CruXbound IV – A rehearsal – Red Feline Chronicles

These days are really hot in La Paz. The kind of weather that it is not natural when you are up at 16,000 feet above sea level, where oxygen is not in normal quantities and where winter is sunny, summer is rainy and sometimes cold. We’re not even in summer, and yet it is hot, and it is not normal.

When Simonne arrived a few days ago to do some work for CruXbound IV, Jac was not feeling very well. He was sweaty, not in a good mood, and dreading the thought of doing any physical work involving lifting things, setting up cameras, all in a dark room with the windows closed and hot, really hot lights… not something one wishes to do on a hot not yet summer afternoon and yet…

The room used as a set was not as hot as the huge living quarters Jac uses as his bedroom, office, living room, dining room, cats playground, movie house… etc. It was a bit of a relief that they were not going to dehydrate in seconds.

Jac had some ideas about what happens to Simonne after the flogging sequence they did a few days ago. She was suspended from a chain suffering the whipping. Very intense.

One of Jac’s ideas was using the ladder in the way he used it with Mila in CruXtreme IV – Roommate II.

With Simonne’s help Jac set up the ladder on top of that contraption Amy designed for Maleficarum. After setting it up, Jac explained to Simonne what they were going to do. I’ll set you up on top of this and you’ll be whipped without mercy… he said with that threatening but soft voice he used in Barbazul.

Things were not going smoothly, but it was only a rehearsal, the daring pair had to figure out how to do the work as dramatic as it should be without causing too much pain and discomfort to Simonne, the heroine/victim in the set.

Simonne was not unaware of the consequences of working in Jac’s films. She suffered merciless torture, whipping and crucifixion in Monxa Mala, she was publicly flogged and made to walk carrying her patibulum and then nailed to it, raised up to suffer the agony of the cross and if that wasn’t enough, she was scourged while on the cross in Seditiosa. And not on a hot day.

Simonne knows what is expected of her, she knew it wasn’t going to be a walk in the park and that it was going to hurt.

Simonne felt the hard, uneven wood under her ribs and hips, it was painful, but somewhat bearable; but it was only the beginning.

Jac was fussing with the ropes when he was tying her up, not an easy task when you’re not feeling comfortable in your own body, when your t-shirt feels like a damp cloth and your neck seems made out of water. Simonne was lucky she was practically naked.

After tying her up, Jac went to look for the flogger, the whip, the one Amy designed for Justine, with the sticky parts meant to cut the skin to shreds. Simonne got ready, she knows how that whip feels. It was used on her a lot in two movies. The flogging began.

Simonne took the first part of the whipping very well. The camera was set up in one angle for the rehearsal, and there were no plans to do anything more involved than that.

Jac had some ideas for that particular sequence. First his victim was going to be flogged facing down on the ladder, her back being the center of attention, her flesh lashed to bloody shreds.

After the long and cruel scourging, she was going to be turn around, face up, and flogged some more, this time her belly, breasts, legs, receiving the harsh treatment of the lash.

After completing his first task of whipping Simonne’s back for a bit, Jac was ready to do the front.

He turned Simonne around, tied her wrists, cross like and proceeded to use the whip on her. He had a great view of Simonne’s body facing up. The camera didn’t.

This time Simonne’s ribs and hips took a break but her whole back was now suffering the harsh surface of the uneven logs. The camera remained in the same position.

Once Jac whipped Simonne enough for what he intended to try, he felt he could move to his next idea, turning Simonne upside down, securing her ankles to the sides of the ladder, a difficult task that involved a lot of grabbing, lifting, holding, under the hot lights while the sweat from his neck made his t-shirt even more damp… but he did get into it with not so well hidden delight.

Once Simonne was upside down, Jac fussed a bit with a rope to tie her wrists to the sides of a crossbar. After completing this most complicated task Jac was ready to continue with his cruel tortures.

Simonne was all set in that most uncomfortable and painful of positions and Jac was done making sure she was going to be secure on that ladder.

Jac took the whip to continue whipping her.

Simonne felt her body was pulling on her binds, she was feeling the pressure of the leather binds on her ankles as her feet went numb. Her mind left her ankles when the hard lashes of the whip crashed on her chest, her breasts, her belly, her crutch, over and over and over.

Jac decided to move the camera a bit to get a good look of Simonne suffering her new torture.

After Jac was done punishing Simonne with the flogger, he decided that it was enough for the day. He was satisfied with the certainty that his plan will work.

Simonne suffered enough, she passed the endurance test she was subjected to and was ready to be released, she was also in a bit of a hurry.

As Jac took off Simonne’s binds he explained that they were going to work on those two or three sequences next time they get together, not a rehearsal, the real thing with each position they tried lasting a long time.

The first day they were going to concentrate on mostly the shots of her back receiving the bloody torture of the scourge as she faced down the ladder. If there was time, they were going to move into the next part of the sequence, when Simonne is turned around to be flogged more.

Once completed those two sequences, they were going to put Simonne upside down to be flogged more. He also told Simonne that after tying her wrists to the crossbar, he was planning to nail her hands, or wrists, to the wood.

The day was done. It was early still, but Simonne had things to do so that concluded the rehearsal. All of it was recorded for posterity and we’ll be sharing it with this post at our Patreon site, as part of our fundraising campaign for the next few movies. And I say movies because Jac is working on these 4 CruXbound movies with Simonne, Ligia, Dani and Mila, which will be followed by the epic series The Crucified Four. That’s 8 MOVIES!

Help us get these projects done by becoming a VIP Patron and enjoy all the video clips we’ll be sharing of the progress of all these films, like the one described in this post.

A new post is coming, this time about Carmen, aka Camille and it will include a video clip never seen before. It is actually one of the very first videos she ever made as she prepared for her role in the TV mini series The Man From The Moon. When that early video was made, Jac shot the stills he needed for the poster aka key art for the release of the series.