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The second part of the Dungeons of Europe trilogy from veteran filmmaker Roger Earl is, even more than the first, an intense examination of men who willingly enter into an S & M relationship with a partner for the sheer pleasure of the pain which that partner can provide.
These submissives gladly give themselves to a variety of tortures, restraints, and yes, love. There is not doubt that all these men possess a strong bond of affection which connects a slave to master. And hungry, tongue-down-the-throat kisses are just as much a part of their ritual as the various other inflictions of the master's will.
Director Earl doesn't profess to understand or explain the phenomenon; he simply describes it visually for the viewer - and does so with some remarkable camera work and lighting effects. And despite the title, these aren't dark, dingy dungeons, but brightly-lit chambers where the various masters practice their medieval-like torture arts.
The opening inscription puts it aptly as trying to describe these men who voluntarily enter into these kinds of "love" experiments: "Naked they walk/Without any shame/Drawn toward their Masters/Like moths to a flame!"....
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