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(More customer reviews)Having purchased and viewed a few of Bill Zebub's low budget efforts I have a fair sense of where he's coming from and how well he's achieving it. A couple of his favorite genres are obviously horror & sexploitation and his 'films' (actually most are shot direct to video) are often awash in transgressive imagery and plot lines. Occasionally Zebub pokes fun at himself and the genre with some satirical flair ("Assmonster" and "Dolla Morte" come to mind) and these can be sorta amusing in a heavy-handed way. On other occasions Bill takes himself 'seriously' and often the result is somewhat less successful... which is how I would rate "Catherine's Pain".
Having now sat through this mean-spirited little flik I'd have to say that it was a pretty hack exercise. It is mentioned within the film's 'extras' section that this movie is actually a re-make/re-packaging of one of Zebub's earlier efforts: "Rape Is A Circle". Buried somewhere in the 'plot' there appears to be a moralistic glimmer that Zebub is attempting to show the causal motivation for his female lead character's, otherwise somewhat inexplicable, actions in kidnapping two innocent females and subjecting them to a bunch of torturous indignities. Sounds like it could be 'hot', but, believe me, it's not. When the film lapsed into bringing out the Barbi dolls to provide some 'artful' symbolism it totally lapsed into absurdity. Like all Zebub flix there is a goodly helping of topless girls, but even that can't save this one.
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