Musings on some spanking videos and websites that appeal to my particular flavor of spanking fetish
I love British spanking movies of the eighties and nineties and I've spent the last few years delving into their history. I started this blog to share my interest and what I've learned about it.
Can you help me find a movie? I have been able to finding a few of the Kane I've been searching for with the help of two readers but there are still several others that I'm trying to find. These include Take Three Girls, The French Maid (aka The French Maid's Flogging), Stripe Me Pink, Housewives Choice and The Real Business. Please leave a comment if you know where I might be able to find any of these.
Saturday, 25 May 2019
Saturday, 18 May 2019
Slaves of Mistress Monique
‘Slaves of Mistress Monique’ is a 49-minute long femdom
movie produced in 1983 or 1984. The movie
was produced and written by Victor Bruno and directed by George
Harrison-Marks. It was distributed by
Kane International in the UK (no. 7 in the KI online catalogue) and by CalStar
in the US. ‘Slaves of Mistress Monique’ is
currently available on the Hot Movies VOD site at www.hotmovies.com.
As I wrote in my last post, I have a list of movies that I
have been trying to find and I recently found two of them on
Hotmovies.com. I wrote about the
S&M documentary ‘To Ride A Tiger’ in my last post so it's time for the
femdom movie ‘Slaves of Mistress Monique’.
I first heard about this movie while I was trying to compile a list of Janus movies and I later found it listed in the online Kane International catalogue. I didn't know much about it until I found an ad for the movie in the back pages of Janus 20.
There are two parts to the CalStar version of ‘Slaves of
Mistress Monique’.
The first part, ‘Devoted to Discipline’, is 20 minutes long and it features Linzi Drew as Mistress Monique. Drew was a prolific British adult movie
actress through the eighties and nineties who also had minor roles in a number
of British TV shows and commercial movies including ‘An American Werewolf in
London’, ‘Aria’, ‘Salome’s Last Dance’ and ‘The Liar of the White Worm’ (the
last three directed by Kurt Russell).
She appeared in two other GHM movies: ‘Warden’s End’ (Janus, 1982) and ‘The
Cane and Mr. Able’ (Imprint/Phoenix, 1984).
‘Devoted to Discipline’ shows Linzi as Mistress Monique in a domestic
setting with her house boy, a slave she keeps in her closet and finally with a teacher
who had supposedly mistreated her cousin who appears out of nowhere, dressed in
her school uniform, to assist Mistress Monique in giving him a severe beating
with a cane and tawse.
I’m not convinced that this CalStar movie is the original
‘Slaves of Mistress Monique’ and I can’t escape the feeling that the second
part was added later. I don’t
have any proof of that but there are a few things that just don’t seem right to
me. First is the complete absence of any
mention of the second part in the ad I found in Janus (copied above). The second involves the title cards at the
beginning of the two parts; the card at the beginning of Part 1 is similar to
the title cards on several other GHM movies made about the same time but the
card at the beginning of part 2 is quite different.
But the most important difference to me is
the absence of any of GHM’s unique touches anywhere in Part 2. Linzi Drew’s final line at the end of Part 1
is classic GHM (it is similar to the final line at the end of the Janus movie
’Warden’s End’ which also featured Linzi Drew) but there nothing like that in Part 2.
That makes me wonder if the second part was actually directed by GHM.
There are some technical problems with the copy of the movie that I obtained. Most are the result of age
but the sound track is out of synchronization with the video near the end of
Part 1 and this problem continues through Part 2.
Friday, 3 May 2019
To Ride a Tiger
‘To Ride a Tiger’ is a 59-minute long S&M documentary
produced by the House of Milan (HOM Productions) in 1984. It is available from www.hotmovies.com.
I have a list of movies that I have been trying to find for
years. I was on Hotmovies.com not too
long ago and for some reason I decided to check for some of those movies and I
found two of them. The first was ‘To Ride
a Tiger’, a 1984 documentary featuring Lynn Paula Russell (who also performed
as Paula Meadows) and Dutch dominatrix Monique Von Cleef who is often known
from her autobiography ‘The House of Pain’. ‘To Ride a Tiger’ was directed by David Foster
and produced by the House of Milan (HOM Productions).

Monique van Cleef (born Mara Bernandina Mohr in 1925, died 2005) was a Dutch dominatrix. She became a professional dominatrix in Holland in the 1950s and then moved to New York in the 1960s. She became most famous for creating the 'House of Pain' in Newark, NJ which operated peacefully for several years until it was raided by the Newark Police in 1967. She was eventually deported from the US and she returned to Amsterdam where she created the second 'House of Pain' which serves as the setting for 'To Ride a Tiger'. She returned to the US (illegally because of her earlier conviction and deportation) between 1990 and 1996 but eventually returned to Holland. She continued working until near the end of her life.Ms. von Cleef wrote an autobiography called 'The House of Pain'. The first edition was written before her arrest and deportation (and it is currently available as an ebook) and a later edition that is no longer available was published in 1973. An online biography is available at http://www.dominafiles.com/voncleef.html.
“In the summer of 1983, English artist Lynn Russell finally went face
to face with an aspect of herself that she had always kept firmly at arms
length – total submission to someone else’s will. She had tried it before with friends and it
hadn’t worked. Now, with Monique van Cleef
it very definitely worked. HOM’s
documentary cameras were there. This is
real.”

Finally, after some time spent examining a selection of canes
and whips, she is given a serious flogging; first while she is bent over a
bench and later while she is suspended arms over head with her feet barely
touching the floor. The movie ends with Paula giving a final voice over as she returns to England on a ferry.
I was surprised to find that this movie really is a
documentary, although one that you probably won’t see on PBS any time soon, and
an interesting one at that. Although I
have sampled some of the S&M classics like de Sade’s ‘Justine’ and Sacher-Masoch’s
‘Venus in Furs’, and liked them, I don’t normally consider myself as having
much interest in S&M. Despite that, I
liked this movie and I learned something from it but I wouldn’t want a steady
diet of this type of film. The movie
does suffer from some technically flaws.
My biggest complaint is the sound; there is both traffic noise (even
though it is filmed indoors) and distortion which sometimes makes it difficult
to understand what is being said. Some
scenes are dark and a few are filmed in a mirror which is disorienting. Finally,
there is also some color fading due to the age of the videotapes that were
digitized to make this copy of the movie.
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