derek Kage (he's fairly new), Jesse Stone, Alpha Wolfe, Colt Spence, and the late Tyler Roberts, who passed away in December 2022. So as you can see, it's a who's who of the gay porn world.

These videos take us into the underground world of nasty and kinky gay sex. You'll find BDSM, bareback sex and breeding, dildo play, double penetration, fisting, gangbangs, leather and dungeon play, orgies, pissing, skinheads and more. While some of the studios offer regular bareback suck and fuck action, others give us perverted action, too. Either way, be prepared to have your limits pushed and tested by Dark Alley's own titles.

Dark Alley offers 1,086 DVD titles that stream in MP4 format and come in two or three different speeds depending on the age of the scene. The player is sized at 770x434, and the system auto-detects the best speed for your set-up. The videos play smoothly, and the quality ranges from average to good. Some of the older scenes are over 15 years old, so while they're still enjoyable, they're not as crisp as the newer ones. Unlike other VOD systems, you can't watch standalone scenes here, but the site uses full-streaming servers so you can jump ahead or back in the full-length movies. The site does offers downloads; you'll have to pay extra for these (anywhere from $30 to $40 per DVD), and they come in multiple sizes from 640x360 to 1920x1080, although older scenes are only available in two smaller sizes with 854x480 being the largest. 

I wasn't able to play any of the videos on my Android phone. The site said it had a problem loading the player and suggested I click a link to load the old player, but that didn't work either. Honestly, Dark Alley hasn't been optimized for mobiles, so I wasn't surprised I had difficulty. One way around this is to visit Raw Fuck Club instead; it's the mothership of this company's group of sites, and while I can't guarantee that you'll find every Dark Alley DVD there, there are thousands of videos there and the site is mobile compatible. Also, many gay porn stars have their own channels where they upload their own content. They have a monthly membership option that gives you unlimited streaming access, and that's more generous that Dark Alley's 500-minute package for almost the same price. There are other plans available that give you discounts on downloads.

Each DVD's detail page has between eight to 18 good-sized thumbnails displaying in rows of two. These are good quality and preview the men and the action well. If you right-click them, you can save them individually at only 450x253, just slightly larger than the thumbnail itself. On these detail pages you'll also find juicy descriptions of the action, clickable performer and studio names, and themes, which are categories and niches.

I was disappointed that there are no model profiles. Clicking each performer's link gives you a page listing all of the DVDs they appear in, but there are no stats or information about them. Another drawback is the fact that there are no scene markers in the movies. While you may enjoy being able to watch the entire movie from start to finish, it would be nice to be able to zero in on a particular scene without hunting through the time line. 

The site doesn't date any of the movies, so it's hard to know if, when or how often DarkAlley adds DVDs. In our last review just over two years ago, we mentioned that "Michael Boston's Creampie" was a new release, but there have only been 22 DVDs added since then. If this reflects the true update schedule, then they're adding less than one DVD a month or have stopped updating. Again, Raw Fuck Club adds hundreds of new scenes every month, so if you're looking for newer content, check it out.

Aside from the mobile and updating issues, my main problem with Dark Alley is their pricing. They have three recurring options that give you 100 to 500 minutes a month. Their basic package of 100 minutes at $9.95 barely gives you enough time to watch one DVD. Likewise, their 500 minute package allows you to watch five 90-minute DVDs a month, not very generous for the serious video watcher. Also, there's no information in the site's terms that covers what happens when you reach your monthly allotment. By the way, when you first get to the tour, there's a pop-over covering the site suggesting you sign up for their email list, but you click "No,thanks" to close it.

Not to sound like a broken record, but Raw Fuck Club contains a lot of the Dark Alley content, and you can join for a flat monthly fee that gives you unlimited streaming. But the most exciting thing is that, for the past couple of years, Raw Fuck Club has gay porn performers uploading their own videos and you get to watch those too. You'll also get a new exclusive Raw Fuck Club scene each week and multiple gay porn star videos daily. On March 4 alone, they added just over 40 scenes, and this happens every day, so I highly recommend checking it out.  

Dark Alley has lots of nasty DVDs for men who are into barebacking, as well as piggier sex play and fetish action. The site has a total of 1,086 DVD titles from a variety of studios including American and European production houses; they probably still update, but not as often as they used to, and while the videos are offered as full DVDs, each offers multiple scenes. If you like bareback sex and fetish play and don't mind pay-per-minute sites, you'll want to check out Dark Alley.

Things we disliked

  • Pop-over on tour
  • Overtime charges aren't mentioned
  • Must pay extra for each downloads
  • Some videos aren't the best quality
  • No dates or update schedule listed
  • No information about models

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