The cringe inducing preview shots that fill up the Hog Tied members area certainly help in maintaining a decidedly macabre atmosphere. One element that definitely added to the uniqueness of the scene was the almost schizophrenic changes in tone. All it takes around these parts is one little cut or fade to black, and you know things are going to turn upside down. Things generally started in a surprisingly clinical, sometimes even jovial, tone with the interviewer sounding laughably. The girls are asked very lucid, on point questions about their history and what led them to this. That's all well and good, but the totally personality change the guy undergoes by the time it's ready to shoot is something that has to be seen to be believed.
It's hard to believe that what was, just seconds ago, a meek and unassuming man can act like such a prick. He really was born to physically abuse these women. I must have emptied my balls a dozen times watching him slapping and spitting on them, forcing them to repeat degrading things about themselves over and over. Then, when the session is over, he does a Q&A with the girl as calm and cool as can be. The change, so sudden and absolute, can be a little unnerving. Even the girls share this strange ability to turn emotion on and off like a light bulb. Some would call it professionalism, others mental illness. Either way, I'm fascinated.