...it caters to a specific audience. namely those who enjoy movies like "i spit on your grave" or "they call her one eye".

while this is obviously not a high budget film it certainly does not "feel" cheap like some reviewers here claim. i suppose these lucky people have never had the "pleasure" to see a "cheap" film. don't be fooled. the entire presentation, camera work, sound, music and acting are solid...no more, no less.

someone also wrote that this movie had "nothing to say", which is almost comical considering the kind of film we are dealing with here. films like these do not focus on "story" or "character development". they mainly try and trigger basic human emotions in the audience by simple means and with varying success. it's called "exploitation cinema" and as mentioned before, it's not for everyone.

that being said i found the ending of this film to be uncharacteristically thought-provoking. ultimately it does have something to say and as a result manages to lift itself slightly above most of it's genre brethren.

fans of the genre won't be disappointed.

PROS: To start off, the acting in what should've been a poor film, was in reality very well crafted. Each character was injected into the plot with so much finesse that you couldn't help but feel what they felt. The actors took on some deep, deep circumstances and they pulled them off phenomenally. All the scenes in the movie were so separate while staying just as significant to the central point. The idea of mini stories coming together to create one big one was creative and like no other. This made for an unconventional build up of tension, but it wan't bad. I liked the mini climaxes, and the character development that this set up created. But overall, I enjoyed the creative style of the progression of intensity and the acting which helped carry this dark film.

CONS: A simple thing that one could point out was then ending. I enjoyed the climax getting us to the resolution, I just didn't like the resolution itself. The reason for me not liking it was probably because it didn't enhance the movie for me. The requirements for a "technically" good ending is to clarify questions that help inform the watcher while simultaneously not taking away from the watchers overall viewing experience, to leave a lasting impression, and to enhance a point at which the film was trying to drive home; that can be anything from self preservation, blood must have blood, or even horror is fun. But this movie just missed the mark on a few key elements of a good hardy resolution.

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