Penance (I) (2009)

A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin.

Director:

Jake Kennedy

Writer:

Jake Kennedy

Stars:

Marieh Delfino, Michael Rooker, Graham McTavish

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Marieh Delfino	...	Amelia Wallis
Michael Rooker	...	Mann
Graham McTavish	...	Geeves
Alice Amter	...	Eve
Valorie Hubbard	...	Kathy
Allison Lange	...	Tara
Tony Todd	...	Chauffeur
James Duval	...	Sleazy party guy
Eve Mauro	...	Suzie / Sassy
Sita Young	...	Molly
Katherine Randolph	...	Polly
Lochlyn Munro	...	Cop (Jack)
Jason Connery	...	FBI agent (John)
Garrett Jones	...	Will
Morann Peri	...	Corridor prisoner (Lisa)

Storyline

A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin.

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Plot Keywords:

stripper | mental institution | religious fanatic | single parent

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Taglines:

He Made Them Pay For Their Sins

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Genres:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

30 May 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

The Devil's Dungeon

Filming Locations:

Malibu, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$500,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Clever Worm Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

85 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The part of the chauffeur was specifically written for Tony Todd, who only worked one day on this movie.

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Goofs

When Mann points the gun at Will it's a Beretta 92f then when Mann takes the camera and shoots Will it's a different gun and then right after the gun changes back to the Beretta 92f.

User Reviews

Pointless and terrible genre cross-over effort

Filling in for a friend on a stripping job, a young woman finds she's captured by a deranged madman intended to purify similar women for their sins and is tortured to achieve those results.

Yet another utterly retarded Torture Film here, only this one made all the more infuriated with the inclusion of the "Found Footage" moniker, so it's pretty much what would happen if "Paranormal Activity" did the "Saw" series, and that only spells disaster for all involved due to the inability to see anything going on because the camera's shaking too much. The tactic makes the usual point of such films, watching the torture methods and the abundant nudity nearly impossible to determine because of the inane manner of narrating over everything, twisting it to odd angles or positions in order to avoid being caught in such a precarious moment, which only highlights the film's biggest blunder of all in the fact that no one in their right mind would be filming during such activities and their decided inability to remove it from them to begin with and you have a pretty egregious set of flaws just from the set-up. Plus, this is yet another effort that must be downgraded for the inclusion of twisted religious reasoning since this makes no sense why the tactics must be undertaken and you have absolutely no interest beyond the nudity to watch this, which isn't that great since none of the ones who should are the ones that do. Granted, some of the torture methods are quite gruesome and bloody, overall this is a pure waste of time.

Rated R: Graphic Violence, Full Nudity and Graphic Language.