Thanks for your review of Abduction at Devil's Peak. It sounds like we'd agree on its good and bad points. I'll check it out if I get the chence.

You were so polite to say B&D Pleasures videos "usually miss the mark for me", everyone I know would just say "they suck". But there is another one you might try: Attack in the Woods. It came out a year ago.

It features an attractive blond and brunette who are picnicing in the woods when two louts hit on them. After getting the brush off, the louts chase them down and cloroform them. They strip the blond and tie her to a tree very nicely and molest her and whip her front. They turn there attentions to the brunette who's bound on the ground and she agree to do anything they say if they don't hurt them. After some more whipping the blond also agrees, and the two new slaves are put through various humiliations: fetch, 69ing, etc, etc. They are then herded into a trailor to serve their new masters for the night as the video ends.

Joe (Bob) X says check it out. My only cautions are the cinematography is not studio quality (which I assumed was due to the outdoor setting, until I saw another Master Kieth video) and both women have, uh, I guess you'd call them Cat Tags, since they are like Dog Tags but located elsewhere, if you get my drift, which doesn't fit the characters. Still, I give it a big, um, thumbs up, especially for fans of the great outdoors.

Joe X

Well that straightens out the whole mystery of a woman not into BDSM discovering the joys of Lisa Kinkaid. It all makes sense.

Now if I could only get "Lola" by the Kinks out of my head...

Joe X: Thanks for the tip! - I'll search it out soon.

Does anyone know where Rick is on the DVD issue? It also occurs to me that he could make some sales by releasing digital copies of some of the older classic titles on DVD. I guess he has fresh master copies of them. Or maybe he could release a compendium of the coolest scenes on DVD.

On gags - how about the inflatable kind? I can't think of any ZFX use of this type of gag off the top of my head.

And Joe: I'm probably dense, but I don't get your reference to "cat tags".

Its been a slow year release wise, but a lot of good things are gonna happen as a result. This has really been a year that has brought a long needed upgrade to all digital editing, and the final step is digital delivery. I have been shooting on DVcam for a while now, but the editing was done on linear component analog decks, that had to change. Anyway, I think 2002 will be much more productive. I have got some incredible stuff in the can, and my top priority is to get it out.

Streaming: Its getting close, they(people working on the site)are telling me 2 weeks so. When I have a firm date you'll be the first to know.

Ballista 3: Finally back to editing, working hard on this, dunno yet when it will be done but its coming along nicely. Ball3 will definitely be co-released on DVD.

Maddog: Hiya brudder, I'm still breathin;0)

Gags; Well, most of ya know I am a gag lover bigtime, and a big red ball gag has got to be my favorite, though I like to do alot of variety. Dick gags and unusual gags like the bar of soap in a nylon gag are also high on my list. I wonder how the ball gag, usually in red, became so ubiquitous in the bondage world? What was its first usage? Anyone know this?

Thats it for now, gotta alot of work to do;)Thanks to all who read post and watch the movies and to our administrator Ralphus for keeping this thing workin!

Rick

Tell ya what. I'll forgive you, if you forgive Rick. Really, Damien, it's been too long, and Lisa just keeps getting prettier. Don't torture yourself, Damien. Come back into the light...

zee-ef-ex

Seriously, hope your medical problems go by swiftly and we can hear from you more often. It's always good to read your input here.

I guess we're in complete agreement about how Lisa has gotten prettier as the years have gone by. I thought I was the only one who had noticed. She really didn't do that much for me in her earlier tapes (and was a flatter performer, too) but now I think she's one of the most beautiful fillies in ZFX's stable. And if acting ability is a barometer of her appeal, one only needs to check out her recent work in the Miss Ballista and SOB series, where she outperforms a whole bevy of other girls with her excellent work. Face it, she's a pretty face who suffers well, and that makes her very attractive to me.

PLEASE KEEP RELEASING VIDEOS WHERE THE CHICKS WEAR WHITE SOCKS..OTHER COLORS TO CONSIDER ARE ORANGE AND PINK. I REALLY LIKE VIDEOS WHERE THE LADYS WEAR WHITE SOCKS. I NEED MORE QUICKLY? DOES BALLISTA 3 HAVE ANY LADYS WEARING WHITE SOCKS?

Also WHAT DO you think of a COWGIRL THEME..WHERE THE CHICK IS WEARING A COWGIRL OUTFIT?(Think about the latest madonna record..laying in the hay with the pink hat and cowgirl boots)she could be bound and gagged in the hay and suspended above the hay...maybe use some horseshoes on her tits and play ride em cowgirl?.of course under the cowgirl boots she would have to be wearing white socks..maybe she could be coming home from a line dance date with her boyffriend and then goes in her home alone after he takes her theyre..etc.

