Film Review: Graphic Sexual Horror (2009)

SYNOPSIS:

Graphic Sexual Horror takes a peek behind the terrifying facade of
Insex.com, the most notorious of bondage web sites, exploring the dark
mind of its artistic creator and asking hard questions about personal
responsibility. Original Insex footage, behind-the-scenes interactions,
and interviews with PD, models, members, and staff
reveal deep fascinations with bondage and sadomasochism that run
parallel, and in fact become irreversibly entwined with the lure of
money.

REVIEW: 

A title like “Graphic Sexual Horror” is bound to gain your attention
whether your into it or not. Though with the demented comes relief in a
film that will be sure to drum up mixed feelings. For starters, this is
a true documentary …a well made one and an extremely interesting one
but a documentary none-the-less. The focal point is a retired site
named Insex.com. One of the most controversial and notorious (for that
matter) websites in existence (It has since been sold to a Dutch
company and is most likely under a different direction of sorts)
However, while this site was in full throttle, it was reported to have
over 35,000 members paying $60 per month to have access to its wide
variety of debauchery, horror porn and bondage torture materials. Now
if you do the math on that it comes in at over 2 million dollars per
month! Quite a pull for an experimental site that didn’t think it would
amount to much. 1997 marked the era when former professor Brent PD
Scott unleashed his vision of madness unto the world.

As the $ grew so did the quality of models, their paychecks and the
acts of perversity. An on hand metal expert would tirelessly create
elaborate gadgets from scratch to provide props for the staged acts.
Each actress was required to sign documentation, and video interview
that they were full aware of all the content to be carried out. A safe
word was given to stop the shoot (if need be) and a certain amount of
bruising was expected.

Not all stuck around but many went on to become regular models who
endured severe torture acts for the public. With extreme safety
precautions in place, the precautionary measures were expressed to be
almost anal at times making sure that this kind of environment wouldn’t
associate itself with any kinds of mistreatment, abuse or kidnapping
(that was non-consenting). It was a literal showcase of hellish visions
performed live that at its heart was just “business as usual”.

The film succeeds in shock but also welcomes a perspective that has
the various performances accompanied by behind the scene interviews and
preparation shots taking some of the mental steam out of the visuals.
In fact, as they carefully prepare and test, its apparent that the
models are acting “torment” for the camera but more relaxed in between
takes. Quite a contrast. It’s sort of like finding out that Wrestling
is mostly fake when your eyes tell you something else. A clear moment
of darkness seems to be just enough to pull all the underground seekers
out of hiding though to enage and marvel for their weekly fix.

The movie contains plenty of full nudity, torture situations,
screaming, weird contractions, gadgets and bondage extremes but it’s
all consenting with the participants being paid extremely well ($300 a
hour). A bonus to the production is that they were able to gather up
most of the models used in the sets to comment on tape and interview
about the experience long afterwards. I wasn’t familiar with the site
when it was in full force but it’s apparent that the man they call PD,
the creator and founder was a guilty pleasure genius. A retired
teacher, PD created this environment first as an experiment before it
blossomed into a full fledge psycho watch.