Experiment in Torture (2007 Video) User Reviews

Obvious Joke: The Only Torture is Having to Watch!

[gavin6942 · 2/10 · 19 November 2007]

A group of strippers is invited to film a "fetish film" at a large house outside of the city. For some reason, they agree to do this despite never even meeting the man who hires them. After spending the afternoon having fun and the evening playing Truth or Dare, things start to go badly as the girls one by one get sick or injured. Is there any escape?

This movie comes to us from first-time writer and director Sean MacArthur, who has no future projects officially scheduled yet. And what a relief that is! This film is such a sloppy and boring piece of film. While it does have some extensive nudity (especially in the beginning strip club scenes) and some gore, it's largely girls sitting around doing pointless things filmed very grainy and with no proper lighting.

Even the plot, which is pretty simple, doesn't add up, once we throw in other people who are involved: a bodyguard, a brother and two local drunks. Somehow they all manage to find this house and get mixed up with it. I can't explain how they find it or what the point is. And there's a scene in the opening that has little to do with anything else, really throwing me off.

And here's the worst part: the camera seems to enjoy following around the ugliest stripper the most. I don't recall her name, but she has a very manly bone structure and it looks like she has a mustache (though that may be the lighting). The hottest stripper doesn't go along on the trip, and of the hottest one who does, we rarely see her on film. The guy who directed this really went out of his way to screw this up: if you have no substance, at least give us something flashy. This was a waste of film.

My recommendation is obviously to not watch this one. It's not enjoyable, not even with friends or alcohol. If you're going to get something off the straight-to-video wall, make it "Flight of the Living Dead" or something. This film joins the ranks of the worst of the worst.

worst movie ever.

[ats454145 · 1/10 · 28 December 2007]

some slutty strippers go to a guys house to sit around and take part in a porno (in which there is no porn) and then 1 or 2 guys drug a girl. then 1 breaks her leg. which heals in the next scene and the other one is broken. and then the cast switches back onto the other leg. and then after all that crap like 2 of the girls are tied up in the basement and some guy walks over and is like. OGABOGA and he apparently had acid on his face. but it looks like crappy halloween store make up. and he is like im going to kill you. and then the camera spins around and u hear a drill and u don't see anything and then a girl is like omg i think i am dead. and then like a girl gets a gun somehow and pow. the guy is dead. This movie sucks so bad. it looks like they filmed it with a camera phone. and also there are more mistakes in this movie that there are in a retarded spelling bee. if you were unlucky enough to have watched this movie, it will be okay. youu need to stay calm and call the suicide hotline because otherwise u will kill yourself thinking omg how can a movie suck so much.

Experiment in Torture. Apparatus: camera, talentless cast, cabin, boat—Method: make it up as you go along—Results: Very poor—Conclusion: Waste of time

[BA_Harrison · 2/10 · 14 March 2008]

I blame Eli Roth: he made shed-loads of cash from his positively mediocre Hostel movies, and a whole slew of wannabe torture/porn movie-makers crawled out of the woodwork to follow in his wake, hoping to emulate his success. Experiment in Torture is one of these copycat films, and is quite possibly the worst (yet), having been made by a director with only a fraction of the talent of Mr. Roth (scary, but true), and starring a no-talent cast destined for obscurity.

In this dire, amateurish, scare-free mess, a bunch of strippers (some hot, some skanky) are lured to a remote cabin for the weekend, where they expect to be paid handsomely to appear in a fetish video. However, once there, they fall foul of a maniac who drugs and tortures them.

Terrible acting, coupled with horrible, horrible camera-work, a lousy script which ultimately makes little sense, and acting that'll make you cringe, all go to make watching Experiment in Torture a rather torturous experience in itself. Admittedly, director Sean MacArthur doesn't wimp out on the nudity and gore, but the whole shebang is so poorly pieced together that nothing much could save this one from stinking to high heaven.

