Dan Hawke's latest release is DH40: Tormented Tart, and right away it's an improvement over the last one I saw from him, mainly because this one stars the lovely blonde Angelica Vamp. Like seemingly every other model in the "biz" today, she also sports a tattoo, but at least it's on her back shoulder and not nearly as omnipresent as others I've seen. The tape starts off as Dan drags her into his warehouse and handcuffs her hands to a beam above. He gags her with a red ball gag, and completely rips her dress off her body. Her panties are still on, but Dan knows what he wants done with those. After a bit of whipping to inspire her to open her mouth, he stuffs the panties in her mouth and seals them over with several strips of duct tape (yes!). Dan then hoists one of her legs off the ground and ties it to a rope through her crotch, even adding weights to the rope and then leaving her alone to balance on one leg for a while.
One major debit in this tape, and it simply has to be mentioned: Dan employs the "Dutch angle", in which the camera is turned sideways, far too often, especially in the otherwise fine opening scene. We have to watch a good deal of the action with our head at an angle, and then at times, Dan cuts to another Dutch angle going the other way, then sideways the other direction again, until I was getting whiplash from tilting my head back and forth! It's extremely annoying, and I honestly see no reason to shoot any of the action sideways; all it does is draw attention to itself and away from the action onscreen.
The next scene has Angelica (wearing clothing again, odd) bound on her stomach on a wooden crate. She is gagged with a bit gag, and her arms are chained behind her and attached to a beam on the ceiling, along with her legs. Dan then slowly hoists her off the ground and she is left to helplessly spin under her own weight. He keeps her up there for a while, and the scene might have benefited from some tighter editing. At one point we hear Hawke tell her, "Let us know when it's too much, okay?" This ruins the fantasy that this is a nonconsensual scene.
This is followed by a scene where she is tied on her knees, ankles tied together with her hands behind her back, wearing a black teddy and her mouth gagged with a ring gag. Dan exposes her breasts and runs a rope through her pussy lips and ties it out away from her, tightening it so that she has to deal with the strain around her crotch. Not much else happens; we just get to watch her struggle in bondage, and she's nice to look at.
Next up, Angelica is naked except for white heels and stockings, with her boobs tied up and her arms bound behind her. Her mouth is filled with a white ball gag. Dan lifts her onto a wooden horse, chaining her legs far apart so that all the weight is on her pussy. He then leaves her there to endure it for a while. The scene is too padded, but along the way, we're treated to a few nice close ups of drool dripping down from the ball gag between her lips.
The final scene is the best of the tape, and the main reason for getting this tape, IMO. Dan has Angelica lying naked on her back on a wooden "Y" rack, with her legs spread wide and locked in there with chains. Her wrists are cuffed over her head and she is gagged with a black ball gag. She is a lovely site indeed.
Dan ties a line around her nipples and secures it to a beam above her, pulling her nipples taut. Then he takes clamps and opens up her pussy lips, pulling the cords attached to the clamps away from her and tying them to her toes, one on each side.
With her all stretched and opened up, he tantalizes and tortures her pussy with a vibrator, moving it around until she is moaning and writhing her binds. She cums from the vibrator treatment, and struggles so much that she pulls out the lines from her nipples. So, to punish her, Dan replaces them with a whole slew of clothespins tightened around her breasts, finishing by applying the final pins to her nipples and pussy lips. After leaving her alone for a few minutes to suffer, he returns to torment her further as he slowly takes them off, showing off the nice marks left on her body. He tightens up the rack a bit more and leaves her stretched out as the tape ends.
Overall, there's lots of good stuff here, starting with a beautiful model and Dan's inventive bondage positions. And, like most of Hawke's work, it could benefit from tighter editing and especially, more competent direction. It was frustrating to watch early on but improves as it builds to its climax.