Evil Games
Evil Games
| 16 April 2015 (USA)
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Aram is a wearied accountant with an unbearably dull existence. With a nagging wife who berates him for not being assertive enough, and a measly paycheck, he quietly suffers while awaiting a long-deserved promotion. But there's more to Aram than his mild-mannered demeanor lets on: he has been secretly devising a scheme to finally get what he feels he is owed. One day he asserts his power menacingly when he kidnaps a schoolgirl and keeps her tied up in an abandoned warehouse. What seems like the perfect plan soon unravels into his worst nightmare, and his carefully constructed scheme comes crashing down piece by bloody piece.

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Michael Ledo

Aram (Francisco Barreiro) is an unrewarded accountant who does good work. He quietly schemes to get what he believes is owed to him. This includes kidnapping the boss' (Jorge Molina) daughter (Daniela Soto Vell). The film follows the home break-in formula of kidnapping and revenge. It is the last half hour which makes the film worth watching...unless you like nudity.Daniela Soto Vell plays a great teen on a revenge binge even if the whole plot was not realistic. It has dark humor moments.English subtitles.Guide: F-word, sex, nudity (Daniela Soto Vell, Vita Vargas, Milena Pezzi, Pau Alva).

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spencergrande6

Never becomes engaging. I'm a Adrian Garcia Bogliano defender, I've found most of his films to be enjoyable to out-right guilty pleasures. This one is the first I couldn't find anything redeeming in.A basic premise - sad sack accountant works for bad people, wife and kid hate him so he becomes a crazed psychopath kidnapper, but only to up his position in the world. He isn't THAT bad (for a movie like this) - there's nothing perverse that he does (he only implies) and yes he tazes his victim but its for compliance and not for the joy of doing so. He even buys her a diabetic conscious diet. He's kind of a loser but suffice it to say that the ending is wholly unbelievable and not exactly cathartic. It's not really justified, and that fact in itself doesn't seem to be some kind of comment either.This movie is named after a classical piece. It has a hellacious sounding name and it plays a part in the movie but doesn't add much.

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kosmasp

This is gritty low budget at its best (if you are into that kind of thing of course). It's also as unsettling as it gets. Be it the first part or the latter part where it all comes back (more or less - probably more, but that's in the eye of the beholder). And while you feel the pain and anger from our main protagonist, you also feel that he is terribly wrong in doing what he does.Does that all have to culminate the way it does? Probably not, but how else would the movie be able to shock you back into the middle ages (almost literally with what happens). It's not wrong to feel disgusted by any of this, because enjoying this would be the wrong feeling. Accepting this as artistic form on the other hand is the one thing you may have to worry about ...

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chicagopoetry

Where do I even begin? This movie starts out like it's going to be somewhere between A Simple Plan and the rather obscure Hong Kong horror film Run and Kill--that is, a plan that goes terribly wrong resulting in unexpected bloodshed. Spoilers ahead. A lawyer kidnaps his boss' daughter not for ransom, but in order to put his boss in an incompetent state of anxiety so that his boss will get fired and he will get promoted to his job. The plan works until, well, until the movie decides to get pretty surreal and defy all logic as the boss' daughter becomes a psychotic serial killer. This film certainly builds a hell of a lot of tension and leaves you guessing which direction it's going to take next, but unfortunately the direction it takes will leave you shrugging your shoulders in confusion at the same time that you're at the edge of your seat. The most disturbing thing about this movie is the reactions are so overblown. A guy kidnaps a girl just because his boss won't pay him overtime, and then the girl brutally murders a slue of people just because she got kidnapped. This is a very unsettling film that doesn't seem to have any other purpose than just to freak you out. I wish it had a more cohesive plot; it probably would have been even more disturbing if the things that played out made even a lick of sense. But if you're into this type of nightmarish mind-f**k it won't be a waste of your time.

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