......today and appreciated being warned about strangers possibly being dangerous.
It was not all that good, but it was done with decent acting from Tim Roth and Naomi Watts and some cleverness even though it was apparently a shot for shot remake of a German film done by the same director.
I found it worthwhile and even enjoyed it.
The Link
Spoilers ahead:
It's a realistic, I thought, story with interesting characters in a very violent, sadistic, twisted movie about mental and physical abuse and torture.
IMHO, it's neither for the squeamish nor probably even an average horror/slashed flick fan, but I thought it was an accurate showing of just what can and does happen to some of the unfortunate victims of psychopaths.
There's nothing here that Hitchcock's "Psycho," the film version of Capote's "In Cold Blood" or even Mark Wahlberg's bad boy in the Christopher Crowe written movie "Fear" hasn't given us before, but in this film there's no salvation, justice, redemption or happy ending.
Just a shocking reminder of how vulnerable we all are to violence, should the right evil, crazy people choose to victimize us.
I thought that showing the sadism and violence even more graphically could have made this flick more successful for me, but what there was certainly shocked me and got my attention.
I believe this movie would have also played better if the portion wherein the intruders left the house for a while had not been included and they had just stayed and let the story develop with them always present or in the next room.
That would have made a for a shorter, better and even more intense screenplay, IMHO.
Anyway, I found this movie more believable and interesting than most flicks to which it is similar.
It was not all that good, but it was done with decent acting from Tim Roth and Naomi Watts and some cleverness even though it was apparently a shot for shot remake of a German film done by the same director.
I found it worthwhile and even enjoyed it.
The Link
Spoilers ahead:
It's a realistic, I thought, story with interesting characters in a very violent, sadistic, twisted movie about mental and physical abuse and torture.
IMHO, it's neither for the squeamish nor probably even an average horror/slashed flick fan, but I thought it was an accurate showing of just what can and does happen to some of the unfortunate victims of psychopaths.
There's nothing here that Hitchcock's "Psycho," the film version of Capote's "In Cold Blood" or even Mark Wahlberg's bad boy in the Christopher Crowe written movie "Fear" hasn't given us before, but in this film there's no salvation, justice, redemption or happy ending.
Just a shocking reminder of how vulnerable we all are to violence, should the right evil, crazy people choose to victimize us.
I thought that showing the sadism and violence even more graphically could have made this flick more successful for me, but what there was certainly shocked me and got my attention.
I believe this movie would have also played better if the portion wherein the intruders left the house for a while had not been included and they had just stayed and let the story develop with them always present or in the next room.
That would have made a for a shorter, better and even more intense screenplay, IMHO.
Anyway, I found this movie more believable and interesting than most flicks to which it is similar.
