Projex has come close to producing a very good S/M video, but ultimately falls just a shade short.

The premise is an interesting one. Nick Chevalier, the best-looking model in the film, receives an electric shocker in the mail. Hurrying to his apartment bedroom, he opens the package and discovers the equipment and very special “demo” videotape, which he pops into his VCR.

An excellent set-up begins to founder when we get to the dungeon in the video-within-a-video. We start with Jacob Scott strapped to a cross as he gets whipped and tit-clamped by lean, mean top Brian Anger, who smacks around Scott’s cock and balls constrained in a seven-ring gates of hell device. Off to the side is Steven Cannon, suspended by chains in a full leather sack restraint and hood. After finishing with Scott, Anger turns to Cannon, whose only visible body parts are a well-endowed cock and balls, weighted by heavy chains. Anger punches Cannon’s nuts and stomach and demands a blowjob—a command Cannon eagerly obeys. Watching Cannon in his leather cocoon trying to swing his body down to take Anger’s dick in his mouth is one of the best scenes in the video.

We then return to Chevalier, watching the video and whacking off. The film alternates in this manner. We see Chevalier fuck himself with a dildo, after watching Scott impale himself on one while sucking off the top. Scott, freed from his full-body strait jacket, is given the electric shocker on his balls and anus, after which Chevalier applies it to himself. In the end, there’s a threeway suck-and-fuck. Chevalier, back in “reality,” brings himself to climax.

The idea was good, but the video fails to drive to a climax, and the pacing of the scenes drags. We keep expecting Chevalier’s roommate to appear to mete out the punishment this cute model obviously craves. But no suck luck.