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'real footage' doesn't work for this film

posted 12 years ago by fumusic
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why would the prisoner still be lugging a camcorder whilst on the run?
why would she be filming the stripper in front whilst running? even if you did decide to carry the camcorder, wouldn't you just swing the thing all over the place as you are running?
she was also stupid enough to be filming the guards when she was supposedly meant to be hiding from them! who does that?
the director might argue that he wouldn't have a movie if the girls didn't film everything. the "real footage" way of filming has been done to death and doesn't make sense in this kind of movie. it's pretentious, lazy, and irritating.

[–] namaGemo 11 years ago

I'm watching it now, and I honestly don't get the point of filming it this way either.

[–] Ceephax 11 years ago

the "real footage" way of filming has been done to death and doesn't make sense in this kind of movie. it's pretentious, lazy, and irritating.

I think you hit the nail on the head there. There was a potentially great little b movie horror somewhere, I thought the story was pretty original and disturbing, the idea of 'sinners' being kidnapped by religous zealots (psychos) and forced to pay their sins in some abandoned hospital, but the handy-cam technique was indeed lazy and didn't even work, it focused too much on female torture porn that it ended up as kinda misogynistic (so we get to see naked women stripping AND being tortured, huzzah!) bargain bin trash and the main lead was totally wasted (character wise).

A poor man's 'Martyrs', says I.

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[–] CountOroku01 11 years ago

it focused too much on female torture porn that it ended up as kinda misogynistic (so we get to see naked women stripping AND being tortured, huzzah!) bargain bin trash and the main lead was totally wasted (character wise).

A poor man's 'Martyrs', says I.

Unlike Martyrs, this one had a happy ending. And we need more films with nekkid girls getting tortured.