I liked it. It's evidently a small budget project, but within those limits they did a great job. It's entertaining, fast-paced, decently acted, and - most important for this kind of movie - pretty scary. The twist in the end, which is not really a twist but the solution of what really was going on all the time, gives it a sinister and cynical extra, as does the lack of a happy ending.
In essence it's your average bashing & torture-horror: a bunch of youngsters is being held captive and physically tormented by some psychopathic weirdo's who seem to act just for the kick of it. There are some desperate attempts to escape, but those all fail miserably, and one by one the young people are killed until the last victim has ran out of resources and has to face her doom. The original context however makes this movie different: the boys and girls are abducted in a shuttle bus and most of all the horrors take place in this cramped space, while the bus takes them to desolate industrial area's in the middle of the night, which adds a nice claustrophobic touch. The abducted guys are not the greatest actors, but the two girls are doing a great job, as does the guy who plays the driver. The other older man played it all a bit too much over the top for my taste, still he came out as a pretty convincing creep.
My few reservations concerned the logic of the script. How desolate can a suburban area in the vicinity of an airport be, there being no-one in sight while they drive on (in circles?) for hours and hours? Then the story indicated that earlier hundreds of girls were abducted, maybe murdered, in the exact same way. So shouldn't the police in all those years have figured out some pattern here? Like: all these missing girls were coming from the airport but never reached home; and numerous dead bodies (the girls that were not pretty enough or had some sort of physical flaw) that must have been found, discarded all over the area. It seems highly improbable that all this could repeatedly have happened without ever drawing any attention.
Anyway, in spite of these minor flaws this is a solid, exciting and surprisingly original movie, with a twist that reaches out into your everyday reality enough to leave you rather uncomfortable.
I rank it 8 out of 10.
In essence it's your average bashing & torture-horror: a bunch of youngsters is being held captive and physically tormented by some psychopathic weirdo's who seem to act just for the kick of it. There are some desperate attempts to escape, but those all fail miserably, and one by one the young people are killed until the last victim has ran out of resources and has to face her doom. The original context however makes this movie different: the boys and girls are abducted in a shuttle bus and most of all the horrors take place in this cramped space, while the bus takes them to desolate industrial area's in the middle of the night, which adds a nice claustrophobic touch. The abducted guys are not the greatest actors, but the two girls are doing a great job, as does the guy who plays the driver. The other older man played it all a bit too much over the top for my taste, still he came out as a pretty convincing creep.
My few reservations concerned the logic of the script. How desolate can a suburban area in the vicinity of an airport be, there being no-one in sight while they drive on (in circles?) for hours and hours? Then the story indicated that earlier hundreds of girls were abducted, maybe murdered, in the exact same way. So shouldn't the police in all those years have figured out some pattern here? Like: all these missing girls were coming from the airport but never reached home; and numerous dead bodies (the girls that were not pretty enough or had some sort of physical flaw) that must have been found, discarded all over the area. It seems highly improbable that all this could repeatedly have happened without ever drawing any attention.
Anyway, in spite of these minor flaws this is a solid, exciting and surprisingly original movie, with a twist that reaches out into your everyday reality enough to leave you rather uncomfortable.
I rank it 8 out of 10.