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


Screaming Dead

Reviewed by John Galt


Screaming Dead (2005)

This movie from Shock-O-Rama Cinema stars Rachael Robbins, Misty Mundae, AJ Kahn and a few other babes, plus a couple of guys. In a nutshell:

One rack scene before the credits
Three ankle-handcuffed-to-the-bed bondages
One nude female victim shackled to a wooden "X" scene complete with bloody slashing
One rack/Chinese Water Torture
Three--then two--then one--AOH shackled-to-the-wall bondages
One gal fastened to an amazing horizontal "X" device that accomplishes multiple torments

Screaming Dead begins with a bondage scene. AJ Kahn is lying on a slab wearing a (short) diaphanous wrap with a bare midriff. A photographer fastens iron shackles on her ankles and hands her a wooden dowel to hold (her hands are stretched AOH), which is attached to a chain that is revealed to be attached to a weighted dagger suspended over her stomach. The photographer flips a switch and sand begins to fill an urn that increases the weight on the dagger. As the photographer snaps away, the model becomes more and more agitated, panicking that she cannot hold the dowel. Eventually the weight is too great and the dowel slips out of her hands, sending the dagger plunging toward her belly. The dagger is on a chain that stops just in time, barely breaking the skin. It is an incredible GIMP scene and that's even before the credits roll.

AJ Kahn on the rack

Next up, the photographer is interviewing luscious Misty Mundae as a potential model. She is seated on a wooden chair, blindfolded, and completely naked. It's a nicely intense interview.

Misty Mundae interview

The photographer tells her to put her hands behind her back, then asks her if she has ever been tied up. Misty relates the story of how her boyfriend tied her to the bed once. The interview continues with vaguely menacing humiliation but it is basically just an interview.

Misty Mundae interview

Eventually the photographer and a bevy of hot models (well, three hot models and a hot female assistant) arrive at an old mansion with a suitably spooky history. The photographer intends to terrorize the models and take pictures of their distress. He has set up spy cameras and tricks and traps to scare the models, all without their knowledge of course. Definite GIMP possibilities.

The models are all locked in individual rooms and individually terrified. Then they are all locked in the same room. There is an obligatory shower scene, except the photographer walks in and talks to the model while she is showering. He convinces the model to initiate sex with the others. The model tells about a lesbian experience she once had ("This one time, at cheerleading camp...."). This photographer is a creepy guy.

Obligatory shower scene

The photographer retires to his secret surveillance room where he watches the girls, no doubt waiting for some hot lesbian sex. Instead he gets a slumber party confessional during which all of the girls agree that the photographer is a creep. They even wonder if he has secret cameras watching them. Imagine that. Miffed that he didn't get his lesbian sex scene, the photographer separates the girls back into their own rooms again. Then he walks into Misty Mundae's room and chains her ankle to the bed. He chains all the girls' ankles to their beds. Single ankle chaining is not very satisfying bondage.
 
However, is especially cool when he sets a mechanical disembodied hand to crawl up Misty Mundae's chained leg in the middle of the night. She freaks out, which is awesome. Poor Misty.

Ankle bondage

Eventually, the photographer discovers there's a secret room in the basement. Naturally, there's a torture chamber in the basement room. The photographer eventually approaches Misty for a private photo session. He leads her to the basement room and tells her to undress so he can tie her to the wooden  "X" device. Actually he pressures her into it since she is extremely reluctant.

Misty Mundae is pressured to be tied to the cross

Then he straps Misty to a wooden "X" (wrists and ankles). 

Misty is strapped to the cross

While he is photographing her naked bound body, she becomes distressed and starts screaming and crying to be released.

Misty Mundae begs to be released

She is suddenly attacked by the evil spirit of the former owner, who apparently has been resurrected by Misty's nudity and bondage. It would have worked for me. The evil spirit slashes her repeatedly across her naked body. The photographer keeps snapping away with his camera.

Misty Mundae is attacked and slashed repeatedly

The cuts and blood look very fake, by the way. But Misty's fear, shame and terror are pretty well acted. I like Misty Mundae, though, so that is probably informing my opinion.

The ghost grabs all the girls, one by one, and installs them in the torture chamber. They all start out chained AOH.

Girls chained AOH

Then one is fixed to a slab and subjected to the "Chinese water torture." Sadly, she is fuly clothed.

Chinese water torture


The next one (Rachael Robbins) is fastened to a horizontal "X" in a pit with her arms and legs spread. The ghost starts the clockwork mechanism that stretches her arms and legs outward (threatening to pull her limbs from their sockets) and moves a red-hot dildo-shaped drill/poker toward her crotch. Oh yes, the shackles also deliver electric shocks.

Rachael Robbins bound in the torture pit

She is clothed, but at least the ghost removed her jeans so that only thin lacy panties separate her sex from the approaching red-hot dildo poker. Nice and intense. Until it ends with her rescue. Oh well.

Rachael Robbins is tortured

The girls all escape and the house burns down.

No one will get any acting awards for this one. The dialog is fairly lame as well. But that "X" torture device in the pit was pretty awesome. I'd like to see that used again.


My Grade: C+

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