As ZFX's latest video Dark Offering opens, a masked, hooded figure (Satan?) sits alone in a darkened room, masturbating to a video of two naked girls in bondage, Lisa Kinkaid and Bridgette Bayone, tied back to back. Both girls are seated on the floor, their hands tied over their heads, their legs tied to each other, and clothespins adorn each of their nipples and pussies. Both are ballgagged. An unseen villain works them over by molesting their bound bodies, fingering the clothespins and forcing each girl to suck a dildo that he shoves into their mouths. It's some tight, handheld footage that looks like outtakes from an older video (maybe As Darkness Falls perhaps?).
Then we see another two-girl bondage set, with Lisa looking lovely in a hogtie on the floor, this time gagged with yellow tape. Next to her is Bridgette tied to a pole in a standing position, although her ass rests on a horizontal board attached to the pole behind her. Her arms are again tied above her, with her legs spread out wide and tied apart, and even her knees are bound apart and secured to the board. She is gagged with what appears to be a small towel, folded and stuffed in her mouth, and rope is circled around her head and the pole onto which she is tied. There is some nice, handheld camerawork that really shows off the bondage, although ultimately this footage doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the story, since neither Lisa nor Bridgette do not appear in the rest of the tape. It's mainly just filler, but it gives us a chance to see two pretty girls struggle in bondage, always a good thing.
The real story thus begins about 15 minutes or so into the tape. A cloaked, satanic figure advices his disciples to find a virgin and sacrifice her to the devil. This leads us to pretty blonde newcomer Suzi Sexton in her ZFX debut. She arrives at her home and is swiftly attacked by the three hooded Satanists, who were already there and waiting for her. They bind her wrists behind her with rope, quiet her with a mouth-filling gag and in a nice touch, the terrified girl wets her pants. She is quickly taken from her home and brought back to the lair to their leader. Suzi is laid out across a large table and her clothes are stripped off her. She is loosely tied to the table as the four men grab and probe her naked skin.
"It's time for the ceremonial waxing", the leader announces. While the other men hold her down, he approaches with two red candles, and wax is liberally dripped onto her upper torso, with special attention given to her breasts. It's a decent scene, and the wax is easy to see on her body. It's good to see ZFX continue with candle-waxing in their tapes, something that used to be relatively rare.
The next scene has Suzi alone, tied to the table on her hands and knees, with her perky breasts dangling down and her ass out and vulnerable. She is still gagged with the original gag, but the wax from the previous scene has now disappeared. Through the use of animation and special effects, her ass is now raped by an invisible demon. It's a nice attempt, even if the effect is perhaps less than successful. At this point, two of the men return and give Suzi a thorough whipping, in a rather long and padded scene. She eventually collapses into unconsciousness.
At this point, the tape kicks it up a notch when Suzi is tied to a wall, hanging in an upside-down spreadeagle. One of the men enters and proceeds to sexually penetrate her pussy with a dildo, working it down deep inside her. He eventually leaves it tied inside of her, tying it off around her waist. He further makes her cry into her gag when he affixes clothespins onto her nipples and breasts, then adds some to her pussy lips, as well. She is left alone to suffer in this unfortunate position. It's a good scene, my favorite of the tape.
The next scene has Suzi forced to walk on her hands and knees, with a leash attached to the eyehook on her gag. The men then roughly lead her to the middle of the room, where she is flipped over on her back and held down by the others while the leader rapes her pussy, cumming on her body. As always, it's a simulated rape with a rubber dildo, but well-directed and something you look forward to seeing in any ZFX vid.
Suzi's next bondage scene has her tied in an uncomfortable position, arms tied above, and she is forced to stand on one leg, with the other leg tied off out to the side. Chain is hung though the eyelet in her gag and looped down between her legs. Then to increase her misery, one of the men decides to add clothespins to her breasts and pussy, and proceeds to give her several hard slaps to her inner thighs.
In the brief final scene, Suzi is left alone, tied to a rack, where she manages to untie the ropes that held her. She runs away and escapes, and that's the end, except for a coda that says she later embarked on a career of S&M films based on her experience. Uh huh.
Like ZFX's previous feature, Phallicide, this tape has its moments, but doesn't really aspire to greatness like some of ZFX's previous efforts. Most of what we see has been done before, and better, in other tapes. Suzi Sexton is competent in her first appearance for Rick Masters, but this tape sorely needs a strong villain like Joseph Marx or someone who can inject a sense of evil fun into the proceedings. There is very little dialogue in the tape, and while the images are quite dramatic, the tape needed that extra edge to work better. If you like the satanic theme, it was handled better, and more ambitiously, in 666 and its sequel. Compared to almost everything out there, Dark Offering is a masterpiece. Compared to ZFX's other works, my standards are higher.