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This film has three goals. In order of effort applied: (1) to present an unrivaled amount of on-screen graphic sexual violence (2) to make some sort of statement about being Serbian in the twenty first century, and (3) to be a dark thriller. Having now suffered through this, I am going to guess that goals 2 and 3 were in place only to appeal to investors to get a decent budget towards their only real goal (1).

As a desensitized horror movie enthusiast, I wasn't aghast at what I saw. It's a movie. It's fake. Make believe. And to be honest, the explicitness of it only emphasized the artifice. It would have been much more effective at making viewers uncomfortable if it had used style and suggestion, rather than graphic closeups, prosthetics and imposing musical cues.

It also fails at Extreme Shock Cinema by being generally boring. Fans of shock cinema will likely FF their way to the three or four setpieces, say "Oh no they didn't!" then move on.

So, maybe they reached their primary goal of achieving notoriety, but failed in any attempt to make dark thriller with actual ideas, and also failed at making a Shocker worth rewatching. I shouldn't fault them, because I probably wouldn't have had any interested in a mediocre two-star thriller, verses a mediocre two-star thriller with unheard of levels of on-screen depravity. Point filmmakers.

I feel bad slagging this film. It's like badmouthing a grammar school play. This is not a real movie. It's cheap digital video with poor production values and sub-sub-par acting. Somehow this is appearing as a recommended film on netflix. And it has a 4+ star review rating there. It is artificially inflated. I warn you not to bother. Not because it's terrible, but because it's not a movie. It's someone's goofy little project.

As I said, I feel bad slagging it. But I chose to do so because I felt cheated by Netflix for recommending this to me. One might come to the conclusion that there is "fishy business" going on in the over-inflated review scores on netflix.

It's not a bad movie, in fact, it's not a movie at all. Don't bother.

And one more time - don't bother