The picture is full of suspense, thrills, mystery, and lots of blood and guts. This noisy as well as visceral film contains images of graphic violence and may not be suitable for all audiences, viewer discretion is advised. The movie contains a pernicious as well as strong stuff. This slick gore-feast is a triumph of style over movie logic. It's packed with overwhelming body count, excessive gore, grotesque killing, and rivers of red blood. Later a pawn shop robbery goes askew, two criminals , Alex (Emile Hirsch) and Cody (Stephen Dorff) escape . After the intense holdup at the pawnshop, Grace (Gigi Zumbado) is taken hostage by the thieves. Ignoring all the warnings they are looking for a shelter in remote farmland . They take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to let the heat die down, but find something much more menacing. They discover a secret dungeon with evidence of sadistic violence-and when "Grandfather" comes home, all hell breaks loose. Can Grace muster the courage to escape the gut-wrenching fates that befall her criminal companions?. Their destination becomes a nightmare !. Reap what you sow !.
This frightening movie displays terror, shocks, hard-edged drama , and creepy images . While the look is suitable atmospheric and scary, the storyline stretches plausibility to the breaking point that's the best part of the flick. Run-of-the-mill terror film in low budget packing grisly horror, mayhem, horrible gore and lots of violence and gore. From the director of 'Midnight Meat Train' comes this gripping and horrifying thriller starring Emile Hirsch (Into the Wild) and Stephen Dorff (Blade), in which a group of delinquents forced to take refuge at a remote farmhouse late at night, then they stumble across a psycho family, dispatching them unceremoniously and mercilessly. Later, they wind up in the nightmare clutches of a psychopathic butcher who'll kill here and there, carrying out a brutal and homicidal slaughter. The story is not original, because the film's plot is similar to other many films and better stories included the famous film ¨The Texas Chainsaw Massacre¨ that was really influential, borrowing several images from this classic movie, including a horribly mutilated criminal who bears remarkable resemblance to 'Leatherface'.
The picture is smartly designed, but being very mediocre and stylishly photographed, filming in shades and lights. Film craftmen create a creepy make-up of horrible and bloody images. The gutsy murders are gruesomely executed and equally are ghastly graphic. The pic is formed by some acceptably done horror set pieces with creepy and spooky atmosphere. The gruesome murderer appearance deliver the goods with hair raising chills, full scares and scary frames. Screeching and eerie musical score with frightening sounds and appropriate cinematography with dark atmosphere by cameraman Matthias Schubert and the camera often assumes a pointedly aggressive stance. The motion picture was regularly, though skillfully written/produced/directed by Ryûhei Kitamura. He was born in Osaka, Japan and has been shooting both in Japan and in United States, directing films in all kinds of genres: action, thriller, adventure, samurai, wuxia, but also with a special penchant for Terror, including these following films: ¨Heat After Dark¨ (his film debut), ¨Versus¨, ¨Lupin the Third¨, ¨Downrange¨, ¨Baton¨, ¨Lovedeath¨, ¨Azumi¨, ¨Live¨, ¨Longinus¨, ¨Sky High¨, ¨Aruzami¨, ¨Doorman¨, ¨Midnight cinema¨, ¨The midnight meat train¨, ¨The Price We Pay¨, among others . Rating: 4.5/10.
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