Married couple Estelle and Otis (Jennifer Jordan and Jake Teague) are unsure how to deal with Estelle's emotionally disturbed sister Karen (Tara Chung). While the couple try to decide what to do with Karen, the crazy woman turns homicidal, killing those who visit her at the beach home where she is living.
Before becoming a director of low-budget horror, Roberta Findlay was a maker of low-budget porn; a Woman's Torment straddles both genres. Some have likened it to Roman Polanski's classic psychological thriller Repulsion (1965), but Findlay is no Polanski and Tara Chung is no Deneuve.The acting is terrible: I assume that it's a cast of porn stars trying their hand at acting, rather than actors giving porn a go. They might be pros when it comes to sex*, but they're shockingly amateurish when it comes to delivering lines.
Findlay's attempts at Polanski style-hysteria and madness are laughable, largely thanks to Chung's lamentable central performance, and the hardcore sex is unimaginative, with several scenes going on for way too long (Karen with workman Larry - so tedious!).
3.5/10, rounded up to 4/10 for IMDb. Just about worth a watch for curious Findlay fans.
*The use of a not-very-well concealed tube spurting presumably fake ejaculate suggests that one performer wasn't quite ready for another pop shot.