A low budget, single room thriller that owes most of its inspiration from the SAW franchise. The storyline involves a crazy guy who's arrested after being found wielding an axe beside a decapitated body in a lift. The authorities send him to jail, believing him to be a notorious serial killer, but he escapes and captures those responsible for his arrest in the first place, forcing them to work for him to prove his innocence or guilt.What this all boils down to is a locked-room thriller in which various unappealing characters are forced, literally, to work to death. It's all an excuse for lots of gruesome gore sequences in which eyes are pulled out, foreheads are carved and there's even a little fingernail damage for the squeamish. The film is relatively fast-paced for a low budget film but the usual constraints apply, including cheesy dialogue and some very sub-par acting.The British villain, played by Nicholas Hope, is just one of those characters you can't take seriously; maybe it's because I'm British too, but he feels like a character from THE OFFICE instead of an imposing villain. HOME AND AWAY actress Kelly Paterniti is better as the lead, but she's the only interesting one here. The best thing about the film are the authentic gore effects, done the old fashioned way by SFX maestro Tom Savini. A shame the rest of the story and its silly twists can't match them.

The Plot Six captive office workers are literally chained to their desks by a demented, escaped serial killer; former regional manager Thomas Reddmann (Redd). He assigns his 'human resources' the impossible task of proving his innocence or suffering gruesome consequences.It's not a great movie. And although it's billed as a comedy thriller horror, it's really a slasher film with little or no humor. It's a bit along the lines of The Dentist and the Step Father.Frankly I got bored real early.It's a slow paced film that lacks in originality.

Redd is the title character, a man presumed to be an axe murderer at an office building. It begins with a news report of a killing spree with a manager who has supposedly gone postal by hacking up workers on the job. Next up, a young lady logs online and strips for a client in a sex chat room. Annabelle is then abducted and wakes up in a room, chained to a desk table with four other people. Mr. Redd shows up and explains to them that they will be fed by him, but in the meantime he gives them binders of his trial to transcribe while they are to prove his innocence. At every transgression, they are marked on the forehead with a hook at the end of Redd's fake arm. Tom Savini provides the gore effects, which are frequent, but the problem is the ridiculous story line. It never makes any sense, and competent actors are given a silly plot. It starts out somewhat promising with a darkly funny Nicholas Hope initially delivering some funny lines, but it all goes downhill rapidly. Avoid Redd Inc, it is a badly thought out movie.

Just saw this movie at a film festival in Seoul and was quite impressed. As is generally the case with film festivals, I didn't quite know what to expect going in other than how it is similar to Saw. While the similarity is there, Redd, Inc. is certainly its own film and one that is worth watching. It involves a recently escaped mental patient/prisoner who believes himself to be innocent and kidnaps the unsuspecting people who were involved one way or another with the conviction.The movie lacks the sort of pathetic dialog the worst parts of the Saw franchise often include as other films do, whether it's Saw, other horror movies, or other other movies that involve multiple people in a tumultuous situation. The dialog is often funny, usually necessary, and never drab.The director was kind of enough to show up and say a few things about his film along with taking questions, during which time he brought up his love of the comedy/horror genre. Often times horror movies are funny when they don't want to be and corny when they are trying to be funny, but Redd Inc. does a good job achieving what it is trying to achieve at any given moment. In the end, everyone has a moment or many of feeling chained to their desks.