The first half of the movie feels like it was badly improvised, with endless dull scenes of yakkety-yak from the bimbos, and practically zero action. The latter half is an unfathomable, almost unwatchable mess that tries to compensate for being confusing with some nasty blood-letting (a broken leg, an arm slicing, a beheading, plus assorted masochistic mayhem featuring a blowtorch and power-tools).

The makers of this trash would love to think that it's the unrelenting violence that makes watching it unbearable, but it's not: it's everything else!

Better luck next time

[linsleyholmes · 1/10 · 6 January 2008]

We generally like dodgy horrors that are made on a budget of 50p and a pie from Mrs Miggins pie shop but even one shot on half this budget would outclass this movie ten times over.

It was a seriously, seriously bad film.

I know that anyone reading this is already considering watching this film and like ourselves will probably ignore all these negative reviews and poor ratings and watch it regardless, but do it at your peril! this film really is that bad.

Watching paint dry really does seem a more interesting alternative.

Note to the film makers should they be reading; There's a Hollywood formula that says that in poor films you need to show gratuitous nudity every 20 minutes to keep the viewer interested. Husband thought the film started interestingly for the first 5 minutes that was shot in a lap dancing club but then petered out. Application of this formula would of made this film slightly more interesting though unfortunately not much better.

Poor camera work, poor lines, poor delivery, poor acting, poor effects, poor script and poor me for watching it.

Better luck next time

Wishing I had said no

[DemonicNightAngel · 1/10 · 17 May 2008]

While picking this movie out, I figured it would be decent like many other slasher movies are. However, once you've passed the first five minutes of the movie, you're pretty much bored.

All it seems to be is exactly what the description on the back of the DVD says. Strippers getting killed. I have honestly dreamed of better ways to kill a person than they did in this movie. Maybe with a little more imagination, girls who actually wore clothes, a better plot this movie could have gone somewhere. Instead, all you get is a chopped up movie that causes you a lot of questions in the end.

Just like in this film, it's showed in todays movies that without any kind of nudity movies just aren't going to go anywhere. I could actually go without a little less nudity, and more gore. Gore is the reason people watch these movies, not how many times they can see ass and breasts.

If you intend on actually understanding half of the movie, you'll need captions on because you'll be straining. I was hoping there was possibly a directors cut somewhere on the net, one that was way better than the one you can rent. Although, I'm not exactly sure if I'd want to punish myself once again and go through the torture of having to watch it again.

Gouging my eyes out with the DVD sounds like more fun that actually watching it again.

Poor quality, poor sound, everything was pretty much poor about this movie.

If you actually waste your time watching it, I feel sorry for you.

A Muddled Mess

[NeoMalfoy-2 · 1/10 · 21 October 2007]

That about sums this "film" up a mess no plot no story no acting no special effects no point....

The film starts off at a strip joint then follows 2 guys who kill 2 stripper guess I that's what they do the film is so grainy and dark... oh yeah one more 'no' no lighting... that you can't see any of the first few minutes.

We cut back to the bar and the girls have been invited to take part in a "fetish film" they go to a "secluded" cabin in the what appears to be the middle of a city. they spend the next hour doing stupid things in the middle of the day made night by using a blue filter (you can tell this because the sun is too bright and actually shines through the blue filter) a few girls die in unimaginative ways using very poor f/x....

The End for me any ways I got though an hour of the film and it was so painful I felt like killing myself in a more imaginative way filming it and sending it to those that make this mess perhaps giving them an idea...

Yecchhh!

[bigbrotheri · 1/10 · 22 February 2008]

"Experiment in Torture" is one of the worst movies ever made. With some of the other recognized "worst films of all time", there is an entertainment value. Who cannot get a chuckle or two from a movie such as "Plan 9 from Outer Space"?

Senseless plot... poor lighting... shaky camera work... horrible cinematography... poor acting... poor editing. This movie has all of those and more. The only thing has any merit is the soundtrack, which certainly is not great but is much better than any other aspect of this film.

