Violated

Exploitation is the name of the game here, or I should say sexploitation. We have some real dirt bag business guys, who run an operation, involving prostitution, and raping would be actresses on their way up, where they record them like when they're a little drunk and take off their clothes at parties, so they can't testify, as it could jeopardize their careers. One actress goes up against them to no avail as she's rudely interrogated by cop, J. C. Quinn, where under his tough facade, is a real compassionate fella who tells the girl Liz, up straight, what will happen if she takes these creeps to court. Another victim/actress Lisa, seeks help from Quinn where they work together, and fall in love, even though he's at least twenty years her senior. When seeing Liz in one of the creep's lesbian porn flicks, he approaches her again, but she's uncooperative, when back hooking for the same sleaze, Jack Diamond, who raped her, as letting that terrible night past. This is a bold sex drama, with frank nudity, sex scenes, but is unpleasant, and does border on the sick side. We have one scene with Liz coming home with one of Diamond's associates in politics. We have a kissing scene, where she disrobes and kisses him more until she's only her pink panties, that are as we fade into a later shot, but then we cut to Lisa and Quinn, similarly making out, and cut back where we aren't sure if it's Liz and company or the other. I liked the boldness of the film, the party scene, especially as if letting the nude actresses go loose and ad lib. This is one of those "no holding back movies", and the baddies are some real nasties, one, threatening this other actress into testifying against Lisa in court, where a more permanent solution is required in the form of a trigger happy gun for hire, John Heard, funny and fantastic, puts a polishing touch on the last of the baddies. But really the exploitation side of this, despoils it. The film, with some unwarranted scenes and frank ones, has some hot class women in it, and shows us how the justice system works in this "your word against their case" scenario, where this manipulative baddies have got their s..t together, you so want them to die.

This grim exploitation drama follows the cruelty of New York gangsters who prey upon young, naive actresses by inviting them to fancy parties where they are to be viciously raped...

No words can describe how sick is this film...

My Rating:1/10

Okay, wow, there are so many things wrong with this film I don't even properly know where to begin! "Violated" is a bad film in terms of plotting, acting, and directing, but that really isn't the main issue. It's also just plain wrong from every moral and ethical perspective. We've seen a lot of extremely misogynistic and brutally graphic slashers and exploitation movies during the 70s and early 80s, but even they had more of an overall sense of decency than this (righteously) obscure low-budget piece of filth.

The plot, for as far as you can refer to it as such, revolves around how a beautiful, young, and very nave actress - Lisa Robb - is lured to the house party of a rich producer, and then getting viciously raped by him, his buddy and even his shrew of a wife. When the girl presses charges, she's laughed at by the police, humiliated in court, and loses her role in a popular TV-sitcom. So far, so good. I mean, it's trash, but there are quite many 70s/80s "rape and revenge" movies dealing with the same, or a very similar, plot.

What makes "Violated" unacceptable and morally repulsive are a bunch of sequences and assumptions that are downright sick, and yet incorporated into the film like they are the most common things in the world. The first rape victim is treated more disrespectful by the police than by the actual rapist. One of Lisa's actress friends is literally begging to get raped as well. The 40-year-old, and very unattractive, cop starts a relationship with an 18-year-old rape victim. It's suggested that a raped girl went into the prostitution business afterwards because it makes good money. A 13-year-old brother walks into the room of his naked sister, but they act like it's totally normal. Etc. The only reason why I'm giving the film one extra point is because the actresses (Daisy White, Elizabeth Kaitan, Juliet Graham, ...) are very good-looking, and they certainly do have talent, but they sadly ended up in the wrong movie.

I have my own theory of why "Violated" is such a rejectable effort. Richard Cannistraro wrote, directed, produced, and played the part of the most loathsome rapist, all by himself. He did everything alone, but do you know how many other movies he worked on in his "career"? None. Zero. This individual isn't a filmmaker, and he never intended to be one. He's simply a perv who wanted to film his own twisted fantasies, and somehow succeeded.