The Hornet's Sting and the Hell It's Caused (2014)

 

Spoiler alert, I hated this shit.  But I don't know, maybe you'll like it.  There's lots of nudity.  So, it's got that going for it... in a way.  Let's have a look.

The film begins with a series of girls being shot.  It's all viewed through a camera lens.

A disturbing beginning.  Moving right along.

Freya (Joni Durian) invites photographer Rose (Minnie Grey) into her apartment. 

After ten minutes of brain numbing banter, Freya is drugged.

Freya wakes up in the attic of a farm house.

Turns out, Rose takes snuff pictures to sell on the black market.

She tells Freya to undress.

Then she pulls out a hypodermic needle and injects Freya.  

Freya is knocked out, and Rose rolls her over.

Rose positions Freya in various poses for the camera.

Rose puts on a mask.

She sits down in front of Freya.

There's some artsy visuals - perhaps indicating Rose's psychosis or perhaps just drug use.  I don't know, and don't care.

Freya is briefly in this trippy world.  And by 'trippy' I just mean a filter effect which makes leaves pink.

Freya is further degraded as she's photographed on the toilet.

The humiliation continues.

In the end, Freya is able to kill Rose.

We see Freya take the "Client List" notebook, presumably to have revenge on them. THE END

CHARACTERS

Freya (Joni Durian)
Rose (Minnie Grey)

RATING: ★★☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆ 2/10

REVIEW: Well shucks, that was terrible.  It might sound like this was a short film (as it's sometimes listed as), but this damn thing was about an hour.  Yes, it took a fucking hour for almost nothing to happen. I appreciate Joni Durian's constant nudity, but it's a small consolation prize for having to weather through this.  It's not that this was too disturbing.  It wasn't. God knows we've watched a whole lot worse on VZ1.  It's just the limp way it's presented, often in a pretentious, 'aren't I ever so shocking' manner. Nothing about this is good; it's got an extra star just for Joni Durian's omnipresent FFN, and that's it.