This was a movie I was really exited to see, as I'd heard good things about it, and even someone freaking out about the amount of gore in it over at the imdb forums. This was going to be good... I thought.
STORY
The movie somewhat incoherently tries to tell a story about a woman who is kidnapped along with her daugheter (never explained why or how this went down). For some reason, the kidnapper has a rutine with all his victims that goes something like this: He kidnaps them and puts them in a coffin. A day or so later, he lets them out of the coffin, and renders them unconscious. While unconscious, he cuts them open and inserts a razorblad into their stomach. He then ties them by their neck to a tree, and balances them upon a rock. Once they awake, they have to open up their wounds to grab the razorblade and cut themself free. If they manage this, they can come stay with him as a personal slave, cleaning his pots and pans and caring for his garden while he goes on his everyday journeys... The story in this movie is almost nonexistant, and whenever it tries to explain anything, you're left with more questions than answers. None of the characters are remotely realistic, and the motives of the kidnapper/killer are never explained, and never even hinted at.
2 out of 10 points for the story
GORE
Then again, we're not there for the story... I know I wasn't. I was there for the overall experience, and if that failed to deliver, I was there for the gore.
At the start, there is a good amount of gore. You see a girl go through the tormenting trial of the kidnapper (huntsman, I think he's known as actually). She opens her wound, inserts her hand to get the razor, and a few guts even fall out. She falls to the ground, guts hanging out of her open wound, and she kills herself by using the huntsmans rifle to shoot herself (he offers her this way out). The gore here isn't bad... But it isn't good either, and it's filmed in a way that would make the best of gore appear strange and bad. It just doesn't seem real, and the fact that the acting is awful in this sequence, and actually throughout the whole movie, doesn't make it any better. None of the suffering in the movie seems real, and the gore is only really found at the start and end of the movie, and isn't extremly good. I can appriciated the low-budget try though, and I like the gore for what it is, but with the acting and the filming/cinematography, it just doesn't work at any level. The middle of the movie appears to go for a psychological-torture thing, but that doesn't work either. Again, it might be the acting and filming, but I also think the script is very lacking... Nothing is coherent, and nothing makes sense. No character seems real, and no suffering seems remotely real.
4 out of 10 points for the gore
MOVIE
You've probably figured this one out by now, but I really didn't like this movie. It was a nice low-budget indie try, but it simply failed at all points. The story was poor, the acting, filming and cinematography likewise. The effects were decent, but let down by all the other shortcomings of the movie. I couldn't reccomend this to anyone, both horror-lovers and gorehounds have hundreds of better alternatives to watch before they watch this one.3 out of 10 dull razorblades for this movie!
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