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


Spine

Reviewed by Brutus


Spine is a pioneering low-budget slasher flick produced by a defunct bondage studio that paved the way for gay cowboy movies like Brokeback Mountain. Whoops, got carried away there. It's just that the psychotic killer in Spine reminded me for some reason of a gay cowboy. But he wasn't a cowboy, and he wasn't gay, which thankfully makes for some great GIMP action.

The movie starts off promising, with a woman who looks either Hispanic or Asian hogtied on the floor with a tight rope gag, plus rope around her neck for you asphyx fans. The killer, a tall guy with mirror shades, pink-red shirt and I think a bandanna around his neck, is shown lifting up a knife and preparing for the kill. The killing is not shown, and the scene is much too short.

We learn through some lame dialogue and bad acting at the police station that a nutcase is going around killing nurses. His MO involves hog-tying the women, connecting a rope around their necks to their ankles, and when they are gasping for breath, he cuts out their spines. Oh yeah, one cop mentions that the victims were raped vaginally and anally. Hi-ho Silver!

As the cops search for clues and continue their lame dialogue, we get glimpses of the killer attacking his next victim-a gorgeous blonde in a nurse uniform. She is gagged with blue tape as the killer is hog-tying her. But we never see what happens to her! When I first watched this movie, I was infuriated at this short scene. Thankfully, the producers later redeemed themselves.

In a parking lot of a hospital where our heroine, nurse Janus Blythe, works, the killer has another nurse at his mercy, AOH with a rope gag and stuffing. With his knife, he pushes and prods the uniform apart and we briefly catch a glimpse of her nipple, which, surprisingly, is the only real nudity I can recall in this movie. The killer flees after Janus interrupts the action. Don't worry, she'll pay for her interference.

Janus, a cute brunette with short hair, decides to take a jog with a maniac killer on the loose. She is wearing a tight T-shirt and red, nylon shorts. As she returns to her garage, the killer strikes. She ends up tied AOH with a knotted cleave gag. He torments her verbally and we slowly find out why he's killing nurses.

It seems the killer long ago had a mother who needed a home-stay nurse, named Linda. I guess Linda got frustrated, perhaps by the killer's clothing, pushed the mother down a flight of stairs and poked out the killer's eye. Since then, the psycho has had a thing for nurses, and he calls all of his victims "Linda."

He cuts the back of Janus's T-shirt, rubs her back and indicates that her backbone will come out. But he stops to take care of Janus's friend inside. She is attractive, has curly hair and is wearing a silky bathrobe. She ends up in a chair, arms tied behind her back, and an over-the-mouth gag with what appears to be medical gauze.

Janus is brought inside, still tied and gagged. The nutter tries to create a sort of at-home family scene, but whenever he removes a gag, the woman cries out, "My/Her name is NOT Linda!" I loved the pleading because the psycho would simply reply, "Oh Linda, so you are trying to trick me again," and would reinsert the gag. He dumps the friend, hogtied and gagged, on a bed, and decides that Linda (Janus) has to be punished for what she did.

He bends her over a chair, her hand are tied in front with rope that is secured under the chair. Her legs are tied together. The psycho menaces her legs with a knife, cuts out the bottom of those red nylon shorts, and rapes her. It's a fantastic scene, with Janus whimpering through her gag while alternately grunting in pain with every thrust.

After he is done, he checks in on the friend. We find that her OTM gag also contains a sponge! He then tells her he's gonna cut out Linda's spine.

Janus is taken from the chair. She is hogtied on the floor, and the gay cowboy wraps rope around her neck and ties it to her ankles, thereby choking her. The friend manages to escape and then comes across the gory scene.

SPOILER ALERT. Turns out this was all a dream! The cops end up shooting the killer in the garage.

This was a terrible movie. The production values were minimal, the script asinine, and the acting amateurish. For a slasher flick, this was remarkably blood-free. I think all the gore budget went to the dream sequence of Janus's corpse.

But for GIMP action, this is a must-see. It was quite clear the movie was made simply to tie up and torment cute women. What I can't understand is why there was so little nudity, given the nasty nature of the flick.

Still, as far as mainstream horror films go, I gotta give it an A-. And trust me, this is a bigger turn-on than Brokeback Mountain.


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