Steel Trap (2007)

User Rating:

4.5/10   

Director:

Luis Cámara

Writers:

Luis Cámara (writer)
Gabrielle Galanter (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Surviving Each Floor Is The Name Of The Game.

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Elevator Shaft | Heart | Crowbar | New Year's Eve Party | Slit Throat

Cast

Georgia Mackenzie	...	Kathy
Mark Wilson	...	Wade
Pascal Langdale	...	Robert
Julia Ballard	...	Nicole
Joanna Bobin	...	Pamela
Annabelle Wallis	...	Melanie
Adam Rayner	...	Adam
Frank Maier	...	Number One Fan

Also Known As:

Butchered - Keiner kann entkommen (Germany) (DVD title)
Condemned (Germany) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, language and some drug use.

Runtime:

Japan:89 min (DVD)

Country:

Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:R | UK:18 | Argentina:16 | Hong Kong:IIB | Singapore:M18

Filming Locations:

Cologne, North Rhine - Westphalia, Germany

Company:

Abnormal Pictures

Quotes:

Adam: This little piggy needs a smoke.
[Lights cigarette]
Adam: This little piggy got his bone smoked.

Movie Connections:

References "Mission: Impossible" (1966)

A bad horror movie

I think that a filmmaker who decides to make a slasher flick has two choices : having a lot of faith on the screenplay and to trust that he found a new perspective for making that formula interesting or making a completely mercenary film which is full of clichés for finally making a cheap movie.The crappy film Steel Trap belongs to the second style.The slasher films became popular thanks to Halloween (1978) and Friday the 13th and,since of that,we have seen hundred of movies with similar structures,characters and story.The details change,so every slasher movie tries to be different by using a curious location or a new mask,just to mention two examples.I do not pretend to find a lot of originality on slasher films but what I pretend to find is even the minimum effort for giving the known formula a special element,making it interesting and entertaining.Steel Trap could have chosen that difficult point but,instead of risking,director and co-screenwriter Luis Cámara and co-screenwriter Gabrielle Galanter wasted that opportunity so Steel Trap is a tedious experience with an extremely weak screenplay,repulsive characters,a boring and generic killer without any personality and a forced and arbitrary ending.I usually do not like to criticize an independent film from my favourite genre but,even on some incompetent works (like Return to Sleepaway Camp),I appreciate some energy and enthusiasm which on some way compensate some fails of the movie.But Steel Trap does not even have that.Plus,to add more negative things,Cámara's direction is completely insipid.In other words,it seems nobody involved on this movie was really interested on it.The characters are so repulsive that I was glad when the killer started to kill them.Steel Trap is a very crappy film.This is one of that movies in which I feel I really lost the time with it and that's the worst sin a movie can make.If you wanna see a very good modern slasher flick,I recommend you the Norwegian movie Fritt Vilt.Skip Steel Trap,a very bad horror film.