Oh, how the mighty have fallen? Or, look who's been put in her place, finally? The movie then makes a belated attempt to show the silly efforts to find this poor woman, who has disappeared off the face of the earth, and is probably dead in a ditch somewhere - as far as they know. Whirry does, eventually, drink water from the toilet, while clips from her feminist speech are played. Nor is there ANY attempt to make it seem like she doesn't want to have sex with this sociopath. The movie suggests she did this to gain the upper hand so that she can try to escape, but it certainly doesn't seem that way. Though WHY she would want to have sex with the man who abducted her is a question you probably shouldn't ponder. This is not a spoiler - it's a softcore flick.
Why doesn't she just break the windows to escape? How stupid were the filmmakers, that they didn't choose a room without windows to set the movie in? And then Whirry strips for her captor, and they have sex. Shannon, supposedly imprisoned in a hermetically sealed room, is actually in a room with windows. Yes, that's right: another stage in her humiliation is introduced. The captor turns off Whirry's water, so guess what? She considers drinking from the toilet. She might have been able to get her head through it. And get this: we see the hole in the door later, and it is clearly much too small for her to ever have gotten through even only half way. As if the situation wasn't humiliating enough. To help Whirry back through the doggy door, the kidnapper gets a tub of butter to grease her up with, devoting particular attention to her breasts, which he has bared by ripping her nightshirt off. But she doesn't abduct anyone, nor hold them captive in a private dungeon. Um, sure, Whirry swears a lot in this movie. It feels like the movie believes that Whirry's feminism - inextricably linked to her foul mouth - was aberrant behaviour, and that this obsessive criminal sociopath is doing her a favour by taking her under his wing - and into his sex dungeon - and teaching HER the proper way to behave.
Whirry is introduced as a "feminist", which seems to entail her complaining about men, and is then put in her place by a man, in one scene trying to escape her cell by crawling through the doggy door. Apparently, some of director Lee Frost's past films had a misogynist tone, and he certainly shows that here. The movie makes HER seem like the bad guy! Not, you know, the guy who ABDUCTED this young woman, and now wants to HOLD HER AGAINST HER WILL. In reality, wouldn't she worry that she might be murdered, or forced to stay in captivity for years? Instead she curses her captor like a spoilt tourist in a French restaurant. The movie also doesn't play like this situation is all that unusual. But when she gets abducted, she doesn't even seem worried about the situation. At first I thought that Whirry's acting wasn't as bad in this one as it has been in other movies. She is abducted by an obsessed fan who also appears to be a surveillance hobbyist, whose equipment must have cost a fortune in 1995. Again, she plays a woman who has sex on camera with a man watching, but in this case it is against her will.
In this one, Whirry plays a world famous fashion model who is also a famous feminist. No, this is by Lee Frost, who was a grindhouse stalwart in the sixties and seventies. At least it wasn't directed by Gregory Dark, whose movies I was getting a bit tired of.
"Private Obsession" is another direct to video erotic thriller starring the queen of such things, Shannon Whirry.