 
A troubled young woman
Faith (Amy Shiels) tries to get
away from her abusive boyfriend Jimmy as
she is tormented in her nightmares about
it all.
Her friend Cathy (Antonia Bernath) takes
her out to a dance bar in which she meets
a woman Lola (Lucy Holt) whom is
harrassed by her date and all of them get
aquainted as Lola invites Faith to her
farmhouse in which she doesn't get along
with her family there.
Faith agrees to move in to change her
life around. However, things seem a
little strange as Faith nor anyone else
isn't allowed to enter a slaughterhouse
barn which is always locked and run by
Lola's father Jorgen (David Sterne) in
which there's a dark secret on the family
and she investigates.
Well this film was
inspired by true events which looked very
convincing from the beginning as there's
a good close up camera shot on her answering a phone with a
wide eyed shocked reaction after
discovering who's on the phone and
choking out her wondering how the caller
got her number and then someone is banging
on her door with a good camera shot on
her looking through the peep hole to see
who it is.
Then a body
being hauled off the lake in which the
settings on this was totally dark and
creepy and it is entertaining I must say
especially a nightmare sequence with the
main woman named Faith and her
ex-boyfriend Jimmy who is stalking her to
how far he'd go in order to get her to
listen to him. Some of this reminded me
of the history on Ed Gein.
A good scene between Faith and Cathy in her bathtub
having a discussion about her ex
boyfriend and Lola speaking her
mind about him to her which looked quite
strongly done with good camera shots on
them around the bathtub.
There's nice circling camera shots
surrounding both Faith and Cathy on a dance floor having a good time
which looked crisply done.
There's also many other moments involving
Faith and her friend Lola having fun
hanging out which almost seemed like a
suggested lesbian love moment which
doesn't explain if these two women were
closeted or not. It was very confusing.
There's many good moments with the farm
area and Faith spotting stuff that seems
almost creepy and mysterious like as if
something just isn't right like the
slaughterhouse barn along with her having
a conversation with the family child Cort
telling her about trespassing in the barn
on what his grandpa would do which looks
impressive.
A good close up shot on an axe
being grinded as well as shots on pigs
panicking running around while spotting
this.
There's a good creepy shot on Faith walking into a barn with pigs exploring
and then a good moment with her falling
and then running out.
A nice touching conversation between Faith and little Cort having a discussion as well as good shots
on them in the field catching fireflies.
Then there's a nice camera shot looking
down on her picking up something covering
a slaughtered pig and her almost getting
shocked and sick which looked nice and
suspensefully done.
A good shot looking up on Faith walking in the slaughterhouse barn with
pigs parts on hooks. Then a good shot
on her running away after spotting
something creepy opening the barn door
and then a great shot on Jorgen outside whacking her in the head which
looked quite brutal.
Good close up shots on Faith's eyes while being dragged as well as a
good distance shot on a pier by a lake
with Jorgen tying her up and
throwing her in a lake.
Good shots on Faith struggling under water trying to break
free and looking up trying to swim up
which looked incredibly suspenseful on
how all of this was shot.
There are also good creepy moments with
the family man Jorgen chaining Faith and
trying to drown her as well as Lola
rescuing her and then torturing her with
objects which almost has a Saw psychological type of feel to it.
A good close up shot on her tied up with shots on Jorgen about to be hung and then Lola torturing her
with poking sharp objects into her skin
which showed a great close up shot on
that as well as her getting some pliers
to take out some of her teeth and acting
menacing about it which looked truly
intense.
Plus we see many struggling moments with
Lola and Faith which kinda seems mind
twisting as if this killer has given up
the innocent survivor doesn't kill her to
finish her off and then the battle begins
once again.
Great shots on both Faith and supporting character Kyle running away to the door of a
barn to get away from a maniac which
looked well paced with the shots on this
as well as them trying to run to a
vehicle.
There's a good moment with her panicking when a supporting character Jimmy comes up
to her and grabbing Faith getting threatening towards her while
there's a great intense moment with her trying to talk to him about the dangers
that are happening.
There's also moments with Lola shooting
her family which almost seems to be
influential on the real life killings on
the DeFeo's in their house at Amityville.
Bottom line is the scene's looked strong
with a decent budget but yet the story
doesn't explain itself too well like it
does with the told plotline which seems
to show alot of leaky holes throughout
the picture. You don't know as to why
this family man Jorgen drowns people nor
do you know why his daughter Lola ends up
killing her family. To top it all off
Faith who invites Lola to her farm
doesn't explain herself too well either
but just briefly about her history
relationship with her family which seemed
unpleansant. Yet it does take time to
figure out the pieces that Lola is a
maniac who hates her demented family
which is the reason to kill her family.
It goes to show on being careful with who
you trust. Still, there were alot of
improvements needed for this flick let me
tell ya.
The acting is not
too bad in which lead actress Amy
Shiels (Faith) seemed to bring her
characterisitcs into good shape as
someone who is disturbed about her past
and showing a good sensitivity and fear
to what's happening around her. Showed off good
grossed out expressions when entering a slaughterhouse with slaughtered pigs. She also
knew on how to have a calm and soothing
attitude too. She also seems to do not
too bad with her screaming and intensity
with the terror surrounding her in which
she seemed to show alot of energy for all
of this.
Antonia Bernath (Cathy) really brought on
her protective attitude as well as
speaking her mind a great deal type of
personality reminding you of one of those
good people with a good strong behavior.
She also does a good job when she is
emotional too.
Lucy Holt (Lola) really brought it in with
her psychotic behavior really speaking
very rough and aggressive as well as
knowing on how to act menacing too with
the tools she uses to torture or kill
others. She was a perfect horror
character actress in the film. She really
brings it up with the terror involved in
the storyline and proving a woman can be
a demented killer than just a guy all the
time.
Maxim Knight (Cort) really brought on a
nice cute kid charm to his role in which
makes you wonder as to why he's a part of
a psychotic family with his innocent
attitude in which he really brought all
of that to life and knew how to portray a
typical little kid doing fun activities.
David Sterne (Jorgen) really had the right
looks as a demented family man farmer and
really came across as intimidating in
which he really didn't have much lines in
the movie and didn't need to for his part
in the story. He was truly mean looking.
Pigs bodies are
butchered and hung on hooks
Some teeth are pulled out
Body parts and bones are revelead while
being fed to the pigs
There's alot of
metal scraping sound effects as well as
windy sounds with many loud bumping
sounds too which works well for the real
dark scene's that were shown here all
composed by Justin Caine Burnett
which sounds quite effective indeed. |
