Slaughter Disc DVD Review

Mike (Robert Williams) is addicted to porn. His inveterate masturbation habit causes him to lose his job and his long suffering girlfriend, but Mike has found something to take his mind of those little inconveniences. He gets a DVD in the post starring Andromeda Strange (Caroline Pierce), a lascivious goth beauty who captivates Mike with her lustful seductiveness and dexterous dildo skills. Andromeda's taste for blood shocks Mike, but he soon finds her onscreen violence fascinating. One evening Mike goes to meet his friend at a bar for some beers but his friend doesn’t show. Mike just gets drunk on his own and he next day he wakes, vomits (a lot) and then puts the Andromeda disc on. He's shocked to discover that the guy on screen with Andromeda is the friend who didn't turn up the night before. The line between fantasy and reality begins to blur for Mike when he sees Andromeda smash his friends skull to pieces then bury his body in a park.

Sex in horror films is nothing new, in fact it's quite rare to find a horror flick with no sex scenes. There have been many erotic horror SOVs which fail both as sex films and as horror, but hey, someone's buying them. Slaughter Disc is different. It's a horror with graphic gore, violence and hard core sex. If someone was to buy Slaughter Disc as a porn film, they might be put off their stroke by the amount of blood and skull crushing, but as a horror I think it works. The sex scenes are quite long and to a degree do play out like standard porn fare, but Caroline Pierce manages to turn the tables on the traditional passive role of the woman in sex films. A performer in more than 100 adult films, Caroline plays the part of Andromeda extremely well, her transition from beguiling seductress to nefarious succubus is marvelous. Robert Williams is great as Mike, a man who's pump action hand lotion is never far away. David Quitmeyer has somehow managed to create an intriguing sex/horror hybrid that actually works; a carnal, blood-soaked morality tale.

Slaughter Disc. 2005

Directed by David Quitmeyer.

Ladies and Gentlemen, we present for your salacious delectation an interview with Caroline Pierce, aka Andromeda Strange.