{"id":2243,"date":"2011-01-21T15:55:24","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T20:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2243"},"modified":"2011-01-21T15:55:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T20:55:24","slug":"dvd-graphic-sexual-horror-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?p=2243","title":{"rendered":"DVD: Graphic Sexual Horror (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Return to: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\">Home <\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=6\">Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews<\/a> \/ <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=619\">G<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/GraphicSexualHorror.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2244\" title=\"GraphicSexualHorror\" src=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/GraphicSexualHorror.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"72\" height=\"101\" \/><\/a>Film: Very Good \/ DVD Transfer: Excellent\/ DVD Extras: Very Good<\/p>\n<p>Label: Synapse Films \/ Region: 0 (NTSC) \/\u00a0Released:\u00a0August 31, 2010<\/p>\n<p>Genre: Documentary \/ Sex<\/p>\n<p>Synopsis: Documentary on the notorious bondage &amp; S&amp;M website Insex, and its  meteoric popularity and sudden closure in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Special Features:\u00a04 Deleted Scenes: 62\u2019s First Insex Shoot (2:02) + Molly\u2019s Torture Foot  Fantasy (3:31) + The Original Slam (:27) + The Original Ending (1:59) \/ More  from the Models: Lorelei \u2013 First Shoot (:55) + The Diner (:27) + The Insex  Community (1:20) + The Insex Members and Live Feeds (:34), Princess Donna \u2013 On  PD (:40) + Being Tough (:54), Barb\u2019s Model Montage (5:50) \/ Interview with  co-director Barbara Bell addressing key questions she faced at festival  screenings (8:31) \/ Theatrical Trailer \/ Insert Card designed by Rick Trembles<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Review:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c[He\u2019s] the Michelangelo of bondage and torture\u201d &#8212; Barry Goldman, Insex  model agent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201c[PD} has an aura about him that just kind of makes you take a step back  and go \u2018This is either really, really good, or really, really bad,\u2019 which for me  means this is really attractive.\u201d &#8212; 62, a model<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Either a quick glance at the campaign art or the title of Barbara Bell and  Anna Lorentzon\u2019s documentary suggests a nasty document of depravity, but via  graphic clips, stills, and lengthy interviews segments, <strong>Graphic Sexual  Horror<\/strong> evolves into a fascinating, repellent, strangely intriguing  examination of one man\u2019s uncompromising vision of bringing extreme S&amp;M and  bondage to the credit card-holding masses.<\/p>\n<p>Insex flourished because of brilliant timing when the internet\u2019s household  penetration was on the rise, pioneering the interactive sexual experience from  merely looking at forbidden images on a computer monitor to subscribers  literally shaping the tortuous journey of damsels in horrific moments of  emotional, physical and sexual distress, broadcast live in streaming video and  screaming audio.<\/p>\n<p>As outlined in the film\u2019s intro segment, Insex was the creation of PD (real  name Brent Scott), a former teacher whose own interest in S&amp;M and bondage  overtook his day job and weakened his marriage during the 80s, and pushed him  into performance art. PD left his Carnegie-Melon post when it was clear the  institution wasn\u2019t interested in supporting his efforts to make art with a  hellish bent.<\/p>\n<p>PD attributes his interest in sexualized performance art to a show he  experienced while stationed in Japan during a military tour of Vietnam.  Witnessing his geisha server wrestled away from customers, dragged onto a stage,  and splayed for patrons using rope was PD\u2019s eureka moment, and he was determined  to somehow bring that experience to the U.S., one of the most conservative  countries when it comes to stark naked imagery.<\/p>\n<p>If pickles and beavers had to be digitally obfuscated by Stanley Kubrick in  order to release <strong>Eyes Wide Shut<\/strong> (1999) with an R rating to  mainstream audiences, it seems ludicrous to imagine anyone could import graphic  Asian bondage fantasies to the international scope of the internet, augmented  with models that allowed themselves to be penetrated and bled for the camera\u2019s  faceless audience.