Hobby Farm

After spending 5 years in prison for refusing to testify against the major boss of a crime syndicate named "Mr. Senti" (played by Gerard Kennedy), "Julian" (Paul J. Murphy) is rewarded for his loyalty by being put in charge of the "Hobby Farm" which is an illegal brothel using Eastern European sex slaves. From the very start of the film we see that "Jules" (as Julian is often called) is not happy with this assignment. In one particular incident, a new girl from Poland named "Tatiana" (Jessica Turner) is dumped off at the Hobby Farm by two thugs, "Steve" (Dean Baker) and "Alfonso" (John Freeman), after being kidnapped, beaten and raped. Julian protests about how she has been treated but his words fall on deaf ears. Even worse, Mr. Senti decides to send an extremely vicious and sadistic ex-convict named "Con" to supposedly help Julian. Again, Julian's concerns are ignored. To further complicate matters, Julian has to rely upon a completely incompetent assistant named "Vince" (Wayne Dixon) who regularly informs on him to Julian's immediate boss "Luca" (Vincent Sorrenti). Needless to say, tensions escalate to a boiling point and Julian is forced to make some critical decisions on how to deal with his situation. Anyway, having discussed the basic plot I would now like to list a few faults. First, because the subject involves the seamy world of sex slavery, this film has some rather raw and brutal scenes which add realism but might turn off some viewers. There is also some difficulty understanding some of the dialogue because the Australian accents are so heavy. Another factor involves the title of the movie. My version (which I just bought) goes by the title of "Chained" while IMDb lists it under "Hobby Farm". This might cause some confusion with people who want to check out the movie but are unaware that it goes by different titles. At any rate, while some of these faults might lower the overall value of the film, they don't necessarily render it unworthy to watch. On a positive note, while the supporting cast was basically adequate, I thought both Paul J. Murphy and Jessica Turner performed exceptionally well. Likewise, the plot has a few twists and turns that manages to keep the film interesting as well. That said, even though this film certainly has its flaws, I thought it was generally a satisfactory movie overall.

From the action packed appearance of it's loud cover (not the one above) I was expecting great exploitation cheese. If only. I can't believe filmmakers were still making movies this bad in 2011. That America's job. This movie looks like some talentless halfwit, has just gone out and made an amateurish video. Despite it's cool title, Hobby Farm, takes a nose dive into really bad B grade territoiry, the likes of which I've seen in American ones of the 80's. The movie has terrible, amateurish acting, weird fitting music, that has you hypothesizing on, cheap photography, and more fade outs, than I've ever seen in a movie. Some of the actors here, make some gooses of themselves, that's not even funny. There are some real repellent scenes, ones, which I won't go into. Likeable lead, Julian, has just got out of the clink, doin time for this crime organization. He's put in charge of this farm, fronted as a bordello, harvesting the likes, of these beautiful European sex slaves, Things then start going bad and worse, for Julian, where he reconsiders his line of employment, which this filmmaker should of done. No fun on the farm here, at all.

It was a waste of time to say the least. Had the 70' s porn style b movie.