well i'd heard the hype and we had to see for ourselves.. my feelings on this film are pretty mixed....yes it did horrify me.. it was plainly over the top gratuitous violence mainly aimed at sexually abusing young women, as they were his true targets...
the men were that annoying nuisance that the Aussie looney saved his lingering filthy looks for, and rather than take the trouble to abuse them himself.. left them strung up as meat for his ravenous pit bulls.. don't they have eucanuba in Australia?? sorry glib joke there thought the film was atmospheric and well filmed.. liked the casual acting.. and i really hoped that all three adventurers would get away... seems really topical since a young girl from my home town was murdered while travelling in thailand just recently... and the chilling fact that 30.000 people go missing in Australia each year..90% will turn up safe but that 10% is still chilling sobering numbers...this film should serve as a warning to back packers travelling abroad if nothing else...
anyway i digress.....the villain of the film was so believable and spooked me because darned if i haven't had encounters with similar crazy people..you know in the middle of a conversation when it suddenly dawns on you that the person is absolutely nuts.. hairs on your neck stick up etc...
the campfire scene is excruciating as his madness and violent leanings show through more and more... and then the awful chilling silence look at ben... i'd be gone by then folks...
but then they all lie down and go to sleep...unbelievable.. i thought, until i realised they had been drugged...because there was NO WAY in gods sweet earth that i would have closed my eyes around that guy!!! moving on i was cursing at the TV when the girl just bashes him on his back with the gun...dialogue in my living room at that time went something like this.....KILL HIM....BASH HIS HEAD WITH A BRICK...FIND HIS KNIFE AND CUT HIS HEAD OFF..DO NOT LEAVE THAT GARAGE UNTIL HE IS DISMEMBERED....i mean look about.. there is a dead womans body tacked to the wall.. your best friend has been raped and tortured by him...this is an absolute beast that should be culled for the good of man kind... i wouldn't stop until i could throw his head 100 yards...
but no...she leaves him intact and ready to butcher and destroy them....and why didn't she roll his car down the cliff too.. it might have fallen on him...but failing that it would have slowed him down...
the scene in the car when hes in the back seat...didn't i see that in house of wax when Paris hilton meets her ending??? again how did he know which car to hide in....
and finally if it is based on a true story...we can discount everything that happened to the girls anyway as all ben knew was waking up hanging on nails in a shed.. no doubt something awful did befall them, but it was all supposition and gory poetic licence in truth...made up to sell the movie....
although i thought it was a good gory horror movie.. it was also very disturbing...i certainly don't crave it in my collection.. but to the movie makers they achieved what they set out to do....a truly horrific horror movie...
the men were that annoying nuisance that the Aussie looney saved his lingering filthy looks for, and rather than take the trouble to abuse them himself.. left them strung up as meat for his ravenous pit bulls.. don't they have eucanuba in Australia?? sorry glib joke there thought the film was atmospheric and well filmed.. liked the casual acting.. and i really hoped that all three adventurers would get away... seems really topical since a young girl from my home town was murdered while travelling in thailand just recently... and the chilling fact that 30.000 people go missing in Australia each year..90% will turn up safe but that 10% is still chilling sobering numbers...this film should serve as a warning to back packers travelling abroad if nothing else...
anyway i digress.....the villain of the film was so believable and spooked me because darned if i haven't had encounters with similar crazy people..you know in the middle of a conversation when it suddenly dawns on you that the person is absolutely nuts.. hairs on your neck stick up etc...
the campfire scene is excruciating as his madness and violent leanings show through more and more... and then the awful chilling silence look at ben... i'd be gone by then folks...
but then they all lie down and go to sleep...unbelievable.. i thought, until i realised they had been drugged...because there was NO WAY in gods sweet earth that i would have closed my eyes around that guy!!! moving on i was cursing at the TV when the girl just bashes him on his back with the gun...dialogue in my living room at that time went something like this.....KILL HIM....BASH HIS HEAD WITH A BRICK...FIND HIS KNIFE AND CUT HIS HEAD OFF..DO NOT LEAVE THAT GARAGE UNTIL HE IS DISMEMBERED....i mean look about.. there is a dead womans body tacked to the wall.. your best friend has been raped and tortured by him...this is an absolute beast that should be culled for the good of man kind... i wouldn't stop until i could throw his head 100 yards...
but no...she leaves him intact and ready to butcher and destroy them....and why didn't she roll his car down the cliff too.. it might have fallen on him...but failing that it would have slowed him down...
the scene in the car when hes in the back seat...didn't i see that in house of wax when Paris hilton meets her ending??? again how did he know which car to hide in....
and finally if it is based on a true story...we can discount everything that happened to the girls anyway as all ben knew was waking up hanging on nails in a shed.. no doubt something awful did befall them, but it was all supposition and gory poetic licence in truth...made up to sell the movie....
although i thought it was a good gory horror movie.. it was also very disturbing...i certainly don't crave it in my collection.. but to the movie makers they achieved what they set out to do....a truly horrific horror movie...