In between shots of Kendra diddling herself, we see several minutes of the video feed, unfortunately shot in black and white and primarily from just 2 camera angles. The victim is a big-busted Asian girl who is impaled on a dildo chair, gets electrodes clipped to her nipples and does some impressive writhing and muffled screaming while being shocked. The woman in the video is played by Kimmy Lee and she deserves her own movie. Despite wearing a hood over her face through the majority of her scene, the footage is quite good and I was left wanting to see more. Perhaps she's a candidate for a future ZFX production?

Kendra's masturbating is interrupted when she takes a call from her boss, who gives her instructions to track down and dispose of Necron and steal his magic gold box, essentially the same assignment that Candle Boxxx had in the first film. Candle makes a brief appearance in this film, too, but it's a non-bondage role. She's basically there to wear a bikini and act as eye candy while her boss talks to Kendra on the phone.

So after hopping a plane to Miami, Kendra arrives at Necron's lair and manages to sneak inside. But he's waiting there for her and subdues her with an injection to the neck, then punches her several times in her weakened state. Before long she's unconscious, which enables him to strip away most of her clothing, leaving her passed out on the floor wearing only her bra and panties.

When she see her next, Necron has her tied in a standing position to a metal rack. Necron takes a scissors and cuts off her panties, which he properly uses to stuff into her mouth to gag her, sealing them inside with a leather strap.

Lubing up a rubber truncheon, he then proceeds to shove it up Kendra's pussy and fuck her with it. Gone are the old days when ZFX had to resort to simulated penetration scenes; this scene is clearly real and shot from several angles, nicely punctuated by Kendra's muffled screaming. The only thing lacking is any sort of satisfied gloating from the villain.

He then adds to Kendra's discomfort by tightening vise clamps onto her nipples and tying the truncheon inside her pussy, leaving her alone in her bound, humiliated position.

What follows is the best scene of the movie, and it's a variation of the metal bed frame electro treatment that Candle suffered in the first film. Kendra is tied down naked and spread-eagled with electric wires taped to her nipples and pussy. Her captor gags her with a special strap gag that has been outfitted with wires connected to a shock box.

A flip of the switch enables him to make her painfully writhe as current is sent through her body. He keeps this up for several minutes, and Kendra really sells the scene with her agonized reactions.

At this point Necron removes the tape attaching the wires to Kendra's pussy. But he's not about to end her suffering. Instead he takes a metal dildo-sized probe and inserts it in her vagina and begins to fuck her with it. When she's all aroused and wet, he again flips the current on and zaps her with electricity, giving her the most painful electrified fuck she's ever had. Once again it's a nice long segment, and electro-torture fans should love this.

This is followed by Necron fastening a leash around Kendra's neck and leading her like a dog on her hands and knees into another room. He hoists her in a standing position with her arms over her head so that she's teetering on her tiptoes (love the attention to detail). He smacks her on the ass several times with his hand until her butt cheeks are a nice shade of crimson. Then he takes his whip and gives her a thorough thrashing all over her body as Kendra painfully reacts to each blow. Necron is totally silent throughout the ordeal but to his credit, he does smack her really hard and with a lot of vigor. He leaves her there alone and we're treated to several nice views of Kendra's lovely form covered with red marks. Good job!

Afterward, Necron replaces Kendra's ballgag with a sponge stuffed in her mouth and strapped in place. She is then re-tied with her arms bound behind her and hoisted upward in a strappado-like position, so that she's standing and bent forward. Necron whips her some more, mostly on her ass but landing a few blows on her tits as well. Kendra looks great, although this segment is much shorter and pales in comparison to the intensity of the previous whipping we had just watched.

The last scene starts with Kendra tied spread-eagle on top of a wooden alter on the floor. Her mouth is sealed with duct tape. Necron opens the magical gold box laying between her legs, unleashing a spark of lightning bolts and weird digital effects which ultimately transform Kendra into hellish world inhabited by squirming and writhing animated tentacles. They hold her body down while she is fucked by the large beast-like cock of "Cthulhu" (in case there's any doubt, this a science fiction film). The sequence is interesting to watch visually, although your enjoyment of the scene will probably depend on how you feel about Japanese-style tentacle rape movies. Like nearly all of ZFX's excursions into the "weird shit", I admired the effort but just wasn't turned on by it.

As a companion piece to Hard is the Way, this is about on par with the last one. In both cases the victim clearly outshines the bad guy in terms of acting. In spite of my past criticism, Conor Coxxx is not anywhere near being ZFX's weakest villain; at least he attempts to give a domineering performance. The main problem is he talks so softly that he's almost impossible to hear. A little post-production dubbing of his voice or even subtitles would have helped; I kept running the movie back to try to make out what the heck he was saying. The other issue is that he's supposed to be playing this powerful magician skilled in black magic, but physically, he looks like a teenage slacker with long stringy hair and a less than threatening demeanor. I guess that was the ironic joke within both these two films, build up the impression that this is a powerful bad guy and then he turns out to be some skinny kid.

In the previous film, Candle gave such a strong performance that the contrast between her and Conor was obvious; they were clearly on two different levels. This time around I guess I knew more of what to expect, so I didn't let his lack of domination bother me as much. Between the 2 movies, though, I still prefer Candle's film more because I like her better as a victim. Not to say there's anything wrong with Kendra James. She's super sexy and very attractive and as a bondage actress, she knows exactly what she's doing. Plus that, I have a thing for redheads. Especially redheads when they're tied up naked and suffering.