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Hidden Camera 2: The Client (1st review posted 11/09/07)


Directed by: Zbysek Podhajsky
Starring: Jan Zlatovsty (Client), Michaela Trmotova (Anca), Vendula Steinova
(Manca), Suiza Janku (Mother)
Date: 2006 DVD release.
Running time: 38 min.
Guest Review by: JBI



Taking a break from what they do best (hard-hitting historical melodramas), Lupus serves up a somewhat milder contemporary tale in this belated sequel to one of their oldest (and least memorable) titles.

We begin with appropriately cheesy, '70s porno-movie funk music as the titular Client (Zlatovsty) cruises for a prostitute. Our hero is a middle-aged perv who, on hearing his hooker has two teenage daughters, wants to hide a camera in their bedroom. Being a good hooker-mom, she of course agrees -- for a price. The hideous Michal Valasek (billed as the Maniac Wireman) seldom appears on camera -- and for good reason. He has a mercifully short cameo as a babbling, bickering tech-nerd who installs the video camera inside the girls' boom-box.

The next day our nameless client pervs out in front of his computer screen watching tapes of the girls. It turns out these nubile blonde babes, Anca and Manca, are pretty dull. We see them doing homework, undressing, sleeping, etc. And like all teen Czech girls, dancing (badly) in their underwear to vintage songs by The Clash. (Somehow I doubt The Clash granted permission to use their music for this film.) Our exasperated voyeur sighs, "Boring." You said it, pal. He reaches for the fast-forward button and so will you for most of this junk.

A day or two later the girls bring home a bad report card from school and the enraged mother gives them each an over the knee hand-spanking. These are all-too-brief, lightweight, and unexciting. Plus, we only see the action looking down from a distance as our view is from the camera atop a cabinet. No closeups or alternate viewpoints. He complains that this isn't severe enough, and we can't blame him.

At last, our pervy friend pays the hooker-mom extra money to fabricate a story that he was hired to discipline the lazy girls. He shows up with a rattan cane and goes right to work. No more hidden camera crap, we finally get to see the action up close with multiple angles.

First a humiliated Manca (Vendula Steinova) has to strip naked and bend over with her hands on a padded stool. Zlatovsty delivers 40 fairly hard cane strokes that leave considerable marks. The flaw here is in the slow pacing. After each stroke she cries and lurches out of position, grabbing her ass with both hands. This makes for delays between strokes which, for me, was boring to watch. She did the same thing, ruining her caning scene in "Tales of the Sin District: The Cathouse." One might think this is a wimpy girl who can't take it. However, tied to a sawhorse, she endured the most painful 50-stroke switching imaginable in "Fairy Tale: The Magic Purse." (So, perhaps she should only do scenes where her hands are securely bound.)

Unfortunately, her sister Anca (Michaela Trmotova) does the same double-handed grab-ass move and drops to the floor after each stroke (she gets 40 in all). Only at the end does the pace pick up a bit as Zlatovsty runs out of patience. Now, Trmotova is a very experienced sub. She's taken much worse in other films while staying in position. Perhaps the director thought it would be better or more realistic if the girls exaggerated the pain and squirmed around a lot, but I found this diminished the intensity of the scene. It's a matter of taste. Others might prefer this method so, as one wise scribe wrote: "If you like that sort of thing, then this is the sort of thing you'll like."

Technical Flubs: As usual, Lupus continues with badly translated subtitles. The garbled English is confusing and unintentionally funny at times (many odd references to "puffing at school"). Can they please run these past an editor fluent in English before releasing the discs? Plus there is an irritating glitch where the term "!Effect" appears at the beginning of many of the subtitles (a flaw seen on other Lupus films as well).

The double-sided disc (NTSC format on one side and PAL on the reverse) comes with trailers but no bonus scenes -- and this one could have really used some.



2nd Review by Mars Posted 1/9/09

The Lupus/RGE regular Jan Zlatlousty picks up a hefty prostitute and somehow she arranges to sell him videos from a hidden camera in her daughters' bedroom. A little sleazy, this is, but suspend disbelief and enjoy some sweet voyeurism, with less brutal institutional fare from Lupus than usual. This is a brief effort, with the action confined to the final seven or eight minutes. The fly-on-the-wall hidden camera view is entertaining throughout.

Jan buys stacks of video tapes and sits in front of a flat screen, nipping at his bottle, watching the two young teenagers undress, apres-shower, move around naked, and in cute little T-shirts and panties. One taped segment shows the blonde daughter masturbating in bed. Jan fast-forwards the boring parts, just like all of us. In another tape, the mother pretends to find some pornography she planted to trump up a reason to spank her blonde daughter bare-bottom, merchandising the little bottom in perfect position for the camera she knows is there. This then, is more than Jan can take. Matters escalate.

In the next scene, in the car where the tape deals are made, there is more conversation (in Czech, but we trust them to complete their business), and some serious money is flashed.

What Jan is buying is the right to cane the girls himself. He is the same practitioner as seen in "Wild Party" and "Wild Party 2." Master credentials. Arguably the best caner to come along.

Both the little blonde and her equally lithe redhead sister are caned in the bedroom, the hefty mom watching. The undressing and preparation excel. Did mom come to regret this deal as Jan nips and snaps brilliantly with his cane at these young bottoms, setting the girls to howling and hopping about? Two nicely wealed subdued bottoms kneel cornered in typical Lupus line-'em-up style at the conclusion.







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