The Halfway House
The Halfway House (2004)
The Halfway House is an American, independent horror-comedy film by writer-director Kenneth J. Hall (best known for The Puppet Masters). It stars cult actress Mary Woronov, Janet Tracy Keisler, and Shawn Savage.
It is very distinct from the Halfway House (1944) by the same name (see below)
Synopsis
Young girls are disappearing in and around the Mary Magdalen Halfway House for Troubled Girls. Desperate to find out what became of her sister, Larissa Morgan goes undercover to infiltrate the Catholic-run institution. There she finds a sinister and secretive nun (Mary Woronov), tough lesbian inmates, a punishment-obsessed priest who reads spanking magazines, and a demonic bug-eyed monster living in the basement.
The spanking scene
The scene features a perverted priest who has a large wooden paddle with "Jesus" spelled in rhinestones. He has two bad girls bend over his desk for paddling in his office. The girls have to loudly recite "The power of Christ compels me" before each stroke. We see mostly front-angle face reaction shots plus a few quick closeups of the paddle smacking the girls' bare asses. During this, the scene also cuts away several times to the other girls singing in the church. Around a dozen smacks are delivered, some are heard off-camera.
Later on, another girl gets into trouble and an off-camera paddling is alluded to but not shown.
A video clip of the paddling scene can be viewed at: VideoWebTown.com
The Halfway House (1944)
The Halfway House is a 1944 British drama film directed by Basil Dearden and starring Mervyn Johns, his daughter Glynis Johns, Tom Walls, and Françoise Rosay. The film tells the story of ten people who are drawn to stay in an old Welsh countryside inn. Location scenes were shot at Barlynch Priory on the Devon/Somerset border.
BFI Screenonline writes, "The high-quality personnel involved and the tight, professional scripting mark the film out as one of the earliest templates of what would become the traditional Ealing style."
External links
- The Halfway House on imdb.com
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