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Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:11 am
by Stark
Dissapointing and a little boring.

Well shot and cohesive, but I felt Quaid was too ridiculous to be taken seriously and I spent the whole moving waiting for him to meet the axe only to see him skip away happy and untouced at the end.

I have no idea why the ending was changed from the short, I felt it ruined what was an ok movie. I did like the addition of birthmark girl though... thought she was a very nice touch.

Posted: Wed Sep 02, 2009 1:00 pm
by fd
I really liked this. Well worth including and I made sure that I went up to the director to tell him that I thought it was the best straight horror in the festival so far.

I can appreciate why people didn't engage with it, but thought it was good concept and was well implemented, particularly the use of sound with the axe banging and the deaf guy's "re-deafening".

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:27 am
by macready
Meh. I remember loving the short story but this just dragged and didn't seem to be going anywhere for a long time. Not the worst Barker adaptation, but a long way from the best.

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:24 am
by zoltan
Another one of my faves of the weekend.
Not knowing what to expect having not read the short story or hearing that much about the film i found myself completley engrossed in it.
Fascinating subject matter as well.

Posted: Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:04 pm
by krispyg
I really did not like this at all

Posted: Fri Sep 04, 2009 5:25 pm
by Alex J
*** Possible spoilers ***

Dark and grim - so it went down well with me. However, if the director thought the "villain" had redeeming features that enabled the audience to empathise with him, then I didn't notice them. I would have tried to kill him long before the nominal hero attempted to, but maybe that's just me! 9 / 10

Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2009 4:10 pm
by odishon
Left me feeling underwhelmed as did last year's Book Of Blood.

Agree with others that it didn't feel realistic that anyone would continue participating in anything with such an obviously psychotic guy.

Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 9:21 pm
by AndyJWS
Can see how it's divisive, but personally loved it.

Was gripped throughout and found myself really connected to some of the characters - the culmination of the story of the girl with the birthmark was one of the most affecting scenes of the weekend for me.

Ironically, the short story seems almost more Hollywood in its happy(ish) ending!

The really scary thing, though, is how much further than that people will go in cooperating with psychological experiments - the Milgram experiment is probably the most well-known example...

Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 12:38 pm
by Jim Fear
AndyJWS wrote:Can see how it's divisive, but personally loved it.
I agree with you there. Not having read the short story, I didn't know what to expect, but was intrigued throughout as to where it would end. Although, I must agree with the other postings about why the other characters concerns weren't raised by such on obvious psychopath as Quaid.

Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 10:07 pm
by Goggs
Help!!

I'm not going to comment about how awesome this film was (face it - it was :-) ) but can anyone remember what the piece of music over the final scene was?

I've been arguing over this for a while and just need someone to back me up please.

Thanks!