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


The Thief of Secrets

Reviewed by Floor13



'Review' of a new Cruel World film, The Thief of Secrets (in 4 parts). Cruel World sells their films at Nicheclips you need to create an account to view.

TL;DR: Giving this a rating of A
(Not A+)
Please read why I give it this high mark, I don't want to face your wrath if you don't like it. I freely admit I'm not exactly being unbiased.
(Also I hate The Last Jedi. But I love Daisy Ridley in Force Awakens)

Disclaimers:
1) I see it hasn't been released yet.
2) The version we received is 93 minutes long. It didn't have the usual opening credits or closing credit, so it might get edited down.
3) This 'review' contains spoilers.
4) I have very specific tastes about some aspects of films, and other times I'm easily pleased. My partner is a bit more discerning, I'll give her input when it differs from mine.
5) This was a custom film, it cost a fair bit (see below). It contains stuff that we wanted to see. It's electro-heavy. If that isn't your thing, well I'm sorry. We didn't make it for you.
6) I'm willing to overlook some technical aspects when a scene makes my nipples hard, my clit throb, and gives me that special feeling in my stomach.
7) I know some people don't like the editing of CW films and don't like the way they are sometimes split into 2 or more parts. I'm not getting into a debate about that, I can see both sides. I'm not a fan of Elite Pain, for example. They used to be tied up with string and whipped by a guy that looks like a geography teacher. It does nothing for me. I see glowing reviews for WoP etc, yet they just do nothing for me (That said the 'experiment' ones where the girls are in jeans tied to a chainlink fence being whipped... Yes, that really works).
8) I'm an extreme sadist about certain tortures, as well as BDSM. I'm also quite a masochist when it comes to paddles, floggers, my partner's hands. She's a hell of a masochist for electricity and brutal fucking in uncomfortable-restrained positions. Basically, I'm saying we're both fucked up and like different things and yet the same. Bear that in mind when I say which parts of the film we liked best.
9) We both have a real thing for tortured spies/soldiers, so again I can't be exactly neutral in my review.

Film details
4GB in size
93 minutes long
1920*1080
Stars:
Tai (or Tay, depending on which email I receive), whose hair is naturally reddish in this film, meaning I love her even more
Another actress who I don't know the screen-name of, only her real name which I won't put here. We chose her because I wanted a more authoritative lady. I hate seeing 18 year-olds try to dominate
Alex Bald


The ordering process

1) My partner and I contacted CW to see if he would make a 2-woman film, gave him a rough idea by showing him some ZFX clips. He gave me a rough price, subject to my render-storyboard.
2) I started to render, then had a nasty computer problem (still do, need a new PC) and couldn't quite finish the renders. I described how it should end.
3) I offered to pay for the Jenning's dental spreader.
4) He came back with a final price for the 2 actresses, extra camera-operator, cost of building the 'chair' that is in most scenes (bits come off it so she's tortured in different ways, but is balanced so it doesn't topple).
5) He said he'd pay for the Jennings.
6) He said they'd film as soon as possible, BUT both actresses had day-jobs and this was their spare-time gig, so scheduling was tricky.
7) Filming took place over 4 separate days, over about a month (Not 4*24 obviously). The first day was just the intro. So 2.5 days of torture and half a day for the intro.
8) Excellent communications, he kept me up to date with schedules and how much they filmed etc etc.
9) Sent me a link to the full film (just over 4GB and 93 minutes). He has now sent links for all the raw footage as he knows I want to play around. It's going to take a long time to download 10GB of hundreds of clips.

The plot
We wanted a more 'film' experience with a bit of plot, like ZFX (Love Shadow Army and War Pigs).
Tai is an agent sent to hack a government system.
She's caught, but her laptop is highly encrypted. They need to know what she's copied, they need the password.
She's tortured over several days in a variety of positions before she finally breaks and gives a password. Then there's a twist.

