But the DVD release I want to review is Video Pirates 2: Buried, which features some of the best footage Rick ever shot, in which he and Chandra Sweet terrorize an unsuspecting girl who, unfortunately for her, happens to be related to a guy who is ripping off Rick's business. To see it all of this footage on VHS, you would have had to buy Volumes 2, 3, 4 and 5, because it was originally stretched out over those 4 tapes, sort of like an old time movie serial. But now with the advent of DVD, Rick's been converting his older works to the new format and finally has the time to make the improvements he probably wishes he could have made the first time. And by combining all this footage into one DVD, he's ultimately now turned this newly edited DVD into one of his very best movies, easily in my top 10 ZFX films of all time.

The story for this one, which is highlighted in scenes from part one, is that Rick (playing an S&M filmmaker named Rick...big stretch there) is having his movies bootlegged by a mobster named Barry (Nick Long). Barry is pretending to be a distributor but is instead duping off illegal copies of Rick's work. On top of that, he's also loaning him money for his business and bankrupting him by charging him insane interest rates. Rick is being squeezed from both ends, and when Barry kidnaps Rick's wife (Kerri Downs) and holds her bound and gagged until Rick pays up, that's the final straw.

Rick comes up with a daring plan to get his revenge. He breaks into Barry's house and ties up and gags two young women he thought were related to Barry, and films their ordeal so he can send the tape to Barry. But then Rick discovers they were the wrong girls, so he continues with his plan to go after Barry's family. The next victim will be Barry's daughter-in-law, and that's where the main story of Video Pirates 2 begins.

The daughter-in-law is played by Melisa Pope, a slender young brunette who appeared in only a handful of ZFX films, and this was her only stint as a victim. Melisa doesn't look like a model; she's just a pleasant-looking girl-next-door type, and that innocent persona is one of the reasons why she's so utterly believable as a victim here. Her performance is very natural; it's like she's not even acting. She really made me believe she was an innocent girl caught up in an unfortunate situation that was none of her own doing.

Melisa is lured into a warehouse under the ruse that she won a TV, only to find herself being filmed by Rick, with his trusty sidekick Chandra Sweet there to assist him. Rick explains that he's making an S&M movie to send to her father-in-law that's ripping him off. He tells her she's going to be the star, whether she wants to or not. When Melisa realizes this is not a joke, she nervously tries to make a retreat, only to be grabbed by Chandra and forced to the ground.

Meanwhile, Barry, who's watching this tape that Rick made, is so shocked to see his daughter-in-law captured by Rick that he keels over from a heart attack right there in front of the TV screen. Kerri, who's tied half-naked to a chair with her mouth duct taped, can only watch in horror as this unfolds.

Back at the warehouse, Rick angrily berates Melisa and tells her it's her father's fault this is happening to her. As her hands are bound behind her, he forces the sobbing girl to suck on a dildo while he gets out the duct tape, then he roughly slaps a swatch of it over her mouth. Chandra is obviously delighted to be participating and she increases Melisa's humiliation by laughing and making teasing comments at her expense. Chandra's excellent performance goes hand in hand with Rick's role as the scary, angry villain and really adds to the film; it definitely wouldn't have worked as well without her. She and Rick make a great team, and with Melisa as the crying, frightened victim, all three principles are hitting on all cylinders and it's a real joy watching them perform.

While Rick smacks Melisa, Chandra pulls up her top and attaches clothespins to her nipples, then pulls on the string that's attached to them. They turn her around and spank her ass, making sure she's in camera range so that they are putting on a good show. After yanking down her shorts, they beat her ass some more, then Rick grabs her hair and leads her over to the camera. Forcing the wide-eyed girl to look into the lens, Rick manipulates the tape gag over Melisa's mouth to make it appear like she's speaking, but Rick is doing all the talking for her. "Please pay the ransom! Please don't pirate Rick's tapes! They're gonna hurt me REAL FUCKIN' BAD!!!"

Melisa is then tied with her hands over her head against the wall. Under Rick's direction, Chandra sticks her hand down inside Melisa's panties to play with her pussy and sucks on her nipples. Taking a scissors, Rick cuts holes through the nipples of her top, a la Clockwork Orange, before ripping the entire top away. They cut a hole through her pantyhose and molest her pussy a bit, too.

This is followed up by a hole being cut through her tape gag so that a black phallic device can be inserted into Melisa's mouth. They add to her discomfort by clamping clothespins onto her small titties and on her pussy. And if having this on videotape wasn't bad enough, they snap some Polaroids of her as well, with Chandra smiling broadly alongside the suffering girl.

They remove her gag long enough to force her to suck on a dildo (a ZFX staple) and make her beg to the camera, telling her father-in-law to stop because they are hurting her. Then the duct tape is put back over her mouth and they proceed to REALLY hurt her, by using a cattle prod! I wish Rick the director had enhanced this old footage with some of his latter-day sparking effects, which would have made the electric shock illusion a bit more credible. No reason not to, since he's releasing the film in a new form anyway, but it's a small quibble. Melisa's bad day continues with a butterfly vibrator duct-taped over her crotch and locking forceps on one of her nipples.

The next time we see Melisa, she's ballgagged and they tie her to a chair with her hands again above her head. Chandra lets her have it again with the cattle prod, then Rick pinches her nipples with pliers and twists them around a bit. "Does that hurt?" Chandra asks with a laugh, gleefully mocking her as she moans through the gag. Her pussy is given the same treatment with the pliers.

Then Rick puts a couple strips of duct tape over top of her ballgag (excellent move). "We want to hear you suffer, but not too loudly," Rick tells her. After using more rope to secure her tighter to the chair, lubricant is applied to her pussy and an electrical probe is shoved up between her legs, attached to some wire. Rick brings over a portable electrical outlet and taunts her with it, showing her what he's about to do. All it takes is for Rick to plug in the cord and Melisa is given several violent electric shocks. While it's a great scene, it's unfortunately noticeable that the probe isn't actually inside Melisa's pussy, but rather down below it. Still, that should still hurt, shouldn't it?

Afterward, Melisa is released from her chair and bent over and given a vigorous finger fucking by Chandra (simulated but still very nice). Her ass is spanked until it is red, then they lube her up and follow that up by shoving a dildo up her ass and fucking her with that. Once again, it's a simulated illusion effectively pulled off. Rick makes Melisa get on her knees and beg to the camera once last time, putting an end to his video show present to Barry, who missed most of it because he was dead. And Kerri now escapes from her binds, putting an end to Part 2. Neither Kerri nor Melisa returned for any of the sequels.