I will quickly run down a summary of the movie for those whe may be interested. SPOILERS*
Jennifer (Cuthberts character) wakes up in a room to discover she was kidnapped. There are some drawers in the room that automatically open and close and video camera of the kidnapper that shows her character on tv getting interviewed(Cuthbert plays a model in the movie) and shows the kidnapper going thru her apartment. Lights come on loud noises are pumped into them room OHHH scary,meh.
Every once in a while the kidnapper drugs her (when she tries to escape)and she awakens again on the bed in the room. she NEVER gets tied down to the bed or anything else. Ok, about 20-30 minues into this BORE FEST, as she is walking/sitting around she discovers a guy (the character Gary) in the room next to her and what do ya know? Thier rooms are seperated by plexiglass so they can see one another. All they have to do is peel some paper off the plexiglass wall. They talk and like one another and blah,blah,blah. All the while no real torture or anything is going on. ONLY ONE SCENE resembles terror where Elishas character wakes up in an aquarium that slowly fills with sand, but Gary saves her quickly- CRAP. Anyway they try to escape only to get drugged and somehow they end up in the same “prison” room together. They have sex with NO/ZERO nudity whatsoever, we don’t even get to see Elishas cute little butt- NOTHING. They have a boring quick sex scene where the camera blurs -basically just a little kissing.
Oh, btw, there are VERY short litle cuts now and then to the police doing some investigating - meh.
Ok so Gary wakes up after the fake crappy sex scen and he opens a mirror on the wall and BANG we find out he knows the way out. He goes up the steps and chats with the kidnapper. It turns out Gary is in on it with the fat kidnapper and the prison rooms are in the huge cellers of thier house. Gary apparently likes Jennifer and maybe doesn’t want to have to kill her. Gary and fat kidnapper argue- gary stabs fat kidnapper. Well apparently (somehow) the cops have found the house so Gary has to shoot a couple of cops with a shotgun. Gary goes and frees Jennifer and they go up into the house together. While gary is cleaning up (??)in the celler prison rooms Jennifer sees photo albums and Gary comes up and Jennifer discovers Gary was in on it. Fat kidnapper comes back to life but is quickly killed (again) no real difficulty or suspense. Gary chases Jennifer and plays grabass with her until they are in the celler/prison rooms. Jennifer “finds” the shotgun on the floor and shoots Gary twice. She stumbles out of the house- music plays, credits roll, the end.
WOW, what a crap movie.
No nudity
No horror
No torture
Hardly any blood
Hardly any story
Predictable as he11
Mostly lousy acting
Save your money, don’t see it. I just told you everything that happened.
I’d just like to point out that Gideongamer can go see a torture movie, complain about the lack of nudity and gore, but not actually write out the word, “Hell.”
Yes, Ir was not really in the movies unless it was shown in the beginning ceredits. Perhaps in an NR rated verson or copout previews? Who klnows? Thyere was a video on one of the tvs that shows someone actually getting trotured but it was was quick. Basically they kidap a girl, try scaring her a bit, sucker her into getting to like the guy that she thinks is also kidnapped. He is in on it but chnges his mind but in the end he is an ass so she has to shotgun hiim. This movie is pretty bad if you have seen ANY on the hostel/hostel2 saw or ANYTHING else. Its worse! There are like 6 characters ins the ENTIRE movies and we care little about any of them. Low budget Grade BI. ts SOOO predictable and competely lame.
Not even considered tortue porn/thriller/horror/suspense or anything else. Think copout. You can see they were trying to make a Hostekl typoe movie but there was little gore (hardly ANY blood) and really considering what was done to Elishas characterer some people in the SAME situation would most likey be bored. Don’t listen to the IMDB fools who have not see the movie. HArldy any gore or blood or SUSPENSE or anything else :/ ZERO character development.
Mark Kermode utterly panned it on his BBC Radio 4 radio show (Podcasted ftw!). No that that sort of thing is my sort of film, but he really loathed it.
Worse, he said they did extra-shooting to make it MORE like the ‘torture porn’ it had been reported to be. Terrible. As Kermode said “Everyone involved in the making of this film should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves”.
I am shocked, shocked, to discover the guy that was captured with her and whom we see nothing bad happen to in the trailer, is revealed to be in cahoots with the kidnapper. Shocked!!
