Trash of the worst kind

Rating: 2/10 (28 July 2006)

I saw this as a sneak preview. I don't go much for slashers, so I wouldn't have bothered otherwise.
The basic premise of the movie (sale of tourists to be tortured by rich people looking for the ultimate kick) I can't criticize, although, as I said, wouldn't draw me to the cinema.
The story is set in present day Slowakia and sadly, here the director makes himself guilty of a shameless lack of knowledge of, consideration or any form or respect for Slowakian people. This is not because the movie is set in Slowakia. It's because he wants us to believe the crude facts presented are common in that country and everybody living there is somehow or other involved in the unspeakable.
In a way this crude and ignorant superficiality is laughable, in another it's not. Especially knowing that Slowakia is a country filled with normal and mostly very kind people rather on the poorish side who can use the extra income from tourists.