Director: Domiziano Cristopharo, Elisa Carrera Fumagalli, Martyna Madej, Emanuele Marchetto, Sam Mason-Bell, Tony Newton, Davide Pesca
Year: 2018
Country: Italy/United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Anthology; Exploitation
Plot:
Having accessed the deep web, a man goes through the various videos found on one of the most popular sites available.
Review:
Overall, this was a slight disappointment of a film but did have some merit to it. When this one works is due to the strong and visceral scenes of depravity and perversions accessed here, which starts immediately as the first viewed clip features a group of asked participants at a bondage-themed sex party flogging, whipping, and generally humiliating victims in a series of debaucherous antics. That’s merely the start of this as it descends into increasingly more lurid and violent scenarios, including a woman tortured by an unknown assailant, the intense perversions displayed in an extreme sex dungeon featuring unrestrained whipping, fisting, and other intense sexually-charged acts, and witnessing the effects of a drug trial gone wrong among others. When viewed in this manner, it creates a rather slick slice of exploitation with the experience moving quickly to the next piece of sleazy cinema as the openness to include such topics works nicely.
Beyond that, though, there’s very little to this one that stands out. The random nature of the whole setup, simply seeing a man watch these random clips through an online web browser supposedly linking him to the dark web, is an immensely bland and uninteresting setup that doesn’t strike any kind of tension or fear within the segments which are just clicked on and watched. That leaves so much of this one to work on the power of the imagery and perversion of the presented themes within the shorts which does get quite brutal but lacks a point to make any kind of lasting impression. It doesn’t help in the slightest that every interstitial cutting back to the viewer surfing around these clips doesn’t react or do anything which lessens their impact, especially with this one relying on sex so much to sell itself, those who aren’t swayed by the perversions featured here will be put off and find this lackluster and dull due to this setup and tends to harm this one overall.
Overview: **/5
A fine selection of intense themes but little else, this one manages to be just a bit disappointing as the film’s onslaught of disturbing and graphic imagery works quite well but doesn’t really stick out elsewhere. This is merely for this who appreciate this kind of artfully-filmed exploitation style or are fans of the creative crew involved while most others out there should outright avoid if they’re turned off by the subject matter here.
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