Record number: 16769

Title: Deadly Spa (2013) aka Zephyr Springs aka Deadly Spa Weekend
Medium: Movie
Actress: Tracey Fairaway, Amy Pietz

Description: Absurd movie with daughter Kayla (Fairaway) dragging her mom Dawn (Pietz) to a desert spa, which doubles as the lair of a crazed cult leader.

At approx 80 minutes into the movie (basic cable version, including commercials), Kayla decides to leave, but is chloroformed as she walks out the door. She is then set up for a brainwashing session by being tied to a post, hands behind her back, with another rope around her neck. She endures some bad dialog from the cult leader, and then is left to be bombarded with flashing lights and loud noises.

Dawn goes looking for her missing daughter, and eventually finds the shed which doubles as a prison. She manages to cut Kayla free, but is immediately captured herself as Kayla runs away. Dawn is then put into the back of the cult leader's van, with her wrists tied in front of her with brown cord, and is gagged with a white cloth cleave. After driving around for a while, they manage to catch up to Kayla, and after a bit more chloroform, she gets dumped in the back of the van also, sans restraints.

Cult leader then drives to some kind of abandoned building, where the apparently dozing Kayla is left in the van, while the bound and gagged Dawn is dragged inside. He takes his time as he ties her sitting against a post, which gives Kayla time to wake up and grab a bow and arrow. She flashes the van's lights and honks the horn, which brings the cult leader out of the building, so that she can put an arrow into his shoulder. He runs back inside so that he can grab Dawn, and use her as a shield. Some silly action ensues, which finally results in Dawn being freed by Kayla.

The action is as silly and as badly directed as it sounds, but the gag for Pietz is long overdue. The ropework on the restraints is a joke, and the thickness of the gag varies with the camera angle. It's never particularly tight, but it is photogenic in many of the shots.

Tags: bonddesc_handsbehind, bonddesc_handsinfront, bonddesc_post, bonddesc_waistbindings, country_us, ending_escape, ending_rescue, footwear_boots, gagtype_cleave, KO_chloroform, onscreen_tying, outfit_jeans, peril_gun, peril_piercing, restraint_rope, restraint_wire