Hard to believe an entire year has passed since we've had a new movie from Rick Masters and ZFX, but the release of The Apartment is worth the wait. Even more amazingly, the footage for this new one was shot over 4 years ago, back in late 2000, and is just now being released. Which proves there's still some gold left in the ZFX vaults.
This one stars perennial ZFX favorite Lisa Kinkaid, and I guess Rick must have thought we were tired of looking at her in movie after movie, so he alters her appearance by having her wear her hair in big ridiculous pigtails, like a brunette Pippi Longstocking. It's not a good look, but she still has that smokin' body and plays a victim so well, I can forgive that.
This is a return to the simple home invasion theme, which ZFX nearly perfected with Forced Entry years ago, but this one has a twist, because you're never really sure which is reality and which is a dream. You just have to watch and let the story unfold.
The story begins with Lisa making a call to have her garbage disposal fixed. When the maintenance guy (played by Jesse Keddings) arrives, he does a quick repair, then suddenly lunges at Lisa and begins to rip her clothes off. Pulling her shirt into her mouth as a makeshift gag, he forces her hands behind her and mounts her from behind. He lubes her ass with a squeeze from a container of mustard (!) and follows by sticking his cock in there, too (Insert your own mustard/weiner joke here). What follows is a brutal anal rape, or is it? A minute later, we cut to Jesse again finishing up his repair and nothing has happened. Lisa lets him out and closes the door.
But it's not long before Lisa gets an anonymous phone call from a voice telling her in graphic detail what he's going to do to her. It is, of course, her lustful secret admirer, the maintenance guy. Lisa hangs up, but can't get out of her mind all the threats she just heard. We see a series of shots of Lisa imagining herself being violated by him in various ways, including being ridden like a horse with her own pigtails as the reigns! We even see a trace a blood seeping from her ass after being butt-fucked. As usual with ZFX, all the insert shots are simulated, but the footage is hot, even though Lisa is unbound throughout.
This is followed by a scene of Lisa masturbating while taking a shower. Is she fantasizing about being raped? There doesn't seem to be any other reason for this scene other than to give us an eyeful of how awesome Lisa's body looks naked (and it does indeed). Gratuitous eye candy like this, I can deal with.
The maintenance guy, now wearing a stocking over his head, breaks into her apartment and grabs Lisa as she's leaving the bathroom. He chokes her into unconsciousness and throws her on the bed. This is where the movie really takes off, in my opinion.
He positions Lisa spreadeagled on the bed, face down, with a pillow under her midsection to raise up her ass. After tying her so that her limbs are spread wide, he rips off her panties, stuffs them inside a stocking, and crams them into her mouth, tightening the rest of the stocking around the back of her neck. Going through her dresser drawers, he finds a huge, thick vibrator, which then uses to painfully shove up the squirming girl's ass. Afterward, he tightens a belt around her body, forcing the vibe deep inside, and lets her suffer a while.
This is followed by a scene where Jesse has Lisa tied up on her knees inside a closet. There is a noose around her neck and her arms are tied off helplessly above her head. Duct tape seals her mouth shut, and she can only moan through her gag as several clothespins are applied to her breasts and her pussy lips. Director Masters lets his camera explore every inch of her suffering, simply an outstanding segment.
But then he takes it even further, much to my pleasant surprise. The guy turns up the heat, literally, until the temperature in the room reaches 90 degrees and Lisa's body is covered in sweat. I love the idea that he went that extra step and made her torture even more unbearable.
And it gets better. Although she's weak and drained from the heat, it doesn't stop him from tying her in a standing spreadeagle in her doorway. After gagging her once again with the panty stuffed stocking, he takes his belt and delivers a nasty whipping, the kind of typically harsh and brutal whipping segment that ZFX has excelled in over the years. Direction, editing, sound effects, and Lisa's agonized reactions combine to make this scene exceptional. Great stuff.
Afterward, we see Lisa tied to a chair in a particularly uncomfortable way, hands tied behind, elbows lashed together, and her ankles tied to the back legs of the chair, leaving her pussy open and vulnerable. Clothespins are clamped to her pussy lips and nipples and tied off away from her, causing her extra pain if she moves even a little bit. Jesse fills her mouth with a dishcloth and ties it into place to silence her moans. After watching her struggle a while, he fingers her pussy and shoots his load all over her body.
The finale is another short but intense rape scene, where Jesse forces an unbound Lisa onto the bed, holding her down while pounding himself into her. This dissolves into Lisa back in the shower as before. Was this all just a dream, a fantasy? As she leaves the bathroom, there he is again, grabbing her from behind. It's all beginning again.
This is another masterwork from ZFX, with another great performance from Lisa and an equally fine turn by Jesse Keddings as the villain. Does this compare favorably to Forced Entry, considered by many to be the definitive ZFX home invasion flick? I think it does. It's quicker paced, with a heavier emphasis on rape and just enough brutal scenes to please torture fans. My only real criticism (other than Lisa's hair) is that it takes nearly half the movie before she gets tied up. There's lots of rape, but no real bondage rape. I would have enjoyed the earlier scenes more if she had been tied up, but overall, it's still an entertaining ride and an absolute must-have for fans of forced sex.