Title: Inquisition VI: Agony of the Whore Witch

Stars: Not credited

Running time: about one hour

Since I was the one who posted the link to the Inquisition movies, I guess it falls upon me to deliver the bad news: these movies are disappointing.

I say "movies" in the plural, because I actually rented the Inquisition VI and another title, Inquisition II: The Iron Cage. Although my review is specific to Inquisition VI: Agony of the Whore Witch, my overall comments apply to both films.

Generally, the Inquisition movies start strong, but never really deliver on their early promise. In the Whore Witch, for example, things look promising in some of the opening scenes with the victim. She is a sexy, spirited woman with a nice, slender, athletic body, smallish natural tits, and a frizzy, sandy-blonde perm. Her face is attractive -- not stunning, but attractive in a natural kind of way. When we first see her, she is fully clothed in various rag-like dresses and is dragged, kicking and struggling, into a candlelit, authentic-looking dungeon area by a guy in a monk's outfit and another guy in a short robe. The film quality here appears to be deliberately grainy, with flickering lighting used to support the candlelit appearance, and there are church bells chiming in the background (some of this reminded me of Bill Zebub's The Crucifier). The two villains are joined by a third woman in a black gown, and all three torture the whore witch in various ways.

For much of the movie, the whore witch is standing, hunched forward with her hands cuffed behind her back and a rope tying her arms to the roof, and in various states of undress. She has unlit candles shoved into her pussy and ass, and is also spanked and receives some light whippings from a riding crop. As well, there are scenes where the whore witch is pinned on a dirty floor, alternately on her stomach and then on her back, and is tortured with clothespins and with more spankings and light whippings. In the second half of the movie, the whore witch is naked, blindfolded, and tied down on her back to a makeshift table (a wooden ladder spread across two wooden horses), and is subjected to hot-wax torture from real candles, a male villain fingering and licking her pussy, and a violation from what looks like a wooden dildo. She is even forced to suck one guy's cock, and receives a full face fucking, which isn't simulated and isn't digitally altered.

So, with all this going on -- whippings, hot wax, sexual violations, etc. -- what's the problem? Essentially, most of the scenes aren't delivered with any gusto. There is no dialogue (the movie was filmed in Germany and appears to be dialogue-free in order to appeal to international audiences), so there is never much buildup in the action, and the actors don't really sell their moments when it counts.

For example, in one scene, the guy in the short robe and the woman in the gown have the whore witch pinned to the floor, naked. The monk comes by with a pot full of water and, as the villains force the whore witch to open her mouth, the water is poured in. Presumably, it's supposed to be scalding hot water, but you'd never know that from the victim's reaction. At best, she seems mildly annoyed, but definitely not in any pain.

The movie also has a lot of moments where people are standing around doing little or very little -- there are lengthy shots of metal cuffs being attached and unattached to the victim's hands and feet, and I have no idea why these shots drag on for so long.

The victim's best moments are right at the beginning, when she is dragged into the dungeon. She kicks and puts up quite a fight, and at one point she is standing and receives some hard slaps to her face. These opening moments create some real hope for this movie, but it is never realized.

Overall assessment: not recommended.