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They don’t make showers hot enough to scrub away the filthy feeling you get after watching this.
For eleven nights between 2004 and 2005 the Satanic Sluts performed their unique “cabaret” act in various nightclubs around London. The sluts acted out various skits where women are simulated being raped, tortured, bound, and degraded in just about every way possible. For example, in the first scene a woman is bound, and raped by two nuns who go as far as to make her fellate a crucifix. Blood typically plays a pivotal role in these acts, and often the victim’s naked bodies are splashed with blood (I’m hoping it’s just red food dye, but quite frankly I wouldn’t put it past them to use the real stuff). But the two most horrifying scenes have to be “Incest Rape” I and II. I don’t think I really need to go into details on that.
Now if any of that sounds like something you’d enjoy, you probably don’t need to read anymore. It’s probably an understatement that the Satanic Sluts appeals to a very narrow audience, and while I obviously didn’t care for this, I’m sure that their fans will definitely enjoy this DVD.
Just a quick note, unlike my other reviews, I’m going to score this one based on how I think fans would react, which hopefully will be a little more fair.
If you’ll excuse me, I’m off to take another shower.
From what I gathered from Danny Cox’s review of the first Satanic Sluts (which you can read here: Satanic Sluts) the audio and visual qualities were pretty good. Unfortunately, that’s not the case for this DVD. These skits were filmed during the actual midnight masses, and have the same look and feel of your friend’s YouTube videos. Also, the producers decided to add a frame around the video, so that it looks like the scenes are played on a rotting, yellowing movie screen, which means that although the aspect ratio is listed as 16:9 Widescreen, what you actually see is less. Also, small lines of indecipherable text constantly scroll up the screen, like we’re looking at this through the Terminator’s point of view.
And the audio is just as poor. It’s presented in Dolby Stereo, but it’s full of distortion, dropouts, and other issues. This wouldn’t be quite such as issue except that there are at least two concert sections with performers like Eileen Daly and Jezebel.
Stills Gallery 1-the only complaint I could see about this is that you can’t actually scroll through the pictures with the forward/back buttons on your remote. It plays through like a slide show.
Stills Gallery 2-has the same potential problem as the first gallery.
Flyers-again, no scrolling.
Trailer (running time: 00:42)-I’ll say this, they don’t engage in false advertisement.
Blood and Dis-Honour Trailer (running time: 00:56)-a Satanic Sluts book coming soon featuring biographies of the performers.
Extended Scene Eileen Daly and Jezebel (running time: 04:47)-it may just be the sound quality, but they sound just awful.
Redemption Trailers
SS—The Black Order Cometh (running time: 1:35)-more fun from the Satanic Sluts.
Nature Morte (running time: 2:12)-this seems to be the staple trailer for Redemption.
Fans of this series will probably be disappointed at the lack of extra features, but overall I imagine that they’ll enjoy this DVD. Recommended for them.
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Redemption Studios presents Satanic Sluts II: The Black Masses. Directed by Nigel Wingrove. Starring The Satanic Sluts. Running time: 100 minutes. Rated NR. Released on DVD: September 30, 2008. Available at Amazon.com.
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