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


The Barn

Reviewed by John Galt


The Barn (1999)

The Barn begins with blond haired Stacy Burke walking down a dirt road in a long-sleeved white blouse, short-short denim skirt and white pointy-toed high heels. A big gas-guzzling American four-door sedan roars up from behind her and stops. A guy gets out and manhandles her into the back seat, then gets in with her and the driver roars off. Fade out.

Fade in on Stacy in the back seat, with her wrists tied behind her back. Her abductor pulls her up in front of his body and rips her white blouse open to reveal her lacy white bra. Then he uses a switchblade to slice up between her breasts and parts the bra to reveal her breasts, which are unique. Stacy has very large aureoles and largish nipples on unnaturally enhanced breasts. They take some getting used to.

Stacy does a decent job of acting the victim, but she does not fight at all. She just struggles ineffectually, in a manner that is more intended to titillate than escape. That kind of diminished the experience for this GIMP viewer.

The storyline, such that it is, involves Stacy being held in a barn and tortured for no apparent reason. Although there was an abductor and a driver, we only see the abductor. The driver is apparently filming the action, although the occasional flash and clicking of a shutter betrays the presence of a third person photographing the proceedings as well.

Stacy is pulled into the barn, unaccountably with her wrists now tied in front, and teeters around inside on her heels banging on the walls like she could batter them down and escape. She stomps her heels and pulls her wrists apart but never tries to untie the ropes with her teeth, which of course would have been what any self-respecting bondage victim would have done. So at this point let me just say that, at no time during the remainder of the video, is there any serious attempt at escape. Strike one.

Abrupt scene cut and now Stacy is bound AOH, still wearing the open white blouse and cut bra, so that her breasts are exposed, as well as the denim skirt and white high heels. The abductor walks into the scene and uses a flogger on her belly. Stacy gasps and cries out and arches back, but really he is only tapping her with the flogger, so her acting is way over the top given the circumstances. And this is as good a time as any to point out that all of the whippings, floggings and croppings that follow are tame in the extreme and Stacy's over-the-top acting makes for an annoying combination of weak (probably no) pain inflicted that elicits exaggerated responses. Strike two.

Stacy is weakly flogged, AOH, on breasts, belly and legs. Then she is weakly cropped. Her abductor undoes her AOH bondage in the middle of the room and attaches her AOH against the wall. The cameraman turn the camera sideways and we see mostly the back of the abductor. It is a hint of what is to come regarding the less-than-stellar camera work. Which will be strike three.

Once Stacy is fastened AOH against the wall, her denim skirt is undone and pulled down, revealing lacy white panties that matched her bra. The panties are also cut at each hip, leaving Stacy naked from the waist down (except for the white high heels). Well, okay, not completely naked. She is wearing two slender gold chains low around her hips and has a Playboy rabbit head reverse-tanned into her upper thigh.

The camera, meanwhile, is doing a 45-degree angle thing, I guess in an attempt to get as close as possible but still show Stacy from crotch to forehead. (She has a small landing strip pubic patch, but at no time during this video does she actually spread her legs.) She is cropped some more. She is flogged some more. She struggles. Clothespins are fastened to her nipples, and they stand straight out, by the way. More flogging and cropping. The camera work during this sequences makes me think it is being done by a fly, the way it zooms in and out and tilts back and forth.

The abductor brandishes a large flexible rubber dildo and rubs it against her face and breasts before figuring out that it should be applied farther down. Once again, though, the scene fails to deliver as the dildo does not actually do any penetrating. There is exaggerated movement and such, but it isn't hard to tell that all he really does with it is pushes it between her legs. That doesn't stop Stacy from reacting as though she's being impaled by a horse, of course, but it is altogether unconvincing.

Scene jump and clothespins are reapplied to her now-unclothespinned nipples. More cropping. Stacy is cleave-gagged using her white lacy panties. The abductor brandishes his knife again to remove the blouse, but all he does is cuts it away so that she is still wearing the long white sleeves. He also leaves the cut white bra. Now, this is personally very irritating to me. I feel very strongly that clothes and tatters of clothes can be left on during a scene, but they should eventually come off to reveal a completely naked victim.

More flogging. Her hands are unfastened from above her head and leather cuffs are applied to her wrists. Now, at this juncture, I would have taken a moment to pull the sleeves off of her arms, as well as the bra. It would have been very easy to render her completely naked. But alas, that doesn't happen. *sigh*

Her cuffed wrists are refastened together and she is AOH once again. More struggling. The camera twists at whacky angles during this time. Idiot cameraman. Stacy is refastened AOH against the wall with her wrists apart this time. More fake flexible rubber dildo assault, made even faker when the camera drops unexpectedly and we see the guy pushing it against her belly as she acts like she's being penetrated. Another pair of clothespins are attached, so now she has two sticking straight out from her nipples. More breast cropping. There is some clothespin play that was probably rather uncomfortable. We get an extended breast torment sequence that is actually not bad. They applied some rouge or something to the crop so it now leaves red marks. Next we get some rope breast bondage, where rope is wrapped kind of tightly around her breasts.

