Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters, John Sharian ...( see more  see more... ) , Sally Hawkins

A calculating killer coerces a detective to pay for his previous mistakes.

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38% liked it

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71% liked it

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R, 1 hr. 44 min.

Directed by: Tom Shankland

Release Date: January 1, 2007

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DVD Release Date: August 12, 2008

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  • October 24, 2008
    Nice little addition to the torture porn genre. A solid story that creates a very eerie atmosphere and does not fail to shock. Unfortunately it failed to keep my utter attention and some of the performances were rather average. The 'whodunnit' element was played out well and it m...( read more)ust be said that it's more clever than most of it's type. Good fun if you're in the mood for some mindless brutality.
  • June 25, 2008
    ok movie on more then that.
    check it out if your bored
  • August 28, 2009
    An incredibly pleasant surprise. Often us horror folk lament that a lot of our favourite genre's output does not have much brains. However, sometimes you can find a diamond in the rough such as this or the equally good Antibodies. It's great when a writer uses the horror genre...( read more) (the best genre there is! Yay!) to explore interesting moral questions and ideas. Granted, I knew this was going to be at least decent with Skarsgard in a starring role, but I never dreamed I'd like it as much as I did. I was actually a little choked up by the ending.
    I'm certain one could poke holes in the moral dilemma in the film (the fact that the "tests" were performed on morally devoid criminals) but what the hell, it's good to see ideas like this thrown about along with our blood and guts sometimes. Definitely worth a watch at the very least. Watch along with The Ninth Configuration which this movie almost seems like a companion piece to.
  • May 29, 2009
    Clichés and stereotypes aside, "W Delta Z" has an throughout entertaining story that centres around interesting philosophical themes, like moral and egoism. A few well shot brutal scenes and overall satisfying camera work and cinematography. Pretty good acting and music. A somewh...( read more)at underrated movie if you ask me, but in many ways a typical thriller that's easy to forget.
  • October 18, 2008
    The Killing Gene follows the story of a detective and his new partner as they try and track down a killer that is killing people that the detective had delt with in a previous case the killer seems to be killing people by haveing them make a choice between themselves and the ones...( read more) they love useing torture and electrocution. Pretty good suspense thriller that falls apart in some places but has good performances all around includeing some gore scenes and a small twist ending worth given a look. Another release threw the Dimension Extreme label
  • November 1, 2009
    a repetitive "torture" movie, actually i think that is a copy of SAW
  • October 9, 2009
    Película demasiado gay para mi gusto... asko
  • October 5, 2009
    This is what you get from a chemical reaction between Saw and Seven, and like the two movies, this flick is pretty good. The torture scenes are not pointless like we see in lot of gore movies. They're here to help Selma Blair's caracter solve a philosophical riddle. The torture c...( read more)ould only end by throwing a switch to electrocute the especially-selected person the victim love most. Painful to watch for anyone that doesn't have a strong stomach for strong torture scenes. Otherwise, it's more than worth to look at.
  • September 13, 2009
    Not half as smart as it thought it was!
    An interesting concept wasted on a poorly executed movie!
  • July 23, 2009
    I didnt like how this movie was filmed and the fake accents grated on my nerves.....awful! Very disappointing.

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February 22, 2008
Nigel Andrews, The Financial Times

Think of Saw and multiply it by Seven. full review

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