Chaos
Chaos
NC-17 | 10 August 2005 (USA)
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Two girls heading to a rave take a detour to score some drugs, only to find themselves brutalised and violated by a psychotic gang.

Reviews
Neil Welch

Teenage girls Emily and Angelica, while looking to score Ecstasy in preparation for attending a rave, are instead lured to a remote spot in the woods where they become the victims of a group led by a man who calls himself Chaos.I stumbled onto this film late last night, and thought "Hello, here we go again - cabin in the woods time." I was looking forward to a routine horror/slasher of the sort we have seen many, many times since Jason Vorhees first raised his masked head. It may even be the case that this is what the filmmakers intended to deliver, and thought they were making (which is speculation on my part, of course).But what is on screen is very different to your standard horror / slasher / cabin in the woods / innocents abroad movie for a number of reasons.One, there is some very strong acting here, particularly from the two girls (Chantal Degroat and Maya Barovich) and Kevin Gage as Chaos.Two, the violence is altogether more believable than the routine gore in this sort of movie. It is easy to believe that the girls have fallen into the clutches of someone who derives immense pleasure from carrying out fairly simple but very disturbing acts on people: there are sequences which are genuinely distressing without necessarily being especially explicit - you are not always shown what is happening, but you know.And, three, there is not a single element of redemption or retribution in the movie. To put it bluntly, the bad guy gets away home free.Yes, I know that this sometimes happens in real life, and I think that may well be one of the reasons why this film leaves me so queasily conflicted at the end - what is, in many ways, a cheap and cheerful formula film actually contains some elements of real quality (acting, realism), but arrives at a morally repugnant conclusion. Is it worthwhile? Possibly. Is it entertaining? That's the question, really. Many of those watching it will have identified it as a genre movie and will be watching it to be entertained. Personally, while I could admire qualities which came out of a low budget movie, I found myself appalled and disturbed rather than entertained.

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Newsense

This movie is exactly like Last House On The Left. So much so that as it moves along you would think that you were watching the Wes Craven classic. The only difference is that they changed some parts around. You know a quick revision but not enough to not recognize the movie they are stealing from.The story is basically two naive girls on their way to a rave mistakenly walk into the clutches of the dumbest and most ugliest people ever captured on film. They are tortured and killed and the three idiots oops I meant criminals go to the house of one of their parents. Sounds familiar? It should.The acting terribly unconvincing. I never once believed those girls were in danger but I do believe that they might have had a bad case of the runs. The villains were stupid and pathetic and this movie even has a campy subplot involving idiotic cops just like Last House On The Left! Seriously, this movie is really bad and gives low budget cinema a bad name. There are some low budget movies out there that are good and are made with heart but this is not one of them. The director(David DeFalco) is this fiasco should be forced to watch his own rubbish till his eyes bleed. Honestly, Batman and Robin was scarier than this slop. Lets hope that this mangy dog doesn't inspire more hacks to be hacks because low budget cinema doesn't need anymore than it already has. Two thumbs down.

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ssa2204

Only thing I find more disturbing and disgusting than this movie are the people that defend this garbage. This movie was checked out completely by accident, and I surely regret the whole $1 I spent on it. I will even admit I did not finish the movie. Watching plaster dry has more redeeming value.These movies are made for one audience- psychotic future and current serial killers, rapists, and other vile humans. I wish movies, and the audience members who enjoy this crap would all instantly combust in flames and burn for eternity. There is no single shred of argument that can be made for this vile crap.I sincerely beg anyone, with so many good films out there, do not watch this movie. If anything, I would encourage people to boycott this movie, and everyone involved in making of this.

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sitenoise

Kevin Gage is good as the killer/rapist. He cuts a nipple off one of the girls, makes her eat it, kills her AND THEN rapes her. He shoves a Crocodile Dundee sized knife up the other girl's butt. Nice moves but without any merit. Everyone else in this movie is an embarrassment. The acting is painfully bad.This is another film that's supposed to be a message ABOUT torture porn instead of simply BEING torture porn; the film begins with a written message saying as much and hopes that by alerting parents and potential victims to the scaries out there, maybe it will save a life.What a joke. What a wimp of a filmmaker. Who cares if Roger Ebert didn't like your film? I didn't like it either because it totally sucked.

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