I first saw this film with some friends. All of us were into seeking out the weirdest movies we could find and had exhausted the slim pickin's that the early 1980's held in terms of Cult Movies on video release. One thing none of us had ever seen was a bona-fide, genuine, "Leather Subculture" FemDom movie. We bought DEEP SPIKES for our next party expecting something that would probably blow the ILSA movies away since it presumably was made outside of the usual filmworld boundaries. Also, call me a male chauvinist if you will, but I liked the fact that men were obviously the victims in DEEP SPIKES since I hate the violence against women depicted in the ILSA movies.
Luckily we previewed the film before inflicting it on our guests at that party. DEEP SPIKES is below par even for alleged "porn" and had production values inferior to the lousiest public access cable show. What we had hoped would be a daring jaunt to the Video Netherworld wound up instead as a slow stroll through Tedium Television. On top of which the cast members, male and female alike, are decidedly unglamourous. I don't say that to be cruel, I say it because it's relevant to this film's attempt at being "erotic fantasy". With it's many failings it's difficult to see how this film could, shall we say, stimulate someone.
*******POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD********
An actor listed in the credits as "John Foote" (Gee, do you think that's his real name?) stops to help a blonde woman experiencing car trouble. And believe me, the words "blonde woman experiencing car trouble" are far more titillating than anything in this movie. This woman, called "Mistress Destiny" in the credits, accepts his offer of help, then drives him to her apartment. Once there she drugs him and binds him to the wall for "torture" scenes which are hilarious since she's obviously barely brushing him with her whip.
While that's going on we join an elderly woman called "Baroness Silver Charles" and her slave David, the only cast member who resembles what you'd expect a porn star to look like. Flashbacks reveal that David was enslaved by the Baroness in an earlier film called BENEATH HER SPIKES but somehow I don't think my friends and I were missing any important plot elements by having failed to see that previous installment. David seems to spend all his time kissing and licking the Baroness' feet and sucking her high heels with periodic time-outs for half-hearted spankings.
Meanwhile, back with Mistress Destiny her hostess, "Duchess Von Stern", returns home and expresses her admiration for Destiny's torture technique on "John Foote". The Duchess decides to take John along with her when she visits Baroness Silver Charles that night. With all the bogus titles flying around in this film I think the men should get in on it too, so from now on I'll call David "Commodore David" and John Foote "The Footemeister General"
The gathering at the Baroness' place is the "big finish" to the film and is therefore slightly less boring than the rest of the movie. First she and the Duchess have Commodore David lie down while they grind their "Deep Spikes" into various soft portions of his anatomy. Then while the Duchess continues abusing the Commodore, the Baroness goes into "the next room"(as if this film had two sets)to use her high heels on The Footemeister General. After awhile, The Footemeister General winds up in a bedroom with the Duchess where, in a bold break from all the previous foot-kissing in the movie, he kisses her feet some more. Commodore David winds up being tortured by Mistress Destiny who takes her top off, which is really the only thing in the movie that couldn't have been shown in a PG rated film.
After the film was over the tape had trailers for BENEATH HER SPIKES and for the next film in the series - DEEPER SPIKES, which seemed like more of the same, except that Mistress Destiny had a really short haircut.
To be fair to this film, I have no idea if all "FemDom" movies are this tame and boring but this one should definitely be avoided, especially in a day and age where you can find kinkier material on just about any of those syndicated afternoon freak shows masquerading as talk shows.
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