Torched

Plot synopsis:
While heading out to work, university hospital nurse Deanna is tased and raped in her apartment elevator by a hooded man wearing a surgical mask and medical gloves. The next day, the traumatized Deanna subdues a burglar who breaks into her apartment using the rapist's abandoned stun gun. Deanna, convinced the intruder is the same man who raped her, ties the burglar up, strips him down to nothing but his underwear and balaclava, and takes some of his blood. At work, Deanna steals urine samples, makes plans to go out with a friend and co-worker named Leanna on Thursday, and asks her boss, Doctor Tyson, to compare the burglar's blood to a swab of semen she had collected after being raped. Deanna tells Doctor Tyson that a friend was raped, and that the blood belongs to her ex-boyfriend, who she suspects was her assailant. Back at home, Deanna tortures the burglar by covering him in the urine samples, burning him with a blow torch, and jabbing him with syringes.
When Thursday arrives, Deanna goes out to a nightclub with Leanne, and hours later returns to her building severely intoxicated. While stumbling up to her apartment, Deanna bumps into a neighbor and acquaintance named Trevor, who she seduces and has sex with. A relationship develops between the two, as Deanna becomes further unhinged, and begins suffering from nightmares. She also continues to torture the burglar, dressing in fetish-wear attire for the occasions, and attaining an almost sexual gratification from the man's suffering. One day, Deanna gives the burglar a handjob, and afterward destroys his genitals with needles and the blow torch.
A week after castrating the burglar, Deanna hires a gigolo drug addict to sodomize him. While the addict has his way with the burglar, Deanna leaves and goes to Trevor's apartment. There, Deanna discovers circumstancial evidence indicating Trevor was her rapist, walks in on Trevor and Leanne having sex, and attacks them with a circular saw that was among Trevor's carpentry tools. Deanna beheads Leanne with the saw, and bashes Trevor's face in with it. Returning to her apartment, Deanna murders the gigolo by stabbing him in the neck with a knife after he reveals the burglar had died at some point during the rape. Deanna then goes to the hospital in search of Doctor Tyson, spotting him seated in his parked car, dressed like her rapist and surrounded by sadistic pornography and stun guns identical to the one she was attacked with. When Doctor Tyson tries to pull her into the car, Deanna jams a cigarette lighter into one of his eyes, and knocks him out with one of the stun guns. Having finally found her rapist, Deanna abducts Doctor Tyson, and the film ends as she prepares to torture him.

Tags: dark, cruelty, murder, violence, insanity, revenge, sadist

Review:
Short and sweet tale of rape and revenge.
Torched doesn't reach feature length at only 44 minutes, but it's 44 minutes well spent if you like this kind of thing as director Ryan Nicholson starts the film off nasty, and manages to carry this on throughout.
Right at the start, we witness a nurse being raped and from there she decides it's time for revenge, as someone else tries to attack her, but she manages to get the better of him with a stun gun - and then the fun starts!
The film takes obvious influence from the classic seventies crop of 'rape and revenge' films, such as I Spit on Your Grave.
The film also takes influence from this new wave of modern day Video Nasties, which includes films such as Murder-Set-Pieces and August Underground.
Nicholson gives the film a hard rock score, which works rather well when it's put against a backdrop of grisly and vile torture.
There isn't very much of this film, and what there is of it is unlikely to make anyone want to stand up and applaud; but Torched is a more than decent way to spend three quarters of an hour for fans of sick and twisted horror movies..
What happens here after a girl gets raped in an elevator (actually not very extreme) is gonna be pretty gruesome for some.
The movie also contains the best fake penis I've ever seen on screen (not that I spend my time looking for fake penises of course), and said penis is wholeheartedly attacked with syringes and a blow torch.
Hmm...nice (ouch!).There's no doubt that rape is a horrible thing for any woman (or man - there's a bit of that in here too) to endure, but its obviously just been set up here so the makers could have an excuse to offer what comes after.
Yep, its a pretty nasty affair, but as with most of these kind of movies I spent the time laughing out loud at its madness.The acting by the girl who plays the main character is actually not bad for a flick like this.
Usually the acting is terrible in these kind of films.
