Penance

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	Marieh Delfino	Amelia
	Jason Connery	John
	Michael Rooker	Mann
	Graham McTavish	Geeves
	Alice Amter	Eve
	Valorie Hubbard	Kathy
	Lochlyn Munro	Jack
	Allison Lange	Tara
	Tony Todd	Chauffeur
	James Duval	Sleazy party guy
	Eve Mauro	Suzie - Sassy
	Sita Young	Molly
	Katherine Randolph	Polly
	Garrett Jones	Will
	Morann Peri	Corridor prisoner
	Alexis Wolfe	Crying prisoner
	Sara Jane Patrick	Asher
	Tracy Coogan	Natalie
	Nathalie Walker	Room Prisoner
	Jen Clasen	Window prisoner 1
	Lyndsey Wegner	Window prisoner 2
	J.J. Poff	Window prisoner 3
	Kurt Anderson	Tennis guy
	David Leepson	Groom
	Chris Ivan Cevic	Bachelor Party Host #1

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Director	Jake Kennedy
Writer	Jake Kennedy
Producer	Bobbo, William Clevinger, Micah Goldman, Jake Kennedy, Leo Kennedy, Tracy Kennedy, Demian Lichtenstein, Ricki Maslar, Bill Reed, Sanjeev Shah, Chuck Whitlock, Linda Wolff, Michael Wormser, James Young, Charles Zentay
Musician	Ryan Dodson
Photography	Lawles Bourque

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My quick rating - 3,3/10. True events? Just popped on Radarr and caught my eye. Seems a woman fills in for a friend as a stripper and instead is held hostage in a found footage style flick. I was surprised when our main character Marieh Delfino gets picked up by a limo driven by Tony Todd so they did throw some money around on this. There is a group of woman that are there to audition for someone and do their routine to be judged, without music. Very odd watching the girls strip with no sound for some reason along with the casting for this apparently included "must have small breasts" on the pre-requisite list. And who is it that is going to post judgement on these ladies? Michael Rooker! Not sure how he got roped into this. But with these quirks put aside, these courageous women diligently keep the camera rolling for us despite their lives being in danger. And then for some reason in a post credit scene Lochlyn Munro shows up as a police officer wrapping up the case? Weird. You typically watch these wannabe torture porn flix for the violence but this flick definitely did NOT bring that, at least in the version I saw. I suppose it could've been edited which would explain the lack of brutality. The acting was very much on par with a b-budget horror flick with some awful performances. I had to find out what leads to the "true events" part, and this one is very loosely based on Graeme Stephen Reeves who was known as the Butcher of Bega right down here in my new neck of the woods, New South Wales. Click his name for info but he was basically performing illegal genital mutilations. The reality is far more interesting than this movie version was. I also don't believe he found his subjects by holding mock stripper auditions. And since Delfino wasn't exactly giving us an acting tour de force, believing her mother turned private dancer overnight routine was very hard to take seriously. The transformation was far too quick and really unsuccessful. Don't bother with this one, there are far better in all categories unless you like torture porn without graphic violence.

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