Spectre Pt1

Robert Culp and Gig Young starred in Spectre, a 1977 TV movie produced by Star Trek's creator Gene Roddenberry that was supposed to serve as a pilot for a TV series. It didn't sell, but we still have the pilot film.

Culp and Young were experts in the occult who were battling a demonic cult in England.

This cult performed human sacrifice, and had this woman tied up against a wall in their dungeon.

After examining her, they discover the bound woman was heavily drugged. The investigators leave her tied up on the wall.

They do this so not as to alert the other members of the cult. More to come.

Bloody Mama

Pamela Dunlap stars in Bloody Mama as a young woman who's out for a swim--only to run afoul of a murderous mother and her grown boys.

Dunlap is later seen bound and gagged while tied down to a bed in the outlaws' hideout.

Dunlap's still barefoot and clad in the black bathing suit she wore when she was captured.

There's a nice camera pan down her bound body as Mama, played by the great Shelly Winters, inspects Dunlap's bonds while talking to one of her sons.

This was one of my all-time favorite BF bondage scenes when I first saw this movie on TV as a kid back in the late 70s (and it still is today). It caught me completely by surprise, and I wouldn't see it again until more than a decade later, when I was able to get it on video--that would be VHS, back then. I took these vidcaps from a DVD.

Bloody Mama was based on the real-life exploits of Kate "Ma" Barker, who was accused of being the leader of a criminal gang that consisted of her adult sons. But there's been some doubt recently as to whether Ma Barker was truly the criminal mastermind that she was made out to be in the media back in the 1930s.

Bloody Mama was directed by B-Movie king Roger Corman, who considers it one of his favorite films. It had a stacked cast of then-up and coming actors, like Robert De Niro, Bruce Dern, Don Stroud, Robert Walden, and Alex Nicol.

Band of Gold

Samantha Morton (who celebrated her birthday on May 13th) stars in this second season episode (Hustling) of British TV series Band Of Gold as a sex worker who thinks she is done and tries to leave--but is stopped by her client who's not quite ready for her to go just yet.

Morton, who would later star with Tom Cuise in Minority Report, gets tied down to the bed and gagged and is left there. I always loved the way her bare feet are tied in this scene. I would show more pictures of this, but she's bare-chested. The clip itself is pretty short, but shows everything. Morton's character is rescued from her dilemma (not seen in this clip). You can see the scene right here.

Bye-bye DA account

"You two seriously thought you could sneak in here and snoop around like this? You can now just sit there and watch us leave with the pirate treasure!"

Note: This picture would have been the Poser picture I'd posted on my Deviant Art account today. I say "would have" because, at this point, I no longer have a Deviant Art account. I made an appeal to lift the suspension that my account was under, but it was denied. I'm told that the suspension of my account is permanent. DA explained that I had posted a picture there that did not meet their standards and that was grounds for a permanent suspension of my account.

Although my account is gone, I didn't lose any of my digital artwork that I had posted on DA. Before I consider my options, I'm taking a little break from the Poser art stuff for a bit. Watch this space.

Little Deaths Pt2

The third story in the film Little Deaths shows Claire (Kate Braithwaite), also waking up in a vulnerable position.

She's been caught sneaking around on her boyfriend, who drugged her wine at dinner.

Claire wakes up to find herself tied to a bed, but face down and spread-eagled.

And I've got to say, the bound barefoot shots here are amazingly good.

Some very nice struggling with just her feet.

But her ending is much darker than that of Holly's in the first story of this film.

So, if you do watch this all the way through, brace yourself, because her death is very gnarly. It's way too harsh.

There's a third scene in this movie, taking place in the middle story. But it's not very good; it's too brief, too dark (literally) and involves a woman being chained by a special helmet (???), so never mind.

Little Deaths Pt1

Little Deaths was released in 2011. It's an anthology film, featuring three separate stories, two of which have some scenes of interest.

The first story features actress Holly Lucas, who's taken prisoner by a crazed couple who kill homeless girls from off the streets.

After unknowingly eating a drugged meal given to her by the couple, Holly wakes up to find herself stripped of all of her clothing and tied down to a bed.

Interesting choice of a gag, too. Holly is completely nude in this scene, although her private area is still hidden by how she positions her legs.

Holly puts on a brave face throughout her ordeal as a captive.

But, in a nice twist at the end, Holly's not the one who gets killed. Part two up next.

Apex

Netflix recently released a movie called Apex, which is still playing on there as of this writing.

Charlize Theron (Atomic Blonde, Mad Max: Fury Road) stars here as Sasha, a rock climber who's grieving the loss of her husband on a mountaineering excursion gone wrong.

Swearing off rock climbing (and who can blame her?) Sasha decides to go kayaking in Australia, only to run into a psychopath named Ben (Taron Egerton, from Kingsman: The Secret Service).

The rest of the movie is a cat and mouse chase through theAustralian wilderness. At one point Sasha is captured by Ben, who chains her up arms above her head.

Ben also removes Sasha's shoes, and she goes barefoot from that moment onward in the film.

Sasha also goes barefoot during an arduous climb up the side of a mountain. It's a great BF bondage scene that lasts for the second half of the movie.

Apex is a great film, overall. It's a well-made action/thriller that keeps you on your toes.