Then come the moral dilemmas about exploitation and greed. A sadomasochistic torturer tricks teen victims by making dates with them on the Internet in this sicker than usual horror flick. This one could cause nightmares, with its creepy psychosexual themes and scenes of near-naked women and men being tortured. He's the former lead singer for the heavy metal group Twisted Sister, and he wrote the script and plays the crazed villain. It's well acted and handsomely filmed, but not a great choice for kids under 15.
Characters use cocaine, drink, curse, hurl ethnic slurs and sexual innuendo, fight and get shot.
The violence is all understated, but there is a highly upsetting scene in which thugs kidnap and terrorize an African American man. Denis Leary plays the protagonist, a small-time thief working for the Charlestown crime boss. He wants to get out from under the crime, the killings and the conspiracy of silence with which his cohorts stymie police.