Scene 1
Tai is dressed in a white blouse and black office skirt. She plugs her laptop into another computer and starts hacking. Tai does a good job of knowing she shouldn't be there and looking out for trouble. She gets what she wants and walks out as if she's supposed to be there.
Good expression on Tai's face, she's relieved it's all worked.
Badgirl catches her, forces her to strip at gunpoint, looking for hidden weapons. Tai's wearing white stockings and a thong that makes her bum look perfect (see the screenshot). Seriously, that bum is so biteable.

The bad: As the start is in the dark, it is very grainy. Doesn't really bother me, I know it will bother some people. The hacking takes too long for me, my attention span is too short these days.
When Tai escapes, again the walking scene is a bit too long. Everything needs to be trimmed by 10-20%
When Badgirl is looking for Tai, the Terminator music played over the top for a few seconds. We laughed, really broke any tension. The music doesn't appear again. Badgirl holds the gun like they did in old cowboy films, shooting from the hip.
Tai stripping takes too long, she can't undo the skirt at first. It needed to be re-filmed IMHO.

The Good: We wanted a bit of story to set it up. Tai being caught and forced to strip. Tai in stockings and thong really worked for me. Tai's facial reactions are perfect, that matters to me and Hannah. Also, I like guns. This wasn't a cheap toy with an orange tip like lots of studios use.

Scene 2
Tai is strapped to a chair. Leather belt around her wrists, tied with a thin rope to the chair. Hands behind her back, blouse unbuttoned, sweaty tits on display. She has a bag over her head. Badgirl and guy come in with a laptop. Take her bag off, she's tape gagged.
Punched in the mouth a couple of times, bleeding. Badgirl tries to question her, and Tai spits her blood all over the badgirl's white blouse and face. Disgusted she strips her own bloody clothes off (hey, I needed a reason :o ), and punches Tai.
Guy cuts Tai's clothes off with a knife, and they discuss the best way to torture her. Badgirl wants to start stabbing with a sharpened screwdriver and demonstrates. Guy wants to start pulling teeth and breaking wingers with pliers.
They start with electricity instead (of course, my favorite). Guy wants to start with nipple clamps, but badgirl wants to stick a metal rod up her cunt. They start with nipples.
Tai screams and shakes. Sometimes she arches over the back of the chair, other times leans forward as if trying to take it rather than just passively resist. Sweaty body. They gag her after a while and continue until she passes out.

The Bad: Very minor points:
Cutting the clothes off takes too long, again I'd prefer a quick sequences of edits (imagine Schwarzenegger in Commando when he suits-up for the final battle).
When they discuss how they are going to torture her, the camera-operator doesn't move, so badguy is blocking the whole scene. We can just see Badgirl doing some good stabbing examples, where she wants to stab, and just see Tai looking back and forth scared.
Really disappointed we didn't have an alternate angle, I'm hoping there is something in the other footage he sent us so I can put that in instead.
The punching... So... I've been punched in the face many times, when I'm in the mood, I like it from my partner. The build up, the threats, the fake-outs, the humiliation, trying not to cry. Then she makes contact, pretty orgasmic. I've had to explain to my bosses a few times over the years that I'm not being abused. It doesn't look good to the patients either when I've got a cut lip or bruised cheek.
I don't expect these actresses who are not into it to take a punch. But with good camera angles, it can be easily faked. Also 'back-in-the-day' when I used to make films like this, a back-hand looks more realistic to fake than a forward punch.
But here, they've cut frames to speed it up, but not really sped it up. Almost looks like stop-frame animation. I don't know the technical term. I used to be able to edit DAT to VHS and DVD in a professional suite, including foot pedals. These days with Adobe I don't know shit.
When Badgirl strips, she was supposed to be naked except for black fishnet stockings. Here though she has fishnet tights, unflattering, with a thick gusset. That was disappointing. BUT, it kind of pays off at the end...