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, in cinema the combination of sex and violence already exists in  niche genres, such as the arty foreign film (<strong>Tokyo Decadence<\/strong>),  the serial killer film (<strong>Se7en<\/strong>), the torture porn realm (with  maimed body parts substituted for maimed sexual parts), and in the works of  mavericks and <em>enfants terribles,<\/em> such as torture fetishizer Takashi  Miike (<strong>Masters of Horror: Imprint<\/strong>) and newcomer Srdjan  Spasojevic (<strong>A Serbian Film<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>It also seems to help if the work in question originated from Europe or Asia,  was directed by a \u2018foreigner\u2019 or was filmed in a language other than English by  a foreigner from Europe or Asia, because most of the aforementioned works are  available in the U.S. in unexpurgated DVD editions. Put another way, as long as  the potentially offending work wasn&#8217;t produced natively, it gets distribution.<\/p>\n<p>PD\u2019s debut work, the Super8 short \u201cWorm\u201d (1980) looked so much like a snuff  film that it prompted a visit by the police, who eventually realized the  contents were partly staged for dramatic effect. What was real, in PD\u2019s eyes \u2013  and purposefully so \u2013 was the \u2018sublime ecstasy\u2019 of the model, writhing in a  sack-like mesh with needle-like wooden pegs that appeared to be penetrating her  skin (but didn\u2019t).<\/p>\n<p>PD had also done paintings of his fantasies and had gotten willing models to  perform in elaborately restricted poses and contraptions which he videotaped,  but those efforts didn&#8217;t allow him to explore the full potential of his  obsessions. In spite of $25,000 worth of debt, he eventually set up Insex and as  he claims, within 2 weeks, he made more money that six month\u2019s wages as a  teacher.<\/p>\n<p>Why stick with a vanilla job when the chance to explore the limits of a  self-gratifying dream was actually happening?<\/p>\n<p>There was no going back, and Insex was on its way to becoming an extreme  phenomenon, gathering at its peak 35,000 subscribers from various countries. The  site was operated like a family run mom &amp; pop shop with a hands-on owner,  and models were specifically given numbers to ensure any burgeoning star  wouldn\u2019t take away from the company; the attraction was always Insex, not Mad  Mindy from Montana.<\/p>\n<p>The big point which PD, his handlers, models, and trusty metal worker (the  self-named KGB) repeat in the doc is every one present and participating in each  piece was there willingly. To ensure there was no doubt to any authorities,  adult models addressed the camera with clipboards bearing legal age I.D. and  contracts, as well as subsequent Q&amp;As with PD in which their likes and  dislikes were laid out, plus safe words and hard limits \u2013 the former letting PD  and handlers know it when it was time to stop, and the latter making it clear  they\u2019ve reached the range of maximum torment.<\/p>\n<p>The extreme nature of each piece ensured many models never returned, if they  managed to complete their piece at all, for which they earned $300\/hour, plus  potential bonuses running in the thousands if they were particularly affecting  in their torment (assessed by PD\u2019s subjective criteria).<\/p>\n<p>The camera was always focused on the model, documenting every emotional  tremble and shriek. Says PD, \u201cthe explicit goal [was] to try and give the girl  an orgasm,\u201d but the money shot in PD\u2019s eyes didn\u2019t consist of screams, welts, or  blood, but the peculiar look that was common among the models who finished a  piece: with make-up eroded by tears, faces smeared with fluids, and bruises  turning an inflamed purple, PD knew he created art when the models\u2019 eyes had a  trance-like glaze &#8211; their mind taking in the ordeal, figuring out the best way  to rationalize the experience, and deciding whether the whole endeavor was the  best decision or the worst mistake of their lives.<\/p>\n<p>Those who left before the end of a piece apparently did so knowing they would  never be called back, but the survivors became part of the Insex stock company.  Moreover, nothing was nastier and tougher than an Insex shoot, and like the  gashes in thighs from a severe cane whipping, it was for some a badge of honor  within the extreme corner of S&amp;M and B&amp;D.<\/p>\n<p>PD had effectively created a product that may have been designed to keep  paying subscribers content, but it was also a peculiar environment where models  and handlers (and probably videographers) could safely explore their own odd  fantasies. Being comprised of like-minded souls, it was arguably a supportive  environment, filled with many weird contradictions.<\/p>\n<p>One clip illustrates the surreal and absurd nature of PD\u2019s world. A model has  hot pepper cream smeared on her privates and is screaming in agony. The next  clip has her laughing with the troupe, because she managed to make enough  terrifying sounds that tenants of the building called the police \u2013 the first  time anyone dialed authorities since the company\u2019s 7 years of operation. During  all of this amusement, an assistant is using an antiseptic cloth to wipe blood  from traumatized breasts, as though they were scuff marks from minor rough  play.