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Penance

  • 20092009
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  • 1h 25m
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3.4/10
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Graham McTavish, Michael Rooker, and Tony Todd in Penance (2009)
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A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash, only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin.A young mother decides to become a stripper to earn some fast cash, only to find her worst nightmares are about to begin.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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1.1K
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    • Marieh Delfino
    • Jason Connery
    • Michael Rooker
    • Jake Kennedy
    • Jake Kennedy
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    • Marieh Delfino
    • Jason Connery
    • Michael Rooker
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    • 14User reviews
    • 21Critic reviews
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Alice Amter as 'Eve' opposite Marieh Delfino
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    Marieh Delfino
    Marieh Delfino
    • Amelia
    Jason Connery
    Jason Connery
    • John
    Michael Rooker
    Michael Rooker
    • Mann
    Graham McTavish
    Graham McTavish
    • Geeves
    Alice Amter
    Alice Amter
    • Eve
    Valorie Hubbard
    Valorie Hubbard
    • Kathy
    Lochlyn Munro
    Lochlyn Munro
    • Jack
    Allison Lange
    Allison Lange
    • Tara
    Tony Todd
    Tony Todd
    • Chauffeur
    James Duval
    James Duval
    • Sleazy party guy
    Eve Mauro
    Eve Mauro
    • Suzie - Sassy
    Sita Young
    • Molly
    Katherine Randolph
    Katherine Randolph
    • Polly
    Garrett Jones
    • Will
    Morann Peri
    Morann Peri
    • Corridor prisoner
    Alexis Wolfe
    • Crying prisoner
    Sara Jane Patrick
    • Asher
    Tracy Coogan
    Tracy Coogan
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    • Trivia
      The character of Geeves (Graham McTavish) was based on an actual O.B./G.Y.N. from Australia, who performed genital mutilation on hundreds of female patients.
    • 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.

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    6/10
    Video, torture and tits... oh my!
    I'm as sick and tired of predictable torture flicks and found footage films as the next horror fan, and so Penance—which 'cleverly' combines these two tired sub-genres to create the 'found torture footage' sub-sub-genre—hardly sounded like it was going to deliver much of interest to this particular jaded viewer.

    Indeed, after just a few minutes of wobbly Blair Witch-style nonsense, during which attractive young mother Amelia Wallis (Marieh Delfino) prattles in front of a video camera about her love of Topanga Canyon, her job at a centre for battered women, and her daughter, I was itching to switch off. But what I had forgotten about was the power of a fit bird in the raw to make almost anything worthwhile...

    As part of her audition tape for a TV game-show, the usually reserved Amelia agrees to help her stripper pal Suzie (Eve Mauro) entertain a group of stags at a party; let's just say that this girl was built to strip! From that moment on, Penance becomes pure trash entertainment: after Suzie is given a black eye by a customer, Amelia reluctantly stands in for her friend on a highly paid job for a special client, a decision that results in the poor girl's incarceration at a disused asylum where she is subjected to torture by Geeves, a religious zealot who has dedicated his life to purifying the souls of strippers. Cue lots of gratuitous nudity, pointless cameos from horror icons, dumb plot development, vaginal mutilation, self-castration, and more nudity.

    Penance's use of the found footage gimmick is totally implausible, the story painfully dumb, the supposedly tense action absolutely laughable, and the violence disappointing (although nasty in concept, the gore is not that graphic), but Marieh Delfino kept me entertained throughout, albeit on the most basic of levels. In fact, it makes me wonder if I would have enjoyed The Blair Witch Project more if Heather Donahue had only thrown caution to the wind and flipped out her norks....
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    • Oct 9, 2011

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      • May 30, 2009 (United States)
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      • Malibu, California, USA
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      • Clever Worm Entertainment
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