ANOTHER THEME I WOULD LIKE TO SEE(being from a blue collar area)is A chick dressed like a carpenter/contruction worker...where her tools end up being put to good USE!)she could be contracted to put up shelves in a house for some pyscho and then he takes her to his basment after spiking her coffee. White socks and steel toe boots are a must.a toolbelt etc..

WHAT ABOUT IT RICK? PLEASE GIVE ME SOME FEEDBACK ON THESE IDEAS.) i know some of you will laugh at my suggestions..But the costume and theme and having socks is just as important as the torture and the whippings etc.. it is my fetishes and tastes..i like socks.

JJ

I know there’s been variations done on this theme but there’s always room for more. The set up: Experimentation on the criminally insane at an asylum for mentally ill violent sex offenders. During electric shock experiments on an inmate the psychos overrun the experimentation room. The doctor is killed and the sex crazed inmates grab the pretty assistant (Lisa?) in her white lab attire and systematically and non-systematically strip, grope, torture, restrain, sexually use, and experiment (electroshock, water drip torture, breatholding experimentation (held underwater, plastic bag), etc.) in any and all ways an unstable mind and think of. My vision has her grabbed and her clothes ripped off her by about 20 inmates ( twenty sets of hands all at once). Being in a hospital she can scream all she wants as they grope and poke at her until they tire of hearing her anguished cries, then gag her. Raped and covered in 20 plus loads (simulated of course in Rick’s vids) on her face.

Rick’s already has some of the props such as an exam table/bench from vids like the dentist(?) and I’m sure he can get about 20 male participants to play the inmates ( the numbers are important as in my vision I see the multiple hands grabbing and ripping all at once). For the chance to work with the pretty young ladies Rick uses I’m sure he can get participants to do it for free. Without getting too long I can see the inmates later invading an office to get a hold of another female victim or two. And to keep everybody happy just make sure at some point they end up barefoot while restrained ( or better yet hung upside down). Just some more thoughts

Later.

AvF: I really like that idea! Of course, the strapped-in-for-electric-shock scene has been done to Lisa several times (most notably in "Whiplash 4: The Whip-Shock Experiments") but I really like this angle. Has anyone ever seen the movie "Midnight Ride"? If not, track it down and check it out! In the movie, a mental patient (played by none other than Star Wars' Mark Hamill!) kidnaps a beautiful woman, ties her up and gags her in her car, and takes her to the same medical office where his doctor had previously given him electro therapy to cure him of his murderous desires. Since his victim had spurned his marriage proposal, he decides that she needs some of this treatment to "fix her brain". He straps her down to a bed, gags her mouth with medical tape, hooks up electrodes to her temples and zaps her with some shock treatment. It's a great bondage/torture scene in a mainstream movie. This guy's a nut and a murderer and that gives the scene an extra edge, since you don't know how far he's going to take it.

Anyway, I look at your idea, and I think of that scene in "Midnight Ride", coupled with "Whiplash 4" and maybe the scene near the end of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" when the mental patients take over the asylum and do whatever they want to do. I think your idea is brilliant! Seriously, I think Rick could pull this off, even if he doesn't have the budget to afford 20 male actors for the shoot. If he needs extras, I, for one, would willingly make the drive out there to go work with Lisa for free. It would be a blast! And I think I could pull off the sex-crazed psycho role without even trying :)

Later.

Nevada Nick is Nick Long, who appeared in several ZFX tapes with his real-life slave, Kerri Downs. He's a good guy and the ZFX vids he sells are also originals. He frequently sells them on eBay, and if you're lucky, you could get them at a good price, although bidding often takes off near the end of auctions and you end up paying more if you really want it.

Video Connection out of Philadelphia has been my source for ZFX videos for the past several years. I used to get them as low as $29.99, but I think the price I paid for "Dark Offering" was closer to the $40 mark. Just make sure you aren't paying something like $19.99 or $9.99 because at that price, you're surely buying an inferior dupe, and ripping off ZFX at the same time.

To answer your question (which you have probably forgotten by now - sorry) a cat tag is just my made-up name for a dog-tag on a ring attached to a girl's pussy.

Joe X.

Once again I turn to the many connaisseurs that frequent this excellent board.

I'm looking for an old HOM BD-Classic or Punnished (or something along those lines) that may be on one of the forementioned titles (I have several of both series, but not all). It has an excellent electro tortuere, and a cute blond girl. Part of the title (as I remember it) is "110 volt".

No more details available, unfortunately.

Anybody????

