This movie (of which the title of my copy on DVD read: "Mayhem") started out so well: for the first half hour it's exciting, original and entertaining. The two cannibalistic sisters are a treat to watch, especially the fat one (Sage Ellen, she's very, VERY good!!!), they're played with a sardonic kind of humour and panache. Of course the whole situation reminds one of Misery, and even Dreamcatcher came to my mind, due to the snow, the cabin and the snow scooters. But still the story seemed to take it's own original turn, for instance I really liked the fact that there's no explanation whatsoever for the behavior of the sisters, which gives it exactly the creepy and inescapable feeling that is needed.Unfortunately, after the main character Tom Kempton (Alex McArthur) is saved, the movie sort of collapses, all the tension and pace evaporates in a sullen and overlong mid-section, where nothing much happens: the guy broods endlessly over what he had to endure by his tormentors and decides to stalk a supposed daughter of one of them. Here the movie takes an ill-fated twist. Apparently the director (Hancock) tried to give it a David Lynch-like broody and mysterious atmosphere, but alas, he's no David Lynch, and the goings on are not only boring but also very improbable. The only good thing about this part – as about the whole movie - is the excellent musical score, which is no wonder, since the composer is Angelo Badalamenti, who composed the music for numerous great movies and (not?) coincidentally also did Mulholland Drive.The last part of the movie gets it again into a sort of thriller-mode, with wild attacks by psychopathic killers: the (grand)son that inherited the bad genes and the sister that miraculously survived, though it's never explained how. It's definitely too much, as if the director or writer had three alternative endings in their mind and decided to use them all one after another.It also seemed to me that there was much potential in the story that wasn't used to it's fullest by the writer. The bad son supposedly had done some hideous deeds of his own: it's disappointing that we don't see anything of it and the (circumstantial) evidence that's produced is hardly as chilling as everyone seems to make of it. His mother is a daughter of a cannibalistic killer, so why not let her, like her son, display some evidence of inherited evil?? And why not let the main character fall in love with the woman he stalks, I was all the time waiting for it to happen! That would at least have added an interesting layer to the story. Now it felt as if all potentially interesting story lines dead-ended or fell down with a puff.All in all it's rather an unbalanced movie, with a very promising start but a disappointing last 2/3. Mister McArthur doesn't really help, apart from his good looks he's not very convincing as an actor, at least in this movie, he walks around like he didn't much believe in the whole project himself, and the husky voice he uses in virtually every scene made him sound like he's in a radio play impersonating someone in perpetual sexual heat, it gradually annoyed the hell out of me! I did like Maria Cina though, she's beautiful and seems like a solid actress. And young Fred Meyers had exactly the repulsive looks and attitude that fitted the character of a psychopathic teenager. It's all the more sorry that both of them had to work on such a weak script. My final verdict: 4 out of 10 (but Sage Ellen gets a 10 plus!!!)

This is really the worst movie I've ever seen. I've never seen such bad actors in one movie, the worst of them was Laura Esterman. She was so overacting. The movie also doesn't really have a story. First we watch two chicks torturing a man. After he fled and seemingly killed the two women, he follows a line of murders and gets to know another chick and her sadistic son (with very disgusting pimples on his neck, I almost had to puke). And you are crying at your TV "what the hell does that mean??". In the end, the two stories seem to be connected but the way the director did this was ridiculous. And what should this movie tell us?? The evil is genetically inheritable?? Really, Really bad movie. Don't even consider watching it. There's not even the promised gore and brutality in it. It could change your view on movies in a negative way.

I watched this movie with little to no expectations and was very surprised at how much I enjoyed it. There is such creepy dark humor within the script that you laugh as you cringe. A crusty tale of backwoods cannibals, how can that be anything but entertaining? As if the sisters weren't bad enough, when the boy enters the picture we are treated to yet another level of twisted heredity. Fred Meyers as Sanders is probably the most disgusting personification of "The Bad Teen" I have ever seen. Those zits!Thomas Kempton's last line is the perfect end to the numerous horror flicks we have all seen. Why won't they just die?!

I loved it. The story Is awsome. My favorite chacter is Cliff. Jeff Puckett did a great job with that part. The sisters were great too. YOu have to see this movie. I mean it. Alex did a great job too. I did find some parts boring but just a little. Well go and see it!!!!!