I do enjoy a good gory horror show as Hollywood just cant make anything worth a shock at all any more so you really gotta go to the independent scene to find real "horror".The film is quite short at around 45 minutes and its probably enough, even gore gets boring after some time.
This 44 minute film is quite the nasty piece of filth.It starts with a woman getting raped and then soon after someone breaks into her home and attempts to rape her again.She awakens and manages to stop the attack before it begins and,believing her masked assailant to be her rapist from 5 minutes earlier in the film,she knocks him out with a stun-gun and sets about keeping him as her torture slave for the rest of the 30 minute running time,burning his bare testicles with a blow torch,sticking syringes in his penis and other horrid punishment!"Torched" was actually made by Ryan Nicholson,one of the FX guys on the grim "August Underground" series.The film is obviously inspired by "I Spit on Your Grave" and Abel Ferrara's wonderful "Ms.45".It's competently acted and the violence is extremely disturbing.The score by Necrophagia,Macabre and Necro is awesome and perfectly captures the nihilistic feeling of the film."Torched" is even better than "August Underground's Mordum",but you'll need an iron stomach to watch it.8 out of 10..
Very Decent Low-Budget Rape/Revenge Offering.
All I had heard about this film was that director Ryan Nicholson was involved with AUGUST UNDERGROUND'S MORDUM, and about the infamous "nut toasting" scene.
I have to admit, I was pleasantly surprised by the execution (no pun...) of this film.TORCHED is about a woman who is raped leaving her apartment building.
She restrains him and spends a week torturing him in some pretty brutal fashions (including some of the aforementioned blow-torch fun, and some pretty twisted penile-needle torture...).TORCHED is actually a pretty strong film in all respects.
The acting is above par for a film in this budget range, the story is decent and has a couple of twists, and the gore FX are pretty top-notch.
I personally dig the rape/revenge genre as a whole, and TORCHED is another good entry.
Torched, a 45 minute shocker from indie director Ryan Nicholson, is a brutal rape revenge tale that goes straight for the jugular, assaulting the senses with a non-stop barrage of horrific imagery which is definitely not for those of a nervous disposition.
From the opening savage sexual assault to the movie's blood-drenched climax, Torched will sear itself into your memory.Far from being the poorly acted and amateurish production I was expecting, this confidently directed and well acted piece of extreme movie-making was a pleasant surprise (well, maybe not pleasant, but it was far better than I thought it would be!).
The cast are great and the whole production is well put together, with a cool metal soundtrack and some pretty impressive (and nauseating) special effects.Michelle Boback plays Deanna, a pretty nurse who is raped by a masked attacker outside her home.
Believing the man she now has tied up in her flat to be her rapist, she begins to torture him in a manner of particularly nasty ways.This film certainly knows how to pack a punch, with graphic scenes of mutilation and a particularly mean-spirited moment where Deanna employs a junkie to help her with her revenge!
After a lot more violence (including a juicy power-saw beheading), the film ends well, with a pretty good twist.Torched sets out to shock, and shock it does.
After a woman gets raped she seeks for revenge against her rapist.
When a guy breaks into her apartment thinking he is the same who rape her she imprisons him and this is where the party begins..
Someway in her path of revenge her mind gets totally twisted and things start to get really nasty.
This film disposes some great deal of gore scenes.
The soundtrack is total representative of the scenes the film provides.
Despite its small length 44 minutes it has everything someone would expect to see from this kind of film, even more...!
Heading into Ryan Nicholson's Torched, I was aware that it was a short flick, some of my horror pals enjoyed it, and that there's some cool torture scenes.
It was short, there were some cool torture scenes, but I wouldn't say I enjoyed it as much as the other reviewers on here.Story is about a chick that gets raped.
What follows is a slightly above average revenge tale with some pretty awesome make-up and blood fx.I understand how people are saying for this type of movie (low-budget indy horror) the acting was much better than average.
Her co-worker chick was pathetically average, the apartment dude and the doctor were probably the best actors in this movie.
It was nothing incredibly shocking, but I guess it was kind of unique.Even though I've dissed this movie some, Torched is definitely a flick any self-respecting hardcore horror fan should check out.
