Torture Room

[3] A direct-to-video release, it stars Lena Bookall as Anoush Karagozian, a woman whose suspected ties to Middle Eastern terrorists lead to her being taken captive by U.S. government agents, who subject her to torture in an attempt to brainwash her into becoming an American asset in the war on terror.

Government operatives abduct Anoush and interrogate her about the "ragheads" in her life, like her boss, Reza Bayoul, her ex-fiancé, Jahan Sufi (who she was going to convert for before marrying) and her current boyfriend, Shazad Mohamaed Sousa.

Anoush, along with the site's other detainees, is subjected to a battery of tortures, including incessant noise, being forced to consume raw meat (including a pig's head) and toilet water, psychic driving, a mock execution, electric shocks, being repeatedly forced to watch abstract and graphically violent footage of things like war crimes and Nazi human experimentation while drugged with hallucinogens, having one of her nipples sliced off, a staged rescue, and being sealed in a box and left to wallow in her own excrement for days while hooked up to an IV.

The film ends with Anoush huddled in the fetal position, mindlessly repeating random words over and over again after calling Mr. Green to inform him that Shazad has made plans to meet with friends who are visiting from Lebanon.

[10] Adrian Halen of Horror News called Torture Room a "damn fine" and "brilliantly perverse" film that was a "powerful portrayal of the kind of things they dare don't speak of but at the same time find necessary to protect our country.

"[11] Steven Tee of Cinesploitation had a middling response to Torture Room, feeling that its message was "powerful" and Lena Bookall's performance engrossing, even though the film as a whole was "a bit corny" and "copiously bland and unoriginal.