I recently watched a movie I'd only heard of on this board: Asphyxia: The Movie, by PKF Studios. Anyway, normally "death fetish" isn't my thing at all, but I do really like a well conceived and executed damsel in distress fantasy, and judging from the preview it looked like it fit that bill, so I decided to give it a view, and give it a review since it was made known to me here. The film starts with a bunch of dudes walking into a room with a weapon wall like Call of Duty or something, and grabbing a bunch of guns, plus a baseball bat for some reason (which never actually makes an appearance in the film). Cut to a group of young women about to go out for a night on the town. Their plans are cut short though by a home invasion/kidnapping. Only one of the girls is really wanted for the abduction, but they all get bound (two of them get their hands tied behind their backs with rope; the rest get cuffed behind the back) and gagged (except for one! Couldn't the bad guys remember one more gag?!) They all submit a bit too easily, would've been better if one of them panicked and had to be slapped or threatened further or something. They all get led down into a primitive, rebar constructed jail cell. I like cells in GIMP material, so this was good.
Our heroes demand ransom, but instead a "superheroine" team is sent to rescue the girls. Not a good part in the movie IMO...personally I've never understood the "superheroine" subgenre of bondage films, it's just something that's never appealed to me in the slightest. Our female heroes all look like stereotypical porn stars, so that doesn't exactly help. But they all get captured thankfully, and their captors decide to make an example of them by killing them off. They all get stripped, one gets garroted (no bondage), one gets hung upside down and bagged (while handcuffed) and one gets hanged (while handcuffed). They all do a pretty good job acting, but the scene with the red-haired girl is my favorite, as she thrashes around and alternately curses and pleads with her captors, who respond by groping and mocking her.
A normal gang of criminals probably would've just shot everybody else and called it a day....especially since they don't really seem to be concerned about loud noises. Not these doofuses, though. Their schedule is open! The rest of the bitches need to go, and one by one they get dragged out of the cell, stripped naked, and executed in various ways, all of which involve asphyxiation. None of them get tortured (unless you want to count getting handcuffed and raped with a dildo as torture, which is what happens to the black haired girl), which is too bad as I prefer torture and torment to death. One girl gets garroted (not in bondage), one girl gets strangled manually (not in bondage), one girl gets strapped down to a chair and bagged, one girl gets strangled with a rope (not in bondage), and one girl gets shackled to an X-frame and garroted. I especially liked the last scene, with the cute brunette on the X-frame. I know I said that death and "death fetish" wasn't really my thing, but I'd be lying if I said that her getting garroted while pinned spread-eagle to that frame wasn't erotic.
After all the girls suffer undeserved fates, the goons take liberties with the corpses. Didn't watch this part because it doesn't really appeal to me at all. I skipped through it a bit for this review, like I said before, dead women don't interest me in the slightest, someone else's interest in this may vary I guess.
This was the first and only PKF film I've ever watched, and I was impressed. The action in the film was non-consensual, and the young women who acted in the film did a surprisingly good job, I thought. There was no monotone pleading or anything like that and all of the performers put varying amounts of effort into selling their roles. That alone makes it worthy or praise IMO. There was some bondage but not enough for my tastes, plus there wasn't really any torture. Despite all that, though, this was a well-acted, appropriately mean-spirited "damsel in distress"-type film, and for that I give it an A.
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