Seed Movie
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TAGLINES PLOT SUMMARY
After a seemingly undead man is bound and buried alive, he digs himself back to the surface and seeks bloody vengeance on those who caused him his suffering.
| Michael Paré | Detective Matt Bishop |
| Will Sanderson | Max Seed |
| Ralf Moeller | Warden Arnold Calgrove |
| Jodelle Ferland | Emily Bishop |
| Thea Gill | Sandra Bishop |
| Andrew Jackson | Dr. Parker Wickson |
| Brad Turner | Larry Thompson |
| Phillip Mitchell | Simpson |
| Mike Dopud | Flynn |
| John Sampson | Officer D. Ward |
| Tyron Leitso | Jeffrey |
| Michael Eklund | Executioner |
| John Hainsworth | Witness |
| Vincent Walker | Inmate #1 |
| William 'Big Sleeps' Stewart | Inmate #2 |
| Uwe Boll |
2.40 out of 10 (3358 votes)
Visitor Reviews
Not a pleasant movie
posted on 15 Jul 2009As a horror movie fan, you'd think I have no boundaries to what I can view. The Joker's magic trick in the Dark Knight (I know, not a horror movie) gives me a grin as wide as his, the kid being squished by the pane of glass in Final Destination 2 had me jumping out of my seat to hoot and holler, and the shotgun suicide in Hills Have Eyes? I had to rewind it to view it twice.5 minutes into this movie, I'm having to look away, cover my ears and hit the fast forward button.I will not go into details of what happened as it's too depressing for me to remember. But what does happen in the opening sets the mood for the rest of the movie. It's definitely not your average slasher movie, because of the mood set for it, it just shuts you up and does not have you hot and holler (closest was the killing of the security guards in his jail cell, but that's it). I have to give Uwe Boll some props. He's still far from the best filmmaker in the world, but this is showing some maturity from a guy who makes some unfaithful adaptations of video games. But the rewatchable factor of this movie is absolutely zero.You wont find me saying this a lot, but if you do hoot and holler during the movie (besides the jail cell scene), I do not consider you human. If you do not want to feel absolutely depressed after watching a movie, avoid this.
the most disturbing movie i have ever seen
posted on 27 Jun 2009Hello. this is my first review for any movie i have seen. i went through the trouble of doing this to tell everyone that this is quite literally, the most disgusting movie i have ever seen. I feel like the movie was porely made, which i will give some understanding due to budget constraints on making it. I felt like i was watching a very bad remake of the movie saw. Which i can agree, saw as well is also very graphic, but, i did like the movie saw.The scene where he takes the hammer to the head of the tied up victim in the chair is the most disturbing scene i have seen. the scene lasted almost forever, well actually, it was probably around 5 min but still. i want to note that i like some horror movies and i do give credit if they are good. this director uwe boll, and his group of people used to make this movie should think it over before making another one similar to this one. one final note haha!! FOR ALL THE PEOPLE WHO ENJOY WATCHING ANIMALS BEATIN TO DEATH, LETTING ROT, WITH WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS WELL AND A FIVE MINUTE SCENE OF SOMEONE GETTING THERE HEAD SMASHED IN WITH A HAMMER then you will enjoy this movie, if not, and you like horror, go with a higher budget film, like saw for example. I cant believe people actually make movies like this. anyway sorry to anyone who loves uwe boll and took it to heart, this is just my opinion on the movie.
Dull and confused
posted on 11 Jun 2009Uwe Boll's own concoction about a serial killer jolted in the electric chair, buried alive who crawls out of the grave to get revenge on those who wronged him. Weakest, blandest and dullest of Boll's films. Frankly if one has seen some of his other films one would be hard pressed to day he made it, especially since he's been rapidly becoming a filmmaker of of some ability. Actually he's always been able to put a film together better than this. The story is confused and frankly I had no idea what was going on. Its not much of anything, which is odd because even when Boll has made a crappy movie (house of the Dead) there was something to engage you even it was disbelief. Here there is nothing.
