A psycho is loose on the streets kidnapping young girls, chaining them up, and torturing them with a battery-operated dingus. One schoolgirl doesn’t really seem to mind it so much since she already goes around with a vibrator tucked inside her panties to begin with. She and her captor eventually hit on a plan to kidnap and torture her classmate who is hiding a deep, dark secret.
If there ever was a title for a movie it’s Lolita Vibrator Torture. Despite the lurid moniker, it’s probably not as skeevy as you might expect. It comes from the twisted mind of director Hisayasu (Splatter: Naked Blood) Sato, so if you’re familiar with his work, you may already have an idea what you signed yourself up for.
Sato uses a lot of restraint, all things considered. Often times, it’s what he doesn’t show that is more effective. (The sounds of the buzzing vibrator leave much to the imagination.) That’s not to say he won’t pull out all the stops when he has to. The film is also interesting from a scripting standpoint as the audience’s loyalty slowly shifts in the second half.
It’s only a little over an hour long, so that doesn’t leave a lot of time for unnecessary subplots or extraneous sequences, which is always appreciated, especially for something like this. I also liked that for all its griminess and general WTF demeanor, the film is ultimately a parable of a couple who learn to spice up their relationship by implementing marital aids in the bedroom. Well, that and some grisly murder and stuff, but if watch it, you’ll see what I mean.
It also manages to be immensely feminist which is something you might not expect from a movie with the words “Lolita”, “Vibrator”, and “Torture” in the title. I don’t want to spoil anything but trust me on that. Our heroine’s final words to her captor are quite the feminist rallying cry if I ever did hear one.
AKA: Secret Garden.
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