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[La Reine Margot]

Once Upon A Time … Outdoors



This is a little bit part of The Big Plan and The Moving On related posts, it includes the Outdoors Crucifixion subject of late.

In a post I recovered, from April, 10, 2013, we wrote this:

– We started April preparing to shoot a big scene for Dead But Dreaming. Jac was planning to shoot that scene for the second part of the trilogy, but something happened on the way to the final cut of the movie.

The creative process is such that sometimes, if not most of the time, the film itself begins to dictate what to do. That happened to Jac not long ago. He was in the middle of cutting some scenes when the film cried out for Mila’s scene, or part of it, at least.

That led to a sudden decision. To shoot the scene that was held back for the next part of the the series.

In Amy’s words: The scene will be somewhat elaborate, it’s the story of how Mila Joya’s character, a slave who is falsely accused of theft, whipped and crucified for the enjoyment of her mistress’s guests, becomes a vampire.

Jan and Amy went location scouting and Amy captured the event on her iPad. She posted the result in her Youtube channel.



You can read the full post here:

https://redfeline.com/chronicles/2013/0 ... big-scene/

10 years later, in 2023, we used this location for Seditiosa and we’re planning to use it again for some scenes in Erix film Aventura and for most of the Crucified Four movies.

Jac was considering using this far away location for some quickies… but then he had a conversation with Erix, who wanted to shoot some kind of promo for his movie with a few shots of the scenes he wants at that place. It would involved the crew and the cast on those elaborate shots.

Jac said to Erix, why not just shoot the freaking movie? Why use the time, the expense, the effort just to shoot a promo? Shoot the movie and use the footage for your promo.

Those ruminations were bouncing off Jac’s mind walls when he considered, for a brief moment, about making a few quickies back there. But then he told himself why not just make a big movie. It’s costly to get there, it takes a long time, and it’s better to think of big movies to be produced in that excellent location.

It’s not the same as the not so far away location used for Maleficarum, Romana Crucifix Est and Via Crucis of Mila.



Another interesting conversation on that old post was about the risks the actresses take in Jac’s movies.

Camille was the first to put herself to a lot of perils and suffering for her and Jac’s art.

This is what we posted back then:

– I remember one time, a while ago, one of Camille’s fans wrote to me in a tone that I thought was very concerned and not without certain aggressivity, inquiring about Camille’s health after seeing one of the videos. At another time, another of Camille’s fans wrote to her asking how long does it take to heal after being nailed. My point is that we do make things look too real and in some cases the stars of our movies do suffer for their art, as YikYakker: reminds us:

Amy Hesketh has spoken about enduring pain for her art – such as having to get a back massage or gulp down a few Motrins – but I can enjoy her scenes more knowing that she also takes precautions.

What we would never do is to put anyone in extreme danger. Amy puts it thus: what we do is not different from what extreme sports enthusiasts do. They run risks but do it with proper precautions.



The most extreme case in our productions is, without a doubt, the roasting scene in Maleficarum, as Ralphus notes:

I was the one who commissioned that Amy get roasted on a spit over hot coals in Maleficarum, and I would have felt horrible if she had really gotten burned or overcome with smoke during the filming. But she took precautions and emerged relatively unscathed, except for some major bruising where she was tied and some overall soreness afterward. Suffering for her art. I appreciate that.

Amy suffered for her art in that occasion as in many others, but she was never in extreme peril, more like reckless endangerment, and the entire team was ready to act if it became necessary. However the coals below did their work as the ropes did their’s. In addition the heat of the sun was on her as well. She was being cooked alive. The fact that the suffering was real to a large extent, even if she was never in mortal danger, still the distress was.

Ralphus notes again that:

on the other hand, it excites me more to know that what I was seeing was real…it wasn’t a skillfully portrayed illusion. She really was being roasted and feeling the heat. …that’s a big turn-on, too.

She’s willing to take some risks, while Jac will work to minimize them.



We have Ligia willing to suffer a lot of her are, including taking some high risks during her three crucifixions in Crucified Four, Dani, Mila and Simonne already did suffer a lot, many times, so we’ll see how things work out from now until August.

We were asked when will we post pictures of Mila and Dani trying their costumes. My response was when they are ready. That response was not received well.

Cruxlover24: It’s not good to have this kind of answer, looks like in your crew they have no idea of what to do. And just want to ask for money and do not do what you “promise” to do. So far no interesting news about those films… just post surrounded by “mystery” leading to nowhere. And now this, just show that you guys have no idea about what you are doing.

So many things happened the last few weeks that we had some unexpected difficulties. The costume for the priestess is ready but Mila could not try it on because she had an accident that affected her foot, she can’t walk, she can’t wear shoes, so she’s home. She’ll try it on when she can.

The costume for the warrior, Dani, is not ready. It’s a complicated costume, it has to look very good and that takes time and effort. Maybe in a couple of weeks.

We’re no longer fundraising for Crucified Four and I mentioned that in my previous posts, and I also commented that I won’t be discussing much about new projects until we resolve some issues like the financing, locations, cast, crew, and everything else. However, the plan is to shoot Crucified Four beginning in August. We have a lot of work until then.

I’ll keep posting about our projects, past and present, and if there’s something interesting about any of our future projects, I will comment about that, but not like before when I spent a lot of time trying to convince people to support Crucified Four without success. My task will be promoting what we have and what is to come.

What will help us get near production is if we sell enough of our movies.

https://movies.redfeline.com/

[La Reine Margot]

I have a nice announcement to make.

Our tech person just gave us the great news that I can embed videos now.

Apparently it was alway possible but something had to be installed, configured and so on. It means that there's a lot of other stuff that we don't have that we might get.

Isn't that nice?

Ok, and now.... drum roll.....

A VIDEO!

A clip promoting 69 Anneé Érotique



Soon you will all see a lot of new and fun stuff.

[La Reine Margot]

Moving On – Baby Steps



We’re very much committed to the new cycle with all its uncertainties and possibilities, nothing is set on stone although we are having some accomplishments, mostly small, maybe even tiny, but even if they are baby steps, we’re advancing.

Too many things have to be taken care of so the work never stops, but it is not as some years back when everything had some kind of rhythm and we went from one production to another with relative ease and things were planned out nicely, even if not all plans turned out ok. It’s different now and for many reasons.

Back in the old days, like 2013, May, to be precise, I posted about what was happening then in these words:

Well, those who live in the midwest know what a tornado looks like, am I wrong? If you live in Florida, you are familiar with hurricanes. Ok, I’m looking for a word that describes what’s happening in our world right now. Voragine, comes close. It all started some time ago when we found a link to Awesome Scream Queens and found that Amy was named Awesome Scream Queen of The Week. We couldn’t be more thrilled.

In addition, Amy was offered to work on a new film: Succubi. It’s been already announced:

We are very pleased to announce that the great American Scream Queen, Amy Hesketh, will be joining the cast in the new film, Succubi. Amy is well-known in the world-wide horror genre and you can connect with her official facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/amyhesketh Look out in the next issue of Awesome magazine for a special feature on Amy and much more.

Amy worked on a photo session for that film that never happened. The people that were organizing it just couldn’t pull it off so that was that, but it was a cool idea and the pictures Amy made with Jac were pretty cool.

