Amuse Me comes across as an experiment in filmmaking. The movie is essentially a pair of 45min long rape scenes. It's shot in a pornographic manner, including prolonged shots of the women's genitals, but with very limited sexual activity actually happening. There's a creepy clown kidnapper, but he's more interested in fondling them than brutalizing them. There are a few very long ultra-slow-motion sequences during which nothing substantial happens. There is a crotch shot lasting a few minutes - just the woman laying there, making few movements, with the camera moving around while focused on her vulva. The women are nude, stationary, and unemotional for much of the movie.
Even the abuse of the women is presented unusually, with the first rape not fully "consummated" for 40min. You'd expect that this footage would be unbearably brutal to go on so long; but it's not, the clown is playing with her more than anything. In the meantime, the camera captures as many different angles of her breasts and vulva as possible, in a manner that somehow doesn't come across as erotic.
It's a not-quite-pornographic non-porno that is almost 90 straight minutes of nudity, presented in a horror setting with horror themes, with a "twist" near the end you'd find in a horror movie...but structured nothing like most horror movies.
The only reason I gave it three stars instead of one is because I appreciate Bill's other work. I know he's trying to do something with this film, beyond capturing prolonged graphic nudity. What that is, you'll have to ask him.