Damien

Incidentally, that was one of those HOM loops that I added actual sound effects to years ago, back when I was still creative :) I made a completely new audio track for it, including the actual screaming and the zapping effects when he shocks her. Plays a lot better than that generic music that you get with the video, but of course, the actual loops were totally silent. Just imagine if they were being made today, with the advent of all that high-quality video we have today. Trouble is, no one in this PC environment makes the kind of entertainment that HOM used to put out, other than ZFX. We just have to be patient and wait for Rick to put out another title. Anyone else remember how rough bondage tapes used to be in the 1970s? The Cole loops? Erotic Perversion? Needles stuck in tits, spiked dildos in pussies, electric shock to the nipples, hanging girls from meathooks in the pussies...man, they did everything vile and perverse to their victims back then. It was really the Golden Age in the 1970s and early 80s, back when you could get away with anything.

Okay, now this is just wrong. all the DVD talk here made me have a dream the other night about a ZFX DVD release. It was Alien Probe 2 (and no, I don't know why), and the DVD had special features, like outtakes, on it. The menu had letters that sort of floated, moving just slightly on the screen. The color of the letters was sort of golden. The font was sort of gooey, dripping-looking, like in a horror movie. That's all I remember.

Ya, I know, freaky. You guys are clearly a bad influence!

I'm signing off now, before the "Pot and kettle" jokes start up...

Peace!

Iago

Ralphus~With your descriptive rememberance of the good 'ol days, would like to ask the board for assistance once again. Does anyone remember a company called RDF or RFD Company. They had a catalog with about 50 movies which were really hard core (meaning sex, bondage and elements of what Ralphus mentioned.....pins in the breasts, augers or wooden dildoes in-between the legs, hangins, etc.). I only had a chance to get one of their tapes and thought it was a little too extreme for me but remember them having some good looking ladies and some stories of interest. By the time I got my courage up enough to give them another try they disappeared. Anyone have any info anyone?

Later.

JJ~What about Beta-max man?

Special thanks to Boulder for his excellent link. Lie AvF, I would like some more details on tne exact contents on the tapes. Are any of the shorts also on the BD-Classics??? Boulder??? Anyone???

Damien

Au revoir!

Only one ZFX video? You have some catching up to do. ZFX has made well over 100 tapes (don't know how many for sure; I've never counted them) and you can count on the girls being stringently bound in every one of them. As far as onscreen binding goes, to be honest, Rick Masters doesn't show that as often as I would like. Maybe because it slows the pace down, I don't know. Some of his ropework is quite ingenious, and I'll bet it takes a while to put his actresses into particular binds. One of my dreams would be to follow Rick around with a video camera during the filming of one his tapes, watching him tie up the performers and direct his scenes. I think it would fascinating! How about a documentary called "Behind The Scenes At ZFX: The Making of Ballista 3"? Maybe that will be an extra on the DVD when his next show comes out. See, this is what perverts dream about :)

Anyway, as far as elaborate bondage to the victim comes to mind, there are really too many good ones to list. One of my favorite ZFX bondage positions was in "Vacum". To illustrate the bondage, I borrowed some stills from ZFX's site and put together my own quickie website for the group. Click on the Homepage URL above. It was a short scene; the actual binding wasn't shown, but look at the end results! Lisa Kinkaid is standing in bondage; her ankles are tied together, her wrists tied behind her, and a rope around her neck keeps her in a very uncomfortable position. Plus that, her nipples are actually tied with ropes leading off to the sides. Pretty awesome scene, I thought.

Who else would like to see more onscreen tying in ZFX tapes? I vote yes for it. I've always been of the theory that getting there is half the fun :)

zee-ef-ex

Oh, no way! I hate it when the girl is unconscious! Maybe you could chloroform her to knock her out, but it should just be long enough to subdue her. I want to see her squirming in the chair (or wherever) while she's being tied. She should try to fight back, but lose, of course! :-) The ropes are too strong to allow her to get free, and then the villain can really go to work on her. But when she's unconscious, there's no struggle, no fun; you might as well be tying up a mannequin IMO. I know others prefer the sleepy-girl approach but it just doesn't ring true for me. Who else has an opinion about this?

Even in unescapable ropes, the victims never should surrender, always fight back, struggle, protest etc.

Like Penelope Page, for instance, in Subject 9 (part 2). In all of the tape (well....not in the rather disappointing ending) she never has any hopes on escape, yet never surrenders. (PP also acted this out very well in The Hitchiker). Or Keri Downs in Surgical Strike. Also helpless during the entire tape, but never giving up fighting.

Acting skills have a lot to do with portraying scenes like that in a satisfying ay, of course. Other actresses (Brigitte Bayonet, for instance) might as well be unconcious during the whole tape (and, for that matter, locked up in a closet so we don't have to be witness of the poor acting skills). Damien

As far as ZFX acting goes, Penelope's effort in that one is about as good as it gets, IMHO.

