Year: 2009
Duration: 01:28:05
Directed by: Dan Donley
Actors: Cari Sanders, William David Tulin, Maria Olsen
Language: English
Country: USA
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Description: Zoey (Sanders) wakes up to find herself in an underground bunker. A doctor (Tulin) tells her that civilization has succumbed to a deadly plague, which still rages outside, but that he managed to rescue her before sealing the doors. Initially grateful, Zoey soon discovers the doctor is a sandwich short of a picnic, and the only way she’s going to survive is to play along with his sadistic experiments. But how far into the abyss will that take her?
Review: I saw this at the Phoenix Fear Film Festival, and really enjoyed it – it won Best Picture, the director was there and gave a great Q+A afterward. From what I recall, he was inspired by the infamous Stanley Milgram experiments, in which subjects were ordered to give electric shocks to other people: most complied, even when they believed the shock were of lethal level [the “victims” were part of the experiment, and acted out appropriately, based on the level of shock supposedly administered].
It doesn’t pull its punches, but the presence of a moral philosophy lifts it above “torture porn,” and I was left wondering to what extremes I’d go, if pushed far enough. The low-budget is occasionally apparent, and the acting sometimes a little rough – you can also perhaps see the “twist” at the ending coming, though this didn’t impact my appreciation of it at all.
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very reflective – A true horror; I’ll be sure to tell my drip friends. 5 Stah’
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Great movie! Def worth the watch.
Acting is marginal on some characters. Similar plot to other movies, but unique in its own way. Other than that, film was done great!! Good “where do you stand” movie.