Outstanding
posted on 30 May 2009(Some spoilers. Not the ending though.)Like most audience members, I walked into the cinema expecting to watch one of the worst films ever made. Uwe Boll's reputation precedes him wherever he goes. In fact, I was looking forward to laughing along with the (extremely small) audience at the bad horror film hijinks at this year's NYCHFF. However, just when I thought I knew what I was getting into, Uwe Boll's film turned me around and suckerpunched me.This film wasn't filled with gore (like most of today's "torture-porn" subgenre) apart from the hammer scene, which actually detracted from my viewing experience because the CGI effects weren't particularly well-done. (Although I have to commend Boll for attempting to show a particularly gruesome death in one shot.) Most of the death sequences happen off-screen or in darkness. Boll was at his best towards the beginning of the film when the cops gather around the television monitor to watch an infant starve to death over a period of about five agonizing minutes. I've sat through hundreds of horror films but that scene (a scene without any special effects) made me want to weep. Boll doesn't even have to show anything; he only needs the sounds of the infant's escalating cries while it crawls helplessly around the room. When a director's willing to murder an infant on camera, that's when you know that you have someone who's not afraid to pull punches. And not just in the boxing ring.And that's what makes SEED such a standout. Boll's going to broke on this one. All of the characters previously deemed safe in horror films (such as small children) are up for grabs. On Friday night, Eli Roth commented on the alternate ending to HOSTEL, saying that he couldn't bring himself to slit the little girl's throat. Boll has no such compunctions and, in my opinion, that's what makes his film so much more difficult to watch. And what an ending! I think it's an ending that you see coming but you just can't believe that he's going to actually go there. So well done.Don't judge until you've seen this film. I think that you'll be pleasantly surprised.
The best horror thriller to come out in a long while!
posted on 28 May 2009After being captured by a detective following a string of hideous violent murders, a serial killer named SEED, is put on death row & given the chair, but when it fails to kill him, the law decides to bury him alive, when Seed gets out, he continues his bloody killing spree, but his main targets are those that were involved in his attempted execution. SEED is an extremely violent horror film, that makes no apologies or excuses for what it is, unlike many current slasher characters, SEED is a villain you definitely won't be cheering for, he's an uncaring violent psychopath that gives the word "monster" a bad name. The film is well acted, directed & pretty tight when it comes to the suspense & scares. The films many images of murder & violent torture are sometimes tough to watch, but the film makes for a fascinating viewing nonetheless & I really do mean it when I say the film is one of the best horror thrillers I've seen come out in a while. Uber hated filmmaker UWE BOLL really has created a truly disturbing thriller that really gets in your face, with an ending that is suspenseful, & very tragic & disturbing & dark, but is a major change from the norm from the usual happy endings we get for our horror films. Currently the rating for this film is 2.3 or 2.2 on IMDb & I strongly disagree with that rating, many fans & critics have unfairly bashed this movie (Much like all of UWE BOLL's movies) & I highly doubt most of the reviewers have even seen the movie or never intended to give this movie a chance in the first place & already had a negative review intended, regardless on whether or not they thought it was a good movie. As for me, if I like a movie, I'm going to tell people I like it & if I don't, I'll tell them I didn't like it, because I will not write a review based on how popular or unpopular a certain actor/writer/producer/directors films may be, plain & simple, nor will I jump on any band wagon whether it's good or bad that praises or brings down anyone involved in the film business, no matter how popular it is (or how unpopular it makes me with everybody) like the current bandwagon many film critics & fans have joined against Uwe. Though I am curious as to why if they think his movies are so terrible, all the Boll bashers continue to see his movies, if I hated some filmmakers work & thought each film he or she done was down right terrible, I'd avoid their movies & not see each & ever single film they done just so I could bash them with negative reviews. Honestly I really do think that if fate were different & Uwe had directed CITIZEN KANE or THE GODFATHER after movies like HOUSE OF THE DEAD, they'd still bash him & work to get those movies at the bottom 100 on IMDb. Avoid all the negative reviews & give this film a chance, or better yet rent it with another slasher film like I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER or SCREAM & see what movie leaves a lasting impression on you many days after.**** stars
Some good gore, but otherwise useless
posted on 26 May 2009I just finished watching Seed and I have to say I was very disappointed.When I first heard about this film I thought there was a lot in store for Max Seed to become another great horror legend, but I was sadly mistaken.The fact is, Max Seed had a good character, but his supporting characters pulled him down with him.Between the very unexciting acting of most of the victims and the horrible "father loves his daughter" scene which was pointless in its attempt to try and build a bond with the audience as a caring and loving father figure, this movie didn't go over well with me at all.
