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Bondage / Captivity / Interrogation / Torture Scenes in Mainstream Movies
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cutie
Onlooker
Saint Maud (2019) has a few self-flagellation scenes: I love the one where main character inserts several nails through the insoles of her shoes, wears them, and goes for a walk. Almost completely shown in the trailer, because films can't hold themselves anymore:
Movie has a few others too, but this is the great one.
Movie has a few others too, but this is the great one.
Thomas Chaser
Tribune
I started watching this film but it smacked of "we'll make an action espionage film, and cast some PC actors in it". There was nothing new to explore in the plot in the first 5 minutes. Glad to see my assumptions that it would be extremely mainstream were well founded.
MICHELE PATRI
Senator
Anne & Alet
nsur1
Governor
Thank you @MICHELE PATRI -- I was literally in the process of posting the same Vimeo link when yours appeared. This includes the entire (very gory!) execution scene, starting at 4:00 minutes in the video. We get to see the hand chopped off first, then a botched attempt to chop the head -- the hangman has to resort to sawing it off eventually. Repeat for Blonde #2. I've made some screencaps:
It's a historical case, incidentally -- here is a 19th century book illustration from Wikisource:
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Thomas Chaser
Tribune
Ok, I have some questions. When does this story take place? Looks like 1700's? And, is this fictional? I'm not that current on 1700s European history, other than the French Revolution and the happenings in North America.
Masochist Slave
Victim
Oh I love it, this is hot torture.
nsur1
Governor
Here are a few "official" screencaps that I found online, giving context outside the execution scene itself and better shots of the hand chopping and first beheading. I wonder whether the full movie has the torture scenes that gave the girls the branding marks we can see in the photos.
hh33me
Spectator
love the red hot pincer's burns on their arms !.... is there interrogatory torture pics ?
I'm interested film "Grete Minde" (1977).
www.imdb.com
According to historical data, this woman was executed at the stake. Moreover, her execution was very painful and long. She was burned over low heat using the "smoking" method. Before that, she was publicly tortured with hot iron and pliers.
Are all these scenes in the movie? My question is addressed primarily to the German-speaking members of the site. Has anyone seen this movie?
Grete Minde (1977) - IMDb
Directed by Heidi Genée. With Katerina Jacob, Siemen Rühaak, Hannelore Elsner, Tilo Prückner.
www.imdb.com
According to historical data, this woman was executed at the stake. Moreover, her execution was very painful and long. She was burned over low heat using the "smoking" method. Before that, she was publicly tortured with hot iron and pliers.
Are all these scenes in the movie? My question is addressed primarily to the German-speaking members of the site. Has anyone seen this movie?
Venom
Executioner
Sadly, such themes are not organically woven into the storylines anymore. They are supposed to be viewed as a given, a retroactive correction, because the alternative requires actual screenwriting skills. If one wants to see how it is done right, look no further than The 13th Warrior (book-to-film adaption shortcomings aside). Not only is there a plausible reason for a non-european character amongst the vikings (he fell from grace with his caliph), the whole story wouldn't even exist without him.
Thomas Chaser
Tribune
I just figured "Came up with the Romans" and left it at that.
doe1971
Tribune
Well, if one tries hard to justify the latest political corectness mores, the presence of ET among vikings can be justifiable, there's nothing to prevent a UFO from landing at Trodheim and spill some mead with the horned ones.
Just like the unanimously benevolent characters played by the black actors in every movie made in the last 4 years in Hollywood. Gone are the days when rapists and criminals in movies were mirroring the real life crime stats ... nowadays the wise Chinese and good natured Black are the new Hays code.
Just like the unanimously benevolent characters played by the black actors in every movie made in the last 4 years in Hollywood. Gone are the days when rapists and criminals in movies were mirroring the real life crime stats ... nowadays the wise Chinese and good natured Black are the new Hays code.
John Delves Richardson
Tribune
The Big Bird Cage, year 1972
Venom
Executioner
[REC] 4: Apocalipsis (2014)
Minor spoilers ahead.
Apocalipsis is the fourth and final instalment of the criminally overlooked Spanish horror franchise Rec (or stylised as [REC]), and one of those flicks in which the tank-topped heroine fire-axes her way through hordes of living impaired persons. Spunky TV host Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco reprising her role once more) and the surviving parties from the previous films are detained by the government in an attempt to regain control over the rampant outbreak – no judgement here.
Ángela wakes up strapped to an examination table, but once tested negative for zombie she’s allowed to move more or less freely. Things take a turn for the worse as the illness finds its way into the quarantine zone, and she is suspected of carrying the parasite responsible within her body. She is seized and, despite fighting tooth and nail, slammed onto a table and gagged to have the malicious organism cut out of her. Because anaesthesia is for sissies.
The first and, to a lesser degree, the second part are all-time favourites of mine. Manuela Velasco’s experience as a real-life presenter and TV show host in Spanish television gives her character a huge boost in authenticity. Rec 4 does of course not reach the level of the first two films, and just like part 3 moves away from the found footage format that made the original(s) so intense. But it is a solid conclusion of the franchise.
Minor spoilers ahead.
Apocalipsis is the fourth and final instalment of the criminally overlooked Spanish horror franchise Rec (or stylised as [REC]), and one of those flicks in which the tank-topped heroine fire-axes her way through hordes of living impaired persons. Spunky TV host Ángela Vidal (Manuela Velasco reprising her role once more) and the surviving parties from the previous films are detained by the government in an attempt to regain control over the rampant outbreak – no judgement here.
Ángela wakes up strapped to an examination table, but once tested negative for zombie she’s allowed to move more or less freely. Things take a turn for the worse as the illness finds its way into the quarantine zone, and she is suspected of carrying the parasite responsible within her body. She is seized and, despite fighting tooth and nail, slammed onto a table and gagged to have the malicious organism cut out of her. Because anaesthesia is for sissies.
The first and, to a lesser degree, the second part are all-time favourites of mine. Manuela Velasco’s experience as a real-life presenter and TV show host in Spanish television gives her character a huge boost in authenticity. Rec 4 does of course not reach the level of the first two films, and just like part 3 moves away from the found footage format that made the original(s) so intense. But it is a solid conclusion of the franchise.
Venom
Executioner
Honourably mentioned:
Resident Evil (2002)
This jolty German-British-Japanese adaptation of Capcom’s video game Biohazard is sporting a scene similar to the intro above: Heroine Alice (Milla Jovovich) gets abducted by corporate baddies and awakes in what must be the escape-friendliest isolation room – and in the tiniest hospital gown available.
Despite all its flaws I actually like the film. It's entertaining, well-paced and offers some memorable scenes. And Milla is basically in the buff, if you are into such things.
Resident Evil (2002)
This jolty German-British-Japanese adaptation of Capcom’s video game Biohazard is sporting a scene similar to the intro above: Heroine Alice (Milla Jovovich) gets abducted by corporate baddies and awakes in what must be the escape-friendliest isolation room – and in the tiniest hospital gown available.
Despite all its flaws I actually like the film. It's entertaining, well-paced and offers some memorable scenes. And Milla is basically in the buff, if you are into such things.