Interesting idea

Rating: 7/10 (1 November 2006)

I do admire this film for its original ideas and concepts. It manages to not just frighten the audience with its shocking intense gore and violence but also manages to slowly freak out the audience when it puts the characters in sick disturbing situations, like the guy in a cage full of razor blades or the woman that has to dig for keys in a guys stomach (he wakes up). This is one of the first horror films to cause such a scare but with the killer not actually coming in contact with his victims. He doesn't just do that but he also creates a situation when his victims have to kill each other, thats the most disturbing part in my opinion. I also admire the fact that there are more or less two stories going on at the same time throughout the whole film. The main plot with two trapped victims and then the two cops trying to catch the killer. I think horrors manage to create more terror and intensity if they follow the same characters through the film but in a fatal and horrible situation, and thats exactly what this film does. It also manages to give a very detailed background story of all the main characters. One last good point about this film is the acting, i think the acting is very realistically portrayed and intense. One bad thing about this films that it has its corny scenes and also seems to have slightly typical (horror) Hollywood film characters. All in all i think this film is a masterpiece in its own right and a classic original film for the horror collection. If you like horror films you should 100% see this film, and if you don't like horrors see it anyway.