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Bound to Vengeance (2015)


Spoilers ahead.

After being held captive for a length of time, Eve (Tina Ivlev) manages to overpower her tormentor (in a non-Louise-Lane way) and is almost immediately thrown into the moral dilemma of whether to bring herself to safety or rescue her fellow sufferers. Displaying a compulsive mind-set on that matter due to her traumatic experience, the young woman sets off to save the other victims on her own (results may vary).

Apart from Eve’s own prison, complete with hardware store chain and filthy mattress, we are invited to several other dark places all across a nocturnal city, including a low-key BDSM location and your next-door human trafficking depot.

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Although Bound to Vengeance does not offer too many explicit scenes nor sports that one big gratuitous bondage shot, the film deserves being mentioned as it revolves monothematically around captivity and abuse. Acting and pacing are above average, suspense and atmosphere spot-on, and most questionable decisions within the story can be explained away by the character’s mental state.
 
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Captivity (2007)


Jennifer (Elisha Cuthbert) finds herself abducted and in the role of a plaything and dress-up doll for her kidnapper.

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In comparison to Bound to Vengeance this take on the topic comes across as over-polished and its main character as a tad too damsel-in-distressy. But Elisha Cuthbert’s Jennifer looks cute getting chloroformed, gassed, drugged or put in a sandglass-style trap.
 
I don't have a problem with the #metoo movement generally.

I do. It's a proverbial cure for cold that kills the patients. A burqa thrown over the heads of half of the western population in the name of saving their modesty. Talibans at least don't pretend they are female allies. :)

For all the ills that #metoo movement claims to adress there are clear stipulations in the Criminal Code in every country of the West that can be used if needed. #metoo is simply a mob justice movement.
 
I do. It's a proverbial cure for cold that kills the patients. A burqa thrown over the heads of half of the western population in the name of saving their modesty. Talibans at least don't pretend they are female allies. :)

For all the ills that #metoo movement claims to adress there are clear stipulations in the Criminal Code in every country of the West that can be used if needed. #metoo is simply a mob justice movement.
Women are tired of the harassment they are frequently subjected to, and I don't blame them. Metoo provided an outlet. But I really don't want to debate the matter. I find it distracts me from the contemplation of, say, a curvaceous young thing being stripped naked (or, point taken, not naked, but maybe at least her clothing suggestively rumpled?) and threatened with dire peril.:)
 
But I really don't want to debate the matter.
Indeed. But since you had the last word, allow me to have mine. Are you aware that under the hypothetical censorious power of an average #metoo activist this board would be among the first to be closed? Just think about the objectification, maltreatement, you name it, that this place stands for. We'd be the first to go, mon ami. Peace, now.
 
I think the main reason for the lack of good scenes recently is the complete lack of thought going into films that could have them. For the last 15 years there have been endless rehashes of a small number of themes; the Texas Chainsaw type, the Saw type, the Dirty Harry type, the Friday 13th type (all first done over 20 years ago). These have got repetitive and are rarely anywhere near as good as the originals. There have been some original ideas like Censor, and this may allow a resurgence of Giallo films (always more original than Hollywood). In the meantime there have been some great TV scenes even if you have to use a bit of imagination.
 
I do. It's a proverbial cure for cold that kills the patients. A burqa thrown over the heads of half of the western population in the name of saving their modesty. Talibans at least don't pretend they are female allies. :)

For all the ills that #metoo movement claims to adress there are clear stipulations in the Criminal Code in every country of the West that can be used if needed. #metoo is simply a mob justice movement.
Agree 100%. As a woman I don't feel that the MeToo scam (or its vile offshot TimesUp, which itself has very recently been exposed for the corrupt money-making scam that it truly is) are either relevant or representative to me or my world views.

MeToo is nothing but a tool used by some powerful women in Hollywood to destroy the lives and careers of many of their (usually innocent) male counterparts in order to further their own (usually worthless) careers, while TimesUp is effectively a money-laundering operation that collects huge sums from all sorts of donors on the pretext of using it to help less affluent women fight lawsuits against men that they percieved to have wronged them in some way or other (in most cases to get revenge against ex partners), yet in a recent report, it was shown that out of the millions of US$ that it had collected, less that $12,000 had been used in such a way and all the rest had been swallowed up in what the organisers euphemistically refer to as "administrative fees", which turned out to mean "being fed into the personal bank accounts of the Hollywood elites who run the scam"

MeToo is nothing but a vile witch hunt, propped up by the kangaroo court that is twitter, while TimesUp is basically a huge money-making scam for Hollywood actresses who are not getting as much work as they used to now that they're all getting older.

