Starring: Minami Aoyama, Ruka Uehara (non-sex role) and Randa Mai

Running time: 90 minutes

There's nothing figurative about the title, Goddess of Hell. This 2007 Attackers movie is about a young woman who dies after being raped and ends up in Hades, where her day gets even worse.

As you might expect, the fantasy storyline is the biggest obstacle for the discerning GIMP viewer to overcome. Otherwise, Goddess of Hell is an excellent movie with a pretty and effective actress, Minami Aoyama, and some torture scenes that are outstanding. It is recommended for the strength of its individual scenes rather than its overall effect as erotic drama.

The story may be pure fiction but the movie is efficient in telling it. From the get-go, Goddess of Hell jumps right into the action. Cute young student Minami comes home from school and barely has time to put down her bag when she hears loud knocking at the door from an angry man (I believe he's her abusive father).

Minami lets the man in and the man begins yelling and then groping Minami. The man grabs at Minami in the kitchen, lifting up her short blue skirt and her Navy-uniform-like white school blouse, and forces kisses on struggling little Minami. Minami escapes into another room but the man quickly overpowers her, pinning her on the floor.

With Minami pinned on her back, the villain lifts up Minami's blouse and sucks on squealing and squirming Minami's small breasts. The man stands up and drops his pants, and forces Minami to squat in front of him and suck him, as tears roll down Minami's cheeks. The villain then strips off Minami's panties and violates the young cutie in the schoolgirl outfit in positions such as missionary. Minami struggles and cries and much of the rape is powerful, although there are times when the pair moves into positions like reverse cowgirl that aren't credible. After the rape ends, Minami passes out and croaks.

Now deceased, Minami finds herself in a dark and foggy underworld, still fully dressed in her school uniform. Minami meets the Goddess of Hell, Attackers regular Ruka Uehara, who explains the underground rules. Clearly, Pat Benatar had it wrong -- this Hell definitely ain't for children. We soon discover goddess Ruka, who's dressed in a warrior-like outfit, has special powers. The action jumps briefly to Earth, where a magic blue-ish light (produced by Ruka) kills the rapist.

Back in Hell, young Minami -- suddenly naked -- starts wandering around the dark rooms in this underworld. Minami has a nice body. Her thighs and waist are a bit pudgy for a JAV star but she still looks good nude. There's no sign of Satan in this particular Hell, but an equally demonic Randa Mai shows up with two other henchmen. They grab Minami and use ropes to tie her in a standing position, linked to the ceiling. Her arms are bound behind her back, ropes run above and below her tits, and one rope is used to hoist Minami's right leg in the air. With Minami now defenseless, Randa drops hot wax from two lit candles on Minami's hoisted leg and on her body, making Minami wiggle and squeal. The terrified Minami looks incredibly sexy as she hops, writhes and yelps as the wax drops sting her young flesh.

In a new scene, naked Minami (she remains nude for the rest of the film) is untied except for a rope binding her wrists together. The villains move Minami into a doggie position and Randa uses a hose to shoot water into Minami's bung hole. The villains hold Minami in place, on all fours, as she fires big streams of water out of her ass. Randa grabs a funny looking vibrator (it resembles a big string of beads) and motions it into Minami's ass. With villains still holding her in place, Minami pants and moans as the vibrator pleasures her poop chute. Randa rattles the vibrator inside Minami's ass, ultimately causing some liquid poo to spit out (ick). There's a wonderfully helpless look on Minami's face as she loses control of her anal functions.

More vibrator play continues as the villains double the fun, inserting vibrators into both Minami's pussy and ass. At one point, Minami is being held on all fours by a villain, her wrists still bound together, and her lovely body trembles and jerks as Randa's vibrators stimulate both holes. Panting Minami's head jolts up as she climaxes.

Randa and another villain tie Minami in a standing position, bound arms over head to the ceiling. Randa grabs a bullwhip and proceeds to furiously whip Minami. Unlike Randa's own movies (he didn't direct this), the whippings here are fast and punishing. Minami screams and dances as the whippings torture her body and her soft white skin is soon covered with pinkish-red streaks.

Cut to another new scene. Minami is in a standing crucifixion position, bound by ropes to a red-clothed cross. The ropes have bound her arms, waist and legs to the cross. Randa attaches clothespins to the front of Minami's helpless body, including her nipples. Randa is committed to humiliating little Minami -- he attaches a chain of three clothespins to Minami's lower lip, followed by two more clothespins to the lip and one to her nose. In total, 18 clothespins have been attached to Minami's body and face.

To help Minami remove the clothespins, Randa grabs a hose and blasts cold water on Minami. While that removes a few clothespins, many remain, so Randa moves to the next level: a flogger. Minami screams in pain as Randa whips the clothespins off her tits and body (the clothespins on her face are removed by hand) and then continues to whip her. Again, the whippings are fast, furious and effective.

Another jump to a new scene. Randa ties Minami in an upside-down position suspended from the ceiling. As Minami hangs upside down, her arms tightly wrapped behind her back, Randa grabs the flogger and whips Minami's ass. Whimpering, helpless Minami twirls in the air, screaming each time her ass is belted, and welts appear on her round butt. Once again, a remarkably strong whipping scene from Randa.

In the final scene, ropes have been used to suspend Minami from the ceiling in a horizontal position, facing downward, with her legs bent behind her. Minami hovers above a cauldron of bubbling hot water. Randa lowers Minami into the hot cauldron and watches her squirm, and then lifts the soaked and shaking Minami out for some verbal taunting. Minami is dunked again a number of times, kicking and struggling each time she goes back in, with her face buried each time in the hot water. Randa finishes by dumping a vat of hot wax on the suspended and squirming Minami's back.

My grade: A-