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In some ways, this film is almost like Eli Roth's "Knock Knock" (2015)...


... but with a male TEEN victim as the hands of one (attractive but still criminally wrong) female character and abuser instead of the grown up adult Keanu Reeves' and at the hands of two young ladies in that movie. Agree?

Also, although the film is overall average at best, around a 4 or MAXIMUM 5 out of 10 I will give it, I dare say, in an oddly disturbing and weird sort of gender reversal and otherwise way, its worth a look if you can find it but keep those expectations low.

In some ways, it also plays like a confused, darkly humorous and also more silly version of something like the late Alexey Balabanov's gritty and disturbing Russian Soviet Union allegory "Cargo 200" (2007) albeit in America and with again female perpetrator and male victim.

And comparisons to "L.I.E." (2001) and "Hard Candy" (2005) can be somewhat valid, but it lacks again the seriousness and intellect of the first and the social comment meets vigilante justice theme of the last - although its also a very different film to "Hard Candy" because in HC, it was the guilty male perpetrator who was an "asshole victim" at the hands of the young wannabe vigilante who wanted to simply hurt and destroy him for his deeds and all, whereas in this film, the lady in question kidnaps a young teen for her crazy "love" and self gratification and it looks at a somewhat unusual side usually absent from related film genre categories.

But its not meant to be taken too seriously either.

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I would like to see this. I liked Knock Knock and Hard Candy. I'll keep an eye out for this one.

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Give it a look if you like both movies. :)

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