This Movie is s rated R18+ but it actually is very tame. But yes it's a sexploitation movie with a very thin plot. A girl enters a school, falls for another girl and then ends up in an after school club that is about giving and receiving torture where the same girl attends.

So most of the movie is torture and nude masturbation scenes. Not much dialogue. That includes some whipping that has any marks added later and some maggots that don't get too involved. Plus several scenes of rope bondage. Much of the scenes with nudity they use a soft filter that gives a foggy visual. Not sure if it's an artistic attempt (that fails) or to cover up any possible exposure that would alarm the Japanese censorship. Don't expect to see much. Most scenes are not very erotic.

The cast are all attractive and gravure models. Their acting is alright especially considering their only real movie.

The result is a movie that often drags. Not very exciting. No it's not the worst movie. Or even the worst sexploitation movie. It's just not very good.

The Torture Club is a very well-made sexploitation movie - the cast is attractive (basically it's the four girls only and a rabbit), the camera is mostly at the right place, the torture scenes are not too difficult to take. But the most attractive thing about the movie is that it shows nudity very bravely. Lots of movies in this genre show latex clothing, ropes and other devices/objects and think that they are very sexy. No, they aren't. It is the various stages of nudity which make these films special and Club mixes the torture scenes with the nudity on a high level. Our heroine, the shy new student shows herself sans clothes too - another plus. Lots of movies make the mistake showing only the extras in nude scenes but not the main protagonist. Overall a very brave movie (although the story is quite stupid but who cares), worth buying the uncut dvd/bluray from Shamrock.

Basically the plot is that Yuzuki gets into a prestigious Catholic girls school and steals a pair of panties, she thinks she has got away with but on the day of the entrance ceremony she is chloroformed by her classmates and wakes up to find her classmate Maika roped to the ceiling and being whipped while she watches. Then she discovers that her theft did not go unnoticed after all, and the club has had their eye on her from the beginning. Thus begins her membership of the torture club..

From them on its basically a lot of rather sexy scenes of club members being punished in various ways and in varying states of undress, there are a lot of homages to the original manga that I noticed including the question on the entrance exam that brought her to the clubs attention, punishment methods, relationships between the girls, the iron maiden with rubber spikes etc so I would recommend reading the manga first as the film will make a lot more sense with that background information.

Overall I found it quite enjoyable although the plot gets a bit darker towards the end, the scenes with the wooden horse and judas cradle were particularly well done although the scene with the candle wax did make me wince a bit!