"Penance just about has everything I hate, except for lots of
pretty girls naked. Anyway, a well-meaning woman with a sick child
makes a video of herself for a reality TV show in the hope of making
$20,000 and going a long way towards helping out. When that doesn't
pan out, she turns to the easy money of stripping with the help of
her high school friend, a stripper herself. After a good start, her
friend pushes her into a stripping gig that is incredibly weird at
an abandoned mental hospital in front of a bizarre 'Ilsa, She Wolf
of the SS' style group with a couple of other strippers. Then the 3
strippers are poisoned and wake up locked in rooms of the hospital
and are forced to give 'penance' to some military style leader who
wants to redeem the strippers and will do so with an extreme genital
circumcision/sew up.
OK, that's enough plot description but the movie is filmed
through the point of view of the camera holder, to which there are
various of and us different cameras and this doesn't make a lick of
sense. How can video from two different cameras be edited together?
And why did they let the girl keep the camera after they imprisoned
her? I hate those from the point of view of the cameraman/woman
films because the camera person is a selfish arsehole who would
rather film than help out. I'd ram the camera up there arse in
reality. Apart from that, there's no tension in this film at all.
No-one seems to care that tens of strippers have disappeared off the
face of the Earth or that they are not told of the place they are
the strip and blindly follow a somewhat creepy looking man (Tony
Todd, who else?). Or the rather cynical words about how genital
circumcision is bad in the end. I wouldn't have bothered with this
film if it wasn't for the girls. I'm still wondering why I did..."
Marieh Delfino film
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Eve Mauro film clip
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Sita Young
and Katherine Randolph (collages below)
Young
Randolph
Morann Peri film clip
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