***my original review contained a huge mistake making it utterly misleading***
Okay, my interest in this one is not for the faint-hearted. Put the little children to bed before reading further. There is no mainstream flick with any comparable BDSM-y scene like this one. Tara Fitzgerald appeared nude in SIRENS but here she is bound to a chair, with smeared lipstick (if memory serves me correctly, though I might be confusing this with an image I saw on a Hustler magazine cover a few days later, I'm not sure), and there's full nudity, but those vulnerable bare feet... That stays with me the most. Clearly, I am in search of a DVD for this title after six years of failure to obtain ANYTHING relating to this title except IMDb reviews and Wikipedia crediting it on Tara's page, and am obviously not even a reliable witness on its most controversial scene, so if there is anybody out there who has it on DVD, I would reward you as only a fanatical crazy collector can! The story was well-presented, but it's been years since I saw it once, and I so long to have another last long look. I do remember the tragic outcome of Tara's character who turned premature gray after her ordeal. And that Michael York outdid himself as the villain. Sadly :( I will never see this ever again, and it's at the very top of my Hard-to-Find list, life sure is sad.
Update, 2016/11/25, 9:54:55 PM. Thank you to ralphus44 who supplied a highlights disk free of charge. Showed that I was wrong, my memory played tricks on me, my imagination added extra flavor. The nudity is implied, there is no actual on-screen nudity, only bare shoulders and bare feet. She is not tied to the chair, her hands are manacled behind her back, it's only her feet that are bound, but not to the chair. As was suspected, the smeared lipstick was also my own invention. My apologies if I created the wrong impression, I actually misled myself. Bummed! And something that really needs to be addressed: The level of cruelty in this film is staggering. RavenGlam is about girls looking like birds of paradise, about sexy stuff, so... I am quite dismayed. I had forgotten just how truly bad this is. You could say that it was blotted out by the kinkier early aspects pf the interrogation scene. It is truly horrific to watch the torture and its result. Still, am glad to have this. At least now I own a bit of an otherwise impossible item on DVD-R. Thank you ralphus44! And thanks also to A.L. Fielden, without whom it couldn't have been possible, that old VHS tape sure helped a lot!
Okay, my interest in this one is not for the faint-hearted. Put the little children to bed before reading further. There is no mainstream flick with any comparable BDSM-y scene like this one. Tara Fitzgerald appeared nude in SIRENS but here she is bound to a chair, with smeared lipstick (if memory serves me correctly, though I might be confusing this with an image I saw on a Hustler magazine cover a few days later, I'm not sure), and there's full nudity, but those vulnerable bare feet... That stays with me the most. Clearly, I am in search of a DVD for this title after six years of failure to obtain ANYTHING relating to this title except IMDb reviews and Wikipedia crediting it on Tara's page, and am obviously not even a reliable witness on its most controversial scene, so if there is anybody out there who has it on DVD, I would reward you as only a fanatical crazy collector can! The story was well-presented, but it's been years since I saw it once, and I so long to have another last long look. I do remember the tragic outcome of Tara's character who turned premature gray after her ordeal. And that Michael York outdid himself as the villain. Sadly :( I will never see this ever again, and it's at the very top of my Hard-to-Find list, life sure is sad.
Update, 2016/11/25, 9:54:55 PM. Thank you to ralphus44 who supplied a highlights disk free of charge. Showed that I was wrong, my memory played tricks on me, my imagination added extra flavor. The nudity is implied, there is no actual on-screen nudity, only bare shoulders and bare feet. She is not tied to the chair, her hands are manacled behind her back, it's only her feet that are bound, but not to the chair. As was suspected, the smeared lipstick was also my own invention. My apologies if I created the wrong impression, I actually misled myself. Bummed! And something that really needs to be addressed: The level of cruelty in this film is staggering. RavenGlam is about girls looking like birds of paradise, about sexy stuff, so... I am quite dismayed. I had forgotten just how truly bad this is. You could say that it was blotted out by the kinkier early aspects pf the interrogation scene. It is truly horrific to watch the torture and its result. Still, am glad to have this. At least now I own a bit of an otherwise impossible item on DVD-R. Thank you ralphus44! And thanks also to A.L. Fielden, without whom it couldn't have been possible, that old VHS tape sure helped a lot!