Director: Ed Aldridge, altSHIFT, Sam Lidbetter
Year: 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
After an accident while working, a guy joins a group of content creators at a remote villa shooting adult videos for their followers, but as he tries to integrate himself into the group, a series of deaths strike them as a human blow-up doll seeks revenge for an earlier incident and must get out alive.
Review:
Overall, this was a solid erotic genre effort even if it lacks a bit as a true slasher effort. The film is pretty much a solid display of sexualized content, considering the performers involved here and the purpose of the trip, making everything come together incredibly well in this regard. The explicit nature of their time there, ranging from group sessions involving traditional three-ways and toy use to more outlandish fare, including rope-play, leather work, and golden showers, among others, creates an air of debauchery that is a bit more wholesome than expected but remains based around sex workers going about their day performing for their content. As time goes on and they continue going through not just different shoots for their personal use but also going through normal lounging and hanging out in the house that brings about a more relaxing attitude to the sexual content on display. The frequency of their shoots, whether it's due to the more straightforward encounters or the more over-the-top sequences, is kept to a casual tone, so everything helps to bring it to the forefront.
Outside of that, there's not much to this one, so the series of slashing sequences that are supposed to be thrilling and enjoyable aren't that impressive. The fact that it's not all that prominent in the film, relegated to only a section at the end of a barely-hour-long film with almost nothing happening until that period as so much of the running time is enough to hold it up. There's far more time here getting the group unclothed and engaging in amorous activities or just hanging out together than dealing with a killer secretly trying to kill them at the house, as he takes so long to even show up that it's possible to forget there's even one supposed to be in this film, with how lacking we're exposed to him. The motivation is more through inference than anything else, and the big stalking scenes are kept to a minimum, with us stumbling upon the body after the fact, while not seeing the main killing blow happen on screen, all of which creates the kind of low horror atmosphere that clashes wildly with the more overt sexual material featured here.
Overview: **/5
A fun enough if flawed take on the genre, this one manages to be a far more worthwhile take on one style while being so heavily disappointing in another area that it’s a bit of a mixed bag. Those who are fine with the subject matter or who are curious about it will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed extreme caution.
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