What happened back then is that we worked on the last scenes and the released of Dead But Dreaming and worked on raising funds to produce Olalla.

Some issues were very similar to what is happening now, there were discussions about The Big Production Values movies vs the Smaller Red Feline films. We posted then:

Dead But Dreaming has become the most anticipated movie of the year… for our fans, of course. The world will learn about it in due time.

Falstaff: Like most others here I am a big fan of Red Feline and am enthusiastic over their new found “main stream” success. However, I recently revisited some of the Via Crucis De Camille productions, Seven Days on the Cross, and Aristo Crux – it is a shame that similar efforts may be abandoned while they focus on the main stream effort – if for no other reason than the number of productions will be sufficiently reduced.

Jac too is very fond of the work he did with Camille, but what he did then it was with the intention of what he’s doing now. The beautiful thing is that all that personal work, because it was very personal and intimate, gave birth to what is happening now. His heart, Amy’s heart are on the GIMP element in their movies and they are not backing out.

A point. When Jac was releasing the old movies we had the Red Feline Club where he would write the story behind the videos. It is the same now, except that he no longer writes the story behind the movies, the story IS in the movies. Like in Dead But Dreaming, or Maleficarum.

But I have to admit that there’s something very special about those past efforts. In fact, I know that Jac misses doing them once in a while. But our number of productions are not really reduced. All the previous work was done between 1996 and 2009, that’s a long time That’s about 1 1/2 per year. We’re producing 2 to 3 features a year now, that’s not a small number.



You can read the entire post here: https://redfeline.com/chronicles/2013/0 ... or-part-i/

We’re almost at the end of May, 2025, and facing similar issues. Big Production Values films getting ready for release, smaller Red Feline movies are in post and at least two big movies in pre production. And some discussions as well

wanttoknowmore Nice costumes for the Crux 4 so far. If I recall correctly, Simmonne is to be stripped after bring arrested. I hope there are some designed in tear seams in her dress. It is far to nice to be damaged in the event.

Also, from reading some of the plot outlines, a number of scenes of the films sound like they can be filmed indoors. Plans to do that? I would think that can lower overall production cost and mitigate weather issues somewhat.

The costumes will be preserved for future productions. They will fall off nicely once some adjustments are made around the shoulders.

As far as all the interior scenes, yes, that will help during bad weather. The sentencing of all four protagonist, for instance, will be interiors and with very few actors.

There are scenes in the temple of Isis and Anubis, like the scene when Decius, pretending to be Anubis, walks down from his altar to engage in sex with Paulina, an event is planned by the priestess Ide, who will pay with her life on the cross for that most serious of transgressions against a noble Roman woman.



I don’t mean it has to look like the picture above, that looks awesome but complicated, but it has to have some of those elements and that will cost some money and some location scouting time.

The first series of tortures The Warrior suffers after her capture are also interiors. Not to mention the poisoning of the Governor, the rape of the Slave, the beating of the Priestess and so on.

However, indoors shooting does not lower the costs of production. Set decoration can be at very high cost, specially if the films are set in some specific time period, like the Roman Empire times. There’s also the issue of the proper location. We have an idea of what the temple should look like.

The crucifixions will be all outdoors but not as public as Seditiosa, very few people will be involved. There’s only one large scene where there will be a good number of people. That’s the opening scene for the Slave movie, when she’s capture and where all the characters for the four movies are introduced. Parts of that big scene will also be used at the beginning of the other three movies but only segments of it.

I’ll have more details about that when I get them and I will probably post them in the open forum.

Cruxlover24 Hi Margot, I have a question regarding the last movie you guys were shooting. Is it gonna be available soon?

If you mean the last movie we produced and it’s almost ready for release, that would be 69 Anneé Érotique. The other films we are producing, in the CruXbound Series, only one is complete, CruXbound IV – Sabina, with Simonne. The other three are having a hard time getting done for too many reasons to go over in this post. Maybe in the next one.

However, we’re preparing two releases, 69 Anneé Érotique and Agent Honey Trap, which are at different stages of their post production right now, I will be announcing the release dates as soon as I get that info.

While we work on all those projects, we have some short films that we made when preparing to shoot Monxa Mala. Before the shooting of the movie the protagonists worked on some kind of rehearsals, which are very nice and sexy. We were showing them at our Patreon site and we thought maybe some people would like to buy them. With that in mind we just released one of those films, the one with Dani, who does a wonderful job of suffering stretched on the rack.



You can get the complete session in the film we titled: Dani Suffers The Rack for Monxa Mala.
https://movies.redfeline.com/Dani-Suffe ... a/p/204275

It’s in our store now on its HD version.



https://movies.redfeline.com/Dani-Suffe ... a/p/204275

[La Reine Margot]

Moving On – The Need To Jump



There are times when having a nice walk can be the best way of approaching life, sometimes there’s the need to run, and run fast, we had days like that, specially the time when Jac had to screen Krik? Krak!, his very fist film, at the Cannes Film Festival, and the date was approaching and with only a few days left, he had to have the first copy of the film ready, celluloid copy, of course, to jump in a plane to Portugal, to have it subtitled to French in a very strange subtitling lab where they did not speak English, then take the train to Paris and then to Cannes, with the fresh subtitled copy, and prepare for the Premiere screening of his very first film in the most famous film festival in the world where he shared strange moments with Klaus Kinski. He should tell that story one day.

I think it took three days to accomplish all that. Really. The screening was a success, Graham Greene, the most famous British writer, was Jac’s special guest and they sat together, front row seats, to watch Krik Krak. The film got an amazing review in Cahiers Du Cinema, the most important film magazine in the world. Everything was just amazing. Not bad for a first film.

Krik? Krak! carries the political documentary into the realm of the fantastic. The story of Haiti’s misery under two generations of Duvaliers is told impressionistically, mingling absolutely extraordinary documents of daily life, (including an interview with Papa Doc himself, and scenes from fiction films), to convey what a straightforward documentary cannot: the continual shifts between levels of reality in Haitian life, some of which are inaccessible to the camera, in particular, the omnipresence of the Voodoo religion.

-Bill Khron – Cahiers Du Cinema

I said, a few times before, that I’m rescuing some lost posts to return them to our Red Feline Chronicles site. As I engage in this worthy task, I come across some amazing comments I made and some even more amazing comments other people made about our work.

One of those comments is kind of beautiful in many ways:

Actually, what is happening now, the attention Amy and Jac are getting is BECAUSE of the bloody boundaries they are breaking. A jungle scenario, with tons of GIMP, it’s what they are all about. What brought all the attention in the first place was Maleficarum and what is bringing the attention now is Barbazul.

As I was typing this words, Amy was tagged in a post by none other than the director of a famous Hollywood horror film festival, describing her enthusiasm after discovering Amy in Fangoria. Her words:

Amy Hesketh’s Bolivian horror film BARBAZUL (BLUEBEARD) got some coverage in Issue 323 of Fangoria Magazine, and I’m super pleased because I was not aware of her amazing filmmaking career.
Her extensive list of horror-and-historically-inspired films reads like a 1970s Spanish horror film collection, or maybe like the accumulated works of a darker, more sadistic Anna Biller. (…) Like Karen Lam, Catherine Breillat, Lisa Hammer, Anna Biller, and Heidi Lee Douglas, Hesketh is taking fairy tales and retelling them as darker, more sensual tales.