I'm not saying I'll be recommending it, unless someone asks me for an extreme movie with a short running time.
But it's an extreme, gritty, low-budget independent horror flick that will appeal to a lot of horror fans.
The movie suffered some torture.
It was one of the first sleazefests of Ryan and his Plotdigger theme but somehow things went terrible wrong.
It was never edited and some workprint or a finale copy was released without the clearance of Ryan himself.
Ryan did his best to withdraw the release but failed.
Ryan was fed up and stated to re-release HHNF as it should have been, he re-edited the flick and put a new score on it.
Still you can see that it is a low budget flick.
Just like Run Bitch Run one of the better rape/revenge ones this year..
Torched is a interesting little short film that is so brutal that will probably make you hide your family jewels deep somewhere and wellcan we talk about the plot holes?
Maybe not,Deanna a nurse who works at night you read what I just typed,who works at night as a nurse who walks out of her apartment in the day,yes she picked the wrong day to go out,when she approaches outside a masked man throws her back in and proceeds to rape her,traumatized and shaken after,she runs back to her apartment and goes to sleep.
The next night Masked man walks in and tries to rape her but (oh yes!)Deanna has a taser and takes him down This film was directed by Ryan Nicholson who worked in the August Underground sequel,this film isn't the least misogynistic as the awful I Spit On Your Grave but she does take the law or blowtorch for that matter,in her hands but she does do the brutal revenge very violently,Deanna a nice pretty woman who could've had been doing well in her life loses her mind and by a nice thoughtful twist but all is finally explained in an appropriately a lot of series of climaxes, which left me thinking how 1.Does anyone else besides her and Trevor live in the apartment building,since the captor screams loud enough that could've made a neighbor complain about it or 2.
if she captured the assailant how did she managed to get a taser since she stayed in her apartment even the day before she was raped (3.)Why leave the door open or leave criminating evidence around (4.) have sex with the woman's friend since you already had sex with her.
But anyways I kinda have more questions but besides that we can still see Deanna descend into madness and maim,toast nuts(pun totally intended) and decapitate because we got to know her at inopportune time,poor girl she needs someone to love..
Unlike the kind person who posted before me, I found this to be an most interesting short.Forget how bad you think the acting is, the script and/or the plot.
A young nurse is brutally raped and she gets revenge but at a huge cost.
OK, I never captured a rapist and tortured him to death but that doesn't mean I didn't want to.
Torched starts one evening as a young woman named Deanna (Michelle Boback) leaves her city apartment to go to work, before Deanna is able to leave the elevator though a masked man overpowers Deanna & brutally rapes her.
Deanna is devastated but doesn't phone the police & goes to work as normal, the next evening Deanna wakes up in her apartment to find a masked intruder on top of her raping her.
Deanna manages to overpower him & takes great delight in torturing him over the next few days, however it seems that the first & second rapist are not the same people & in a quest revenge Deanna sets out to find the identity of the first attacker using a DNA swab & is shocked to learn who it is...This Canadian production was directed by Ryan Nicholson & is a fairly sleazy yet straight forward tale of rape & revenge in the style of MS.
45 (1981) as the main lead is raped twice, once outside & once in her apartment & I Spit on Your Grave (1978) with the general theme of a woman gaining strength from adversity & setting out to wreck bloody revenge on those who raped her.
Obviously nowhere near as good as those two classic rape revenge flicks Torched offers up a few painful looking but brief torture scenes, some crude gore effects & a plot where all the men are cheating rapist scumbags & the women are evil two-timers which is simply not the case in reality & it's a really depressing view of society actually that makes it very hard to like Torched.
There's obviously no feel good factor here but there's no message or personal journey for any of the character's either, this is really just 40 odd minutes of rape, sex & torture which may in itself be a recommendation for some but I was pretty bored watching it & the double twist ending is very predictable, I don't want to boast but I actually figured it out within fifteen minutes.Apparently filmed in 2004 it was edited into the anthology horror film Hell Hath No Fury (2006) before it was edited into a single short & released in 2010.
