A review by Thomas Chaser

Casey Calvert is a hot young bondage star. Lew Rubens is a bondage producer that’s been around awhile, staging scenes for other production studios as well as some of his own stuff. One day, Lew asks Ms. Calvert if she’d be interested in doing a photoshoot involving real whip marks, which means she’ll really be whipped in order to keep things authentic. She agrees to give it a go. This clip is a video made from that shoot.

What qualifies this as a GIMP film is that there are several points during the shoot where Casey has to be “convinced” to keep going. The very first stroke tears a scream from her throat that makes you want to scream right along with her, which is why most of us watch these types of films in the first place. What you’re watching is real, albeit consensual (to a degree), but nonetheless it is NOT a pleasant experience for the victim at all.

This is the last time her back is unmarked. From here on out, it’s a matter of enduring the pain. Lew gives her a few light taps before the first real stroke lands.

Impact.

That first pop rips a scream from somewhere deep in her soul. You can tell it really hurt. Lew even stops and checks on her, helping her to calm down and take the pain. The welt comes up almost immediately. But Casey is a trooper. Lew tells her to turn around and put whatever part of her body towards him that she wants him to strike next. Not much choice in that wording, is there? It reminds me of how my sister puts the bedtime question to her pre-school children – what pajamas do you want to wear to sleep? Not going to bed is not an option that’s given, and so it is here. Quitting is not an option. You’re going to get popped. Where do you want it? Casey decides to take it on her back.

Bang. Another strike. But Lew takes pity on her and it’s not as hard as the first one.

Casey winces, “That was not my back!” to which Lew replies that he’s in charge of this shoot and is mixing things up a bit. Moaning and groaning but standing in there like a pro, Casey turns a bit to take the whip where she wants it.

Lew is more than willing to oblige.

What makes this clip work for me is Casey’s reaction to the whip. She has the best scream in the business, and I’m surprised she hasn’t been hired to do voice-over work for some of the studios that do “fictional” storylines. Her shriek alone is golden. When you add to that the fact that she has such a sweet ass, it makes watching her backside get whipped that much better.

At several points, the video guy has to move around just to get the angles he wants, without interfering with the still photographers, who are the real reason this shoot has been set up. I really, really wish this had been a full-on video shoot with at least three (better) cameras and a higher resolution. There was so much potential in this set-up that was degraded by shoddy equipment.

Since this is about art, here’s a little piece I call, “Anatomy of a Scream”:

At 15:47, minus 13 seconds for an intro, you get about fifteen and a half minutes of a whipping good photo shoot. It’s not HD, but it is very much real, and a pretty good value at $12 USD.

Plot? What plot? Sometimes you just have to let art flow over you. Just feel the raw emotion of the artist and how her pain affects your deepest reptilian brain cell. Even the crappy videography gives it a gritty realism that I haven’t felt since “Hill Street Blues” first started using the technique way back in 1981, and which has been copied umpteen million times since then. Lew had to know he had a good thing going in this piece, because he didn’t even bother to add mood music to convey the fear, pain, and dramatic denouement of the piece. As for Ms. Calvert, well, she has the best scream in the business, although Lana Clarkson did a credible job in the dungeon scene of Barbarian Queen. Jac Avila and Amy Hesketh of Pachamama Films could save this as a reference piece. I can hear his direction to Mila now: “No, no. Too much nasal. It must come from more the throat. Like Calvert. I need a Calvert scream.”

Hey, it could happen.