Well, this movie certainly divided the public...

Rating: 7/10 (19 March 2006)

First of all, Eli Roth absolutely loves Takashi Miike and the Japanese horror "hype" , so to say. The prime idea for this movie was inspired by Miike's "Odishon". These two movies are absolutely not comparable with each other, because "Odishon" is very deep, dark, and traumatic piece of cinema. But, can we really say that Roth has done a bad job when doing this movie? I say no. This movie does exactly to the viewer what it should do. Relaxes him completely to the state of being just an ordinary movie, and then... bam! Shock. The last 20-30 minutes of the film is great. Great F/X , great disgusting ideas and environment, gloomy atmosphere, etc. I thought Americans would love this movie best, but it seems i was very, very wrong. To finish this review, i'd like to say that Roth has some really great ideas, and hopefully will convert them to the big screen maybe slightly better. By seeing a lot of junk a long way back, primarily American cinema, this can never be treated as a bad movie. No way.