"Experiment in Torture" is somewhat descriptive of the plot of this clunker. The title, however, is a very accurate description of the experience of the viewer.

Had something going for it and then that stopped

[D-Sligar · 3/10 · 10 February 2008]

This movie started out OK, at least for a B-movie, then they lost the only good thing about it... a little skin here and there. Come on, they're strippers, they could have at least kept them showing every now and then to keep us occupied when the story got really slow.

But then there's the story, as one person put it "A muddled mess." Things were all over the place with some things happening for no apparent reason. And what was up with that one stripper who looked like a guy? I could swear I kept seeing hints of a mustache. But I guess most of the chicks were fairly decent, provided they didn't get hit with bad camera angles.

Avoid this movie, it's really not worth it even for a low-budget torture-porn flick. Check the user ratings, they don't lie.

Avoid like the plague.

[CarlB1961 · 1/10 · 1 October 2009]

Terrible low-budget shot-on-video horror movies fall into three distinct categories: so bad it's good; so bad it makes you want to tear your own eyes out to remove the vileness forever imprinted upon your retinas; and so bad it makes you want to tear the eyes out of the unscrupulous sobs who made and released this godless monstrosity upon the world. Sean MacArthur's opus "Experiments In Torture" falls safely into that third category.

The title is all too apt in that "Experiments In Torture" is indeed an experiment in torture; the only ones who should watch this abomination are blind people, terror suspects, and people who feel the need to atone for some sin they committed in the past.

A bunch of vapid, slutty, amoral strippers (as opposed to "virtuous strippers", I guess) agree to be a part of some mysterious rich guy's fetish film and head out to his remote lakeside cabin for the weekend to make some quick cash. Little do they know they're actually being set-up by three sadistic killers who are in actuality making a snuff-film...I think. I don't really know, this thing is such a muddy, jumbled, poorly shot mess I might have missed a "plot-point" (for lack of a better term) or two along the way, but I think that's pretty close. The only ones who can save them are the hot-headed, overprotective brother of one of the strippers, the bouncer of the nightclub where they work, and some random guy who has some unexplained foreknowledge of the killers. Naturally, one of the three is in cahoots with the killers and things don't go too smoothly for our heroes, leaving the job of saving the day up to another stripper who had previously escaped the psychos after they killed her friend and she threw acid in the face of one (for some reason she didn't tell the police and ended up in a loony bin instead, or maybe she did tell the cops and they didn't believe her and that's why she's in the loony bin).

There is not a single redeeming feature in this truly Godawful excuse for a film. The lighting is so terrible that most of the time you cannot even tell what's going on. The sound is atrocious, the make-up effects impoverished, the story ridiculous, the acting... nonexistent. Never, ever EVER in ten+ years of watching low-budget movies horror and otherwise have I seen such terrible, terrible acting. There is not a single professional actor--or even a remotely talented amateur--to be found in this dreg. The strippers are such a vacuous bunch of unlikeable airheads I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out they were really just a bunch of strippers the production crew hired to be in the film (but unfortunately weren't paid enough to do what they do professionally (get naked) on screen). No "stripper with a heart of gold" here; they'll all just a bunch of skanks and whores. Characterization? Physical features are about all there is in terms of personality.

Things happen without any explanation of any kind. It feels like entire scenes are missing or were just never filmed because they ran out of time or money or both.

I'm all for independent cinema; compared to most of the mainstream crap that comes out of Hollywood it's a welcome departure and sometimes can be genuinely entertaining and tell a good story. The invention of the digital camera in the 1990's opened a new door to an entire generation of wannabe filmmakers. Unbareable crap like this, which is all too common, is the downside of that. For every diamond in the rough, there's just a bunch of cat turds. For every truly talented young filmmaker, there is a Sean MacArthur, who apparently dropped out of the Burger King school of Film-making and then decided to made "Experiments In Torture" one day because they shut off his cable and he was out of macaroni & cheese and his mom wouldn't loan him two hundred bucks to pay his light bill and because, darn it, there just wasn't anything else to do that day!