What is very, very nice and intriguing is that these gimpy films are written up about in top magazines.

You can read the entire post here: https://redfeline.com/chronicles/2013/0 ... part-deux/

Going back in time can be rewarding. It’s easy to forget all that action from that one year, 2013, at a time when it appears there’s not much action.

Amy and Jac won’t try to appeal to the masses. Maleficarum, the big hit, was never conceived as a production for the masses. Neither is Dead But Dreaming, with its lengthy whipping and rape scenes… not to mention all that nudity and blood. As the editor of Fangoria said recently in a facebook post:

Amy Hesketh’s BLUEBEARD is fantastic….full of the same meandering longing and sensuality of the best of Jess Franco, with beautiful languid scenery, creepy and earthy latin flavored music and a great central turn by the Bolivian Al Pacino, Jac Avila, as a romantic psychopath. I am now an Amy Hesketh fan and so should you be. Just a jumping off point…this is very erotic and breezy …again, think sunny daylit Franco or Jean Rollin….cheerful and depraved…

I think Jac and Amy are very happy to be doing what Jess and Jean Rollin did in their time with tons of eroticism and depravity… and GIMP.



Those memories from the past have a way of getting in our collective heads as the team stumbles along for the best part of this year.

We’re moving on, a lot of our time is dedicated to set things up for the future, lining up the priorities, identifying the possible obstacles ahead. Life is full of obstacles of all kinds and the present circumstances, both local and international conditions, affect what we do and what we’re planning to do.

2025 is one of the most difficult years we faced, maybe not as difficult for us as 2005 was, twenty years ago! Time runs fast. That year began with incredible difficulties and ended with amazing outcomes, one of which was Jac’s encounter with Amy to begin a totally new cycle.

We are approaching the middle of June at a vertiginous velocity… and that’s kind of crazy. And we’re entering the middle of the year! That’s crazier!!



2005 ended in a completely unexpected way. We worked for NatGeo in a project that brought Amy into our team and Jac’s life. The work took a new life, it went into areas that seemed very far before, our production values became far more sophisticated and our reach got wider. By 2013 we were the subject of so many interesting discussions. One of them came to me these days:

Falstaff: Its great to see the leap they are making into the main stream market, but from a purely selfish perspective I miss the production output of the “old days.” Just as an aside, the similarity between all Jac’s beautiful leading ladies kind of reminds me of John Derek, with Ursula Andress, Linda Evans and Bo – each seemingly a younger version of their predecessor – and all amazing. It has been, and continues to be a joy to watch the continuing evolution of the Red Feline Family.

I think Jac prefers a comparison to Roger Vadim. The similarities are striking. There’s the French leading ladies: Brigitte and Carmen, Catherine Denueve and Vero, and of course the North Americans Jane Fonda and Amy. The Red Feline family continues to evolve, however, so there’s always room for more to come.



It’s fascinating to see those pictures together. The eery likeness of the women, particularly that of Veronique and Catharine Denueve.

When Jac met Vero, the first thing that came to his head was the striking resemblance to the famous French actress, famous for Belle De Jour, amongst other great films.

Vero was 17 at the time and yet, there was some maturity in her looks. Later on, three years later, when Jac began to work with her, it was totally obvious that she really looked like Denueve. Vero was just as beautiful.

There are other beautiful women working with Jac now, all of them having an impact in our growing audience, generating new discussions.



As we move on into the new cycle and our work gets a new look and takes on new, open roads, we wonder what surprises are ahead, what new faces, what new unexpected projects. We are facing changes, right now, changes that will be difficult at times, exciting at other times, and all that is keeping us at the edge of our seats.

I can still respond to some of the queries we receive, but I’m sure that it will be more difficult in the near future, maybe even in my next post.

Cruxlover24: You were shooting a new film with Mila and Dani, you were posting some info about this new work.

I clarified in my post the following: The other films we are producing, in the CruXbound Series, only one is complete, CruXbound IV – Sabina, with Simonne. The other three are having a hard time getting done for too many reasons to go over in this post. Maybe in the next one.



One of those CruXbound films is the one with Dani, in the lead role, and Mila as her punisher. For some obscure reason, there were problems after problems after problems, the latest an accident Mila had that kept her at home for three weeks. She’s still recovering and has a lot of personal issues to resolve, all the things she couldn’t do because of that incident. Maybe she’ll be ready to work in the next couple of weeks. Big maybe.

This year began with plans that didn’t work out, lots of them, like a trip Jac was going to take to New York in January, for a few weeks, and couldn’t for reasons I’m not going to discuss. But the preparations for that trip, the work after the trip was cancelled, made things difficult for a while. When he was ready to return to work, Dani had many personal and work issues to resolve, and when she was ready, Mila had problems, and that went in circles … it’s been like that for the best part of the last 5 months.

Which gave Jac, who is not superstitious, reasons to think that maybe the CruXbound project is not meant to be… at all. Maybe it’s better to just let it go and move on to other, more doable things. That’s where he is now.


You can get the film we titled:

Dani Suffers The Rack For Monxa Mala

It’s in our store now on its HD version.



https://movies.redfeline.com/dani-suffe ... a/p/204275

[La Reine Margot]

Moving On – The Meaning



“Moving on” typically means progressing forward, whether in a physical location, in a task or activity, or in one’s mental or emotional state. It can also refer to starting something new after the end of something old, such as a job, relationship, or situation.

In our case it means moving on from one cycle to another. For some esoteric reason every 10 years comes the need for us to end and begin a new cycle. It happened back in 2005, again in 2015 and it’s happening now, 2025. It’s some kind of renewal, maybe spiritual, maybe psychological, maybe just historical.

At the end of 2005 Camille was moving away from our work to pursue other artistic interests, at the end of 2015 it was Amy who was moving away from her intense work as an actress director and into academia… and now, 2025 there are some changes happening that are marking the end of a cycle and the beginning of another one. Some in our team might be moving into other pursuits and another might even be moving out of the country.

We’re in the middle of the year, the changes will be clearer when we reach the end of the year.



Some of those most likely changes have to do with funding. We have a sustainable system which allows us to keep on going, but that is not enough to fund new big projects and we learned at the end of last year, that our fundraising campaigns, which were good before, are no longer a viable alternative to obtain enough funds to produce a big project like Crucified Four or Maleficarum Excruciati.

That’s one of the issues that is taking a lot of our concentration, we’re in the complicated process of setting up new sources of income. Some interesting suggestions came our way:

danborn: Margot, seems to this interested long-time observer that Alex Bald, well-known crux-video producer-member of this community, provides a can’t-miss example of how to raise significant cash by simply hanging naked sweaty Russian hotties on crosses in genuinely strenuous positions for 10 to 30 minutes at a ‘stretch’, and selling the multi-camera edits for 20-30 bucks apiece on Clips4Sale and NicheClips.

For over 25 years we have been selling our movies, regularly, daily, and with some success. None of the films lost money and the average earning is around 3 to 1, although some films sold a lot more. I could say 20 to 1, if not a lot more.

