I'd thought, no hoped, that the torture porn genre was dead and buried by this point, but still they come, more sporadically than before thankfully. ALIVE is a particularly uninteresting cheapie from north of the border, with a slumming-it Angus Macfadyen playing a mad doctor who kidnaps a man and a woman and keeps them strapped to an operating table for the majority of the running time. It's a film chock full of pain, blood, moaning and choice dialogue, all building to an extended climax that has more twist endings than a crate of Budweiser. The very final moments add a fun, traditional genre spin to the proceedings, but the journey there is tortuous to say the least.
Review of Alive
