A Bring Out the GIMP (Girls in Merciless Peril) Movie Review


The Great American Snuff Film

Reviewed by Sloth


Review of The Great American Snuff Film. As I am a neophyte at this, please critique the review so I can improve.

As most discerning Gimpers have guessed this is not a romantic sitcom. It is supposedly based on the true crimes of serial killer William Grone. The main cast consists of Mike Marsh (Grone), Ryan Hutman as Grone's dim bulb sidekick, Roy, and our principle victims, Melinda Lorenz as Patti and Holi Tavernier as Sarah.

The film opens with Grone explaining his filming style and what he intends to accomplish - namely to abduct, torture, rape and kill women and capture his acts on film. Sarah and Patti are staying with a young man in his travel trailer somewhere in the desert partying. Grone and Roy break in and dispatch the young man with a gunshot and quickly subdue the victims. They are carried out to the villains waiting van and are then bound and gagged with duct tape and transported to Roy's middle of nowhere junkyard and stashed in another broken down trailer. The villains have set up video surveillance run from another trailer to keep tabs on the ladies.

They then begin filming and mentally tormenting their victims who they inject with drugs when not keeping an eye on them. During the next couple of days the victims are constantly bound and gagged in the same manner. That night they are again loaded in the van with collars and chains around their necks and driven to a remote desert location where they are unbound, given shovels and ordered to dig 2 graves. Retied and back in the van they are told that is where they will be buried when filming is complete.

Next morning we have a brutal scene where the victims are placed inside a huge cage in the junkyard. They are again bound and gagged with duct tape and are standing barefoot on oil drums with nooses attached to the top of the cage and then around their necks. While Grone films, Roy walks around and burns the ladies in various places with a cigarette. Both suffer but neither falls from the drum.

Grone must go back to work and leaves Roy alone with the ladies. While in town Grone picks up a hooker, takes her home and kills her with a plastic bag over her head. Thru a flashback we find he has killed before with some quick shots of several young ladies in various restraints and stages of undress. Back at the junkyard Roy decides he cannot wait and carries Patti into another trailer. There he cuts off her duct tape and when she puts up a struggle he stabs her once in the stomach. When Grone arrives the next morning he finds only Sarah bound in the trailer. He locates Roy digging a grave for Patti whose body a laying nearby. Blaming Roy for fouling up his film by moving too fast, he offs Roy by busting a cap into him.

Grone then decides he must finish his film quickly and goes to rape and kill Sarah. She goads him into untying her and she stabs him in the neck with a nail she had worked loose from the wall. She then clubs him with his camera tripod and runs off into the desert. Grone is able to track her down and she is taken to a room he prepared for this moment. He has lined the walls, floor and ceiling with plastic. She is duct tape bound sitting on a chair and Grone films her execution as he fires a shot into her head.

Cut to the same scene with 2 different actors. This is supposed to be the actual scene as filmed by Grone. The girl is wearing a different outfit, is bound and gagged with duct tape and has some rope around her securing her arms and upper body. The actor comes in and fires a bullet into her head and the body falls off the chair. The End

Movie Pluses-Both victims, while not as drop dead gorgeous as Ralphus' latest squeeze Aria or everyone's favorite victim Natasha, are easy on the eyes and are quite believable as doomed victims. The film is actually quite well done for a low budget indie production.

Movie Minuses-It seems to me a prime directive was ignored here. Not once are we treated to seeing the feminine charms of either victim. The only nudity of any kind happens during the flash backs Grone has and that is woefully short.

The Verdict-this film delivers almost constant duct tape bondage and gagging of the victims. But without any nudity it can only rate a C on the Gimp Scale. I would recommend it as a rental if you can find it-nice way to blow some time on a slow night.


My Grade: C

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