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe can make a girl, while she\u2019s still consenting, do things that she  would never have otherwise done\u201d &#8212; Cyd Black<\/em>, <em>handler<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt was discouraged to use your safe word because it was a sign of  looking weak\u201d &#8212; Nina, a model<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe drive to make this business work turned me into\u2026 a monster\u201d &#8212;  PD<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>During the early years of Insex, PD\u2019s own gratification came from denying  himself direct satisfaction with the models; he discovered he enjoyed teasing  and extending the prolongation of their orgasmic journeys rather than  participating in a piece and allowing himself physical closure. The model\u2019s  release was her own, and the camera was always there to capture the event, but  climaxing didn\u2019t apparently mark the end of a session.<\/p>\n<p>Each piece morphed into several sessions, because as model Lorelei Lee  explains, there was a process to the madness. Lee organized the events of her  own marathon live session \u2013 all 6 hours worth, all streamed, as was typical of  Insex\u2019 special engagements \u2013 as the tearing down of ultra-femininity: eventually  the candy coloured clothes, articulated makeup and hyper-red lipstick would be  gone by the end, punctuated by the money shot.<\/p>\n<p>For PD, what began as performance art turned into a business about extremes,  and the live streams were outfitted with a computer generated voice that played  the words typed by members \u2013 suggestions or comments, questions or observations  which sometimes resulted in a change of props.<\/p>\n<p>One can see the ego within PD turning into a monster, and several interviewed  models support the view that PD didn\u2019t like it when he was denied an idea. Safe  words didn\u2019t necessarily matter (or work if the mouth was packed &amp; taped  up), and as the ringleader and orchestrator of his art, things happened because  it needed the gratification; if he couldn\u2019t climax himself by getting into the  piece and assaulting the model, then he\u2019d ignore her hard limits and take her to  the breaking point, using shock stimuli such as electrical jolts or  near-drowning.<\/p>\n<p>One model\u2019s pleas to stop dunking her cage \u2013 often in mid-sentence as she  gasps for air \u2013 smacks of snuff, yet one can hear the gears in PD\u2019s mind  rationalizing the cruelty as part of the performance: the viewer knows that what  the model experiences is real, and that edge distinguishes his product from the  fakery and simulations of lightweight websites. Ergo, he\u2019s justified.<\/p>\n<p>Another model, S4, is driven to tears when PD slaps her \u2013 a specific action  she told him <em>not<\/em> do in their agreement prior to the session. What\u2019s  horrifying are the dynamics at play. As she explains to the camera at the  beginning of the live piece, S4 returned to Insex because she believed, as from  her prior appearance, the emotional extremes would help her deal with personal  pressures, adding \u201cit\u2019ll help me with the rest of school\u2026 Hopefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When she later reacts to the slap, PD blurts \u201cYou\u2019re trying to gain control  here,\u201d and using wordplay and twisted logic, he argues the subscriber who  requested a slap is entitled to seeing it because he\u2019s a client, and \u2018you know  what we\u2019re trying to do here\u2019 (implying art).<\/p>\n<p>Barbara Bell, in the DVD\u2019s interview segment, argues that the much-talked  about scene captures the ugliness of when an employee is bullied into doing  something he \/ she knows is wrong, but the employer won\u2019t let up. The reality is  maybe two-fold: it&#8217;s good for business, and it&#8217;s an act whereby an egotist  bullies a young woman with the intellectual capacity of a child because he knows  she\u2019ll give in; since she never tells him she wants to stop the session, we know  it continued with him getting a money shot, and S4 getting her cash.<\/p>\n<p>In another telling interview, model Nina describes a piece where PD decided  to switch to anal violation, to which she never agreed. She admits it was  \u2018probably\u2019 rape, but she returned to Insex several times, rationalizing the gigs  were never about art for her, but money.<\/p>\n<p>In a related clip, 62 wants the cattle prod shocks to herself and the metal  cage to stop (at one point she clearly shouts \u201cNo daddy!\u201d), but when asked if  she wants to go on, she says \u2018yes,\u2019 probably due to a combination of pressure to  accede and earn the full cash payment, and a need to please PD, which 62 later  admits was futile because it was an impossible goal. The mystery of her  psychosis is the need to find validation from an egotist bent on humiliating her  time and again.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s also a codependency at work among the regulars. 