A group of friends on holiday in Lithuania end up in trouble, as two of their party venture to a backstreet tattoo parlour, with a stranger, after a night of partying. This film is a missed opportunity. The lead actor is superb and the cinematography is also very good. The acting of the rest of the cast however is pretty awful. The constant screaming and babbling of the girls is beyond grating. The story is not developed particularly well, and as the tattooist starts to torture his victims all we have is screaming, begging, moaning and sobbing of the irritating fashion known to man. Other than the tattooist himself the characters are not likable, their relationships and personalities are not developed. They are all just completely annoying.

Grim, amateurish little torture porn bauble set in a Vilnius tattoo parlor, only slightly elevated by a menacing performance from Robert LaSardo as "The Artist." He's the only thing worth watching here, despite the lovely location, which this film wastes. The other performances are so appalling and the dialogue so unimaginative that it's hard to tell how much of it was improvised -- on one hand, I can't imagine anyone writing this garbage out and thinking, "Yeah, that sounds right;" on the other, all the characters (The Artist excepted) sound exactly alike, even with multiple accents, each as aggressively unlikable and inarticulate as the next. A film called "Anarchy Parlor" might reasonably be expected to deliver some inkling of wild imagination, some hint that the filmmakers understand transgression. This predictable, mundane mess fails to deliver.

While partying in a Lithuanian club, a group of friends' visit to a renown tattoo parlor causes them to stumble upon the deranged owner and assistant who are using them to perfect new methods of tattooing and must save them before it's too late.Overall this one here was quite impressive and really had a lot to like about it. As with the majority of these style films, this one really gets quite a lot to like here when it's delving into the torture of the group-members, which are some of the film's best parts here. The opening ambush at the club is a lot of fun effectively showing the group out at the club and how it all starts segueing rather nicely into the first torture sequence where they begin the process quite earlier in the film than expected. The slow dismembering and flaying of the body makes for quite a chilling scene as the process becomes more and more explicit while the graphic cutting continues on. Once he turns back to her and begins going after her, this is a little more chilling with the way it goes for the psychological tormenting of her before the actual torturing begins. The scenes with the rest of the captured friends makes for more good times as the depravity matches the cruelty and bloodshed quite well, carving into the naked bodies with abandon and making sure that the deep cuts bring forth gushing wounds that makes for a wholly impressive sequence, while the big finale makes for more great fun as there's the multitude of brawling and escape attempts, the chase through the streets and finally getting the whole thing settled nicely with the shocking double-turn which comes off rather unexpectedly. Coupled all together with the intimidating main villain and a healthy serving of appreciated nudity from those well-qualified to deliver it, there's plenty to like and enjoy with this one to hold off the minor problems. The biggest issue is the utterly cliché storyline at play, feeling like so many other films of the type where the spoiled group of friends find something sinister lurking behind the facade of Eastern Europe and it tends to play those scenarios off without any deviation beyond the front of hiding their true intentions. As well, with all the focus on them partying and looking to have fun throughout the city, this does seem to take a while to get to the torture which isn't a bad thing as it's not a sluggish, dull pace but does leave this one with a slightly overlong period in the beginning. While not detrimental at all, these do hold this back slightly overall.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Extreme Graphic Language, Nudity, drug use and Sexual Content.

This is no Hostel for a start! If you are after gore, you really won't get any and you REALLY won't care about the characters.There isn't really a plot, other than a pale attempt at making a copy of Hostel without the extremism.We have an odd mix of American and British 'no-ones' visiting Lithuania -we know *nothing* about these people throughout the film. People just constantly shout, become violent and have sex for no reason - there is no reason or realism and the plot is no clearer.This reminded me of a HG Lewis film - with a couple of unemotional gore effects that look like they are from Blood Feast/The 60's.The only good thing I can say is the main tattoo bloke with the beard had some presence.