Studio: Doorway Productions Category: Contemporary

The holidays are in full swing and I don’t know about everyone else but that just puts me in a killer mood, so when I came upon “Torture Toys” and read these lines in the description I knew what I’d be reviewing today: “Torture Toys is an Exploitation film about a murderess who likes to seduce and sexually torture her victims before mutilating them. Inspired by bad films and B-rated slasher flicks of the 70s.”

Seriously they had me at “exploitation film” but “murderess” helped synch the deal – though they had a hard time holding me after the first two actors walked onto the scene. They could have been any of my neighbors; overtly unattractive and far older than your average porn stars, the female lead looked sadly more like Bozo the clown than anyone I’d like to fuck or watch be fucked (thankfully this seems to be a movie more about the torture than the fucking) from the very beginning her movements were contrived and the exact opposite of sexy despite the nudity.

The predominant soundtrack in the film seems to be the constant running of an old 8mm projector. They put in some pretty heavy work trying to make the film look like the exploitation films of the 70′s and I think that they were more successful there than they were with any of the other elements in the movie. Weird lighting, blurred scenes, razoring on every inch of film all add to the ambiance.

Finally the torture scene! Definitely the highlight of the film, it reminded me a of torture scenes in Pulp Fiction and Grind House, a homage to an homage of the exploitation films of the past. The constant heavy metal music can get more than a little trying on the ears, especially if you’re wearing headphones, and it does cut out all that awesome whimpering, whining and muffled screaming that the fetish model does during the scene. Thankfully her terror and struggles are easily observed in the film despite her being tied down, blindfolded and gagged. Also the dim lighting in the scene completely disguises any welts drawn up by the cat of nine.

Sadly I don’t think this film will get you off. It’s a fun little diversion, a potential appetizer to headier fare, but not a full meal in and of itself.

-FrzKey

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