The human waste
posted on 06 May 2009Consider for a moment what it must be like to be Uwe Boll. Somewhere, perhaps in those places that Jack Nicholson said 'you don't talk about at parties', Boll knows that David Lean had head lice as a child that had more talent for film making than him. Gore Whores, metal-heads and the socially dysfunctional may bump into him on the circuit and tell him otherwise but general audiences find the Teutonic helmsman's output so bereft of originality, wit or imagination that he's become the internet's bogeyman – an online discursive synonym for photochemical excrement. Boll does his best to ride over these naysayers, exploiting tax credits available in Germany and Canada to keep working and raising money from a network of dentists as Zero Mostel did with old ladies in The Producers. The difference being that Mostel's character knew he was making bowel fill. Maybe Uwe knows it too.Such is the level of hostility toward each new 'Bollbuster' that IMDb patrons sabotage their ratings by voting 1 before they've seen it. Boll's attempts at silencing his critics by challenging them to a boxing match and knocking them out just made them more determined. Indeed he's probably the only filmmaker that's boosted thesaurus sales as critics search for inventive ways of describing garbage.This onslaught has made Uwe a very thick skinned man, so much so that he must feel like he's wrapped in a carpet, but one who feels as if he's bullied by the entire world. Like most people in that situation he lashes out, determined to upset as many people as possible with the memory of a tearful evening holding Variety's review of House of the Dead, never too far from the surface. This 'I know you are but what am I' strategy for reclaiming the initiative produced the blunt satire of Postal, which attempted to napalm the dissenters with jokes about 9/11, Christian fundamentalism, Jihad, Nazism and paedophilia. Such a litany of invective requires a satirist with the mind of Peter Cook and the visual imagination of Chris Morris but the closest Boll gets to either man is the o in their surname.In Seed, shot back to back with the aforementioned game adaptation, Boll is back with a story about a sadistic serial murderer (is there any other kind?) who gets the chair only for two attempts to fail in permanently curtailing all signs of life. Mindful of the fictional law that says anyone still alive after 3 attempts must go free, though if you'd been fried with that much electricity why would you want to, they pronounce him legally dead and bury him, only for the disgruntled killer to resurface and begin a whirlwind tour of his gaolers.Boll begins his 'exploration of nihilistic rage' with Seed watching footage of animals being tortured for experimental purposes. From there we're treated to the killer's stock in trade – kidnapping dogs, babies and grown women and allowing them to starve to death on camera only to become maggot food. We're invited to reflect on what a depraved race of amoral meat sacks we all are – our inhumanity to each other and our fellow creatures acting as a lighting rod that acts as a catalyst for the most disgusting vestiges of the human condition. Yes, we're worthless, gormless sadists and worse than that, we won't give Uwe a good rating on the IMDb. In short, humanity is bunk.Of course you might think that Uwe relies on our worst excesses for his livelihood and with that in mind it's a bit of a bipolar piece, on one hand hating its audience and positively basting itself in the sour milk of human kindness – the milk that poor old Boll has had to drink for so long, while simultaneously whipping out its member and inviting those with a pornographic lust for on screen depravity to marvel at its sheer arse splitting girth.The result says nothing about society and its discontents, more the corrosive effect bad press is having on its director. Poor Uwe is obviously a very angry man – one scene in which a poor woman gets her brains hammered to a pulp while tied to a chair, no doubt a surrogate for his own fantasy's about dispatching various web critics. That it's there but takes an avant-garde approach by failing to be attached to any kind of narrative thread, shows that Boll is a pornographer whose happy to engage with the blood lust of his audience and knows that plot is surplus to requirements. He's made a film which is competently shot but utterly desolate. "I wanted to make a horror movie that was no fun" Boll told the audience at the film's world premiere and he has, on that flimsy manifesto, succeeded but if this was supposed to convince the director's detractors that he was a serious genre filmmaker, he'll need something genuine to say as well as a better, more original way of saying it.
Not just bad...pretty damn bad.
posted on 04 May 2009Written and directed by Uwe Boll...does this warn you enough? I gave it a chance and found it to be visually very graphic...the scenes not shot in almost total darkness. Brutally violent and pretty sick. SEED wants you to buy into the old Urban Legend that if a prisoner survives the electric chair three times he is to be set free. Well that is a crock! This story is supposedly based on an incident that took place in Seattle, Washington back in the 1970's. Max Seed(Will Sanderson) is a mass murderer that is buried alive after his third smoldering ride in a dysfunctional electric chair. Seed claws his way back to the surface and continues his savage killings while seeking brutal vengeance on those who caused him harm. Also in the cast: Michael Pare, Ralf Moeller, Jodelle Ferland and Michael Eklund.
