A mentally deranged young woman starts hallucinating, gets involved in lesbianism and murder.A mentally deranged young woman starts hallucinating, gets involved in lesbianism and murder.A mentally deranged young woman starts hallucinating, gets involved in lesbianism and murder.
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- Frances Compton
- (as Harris Compton)
Michael Gaunt
- Larry
- (as Michael Grant)
Clea Carson
- Tom's Girlfriend
- (as Anna Davis)
Robert Kerman
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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- TriviaTara Chung ran off with the gaffer halfway through the shooting of the film. Writer/director Roberta Findlay out of necessity was forced to double Chung for the remainder of the shoot.
- Alternate versionsVinegar Syndrome released a "never before seen" extended R rated version with their 2017 Blu-ray release. Which is said to be the director preferred version.
- ConnectionsEdited into Beach House (1980)
Featured review
A viewer's torment.
Married couple Estelle and Otis (Jennifer Jordan and Jake Teague) are unsure how to deal with Estelle's emotionally disturbed sister Karen (Tara Chung). While the couple try to decide what to do with Karen, the crazy woman turns homicidal, killing those who visit her at the beach home where she is living.
Before becoming a director of low-budget horror, Roberta Findlay was a maker of low-budget porn; a Woman's Torment straddles both genres. Some have likened it to Roman Polanski's classic psychological thriller Repulsion (1965), but Findlay is no Polanski and Tara Chung is no Deneuve.The acting is terrible: I assume that it's a cast of porn stars trying their hand at acting, rather than actors giving porn a go. They might be pros when it comes to sex*, but they're shockingly amateurish when it comes to delivering lines.
Findlay's attempts at Polanski style-hysteria and madness are laughable, largely thanks to Chung's lamentable central performance, and the hardcore sex is unimaginative, with several scenes going on for way too long (Karen with workman Larry - so tedious!).
3.5/10, rounded up to 4/10 for IMDb. Just about worth a watch for curious Findlay fans.
*The use of a not-very-well concealed tube spurting presumably fake ejaculate suggests that one performer wasn't quite ready for another pop shot.
Before becoming a director of low-budget horror, Roberta Findlay was a maker of low-budget porn; a Woman's Torment straddles both genres. Some have likened it to Roman Polanski's classic psychological thriller Repulsion (1965), but Findlay is no Polanski and Tara Chung is no Deneuve.The acting is terrible: I assume that it's a cast of porn stars trying their hand at acting, rather than actors giving porn a go. They might be pros when it comes to sex*, but they're shockingly amateurish when it comes to delivering lines.
Findlay's attempts at Polanski style-hysteria and madness are laughable, largely thanks to Chung's lamentable central performance, and the hardcore sex is unimaginative, with several scenes going on for way too long (Karen with workman Larry - so tedious!).
3.5/10, rounded up to 4/10 for IMDb. Just about worth a watch for curious Findlay fans.
*The use of a not-very-well concealed tube spurting presumably fake ejaculate suggests that one performer wasn't quite ready for another pop shot.
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