I saw this movie at a free sneak preview. So the cost of admission was 0 but the real cost was 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. This is a 'horror' film about ritual cannibalism. Thats not the problem, there are many good films about cannibalism in the horror and comedy genres. This is not a good film in any genre, nor is it bad enough to be a cult classic. The acting by the two young female leads is quite good and hopefully this film will be a minor footnote in their careers. The plot line is interesting although the premise gets pretty thin the minute you start thinking it through. What is the problem - it is SLOW, really really SLOW. Also, the violence and horror is gratuitous and graphic. It is slasher porn against women. (Why only women, why not men?) I don't know if this is really a spoiler but the graphic final event is shocking only in the activity, because otherwise it is a completely ridiculous moment. The action is so repellent it shuts off the natural instinct to laugh at an otherwise stupid scene. The director should have stuck to a basic premise of a fundamentalist serial killer living in a community and a family that is either ignorant of or traumatized by him. That would make sense. But adding graphic cannibalism made a potentially good film into a stupid film. Is this a good teenage date movie? Not really - its really really slow and those slasher scenes come over half way through the film. Skip this film and download Delicatessan or Fried Green Tomatoes - those two hours of your life won't be wasted watching either.
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