We know of clips4sale existence, we never considered it as a place where to sell our films, or clips of our films, but if the ‘significant cash‘ raised by Bald is truly significant, we could give it a try. Maybe breaking some of our films into short clips, like 10 minutes bits to see how it works. We could consider that as one of the ways we could explore to increase our resources with the goal of producing big films like Maleficarum Excruciati or Crucified Four, where we need some complicated sets.

danborn: Substitute ‘South American’ for ‘Russian’ and dare I say this suggestion is right in Jack’s wheelhouse? Call it the ‘casting cross’, every girl has to demonstrate her ability to theatrically suffer NAKED for the camera, before earning consideration for upcoming roles. Of course this may take more than one, perhaps SEVERAL attempts, all under the strict coaching of Master Jack!!! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ just an idea…

We don’t really do Crucifixion castings. We do castings for the roles we need in our films and one or two actresses may be willing to play the more difficult roles, like in the case of Ligia, who came for the casting call for a role in Seditiosa. She worked on the film, saw what Dani, Mila and Simonne went through in the film and mentioned that she was willing to go through all that and more. She did some nude scenes for 69 Anneé Érotique, later an XtremeCrux movie and she will have the chance of a great crucifixion role in Crucified Four.



I think breaking down the films we have into clips could work better if we consider putting them in clips4sale. We have over 50 films, if we break them into 10 minute clips, each film will have something like 10 clips which will bring a total of over 500 clips… that sounds interesting. We might even give it a try with a couple of clips and see how it goes.

In the meantime the post production for some of our films is ongoing but the production of other, more simple films in terms of production values is on hold. There are some current comments on that subject.

Cruxlover24 I would love act dead after being impaled like Dani did in Cruxtreme III. I loved the way Jac made her suffer! They both worked so Good. Are we going to have some other projects with just the two of them?

They did some very good work, just the two of them. It takes a lot of trust to engage in work like CruXtreme III. But apart from that, it takes a lot of coordination and, if possible, a whole week or two of every day work.

It also takes a lot of inspiration, imagination, and motivation. That can only be attained if the actress is also a muse who inspires the director to go wherever the imagination takes him.

It’s clear from past work that Dani embodies all those demanding needs for doing some excellent work. I can only say that if all the conditions mentioned above are in place, there will be more of that kind of intimate creative work for the two of them.



And finally, a couple of years before the end of a cycle, we published in one those posts I’m recovering about the premiere we had for Dead But Dreaming, the great vampire movie that in the eyes of a well known writer:

Jac Avila’s Dead but Dreaming does for Vampire Films what Coppola’s Apocalypse Now did for War Movies…transforms entertaining and traditionally horrific stories into beautiful works of epic art.

The post continued like this:

The first review came up next day. Not from a critic, we don’t expect reviews from Bolivian critics this time around, as one philosopher who love the film told Beto:

critics won’t touch this movie, I can bet, the best critique is Silence. When they have nothing bad to say, they say nothing.

The review came from a filmmaker, script writer who was at the premiere. He said he was impressed and I quote:

I was impressed at the premiere of Jac Avila’s film because of its audacity, the performances of actors and actresses, the costumes by Amy, the beautiful vampires, the montage, the “racontis”, the moving in space and time, the playing with our patience, the despairing protagonist’s sequence, the flogging to which she’s subjected is torture for the spectator who moves in his chair, unable to put an end to the unrestrained attitude to provoke us…

I could see in the faces of those near me that they were very, very uncomfortable with the scene, but, at the same time, could not take their eyes away from it.


You can read the entire post here: https://redfeline.com/chronicles/2013/0 ... -dreaming/

Cruxlover24 Maybe we can have more movies with Dani in the main role and Jac as the punisher!!! You two are an amazing couple!

In closing, there are many films with Dani in the main role, more to come, and just to clear things a bit, they are not a couple, in the traditional sense of the word, but they do work very well together.

One of the films with Dani in the main role was recently released, it’s Dani Suffers the Rack for Monxa Mala. You can get it now HERE,
https://movies.redfeline.com/us/dani-su ... a/p/204275

[La Reine Margot]

A New Season, A Sale!



It’s terribly cold in Bolivia these days and this week we enter a new season, WINTER!

It means it will get even colder and we need to warm up!

If the weather had been like this back in June and July of 2023 we would not have ventured to shoot Seditiosa. We would’ve postpone the production of the film where three beautiful ladies had to work without clothes for most of it until the harsh winter was over, maybe until August, to prevent having three beautiful sick ladies. Postponing the production would’ve made a lot of people MAD! It would’ve been postpone, for sure. The safety of our actresses is paramount.



This year the winter is a lot colder. Really a lot. Jac was considering shooting some interior scenes with Dani but he doesn’t feel comfortable with the weather the way it is and he definitely doesn’t want Dani to get sick. As a matter of fact Jac has a cold, which he is fighting courageously with little success.

There won’t be any shooting with beautiful ladies without clothes suffering torture in the near future. Most of the work is with computers in cold offices, no central heating in La Paz, with the assistance of cats who also complain about the cold.

Meanwhile, a question came up, to my inbox, which needs responding.

So what is the status of the preparations for the filming of the crux series? All the cast lined up, locations booked, props ready or on order?

Crucified Four, the crux series, is in the pre production stage. The principal cast is lined up, the rest of the cast is pending until we have the results of how much money we have for the film. That will affect the number of people we will be working with and who those people will be.

The principal location is all set, the additional locations are still to be decided, those are mostly interiors. That’s another issue also waiting for the results of how we are doing with the money. There are two specific locations that we might use, which have the elements the film needs, but it depends on whether we can afford them, not just the fees, but also the decorations, the time we will need them for, etc.

The props and costumes are mostly ready, in a couple of weeks we will have Dani’s costume. The principal props for the crucifixions will be set up a couple of days before the production begins. That’s how it normally works.



How the props will look like, how many different crosses will be built and so on depends a lot on the script, the means at hand, the physical possibilities, the capacity of the actresses to work on the conditions set for those crosses, and so on. For instance Ligia has to be crucified upside down for her second crucifixion, and has to be suspended upright with heavy logs nailed to her feet for her third crucifixion. How to manage that will take some work.

I can’t even begin to describe what will happen to Dani in the film. The logistics of how to stage her extremely nasty crucifixion and make it both horribly looking while being safe for her are very difficult and require a lot of planning and elaborate testing.

There will be tests for everything when the time comes, at least one week before production begins, just like there were when we prepared the production of Seditiosa.



A bit of prophetic thinking and foretelling in these difficult days. Botanists speak of “serotiny,” a plant’s ability to delay seed release until the environment is just right. Some pinecones, for instance, only open after a fire. The coming weeks will offer catalytic conditions—perhaps metaphorical heat, perhaps general disruption, perhaps incredible and not anticipated joy—that will be exactly what’s needed to unleash the fertile potency of the coming projects. We have faith that our seeds will draw on their own wild intelligence.

But regardless of what the inner workings of fate plan to do, we must find those funds and that’s what we are dedicating a lot of our working time.

