The most talked about, shocked about contentiously divisive chiller at this year’s Cannes Film Festival was director Pascal Laugier’s esoteric development of an everyday tabloid headline into a blood-freezing nightmare underworld. A disturbing uncompromising work of extreme violence and challenging ideas it tells the spine-tingling tale of the twisted revenge taken by a psychologically devastated girl on a family she’s convinced kept her captive for years. But as her best friend finds out beyond all human suffering, the truth is a more complex exploration of the true meaning of martyrdom. Multiply Inside by Frontier(s) and Switchblade Romance for the full force impact of Laugier’s French masterpiece. A viscerally audacious, ballsy piece of brilliant filmmaking this astounding blend of the surreal, excessive, repulsive and the totally unpredictable is absolutely 2008’s most unforgettable and controversial horror experience. You are advised to prepare yourself for its strangely beautiful, utterly thrilling and profoundly astounding shock conclusion.