912, who began as a  subscriber, wanted \u201ca relationship\u201d with Insex \/ PD, and she was delighted to  become a model. When she moved behind the scenes and became a producer \/  videographer, she noted a status drop, as the models were always the focus of  PD\u2019s attention, even after she began to yell \u2018cut.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Some of the interview subjects describe the pieces akin to the demented  visions of a serial killer who snatches young girls for prolonged tortures  sessions, and although he does cite serial killer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kidnapping_of_Colleen_Stan\" target=\"window\">Cameron Hooker<\/a> as an interesting figure, it\u2019s never  investigated by the directors whether PD was inspired by serial killer culture,  and whether he feels responsible for blurring the line between erotica, art, and  making torture acceptable when its dramatized as non-consensual, as some of the  clips clearly deal with a snatch &amp; grab, full defilement storylines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic Sexual Horror<\/strong> is filled with opinions from handlers,  models, fans, and videographers involved with Insex until its demise in 2005,  and everyone has their own personal reasons for involving themselves with the  site and PD\u2019s madness. It\u2019s creating living, provocative art; it\u2019s for the cash  that\u2019s better than stripping money; and it\u2019s a venue for theorists to experience  physical concepts and find their own mental and physical limits, as was the case  with model and eventual handler Claire Adams.<\/p>\n<p>For one, Star (aka 101), it provided a distraction from drug binges and  addiction, and she became the first of what PD termed \u2018resident models\u2019 &#8211; a  corruption of creating performance art while in a closed environment not that  distant from the characters in De Sade\u2019s \u201c120 Days of Sodom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first signs of PD\u2019s madness occurred when the troupe packed up and moved  operations to the barn of his isolated farm, and improvised sessions went from  days to <em>weeks<\/em>, with people fearful of speaking up and losing pay, and  getting blackballed in a niche market where they\u2019ve been able to thrive.<\/p>\n<p>PD\u2019s metal worker, KGB, crafted brilliantly horrifying objects, furniture,  water tanks, and torture devices, and it\u2019s doubtful after the extent of his  creations that KGB could leave and create contemporary abstract metal art; his  focus is specific to PD\u2019s scenarios, and they feed off each other&#8217;s extreme  ideas.<\/p>\n<p>By having a resident model, PD and KGB could custom craft devices and  scenarios on the spot, and while Star made \u2018a lot of money,\u2019 it also resulted in  a peculiar love affair between herself and PD. (A somewhat related experience  involved handler Cyd Black, who brought his then-girlfriend, branded Spacegirl,  into the troupe, and his unnerving surprise when she consented to appearing on  camera, and became addicted to PD\u2019s extreme scenarios.)<\/p>\n<p>PD realized his attraction to Star was growing when her drug problems became  severe, and he argued he used the Insex sessions as a means to keep her sober,  whereas her own attraction to the extreme play was to cope with personal demons:  if she could survive the depths PD could achieve within Insex, the addictions  were manageable. The capper to PD\u2019s argument \u2013 earnest or not \u2013 is Star  recalling her parents meeting PD for the first time: PD was apparently close in  age to her parents, and Star quotes them as finding PD \u2018surprisingly  immature.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The mania of Insex \u2013 getting more elaborate, nastier, and PD crossing the  line between consensual and coercive assault \u2013 inevitably had to end, as models  and coworkers in his troupe were working partly out of fear, or a need to  please.<\/p>\n<p>The parallels to De Sade&#8217;s own fetishes aren\u2019t metaphorical: once extract has  a model placed beside what resembles a covered box, and when the black sheet is  removed, it\u2019s another model trussed up onto a fetal position. Capturing her  reaction on camera \u2013 pure shock, as well as a fear of what may lie ahead for  herself \u2013 are part of De Sade\u2019s use of voyeurism and judgmental onlookers, the  fear of grisly intentions, and teasing the reader of what twisted stages a  subordinate will undergo to complete the fulfillment of a tormentor\u2019s ego.<\/p>\n<p>In her brief interview clips, Star\u2019s seemingly shell-shocked eyes and rocking  legs reveal a bruised survivor of drugs, but whether her years as a \u2018resident  model\u2019 with Insex did any good is known only by her.<\/p>\n<p>A more peculiar figure is the model billed as Moonshine, who appears in the  doc\u2019s closing montage. As the camera pans up the tied legs of a model, it  continues upwards, and shows Moonshine in a cage, singing an aria (\u201cAch, Ich  Fuhls\u201d) from Mozart\u2019s \u201cThe Magic Flute.