7/10
What they heck did I just watch?
1 March 2017
Warning: Spoilers
It's technically a spoiler to observe the obvious: You know going into the genre that the hero should probably not hang around a weird hospital to "see what happens" but should call home and then leave. Immediately. The plot holes and "stupid" moments of this film are so numerous that I lost count and found myself enjoying it. We know the head of the institute is a mad scientist so why doesn't the hero see it? Why is the most significant room in the whole place secured with a lock that a shovel can remove in seconds? Why does the mad scientist allow the hero to wander around and get into trouble, again and again and again? Why doesn't anyone EVER investigate a Frankenstein castle-on-a-hill even as wealthy people that are sure to be missed are going there and disappearing? How does such a place exist in modern day Switzerland in the middle of one of the most busy tourist regions in the world? Wouldn't Samantha Brown and her Travel Channel camera crew have stumbled onto this place by now? If you're a hero and just escaped a madhouse, wouldn't you at least go a few villages over before trusting local law enforcement? If you're visiting someone and given a 3 page document to sign, wouldn't at least a few people bother to check out what it says before signing?

Aside from the dozens of plot holes, there's the awkward perverted sexual scenes in the film sure to make audience members wince. I suppose it's like a horror version of 50 Shades of Grey where the viewer will be ashamed to admit they watched the scenes and perhaps that's part of the appeal?

All of this combined made the moviegoers I watched this with laugh as they were thinking: "What the heck did I just watch?" Perhaps that was the point in which case, Bravo!
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