This movie contains live animals mutilation footage and should be banned!!!!
posted on 22 Apr 2009This movie shows a clip of live animal mutilation of an animal getting hacked by a machete and getting its skin ripped off. I know these horrible things happen in the world, but Im watching movies based on the fact that what Im watching is not actually happening on the screen. These live animal clips are not meant to be in movies, they are meant to show people that belong to certain organizations to help the horrible things that humans to do other species.This should be banned and destroyed. I have also contacted Netflix and other resources to collaborate getting this movie off the market!!This movie should be removed from the public. The person who made this movie needs psychological help.
Not worth anyones time
posted on 13 Mar 2009I can only imagine seeing the script for this film. It would probably consist of 2 pages front and back. The only thing that hooked me in was the text at the beginning that I half read saying something about real graphic images are in the film. Then they show people killing dogs so I was intrigued. From there and to the end it is a boring, very slow waste of time. In fact I chuckled when a couple lines in the middle of the film went like this, "mother:what are you guys watching? Daughter: A vampire movie but it's really boring I think I'm going to go to my room". I am probably paraphrasing on what they said but seriously It was like the writer knew the film was bad so they decided to add an ironically hilarious scene.The movie deserves some credit because it isn't all bad but with the movie being not scary at all but just annoyingly gory and in a boring way like when the killer spends 5 minutes to beat on some woman's head. Their are no likable characters, you also weren't sure if you were supposed to want the normal people to live or the killer to kill them. They left many plot holes in a bad way so that you are just like, "...well, wtf?...what ever". So someone should get on a pat on the back for helping with this film because everything else was fine. It might have been more of an experimental film.
In league with video nasties
posted on 13 Mar 2009Having gone through a couple dozen of the video nasties that were banned in Britain, this one certainly fits right in.I really do not understand the Peta clips at the beginning. Was this something that he was supposed to have watched? Did these things even exist in the 70s? It just seemed like gratuitous animal torture to set the mood.I also could not understand why the cops raided his place at night. It was perfect for Seed as he was able to dispatch five of them before he was caught. Hey, guys, next time try the daylight.The execution scenes were horrendous. I really didn't need to see someones head on fire. Pro capital punishment junkies will get a real fix on this part.Things really got interesting after they buried him alive. By interesting, I mean this is the gory part. The hammer scene was probably the most gruesome thing I have ever seen in a horror film.I know the Uwe Boll haters will find something to tear up in this film, but it really was worthwhile in the video nastie sense.
Hardly Oscar worthy but.........
posted on 11 Mar 2009OK, OK Everybody hates Uwe Boll & his movies. That much has been established. Before I continue with this quick review I must confess I met Uwe at a screening for "Postal" last year & found him to be quite intelligent & engaging even though "Postal" wasn't. But that has nothing to do with the rating I gave "Seed".The plot is pretty standard. Serial killer gets captured, Electrocuted (3 times)& doesn't die. At this point he is buried alive to insure his death & rid the world of his menace. He (Of course) digs himself up & proceeds to go after the people responsible for his "Execution".Nothing special script-wise right?? But Boll wasn't interested in writing a good script (Is he ever)? What he was interested in was making a disturbing film that will stick with the few of you who will watch it for a long time.The opening credits alone made me want to turn off the TV. It features video of animal cruelty (Thats real) & extremely disturbing. Apparently this is what the character gets off on. That & kidnapping people & locking them in a dungeon like cell & watch them via closed circuit camera slowly starve to death. Among them is a baby no older than 9-12 months old.Is this entertainment? Nope...not at all. As a matter of fact it's appalling. But I couldn't take my eyes off the screen. It is probably the most disturbing film I've ever seen & I've seen more than a few of those. I say there is a skill in having the balls to make a film that no one can possibly enjoy & still have people watch it thru to the end.There is another murder scene that involves a woman tied to a chair in her kitchen & Seed slowly, Calculatingly, almost curiously bludgeoning her to death with a claw hammer. The scene is excruciating not only for it's violence but it's length. It seems to go on for 5 minutes at least (I didn't time it though). The effects in this scene are also most unsettling & the sound effects only add to the horror of what's transpiring in front of you.All of the performers turn in a workman's job. No one really stands out in that sense. But I don't think they're supposed to. "Seed" is all foreboding & dread. The cinematography is muted & dull. There aren't many daylight scenes & the ones that exist are also kind of...Not bright. The movie is designed to put you in a state of tension & nervousness from the beginning & (For me) it succeeded. It's just an ugly film all the way around. But one that's meant to be ugly, It didn't just end up this way. There is a skill at work here like it or not.So I'm going on record as giving the film a 6 overall. This due to a pretty average script & adequate acting. But If I was rating it for it's effect on my psyche...I'd give it a 10 (Honestly). I was that disturbed by it. It even has one of the grimmest endings I've seen in a long while. Mr. Boll does have something in him...somewhere that will give us a great film one day I think. This just isn't it. This is a exercise in discomfort. A very good one, But It's just too much of a downer......By the way, I didn't check but I think the film runs less than 80 min or so. To disturb me so much in so little time (& I am a VETERAN horror film fan) is impressive.
