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


The Torturer (2008)

Reviewed by Sardu


Sloth: I can see your point about The Torturer, but I'm going to have to respectfully disagree. I felt the movie was a bit "preachy" for sure, but it made its point very well.

Sure, there is no nudity or rape in the movie, however the bondage and tortures that are shown are pretty brutal. The actress Mahsa Masoudi is a lovely Arab woman... and she suffers and pleads beautifully. In fact, when I was watching this movie I thought to myself, "This is Agent X without the nudity or rape."

The first torture is a simple stress position where she is secured to a metal folding chair via wire ties. Hands behind, ankles to the back legs of the chair. This actually looks painful for the actress herself. I don't see how it couldn't have been. She is actually shown being secured.

Initially, she has a blanket over her, but then he takes it away and splashes water on her and opens a window as the temperature outside is very cold. There is a space heater there, but it isn't turned on. During the night as she gets colder, she struggles and overtures the chair and crawls on her belly... still secured to the chair to try and turn the heater on with her mouth. After A LOT of intense struggling she makes it to the heater and the torturer comes in an prevents her from doing so.

There is another scene, almost identical to the inverted drowning scene from Agent X. Here, she's secured to a cot like device via cable ties. The torturer actually reaches up her shirt and feels up her breasts! The cot is hinged in the middle, and he inverts her... head down. He takes large plastic bags and covers her head with it. He then takes a hose and starts filling the bag with water!

He leaves her underwater for some time before stopping... only to fill the bag again. He does this many times before filling it one more time. He tells her this time he's not stopping and walks out of the room!

The dialogue here is really intense and the acting top notch. The tortures are very realistically portrayed, and the actress struggles and PLEADS convincingly. IMHO this makes up for the lack of nudity and forced sex. The ending is also very satisfying.


My Grade: B-

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