Bereavement is an interesting movie. For a Gimp movie, it actually tries to have a bit more complicated storyline (the story of a child brought up by a serial killer). But this is about Gimpage, and how can you notice any of that stuff with Alexandra Daddario’s tits flying around? So this will be the gimp review, not the Siskel-Ebert review.
First a word about Alexandra Daddario, if you've seen her on TV you will remember her. Before this she had guest spots on Law and Order: Criminal Intent and Parenthood, and she was in some Nickelodeon grade material. She’s about 5’6” with a perfect smile, build and huge natural endowments. And she has an innocence about her that can be very attractive. I'm writing all of this because she is also tied up and menaced in the recently released (in theaters) Chainsaw. So she’s been in two adult movies and been tied in both of them. Let's hope she keeps it up.
Now on to the gimpage in Bereavement. All of the scenes occur in what look like stalls in an old factory or meat packing plant of some sort. The first scene occurs about five minute in with a very attractive shorthaired blond. She is wearing a sweater, is tied arms overhead and is screaming incessantly until she’s crippled with a knife in front of the boy. The scene is nothing special, but it rolls before the opening credits. Is it a good sign of things to come?
In the next scene, interspaced with scenes of Alexandra jogging (a good thing). We see a lovely brunette (Valentina De Angelis) tied arms over head and struggling in her bonds in a sleeveless top. In the background you hear another women screaming as she gets cut up by the villain. We her struggling against her bonds and then the story proceeds.
In the next scene we Valentina still AOH as the villain and the boy come into the room. The villain cuts the boy in front of the struggling victim as she screams. The boy comes back into the room after a couple of scenes and cuts her loose. She tries to escape, hides and is caught by the villain who hangs her upside down with a meat hook under one of her knees on what looks like a meat storage pulley. He then pulls her struggling the whole time upside down into an incinerator and burns her alive. This is an A+ Ralphus scene
Now we see an older woman tied AOH who is stabbed repeatedly in front of the boy. A short scene but nothing special.
But then Alexandra decides to let her curiosity get the best of her and check the place out. She’s hunting for the boy who she feels is a victim. She sees some newspaper clippings about the boy and decides to explore further. She is surprised by the villain, thrown to the ground and knocked out. Then we see her wake up clothed in a wife beater hanging AOH. This is a beautiful sight.
There are a few plot twists, but in the next scene she is confronted by the villain with a knife while hanging AOH, she is screaming and twisting in her bonds. Her stepfather pulls up to the place looking for her, so the villain gags her. We see several scenes of her struggling against the gag. Then the villain unties her and drags her down into a cellar, locking her in a meat locker.
Now we see her in the meat locker shivering. She finds the first victim and begins to scream. Her boyfriend finds her but the villain surprises him from behind and she watches him get killed from the window of the meat locker door. She turns around and collapses against the door. She manages to escape and run back and help the boy escape. There aren't many other Gimp scenes of significance as it morphs into a slasher flick from here on out.
It’s a solid effort, not quite an A+, but a solid A-
. Four different girls tied AOH, and one of them is a truly beautiful mainstream actress. We are also treated to more than a few scenes of Alexandra in a wife beater, well worth the price of admission.