It would appear that the message here is that the sadistic kids who torture the bullying kids (lopping off fingers, paralysing, disfiguring and so on) can be excused for their behaviour because they had suffered enormously at their victims' hands. Well it is far from being alright and I am unimpressed by this unpleasant film that I saw on the Horror Channel.
I was equally unimpressed by the flimsy intro given by the Sy Fy 'Horror Booth's' continuity presenter, which chose to reference the Columbine massacre as if it was an earlier and disappointing film for its lack of torture and real horror and went (I quote) as follow: "It's not always easy being different and in High School, as we all know, their social system really can be murder - you see you got your Plastics and the Jocks, then there's the Geeks and Goths and the two can never mix. Well, there you have it coming, you see after a while, all that torture and humiliation and bullying and cruelty can get a bit, well - get a bit too much, so much that one day the Geeks and the Goths might just - makes gesture with secateurs.
So the tables are turned on the bullies in this high school horror film, which rings more than a few alarm bells of the Columbine massacre when you think about the storyline. This time however the revenge of the Nerds is taken to the new and gory level of torture and it's surprisingly chilling as well as nasty. Set largely during a costume party the bullies are all drugged, chained up and about to learn the harshest lesson of their mediocre shallow lives. So bullies, beware, cause your time is up."
I was equally unimpressed by the flimsy intro given by the Sy Fy 'Horror Booth's' continuity presenter, which chose to reference the Columbine massacre as if it was an earlier and disappointing film for its lack of torture and real horror and went (I quote) as follow: "It's not always easy being different and in High School, as we all know, their social system really can be murder - you see you got your Plastics and the Jocks, then there's the Geeks and Goths and the two can never mix. Well, there you have it coming, you see after a while, all that torture and humiliation and bullying and cruelty can get a bit, well - get a bit too much, so much that one day the Geeks and the Goths might just - makes gesture with secateurs.
So the tables are turned on the bullies in this high school horror film, which rings more than a few alarm bells of the Columbine massacre when you think about the storyline. This time however the revenge of the Nerds is taken to the new and gory level of torture and it's surprisingly chilling as well as nasty. Set largely during a costume party the bullies are all drugged, chained up and about to learn the harshest lesson of their mediocre shallow lives. So bullies, beware, cause your time is up."