Bokeem Woodbine, Eric Roberts, Geoffrey Lewis

At a pig farm, four people, bound, beaten, and with video cameras fastened to their heads, are going to become the leading characters in a snuff movie. Two of them are a couple and the director of thi...( read more  read more... )s appalling production sees wide-ranging artistic possibilities in them. A reflective tantrum about Korean film production or gratuitous gore? The viewer of this independent, awkward, Dantesque movie will be forced to answer while alternating his or her role between victim and executioner, depending on the perspective of the camera things are being seen through. Whatever the case, if there’s one thing that´s clear it’s that there’s no respect for the screenwriter´s work not even in snuff movies.

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Directed by: Kim Jin-Won

Release Date: March 10, 2008

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DVD Release Date: July 14, 2009

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  • July 9, 2009
    This is one boring thriller. The characters lack depth and substance, the pacing is way too slow to hold the viewers interest. It goes on too long as well. The cast does a capable job, but it doesn't matter with the material they are given.
  • October 15, 2008
    Making a real time gore movieit's kidn of risky... making it on first person point of view is just crazy!! And that's what they did here. They want the audience to experience how would it be to take part on a snuff movie, as the victim (mainly) but also as the killer sometimes. J...( read more)ust a warning... during the first 20 minutes NOTHING happens, just a guy looking around, but then this film becomes the most brutal ever.

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