Whether this movie was really based on a true event (as they elaborately claim) or not, I kept wondering why the makers of this... well, what exactly? torture horror? .... were thinking, when they considered doing this project. This movie has no head nor tail, we're more or less plunged into the horror of a nice family who is suddenly terrorized by unknowns for no apparent reason and we never get any explanation.
In the first 20 minutes we meet the family and are served all kinds of innuendos of complicated background stories (no dad, daughter with an unwanted pregnancy, another daughter sexually harassed), with which nothing whatsoever is done, so they might as well not have bothered. Then the attack begins, by the way very well introduced with a hair-raising scene of the daughter communicating through a closed door with one of the assailants. But when everyone is caught and bound to chairs the whole thing collapses into an overlong part of gruesome and very intense abuse, torture and killing. And then it's the next morning, another daughter finds them dead and snap: the end. After just some 70 minutes of film we are forced to read an endless commentary on how the culprits were never trialled or even found out.
Who did the production-team think to please with such a unsatisfying movie? Okay, maybe a few gore and torture aficionados, but genuine horror fans like me are just baffled and actually a bit offended for not being taken seriously.
In the first 20 minutes we meet the family and are served all kinds of innuendos of complicated background stories (no dad, daughter with an unwanted pregnancy, another daughter sexually harassed), with which nothing whatsoever is done, so they might as well not have bothered. Then the attack begins, by the way very well introduced with a hair-raising scene of the daughter communicating through a closed door with one of the assailants. But when everyone is caught and bound to chairs the whole thing collapses into an overlong part of gruesome and very intense abuse, torture and killing. And then it's the next morning, another daughter finds them dead and snap: the end. After just some 70 minutes of film we are forced to read an endless commentary on how the culprits were never trialled or even found out.
Who did the production-team think to please with such a unsatisfying movie? Okay, maybe a few gore and torture aficionados, but genuine horror fans like me are just baffled and actually a bit offended for not being taken seriously.