Reviewed 2023-09-22 l Last update on 2023-09-22
Next Door Casting introduces you to some of the studio’s top models and gives you the audition tapes for hunky, hung, wannabe porn stars. It no longer updates, but your membership includes bonus access to thousands of ND Studios videos, with hardcore duos, bareback, pro stars, and newbies, and the guys you meet in the auditions are hot and good to watch. Your bonus channels update, there’s plenty to see, and offers on discounted memberships to get you started.
I was always a little sceptical about casting videos. I mean, it’s a guy who’s not done this before coming to chat to a camera, get out his dick and have a wank, isn’t it? Simple, and perhaps not very exciting. Then, however, I found Next Door Casting, and it changed my opinion. Yes, there are solo guys, and they are new to the porn biz, but there are also duos and ‘helping hand’ videos which are equally hot to view. Not only that, but the guys are also interviewed, and the chat is informal and laid back, so it’s fun to listen, wonder what lies beneath the pants, and then, later, see it. You also see it get hard, and you get lots of close-ups and longer shots, the guy in various positions, and you're guaranteed a cum shot ending too.
Like all the content from Next Door Studios, you have good quality viewing, with professionals behind the cameras and in this case, amateurs in front. Some of these guys go on to become top stars, or I should say ‘went on’ to become stars in the porn world, because the site stopped updating in 2020. If you go back to the start of the videos, in 2014, you’ll find mostly duos with Markie More showing new guys how to handle a cock and cum shot, and you’ll find other guys in there you may have seen on other Next Door Studios sites. More about them in a moment, because you can access them with this membership.
There are 76 Next Door Casting videos to view, and you’ll get straight to them when you log in. Each one can be streamed or downloaded (unless you are on the trial membership, which is streaming only), and you have a choice of resolutions and speeds, with Mp4 download files from 160p to 1080p HD. There were seven options per scene, and all of them were available in full HD. They run for a decent length of time and come with galleries holding around 50 shots each. These, you can save one at a time or take in a zip file.
So, 76 casting videos, a mix of solo and duos, with images, and all there for you to download or stream, but no more on their way. There’s got to be more to Next Door Casting than that, right? Right. You have access to other ND Studios sites and channels, and currently, there are 5,288 videos in the full videos list. There are 29 channels, including Next Door Films, Next Door Buddies, Next Door Taboo, and Next Door Raw. Head to the channels list and you will see what’s open to you, and from there, you can click away to stream or download, and find all manner of hot guys from 18 to 40 + in the studios’ classic gay hardcore. You'll even meet up with some of your audition guys if you look long enough, because there’s a lot to look through in this bonus collection.
Finding your way around isn’t going to be a problem. The side menu is thorough in that it gives you direct links to the videos, guys, channels, photos, your collected favourites and playlists, and then directs you to a store and help if you need it. There is also a sub-menu with a full category list and an alphabetical list of models if you know who you are looking for. The model index gives you links to each guy’s movies, though no information about them, except sometimes if they have a solo gallery, in which case, you might find some notes beside the images. There’s a general search box, navigation and finding content is easy, and you can arrange it in various ways too. You'll also find other filters along the way, such as the linked tag words on the video viewing pages.
These pages also hold interactive options for you, such as likes and rates, comments, and ‘add to favourites’ commands. There are usually decent descriptions of scenes and some of the casting guys, and other, well-placed and simple-to-use links and buttons. The video player goes full screen with no hassles, and I found downloads were nice and fast.
Next Door Casting allows you all this bonus content, but it’s not overpriced. You can take the trial membership for $1.00 for two days streaming only, but it comes back at a high price, as does the standard monthly membership, which starts at $14.95 for the first month and then reverts to $34.95 thereafter. The quarterly membership starts at $49.95 and returns at $55.95, and the annual one starts at $99.95 and comes back the next year at $119.95, a pretty standard amount for a gay porn network. Watch out for a cross sale on the payment page (uncheck it if you don't want the additional sign-up), but otherwise, it’s easy to sign up for Next Door Casting.
Next Door Casting stopped making its audition videos back in 2020 but has kept 76 of them here as an archive. It has also joined this site with others in its stable of studly sex tapes, and when you sign up here, you get to access thousands of professional gay porn movies that cover many subjects from amateurs to twinks to bears to taboo. It’s all excellent quality, well-made porn and stars top names, gorgeous bottom boys, and hung studs. You could say, it’s a site that’s well worth auditioning.
