Live Animals

Live Animals is in the same category as Saw and Hostel; independent, torture films, which portray the lowest level of humanity; this feature is not for children or those easily offended. College students make the mistake of having a little party in the woods. They are abducted by a group of slave traders and held captive, chained, and in cages, as the title implies.

The holding place almost looks like a prison, with adjacent cells holding the human cattle, and they are tortured mercilessly by their overseers. I guess the point here is our nasty treatment of animals for our food supply. The acting is nothing special, and the story watchable for the short, eighty six minute running time. If you need to kill an hour and a half on a rainy afternoon, Live Animals is an entertaining diversion.

For the ignorant people in here saying this movie hasn't been released & questioning how they managed to watch it before they saw it at some "special screening in Washington" garbage..... This movie was a straight to DVD release & has been sitting on Blockbuster Video shelves since at least July, 2009, if not earlier.

As for the movie itself - don't bother. It's a horrible rip-off of other movies in the same vein & not done nearly as well. As others have mentioned - plot holes big enough that you could drive a bus through, incoherent storyline, below par acting at best & overall terrible quality movie. This one is destined for the $2 bargain bin and even that would be over charging, to be honest.

A group of men and women are kidnapped by modern day slave traders. Some are immediately sold off, the rest imprisoned in a barn for "training". Nobody is searching for them, their captors are ruthless and things look very bleak.

I knew this is never going to be Citizen Kane but the subject matter seemed original and interesting and had the potential to make a statement, though it also had the potential to be a very cheap horror movie.

Turns out, it's very much the latter. Cheap and very much a Z-grade shlock-horror film: poor production values, basic plot, weak performances. Nothing positive about this at all.

A group of college kids must decide what price they will pay to gain their freedom after being kidnapped by a ruthless White Slave trader.

This film is described on the DVD case as "gutsy", but that's just about the last word I would use to describe it. The film quality is low, seemingly on purpose to give it a gritty look, and this only adds to the frustration of trying to watch it. Aside from the film quality itself, the movie is just plain bad.

If you like watching people being tortured, there are a few scenes you may enjoy. I, for one, have grown bored with it. I wasn't a big fan in the first place, and if you want to cover up a weak plot with torture, that's just a poor idea and you shouldn't have made the film in the first place. "Saw" and "Hostel" said it all.

There's a plot twist here or there that is kind of interesting, but hardly worth getting excited about. Personally, I think it would be in your best interest to just keep walking and forget this film was ever made. I know I will soon forget.

how someone can pull such a bunch of crap and believe there was "writing" involved. Take all the clichés avoided by even the most amateurish wannabe, cram them into a night-shot film with one of the most dreadful lighting for night I've ever witnessed, throw in some sloppy characters without soul or possible empathy-connections, spend a large sum of money in film, lighting and post, and you have -mileage may vary- this "film". I feel sorry for the poor actors that may have thought this was a opportunity to do a nice job.

If you teach whatever you teach, you can use this thing to show your students haw not to do things in life.