My helper and lifemate took one look at this vid and ran screaming from the room; his reaction was perfectly normal for a guy who has no fantasies about having two less-than-stunning girls whip and abuse him. I, on the other hand, found The Hypnotist to be an informative study on how married women might get their husbands to toe the line... the stilletto-heeled, whip-brandishing line, that is.

A couple comes in for marriage counseling. Of course the husband is an oafish lout who must be punished. The counselor and the wife team up to discipline him, largely by twisting his penis into a pretzel and by dangling a dozen clothes­pins and scissors from the poor guy's nuts. Or at least I think that was the story. The sound's kind of bad. I don't think it much matters. The girls eat each other out, too.

Things do get heavy from time to time — the penis abuse with a cat 'o nine tails is pretty intense. But for the most part, the violence is as silly as what you might see in a Schwarzenegger movie.

This is supposed to be a "pain"-oriented flick but I found myself laughing hysterically at inappropriate moments. All I could imagine is how much fun it would be to have this tape at a bachelorette party. I think women could get a kick out of it, at least the ones who weren't picketing some video store for stocking porn.