A
filmmaker Steven (Steve Porter)
films a horror flick at a closed down
institution next to the Russian border
that was closed down during the 1970's in
which one of the people who worked there
named Doctor Anderson who made a number
of snuff films while killing his mental
patients.
Steve wants to make a film based on this
on present day as he hires an actress
named Lisa (Rita Suomalainen) who
promises her to be the next scream queen
rising to stardom as well as a famous
b-film actor Bruce (David Yoken)
who seems to be very focused on himself
but yet charming. However Steven is not
satisfied with his shooting as it doesn't
seem realistic enough.
Yet, he finds these snuff films that was
hidden in the asylum basement and becomes
overly obsessed by them and also
experiences hauntings at this institution
in which he slowly becomes possessed and
acting more obnoxious with the people
he's working with.
Then he becomes incredibly insane by
killing everyone who is working on set
and filming this repeating everything
that was written into his film rewriting
his script to be like this.
The film shows an
interesting start with someone trying to
get help at a hospital for her injured
boyfriend and one of the nurses answering
the door with alot of strange going ons
as well as noises outside that sounds
unusual which leaves an impression that
she went to the wrong place which seems
chilling.
There's some jumping moments when a room
seems quiet with doors having a slider on
it for patients and one of them opening
it going nuts really breaking the silence
seems to work well for this flick.
Then suddenly there is something
terrifying about what goes on in the
hospital and the employees catch on while
chasing after this girl who tries to run
away and hide in the hospital which keeps
you in suspense wondering if she will
make it out alive. Then she discovers her
boyfriend half slaughtered and barely
alive pressuring her to kill him to get
rid of the pain which is not a nice
feeling at all and good peer pressuring
moments. Sometimes it's even hard for
people who aren't into hard core horror
flicks to sit through this. Next, we find
out that this is just a motion picture
that someone is filming a movie and yells
cut which seems to lose all the suspense
on what happens next but yet is a good
one in which this seems to happen with a
film in a film.
Then there's nice settings on the
happenings behind the scene's like the
actors having more make up prepped on
their face and trying to be funny as well
as the director Steve discussing to
someone about fanancial issues on his
cell phone in which is a tough one to
watch for viewers who are trying to make
movies themselves. There's also good
discussions with Steve talking to his
lead actress Lisa about being the next
Jamie Lee Curtis which impressed me since
she was the common scream queen during
the beginning of her acting career.
But with all of this I really wondered if
this film was actually a horror flick or
filmmakers doing a horror flick. I kept
watching as I almost figured out that
something was going to happen and it does
as Steve goes into a room no one knew
about where psychopaths filmed their
snuff films as he seems to get obsessed
over it which does leave a good
impression that he will slowly go crazy
over it as well as prjecting the snuff
films for everyone to watch in which
they're too grossed out.
Then there's Steve trying to get it on
with the lead actress by formicating with
her but yet close to strangling her until
she kicks him out of her trailer in which
we need a nice lustful moment in the
flick. Then afterwards Steve experiences
ghostly encounters in the abandoned ward
they are filming in which was one of my
favourite scene's since it looked spooky
and right away I knew that this was an
instant horror film and something bad was
going to happen.
Then Steve gets more obnoxious as well as
planning his next shooting temtoing to
tell one of his actors to actually kill
the other one like it's scripted with
good shocking reactions on the other
one's and I think to myself that he is
definetely going insane as well as him
being insulting to everyone and putting
his film on hold till he let's everyone
think of wehat they will do with
themselves. This was well written as one
of those types who are not easy to get
along with in the film industry.
The story gets more and more powerful and
more disturbing as Steve becomes very
possessed and into a madman which is a
perfect taste for a story like this
actually making his own snuff films
making you think that they were only
making a horror film and now it's a real
life horror in order to survive this in
which he uses a chainsaw on one of his
actors tied down and showing the real
thing with the results as both Tobe
Hooper and Herschell Gordon
Lewis will definetely take a nod to.
Also he plays a game of cat and mouse
with everyone telling them what he's
going to do next while they try to escape
his wrath which even involves forces to
killing one another to survive as this is
hard to watch if you don't like
psychological horror films.
There's also scene's of two lesbian
lovers but one of them fornicated with
Steve which seems quite confusing as she
seems to be sitting on a fence big time.
It didn't really fit into the story
explaining as to why she was swinging
both ways. Well it's called being
bisexual but the story was strong enough
to convince that this woman was a lesbian
regardless.
Bottom line is that the writers seems to
be heavily influenced on the Saw movies while they wrote this flick along
with other horror films that involved
torture but the formula did very well on
this one but it had a bad ending which
was a disappointment making the movie
pointless. Yet with all the other stuff
that was happening the film is quite good
and a must for anyone who enjoys
supernatural forces, horror violence and
psychological moments here and there.
The acting is quite well
done for the most part but barely any of
the actors stand out since alot is
happening but I will try my best to see
which one's were noticeable... Let's see
here... Rita Suomalainen (Lisa)
portrays the lead role as the main
actress and a promising scream queen. She
seems to pull off her part okay but she's
nothing overly special. Still she does
her job and passes at it. A great shocked reaction on her after spotting a corpse.
Steve Porter (Steve) stole the film
with his performance as an aggressive
director in the film really bringing out
great characteristics in his role. He
knew how to have a confident attitude
during the beginning of his performance
making him a likeable guy and then slowly
losing his sanity in which he shows
terrific energy by doing so. Then he
brought out great aggressions when he
slowly becomes possessed really turning
his ways around and showing a great
versatality. He brings out alot of
terrific evilness in his role when he
behaves like a maniac killer especially
with a chainsaw in his hand. Great intense moments with him trying to shoot a movie and going to the
extreme with his demanding attitute
towards everyone and getting crude as
well as telling them they're taking a
break till they get it right which looked
incredibly psychologically performed. Does well reacting evilly
towards all of this which looked quite
powerful.
Anna Alkiomaa (Anna) seemed to do
okay with her insecurities in her part of
the film as well as showing an emotional
attitude too. She was really high strung
when she freaks out about all that's
happening when her and the fellow cast
members lives are at stake.
David Yoken (Bruce) had a real
effective supporting role in the film
playing an outgoing actor in which he
really brings on some good wit, charm and
spunk to all he had into his role. He
offered alot of interesting
characteristics onto the set of the film
and can get more work due to his role in
this one.
There's a brief butt shot
on Rita Suomalainen while she is
fornicating as well as a good butt shot
on Steve Porter and then a shot
on his butt while walking out of a
trailer.
A half corpse is revealed
A body's arms and legs are chopped off
People are being stabbed an tortured on
snuff films with gruesome results like
gore coming out of a person's ear or
other situations like that.
There's a person being chopped in half by
a chainsaw
A person's head is cut open and bloodied
Cuts start going into people's bodies
Someone is bloodily bashed by a spiked
bat
A person is fried to the crisp with
lights floating down on him
Another body's arms and legs are chopped
off
A head is on the ground in a pool of
blood
There's many violent bloodshed's here and
there throughout the film
The classical
composing for this film was powerful with
alot of deep violin playing sounding low
and almost gloomy as well as some heavy
trumpet playing too. There's also dark
screeching sounds and some monaing
effects too. Plus during a scene with the
maniac filmmaker entering a door with a
chainsaw there's some chanting sounds too
which was a great plus. |