It is unfortunate that we only raised a little over 900 dollars of our 40,000 goal in the months we had our campaign going. That was discouraging to everyone involved and in a way squashed the general enthusiasm for the project.

That’s one reason there are no discussions, no casting calls, no rehearsing, nothing, unlike other times when we had a good number of people preparing a new film like Justine, with a nice sum of money in the bank to be used for the production.



We’re depending on what we have and what we are working on to increase our access to resources.

We are working on a few strategies which take some time and concentration, each with their own demands, methodology, system, possible problems, obstacles, decisions.

We don’t have big investors, which could help reach our goals, and we don’t expect to have them ever. What we have are our films and we’re exploring the different ways we can make them reach a lot more people and that’s that.

We can’t propose films like Crucified Four to major outlets like NatGeo. We can, however, propose to them a costly and major documentary and get a lot of cash for that, a lot of which we can use for our more demanding films. Jac gets paid a lot to produce those, on top of the cost of the production.

A documentary can cost over 100,000 USD. Jac’s first film cost half a million dollars. It was shot with film, the lab work alone cost around 200,000. Lots of traveling. Three different crews, a couple of famous cinematographers… even a symphony orchestra recording the music, expensive.

We will be announcing some possible ways of increasing our funds, in the meantime we have a New Season Sale. 15% Off in you buy two or more of our movies.

We hope to sell many, many films in the next couple of weeks. The SALE will be over next month.

https://movies.redfeline.com



In closing. We don’t have a date to start the production of Crucifed Four. We have the intention to begin sometime in August. The weather will be good between August and October, maybe part of November. The rainy season begins in full in December.

If we get enough resources, or at least it looks like some resources will be forthcoming, we’ll set the date. Once we set the date we’ll proceed to work on completing the casting, preparing the props, beginning rehearsals and all the pre production.

We’re in the dark right now and we’ll be like this for sometime until we launch the new strategies and begin to see the results. In the meantime there’s a song in my head. Que será será, what will be will be.

[MEDIA]]

[La Reine Margot]

Ready for More?



A beautiful review was posted at the Crux Forum and I’d like to share it here and elsewhere:

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BREAKING NEWS!

There is a wonderful new rack torture scene out there. Since it hasn’t gotten any mention in this thread, I take it some of my fellow rack lovers may not know of it. So I will be happy to tell you all about it.

It’s a 14-minute video released a few weeks ago by the Red Feline/VermeerWorks team, led by Jac Avilla. It’s called “Dani Suffers the Rack for Monxa Mala.” It seems to be a rehearsal done in preparation for one of their longer form videos from 2-3 years ago.

This scene is fucking awesome. Seriously! What makes it so awesome? Mostly Dani, the actress.

Her performance, her portrayal of suffering on the rack, is both very convincing and incredibly beautiful. She gets so into her character that she sheds real tears during the torture. Yes, REAL TEARS! I identified with her completely, making my fantasies run wild as they kept me awake half the night.

Plus, Dani is arguably the most classically beautiful actress Jac has had the pleasure working with. She has the face of an angel. And a body that was clearly designed by the gods for two things: pleasure and torture. Dani’s co-stars – her two gorgeous boobs – stand proudly and put on a wonderful performance of their own.

The stretching that is done is quite convincing as well, looking damn painful. Jac whips her a bit, and with a bit more gusto than he is usually known for.

Thankfully, there is no bucket of fake blood all over Dani by the end (something Jac tends to do for some reason), just some beautiful whip marks – this seems to be another improvement, as generally the whip marks in older Red Feline work have never really impressed me.

Honestly, I think this is the hottest rack scene I’ve ever seen. Erotic suffering at its finest.

You can find some promo pics for it in the “News from Margo” thread, although they are spread over several months worth of posts.

You can get the video at their site: https://movies.redfeline.com/

Check it out. I don’t think you’ll regret it. Jackie1111

I might have some issues with a couple of the comments, specially concerning those that mention the buckets of fake blood used on some scenes. But that’s ok. Maybe there are a couple of shots here and there in one or two films where there’s a bit of too much blood for some people’s taste; however most scenes involving whipping in more than 50 films do not have excessive blood, most whipping marks are amazing. Here’s a little example, Dani suffers a tremendous scourging after she’s nailed to a Patibulum, the horizontal crossbeam upon which the condemned person’s arms are extended and either nailed or tied. The whip marks in that scene in CruXtreme II are just as great as in the new release commented here.

It’s worth taking a look!
https://movies.redfeline.com/us/cruxtre ... e/p/152495



And in another matter altogether, a comment at the GIMP Forum involving Roger Corman brought up some nice recollections. Part of the comment mentions some of the famous actors and filmmakers that began their careers with Corman.

Actors who obtained their career breaks working for Corman include Jack Nicholson, Peter Fonda, Bruce Dern, Charles Bronson, Todd Field[184] Michael McDonald, Dennis Hopper, Tommy Lee Jones, Talia Shire, Sandra Bullock, Robert De Niro, and David Carradine, who received one of his first starring film roles in the Corman-produced Boxcar Bertha (1972) and went on to star in Death Race 2000 (along with Sylvester Stallone). Many of Corman’s protegés have paid their mentor homage by awarding him cameos in films, such as in The Godfather Part II,[185] The Silence of the Lambs,[186] Apollo 13,[182] and as recently as the Demme film Rachel Getting Married (2008).

I have a nice anecdote about Corman. Jac was friends with Monte Hellman, a director in his own right, who worked with Corman in many of his films. Back in the early 60’s Monte had a friend, a young man who was considering becoming an actor, Jack Nicholson, who once begged Monte to take him to see how films are made.

Monte took Nicholson to the set where Corman was working on a couple of films with Vincent Price. Corman saw Nicholson and thought that maybe he could play a part in a movie. He cast him as a French soldier in a film with Boris Karlof. The title of the film “The Terror“. Nicholson was awful in this, his very first film.

But Corman kept working with Nicholson in some of the motorcycle films he produced.

Monte Hellman asked Nicholson to star in a film he was going to direct, The Shooting, with the then young beautiful model and film star Millie Perkins, famous for The Diary of Anne Frank. All Nicholson had to do for the most part was to be quietly riding a horse looking mean.



The Shooting went to Cannes, Nicholson took a copy under his arm to that festival, representing the film instead of Hellman, its director. Some people were impressed with Nicholson’s acting in that film, one of them was Peter Fonda who was about to produce Easy Ryder. Nicholson got a great role in that film, his acting was amazing and made Hollywood take notice. The rest is history. Monte told the story of how Nicholson got started to Jac at a festival where they met, in France. Millie Perkins was also at that festival, she was one of the Festival Jurors, Jac was another, and I heard that Millie had a crush on Jac. True story.

The La Gazzette Du Festival mentioned Jac’s participation on that festival in these terms:

…filmmakers like Dennis Hooper (Easy Ryder), Monte Hellman (The Shooting) or Jac Avila (Krik? Krak!) are the stars of a festival like Amiens. (…) They use the best of the cinematographic medium and the power of the image thanks to their sincerity and simplicity

Jac and Millie exchange glances at the Amiens Film Festival.

Cruxlover24 Nice to know that you will still working while getting the funds you need for those big projects. Here at home we hope to Have Dani in the main role of the next Maleficarum.

