Monday, July 21, 2014

Whirlpool (1970)


Cinemation Industries
Directed by José Ramón Larraz
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
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Aspiring model Vivien Neves is lured to a remote English mansion by a friendly middle aged woman. She lives there wither her much younger "nephew", a photographer. They conspire to seduce her with a combination of alcohol and drugs during a game of strip poker. Later, he takes her for a drive in the woods where he photographs a friend's attempted rape of the girl. Meanwhile, a man is searching for his daughter who disappeared at the same house. The girl stumbles on some old photographs and makes a last desperate attempt to escape. Stylish thriller has some good moments, but overemphasizes the sex and nudity which brings the pace to crawl at times. Neves was a real life fashion model who notoriously posed nude in the London Times in the early 70s.

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