Janie (Sarah Hagan, Millie from Freaks and Geeks) isn’t sure of her past. Did she have a traumatic incident? Were her parents something out of a fairy tale? Why have they left her in the care of the brutal Irma (Barbara Crampton), who keeps her on a strict diet and treats her as if she were a prisoner? Why does Irma use a tuning fork on her? And just what is wrong with Janie, who has regular seizures and violent outbursts?

Perhaps Irma was right to treat Janie this way after we see how she stalks Savannah (Sara Malakul Lane) and her boyfriend Connor (Riley Litman). That may be true when Janie snarls that she’s just the housekeeper. But Irma promised Janie’s mother in death that she would take care of her, and Janie’s father is gone. So she remains in this stark home, making her nutrition shakes, doing yoga with he,r and even putting her into a shock collar to keep her from leaving the house.

Except that Janie learns to love the pain and overcomes it.

Soon, she’s using the same abusive treatment on Savannah — spoiler warning: after bashing her lover’s brains in a mid-sex act — and forcing her to wear the shock collar. Directed and written by Ben Cresciman, this seems like an art film, yet it has the exploitation that makes it seem like a film that would play at a less reputable movie theater. Barbara Crampton is always the best part of this, but Hagan is also immensely talented.

I can see why some people reviewed this and hated it; it’s slow-moving, it’s confrontational in its gore, and it has a lesbian lead who is going mental for the entire running time and her obsession with a woman is presented as another part of her mental illness. But hey, I got this from Gregory Joseph’s Movies Jean Rollin and Jess Franco Might Like, If They Were Still Alive Letterboxd list, which fits right into their movies.

You can watch this on Tubi.