Torched starts one evening as a young woman named Deanna (Michelle Boback) leaves her city apartment to go to work, before Deanna is able to leave the elevator though a masked man overpowers Deanna & brutally rapes her. Deanna is devastated but doesn't phone the police & goes to work as normal, the next evening Deanna wakes up in her apartment to find a masked intruder on top of her raping her. Deanna manages to overpower him & takes great delight in torturing him over the next few days, however it seems that the first & second rapist are not the same people & in a quest revenge Deanna sets out to find the identity of the first attacker using a DNA swab & is shocked to learn who it is...
This Canadian production was directed by Ryan Nicholson & is a fairly sleazy yet straight forward tale of rape & revenge in the style of MS. 45 (1981) as the main lead is raped twice, once outside & once in her apartment & I Spit on Your Grave (1978) with the general theme of a woman gaining strength from adversity & setting out to wreck bloody revenge on those who raped her. Obviously nowhere near as good as those two classic rape revenge flicks Torched offers up a few painful looking but brief torture scenes, some crude gore effects & a plot where all the men are cheating rapist scumbags & the women are evil two-timers which is simply not the case in reality & it's a really depressing view of society actually that makes it very hard to like Torched. There's obviously no feel good factor here but there's no message or personal journey for any of the character's either, this is really just 40 odd minutes of rape, sex & torture which may in itself be a recommendation for some but I was pretty bored watching it & the double twist ending is very predictable, I don't want to boast but I actually figured it out within fifteen minutes.
Apparently filmed in 2004 it was edited into the anthology horror film Hell Hath No Fury (2006) before it was edited into a single short & released in 2010. Besides not being a particularly strong entry in the rape revenge sub-genre Torched is horrible to watch from a technical point of view, the makes go for that twitching camera look where the damned thing never stops jerking around for no good reason & the soundtrack of hip-hop & rock is awful, I actually turned the volume down & muted it on a few occasions just because the music was so bad & annoying. There's a some gore here, a woman has her head cut off with a saw, a guy's head is bashed in, a rapist has hypodermic syringes stuck into his penis & body & has the skin on his leg, penis & balls burnt with a blow torch. The rape scenes are fairly tame actually, they certainly aren't as full blown or as long as those seen in I Spit on Your Grave for instance.
Going direct to video Torched was shot in Vancouver in Canada, the whole thing looks as cheap & rough as any film you are likely to see with none existent production values although some of the special effects are decent enough for a low budget indie film such as this. The acting is dire, the pathetic screams from people as they are supposedly in great pain are embarrassing (why didn't Deanna's neighbours call the police when they heard all the screams coming from her apartment?), no-one seems to resist any attack or behave in a way that i found believable.
Torched is a soulless & pretty meaningless showcase for some crude gore effects & torture scenes, at just over 40 minutes at least it's short but there's nothing here of any substance or depth & save for those torture scenes you won't remember a thing about it once it's finished.
This Canadian production was directed by Ryan Nicholson & is a fairly sleazy yet straight forward tale of rape & revenge in the style of MS. 45 (1981) as the main lead is raped twice, once outside & once in her apartment & I Spit on Your Grave (1978) with the general theme of a woman gaining strength from adversity & setting out to wreck bloody revenge on those who raped her. Obviously nowhere near as good as those two classic rape revenge flicks Torched offers up a few painful looking but brief torture scenes, some crude gore effects & a plot where all the men are cheating rapist scumbags & the women are evil two-timers which is simply not the case in reality & it's a really depressing view of society actually that makes it very hard to like Torched. There's obviously no feel good factor here but there's no message or personal journey for any of the character's either, this is really just 40 odd minutes of rape, sex & torture which may in itself be a recommendation for some but I was pretty bored watching it & the double twist ending is very predictable, I don't want to boast but I actually figured it out within fifteen minutes.
Apparently filmed in 2004 it was edited into the anthology horror film Hell Hath No Fury (2006) before it was edited into a single short & released in 2010. Besides not being a particularly strong entry in the rape revenge sub-genre Torched is horrible to watch from a technical point of view, the makes go for that twitching camera look where the damned thing never stops jerking around for no good reason & the soundtrack of hip-hop & rock is awful, I actually turned the volume down & muted it on a few occasions just because the music was so bad & annoying. There's a some gore here, a woman has her head cut off with a saw, a guy's head is bashed in, a rapist has hypodermic syringes stuck into his penis & body & has the skin on his leg, penis & balls burnt with a blow torch. The rape scenes are fairly tame actually, they certainly aren't as full blown or as long as those seen in I Spit on Your Grave for instance.
Going direct to video Torched was shot in Vancouver in Canada, the whole thing looks as cheap & rough as any film you are likely to see with none existent production values although some of the special effects are decent enough for a low budget indie film such as this. The acting is dire, the pathetic screams from people as they are supposedly in great pain are embarrassing (why didn't Deanna's neighbours call the police when they heard all the screams coming from her apartment?), no-one seems to resist any attack or behave in a way that i found believable.
Torched is a soulless & pretty meaningless showcase for some crude gore effects & torture scenes, at just over 40 minutes at least it's short but there's nothing here of any substance or depth & save for those torture scenes you won't remember a thing about it once it's finished.