Dan Hawke has a new release out, DH44: Wounding Wenona. It's about a hotshot Hollywood actress who gets caught shoplifting in an upscale department store, where she's found guilty and forced to spend the next year tied up and tortured by Dan to serve out her sentence...no, wait...that would be Wounding Winona...that's a completely different story. But it would make a hell of a movie, huh?
Nope, this is Wenona, with an "e", and she's a somewhat attractive brunette with an omnipresent tattoo on her left arm, who is brought into Dan's dungeon and tied with her hands over her head to a beam in a ceiling. There's some groping and nice verbal threatening by Dan and some indignant complaining by Wenona, so we're glad when he rips open her dress, tears off her panties and stuffs them into her mouth, sealing them in there with several swatches of duct tape. With her mouth now silent and her looks drastically improved, Dan then ties her on her knees, with her ankles tied together and lifted off the ground, forcing all her weight onto the tips of her knees, a most uncomfortable position. He then enhances her suffering by clamping clips onto her nipples and adding a weight to her nipple chain. She's then left to endure this position as Dan walks away.
The next scene has her laying on her back over a stool, and her wrists and ankles are loosely chained to the stool. She is naked except for gloves and pantyhose and is now ballgagged. A rope goes through her crotch and is tied above to the ceiling. Not much happens here, just several shots of her struggling in her chains, but again, the bondage is not particularly tight.
Dan follows this up by tying Wenona in a seated position on a wooden platform. Her wrists are tightly bound behind her and her legs spread wide, tied to the sides of the platform. She is now adorned with a thick collar and her mouth is filled with a ring gag. Dan then runs a chain from her collar onto the bottom the crate, forcing her to bend forward. He then further secures her in this position by tying a rope to her collar and tightening it to the ceiling above her, making her even more unable to move her head. Then he goes off and lets her stay in this position, as saliva drips down uncontrollably from her gag.
Next, the action moves to the bedroom, where we see Wenona tied spreadeagled to the bed, now ballgagged. She looks good, but Dan decides she could look better, so he proceeds to clamp her flesh with clothespins, beginning with the insides of her spread arms and continuing around her breasts, finishing with a single clothespin onto each nipple. Then he shows her some metal clamps, which he applies to each side of her pussy lips, and pulls them tight with a line to the end of the bed. Now she's forced to endure this treatment, and there's some excellent handheld camerawork and nice whimpering from Wenona as Dan records her reactions. The scene gets even better as she cries out in pain as each clothespin is removed from her body.
This is followed up by Dan dripping candle wax on Wenona's chest. The wax torture is relatively light, but it's a fun scene enhanced by Dan's humorous banter and Wenona's squeals as each droplet lands on her skin.
In the final scene, Wenona is tied in a standing spreadeagle, her arms and legs both tied wide apart. She is gagged with a black bit gag. Dan approaches with a whip, and this overly elongated sequence is, unfortunately, not all that arousing. Wenona's reactions are great, but the floggers Dan uses are rather wimpy and most of his blows are not struck especially hard. Just once, I'd like to see Dan whip out a belt or something and really lay into one of his victims, leaving real marks, or at least simulate the action to make it appear more harsh than what we normally get in a Dan Hawke vid.
Fans of Hawke's work (which include me) will get what they expect from this latest offering. Like a lot of his work, there are some scenes that work better than others, and this one is no exception. There are a couple individual scenes here that make the vid worthwhile, particularly the clothespin segment on the bed, and it's watchable, if not particularly memorable. While Wenona wouldn't be my first choice to appear in a Hawke film, she acquitted herself nicely and gave a decent performance. But next time, Dan, how about giving a call to Ms. Ryder? That's the film I want to see.