Deep Web XXX is an ensemble horror film that, as the title suggests, draws from the vast hidden world of the virtual underground, sketching some of its illegal content and focusing on the sexual sphere. On this basis, the film emulates, without censorship, disturbing material while embracing its complete lack of morality. Deep Web XXX is therefore exactly this: an aberrant spectacle of ignoble and disturbing acts. These themes are skillfully explored by the directors of the segments that make up this extreme horror anthology. We also take this opportunity to announce that Deep Web XXX will have its world premiere at the Sadique Master Festival in mid-March.
Written and directed by Domiziano Cristopharo, the frame episode titled Acid features a man (Mark Thompson Ashworth) who, after a few moments of reluctance, logs onto a site (queenofhearts.com) on the Deep Web to view seven atrocious extreme videos for a fee.
The seven films are thus as follows:
Queens, No Hearts By Martyna Madej. A group of women attend a private party where, after dancing together with two transvestites, they enjoy gorging and teasing an overweight man. The situation escalates when the Mistress troop gets into a sexual romp.
In Queens, No Hearts we focus on the denigration of the male figure through various forms of paraphilias such as sadism, masochism and bondage but also pissing and much more. Featuring reddish photography, the segment offers a dense bouquet of depravity (with some explicit moments) and humiliation. Despite this, it does not come across as powerful enough to shock the viewer; nevertheless, it remains imprinted.
In the cast: Alisha Payer, Charlie Coleman, Chris Mills, Emily Paiest, Emma Victoria, Helena De Castro, Jessica Hunt, Jocie Jovita, Mark White, Martin W. Payne, Martyna Madey, Regina Phalange, Robbie Hampstead, Jankauskaite, and Sarah Courtnage.
Exposure is written and directed by Jason Impey. In the second episode, a girl is forced to endure physical and psychological abuse from her tormentor, who beats her and threatens her with bladed weapons.
Exposure is the weakest segment of the anthology and the least convincing. The performance of the depraved character is also unconvincing, as he does nothing but roughly drag his victim back and forth. The segment also lacks explicit actions (such as the cutting moments). Exposure conveys no real sense of discomfort and focuses solely on displaying the actress’s body. Boring.
The cast includes Kaz B. and Alan Smithee.
Il terzo episodio apre un vero e proprio varco in un'asfissiante condizione di malessere. Diretto da Domiziano Cristopharo, Cruising offre un assaggio dell'meeting between homosexuals who, wearing bondage costumes, establish intimacy with each other. The documentary cut, the gloomy location and the cold color of the cinematography, as well as the choice to explicitly show the audience nudity and certain sexual acts without taboos (including some extreme S&M practices), give this episode the power to engage and transport the viewer to a hidden world where pain, pleasure and death reign. Impressive, among others, is the final sequence (practical effects are by Athanasius Pernath). Very real and extreme, Cruising is an excellent example of what might be found in the hidden web.
The cast includes Simone Avincola, Ray Cross, Luigi Solimena, Paolo Maccari, Giorgio Agri, Francesco Giannotti, Joy Gen and Marcello Albanesi.
In Eucharist, a nun indulges in a moment of autoeroticism in front of a crucifix and then reaches out to the body of a woman crucified and elevated as a goddess of pleasure.
Directed by Elisa Carrera Fumagalli, Eucharist probes the terrain of religion by flooding it with blasphemy. The delicate act of the woman disguised as a nun results in one of the most aberrant sexual deviations namely necrophilia, a perversion framed sweetly in an outrageous lesbian skit.
Paola Fiorido and Martina Oggianu are part of the cast.
Written and directed by Sam Mason Bell, Test 424 is the only segment that abandons the path of sexual pleasure to focus on the emulation of an experiment on living beings. Three girls are filmed while ingesting a substance. Someone will take note of the effects that the liquid will have on the three test subjects.
Test 424 is an unusual episode and precisely for this reason it is surprising. Credit goes to its documentary-style approach, which gives it a flawless laboratory atmosphere in which the three protagonists perfectly portray test subjects for experimentation. Test 424 manages to create a strong sense of unease and remains memorable.
The cast includes Alice Mullholland, Suzy Weatherall and Rebecca Clears. Speaker: Alex Mott.
Feed Me More by Davide Pesca deals with another paraphilia: feederism, the sexual arousal that arises from eating (or gaining weight) or from feeding someone else. The protagonists of this segment are two feeders with their faces covered who stuff a compliant girl with food.
Obviously, the two feeders will not limit themselves to simply feeding their victim. Their goal is not to make her gain weight but to derive pleasure in other ways. Like Cruising and Test, Feed Me More is also a powerful episode, capable of creating a sense of discomfort (clearly a merit) in the viewer.
As always, Davide Pesca’s practical effects are well executed.
Cast: Pati Douce, Elisa Carrera Fumagalli, Catlin Strange, and Francesco Foletto.
Directed by Emanuele Marchetto, Stalker is the last video watched by the protagonist of the wraparound episode. Stalker is certainly the most brutal, sick, and extreme segment of the anthology and, in some respects, recalls A Perfect Child of Satan by Lucifer Valentine and also, to some extent, Maniac by William Lustig.
The segment even includes a hint of necrophilia. The practical effects in the final scene are well executed.
A maniac re-watches the recording in which he captured the girl toward whom he had developed a deep obsession.
The cast of Stalker includes Steven Swadda and Valerie von Otto. The screenplay is by Emanuele Marchetto.
The wraparound episode that frames the entire anthology concludes with an unexpected action, enhanced by effective special effects (by Alessandro Basso).
Cast of Acid: Mark Thompson Ashworth and Alessandro Basso.
Deep Web XXX is produced by Tony Newton's "Vestra Pictures" and Domiziano Cristopharo's "The Enchanted Architect" in collaboration with "Trash Arts."
