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Great film, one of the best of the 'torture porn' (ag!) nu-wave.
It didn't go where you expected it to, and offered little reason or redemption to the gory violence.
I also had a problem with the badly constructed 'eye' scene, and the danger with its possible explanation - that it was 'meant to look amaturish' - is that many of the new 'splat pack' directors risk alienating their audience through self-indulgence.
While it might be clever to explain to the girlfriend that the likes of the Grindhouse 'missing reel' is retro and 'cool', too much hip and 'nods' to previous stylisation risks horror tumbling back into the knowingness and self-parody of 90s post-modernist boredom.
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