Torched

Torched, what's in a name. The movie suffered some torture. It is released in 2010 but was made in 2004 so what happened? It was one of the first sleazefests of Ryan and his Plotdigger theme but somehow things went terrible wrong. It was never edited and some workprint or a finale copy was released without the clearance of Ryan himself. It was released as Hell Hath No Fury. The fact that HHNF was 113 minutes long and the directors cut 45 minutes says enough. Ryan did his best to withdraw the release but failed. Meantime Plotdigger released Live Feed and Gutterballs. Ryan was fed up and stated to re-release HHNF as it should have been, he re-edited the flick and put a new score on it. But even then things went wrong. The release should have been in 2009 but some factory mistakes while pressing delayed the flick again. But fair as he is, Ryan kept in touch with everybody and the release was made in march 2010. Only available at Plotdigger itself limited to 666 copies. Mine was signed by him so I watched HHNF again as it should have been. What he brings in 45 minutes is of course the best thing. Not a lot of blah blah but a lot of, euh, torched scene's. I won't spoil what is being torched but in fact if you are a guy you will be impressed. It's gore galore in this flick. The red stuff flows frequently. I was a bit disappointed by the fact that there wasn't any nudity in it. HHNF had a lot of it. And knowing Plotdigger, normally they have that, remember Gutterballs. Still you can see that it is a low budget flick. There are some shadows from the boom (sound) watchable. But nevertheless, it delivers what you expect from it. And be advised. If you are easily offended or squeamish, don't watch it. You will need your balls to see it, if you know what I mean. Just like Run Bitch Run one of the better rape/revenge ones this year.

I acquired this title because of Gutterballs, a "film" that surprised me with its realism and brutality. I figured "Torched" would also deliver. In a way, it does, but poorly. Quite a few scenes were framed poorly, as in unnecessary long close-ups of talking heads. Some of the dialog also couldn't be heard because the mics were too far way from the actors. The violence was fairly decent but the editing was just so poorly done that the film just came off as a student exercise in Editing 101. Was this a "must watch" film? Nope. If you've seen the original "I Spit On Your Grave" or "Irreversible" you've seen this flick before. This outing is better than, say, any of Lucifer Valentine's stuff, but not by much.

Torched doesn't reach feature length at only 44 minutes, but it's 44 minutes well spent if you like this kind of thing as director Ryan Nicholson starts the film off nasty, and manages to carry this on throughout. Right at the start, we witness a nurse being raped and from there she decides it's time for revenge, as someone else tries to attack her, but she manages to get the better of him with a stun gun - and then the fun starts! The film takes obvious influence from the classic seventies crop of 'rape and revenge' films, such as I Spit on Your Grave. The film also takes influence from this new wave of modern day Video Nasties, which includes films such as Murder-Set-Pieces and August Underground. Nicholson gives the film a hard rock score, which works rather well when it's put against a backdrop of grisly and vile torture. There isn't very much of this film, and what there is of it is unlikely to make anyone want to stand up and applaud; but Torched is a more than decent way to spend three quarters of an hour for fans of sick and twisted horror movies.

Torched is a interesting little short film that is so brutal that will probably make you hide your family jewels deep somewhere and well…can we talk about the plot holes? Maybe not,Deanna a nurse who works at night you read what I just typed,who works at night as a nurse who walks out of her apartment in the day,yes she picked the wrong day to go out,when she approaches outside a masked man throws her back in and proceeds to rape her,traumatized and shaken after,she runs back to her apartment and goes to sleep. The next night Masked man walks in and tries to rape her but (oh yes!)Deanna has a taser and takes him down

This film was directed by Ryan Nicholson who worked in the August Underground sequel,this film isn't the least misogynistic as the awful I Spit On Your Grave but she does take the law or blowtorch for that matter,in her hands but she does do the brutal revenge very violently,Deanna a nice pretty woman who could've had been doing well in her life loses her mind and by a nice thoughtful twist but all is finally explained in an appropriately a lot of series of climaxes, which left me thinking how 1.Does anyone else besides her and Trevor live in the apartment building,since the captor screams loud enough that could've made a neighbor complain about it or 2. if she captured the assailant how did she managed to get a taser since she stayed in her apartment even the day before she was raped (3.)Why leave the door open or leave criminating evidence around (4.) have sex with the woman's friend since you already had sex with her.

But anyways I kinda have more questions but besides that we can still see Deanna descend into madness and maim,toast nuts(pun totally intended) and decapitate because we got to know her at inopportune time,poor girl she needs someone to love.

This 44 minute film is quite the nasty piece of filth.It starts with a woman getting raped and then soon after someone breaks into her home and attempts to rape her again.She awakens and manages to stop the attack before it begins and,believing her masked assailant to be her rapist from 5 minutes earlier in the film,she knocks him out with a stun-gun and sets about keeping him as her torture slave for the rest of the 30 minute running time,burning his bare testicles with a blow torch,sticking syringes in his penis and other horrid punishment!"Torched" was actually made by Ryan Nicholson,one of the FX guys on the grim "August Underground" series.The film is obviously inspired by "I Spit on Your Grave" and Abel Ferrara's wonderful "Ms.45".It's competently acted and the violence is extremely disturbing.The score by Necrophagia,Macabre and Necro is awesome and perfectly captures the nihilistic feeling of the film."Torched" is even better than "August Underground's Mordum",but you'll need an iron stomach to watch it.8 out of 10.