I've never read the book nor did I know the details of the real life case, so I wasn't quite prepared to see what I saw. It's the most repugnant mainstream movie I've ever seen.

The actress who plays Meg, Blythe Auffarth, is a delicious piece of meat and the torments she goes through if they don't win her Oscar at least should have her win an Olympic gold medal for physical endurance. At first she is tied up by the wrists, blindfolded, gagged and is forced to stand on a bunch of books. One by one the books are removed giving her less support and further cutting into her wrists. She is also stripped, beaten, cut, mutilated, humiliated and raped.

The torture scenes keep escalating. In the final third of the movie, Meg is surrounded by her aunt, played by veteran actress Blanche Baker, and the vicious neighbor kids and you see Meg being anally raped. Then the aunt decides to brand her so that she is no longer desirable to men. They brand "I FUCK. FUCK ME" on her stomach. But then the aunt realizes that Meg may still desire men, so to kill that emotion she decides to perform a female castration by burning off her clitoris. At that point I could feel the chill everyone had in the audience.

A while ago, there was a poll in this forum that asked if torture scenes would bother us members. I answered no. After seeing this film I changed my mind. When it got to the scene that the aunt gets a blow torch to burn Meg's clitoris, that made my skin crawl. Although what you see is the aunt holding the torch and then you hear the scream, that was too much for me.

Poor beautiful Meg is pulverized and tortured to the point from looking like a hot babe to something that makes me want to throw up.

This is a sadistic movie. There's not really much nudity. She's stripped but you don't get to see the goodies because they film it up close. There is a brief rape scene though.

I have to mention the rape is unexpected. The hero goes into the basement and sees Megan being violated. After she tries to escape Aunt Ruth has one of her boys anally rape her and asks if anybody else wants a turn at her. Ruth's younger son wants to but his Ma says no because it would be like incest with him mixing his semen with his brothers. Not much nudity in this scene, just like ass cheeks but no tits or pussy. But still it was too depraved to me.

The director was really lousy showing some prurient scenes. There's one scene when Meg is tied up standing up and a guy feels her but rather than grope her on the front of her chest the kid runs his hand up and down on her side. And it's only like 20 seconds.

The director really mixed up his priorities. Instead of lingering on Blythe Auffarth/Meg's goodies when she's tied up, he lingers instead on dripping snot coming out of her nose. A scene with snot lasts for like 4 minutes but tits get 4 seconds. Go figure.

As just an entertainment, I thought a lot of the non-torture scenes were uninteresting and even laughable. Not in the same league as Irreversible or Baise-Moi.

Despite that, there are a few good non torture scenes in the movie. If this was a more respected movie, Baker's sick aunt would rank as one of the top movie psychos along with Hannibal Lecter and Norman Bates.

I had the privilege to tell Baker this in person since she and her director, Gregory Wilson, were there for the screening. I got their picture and autographs. Here's the pic. Sorry about the quality.

http://ralphus.net/dailypic/blanche_baker_and_director.jpg

In the tiny theater that I saw the film in, at least one person walked out. The rest stayed. And when it was over somebody kept repeating "Sick...SICK!". He probably wouldn't have said it if they knew Baker and the director were in the audience. I think a lot of the audience members were associates of the cast and crew.

The other good thing was Blythe Auffarth as Meg. She is easy on the eyes and hopefully she'll have a spread in Maxim or Stuff one day.

For me I wouldn't want to see the movie again but for my fellow GIMPers, this may be the mainstream torture movie of the year.