TrueJoshNight Truly Dreadful Film

ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Doomtomylo a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

jery-tillotson-1 I hope our movie makers paid actress Nadja Brand some decent money because they sure to hell got their money's worth from her thespian and physical attributes. The camera catches huge close-ups of her bulging eyes, her moist nostrils, her flabby stomach, her matted hair. Most of all, they arrange for her to scream, shriek, slobber, groan, whimper, gasp and scream again through most of this grim, depressed tale of male monster who enjoys capturing women and hiding them out in the woods. To make things even worse, they bring in a SECOND female victim. And then she begins to out-scream the first woman! On and on she shrieks until finally even the psycho can't take it, so what does a good maniac do when the screaming won't stop: he cuts her tongue out. Hysterically, her only reaction is to glare at him--as if p... off that she can't shriek anymore. The Making of the movie shows how hideous the wintry conditions were while filming this dark saga on a tiny little budget. We viewers can only imagine the horrors it took to make this B-movie travesty--what with the nightmarish weather and the non-stop screaming of our female actresses.

ZombieSteak .com This movie begins with a brutal opening scene which sets a very dark and horrifying tone for the rest of the movie. I think what I loved most about Broken was the connection between the victim and villain. I don't want to get too much into the plot but the deeper and unspoken aspect of how the relationship worked between the two seemed so realistic to me that it made it much more real and creepy. This movie made it seem like this situation could happen to just anyone.I loved the main actress and thought she did a wonderful job playing the victim and then adjusting to her surroundings in order to be able to survive. Another thing that made it more realistic was she was just a normal woman. Gone was the Hollywood girls with big hair, short skirts and huge fake boobs. This was your average attractive woman, single mom, lonely and looking for love. She was human… not some airheaded college student who runs upstairs when the door is downstairs. She made this movie seem that much more real to me.I also found the camera work to be dark and despairing. They were outside, yet the atmosphere was dark and gray. It looked cold and everything looked sad and morbid.I truly enjoyed this movie. A very nice surprise for a movie that is super low budget. One thing I would like to add about this movie was that they were comparing it to Saw. I think that this comparison ruined the movie for some folks as they watched it expecting a Saw type thing and ended up watching something completely different, not even comparable. I don't know why they would make that comparison, it only seemed to hurt the reviews.Overall a great film that pulled me in right from the beginning.ZombieSteak.com - Discover a new world of horror films, designed just for you.

JoeKarlosi POSSIBLE SPOILERS (Read on -- believe me, it doesn't matter): A real low budget British stinker about a guy living in the woods who kidnaps women and knocks them out, and then puts them into boxes. When they become conscious they struggle to get free and when they do, he strings them up on a tree and they find out they have a razor blade stitched up inside their bellies. They have to rip themselves open, retrieve the blade, and then cut themselves down from the tree. One of these more durable chicks who survives is then chained to a tree for the entire movie in a period lasting some 40 days, and is forced to find a way to clean this guy's pots and pans with a dirty rag, and has to tend a tiny patch near her that's considered "the garden". If any plants die, she will regret it. A misogynistic movie (not that there's anything wrong with that) but with utterly pointless and uninspired nonsense that goes on for around 90 minutes, with no reasoning or meaning. * out of ****

Scarecrow-88 Harrowing story of a woman's fight for survival, kidnapped and taken to a wilderness by this cold-blooded misogynist(Eric Colvin)who wishes to "break" her into servitude, obeying him while he has her chained to a tree to tend a garden that will feed them. The woman is Hope(..interesting name, isn't it?), played effectively by Nadja Brand, run through the gamut of crisis, suffering physical(..the violence that results of being chosen by the devious jerk, including suffering when she attempts to escape)and emotional(..not knowing what has happened to her daughter, and not being able to pry her whereabouts and well being from the lips of her attacker) strife. The opening shows Hope's "initiation", it's either death or life, she's the deciding factor as she must remove the stitches from a gash in her stomach containing a razor blade which will cut the rope around her neck(..she's tied to a tree) that will hang her if not torn apart before the log under feet falls away. Her wounds treated by the sadist, Hope is then given commands by her captor to wash the pots and tend to a garden(..her life is threatened if the garden isn't kept in good condition), as she plans on ways to escape her situation. Soon another young woman is kidnapped, a wailing, screaming sort who is mortified of her current circumstances. Together, they are to keep the man happy or else, but neither will rest until they are free from captivity. While not as brutal as I was expecting, it is nonetheless quite difficult to watch at times. The opening act, as Hope frees herself from a hanging, by loosening the stitches, digging in her stomach for the razor blade to cut herself from the rope, is potent stuff. Then, after an attempted escape(..she slices his leg, just missing the tendon which would have left him a cripple), her leg is broken..while this act isn't as gory, you can just feel the anguish of it all. Amazing enough, she tends to the leg the best way she can, while he was away kidnapping another. But, over all, this film is about adjusting to the demands of a captor who holds your very life in his hands, and the mind games that occur between the two as a result. Colvin is quite imposing and quietly intense..when he snaps, human suffering is the cost for his rage. While, the film never quite gives us answers as to why this psycho does these things to innocent people, abduct them, put them through such turmoil, and force them into laboring for his benefit, I kind of figured it was to produce his own twisted form of a proper marriage, his control and their obedience. The final scene is just a bit too much, though, and seems to be put in the film to not let Hope off the leash..I guess it could be a punishment for abandoning her duties and responsibilities as the master's slave, not recognizing that he is her only family. But, still, hadn't she been through enough? Why treat her in such a fashion? I'm not against grim conclusions, or for watered down and pat victories for the victims, but if you spend over 90 minutes watching a tortured soul put through such a series of trials, waiting for her time to break free, do we have to see her so abused at the point of bliss?