Marcel Walz's "La Petite Mort 2: Nasty Tapes" is a sequel to his 2009 film "La Petite Mort." Some filmmaker shy away from the "torture porn" categorization, but Walz's film wears it like a badge of honor. The film follows the working of "La Maison de la Petite Mort", a Hostel-like place where people can pay to either watch someone get tortured to death or can do it themselves. They can also do it over the internet, if they don't want to travel to Germany. The "plot" is this:
1. Two women come on and tell us we're going to see 80 minutes of torture.
2. We see 80 minutes of torture.
3. The two women come back on and say they hope we enjoyed watching 80 minutes of torture.
4. The movie ends.
That's pretty much the movie, guys. The tortures are extremely sick and gruesome (the ones done to the males, anyway) and are interspersed with the staff going about their regular business. Some of the scenes are intended to have some black humor, although I'm not sure how humorous some would find them.
As with most torture-porn flicks, the there are more male victims and the men get it worse than the women, although this film is extreme in that regard. There are 14 victims, and a whopping 11 of them are men. The men get parts of them cut off, stabbed, sewn up, shocked, and worse while they scream and it's all shown in graphic detail. The three women? One is stabbed, one is given general anesthesia rendering her completely unconscious so she might as well have been already dead during her scene, and the third one is killed non-violently in a makeshift gas chamber while the killers pretend to be Nazis and the scene is filmed silently with WW2 music playing (there is a title card that reads, "Cough cough" while she is in the makeshift chamber -- this whole scene is an apparent example of the film's "humor")
So basically, if you get off watching men get tortured, you should seek out this flick. It really seems that that is the audience they're trying to reach. I guess if you are also a die-hard torture porn fan who wants to see how far the German extreme cinema can take this genre, you might also want to check it out. Hard to recommend it to anyone else.
1. Two women come on and tell us we're going to see 80 minutes of torture.
2. We see 80 minutes of torture.
3. The two women come back on and say they hope we enjoyed watching 80 minutes of torture.
4. The movie ends.
That's pretty much the movie, guys. The tortures are extremely sick and gruesome (the ones done to the males, anyway) and are interspersed with the staff going about their regular business. Some of the scenes are intended to have some black humor, although I'm not sure how humorous some would find them.
As with most torture-porn flicks, the there are more male victims and the men get it worse than the women, although this film is extreme in that regard. There are 14 victims, and a whopping 11 of them are men. The men get parts of them cut off, stabbed, sewn up, shocked, and worse while they scream and it's all shown in graphic detail. The three women? One is stabbed, one is given general anesthesia rendering her completely unconscious so she might as well have been already dead during her scene, and the third one is killed non-violently in a makeshift gas chamber while the killers pretend to be Nazis and the scene is filmed silently with WW2 music playing (there is a title card that reads, "Cough cough" while she is in the makeshift chamber -- this whole scene is an apparent example of the film's "humor")
So basically, if you get off watching men get tortured, you should seek out this flick. It really seems that that is the audience they're trying to reach. I guess if you are also a die-hard torture porn fan who wants to see how far the German extreme cinema can take this genre, you might also want to check it out. Hard to recommend it to anyone else.
