Horror laid on with a trowel!!

Rating: 3/10 (7 April 2006)

Horror laid on with a trowel. Lacked the subtlety of good exponents of the genre. Torture for titillation, much to it's shame. Dull script and lacklustre acting to match. No substance to characters and no character development, which meant that you scarcely cared what happened to the main protagonists, a bit like the torture masters themselves. Couldn't help but think as I watched it that there was a better movie in there somewhere. What if the family of the first American boy who was killed commissioned a private investigator to go to Slovakia and find out what happened to him, with the story being told retrospectively. Or what if the second American boy who escaped was found mute and with no memory, and similarly a private investigator was sent to find out why. At least then there would be some interesting transition in the movie. What you actually got was something that felt like American Pie, then suddenly and hardly seamlessly, a trailer for the Silent Hill video game.