I'm curious which new ZFX vid you chose to purchase after reading my review? Since I've been writing them, Rick has made four tapes that could possibly make my list of all-time best: the two Ballistas, Forced Entry and South of the Border 4.

As for the unconscious issue. I love a good struggle but I see zee-ef-ex's point in you really can't have a realistic on screen tying unless you're either out numbered or unconscious. One on one it's almost impossible to show a realistic take down and tying. At one point the victim has to give in so she can be tied while trying to look like she's really struggling. One on one it isn't pulled off effectivly very often as you would have to either risk injury to attacker or victim at one point to make it look real. Realistically when the attacker is tying up his victim's hands she could scream. If he gags her first, she's still fighting too much. Even if the gag's in place and he's in the process of tying her hands, a well placed kick, either forwards or back, can really ruin the mood so to speak.

I sometimes like to see on screen tying along with on screen stripping of the victim, but as have said, really love a good struggle. For that reason I really don't have anything against having the victim unconscious in the right circumstances. That's why I like a good strangulation (Like in forced entry....even though Lisa was way too passive. After all she dosen't know it's not going to be finale.). A really good blood and guts struggle before she passes out and he can get to the business of stripping and tying.

Later.

I do however respectfully disagree with your rating of "Forced Entry." I would have preferred more sex scenes and more stringent ropework. I thought the ropework a little lax (both on the bed with LK and in the kitchen with LK/JL) and the lack of dialogue to take away from the overall product. But I do admit you state both pros and cons when you review the films. If you wish I'll certainly give you my views on Vacum after I watch it. BTW, are Vacum and Toolbox Abductions the same type of plot? Au revoir, FC

AvF: Sorry about the delay concerning that loop you mentioned but I wanted to be sure before I answered. I have no idea if RDF put this out, but it was one of the aforementioned "Cole Loops" that I talked about earlier. It is called "Perversion House" and it is the final segment of the excellent compilation tape Erotic Perversion. Your description was right on target, plus there was also a nice section where the villain fastens a spiked strap between the legs of the unfortunate damsel. Like all the other segments in EP, it is typically harsh, bloody and not for the squeamish. That was why I loved it! I have several stills from it in my voluminous collection that I have so far been unable to locate. When I do find them, I will pass them along.

BTW, if anyone else has never seen Erotic Perversion, it may well be the very best collection of torture loops ever put together in one video. It was undoubtedly inspiration for some of ZFX's finest moments.

French Charley: By all means, give us your review of Vacum after you see it. IMO, the best parts are the ones with Lisa Kinkaid when she's the sole victim: some memorable scenes in this one. It's definitely worth seeing.

As far as the plot of Vacum compared with Toolbox Abductions, yes, they are very similar. We can't blame Rick for repeating himself once or twice, can we? Besides, both tapes are worth seeking out, although the sequel to Toolbox Abductions is even better than the original.

Searchin' D: Regarding the URL to Hank Hobbs' ZFX Vidcap site, click on the URL above in my Homepage URL.

BTW, Hank e-mailed me the other day and said he hasn't done much on the ZFX site because the store in his area that rents ZFX tapes went out of business. Well, the following announcement should come as very good news to anyone who wants to see older ZFX but can't afford the forty bucks it takes to buy them new. Go to this URL below:

www.zfx-shockwave.com

They now rent all the older ZFX and Shockwave vids for $11 each. And this is an official ZFX distributor so you are not going to get stuck with a dupe from these people. The site is run by former ZFX performers Nick Long and Kerri Downs. I hope this won't take away from ZFX's actual sales, but it is a boon to his fans that want to see the older stuff but simply can't afford it.

Cathy: The girl in Liza Cord was one of the favorites of many on this board. Her name was Amy Van Allen and she sadly only appeared in a handful of ZFX vids.

Offering my services as a tour guide, might I suggest "South of the Border -IV, Atrocities". You are absolutely right in the fact that each ZFX movie offers fans a different mix of what keeps them coming back for more. With SOB-IV, RM hit dead on for this reporters discerning tastes. The ultimate "woman in prison"/ interrogation film with Lisa Kinkaid's finest performances and the wonders of Kelly Mckay...well, I can go on and on (and have), but I would be remiss if I did not point you towards the promised land. Godspeed pilgrim!

Au revoir, FC

Ralphus' (Ralphus's....Ralphi's?)post made me wonder....who was Ricks main influences when he started making his vids? And....it's been a while since Lisa has posted. Any chance of her doing another on-line interview in the near future? Or maybe someone else, established or newbie. Be interseting to hear what a first timer thought of her experience during the filming.

Later.

French Charlie: If you like Lisa, I'd recommend Voodoo Dolls 1 and 2. Lisa looks great, as usual.

zee-ef-ex