\u201d Besides the weirdness of the moment  (not to mention the eerie poetry of Mozart\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suite101.com\/content\/ach-ich-fhls-101-a18885\" target=\"window\">libretto<\/a> applied to the scene), there\u2019s the odd footnote where  the former music student \/ vegan \/ porn model attempted to mount her own <a href=\"http:\/\/baltimore.indymedia.org\/newswire\/display\/11198\/index.php\" target=\"window\">documentary<\/a> in 2005, vilifying the porn industry, her work at  Insex, and as a model in scat videos.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cHe never hurt a human being that didn\u2019t want to be hurt\u2026 We torture  people who want to be tortured and we pay them, yet we are the criminals\u201d &#8212;  KGB, metal worker<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt\u2019s not porn\u201d &#8212; 912, model<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIs it porn? Fuckin\u2019 A it\u2019s porn\u2026 but I\u2019d like to look at it as art\u201d &#8212;  Barry Goldman, Insex Model Agent<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>When the end came, it wasn\u2019t through court challenges but what PD describes  as an \u201cinsidious\u201d method of coercion. Knowing a court case would be long,  costly, and difficult to succeed, the government convinced credit card companies  to deny service as long as Insex continued to produce extreme material. PD  claims he was shown a document by a bank manager wherein the Department of  Homeland Security used the Patriot Act to cite the potentially dangerous  relationship between terrorists using violent porn to fund their activities, and  as one handler observed, with no means of processing payments via nervous credit  card firms, the website \u2013 any site \u2013 was dead. That forced the closure of Insex,  although PD has apparently resurfaced under a new venture, billed as Hardtied.<\/p>\n<p>PD\u2019s aim to bring Asian-styled bondage into U.S. erotica and porn worked, but  it also fostered the development of a monster in what\u2019s clearly an articulate  connoisseur of erotic performance art with a singular and destructive obsession.  Most porn sites would probably thank him for establishing a system for  interactive porn using live feeds \u2013 this during the age of dial-up modems and  smaller bandwidth capabilities \u2013 but his no-holds barred approach probably left  rival sites less wiggle room to differentiate themselves today.<\/p>\n<p>As for the validity of PD\u2019s work, that\u2019s strictly subjective, and will  probably engender claims of exploitation, sadism, rape, and misogyny akin to the  arguments wielded by ant-pornography advocates. But if bondage imagery in Japan  is a venue to feed the needs of certain repressed personalities, then Insex  succeeded in uncovering a sexual rage in America, whose population has been  restricted from adult themes in mainstream films branded with the poisonous  NC-17 rating, but are regularly exposed to a hybrid of sexual extremes within  the torture porn genre from studios.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic Sexual Horror<\/strong> should cause one to ask whether  extreme consensual indulgences are worse than watching detailed Dolby Digital  5.1 dramatizations of pretty young men and women being forcibly tortured and  butchered with hardware implements; a man tearing himself away from rings  embedded in his jaws, arms, and legs before a bomb detonates; watching \u00a0a women  be repeatedly raped before she turns the table and fires a shotgun through a  man\u2019s arse, and later uses fishhooks to pry eyelids open on another man for  birds to feed on a pair of eyeballs; or a woman already traumatized by torture  who\u2019s beaten repeatedly before she\u2019s skinned alive ever so slowly to reach a  perverted plane of pain, ecstasy, and spiritual awakening \u2013 events depicted in  the horror films <strong>Hostel 1 <\/strong>and<strong> 2 <\/strong>, <strong>Saw 3<\/strong> (2006),<strong> I Spit on Your Grave<\/strong> (2010), and  <strong>Martyrs<\/strong> (2008).<\/p>\n<p>Insex required a credit card and adult age declaration with a mouse click,  whereas those films are obtainable on commercially pressed DVDs with an easy  cash payment.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, neither is particular pretty, but they cater to specific  connoisseurs and niche markets whose proponents and practitioners deem them to  be forms of pop culture art.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Extras<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Synapse\u2019s DVD includes a selection of deleted scenes that offer slightly more  info on the models. Strolling in a farmer\u2019s grazing field with cows, model 62  confirms to an off-camera PD that her \u2018special skill\u2019 is to \u201cmake milk,\u201d whereas  another (Molly, who no longer appears in the documentary) is seen in extracts  from a piece in which her c-clamped toes and restrained feet are pierced with  needles, singed with cigarettes, and flicked with elastic bands &#8211; all  underscored by screams distorting the audio track. Molly then answers a  subscriber\u2019s question of the experience, and she explains tearfully her relief  in having her misunderstood foot torture fantasy finally fulfilled.