Dani will play the leading role in Maleficarum Excruciati, suffering the worst of the worst tortures from the moment she gets arrested to it’s incredibly horrific end. The making of that film depends a lot on how much money we will have in the bank.

The film requires some of the most dreadful instruments of torture from the times of the Inquisition. They have to be designed, constructed, tested a few times to make sure they work well and are safe to be used on such amazing actresses like Dani, who is the one who will have to suffer the pains of sitting up in the Judas Cradle, totally naked and after suffering endless torture at The Rack and the Iron Torture Chair. All those nasty instruments of torture have to be built, including The Rack,



Some of those instruments have to be built in the location itself, like what happened during the making of the first Maleficarum.

Once the location was found and it was all set and approved, Amy, who designed the rack and the other instruments, went ahead and built the rack in the location itself, with the help of Mila, while Jac took pictures.

Once built, the rack was tested on Mila first, and then on Amy, the two who were going to suffer the rigors of the Santo Oficio’s Inquisition.

In both cases the rack worked exceedingly well.



We need funds to produce those big films, Crucified Four and Maleficarum Excruciati. We’re not fundraising like we did for Seditiosa, Justine, Olalla. We’re basically hoping to sell our movies in good quantities to generate the funds.

So far we have our stores and Vimeo for some rentals. The stores generate enough money to keep us going, but not enough to invest in big films. It’s really nice to see that films like Maleficarum and Justine generate enough funds to keep us working, however the needs for the production of 5 films with big production values and amazing locations and lots of people, need huge amounts of money and we don’t have a generous producer willing to back the films. We’re not Netflix, but… maybe we can be… maybe.

[media]https://vimeo.com/ondemand/justine2/184244930[/media]

We’re working on at least three new ways of generating money.

The most important is the RFPIX Streaming Channel we’re building. It will cost around 10 bucks per month to join to see all of the films we have, all of them, old and new. If we get 1,000 subscribers, we’re in business. In a couple of months we would have enough funds to make those and other films happen.

The other possible outlet to generate funds is resurrecting The Red Feline Club of old where we had the stories around the movies we were producing, like the story of Red Feline On The Cross.



We also had the Diary of Camille, with great pictures and video clips and more. A lot more, of course. We had a good run, with members paying 10 bucks a month to have access to all of that. It stopped after the crisis that came our way after 9 11, when the restrictions on credit cards became too heavy and we lost for some time the capacity to charge for our films and the membership. Our yearly income that was over 70,000 came crashing down.

We’re working now on setting up The Red Feline Club again, but a lot more sophisticated, with the stories and/or scripts of the many films we have and are planning, exclusive videos of the making of the films, past, present and future, million pictures of the productions, as well as some of the films themselves as the site grows in number. It would be a very exciting place to go to and if we have enough members joining, we would have funds to cover the production of future films.



Another possible source of funding we’re considering and started to set up is clips4sale. Apparently they have over 100,000 people visiting them and they do promote a lot by email and in their site. If we get a tiny percentage of those people to buy our clips on a regular basis, we can have some good funds to cover new productions.

All three of those possible scenarios take a lot of work, tons of thinking, arranging, organizing, setting up. They are complicated in a million ways but if any or all of those possible scenarios work, then we’ll have more than enough funds to produce big time.

We don’t have good experiences with Patreon for different reasons, but the most annoying is that they “hide” some of our posts because of their content, too graphic, in what they consider a ‘porn‘ way. Not because of the nudity, apparently, but for the most graphic pictures or videos we post, like Dani’s intro to Talissa The Warrior in Crucified Four. All the other intros are there, not Talissa’s. Be the judge.



That’s part of the plan.

We’re considering opening the club with a One Year membership of 100 US for those interested in supporting our plans to make Crucified Four and Maleficarum Excruciati. If we get enough people joining, we’ll be able to pay for those and all future productions while those members will get exclusive Making of Movies, clips and films, like the testing of the torture instruments. Imagine the testing of the Judas Cradle of the Iron Torture Chair, as well as exclusive interviews with the actresses before and after they suffer those torments, as well as all the material like The Diaries, The Stories, The Training Camp stories and so much more, including many of our films, like all of the Via Crucis of Camile movies.

In the meantime we still have the New Season Sale of 15% Off if you get two or more of our films. It’s a good time to get two or more of our amazing films, including the one people are commenting about theses days.
https://movies.redfeline.com/us/dani-su ... a/p/204275



That’s it for now.

[La Reine Margot]

Moving On Looking Back



In the middle of the first week of July in the year of our Lady, 2025, Jac dragged Dani into the dark dungeon, where he took some time before that day, to set up the conditions in which he was going to make the beloved actress go through a very intense session of torture, mostly whipping, a lot of whipping, so much that by the end of the session Jac asked how are you feeling?

She was putting her bathrobe on when she responded, adolorida, perdí la costumbre (in pain, I lost the habit)

The intention for that day was to set up the beginning of the first sequence in a new Red Feline Production, with different shots of the beginning of the sequence, the entrance of Dani to the dungeon, her wrists and ankles in metal shackles, the setting up of Dani facing a mirror, chaining her to the metal contraption, perhaps some whipping to set the mood. That was the intention.



They shot many angles of the walking in, it was painful, those shackles holding Dani ankles pressed on the bones a bit too much with every step she took thus every time she had to walk to her position she was in pain. Once in place, Jac chained her waist to the metal apparatus and after completing his task used the whip on her, a little.

But then, after shooting enough angles of the beginning of the sequence, Jac began to do shots of the whipping, many shots, the shooting went on and on as the lash fell on Dani’s back.



At the beginning most of the lashing was on Dani’s covered back. The black garment she decided to wear, instead of the white she was wearing when the intention was for Mila to do all the torturing, protected her skin in a relative way, she fell the lashes falling on her back, her arms, her butt, her hands, her legs.

Jac worked on different angles of the first part of the whipping, not even thinking of going further than that, but then he felt inspired, he grabbed the part of the garment over Dani’s shoulder and ripped it open, exposing most of her back, and went back to lashing her and as the whip marks became more and more evident on Dani’s exposed skin, Jac increased the intensity of the floogging.



After shooting the bit of the ripping off one side of the top of Dani’s garment a few times, Jac went on and on, from different angles until he was totally satisfied that he had enough lashes before going into the next part of the action. Ripping off the other side of the top of the black garment.

Again, that action required a few angles that once completed Jac felt free to indulge in a lot of lashing across Dani’s now totally uncovered back. He had to have enough angles as well.



The lashing went on for a while, Dani’s back was covered with the merciless whipping marks. Jac was fierce as he sent the many tails leather whip crashing against his victim’s naked back. Dani cried out in pain, sometimes louder than others, making Jac wonder if anyone beyond the walls of the dungeon could hear those anguished cries. There was a moment that Jac thought she had enough, but he wasn’t done.

He thought of another step for those punishments. He decide to turn Dani around to face him and to have the lash fall on her breasts, her belly, even her face.

He proceeded with the idea and it took a few takes from different angles of the same action to satisfy him.

When he had enough angles of the turning Dani around, Jac moved on to subject his suffering actress to many, many more lashes.



