This movie horrified me more than any other

Rating: 8/10 (24 January 2006)

I have seen many horror films. I am a college film student and an enormous fan of horror films. I am also a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom and have seen a number of truly cruel and brutal acts inflicted upon people. I feel it necessary to include this preamble when I think of how I felt when I saw this movie.
First off, all of the sex in the first 45 or however many minutes of this movie were completely irrelevant to me.
What got to me was how realistic the nature of violent human cruelty was portrayed. After I watched this movie, I felt a renewed disturbance to my core as to how human beings could do such horrible things to each other. I would prefer to just delude myself and think that such things don't happen, but I know better. If you read a bit of honest history, you will hopefully understand this statement: the most horrible things that you can possibly imagine being done, have already been done.
This movie disturbed me so greatly because it made the idea of the Elite Hunting club seem completely plausible. The depictions of utter domination, cruelty, torture and murder do not look to me like a mere movie; they are a reflection of a horrible potential that may lie in all of us.