Here's a quick mainstream mini review.
The movie is called Ghost Machine . The plot is basically that the ghost of a female torture victim has gotten in to the cyber world of an army training simulator. Anyway Rachael Taylor, the very hot Aussie from Transformers and Bottle Shock is our Gimp. She is one of the soldiers in training and goes into the simulator to find this ghost.
The first gimp scene is the intro of the movie when the original victim is taken back to the torture room and hung AOH strappado style (tied behind her back). She is dressed in heavy clothing and the scene is done in the Blair Witch style of filming. There is no gimp value in this scene.
The next scene has Rachael taking a shower when she is approached by a commander (evidently the torturer of the original victim) while she is in the shower. She pushes him away and he follows her to her locker, grabs her, and pushes her against the row lockers. She has grabbed a knife from her locker and pushes him away. The scene isn't real special but Rachael looks very inviting wearing nothing but a towel or the sleep shirt she changes into. This isn't a classic gimp scene but I did find it to be a enjoyable.
The next scene of interest has Rachael in a set of army fatigues with a T-shirt looking for one of her comrades whose been attacked by the ghost in the simulator. She finds him tied up strappado style, beaten, and she lowers him down to the floor. At this point the ghost attacks her and whips a chain at her which instantly hoists her up strappado style. With the T-shirt top on she is immediately gasping in pain. I have never seen a strappado style victim before but it looked quit painful and she looked very vulnerable. I can't imagine how you could fake this position.
The torture itself that occurs is "imaginary" and not worth much but the scene is quite long about 5 minutes with Rachael gasping and groaning very convincingly. The power browns out and seemingly deactivates the ghost temporarily. And Rachael falls to the ground. Even this scene is quite convincing as Rachael rolls over and gets up slowly still wincing in pain.
Like I said I've never scene any realistic simulations of strappado before and I found it quite convincing. While the scene wasn't a classic gimp scene it was quite impressive. I'm going to give it a gimp value of B+. If she would have been stomach punched, slapped, whipped, or even undressed it would have been an exceptional scene. Actual strappado with the girl's weight not supported by anything is far more vulnerable then even AOH and really sold the Gimp aspect. Can anyone here think of any other good strappado scenes? It's definitely worth a rental. I got mine from Netflix.
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