At one point, after maybe too many lashes across her front, Dani bent down, her hips held by the chain around them, exposing her back to the cruel whip once again.

That new action was part of the scene, so it had to be repeated many times. Each time she had to face the whip a few times before bending down. After all the sufficient angles were covered, she was subjected to as many lashes to her back as Jac thought was necessary and, of course, from different angles.



Dani suffered the painful strokes on her bent back, feeling like she wanted to go down on her knees but the chain holding her would not allow that. Perhaps her mind was blacking out, perhaps she wanted to be Jac to stop.

After the director/torturer decided she had enough he called Cut and the painful action was over… for the day. That was just the beginning, things will only get worse for Dani from that moment on.

Jac told Dani that he will decide if that sequence was done after seeing it. Dani hopes that the sequence is done, she’s anxious to go on to the next sequence, knowing that it will be a lot more demanding, more painful, but she’s game.

Cruxlover24: Dani is lovely. I love the way she suffers. Her performance is always perfect, the way she gets into her characters are always really professional. The way she gives us the ride to feel her suffering is very convincing, she is a really good actress, not only beautiful, she is awesome.
Jackie1111: Obviously I could not agree more.

As I mentioned before, a million times, I’m recovering posts that were lost when our system came crushing down a few years back. Those posts bring memories of days past and some of them are too cool, like one post I had in September of 2013. So many things were happening that year. This is a bit of the post:

The month of September is gone. It was quite a month indeed. Dead But Dreaming, our new release, doing its rounds around the world, our other films are getting noticed, like Barbazul which was screened Saturday 28th at the Cinemateca with a Q&A and great audience response and it’s going to be at the PollyGrind Film Festival in Las Vegas; Maleficarum is breaking records and keeping itself ahead on the best seller position, Martyr was the subject of a conference on Semiotics at a major university and there’s going to be a workshop on the subject as well, Olalla is under production and looking really good, and Sirwiñakuy is the subject of discussions and new screenings at the Cinemateca.

You can read the entire post here:

https://redfeline.com/chronicles/2013/0 ... irwinakuy/



Moving On the way we’re doing is not new, of course, it can be said that is almost routine. The one and present subject of discussions and concern was, is and it will be the resources we have, we had and we need to have to go on. It’s the story of the universe.

I bring all this up because we are preparing to release a few films, one of them the big production movie, 69 Anneé Érotique, and preparing the Crucified Four films but with enormous difficulties.

Jac had a nice meeting with Dani to discuss the shooting of the new film, where they also talked the future, leaving the production of what they referred to as the Big Movies on hold for now. The money is not there, not yet, so discussing them does not contribute anything to the conversation. They talked about the work we’re doing to increase our resources and Jac was very honest, he told her that so far there aren’t many reactions to our plans, at least in the places where we discuss them. He’s not counting on anything right now.

At this moment Dani is the one with some available time for possible work, so they agreed that they will shoot a couple of Red Feline Movies. The long postponed CruXbound III, the subject of the heading in this post, and at least another movie that Jac has in mind. The most recent release, Dani Suffers the Rack for Monxa Mala, is doing nicely, not overwhelmingly successful, but it has a good following and that release and a few of the others are keeping us afloat, a bit better than a floating piece of wood after the sinking of a ship.



Dani was curious about the progress of our efforts to raise money for the TV series and the documentary that is part of that series, and Jac informed her that the proposals have to be in the hands of their destinataires by the end of October and depending on how well the proposals are received we would go into the production of the series and the documentary sometime next year and for at least two years.

The ‘Moving On‘ deal might mean that for sometime we would not be producing the movies we’re known for, which doesn’t mean that we wont have any new releases, we will, lots of them; however, the time for The Crucified Four and Maleficarum Excruciati is now.

Looking back, there were plans for two sequels to Dead But Dreaming but the first one sold fine but not as it was expected so the funds were never there to produce them, Olalla, Justine and Pygmalion were produced between 2013 and 2015. And then Amy left, and the possibilities of ever making those sequels became almost nil. That shows us that not all of our plans come to pass.


An image of the making of DBD 2 – The Vampire returns to life in present time.

What we have in front of us right now is a lot of work and little funds. That’s the reality and we have to work with that. If the efforts we’re making now to increase our income work well, then we’ll begin planning the big productions, if not, then we’ll continue with the small ones if Jac and Dani have the time for that and/or feel like making them.

In other words, the second half of the year is what is going to mark the future, just like the second half of 2005 changed everything, when in August Jac was asked to make the doc for NatGeo and in November of that year Amy joined Jac for the great adventure in film that lasted 10 years.

In October of 2015 when Amy went to a film festival in Mexico with her new film, Olalla, impressing everyone there to the point that she was asked to create the film faculty at a University in Seattle.

in November 2015 Amy announced she was living for the US… that’s ten years ago.

Amy and Jac at the bus station before leaving the festival in Oruro, to begin their last film together Justine.

Sometime between now and the end of the year we’ll see where we go from here.

In short, we’re still setting things up to increase our funds. If we had everyday like yesterday, Saturday the 5th of June, when one person got 300 bucks worth of films, we would be very happy. That was nice, it happens sometimes, not all the time, but if we had enough people buying enough films, more than one, we could be preparing the production instead of looking for money. C’est la vie.

https://movies.redfeline.com/

[La Reine Margot]

Moving On – An encounter with History



Jac received a message from his ex, co director and co producer of his first film. The online message says:

The Oloffson was burnt down by gangs last week. It was built in the 19th century. I spent lots of time there, especially on its veranda, meeting the editor of the London Sunday Times there and Jolicoeur (whom Graham Greene immortalized, along with the iconic hotel).

She’s referring to the great Hotel in Haiti which is part of Jac’s film Krik? Krak! Tales of a Nightmare.

Jac had a nice meeting for lunch with Graham Greene at the writer’s apartment in Antibes, France, prior to the premiere of the film in Cannes in May of 1988. During their very long conversation over the best wine France can offer and some very tasty sea food, the writer talked about his book The Comedians, he mentioned the hotel, Jolicour, and the owner of the hotel.

The main character of Greene’s book, played by Richard Burton, was loosely inspired by the owner of that hotel. Greene also mentioned that Elizabeth Taylor was not easy to work with. Both, the owner and Jolicour, are also part of Jac’s film.

There’s an interview in Jac’s film, at that hotel with both of those characters, where they openly talk about their times with Papa Doc Duvalier and his manipulation of Voodoo for nefarious goals.

Greene also mentioned Duvalier’s comments about his book. Those comments, at least part of them, are also in Jac’s film in Duvalier’s own words. Historical, indeed.



History is a big part of our reality, in the past, in the present and in the future. We made history, were are making history and we’re recreating historical periods in time. Our favorite time in history appears to be the times of the Roman Empire and their nasty crucifixions.

A lot of our work shows that, even in the docu-drama about Haiti; even then, so many years ago, Jac had to include the scene of a crucifixion where a young couple are crucified in the sugar cane fields of Haiti. A symbolic scene.



During those days, when Jac was editing the film in Havana, he wrote a script where a nice young woman, in Colonial Cuba, suffers a crucifixion. it was the intention of making that idea a reality that he embarked on working with his actresses, beginning with me, and then Camille, in a series of crucifixion scenes that led to eventually making Martyr. The rest is history.

