Airport cleaner Lena finds herself stranded late one night after work.
Her chirpy colleague Birdie offers to help her out, by letting her stay with him and his family for the night.
It soon becomes apparent though that this act of kindness is far more sinister.
As Lena enters Birdie's home, she is introduced to a dark world of torture and murder......
This was one of the first films to be released at the cinema, and on physical media release on the same day. And if you have any idea at just how depraved this film has the potential to be, it stays on the right side of safe.
Not to say that this film isn't a gritty, dirty, and innerving film, it really is, and the sense of depravity throughout justifies the films certificate, just don't expect a bloodbath of epic proportions.
Benson and Miles are pretty amazing as the titular couple, Benson teetering on going absolutely bonkers at any time, and Miles playing that wicked step-mother sore of character that we are familiar with from the cheap slasher films that were thrown at us in the eighties. In fact, this film would sit pretty well along with them.
It's the age old story of the final girl stuck in the house with nowhere to go, and no matter what she does, she gets punished, and her psuedo sister doesn't help matters by tripping her up every now and again.
If you would, the whole film plays like that set piece in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when they have the victim as their chief guest at dinner time.
It's a short film, very well paced, and for once, it's not very predictable. So whilst it's not the gorefest that you were expecting, it's a pretty grim film.
Her chirpy colleague Birdie offers to help her out, by letting her stay with him and his family for the night.
It soon becomes apparent though that this act of kindness is far more sinister.
As Lena enters Birdie's home, she is introduced to a dark world of torture and murder......
This was one of the first films to be released at the cinema, and on physical media release on the same day. And if you have any idea at just how depraved this film has the potential to be, it stays on the right side of safe.
Not to say that this film isn't a gritty, dirty, and innerving film, it really is, and the sense of depravity throughout justifies the films certificate, just don't expect a bloodbath of epic proportions.
Benson and Miles are pretty amazing as the titular couple, Benson teetering on going absolutely bonkers at any time, and Miles playing that wicked step-mother sore of character that we are familiar with from the cheap slasher films that were thrown at us in the eighties. In fact, this film would sit pretty well along with them.
It's the age old story of the final girl stuck in the house with nowhere to go, and no matter what she does, she gets punished, and her psuedo sister doesn't help matters by tripping her up every now and again.
If you would, the whole film plays like that set piece in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre when they have the victim as their chief guest at dinner time.
It's a short film, very well paced, and for once, it's not very predictable. So whilst it's not the gorefest that you were expecting, it's a pretty grim film.