soon to be a cult movie

Rating: 9/10 (13 October 2012)

This movie is an absolute surprise! It starts as a dumb teen horror flick but then mutates" into something that looks like a Truman show rip-off only to end up like nothing you have ever seen before. It's an astonishingly original genre mix that is multi layered in its storyline as well as in its ideas and plays clever with clichés, stereotypes and archetypes.
It's thrilling from beginning to end; full of ideas - sometimes too many to handle - you keep guessing what way the movie will turn and - unlike so many movies these days - you're not going to be right, not even in the last minute. Of course it's not flawless: Maybe at times it is just over the top, I mean flashy exaggeration of gore – in the best tradition of American movies.
One could say it's a typical movie of our times because it is a synthesis of sociocultural phenomenons such as game and reality shows, big brother voyeurism, video games and phony politicians. It is in fact a cleverly disguised satire of all these phenomenons and at the same time a satire of its main genre, the horror movie itself.