"A Perfect Life" is thoroughly revolting and unpleasant due to the excessive violence.
The film is set in a large warehouse that has been transformed into a set of torture chambers. A crazed lover (Rachel) lures a man (Andy) with whom she has been having an affair to the warehouse, then prepares to torture both him and his wife.
It was not clear until late in the film how the nut case Rachel was able to get the wife (Helen) to agree to come to the warehouse. But once she has her two victims caught in her spider's web, the Marquise de Sade moves into action with her gruesome torture scheme.
Rachel has some talent when it comes to the design of her electric, mechanical, and medical torture devices. The warehouse has been rigged with a special lie detector machine that is tied to a set of spikes that will come down on poor Andy if he tells too many lies. Similarly, Helen has been placed in her private chamber, which will blow up in a gas explosion if a special device is triggered...by Andy.
It is difficult imagine a more grotesque example of a "romantic thriller" than this dimly lit and lurid exercise in film violence.
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The film is set in a large warehouse that has been transformed into a set of torture chambers. A crazed lover (Rachel) lures a man (Andy) with whom she has been having an affair to the warehouse, then prepares to torture both him and his wife.
It was not clear until late in the film how the nut case Rachel was able to get the wife (Helen) to agree to come to the warehouse. But once she has her two victims caught in her spider's web, the Marquise de Sade moves into action with her gruesome torture scheme.
Rachel has some talent when it comes to the design of her electric, mechanical, and medical torture devices. The warehouse has been rigged with a special lie detector machine that is tied to a set of spikes that will come down on poor Andy if he tells too many lies. Similarly, Helen has been placed in her private chamber, which will blow up in a gas explosion if a special device is triggered...by Andy.
It is difficult imagine a more grotesque example of a "romantic thriller" than this dimly lit and lurid exercise in film violence.
Thumbs down!
