When I heard that ZFX was introducing a new comic book-
style action heroine, Miss Ballista, I was wondering how
far from the norm the company would stray away from their
roots, that being the best bondage/torture producer working
in the U.S. today. Lisa Kinkaid as a gun-toting
superheroine? This is the same Lisa Kinkaid who has played
some of ZFX's best bound victims; I wasn't sure I wanted to
see her as some sort of dominant crimefighting machine. My
fears were unfounded. I'm happy to report that in spite
of the comic book theme, Miss Ballista is esentially more
of what we have to come to expect from ZFX, filled with
bondage, torture and other cool things, wrapped around
an entertaining story.
Director Rick Masters starts off the video with a brief
setup to his tale, as Lisa informs us that she developed a
fascination for pornography by sneaking into her brother's
room while he was away at college, and starts her own
website designed to expose the dirty underbelly of the porn
industry. Setting off on her own to investigate a lead, she
infiltrates an underground porno ring and starts taking
pictures, when she happens upon a nude young woman (the
ever-cute redhead Bridgitte Bayonne) gagged and tied to a
bed, alone, but with a camera recording her struggles as
she writhes on the bed. Lisa rescues her from her bonds and
brings her back to the house. Interviewing her, she learns
that Bridgette was abducted off the street a week ago, and
was taken to the lair of Pornogra, a crazy masked woman who
ordered her men to rape her on camera for black market
videos.
Out to avenge the loss of their stolen sex slave, two men
break into Lisa's house and attack her from behind, quickly
ballgagging her and cuffing her hands, and do the same with
Bridgette, roughly leading them upstairs to the bedroom.
In the first of many hot scenes, the girls are stripped,
slapped and fondled by the two men, and some of the
threatening dialogue is great. Bending Lisa over to expose
her pussy, one of the men gloats, "Yeah, we've got
something that will fit that just fine!". Unfortunately,
this is the one time when it's just talk. A hoped-for rape
scene never occurs, although the setup was perfect.
Instead, the men enact their revenge by tying the girls
up to the bed, Bridgette tied standing across the bedframe,
while Lisa is stretched out spreadeagled across the
matress. While Bridgette helplessly watches, Lisa is given
clothespin torture to her tits and pussy, then is
electrically shocked with a stun gun to her all her private
parts. In spite of the ever-persistant problem of this
particular illusion being obviously faked (you can see that
the stun gun is never turned on when applied to the body),
Lisa and director Rick pull off the scene beautifully, Lisa
with her convincing acting, and Rick with his tight
camerawork and editing. In order to get Lisa to talk, one
of the men tightens a belt around poor Bridgette's throat
and chokes her to near-unconsciousness until Lisa reveals
where the incriminating film from her camera is hidden.
The men go downstairs to retrieve the film, then Masters,
in a cameo as Lisa's brother, finds the two bound girls and
is shot in the head before he can do anything. The men
hustle Bridgette back to Pornogra's lair, leaving Lisa
still bound to the bed with her dead brother's body laying
over top of her.
One week later, out to avenge her brother's death, Lisa
turns to his favorite comic book, Ballista, and decides the
way to go is to transform herself into this creation,
complete with costume, gold mask and gold machine gun.
Taking off again to the building where she found Bridgette,
this time she is armed, and with payback on her mind.
It is here that we meet Pornogra, played by veteran ZFX
performer Penelope Pace, as a freaky but sexy villianous.
After a needlessly prolonged catfight sequence, Lisa is
captured and Penelope goes to work on her now helpless
prey, stripping her and ballgagging her, and eventually
hanging her up by her wrists with her legs spread wide in
midair. She slaps and fondles Lisa's body and later adds
to her discomfort by adding clothespins on her tits and
pussy. Penelope sits down and admires the view,
masturbating and telling Lisa, "You make a great
inspiration." I thought so, too! Lisa looks incredibly
hot hanging up there.
This is followed up by one of ZFX's typically intense
whipping sequences, then Penelope wields a strap-on dildo
and lets Lisa have it over and over up the ass, simulated,
of course, but still nice.
The next scene is something relatively different for ZFX,
as Penelope forces a bound and naked Lisa to eat her food
off a bowl on the floor. It may be new for ZFX, but I've
seen this sort of degrading scene many times in
Japanese bondage tapes. And ironically, what is it that
Lisa is given to eat but rice from a carry-out restaurant!
I guess if you're going to be inspired, you might as well
be inspired by the guys who make the best bondage films in
the world! :o)
Next, Penelope comes up with a nasty new torture, as Lisa
is bound face down on an adjustable table, with her ass up,
and her mouth filled with a special gag with an opening in
the center. She forces a tube into her ass and lets an
enema flow inside of her. This might have been simulated,
but looks real, as there are several times when we see
water flowing from the tube in her rectum. "Do we feel
full now?", she asks with a laugh, and then corks the
enema inside of her with a dildo, finishing off by taping
it into place. Lisa is then left alone to suffer for an
hour.
When Penelope returns, she adjusts Lisa's bondage table to
an upright position, and we discover why her gag has a hole
in it. "Since we fed you, I think it's time we gave you
something to drink!", she tells Lisa, and with a funnel she
pours the contents of two bottles of water down her throat,
as Lisa coughs and sputters. Two bottles of water on top
of an enema! What an evil person! :o) Lisa passes out,
and Penelope walks off and leaves her there.
The final scene has Lisa managing an escape and turning the
tables on her foe, leaving Penelope hogtied and ballgagged,
squirming on the floor. The ending promises a return of
Ballista.
This is a very good video, with a feature-length running
time and lots of inventive scenes. The acting is uniformly
excellent, particularly Penelope, who performs her dominant
role with great relish, and of course Lisa, who makes the
whole tape work by playing a convincing victim. With so
many scenes, there should be something here for everyone.