The Good:
I don't speak Russian, and I didn't want them speaking English. But the matter-of-fact way they discuss the torture really gets me going. BadGirl seems really into her screwdriver stabbing.
Tai tied to a chair, sweaty boobs, shirt open. FUCKING HOT. When she spits blood, loved it. Then she starts being shocked, Oh My God yes, there are some fabulous bits. A couple of times she does the shakes (which I hate) but she's trying lots of things to keep it fresh.
Best part, they gag her, and she fights back, tries to bite his arm, you barely see it which makes it better (felt natural). Badguy holds her head, while badgirl forces it in. Really tight to. Made my heart beat much faster as she forced that ballgag in. Then she gives up and breaths heavy as she knows she's lost Fantastic acting by Tai.
Tai has just enough sweat on her in certain angles it catches the light.

Scene 3
Tai is on the chair in a new position. On her back, head under the back of the chair, legs tied straight up in the air, exposing her anus and vagina. They take turns beating her bum/pussy with a stick (fake). Badgirl seems to get into it after a couple of easy hits. Badgirl puts on elbow-length surgical gloves and squats down by Tai's face. She has 2 long square-tubular pieces of metal with wires attached. She taunts Tai by rubbing them together to show how rough they are.
Then she squats at the other end and uses them to shock her vagina and anus until she passes out.

The Bad:
The taunting with the metal went on a bit long (2 different angles). Needed to be half of each angle.
The metal tubes were supposed to be rammed up her vagina and anus (Square peg, round hole), fake obviously, but I think that was literately lost in translation.
The gloves... I know that Cruel World has a lot of trouble with receiving the wrong color gloves. They were good and sourced the correct surgical style that I wanted. BUT, they are too big for the Badgirl, and looks a bit silly.

The Good:
Love this! Great position, Tai's head hanging over the chair, wonderful screaming and gag biting. BadGirl is great at being dominant.

Scene 4 (Fucking good)
Tai on a stool, arms strappado, ankles tied. Sweaty, electro clamps on nipples. Struggling to escape, good expression on her face. In comes the badgirl with her toy, metal rod with a ball on the end, wired up to complete the nipple circuit. She pushes Tai forward, into a tighter strappado, exposing her anus and vagina (not to the camera) and starts to (fake) sodomize and rape her with the electro tool. Halfway through Tai is gagged.

The bad:
Nothing really. Tai was supposed to be in the position from Red Sparrow torture scene, but apparently, Tai couldn't sit like that for 3 hours to film So she has a bit more movement.

The good.
OH MY GOD WE LOVE THIS SCENE. It really looks like Badgirl is thrusting it in and out of Tai's arse. And Tai's performance is A+++++++
When Tai is gagged, and the camera is filming her from the front biting down and screaming, we both had to cum and replay it before carrying on.
Something really violent and dark with this scene, maybe its the close up on the face.
Obviously, we'd love to see close-ups of the rod going her up arse and cunt, but Tai doesn't roll that way. And you almost don't notice that you haven't seen it. Badgirl does good fake arse-raping.

Scene 5
AoH whipping from both of them. Tai is trying to kick them to defend herself. Mixed with close-ups of her face from above as she's whipped. Basically a copy of the ZFX clips I sent :) Which is good.
They both whip her at the same time, and individually. Not a lot to say really.

The bad:
Standard fake whipping, hesitant pulled blows, a bit obvious. I'd have preferred much lighter fake floggers with no weight in the tresses, so they can full-power whip and she wouldn't even feel it. (That's what we did in my day ;-) :o )
We wanted her in the middle of the room rather than against a wall, but hey ho.

The Good:
Badgirl gets into it after some initial weak hits. Tai fights back like a fucking champ. She reacts to each hit like it FUCKING HURT. Tai REALLY sells the scene
The close-ups on her face from elevated angles are AWESOME!!!! I could feel her suffering.
Again, Tai's acting sells it.

Scene 6 (Another FUCKING HOT scene)
Tai is back on the stool. Tied bent over backwards, head hanging upside down, legs somewhat spread. Sweaty body, fighting her leather restraints.
Badgirl tortures Tai's clit with her metal electro rod. Interestingly, Tai's nipples look mostly erect as she's screaming through the clit torture.
Badgirl changes end, and forces Tai's eye open, and electroshocks the corner of her eye. Then out come the nipple clamps for some sweaty thrashing electro torture.