A scam is a scam, no matter how much you try to dress it up in a cloak of respectability.

There is NO respectability in pretty much ANYTHING that's come out of Hollywood in decades and these two thoroughly nasty examples of the worst side of human nature are no exceptions.
 
I do. It's a proverbial cure for cold that kills the patients. A burqa thrown over the heads of half of the western population in the name of saving their modesty. Talibans at least don't pretend they are female allies. :)

For all the ills that #metoo movement claims to adress there are clear stipulations in the Criminal Code in every country of the West that can be used if needed. #metoo is simply a mob justice movement.
#metoo is the diagnosis, a necessary one. Some very nasty people have weaponised that, prescribing a lethal "cure".
 
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I recently watched a movie on a free streaming service (Peacock) called Bound. How can one go wrong with a title like that, right?--especially knowing, going in, that it's about a woman discovering an erotic attraction to BDSM.

Charisma Carpenter plays Michelle Mulan, an ambitious real estate agent working in her father's firm. She finds herself attracted to a younger man, Ryan Black (Bryce Draper) who turns her on to BDSM. Michelle becomes submissive to Ryan, and has intense sexual experiences with him (you know they're intense because they're filmed in the close up, slow motion, constant camera panning style typical of such scenes.) Turns out to no one's surprise except Michelle's that Ryan is a sexual predator, who is grooming Michelle's teenage daughter to be his submissive.

Now Ryan may be an arrogant predator, but he's about to learn that you don't get between Mama Bear and her cub. After discovering Ryan's duplicity, Michelle kicks him out of her house. Michelle later confronts Ryan at his apartment, knocks him out and tortures him in his own playroom, then leaves him for the cops.

It's all part of the learning process. Michelle's confidence is now in overdrive, and she proceeds to close a deal with a high powered real estate developer that cements the future of her father's firm. She is made partner as a result, and in the final scene is well on her way to making the big shot developer her submissive.

But I've wasted more than enough pixels on the plot summary. The movie got 14 percentage points from Rotten Tomatoes, and IMO, deserved every one of them. The acting is wooden and utterly unconvincing. Charisma Carpenter made her bones on Buffy The Vampire Slayer, in which she played Cordelia, a sidekick of Buffy's who is an entitled, snobbish, and superficial bit of eye candy. She was perfectly convincing in that part. But in a part that requires some nuance or some acting chops, she falls short. The supporting actors are no better.

The BDSM scenes are are very mild, to the point of being innocuous, especially given the fact that Ryan is actually a sadistic sexual predator. It seems to me that there should be a sense of danger, or of threat in their play. Isn't that in part what would appeal to both participants?

The dialogue is not convincing or well thought out, or delivered with any conviction. For instance, After Ryan secures Michelle to the chair and blindfolds her, he whispers, "When I am finished with you I will fuck you." And then precedes immediately to sit behind her and fuck her. So I guess he finished with her early?

I wasn't entirely clear about the mechanics of the sexual act either. It looks like she's sitting flat on the chair, and he's sitting directly behind her, so how exactly did he penetrate her? I'd really like to know. I have noticed that from time to time women do sit in chairs, and I think being able to fuck them while they do that would be a useful skill.

But enough about me. On to the pictures:

Screenshot 2021-08-25 at 14-58-35 Peacock.png Michelle visits Ryan's playroom. Ryan commands her to strip! Hesitantly, she does so. Poor thing, she's got those first date jitters.

Screenshot 2021-08-25 at 15-03-11 Peacock.png Ryan observes his new submissive. Note the shop rags hanging from the toy rack. Important but often overlooked accessories in any BDSM playroom. Handy for wiping up unsightly and slippery oil leaks!

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Screenshot 2021-08-25 at 15-14-39 Peacock.pngMichelle walks in on Ryan and her daughter. She and Ryan are about to have some Mama Bear time.

So yeah, I wouldn't put this up there with a truly intense BDSM experience like Fifty Shades Of Grey (lol), but it did let me get a look at Cordelia's tits, which I'd always wondered about, second only to Buffy's, Willow's, Faith's, Harmony's, and, of course, Buffy's mother, Joyce's.
 
