Hi all! Well...the tapes I ordered arrived. Guess what i've been doing most of the day....Unfortunately, I wasn't up to watching all of them in a row this time, but I still manged to watch most. Here are my observations, in the same order as I watched the tapes:
HELLBOUND: This one can be divided in 3 parts, each starring one of the 3 victims. The first 2 parts were a little disappointing, yet funny. Both parts start with guy a guy dying and going to hell.....The first has my 3rd favorite ZFX-quote, by Rick himself: "Is this hell??? Doesn't look too bad to me..". Not bad??? How come??? Well....hell is a place were guys like Rick and the rest of us are provided with a pretty girl, willing to be bound, whipped and whatever you want.
This was also my problem: The fun part is that the girls should NOT be willing to be tied, whipped etc....Girls who like this...well...that would be hell for me!
The 3rd part is better: Julia Kara as a cutie dying and go to hell...only to be trained as a slave for future male hell-citizens. Not bad, Julia has her moments, but they're only BRIEF moments. My overall grade on a scale from 1 to 10 (10 being the best): 6 for the effort.
TIFFANY TWISTED 2: MUCH better than I expected. I must say the picks on the web and box don't do this girl justice. She's WAY cuter. On the bad side, there's the beginning (some short scenes of TT1) where we see the girl getting KO by bumping her head to a desk. THAT's not how it's supposed to go! Where's the joy of overpowering a victim??? Another bad point was the "vacum" (grin) scene, that could have been shorter. But then a turn for the better is taken with a nice scene where the girl is being "taped" while protesting rather convincing.AND there's a nice electro-torture in it...you all know I like those...:-] Grade: 7
GANGLAND 4 & 5: Both have their merits. In GL 4 I liked the (view) scenes with Mrs. Masters (BTW: Mrs. Masters, if you could spare he time, I'm sure most of us would like you to contribute to this forum from time to time). Boy, does she knows how to suffer!!! Even when hardly bound or tortured, she's all fear and terrorized! Excellent! Another scene I really liked is in GL5, where Kerri Downs gets....electrotortured. I liked it even better since the goal of the torture was subtracting information. Also something I always enjoy. Grades: GL4 6.5 and GL5 7
BINDING CONTRACT: Straight from the good old days. this one has it all: Excellent story, great bondage, very good acting. This one really shows Rick must have been enjoying himself doing this one. The story??? The actresses?? Nahhhh too easy. Go watch this one!!! Grade: 8
GUINEA PIGS 4: When I ordered this one, I did so because of the always adorable Holly Weston. I have GP5, and just wanted to see what happened before. And Holly was very good, of course. BUT: Another lady stole my hart on this one: Kimber Allen is SUPERB in this tape. Struggling to get free, screaming, squealing like a real Guinea Pig..Oh man....even yet another electro-torture....And when I was all warmed up, Holly Weston for dessert. Even though the tape had a slow start (Julia Kara, again not very convincing), still I have to grade it with a 9. Clearly the best of the lot so far.
LIZA CORD: Wow...was I surprised by the first 30 minutes. This looked like an ordinary rapetape. Would I see any real ZFX in this one at all??? I sure did! After the first 30 minutes, we have Chandra Sweet overpowering Amy van Allen. Both fully naked. Need I say more??? And this was only the beginning of the fun. I was going to grade this one with a 7, but because of Bryan Dunhill, I must make it an 8. Rick: Please, if at all possible: Hire this dude again!
MISADVENTURES OF LOIS PAYNE: Since many spoke rather highly of this tape, I was a bit disappointed. I didn't find the acting to constant (sometimes very good, sometimes just VERY bad). Same goes for the bondage. I noticed a few mistakes that (IMHO) never should be made in videos like these. Like hands tied in such a way that they can remove gags, easy-to-escape-ropework.... The better parts of the movie, like an electro-torture made up for these bad points just partly. In all, I wouldn't grade this more than a 6.5, but because of the nice dialogues and the interesting plot, I'll raise it to 7.
DISCIPLZ OF PAIN: Very WEIRD tape. Very GOOD ropework. Very IRRITATING music (especially in the first part. But hey! I bought this one for the girl, Diedra Carrera. I can't help it, I just like to see her. Especially that angry, tormented look she sometime has. Grade: 6
REPORTER 2: GANGSTARR: I saved this one for last, because it could be nothing but GOOD! And it was! Just like the first part, everything's perfect: Plot, dialogues, acting and...Monica Moore. Just one of the many, many highlights: The scene where she's tied-up, butt-plugged, digesting a laxative.....Oh man! And to make this VERY good tape even PERFECT, it also has a few scenes with Ms. Kinkaid at the end of the tape. I'll have to safe my perfect 10 for a tape from Rick yet to be made, so I'll grade it with a 9.