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Information
- Year
- 2008
- Runtime
- 99 min.
- Director
- Pascal Laugier
- Genre
- Horror
- Rating *
- 7.1
- Votes *
- 46,261
- Checks
- 6,222
- Favs
- 541
- Dislikes
- 212
- Favs/checks
- 8.7% (1:12)
- Favs/dislikes
- 3:1
Top comments
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DrWade42
One of my all time favorite horror movies, and the most disturbing movie I've ever seen. The acting is fantastic, you care about the main characters, and it genuinely terrified me. You can call the second half pseudo-intellectual and pretentious, but I disagree. It's a movie about pain and what people will do to justify inflicting pain on others. The villains have a motivation. The characters might be pseudo-intellectual, but not the movie itself.4 years 9 months ago
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You can dress this up as much as you like and put a bow on it, but it's still just torture porn. 6 years 5 months ago -
ChrisReynolds
Intensely nihilistic and sadistic. It's not out to give you a lecture or leaven things with humour - just straight horror from beginning to end. And I think the point it makes at the end is reasonably well done - pain and horror can be transcendant for the watchers of horror films and this is conveyed through the metaphor of a cult of pain.
There are certainly problems with the third act, which wobbles badly with too much exposition, lessening the feeling of terror by explaining things, but overall this stands as an important and very good, though flawed, achievement in horror film-making. 5 years 6 months ago
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