Opportunistic director, terrible movie, ending for the fetish set
I love all horror film, even extreme horror, so let's get that out of the way. If you look at my rating history you'll see that I give independent and low budget film a lot of wiggle room--if there's an idea there and the story is good, I don't give a *beep* how it looks.
This movie was so bad it was unbearable. If you think that the conversation about blow jobs was necessary to further the plot, turn in your movie watcher's card now. It was there because the director has questionable taste. Seriously. There was zero narrative function for it to be that long and that drawn out. Second, girls don't talk like this, regardless of what the director says about how this conversation came about. They just don't.
Second, if Michael Goi wants to make A Serbian Film, or The Poughkeepsie Tapes, then he should be honest and make A Serbian Film or The Poughkeepsie Tapes. There's nothing I like less than a director who makes a fetish/torture porn type horror film and is disingenuous about their reasons for making it.
Whatever he says about why this film was made, the real reason it was made is so that he can freak you out with those last twenty five minutes, or whatever. Those twenty minutes are the reason you had to endure the terrible acting and the awful direction and the everything that comes before it. Incidentally, if he'd said, 'you know, I really wanted to make a *beep* up film based on child killings, and I wanted it to scare the *beep* out of you, and I hope I succeeded' I'd have far more respect for him than this BS 'I want people to be aware of the dangers of predators on the internet, blah blah blah'.
Wes Craven and Tobe Hooper never gave explanations for why they made Last House on the Left or Texas Chainsaw. They just wanted to freak people out and *beep* their *beep* up. Directors who give reasons are people I side eye.
Finally, the last twenty minutes really aren't all that scary. The shot of Megan in the bondage gear is not shocking or frightening, it's stupid and mean. As is the rape of Amy. It's there to freak you out, or, if you're a pervert, to get you going. The director is not stupid. He knows this. I don't like the film or the director and I just thought I'd put that out there.
If you haven't seen it, don't bother. The people who will find this an honest, scary film are, frankly, people who don't really watch horror as their primary genre.
Or they're little kids. Who shouldn't be watching this anyhow--not because of the subject matter, but because it's a *beep* movie. `
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"It's better not to know so much about what things mean." David Lynch