Now comes the cigarette torture. The guy shows Stacy a cigarette, then lights it and smokes a few puffs. He brings it close to her breast and as the camera moves upward, we see Stacy make a pained face, but probably not the reaction we would get if he had actually burned her breast with a lit cigarette. When the camera moves back down, we get to see some not-too-bad make-up effects of burn marks. While Stacy stands against the wall, the abductor takes pictures and the cameraman actually turns the video completely horizontal. What a nimrod.

Lots of watching Stacy in bondage. I have to say, Stacy does an exceptional job of acting scared and in distress. If her acting was accompanied by action that justified it, this would be major hard-on material. She really is very good, although she would be more believable if she cried or even teared up at any point. Oh well.

Back to Stacy, who now has burn mark make-up on both breasts. A wasted effort. If you aren't going to show the torture, why bother with showing the marks? Come on, get with the program.

Suction cups are applied to Stacy's breasts, although not very strenuously. The guy isn't even sure if they will stay on and releases them very tentatively. Stacy emotes. Pictures are taken. The video work zooms in and out and around. The suction cups are removed. The breast ropes are removed and we get close-ups of the rope marks. The rope bondage goes back on, but this time the ends are pulled up and out and tied up next to her wrists.

Stacy is refastened AOH wrists apart facing the wall. The camera twists and turns. The guy runs a crop up and down her backside, and at one point moves it back and forth in her crotch and Stacy's foot moves up and down kind of like when you rub a dog's belly and his leg moves. It is the closest this video comes to capturing an authentic reaction, I think. The camera goes horizontal as Stacy's ass is cropped. Once again, they applied rouge to the crop so that it leaves "marks." Her ass is spanked barehanded. It is copped some more. Spanked. Flogged. Cropped and flogged as two guys work on her at the same time, with some enthusiasm. The damn camera remains horizontal the entire time.

Stacy is refastened AOH, wrists apart, with her back to the wall again. More clothespins are attached to her breasts and her nipples. The guy plays with the clothespins for a while, then removes them. Close-ups of the marks left by the clothespins. More flogging. Stacy writhes wonderfully, but all out of proportion to the severity of the flogging.

Stacy is unfastened from the wall. Her cuffed wrists are fastened behind her back. Her elbows are tied together with rope. Her thighs are bound together with ropes. She is walked over and laid on the dirt floor, and left there. The thigh bonds slipped down loosely around her knees during transit, by the way, being the sloppiest bondage of the shoot. We hear the car start up and the guys drive off, leaving her bound on the dirt floor of the barn. The end.

SUMMARY: The model is Stacy Burke, who I think is very hot and sexy, even though I am not all that fond of her boob job. Also, this was released in 1999, so she was 10 years younger than, say, today. The bondage is not bad, with a few notable exceptions. Stacy does not struggle at all, so it loses most of its GIMP potential right there. The torment is weak. The whippings, floggings and croppings are without conviction. However, Stacy is exceptionally good at portraying pain and anguish. It is probably because she acts like she is in such extreme pain and discomfort that the weak torment stands out in comparison. There is plenty of time given to watching her struggle in vain, if you like that sort of thing. She is cleave-gagged halfway through and it remains in place. She is not completely stripped, though, which is annoying. The camera work is bad. The sound is not bad, since it is mostly just Stacy grunting, groaning, whimpering and begging, which she does well.

I would give this a C-. My copy of The Barn is 60-minutes long, and I downloaded it several years ago. I did some googling and found that you can purchase it in VHS or DVD from Unlimited Desires for $39.95. Oddly enough, the VHS/DVD is advertised as being 90 minutes long, but when you click on the link to download it, the download advertises that it is 60 minutes long. I don't think it is worth $39.95 to see if there is a difference, but anyone who knows please feel free to let me know. You can also download this from Slave Videos. It is advertised as a "Must Have" for Stacy Burke fans, and I can't argue with that. It largely misses on most of its GIMP potential, though. Sadly.

For those who would like to see Stacy in a consensual but nonetheless rough bondage sex scene that looks for all the world like it pushes her limits more than once, check out the Sex and Submission scene she did with Big Daddy Brady back in 2005.


My Grade: C-

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