Бандитский Петербург: Адвокат Banditskiy Petersburg: Advocate or Gangster Petersburg: The Lawyer has several scenes involving nudity, threat, and interrogation.

Banditskiy Petersburg was a popular Russian crime series of the early 2000's. I was particularly attracted to the second season due to the strip search of Olga Drozdova, who plays Katya, one of the main characters in the series. I have posted vidcaps of that scene in the thread Strip Search.

In skimming through the entire eight hour series on Youtube to find that particular scene, I found several other scenes which I believe will be of interest to this thread.

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In one of the early episodes of Banditskiy Petersburg, Katya has a flashback. She talks about the evening some gangsters came calling.

After a hard day of work, she returns to her apartment. She turns on the light and sees a pair of gangsters in her living room. Immediately someone behind her clamps a hand over her mouth. The slender thug removes his shirt, kneels in front of her and unbuttons her shirt, talking to her all the while, and exposes her breasts. Then the big dude asks her probably the most pertinent question of this conversation-

I'm currently studying Russian (Covid hobby.) It's a very difficult language for me, a native English speaker. I'm at a rank beginner's level. But the two words I did understand were:

Где деньги? Where's the money?



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I'm not sure how they decided to resolve the issue, but they leave Katya alone. She stands in the doorway, terrified and distraught, shirt open, panties around her ankles.

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Kiana Madeira and Olivia Scott Welch in "Fear Street Part 3: 1666" (2021) - IMDB

Bad things are happening in a small rural settlement. The villagers blame two young women, Sarah and Hannah, for supposedly summoning the devil. The two are arrested in the middle of the night and taken to a tree to be hung. Sarah loves Hannah (in a girlfriend way) and wants her to live. So she makes up a story that she is a witch and possessed Hannah's mind. The villagers buy the lie. Hannah is set free while Sarah is hanged and then thrown into a shallow grave.

No nudity in this one (probably thanks to Netflix and their political correctness bullshit). During her arrest, it is implied that Hannah's dress is ripped open so she can be searched for a devil's mark. But the camera cuts away before it gets interesting.

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Quite similar to The Woman in some regards, I believe, is

Deadgirl (2008).


Two little shits trespass into an abandoned hospital, only to find a chained-up naked girl (Jenny Spain) in the basement. Upon closer investigation they find that the lady is in a peculiar state which renders her very low maintenance. As she is clearly not being missed, one of the boys entertains the idea of seizing the opportunity. His buddy is reluctant, yet smitten by the prisoner. They decide to keep their find a secret, and of course there's no way things could get out of hand...

All scenes of interest happen within the ill-lit basement room, in case anybody wants to brighten the pics up. :sun_smiley:
There are some variations in terms of positioning, but the eponymous girl stays mostly secured to a sturdy stretcher of table on wheels of sorts -- you know, for safety reasons.

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The film utilises its simplistic story (and some literal guts and gore) to ask pesky questions about monsters: what they actually look like, behind what appearances they hide, and how easy it is to become one.

This gives me some ideas for my "Preparation for Surgery" story series that I'm doing with Cruel World. So far, I have Anastasia as an unwilling victim of medical experiments and organ donation, but I'm thinking of taking the story in the direction of a mutated human with amazing recuperative powers who is harvested for cloning by the evil Dr. Squalus. Imagine the possibilities for medical advancement and cures for cancer! Why let a little thing like human morality get in the way of scientific achievements?!
 
Kiana Madeira and Olivia Scott Welch in "Fear Street Part 3: 1666" (2021) - IMDB

Bad things are happening in a small rural settlement. The villagers blame two young women, Sarah and Hannah, for supposedly summoning the devil. The two are arrested in the middle of the night and taken to a tree to be hung. Sarah loves Hannah (in a girlfriend way) and wants her to live. So she makes up a story that she is a witch and possessed Hannah's mind. The villagers buy the lie. Hannah is set free while Sarah is hanged and then thrown into a shallow grave.

No nudity in this one (probably thanks to Netflix and their political correctness bullshit). During her arrest, it is implied that Hannah's dress is ripped open so she can be searched for a devil's mark. But the camera cuts away before it gets interesting.

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I almost watched this myself, since it sounded like it might have a good scene or two. Kinda glad I didn't bother. But I am a little curious now. I'm betting that the "innocent" one really is a witch, or develops witchly powers in order to get vengeance. That's how it usually goes, anyway. Although it seems like in more current films they try to throw a twist or two in at the end.
 
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