Sanatorium by Zero Tolerance - review by Starlight Requiem

The Case
This is one of those dvds that comes in a cardboard box big enough to hold two dvd cases. I'm not really sure why. It seems like a waste to me. It's like a double-sized version of the dvd case itself. Personally I just toss it and keep the normal case.

The Content
This is a screwy one. You get Tabitha Stevens coming in doing voice work, reading a script. It seems rife with cliches and buzzwords that are meant to inspire something. I'm not exactly sure what, maybe fear or panic.

The sex is hot, there isn't any doubt on that. And there are plenty of scenes, with most featuring Tabitha. I couldn't follow the story though. From what I can gather, they are trying to play off the concept of the medicine woman. If you don't know what this is, there is a book series, I believe by Lynn Andrews. The script from this seems heavily derived from that concept, even including the evil "sorcerers" as a villain.

Music and Camera
The music in this one is very wild and not something you'd find in any other porn. It's definitely there to set the atmosphere, and does a nice job of it. The camera work is also fairly good, though some of the scenes are just too strange to be any more than confusing for the normal person watching this.

Special Features
The special features are all on the second disk. Some of them are standard fare, such as a behind the scenes featurette, and the ever present trailers. You also get four bonus scenes, which is fairly nice. And even two deleted scenes. If you were wondering why they were deleted, the one features Tabitha Stevens mashing a finger against one nostril, and snorting blood from her nose onto a rock. Imagine the stuff you'll see in the normal movie.

Personally, while I liked the sex, the other stuff fell flat with me. I have read stuff on the topics presented in the movie, about visions and that sort of thing. While it uses all the right words, none of it really feels like it has any meaning. It comes across as nothing so much as an attempt to be more frightening and exotic than it really is.