Secrets never stay secret. In a society that claims no interest in what someone does in his/her own bedroom, it is very transfixed on what he/she do in their own bedroom. Add whips, chains, bondage, gags, humiliation, and cross words and we absolutely care what someone does in their own bedroom. Serial killers care...bless them. Hence our film today, 2024's Made for Tubi original, "Secret Life of a Dominatrix," directed by Gabby Revilla Lugo.
Book clubs. A bunch of bored women getting together to talk Jane Austen. After 10 minutes, they ain't talking Jane Austen...nope! Bondage, and whipping has replaced the classics in this book club. May (Mariel Molina) is a sultry housewife who has secrets. She has a hunk husband, Kurt (Andrew Biernat) who insists on occasional sex utilizing the missionary position exclusively. May, after all the BDSM talk wants more. Her bestie, Gia (Kiley Casciano) and other mates convince her to go to an exclusive sex club where anything goes and you can be anyone you want. These places exist all over the place in the movies, where I live we have smoke shops and urgent care facilities. There, May meets dominatrix Anna (Ashley Dougherty). They take likings to one another and Anna teaches May to be a dominatrix...and she is not only loving it, but good at it.
Okay...here's where it gets dicey. A serial killer is stalking these sex clubs. Soon, one of May's buddies is strangled in the parking lot of the club. Even worse it is her new BDSM buddy Dee (Imani Vaughn-Jones). Even worse...May sees, from the other side of the club, her husband come into the club. As a dominatrix, May understands he has needs. She goes home with a leather outfit, whips, handcuffs, chains, bondage ropes, and attitude. Sadly, Kurt is not interested in her, still. More gals are murdered and May is now down a path that she can't come back from. Twists will occur which you will see a mile away, but because BDSM, whips, chains, handcuffs, and bondage ropes are included in this movie, we can forgive its predictability.
Will May use a stun-gun and force Kurt into being tied up and whipped? Just who is this serial killer, and is it a male? Will we possibly see a wild catfight between two kinky dominatrix'? If you have not seen BDSM since that Charisma Carpenter film ("Bound"), see "Secret Life of a Dominatrix."