Styled as an interactive video, "Killer Bodies" finds director David Lord doing a good job (for a change), mixing sex and violence in suspenseful fashion, without moving into censorship territory by having gore/ultraviolence packaged atop XXX content.
The interactive gimmick means that 5 lengthy sex scenes are omitted from the story-line 163-minute Director's Cut, with the viewer able to choose which scenes to watch at certain points. For example, plucky heroine Tori Black goes to a pawn shop to buy guns and humps the manager Eric Masterson, while the viewer can substitute an alternate version of the same scene, with Teagan Presley substituted for Eric, making it a lesbian sex vignette. Adding all the scenes together presented on 2 DVDs, total running time is 269 minutes, with a 3rd disk offering a 2-hour long BTS feature.
The final reels are offered in two different endings, which resolve the movie in quite different directions. I preferred by far the one chosen for the Director's Cut.
Basic story is about a kidnapping, with Tori snatched by a team led by violent Barrett Blade, working with Alexis Ford, Seth Gamble and Jessica Jaymes. All of them have sex scenes, though Jessica's is left in the Alternate selections.
Main gimmick is taken from "A Clockwork Orange", with captive in bondage Tori subjected to a month of aversion therapy-styled treatment, forced to watch videos and subjected to electrical shocks, ultimately turning her into a killing machine. The identity of the mastermind behind it all is extremely easy to guess, but Lord sustains suspense, albeit undercut by the frequent pauses for choice of alternate sex footage.
Acting by Tori is topnotch, while Blade as the baddie and Randy Spears as her husband give better performances than one would expect from their usual brand of overacting. Sex scenes have oomph, including veteran Raylene in one of the Alternate ones. Shootouts and violent confrontations are well-staged, within a static format that eschews the usual Action content of car chases, etc.
