Dead space is torture porn12/25/2023 ![]() ![]() But the real wild card in this rated-R truth or dare is going to be the sweet, naive old lady in the wheelchair. Completely out of left field, one of them is played by porn star Sasha Grey. The guests include a mix of transients, gamblers, young and old, able and wheelchair-bound, friendly and unfriendly. ![]() Basically, this is Dinner for Schmucks if the schmucks were financially desperate and the hosts wanted to morally bankrupt them one sadistic challenge at a time. Upon arrival, Iris finds herself among similarly desperate individuals all looking to make some money. Philanthropist Shepard Lambrick (Jeffrey Combs Lurking Fear, The Pit and the Pendulum) offers Iris an opportunity to change her life in the form of an invitation to a dinner party that offers a solution to all of her foreseeable problems, financial or otherwise. Her parents are dead, she has no money and no job, and she is left to care for her terminally ill brother. Iris (Brittany Snow Prom Night, Nip/Tuck) is a good person with a good heart who finds herself in a difficult situation. This one looks as hokey and unserious as the movie therein. IF YOU LIKE THIS WATCH: Red Room (1999) and Series 7 (2001) both pit regular people, some more reluctant than others, against one another–to do heinous things to one another. However, at times the character dynamic in this ridiculous scenario makes the movie at least watchable, although still falling short of recommendable. MY CALL: Intended as a brutal, cruel installment to the torture porn subgenre, it felt like the intensity was declawed, domesticated and rendered family-friendly. And the scene depicted above…easiest eye injury to watch on film EVER. You see this poster and you think “this is gonna’ be SERIOUS!” But it’s not. ![]()
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