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


I Know Who Killed Me

Reviewed by Ralphus


I probably shouldn't have, what with the crappy reviews I've read so far, but I was curious enough to take a drive to my local cineplex and check out Lindsay Lohan's new film I Know Who Killed Me today. The word that Lindsay gets not only tied up and gagged, but tortured too, was enough to lure me in. I didn't want to have wait til this one hit DVD. And after seeing it, here's my advice: Wait til this one hits DVD.

The real reason that GIMPers will ultimately want to check out the DVD is to see Lindsay's bondage/torture scene about a third of the way through. But the setup is nonexistent. There's no abduction; in one scene she disappears from a crowd and in the next she's being tortured. That's it. It's like we're missing an important plot point that the director apparently didn't feel was worth shooting.

But the torture scene is definitely worthwhile, even if it will probably gross out the squeamish among you. Lindsay is strapped down to a table and gagged with a thin cleave gag with a knot in it. The villain uses a block of dry ice on her bare arm to freeze it down before amputating several of her fingers in grisly detail. Lindsay does a darn good job playing a victim, and there are several tight shots of her gagged face as she screams in pain.

Lindsay also has another brief bondage scene near the end of the film where she's tied to a chair, but she's not gagged and nothing happens to her.

Even though she plays a stripper in a couple of scenes, there's no nudity from her at all. She also has a topless sex scene, but she's shot from the back and we don't see anything. She still looks hot, though.

Is the actual movie any good? Not really. It's heavy on atmosphere, but what it needed most was a cohesive storyline. Unlike Hostel: Part 2, which was the last good GIMP film that I saw in theaters, this one meanders and oftentimes you're not really sure what's going on, plus the ending ludicrously borrows a plotline from Lohan's previous film The Parent Trap as its big twist. Oh, have I given away too much? There, now you won't have to cough up your 8 bucks like I did.

My grades: As a movie, C-
As a bondage/torture scene: B+


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