Hey, all! Just thought I'd do a quick review of a low-budget horror film you probably weren't aware of called Killing Brooke. Besides being a pretty good flick for low-budget budget horror, it's loaded with GIMP action.
The film starts with the hot Chloe and the even hotter Brooke getting married (any movie that starts with hot lesbians getting married has promise!). After the low-key wedding, they go to a bar where they get roaring drunk and decide to spend their wedding night in a threesome with some guy they just met (turns out Brooke is a little bi!). Problem is, we saw earlier in the film that the guy -- Vance -- is really an insane killer. And while the girls are giving him a ride the next day, he kills Chloe and goes after Brooke.
He chases Brooke through the woods and while running from him, Brooke finds a house and runs in where she is consoled by the occupants of the house -- a man, his wife, and a younger man who is mentally challenged. The guy comes looking for her and they protect Brooke by clubbing him into unconsciousness.
But that's the end of the good news for Brooke. Turns out that the family is a bunch of inbred psycho freaks (YEAH!) and they immediately capture Brooke. The rest of the film involves Brooke being captured and abused by the family, but the psycho-killer Vance is ALSO captured by the family, and all he wants to do is escape so her can kill Brooke. A plot line that I had never seen before and was fun to watch play out.
For GIMP-age, the entire last hour of the film involves Brooke being tied up, terrorized, and tortured. Three sequences in particular stand out -
First, the woman decides that she likes Brooke's nails. So the husband thoughtfully ties Brooke up and pulls out her nails to give to his woman. Brooke does a wonderful job screaming, and in this sequence the woman gets so excited she actually bites off one of Brooke's nails with her teeth. Yuck.
Another sequence is during a dinner, where a bound Brooke is force-fed some green goop. Yuck again.
And a set piece where the family strips Brooke down to her bra and panties, clubs her over the head and ties her AOH to a shower. They beat her with a club, stick a broken lamp on her to shock her, slash her with a box cutter, and then finally pour bleach on her cuts. Only drawback is that for part of this scene, there is a bag over her head.
All in all, a solid B+ film for both GIMP-age and the film itself. There's no nudity, but the lead actress is a woman named Alex Fandel who never acted before and, so far as I can tell, has never acted since and she is extremely naturally pretty and does a wonderful job in the film (she is an awesome screamer, in particular).
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