- Director: Adam Rehmeier
- Writers: Rodleen Getsic, Adam Rehmeier
- Stars: Rodleen Getsic, Jeff F. Renfro, Drettie Page
- Runtime: 1 Hour, 16 Minutes
- Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/2CXmWtE
The Bunny Game (2010) Review
Synopsis
This is black and white, so you know it’s seriously gritty. We start off with some scenes of rough sex and prostitution. Bunny is a prostitute, and she seems to get all the roughest clients. She takes their drugs and booze and abuse and money, but she cries afterwards, so we know she doesn’t enjoy it. We also quickly get the impression that she’s strung out on drugs most of the time, but I think we’re supposed to sympathize with her.
One afternoon, she’s hung over out in a parking lot, and a guy in a semi truck stops and asks if she has any drugs he can buy. They both take some, and she offers him a thirty-dollar blowjob. He attacks her and puts her out with chloroform or something similar.
The truck driver kinda freaks out and pulls over to colelct his wits. We get the impression this is his first kidnapping; he’s obviously planned and prepared for this, but he’s nervous on his first time. Eventually, he takes her into the back of his trailer and plays with her unconscious body for about fifteen long minutes. I can’t say I’m an expert, but I doubt chloroform would knock anyone out this hard to allow them to sleep through the stuff he does.
Eventually, Bunny wakes up, and the screaming starts. She’s chained to the wall inside the back of his truck. We get flashbacks to other girls he’s done this to; this isn’t his first time. There’s a lot of disjointed flashbacks to him torturing girls we don’t know. One of the first things he does with a new victim is shave them bald, as he does with Bunny. He also brands them and suffocates them.
Eventually, he puts Bunny in a bunny costume, and they play the “Bunny Game.” The trucker wears a leather hog mask and chases her around the desert. This goes on for most of the remainder of the film, alternating with flashes of torture that are so fast you can’t make sense of what’s really going on.
Commentary
Supposedly, everything in this film was real except the drugs. I’m a little skeptical of this claim, especially with the sloppy branding. We’ve all seen movies that are cautionary tales about drugs and prostitution, and of course, Bunny is a prostitute, but the situation she finds herself in here really doesn’t have much to do with her being a prostitute; she just ran into the wrong guy, who turns out to be a kidnapper.
The plot is somewhat similar to Grotesque that we reviewed a couple of weeks back, but that was much more entertaining, since it was shot in the style of a horror movie with humor and gore and was at least intended to be entertaining. This seemed like it was just one shocking assault after another with lots of hitting and screaming mixed in. The black and white film just made it all seem that much more real, which took any fun that might have been there and drained it away.
This film is just nasty.