Starring: Carolyn La Croix, Sarah Ann De Vaul, Cheryl McKenna

Produced by Barbara Behr

Ah, the great outdoors. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and scantily clad women are screaming in pain. This is the setting for The Escape, a blast from the past (I think 1985) produced by California Star. And while the editing is sometimes suspect and the movie contains constant annoying background music, this is one of my personal favorites, even though I'm not really into outdoor scenes.

The actresses are attractive enough, but what really sells the movie are the convincing reactions to the tortures, particularly one truly unforgettable scene toward the end.

The movie begins with two women, blonde Jeannie and brunette Carlie, fleeing from the Wolfbend Prison wearing gray prison sweatsuits and running through the woods. Actually it's more like a brisk walk, like that moronic Olympic sport of "walking."

They stumble across a wooden cabin and break in. Lo and behold, a hot brunette with big 1970s hair is indulging in some self-bondage on her bed. One arm and one leg are secured to the bed with leather straps while her other hand is free to masturbate under her white panties.

The two fugitives quickly subdue her and learn that she knows of a shack deeper in the woods where they can hide out. The brunette is now rope gagged with packing, her wrists are tied to the bedframe above her head. So are her ankles, leaving her silky smooth legs completely spread and her panty-encased pussy propped up for the taking. Jeannie and Carlie strip and start rubbing their captive's pussy as she squeals and pleads with those sexy brown eyes.

The totally naked fugitives, in their southern drawls, explain their plans.

"Let's make her suck us off."

"Sure baby. Go for it."

They look and act like they could be escaped prisoners in a southern, trailer-trash sort of way. Their bodies are not as svelte as their victim's, nor are they as pretty, but they seemed to grow on me. I kept picturing them as groupies for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

They start licking the southern belle's thighs and nipples. But she is starting to enjoy it. To end all that pleasure, Carlie grabs a belt and whips the victim's pussy. Unfortunately, we can't really see the impact because that damn Carlie's in the way. In fact, it seems that Carlie is actually smacking her hand with the belt to create the sound effects. However, the reactions from the brunette are nicely done.

After they remove the victim's gag, she nixes their carpet-munching idea, so she's regagged and lashed again so her "cunt will be on fire."

Carlie ends up straddling the brunette's face while Jeannie masturbates and rubs her rather large and natural breasts.

Suddenly, we're in the woods again, with Jeannie wearing a red one-piece dress and Carlie for some reason in rather unflattering bra and panties (or maybe it's just old-fashioned summer wear.) They lead their hostage with a crotchrope. She's still in the white camisole and rope gagged, with a belt cinched around her waist and arms. There's a nice closeup of the crotchrope being pulled and tugged through the sexy white panties.

The victim gets tied in a standing spreadeagle between two trees, with one tit exposed and still in high heels and crotchrope. Her husband, meanwhile, returns to the cabin and notices the discarded prison sweats.

More bad news is in store for his wife. She's tied on her back to a log, arms spread over her head, as the dykes taunt her. Carlie then whips her convincingly with a branch as Jeannie holds her head. Again, there's excellent struggling on the victim's part.

As hubby gives chase, the girls reach the shack. And naturally, at every dilapidated shack, there's a whip and lots of rope lying around. The wife is tied AOH on the porch. In between the verbal abuse, she gets fondled and whipped on the backside.

Hubby has caught up with them and witnesses the action. He does what any loving husband would do seeing his wife being tortured by two escaped convicts: He rubs his crotch, watches a bit more, and then analyzes the situation out loud.

"Dumb broads. Making their own diversion. Gotta get closer." (He appears to go the wrong way.)

After more whipping and fondling while hubby makes perhaps the slowest rescue attempt in history, the wife is now suspended by her arms and ankles so that once again, her muff (still in panties) is just sitting there waiting to be violated.

Somehow, hubby has gotten Carlie topless, tied her arms behind her back an applied a tight OTM gag. He prods her along by whipping her with a branch.

Jeannie, now topless in her undies, repeatedly threatens to split the wife's snatch open with a log. And I mean repeatedly. Instead of actually doing the deed, she babbles on and on until hubby points a gun to her head.

Jeannie gets suspended AOH with legs tied apart, topless and with a red OTM gag. Hubby whips her all over her body with branches as the leaves fly off. A fine scene indeed.

We switch to Carlie, suspended upside down, white OTM gag, hands secured behind her back and wearing only black panties. Payback is a bitch, and so is the wife. Now topless (a nice natural pair), the wife whips Carlie on the pussy, ass and legs as her victim tries to utter threats. Hubby is having his own fun by scratching Jeannie with a cattle-weaning instrument, which looks like a belt with nails sticking out of it.

As the wife continues whipping Carlie, Jeannie gets rehabilitated by being tied AOH and lifted off the ground by a crotchrope attached to a pulley. After some of this delicious torment, the husband threatens to rape her, but he doesn't because the crotchrope has made her horny and she's supposed to suffer.

Carlie gets tied spreadeagle on her back on some wooden boards. She's topless, in her black panties and OTM gag. Two ropes go over the gag and another over her neck to immobilize her head. Wifey has collected some bugs, and starts to slowly sprinkle some of the smaller ones, including daddy-long legs, on her former tormentor. Carlie's reaction is, well, incredible. As the bugs crawl over her arms and tits, her entire body buckles and she screams through the gag, proof that the bonds (and the horrific screams) are genuine.

The wife then dumps a cup of cockroaches on Carlie's chest, eliciting more screams that turn into sobs. But the topper comes when the wife grabs a handful of the critters, lifts Carlie's panties, rubs the bugs in her muff, and then lets the panties snap back into place. She leaves Carlie there writhing and screaming helplessly.

The wife then heads over to Jeannie, who is tied AOH to a post with rope and belts, crotchroped, OTM gagged, and with her knees bent so she's actually suspended. The southern belle and her husband take turns whipping and fondling the blonde.

Both Carlie and Jeannie end up suspended upside down and are forced to watch wife ride hubby. The sheriff arrives and thanks the wife for a job well done.

"The Escape" is a wild ride, particularly for people into outdoor scenes. The bondage is strict, the acting is passable, and the foul-mouthed women are attractive, particularly the wife, who I also recognized in some HOM stuff.

Sure, there are some flaws, like some uneven editing and silly dialogue. There's no rape, little onscreen tying and the women keep their panties on for almost the entire film. But the bug scene alone might quickly make you forget about any of the film's shortcomings. You'll view camping in a much different light--and you won't forget to bring a can of Raid.