I rented this movie after enjoying Kill The Scream Queen. The short version: fans of this forum will probably not much care for it.

The film features a similar basic format from our perspective as Kill The Scream Queen. Hot babes are stripped to their panties and put in peril. Good so far. But that's where the similarity ends.

This movie is about a whackjob with a messiah complex. Throughout the movie the villain (who it turns out is also a victim himself) keeps dictating his rambling and self-centered ideological babble to a captive girl, who writes it all down as a "new bible." We then see the odd shot of girls tied in unconvincing manner to some rather flimsy-looking crosses in the woods. some of the girls look very good, but there isn't much going on. Weak struggles, tired looks, that sort of thing.

Both the villain and his enslaved stenographer wear skull masks throughout the movie, so it is only at the end that we really get to see any real emotion out of her. This is a pity, since there are some moments there that could have been real winners, like when the divine one suggests that maybe by having a child with the stenographer (whom he believes to be the reincarnation of Mary Magdalene) he can regain his power, she perks her head right up. A horrified expression would have done wonders there. There is also one scene after her mask is removed where she is tied with hands over her head and made to hop from side to side in slow-motion. I kind of enjoyed that bit as well.

At the end of the day is a story of manipulation and murder, but frankly, by the end I did not have enough invested in the movie to care. Maybe a little more building action as the movie went would have worked better. As was, the reality around the reborn one was vague enough that I just assumed he was hallucinating most of what he saw. I was half-right, anyway.

As a horror movie, this one is straight-to-cable. As a bondage movie it isn't on the radar. As a murder mystery it doesn't click either. It may just be me, but the movie never really seemed to connect.