<\/p>\n<p>The last two scenes are the original pre-End Credit montage that contains  material too intense for censors (leeches, milking, BBQ\u2019ing) and was replaced  with stills from alternate scenes; and a brief and rather meandering SUV ride  with PD driving around his property, punctuated by a statement regarding being  satisfied with working in the splendid isolation of his farm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore from the Models\u201d contains alternate and unused interview clips that  would\u2019ve opened up the doc a bit, with more personal recollections of entering  the Insex community, views on PD, regarding the Insex experience as a sign of  toughness, and the subscribers who sought support amongst themselves in message  boards when the site was shut down. \u201cBarb\u2019s Model Montage\u201d is more like an  outtake reel, whereas Lorelei\u2019s recollections of her first pieces (including a  \u2018turkey shoot\u2019) may have been part of a longer edit that played in film  festivals (like Toronto\u2019s Hot Docs in 2009), because in early reviews there were  references to material no longer in the final cut, such as the models heading  into the small town diner for a meal while still in their fetish gear.<\/p>\n<p>The missing figure among the doc\u2019s makers is co-director Anna Lorentzon,  although Barbara Bell provides a bit of background info in her own Q&amp;A  segment. Bell\u2019s own entry into Insex&#8217; production team began when she was hired  by PD to write and shoot a screenplay with Lorentzon, already employed by the  site. Bell\u2019s background included the novel <a href=\"http:\/\/barbarabell.com\/stacking.htm\" target=\"window\">Stacking in  Rivertown<\/a>, which contained risqu\u00e9 material, and made her ideal for the site.  Her brief Q&amp;A mostly addresses the film\u2019s content, her surprise of the  overall positive response from critics, and a dissection of the aforementioned  slap that created a creative impasse and battle for authority between S4 and PD.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 2011 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><em>Related external links (MAIN SITE):<\/em><\/p>\n<p>DVD \/ Film: \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqek.com\/dvd_reviews\/s\/3178_Saw3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Saw 3<\/a> <\/strong>(2006)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>External References<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1326224\/\">IMDB <\/a>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Insex\">Wikipedia Entry<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/redirectingat.com\/?id=4343X644758&amp;xs=1&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fgraphicsexualhorror.com%2F&amp;sref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.suite101.com%2Fcontent%2Fgraphic-sexual-horror-at-hotdocs-a116145\">Official Film Site<\/a> &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/article\/630274\">Directors Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Buy from:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon.com<\/strong> \u2013 <a id=\"static_txt_preview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003PNKM5W?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kqco06-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=211189&amp;creative=373489&amp;creativeASIN=B003PNKM5W\">Graphic Sexual Horror (Special Edition)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon.ca<\/strong> &#8211; <a id=\"static_txt_preview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/gp\/product\/B003PNKM5W?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=kqco-20&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=212553&amp;creative=381305&amp;creativeASIN=B003PNKM5W\">Graphic Sexual Horror (Special Edition)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><em><em><strong>Return to<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\">Home <\/a>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=6\">Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews<\/a> <\/em><\/em><\/em>\/\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kqek.com\/mobile\/?page_id=619\">G<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to: Home \/\u00a0Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews \/ G . Film: Very Good \/ DVD Transfer: Excellent\/ DVD Extras: Very Good Label: Synapse Films \/ Region: 0 (NTSC) \/\u00a0Released:\u00a0August 31, 2010 Genre: Documentary \/ Sex Synopsis: Documentary on the notorious bondage &amp; S&amp;M website Insex, and its meteoric popularity and sudden closure in 2005. 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