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


Red Feline on the Cross

Reviewed by Joek0


Red Feline on the Cross (1998, Red Feline Pictures), is the first movie made by Jac Avila aka JJ under the company Red Feline. This movie was made with the team of the only 3 people. Other than the 2 stars, Margot Chevalier helped with the production of the movie as well.

The movie starts with the lovely Red Feline (Camille Duka aka Carmen Paintoux) who walks into a seemingly abandoned building. Once she feels that she has some privacy, she removes some of her clothes to get comfortable and begins to masturbate. Unbeknownst to her a mysterious masked man in black (JJ aka Jan Jac aka Jac Avila) appears to watch before knocking her unconscious. He then drags her body to another room.

Our man in black is dragging the poor unconscious Red Feline along the floor. She is wearing a sleeveless black top and a pair of black panties with one stocking still worn on her leg. We see that the mystery man also covered up her face with a stocking. There are only holes for her eyes and mouth. Unfortunately, the stocking mask is never removed from her head. I myself need to see the girl’s full face when they are being tortured. The full facial expression is important because it allows you to fully understand how much the victim is suffering. If Camille wasn’t such a good actress, I would not have enjoyed this movie at all. Camille knows how to express her emotions with her eyes and mouth really conveys what she is going through.

For her first torture, he ties up her arms overhead with her feet a few inches off the floor while facing away from her torturer. She is then whipped. Even though we can’t see her face, her cries of pain really convey her torture. Eventually, her top is ripped from her backside as a result of all the whipping. After she loses consciousness, the masked man grabs a nail and impales it right on her back near the shoulder blades. The nail is then left there sticking out. The pain from the nail wakes her up briefly before falling unconscious again.

The masked man unties her and leaves her lying on the floor for a little bit with the nail still impaled in her back. As she comes to, she attempts to crawl to her escape. The masked man is there watching her feeble attempt to escape in her weakened state. He eventually grabs her by her leg to get her ready for her next ordeal.

For her next torture, the masked man ties her standing AOH spread out on a wooden frame. Her legs are tied spread to the frame as well. Her feet barely reach the floor as well. She is then whipped some more in this position until she falls unconscious. Even though her face is covered, whenever we get a close up of her face, we can see that Camille’s eyes really convey the pain she is feeling.

After removing her top, the masked man then grabs another nail and impales her left breast with it. This nail is left in as well. She is awaken and convulses in pain before falling unconscious again. The music choice during the impalement is very dark and fits the scene well. Too bad that Camille’s screams weren’t heard during these scenes. Just like before, the masked man unties her and lays her lying on the floor and keeps a close watch. Camille weakly tries to escape again, but it proves to be futile as she is too weak to move her body on her own.

For her next torture, Camille is tied and whipped in the strappado position. Her cries of pain are well acted. She is whipped so much in the pussy that her black panties are ripped from the bottom. She falls unconscious from all the whipping.

The masked man again leaves Camille lying on the floor. Camille is too weak to attempt escape this time.

For the next torture, the masked man ties her AOH on a spreader bar. The masked man then lowers her onto a Spanish Horse. The Spanish Horse here is not as menacing as the one in Maleficarum, but painful none the less. Since the bottom of her panties were whipped away, her bare open pussy is exposed completely to the Spanish Horse. She is then whipped some more while suffering on the Spanish Horse. Since she is so weak from her previous tortures, she is not as expressive as I would like. I myself would prefer if she was screaming from the whipping on the horse. It would have made the scene much better. The only advantage of her being too weak to react is that she is not able to lift her body enough to prevent the horse from digging into her pussy. She eventually falls unconscious again.

For her next torture, the masked man then raises her up high enough to remove the Spanish Horse from underneath her and high enough for her that her feet are a few inches above the ground. He then whips her more in this position, even while she is still unconscious. I myself am not a fan of whipping unconscious women. He then starts to whip her panties hard enough that they rip and fall off of her from all the hard whipping. He then grabs another nail and impales her on the right side between her pelvis and her pussy. The nail here is again left in as well. Very painful indeed. The scream here was edited out as well, but the same eerie type of music from the previous impaling scenes. This again shocks her awake, but the extreme pain from the nail being in a sensitive spot keeps her body from falling completely unconscious again.

For the next torture, the masked man ties her AOH onto an A-Cross. She is then whipped some more. Even though she is conscious from all the pain from the nails impaling her, she is too week to scream from her whipping. It’s too bad that we don’t get to hear her screams from her torture. I am however glad that she is somewhat conscious during the whipping.

After the whipping ends, the masked man raises her arms up even higher. This causes her arms to be stretched out like they would on a rack. The strain from the ropes also causes her wrists to bleed out. The pain in this position finally leads her to finally pass out again. He then grabs another nail to impale her slightly below her right breast. This shocks her awake again for a bit before passing out again.

For the final torture, Camille is crucified. Red Feline has always been known for its crucifixion scenes. To start, her arms are lowered down from the A-cross so that he can lay her down on her back. Her arms however are not unbound from the rope. He then begins to nail her hands to the arm of a cross. Camille knows how to act when a nail is driven through her hands. Red Feline’s leading ladies know how to show the illusion of being nailed to a cross. The arm of the cross is then raised to the top of the A-cross. He then begins to nail her legs to the legs of the A-cross as well. After the last nail is applied, she is left on the cross to die. Camille tries her best to hang on as long as she possibly can. Her body is convulsing a lot from the pain as she struggles not to pass out. But in the end, she passes out and is left to die.

Summary: Red Feline walks into an abandoned building to live out a sexual fantasy of being raped and used. She is however kidnapped and used by a perverted man in black. She is put through 7 tortures throughout the movie which consist of mainly whipping and ends with a crucifixion.

Pros:
Great acting by the leading lady. She knows how to convey her emotions very well throughout all her torture. Camille has shown me she can act in the feature film Martyr which is directed by Jac. This and a few other movies were her training for her role in Martyr.

The special effects are pretty good considering the resources they had available. Lots of blood effects used. Not recommended for those who don’t like bloody tortures.

Cons:
The lighting is too dark for my tastes. You can see a good deal of the action, but not enough to see the little details. My guess is that this was intentional in order to set the dark and gloomy mood. Artistic choice I suppose.

Camille’s face is mostly covered throughout the entire film. For me, I need to see the entire face to fully enjoy and see the suffering she is put through. Covering up most of her sexy face is a waste to her beauty. Another artistic choice I suppose.

JJ’s acting. It has been talked about before. Since it is a 3 person crew, he is the one mostly doing the production work while acting as well.

No dialog this is common with Red Feline’s early work. Another artistic choice by the company.

Overall, I give this movie a C+. If you know about their work, you know that they do pretty well with their whipping and crucifixion scenes. For their first releasable effort, they do a pretty decent job. Camille’s acting really saves the movie for me since I don’t approve of many of their artistic choices. Their future work does show much improvement over the years. I hope their efforts improve even more in the future. I recommend this film if you are curious about the history of their earlier work.


My Grade: C+

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