I wanted it to be somewhat tolerable.

[Greatornot · 1/10 · 24 October 2009]

This film was absolutely awful. Sure it was somewhat of a Hostel ripoff. That was not even the problem. The film just went all over the place and was basically incoherent . Horrible acting, horrible camera. I was hoping this would be an upper echelon B-Movie , it was a BO-movie, because it freaking reeked. The film was not even gory. You would think if a film was going to be this bad , at least feed the audience with some good old fashioned gore. The film basically left a stereotype of women being naive,money hungry,stupid and giddy. There was no positive retribution at all as far as the fairer sex is concerned. As evil as some of the male characters were, you at least had males that were noble and wanted to do the right thing, so to speak.I suspect the writer had tons of animosity toward females, by the way the script was played. Boring, uneven and juvenile is not a way to go through film making.

The Worst...EVER.

[dtbaker2 · 1/10 · 16 May 2008]

I waited for some (other) fool to return this film so I could rent it, that I might review it in hopes of getting some ideas for a paper on horror genre films. (only one copy at video store - I now know why.) Absolutely the worst film I have ever seen, worse than Attack of the Killer Tomatoes...which was at least honest in its sense of mockery.

Yet worse than every collective film featuring Diane Keaton's deadpan, mouth breathing camera invitation - worse even than Woody Allen, who somehow convinced the director to allow Scarlett Johansson, in "Scoop," to hop onto a stool in the restaurant scene, while the voyeuristic Woody glared at her boob-shake (magnificent, by the way) and admire their turbulence - for the benefit of only the camera - with nary a thing to do with the story line.

This is yet worse.

Perhaps you have heard of Liverwurst, a sausage product that might be enjoyed on hearty German bread, often served with hot mustard.

Then, there is "Braunsweiger" the Americanized food-factory version - it is a meat mixture "spread"(yum) made of pork liver and pork parts.

Imagine pig-face meat and various organs blended together with dried milk, corn syrup and a multitude of chemical additives, extruded from a factory blender into a plastic tube wrapper, which absolutely fails to approximate true liverwurst.

This film is worse than Braunsweiger.

Now, imagine drinking a thirty-pack of crap American beer (which I would never do, but, just for now...imagine the pain....)

Then imagine awakening to a hangover and to a breakfast of a sloppy Braunsweiger sandwich on white bread and yellow hot dog mustard - while watching "Experiment in Torture."

Now, if you are that gullible; you will have experienced...MOVIEWURST.

For the love of God, how the hell did this ever make it onto DVD?

I used to run a camera for wedding videos. This movie is more insufferable than the canon of every wedding/reception, chicken dancing, garter tossing foolery than I have ever filmed.

The screenwriter and director should have their eyelids propped wide and be made to watch this mess.

Now, there is an "Experiment in Torture." Wow.

Bad.

waste of film

[sara-crowley29 · 1/10 · 24 June 2008]

I can't believe movies like this are even made. Women are tortured, raped, trafficked, and abused every day, and somehow this is entertainment? It's appalling. I looked up a website for indy films, and was horrified to see this crap included in the listing. Men are such hypocrites. They love to go to strip clubs, but strippers are then viewed by men to be less than human, deserving of whatever harm comes their way. I hate this nonsense, but more and more I think it would be great to have the tables turned and watch men get raped, tortured, mutilated and degraded. Seems fair to me! I genuinely hope this movie didn't generate any revenue.

This movie is so awful its basically a comedy

[mikwlsn · 4/10 · 14 September 2019]

Even I've made better movies than this it's so funny. The acting awful. The editing also awful. The story makes no sense and it only gets worse as time goes on I cant believe this is an actual movie