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With a vision unlike most adult film directors, Maria Beatty presents us with Fetish Films: Volume 3. The two shorts assembled here are silent films with occasional musical accompaniment. Like the silent films of the early 1900s, both are punctuated with text cards as necessary. While the films are a bit slow-to-progress, the acts of submission and punishment within are arousing from the get-go.

The first of the two fetish features is “The Seven Deadly Sins”, which begins with an exploration of Envy. A young maid (Katie Jordan) is scolded for coveting her mistresses’ earthly possessions. Her punishment, which begins with a light spanking, continues at the feet of her mistress (played by fiery red-head Mistress Dakota) and doesn’t stop there. As the film moves on to the sin of Lust, the maid is overcome with passion and frantically licks her mistresses’ ass cheeks, legs, and pussy. Gluttony is the maid’s next punishable offense; after desiring more of a cocktail which Mistress has spat in her mouth, our sweet lamb must endure a bare-cheeked whipping (which goes on for quite some time!). And so continues “The Seven Deadly Sins.” Although the sins are only loosely connected to the images on screen, they do provide somewhat of a story arch for the film, which starts off with the more common elements of fetish and progresses to more extreme forms like urinating, nipple clamps, and bondage with ropes.

The second feature on the Fetish Films: Volume 3 DVD is called “Lust”, in which a young woman (again played by Katie Jordan) succumbs to her desires for physical affection and submits herself to the every whim of her mistress (Miriam Tyndall). As the laws of sadism would have it, Mistress wants nothing more than to torture her pet languorously, forever dangling the apple just out of reach. Her torments include bondage of arms and legs, gagging, dripping hot wax on her subject’s breasts, and ultimately banning her to the golden cage in which she first stood. “Lust” is presented in velvety soft reds and greens, made grainy to look like old footage; this and the slow, deliberate pace of the fetish acts create a dream-like state for the viewer—one from which I was loathsome to emerge.

Whether you’re new to fetish films or a fetishist yourself, Maria Beatty has something to show you with “The Seven Deadly Sins” and “Lust”. So, take some time to watch both of them on Fetish Films: Volume 3—you won’t regret it.

 -- Cherry Honeywell