Two brothers kill their parents and escape from death row. Fine. Got it. Pretty standard. They do a home invasion of a nice Christian family who just watched the news of the escape on TV. Mom and the two daughters (17 and 12) have crushes on the guys. Older sis has a shrine to one and has sex with him. Dad is tied up while his wife and the other brother throw darts at him. Dad slips his bonds to watch his wife have sex with the other brother...and just watches. The cops show up, raid the home and Dad kills most of them.
Yes. it's a family of psychos and the brothers picked the wrong house. But it's so poorly and confusingly done there's no real revelatory moment.
THEN we find out there a dungeon in the basement with at least 10 captives. And it all goes to hell after that. The lead cop also has a crush on one of the brothers. Dad has sex with his older daughter. There's a mutant transgendered guy who's never really explained. Everybody dies except one brother who then finds out....I'm not making this up...that the whole town is full of zombies. Yes. Zombies. Is this supposed to be a surprise ending? Because it's stupid.
"Um. How do we end this abortion?" "I...dunno...the town is full of zombie." "Sure. Whatever."
Honestly, a lot of this could be forgiven if it didn't take itself so #&$* seriously. There are looooooong, overwritten speeches that consist of pseudo-deep word salad that ALL of the characters have. Each speech sounds the same. One is about Juliet Lewis. One is about Michael Madsen. People recite poetry cuz...that's something people do. Are you sensing a pattern? That's right! The writer is REALLY edgy and deep. He wants to out stone Oliver Stone. Hard boiled. No morals. No mercy, maaaaaaaan. REAL #*$%'in life, maaaaaaan. He even stupidly puts in a commercial for action figures based on the brothers. But he fails to create a world where these things can exist. NBK actually created a world...it was a shallow world with no nuance, but it was a functional world. The folks who made this were either too dumb or too lazy to do that.
I'm adding a star because there's some good editing and the occasional glimpse of subtly. They pan past a single shotgun shell on the floor to indicate the clerk has been killed. It's well shot and lovely. The editing on the first sex scene goes on slightly longer than you feel it should which only increases the tension. Nicely done.
But, sadly, the majority of it is at the level of a precocious high-school student whose mom left him alone in the McMansion while she went on her third honeymoon. Don't bother with this unless you're under 14.
Yes. it's a family of psychos and the brothers picked the wrong house. But it's so poorly and confusingly done there's no real revelatory moment.
THEN we find out there a dungeon in the basement with at least 10 captives. And it all goes to hell after that. The lead cop also has a crush on one of the brothers. Dad has sex with his older daughter. There's a mutant transgendered guy who's never really explained. Everybody dies except one brother who then finds out....I'm not making this up...that the whole town is full of zombies. Yes. Zombies. Is this supposed to be a surprise ending? Because it's stupid.
"Um. How do we end this abortion?" "I...dunno...the town is full of zombie." "Sure. Whatever."
Honestly, a lot of this could be forgiven if it didn't take itself so #&$* seriously. There are looooooong, overwritten speeches that consist of pseudo-deep word salad that ALL of the characters have. Each speech sounds the same. One is about Juliet Lewis. One is about Michael Madsen. People recite poetry cuz...that's something people do. Are you sensing a pattern? That's right! The writer is REALLY edgy and deep. He wants to out stone Oliver Stone. Hard boiled. No morals. No mercy, maaaaaaaan. REAL #*$%'in life, maaaaaaan. He even stupidly puts in a commercial for action figures based on the brothers. But he fails to create a world where these things can exist. NBK actually created a world...it was a shallow world with no nuance, but it was a functional world. The folks who made this were either too dumb or too lazy to do that.
I'm adding a star because there's some good editing and the occasional glimpse of subtly. They pan past a single shotgun shell on the floor to indicate the clerk has been killed. It's well shot and lovely. The editing on the first sex scene goes on slightly longer than you feel it should which only increases the tension. Nicely done.
But, sadly, the majority of it is at the level of a precocious high-school student whose mom left him alone in the McMansion while she went on her third honeymoon. Don't bother with this unless you're under 14.