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HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Woodyanders The central premise has promise: Single mother Hope (a fine and personable performance by Nadja Brand) gets abducted by a cruel and cunning mysterious man (well played with chilling understatement by Eric Colvin) who holds her captive in a remote woodland camp and tortures her in order to bend the poor lass to his merciless will. While writers/directors Adam Mason and Simon Boyes succeed with creating and sustaining an unwaveringly grim and harsh tone as well as make good use of the beautiful, yet desolate and isolated sylvan setting, they crucially fail to generate much in the way of tension and don't develop the character of Hope thoroughly enough for the viewer to have any actual emotional investment in her miserable plight. Granted, the convincing graphic gore and moments of sadistic violence pack a nasty wallop, but the sluggish pacing, talky script, and generally flat execution make this picture a rather tedious chore to sit through. However, the filmmakers still deserve a few extra points for avoiding the usual teens-in-peril formula, an earnest (if inert) attempt at gritty realism, and, most of all, the genuinely startling and unexpected surprise bummer nihilistic ending. It's just that this movie doesn't have the essential punch or vigor it needs to cook the way that it should. Erik Wilson's stark cinematography provides an appropriately dark and gloomy look. The spare rattling score by Emma Holand and Gavin Miller does the flesh-crawling trick. A strictly so-so flick.

jery-tillotson-1 I hope our movie makers paid actress Nadja Brand some decent money because they sure to hell got their money's worth from her thespian and physical attributes. The camera catches huge close-ups of her bulging eyes, her moist nostrils, her flabby stomach, her matted hair. Most of all, they arrange for her to scream, shriek, slobber, groan, whimper, gasp and scream again through most of this grim, depressed tale of male monster who enjoys capturing women and hiding them out in the woods. To make things even worse, they bring in a SECOND female victim. And then she begins to out-scream the first woman! On and on she shrieks until finally even the psycho can't take it, so what does a good maniac do when the screaming won't stop: he cuts her tongue out. Hysterically, her only reaction is to glare at him--as if p... off that she can't shriek anymore. The Making of the movie shows how hideous the wintry conditions were while filming this dark saga on a tiny little budget. We viewers can only imagine the horrors it took to make this B-movie travesty--what with the nightmarish weather and the non-stop screaming of our female actresses.

Keith saunders Really enjoyed this film, I like the way a lot of people who have given this film bad reviews keep mentioning the utter turd of a film "saw" just shows what sort of moron's they are!, for the budget the film makers here had i think they did a excellent job.A lot of previous reviewers criticize the film as not making sense, being pointless and also criticise the film for not showing how the victims came to be in the woods or what happened to Hope after, clearly these people have no imagination and had better stick to glossy cgi infested shite like saw!, A refreshing change in a generally boring genre!(HORROR).

Scarecrow-88 Harrowing story of a woman's fight for survival, kidnapped and taken to a wilderness by this cold-blooded misogynist(Eric Colvin)who wishes to "break" her into servitude, obeying him while he has her chained to a tree to tend a garden that will feed them. The woman is Hope(..interesting name, isn't it?), played effectively by Nadja Brand, run through the gamut of crisis, suffering physical(..the violence that results of being chosen by the devious jerk, including suffering when she attempts to escape)and emotional(..not knowing what has happened to her daughter, and not being able to pry her whereabouts and well being from the lips of her attacker) strife. The opening shows Hope's "initiation", it's either death or life, she's the deciding factor as she must remove the stitches from a gash in her stomach containing a razor blade which will cut the rope around her neck(..she's tied to a tree) that will hang her if not torn apart before the log under feet falls away. Her wounds treated by the sadist, Hope is then given commands by her captor to wash the pots and tend to a garden(..her life is threatened if the garden isn't kept in good condition), as she plans on ways to escape her situation. Soon another young woman is kidnapped, a wailing, screaming sort who is mortified of her current circumstances. Together, they are to keep the man happy or else, but neither will rest until they are free from captivity. While not as brutal as I was expecting, it is nonetheless quite difficult to watch at times. The opening act, as Hope frees herself from a hanging, by loosening the stitches, digging in her stomach for the razor blade to cut herself from the rope, is potent stuff. Then, after an attempted escape(..she slices his leg, just missing the tendon which would have left him a cripple), her leg is broken..while this act isn't as gory, you can just feel the anguish of it all. Amazing enough, she tends to the leg the best way she can, while he was away kidnapping another. But, over all, this film is about adjusting to the demands of a captor who holds your very life in his hands, and the mind games that occur between the two as a result. Colvin is quite imposing and quietly intense..when he snaps, human suffering is the cost for his rage. While, the film never quite gives us answers as to why this psycho does these things to innocent people, abduct them, put them through such turmoil, and force them into laboring for his benefit, I kind of figured it was to produce his own twisted form of a proper marriage, his control and their obedience. The final scene is just a bit too much, though, and seems to be put in the film to not let Hope off the leash..I guess it could be a punishment for abandoning her duties and responsibilities as the master's slave, not recognizing that he is her only family. But, still, hadn't she been through enough? Why treat her in such a fashion? I'm not against grim conclusions, or for watered down and pat victories for the victims, but if you spend over 90 minutes watching a tortured soul put through such a series of trials, waiting for her time to break free, do we have to see her so abused at the point of bliss?