The Spanking House

‘The Spanking House’ is a 67-minute movie made by Moonglow North (or possibly Cavern Spanking) in the late nineties and released by Moonglow (catalogue number N17) in 2004.  The description of this movie in the Moonglow catalogue reads:

“This gem was discovered when we started converting our video library to DVD. For fans of Alison, from Oop north, it is a great purchase. Made in the late nineties, the young Alison is working in a Spanking House when an American arrives.

He produces a paddle which she cannot cope with. She up sticks and leaves the house in a temper. The American is furious and makes the wretched receptionist complete the one to one with him.

When Alison returns later, the receptionist is still fuming and threatens to sack Alison. However, she relents when Alison agrees to give the American a free 1 to 1, in which he will try out every instrument in the house on her shapely bottom, as well as indulge in a long bondage session.

Your chance to see a young Alison really put through her paces.”

‘The Spanking House’ features Dominque Wright (aka Amanda), who also appeared in ‘Severity School’ (CAV21) for Cavern and ‘CP Therapy’ (DVD W03) for Moonglow, as the proprietor of a BDSM House and Alison Payne as a professional submissive working in the House.  I don’t recognize the man playing the client, Jonathan. 

The movie opens with the proprietor of a spanking house taking a booking from a caller.  An American named Jonathan, who met Alison at a party, wants a session with her before he leaves.  Alison has plans for the evening but she finally decides to take the booking.  Jonathan arrives and he is led into a nondescript bedroom where a few implements have already been laid out.  Alison enters dressed in a school uniform.  He starts by demanding to know why she kept him waiting.  He quickly takes her across his knee and he starts with a light hand spanking but he does stretch it out.  He continues with a small wooden paddle, delivered a little harder but also at length.  Afterward he has her stand in the corner while he delivers a very wooden lecture about her neglecting her studies.  This ends with him telling her to remove her skirt and bend over the chair.  He selects a hairbrush for the next phase of her punishment and he administers it firmly while Alison squirms in response.  It is a lengthy hairbrush spanking that leaves her bottom a bright red.  He examines several implements for the next stage of her punishment and finally decides on a riding crop.  He has her lean on the bed, facing the camera, and delivers one very hard stroke which provokes a strong reaction and Alison storms out of the room.

There is some shouting outside the room before the Proprietor enters to find out what has happened.   She offers to schedule another appointment for him but he demands that she finish the session.   Despite her insistence that she ‘doesn’t do this anymore’, he pulls her over his knee and starts to give her a spanking.  Eventually, he moves on to the wooden paddle and then the tawse.  Finally, he announces that his reason for making the appointment was to cane a schoolgirl but the proprietor will take her place.  He tells her to remove her skirt and then all this set up for the cane, he continues with the tawse instead.  The second session with the tawse in almost indistinguishable from the first.  Even the dialogue is the same, including the lines about caning a schoolgirl at the end.  I wonder if this was actually an editing error.  The tawse segments run about 5 minutes each and I think the movie would have benefitted from cutting one of them.  Eventually, they do get to the cane and he gives her 30 firm strokes delivered at a leisurely pace but the pace and the wooden dialogue make the scene drag.

The scene changes just before the 40-minute mark of the movie and we are told it is a week later.  Alison answers the phone and it is Jonathon calling to set up another appointment.  He arrives for the appointment with a selection of implements including a large carpet beater.  The setting is different than anything we saw in the first part of the movie (and Dominque is no where in sight) so I suspect that this second part of the movie was filmed at a different time and in a different place.  This punishment starts with the usual over the knee hand spanking; this one lasts nearly 5 minutes.  Next is a studded leather paddle, used in two different positions, and that is followed by the riding crop that drove Alison out of the room during their first meeting.  That is followed by a short session with the carpet beater which is an implement that never particularly interested me.  The session continues with Alison face down on a bed.  This begins with another hand spanking, then comes a wooden spoon, then a flogger, a wooden paddle, the riding crop, and finally the studded leather paddle.  I think this could be a situation where less would be more.  He leaves her tied to the bed at the end of the session.  

This movie has a lot going for it, particularly Alison and Dominque who are well worth seeing, but the Dom is its weak point.  He can certainly deliver a punishment but I found the Dom as dull as dishwater.  Except for his arm, he is almost motionless and usually silent during the spanking scenes.  When he does speak, every line is delivered in monotone and at a slow pace.  It is also clear that he isn’t an experienced actor since he keeps looking at the camera.  These problems are aggravated by some poor camera work and sloppy editing.

I believe the story in the Moonglow catalogue about this being a movie that was found ‘on the shelf’.  I suspect it was probably a rough cut that was set aside while the editor tried to figure out what to do next.  Unfortunately, it looks like they never did finish the final cuts before they released the movie on DVD.  I think that cutting one of the two duplicated tawse sequences with Dominque and tightening up several of the other sequences would take 10 minutes off the run time and make this a much better movie.