The Tortured (2010)

17% of critics liked it
(6 reviews)
82% want to see it
(202 ratings)

An upper-middle-class couple's life is destroyed when their only child is kidnapped and killed. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap the killer.

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Rating, Runtime: Unrated, 1 hr. 22 min.
Directed By: Robert Lieberman
Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Horror

In Theaters: Jun 15, 2012 Wide
Studio: The Associates

Critic Reviews

Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com
It's an angry picture, but that dependable sense of rage doesn't carry through to the end. Instead, the effort dissolves into a strange genre predictability.
Scott Weinberg, FEARnet
No amount of plucked-off fingernails are going to fill this empty vessel with any semblance of a point.
James Luxford, The National
a film more suited to the bottom shelf of the DVD rental store, not the multiplex.
David Nusair, About.com
...a passable horror effort that remains a marginal cut above its direct-to-video brethren.
Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed
A sick abomination, an excuse to squeeze in an hour of torture between eighteen minutes of melodrama and schlock...
Anton Bitel, Little White Lies
while it may cover a range of thorny issues surrounding crime and punishment, few would accuse this film of subtlety... from its tell-you-how-to-feel soundtrack to its in-your-face editing....

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Lady D

Compared to films such as "Saw" and "Hostel" as it is, this one is a hard film to judge. The acting from the off wasn't great and the immediate reaction here is that it's a film with pretty people in it. As the story unfolds, it really questions all… More
Compared to films such as "Saw" and "Hostel" as it is, this one is a hard film to judge. The acting from the off wasn't great and the immediate reaction here is that it's a film with pretty people in it. As the story unfolds, it really questions all parents out there, what would they do in this situation and where would you draw the line? Graphic in it's torture, it's not a film for everyone, the torture itself is pretty realistic. Like the twist though - didn't see it coming.