I don't have anything against Boll, but...weak movie. Brutal, but tedious and "fake."
posted on 07 Mar 2009Short Version: Seed isn't worthless. It's just derivative and inferior. And soulless.Long Version: If you have never seen any of the films comprising the vaguely-defined "psychological horror" genre, this movie will probably melt your face off. Maybe not, but it will give you a good burn. The opening montage of real animal abuse will be sufficient to open your eyes to possibilities of brutality-on-video, and the (only) memorable gore scene later in the film will perhaps be more than you can handle. The climax will play with your emotions in a way that perhaps no other film has.But that's if you don't have much experience with the genre. If you've seen the real thing..."August Underground's Penance," for example, you will, as I did, find it terribly difficult to stay awake until the end of the film.Other reviewers have compared this to the video nasties of old. I understand this comparison. Like the video nasties, "Seed" is more violent than a mainstream horror film and less subtle. But the reason the video nasties are still known to us is not only for the above reasons--those that are still popular had something special. Permit me to be ambiguous, I think you will understand: those that have stuck around had "soul".Take this quote from Gabriele Crisanti, director of "Burial Ground," on an interview on the new-ish DVD: "...we will never have more films like these, because today, technology has surpassed imagination. And technology is cold. So many things will disappear because small films like these won't be produced anymore. Today we have great, exceptional tricks that are very expensive, but they are cold. Today a horror, a terror film of this kind costs more than a million dollars. These films were not so expensive...they are real effects, made with our hands".Perhaps it is wrong to take the comparison to old school horror so seriously. But Crisanti has hit the nail on the head. Even at their most seemingly exploitational, the best of the video nasties were pursuing a primitive "truth." And this is where Boll falls short. It's like he's seen the movies and not understood them. Everything on the checklist is there...BS about "making a statement about humanity," an obscene torture scene, etc. But it is, as Crisanti puts it, "cold." The gore is all CGI. The whole thing feels like scenes pieced together from other movies of various genres. And the pacing is sooooo slow. Man, so slow.Another interesting note: the one gore scene really reminded me of a video game.Anyway, enough BS. Weak movie.
Another Jason ? No thanks
posted on 20 Jan 2009From the beginning of the movie I had a feeling like its a movie about another Jason's from Friday the 13th. And It is... Dispute that the movie starts interesting. But as the times goes by its just a pointless movie about muted, supernatural, silent serial killer. I mean he goes under the guy's bed without making any sound, not seen by anyone. He was supposed to be blind after failed execution but he walks and kills people like he used to. I'm tired of it. For me it's all over the same thing.In another words - unreal. Too many mistakes and confusing information.Well scene with tide up woman looked impressive but just at first time :} For that and for intriguing intro 2 stars.
Awful movie
posted on 23 Dec 2008This would have to be one of the worst, if not the worst, movie I've ever nearly seen. (I couldn't watch it all the way through). Purely and simply it's gratuitous violence just for the sake of it and the ridiculous story line only adds to the lacklustre and incompetent filming. Sick. And only suitable for those with a love for manic mutilation. After murdering several hundred men, women and children, Seed is finally caught after effortlessly killing several more police officers that finally get a tip as to his whereabouts. He's sentenced to death by electric chair and miraculously survives! Buried alive, he digs his way out and plots revenge against those that put him away and flicked the switch. Needless to say, more gruesome murders ensue...