The Bad:
It was supposed to be her eyeball that was tortured. Obviously I don't expect eyeball contact, but I'd thought they'd use a good camera angle. That's all.

The Good:
FUCKING AWESOME!

Tai's body like this was sooooooo good. Leather restraints, breathing hard.
Fighting her bonds, screaming like a fucking pro.
I could feel that electrode on her clit, and then her nipples. Some perfect shots.

Scene 7 (Excellent fear on Tai's face, and maybe best electro scene in the film)
Tai is hanging by her wrists AoH, back against a post, ankles tied high behind her. They start to whip her, she looks terrified, thrashing about trying to avoid the whips.
Out come the nipple electrodes for some shocking. Back arches, screams. Other times she grits her teeth. The young spy is clearly at breaking point.
Then Tai is wearing the Jenning's gag, and she looks very uncomfortable.
Electro sweaty armpit torture, inside mouth electro.
Then she's stabbed in the armpit with the sharpened screwdriver.
Finally, Badgirl starts stabbing the inside of Tai's mouth with the screwdriver, lots of blood.
Tai can't take anymore, the gag is removed, the password is given.

(Spoilers........)

It's a fake password to wipe the laptop.
Bad guy is not happy, Tai is laughing even though she knows it too late for her.

The bad:
I wanted to see the Jennings spreader put into her mouth and then opened one notch at a time. Click. Click. Click. Building the fear. It always terrifies me at home, makes me vulnerable to whatever Hannah want sot put in my mouth.
But instead, we instantly cut to it open. No blackout or fade.
The blood is a bit too thick red, (I always think of the old Mission Impossible TV series, when they would have bright red paint blood on black clothing). I'm going to remove some of the red in Adobe premier (I hope).

The Good:
Tai hanging AoH screaming is FUCKING HEAVEN. Her fighting the whips is very realistic. Also, I think Badgirl could her vagina for real one time, Badguy almost breaks character and gives an almost smile of "Ouch, do we need to stop, no it's working carry on".
Tai being shocking hanging on the post is AWESOME (I need to buy a thesaurus), Tai tries a number of different ways of expressing pain, arching and screaming, or gritting her teeth. I think she is exhausted, and it really works for the character who can't take any more.
Some excellent fear acting from Tai.

Scene 8, a quick mini scene.
The bad guy needs to find out if badgirl is working with Tai, as she's wiped the laptop. The only way to find out is to strap her spreadeagled to a table, tape her eyes and mouth, and torture her.
Nipple electrodes a few times. Then Badguy cuts the crotch off her stockings, allowing clit torture and labia electro clamps. Then a whipping of her boobs and stomach.

The Bad:
This is where my PC starting breaking down and I couldn't render anymore storyboard. We had more planned for the Badgirl. Again, I think it was lost in translation. She was supposed to suffer more.
The actress isn't as good at pain acting as Tai

The Good:
Spreadeagled electro torture!!!!
Tape over the eyes!!!
Nipple clamps!!!
Labia clamps!!!
Cutting away her stockings to finally reveal a very nice looking cunt! Smooth as silk, thin blond like of pubic hair, really nice simple style. Great final reveal of the goods.

Overall:
We loved it. We're overlooking the lack of fade between scenes (even though I put them in the video storyboard I sent) A couple of bad flickering edits where they switch between the camera (4 over 90 minutes I think, I'm sure someone will correct me with 50 or something)
I'm going to edit and play with the color when I get a chance, might have to wait for a new PC.

I came 3 times while watching. Twice by finger, 3rd time by Hitachi. Hannah came twice in the first half, then sat behind me squeezing my nipples through the second half watching over my shoulder. After the film, I fucked her super hard for an hour with a strapon and lay on the bed exhausted and sweaty with a Hitachi on my pussy while Hannah pulled my nipples.
This film is fucking awesome foreplay, your mileage may vary.


My Grade: A

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