Meanwhile, a lot is happening in the background during this time in our history. Jac is extremely busy working on the new ways of increasing our resources for the near future. Lots of plans, little time, little money while facing the changes in the history of the world.

The historical and political situation inside and outside of Bolivia is making things a lot more difficult, and ironically, in some cases, easier. One example is the rate of the Dollar in Bolivia. It was kept at the same artificial rate for 20 years by the political party in government that thought that it was a good idea. The result was that dollars disappeared from the country affecting everyone, we can’t get our dollars out of the bank machines like we used to, and if we withdraw cash in the country’s currency at the official exchange rate we loose tremendous amounts of money; however, Erix found a way of transferring funds from the US to our bank account in Bolivia at a good exchange rate. Which means, our dollars have more value here… twice as much as a few months ago. Long story.

There are elections for president coming up in the middle of the crisis so, everything is kind of at a standstill until then. It’s a wait and see kind of situation. The elections are in the middle of August. No one knows what is going to happen then.

Add our home front economic issues to that uncertain situation and we don’t see a way of beginning to shoot a big film in August. We’ll see how things turn out in the country after the elections.

In the meantime Dani was with Jac to test her costume for Crucified Four. Jac mentioned to her that it wasn’t complete, some elements are missing, but the basic look is there. She tried it on, she felt that it was a bit big, it needs some fixing to fit her the way it should.



Mila is incredibly engaged in her new business and with little time, maybe none, until she brings it up where she wants her business to be, at least that’s Jac’s impression; the fact is that she hasn’t been around for these past many weeks, not even for a few minutes to try the Priestess costume. Dani suggested she should try it on and see how it looks and what it needs.

Dani and Mila are of similar height and although their bodies are slightly different, the costume should fit them both almost the same. Jac agreed and gave Dani the costume and she tried it on.

The costume looks cool. It has room for improvements and there are some additions that it should have to make it perfect. But it looks great.



A question came my way, privately, but one question from one person is probably the same for many. So I’ll respond publicly.

Are you going to release the the Crux Bound episode with Simmonne that was completed?

All the CruXbound movies will be released when completed. There are two versions of CruXbound IV, with Simonne and both of them will be out once they are ready. They will be part of our promo campaign for the production of Crucified Four, either to raise some extra funds or to run a campaign for those funds.

There are some issues that we are facing, other than the money situation. They have to do with our cast. As I mentioned Mila is busy busy with her own work. We don’t know if she will be able to be part of the movies, so we will have to do some casting, maybe. Ligia is under contract with the office of tourism until the 31st of August. That’s two members of the principal cast that at this moment might be not available for work.

Simonne has entered the world of film production, first producing and directing a short documentary and most recently, producing a short film in which she also acts. She borrowed some equipment from Jac.

Cruxlover24 Are there any news about the new film you guys are working in?

If you are referring to the one Dani and Jac are working on, all I can say is that they are working on it, but they didn’t do anything this week, they will resume the work this coming Monday, I should have some stills by mid week. The plan is to finish it by the end of the month. There’s so much going on that they can only work two or three afternoons in a week. But they do a lot in those few hours per day.

Most of our efforts at this period of time are directed to get resources coming our way and it’s not an easy task.

And a final note, we have a nice sale in our store, you can take advantage of it and get a couple of our films with a nice discount. The more films we sell, the more our bank account grows.

[La Reine Margot]

My Queen of Suffering



There was one comment in the Crux Forum that inspired me to title this post with the part of the comment that reached our heart of hearts.

crucifixion1979 Dani My Queen of Suffering. Despite the fictional crucifixions, she is still very persuasive in acting.

For some reason that comment reached my inbox at redfeline@gmail.com in German, and I quote Dani My Queen: Leiden. Obwohl sie fiktive Kreuzigungen hat, ist sie immer noch sehr überzeugend in der Schauspielerei. My translation: My Queen. Suffering. Despite her fictional crucifixions, she’s still very convincing in her acting.

I’m not sure which is better, very convincing or very persuasive… or better yet, something that describes both? Cogent?

Dani was very happy when she heard about this comment. It doesn’t matter to her if she’s convincing, persuasive, cogent, all that matters is that her acting capabilities are recognized. I can describe her acting in similar terms: powerful, potent, strong, forceful, compelling, irresistible, telling, conclusive, incontrovertible, unanswerable, incontestable… There’s no doubt about it. She’s one amazing actress deserving of those comments, there are more than one, of course.

Cruxlover24 I love Dani’s body and, she has that amazing look in her eyes. Perfect to be a warrior! She is a wonderful actress.

Dani is working very hard to be ready for her role as the heroic warrior who suffers the rage of the Roman soldiery for having killed so many soldiers. Her preparation for that difficult role includes the work she’s doing with Jac these days for the CruXbound series of movies.

During the most recent production day, Monday the 21st in the year of our lady, 2025, she endured an afternoon of intense flogging, her arms spread and chained to the metal frame behind her. Her chest exposed to the whip.



She was flogged until she went down on her knees, totally naked by then.

When they were done for the day Jac asked “how are you feeling?” She was covering her lashed body with her bathrobe when she answered “In pain and very cold, it was rough“.

Jac smiled as he started to turn the lights off “It will get worse for the warrior in the next few days” he said, adding “I’m very warm because of all the moving around under these lights“

That was the contrast during that very cold afternoon. Jac was doing all the moving while acting and working on all the whipping, moving the camera, focusing, changing the angles, moving the lights, while Dani was all chained up, naked, her feet on the cold tiles, far from the heat of the lights, for the most part, until she went down on her knees.

It got more painful and colder for her then.

So what is the plan to make the Crux4 movies? You have no cast commitments. Have no film schedule. After the last message, exactly how do you expect anybody to support any fundraising when you again slipped the projects.

We’re not fundraising for the Crucified Four. and we don’t have plans to have any fundraising before we start the production. Our efforts to get the resources for the films are elsewhere and that’s where we are concentrating our attention.

Ligia, Simonne and Dani are committed to the film, Mila did not say she’s not committed, she just got busy and that is where things are.

There are major problems with the scheduling of the production for August because of many reasons. The principal one is the political situation, with the elections coming up. It’s not a normal situation. People are concerned about what is going to happen before, during and after the elections. It’s not good to plan and commit people and money to something when things are not normal.

The other issue is the weather. We’re having what has been described as a Polar front, with extreme low temperatures, freezing rain, unusual for this time, snow, even more unusual, so, it’s better to wait until things get back to normal in the weather front.

The major issue is, of course, the money. The solution to that problem is in Jac’s hands who is working on many fronts to get those funds. I can’t go in detail of what it is, apart from selling our movies and setting up new ways of bringing in the cash with those movies. We will know more about how is that going sometime during this month or in the middle of the next.

The production of the Crucified Four films will be scheduled when we have a part of what we need in hand. Mostly the cash expenses we need during the shooting. Mostly for location expenses, transportation and catering. We are dealing with the costumes and props now, because we want to have all those things ready when Jac decides when to start the production.



We still have the SALE at our STORE.

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