A while back I was feeling peckish for some cross-hanging, so I shot over to the Red Feline store (at the speed of light, no less) to catch some more of Jane von Detlefson’s artistry. This one looked interesting because of the stark, outdoor setting and the sight of Jane getting dragged across the ground while attached to a patibulum (that’s the horizontal piece of the cross).

The movie opens with Jane - clad in a very fetching, one-piece semi-transparent olive-colored robe that reveals her arms, shoulders and lower legs – making her way across a rocky desert, apparently gathering something edible from the sparse vegetation. She stops to rest in the shade of a large boulder and drifts off.

Along comes JJ the Barbarian, who quickly subdues her and ties her wrists behind her back with rope. He then drives her ahead of him, flicking her back with the rope as they move forward across the desert. It doesn’t take long for Jane’s robe to slip from its moorings and she’s soon topless.

The first torment comes when JJ hangs Jane by her wrists from the limb of a large, gnarly tree. He has pulled the hem of her dress up and wrapped it around her hips, so she’s essentially topless and bottomless. She’s suspended off the ground while he lashes her with a long whip. She kicks her legs a lot, which exposes her pussy and butt even more. Eventually, Jane becomes tired (and somewhat bloodied, though not excessively so). JJ leaves the scene, ushering in a long period of “unconsciousness as foreplay” while the camera focuses on Jane twisting slowly in the wind.

JJ returns to lift Jane off the limb and force her to walk to another spot where some short upright posts have been driven into the ground. JJ ties Jane’s wrists to one post and her ankles to another one, stretching her out on the rough surface of the ground. (There’s a brief shot of some busy ants, but no scenario develops around them). JJ produces some spikes which he runs along Jane’s body. Then he brings along a large tree limb to serve as a patibulum. He ties Jane’s wrists to the wood and nails her hands to it, eliciting some of Jane’s trademark gasps and whimpers.

Off they trek to another distant tree, while the barefoot Jane picks her way across the unforgiving ground. JJ attaches Jane’s patibulum to the tree, then lifts and ropes her ankles, first one, then another, underneath her. Now Jane is essentially sitting on her heels, her knees bent all the way and stretched out in front of her. Her dilemma is that she’s off the ground and having trouble supporting her own weight.

For the remaining fifteen minutes of the movie, we watch Jane slowly “die”. This is a very realistic depiction of execution by crucifixion, one of the purposes of which is to make it extremely difficult for the victim to catch an adequate breath of air. Jane gradually tires of the effort and basically suffocates. The camera shows Jane’s ordeal from different angles, including some nice close-ups. Jane does spew some blood before she finally croaks, but fortunately this flick spares us from the excessive gore of some of Red Feline’s other products.

Movie plusses: Jane appears to have pushed herself to the limit more in this film than in others I’ve seen so far. She had to deal with very real, very physical challenges, including hot sun, rocky soil against her bare flesh, a long period of AOH suspension above the ground, and finally what looks like an extremely uncomfortable positioning of her body. And is there anyone who dies as beautifully as Jane?

Movie minuses: Well, by now we know what to expect in a Red Feline flick. Jane offers little struggle or resistance against the villain, the villain is non-vocal and very mechanical, and there are long periods of watching “nothing happening” on the screen. (I know, I know...I just don’t “get it”). It’s also hard to convincingly fake driving a spike into someone’s hand. I was glad that more attention was focused on Jane’s reactions, which were superb, as usual.