Truly awful story

Rating: 1/10 (8 July 2012)

A movie can be made well (cast & photography) and still not have a worthwhile story to tell. This is such a movie. If you enjoy brutal rape, forced incest, and a serial killer who tortures young women before he butchers them, then you will like this movie. If, instead, you are in the (apparently) shrinking population of movie goers who wish to come out of a movie feeling better, not worse about the human condition, then you should avoid this movie like the plague. It has 3 (not 1, not 2) separate unredeeming stories each more depressing than the one before it. What this movie is not is a mystery story. Because of Hollywood's inability to think beyond typecasting, as soon as I saw the opening credits I knew who "did it" even before I learned what the crime was. If you want to see female nudity in movies, I recommend porno films. At least the women in those appear to be having fun. This movie is for masochists who only enjoy inflicting pain on themselves, or sadists who enjoy seeing pain inflicted on others.