Oh, well come to think of it in the VERY beginning of the movie we see someone strapped down (in flashes of course) with a white cast on his face and a couple of tubes going into the mask. Water is pumped into one of the tubes and it show the other end of the tube on the floor spurting out orange stuff. I have to honestly say since it showed the scene in flashes to and fro that I could not tell what the hell was going on. Is that the eyeball drink? Who knows as it was just as the starting crediting were rolling or perhaps just after. It looked to me like the guy was just undergoing a drastic nasal decongestant procedure?
If that was sup[posedly the “gore” that was the extent of it in the entire movie.
No cool traps or kills (Saw, Se7en,etc.) and not much of anything else. No suspense, hooror, terror.
Anyone here see Zodiac? Remember the the 2nd or third killing when the killer goes down to a young couple picknicking in the park? Anyway he approaches them and pulls out his gun. The young man and woman were scared and the Zodiac is creepy looking with his outfit on. Anyway the Zodiac holding his gun instructs the pretty young woman to tie her boyfriends hands behind his back. He then ties the womans hand behind her back and then ties her feet together and connect the feet tie to the hand tie as well (hogtied). He does the same to the guy. The couple is then laying side by side face down and have to turn thier heads to the side to see the Zodiac. This whole time the couple think the Zodiac is just there to rob them. After getting tied up the guy keeps telling the Zodiac “my wallets here” or “take the car keys” and even asks “was that gun even loaded?” The zodiac removes the clip, shows him, and indeed the gun was loaded. Then the Zodiac puts the gun in his holster (or wherever) and takes sevel steps back and just looks at them.
Now during this the pretty girl has started literally shivering from fear and is almost weeping. Its done quite well. She is looking (sideways from on her stomach) at the Zodiac as he just stand there looking at his captives. He then slowly walks over and pulls out a 4-6 inch SLIM blade (for great stabbing) and you see the girls face turn from extreme fright to sheer terror. The Zodiac then squats down over the boyfriend and starts stabbing him in the back (remember they are both hog tied face down). Now the guy starts screaming but its done realistically each time the Zodiac stabs him he lets out a loud scream in a great syncronization: STAB/ Aghh!STAB/AGGHH! STAB/AGGGH! STAB/AGGHH!
He stabs him not quickly and not really slow but at a nice brutal medium pace 4 or 5 times.
When he starts stabbing th guy the girl starts screaming and you think her screams can’t get any worse- WRONG. After the 4th or 5th stab to the guy the Zodiac squats over and starts stabbing the girl. Her screams turn from a terrorized panic to a terrible animal scream as the Zodiac Stabs her several times in the back pausing a second or so between each stab. Her painful, animal screams are slightly syncronized with the stickings. The Zodiac is Calm , methodical. While screaming like an animal in terrible pain she tries to roll on her back, anything to get away from the pain in her back, but he just keeps sticking her methodically with that slim knife- in the hips as she rolls, in the side, then in her stomach, SEVERAL times. She struggles to roll away but the sticks keep on coming:) Stabby, stabby, stabby :) Getting methodically stabbed with a short slim knife in and out and in and out all over your body seems a terrible way to die. The actress sure made it sound pretty bad.
THAT will go in my “Favorite brutal kills” mental notebook.
Now during this the pretty girl has started literally shivering from fear and is almost weeping. Its done quite well. She is looking (sideways from on her stomach) at the Zodiac as he just stand there looking at his captives. He then slowly walks over and pulls out a 4-6 inch SLIM blade (for great stabbing) and you see the girls face turn from extreme fright to sheer terror. The Zodiac then squats down over the boyfriend and starts stabbing him in the back (remember they are both hog tied face down). Now the guy starts screaming but its done realistically each time the Zodiac stabs him he lets out a loud scream in a great syncronization: STAB/ Aghh!STAB/AGGHH! STAB/AGGGH! STAB/AGGHH!
He stabs him not quickly and not really slow but at a nice brutal medium pace 4 or 5 times.
Also worried. Phrases such as “nice brutal medium pace” and “(for great stabbing)” send up immediate red flags. Seek help.
Also, you have a “Favorite brutal kills” mental notebook.