Complete Waste of My Life.
posted on 17 Dec 2008This movie is unbelievably ridiculous. I love horror movies, but this is the worst one I've ever seen. I am a huge fan of gore, but most of the deaths in this movie aren't shown. It just shows us the already dead bodies, and the only death scenes that they actually show in this movie are terrible. The graphics look so obviously fake. The actors are awful as well. There is no real emotion from any of them. Not only did I waste my time watching this piece of sh*t movie, but I had to subject myself to actual footage of animals being beaten during the beginning of it. If I could rate this a -10, I would. F*ck this movie. It's crap. Don't watch it.
My Review
posted on 17 Nov 2008Set in the 70s, "Seed" centers around convicted serial killer Max Seed (Will Sanderson), who killed 666 people in 6 years. He is sentenced to death, but in the electric chair he doesn't die, even after being shocked three times.Detective Matt Bishop (Michael Paré) and other officers cover up this secret by burying Seed alive. Seed breaks out and goes after the people who put him in his living coffin.Filmed by the worst director in the world (Uwe Boll), "Seed" is nothing more than a snuff film about trying to stretch the envelope of decent society and fails to deliver in any aspect of a storyline. And he said this is based on true events because if a person survives the electric chair after being shocked three times, they will be set free. This is an urban legend, and it would never happen. Much like Boll's other abominations ("Alone in the Dark" for one), "Seed" is just utterly horrendous.
Gloomy and brutal horror film.
posted on 30 Oct 2008"Seed" doesn't deserve all the bile and hatred on IMDb.It's arguably the best Uwe Boll's horror film so far-an unflinching exercise in barbaric human cruelty that shows that the man is the cruelest animal.The movie begins with archival footage of humans being exceptionally cruel to a variety of suffering animals which truly made me squirm.Max Seed is a brutal serial killer.He filmed many of his murders.The decomposing baby scene is quite unsettling.After killing several policemen in his dark house Seed is captured.He is quickly executed on electric chair and buried in a shallow grave.However the killer rises from its tomb ready for sickening vengeance...Very gloomy,raw and disturbing horror film with truly revolting hammer murder scene.It's an exceptionally well-acted and unrelenting assault on viewer's mind.I applaud Uwe Boll for making such savage piece of horror.Ignore the negative reviews and see it for yourself.9 out of 10.
Seedy
posted on 28 Oct 2008I've never seen any of Uwe Boll's films before, most certainly because I'd been warned off them by the deluge of vitriolic reviews. So I approached both Postal and Seed with very low expectations. I have to say that over the 20+ films I saw at London's Frightfest, Seed was certainly the most provocative. Some left the screening in shock or anger, and some in disappointment (you can't please everyone!).Even if the CGI for the hammer murder 2/3rds into the film was a bit ropey (other attendees' opinions, not mine), the intention was admirably (possibly not the best choice of words) - presenting in one long take, without any cut-aways, steadicam or dolly shots, a very brutal murder. Where John Landis failed to have his werewolf transformation in one take for An American Werewolf in London, Uwe Boll has succeeded.Personally, I thought it was a great film. It could have done with some trimming - the sequence in which the cops checking out Max Seed's house and getting whacked one-by-one was too slow and lacked any real tension. And nothing in particular is outstanding: the dialogue's okay, the productions values are adequate, the acting is good and the seventies setting is fine, but the general tone of the film is incredibly grim. Which is saying something, considering the main protagonist is not a based-on-true-life serial killer but a masked murderer in the same cartoonish mould as Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers.Uwe Boll has made a truly scary movie. Not "Friday the 13th" scary. More, "A Short Film About Killing" scary. Expect this film to be severely censored by the ratings authorities before it gets any widespread release.
Judge for Yourself!
posted on 06 Aug 2009I notice this film has gotten mix reviews, a lot of it is unfair and biased. You need to judge for yourself.The movie was excellent and really captured the dark essence and feeling of the fear that was created. People, this movie isn't supposed to be a happy movie, it is pretty dark and the ending is awfully sad which I think a lot of people could not handle. The subject matter is grim but over all the movie was excellent. Some parts where gruesome, at one point where he butchered this woman tied to a chair was pretty horrific I'll admit.I'm going to give it a 9 because it really made me feel like I was there.