Besides not being a particularly strong entry in the rape revenge sub-genre Torched is horrible to watch from a technical point of view, the makes go for that twitching camera look where the damned thing never stops jerking around for no good reason & the soundtrack of hip-hop & rock is awful, I actually turned the volume down & muted it on a few occasions just because the music was so bad & annoying.
There's a some gore here, a woman has her head cut off with a saw, a guy's head is bashed in, a rapist has hypodermic syringes stuck into his penis & body & has the skin on his leg, penis & balls burnt with a blow torch.
The rape scenes are fairly tame actually, they certainly aren't as full blown or as long as those seen in I Spit on Your Grave for instance.Going direct to video Torched was shot in Vancouver in Canada, the whole thing looks as cheap & rough as any film you are likely to see with none existent production values although some of the special effects are decent enough for a low budget indie film such as this.
The acting is dire, the pathetic screams from people as they are supposedly in great pain are embarrassing (why didn't Deanna's neighbours call the police when they heard all the screams coming from her apartment?), no-one seems to resist any attack or behave in a way that i found believable.Torched is a soulless & pretty meaningless showcase for some crude gore effects & torture scenes, at just over 40 minutes at least it's short but there's nothing here of any substance or depth & save for those torture scenes you won't remember a thing about it once it's finished..
The revenge classic 'Ms.45' meets The Video Nasty Slasher 'Don't Go in the House'.
A revenge horror exploitation film from 2004 from Ryan Nicholson the mad man behind 'Hanger' which wasn't that good and 'Gutterballs' which is awesome and tonight's movie is 'Torched'Deanna, a young, pretty and upwardly mobile nurse is about to face the most difficult challenge of her life...Deciding whether five men should live or die.
In a moment which would change her life forever, Deanna is brutally raped, but the pain she suffered is nothing compared to that which her five suspects are about to endure.
One by one, Deanna avenges her rape.
It's a revenge film like in 'Ms.45' where our heroine doesn't care if the guy did it or not she wants him to pay.
And Its a Ryan Nicholson film, his films are always memorable.
also I heard that there is a scene that involves a blow torch and a guys testicles.Torched is definitely better than Hanger, But not Gutterballs honestly I don't think any film from Ryan Nicholson could beat 'Gutterballs'.
But this one does a good job with the revenge part because in 'Gutterballs' you don't realize that it is a revenge film till the end this one is revenge and torture from the first ten minutes till the end real torture talking about human dartboard, melting skin off with a blow torch, etc it really comes together nicely as a revenge film package.
The music is pretty good along with the effects much like any film from Nicholson.On the gore meter from one to ten One being something like 'The Corpse Grinders' and Ten being something like 'Braindead'.
'Torched' is a 5.5 pretty gory especially in the last half and in the final scene.
Really good revenge slasher worth a watch if you're interested 4/5.
Shocking rape revenge movie.
Torched is 45 minutes of pure exploitation, skocking stuff, gore and revenge.
A woman who works in a hospital is raped at the beginning of the movie, and off course, she gets traumatized.
So she started to torture him, day by day, increasing the brutality of the tortures(includes some penis torture that its hard to stand for a man) Then the violence and revenge rampage continues...the chick is out of control and she is now a torture machine!
A very cool movie for fans of exploitation and gore.
I usually consider myself a hardened horror movie veteran.
Nothing in horror movies ever seems to both me.
I've seen all the "extreme" horror movies i.e; A Serbian Film,Re-gorgitated Sacrifice but torched is the only one that really bothered me.
My main problem with the film is the dialogue and the acting.
All and all its not terrible if your a fan of extreme horror movies or just a fan of Ryan Nicholson's movies then you should like it.
Michelle Boback's performance in Torched was by all means a visual account of what many women wish they could do their rapists and abusers.
I could totally related to her character - doing the unthinkable to a rapist and abuser is much less a pipe dream to many women who have lived through such circumstances I am sure.Michelle Boback is convincing a the role of Nurse/Victim and Villain and the effects were all together not that bad considering this is a film that was obviously made on a smaller budget.
Michelle Boback is a talent that I would love to see in horror, gore, suspense or whatever.
Another Film that may compare to Torched is a film I recently watched called MAY - I am not sure who is in it but it is suspenseful and leaves you with the same creepy, disturbed feeling.