We Are Monsters (2015)

That was an excellent one.

Thanks for the memories!

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Emma (Hanna Oldenburg) has come to America from Australia to sign a secret oil deal. She gets kidnapped by Shirley Perkins ( Niki Nordenskjold) a friendly cab driver and delivered to Jim (Ralf Beck) a crazy guy who has discovered he likes to kill things and Pete (Torbjörn Andersson) a necromantic. Things don't look for good for Emma, other than a formula film writer manages to turn this into another rape/revenge film. Oops sorry about the revenge part, I know no one but me saw that coming. Guide: F-bomb, rape, nudity (Hanna Oldenburg-shower, Madeleine Norberg)

So. I watched this film and it seems as if a majority of these types of films have one thing in common, women who make bad decisions. Do you ever wonder why people talk back to the screen, well, it's movies like this that shows the number of stupid times these kind of chick do dumb things. She escapes the first time and she can't keep her trap shut from all the whimpering she's doing while hiding form the bad guy. She takes off in the woods with him on her heels. She gets to the roadway only to find it blocked by a wire fence. Where does that exist in the U.S.? He captures her again and the head bad guy comes back and she berates the guy into raping her again. She escapes a second time, this time at night, and of course she passes out, typical. She wakes up the next day and she waste time by heading to the river to clean the blood off her and she gets caught AGAIN. He drags her back to the cabin and this time she fights back and gets the upper hand but instead of running off, she goes back to the cabin and gets the shotgun leaning against the couch. The main bad guy drives back up and he finds his dead friend and then he finds the girl with the shotgun and she threatens to kill him and fires off a warning shot. Look, you've been raped twice, watched another woman get her brains blown out and you want to play fair? This is not how the human condition works. You kill the guy, you don;t talk about anything. You level the weapon at him and you fire. Stop wanting to exact the same type on punishment he just doled out on you. Get it over with. Films like this are just frustrating to watch.

Reviewers Notes: 1. Yet another torture porn in the grand tradition of films like I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. Seen one, seen em all.2. The date stamp says 2015 which is actually the creepiest thing in the movie (among many many creepy things) because the settings, the direction, the cinematography, the script, the acting, all of them scream 1974. Which raises the question, why would anyone want to do a film in 2015 that is completely indistinguishable from similar stuff shot about a half-century ago?? 3. The only other thing worth mentioning is the "tease" scene off the top where the kidnapper/abductor tells his fellow kidnapper/abductor that he wants to try "something different" with the new girl, he wants to make her "love" him. And for a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second, the poor viewer (any viewer watching this film is automatically in deep distress, hence the adjective) might think that the producers and writers did this film because they have something new and different to add to the genre. But then the moment quickly passes, and you realize they do not.

Agree with the only other reviewer below and hopefully the only other person who's ever seen this movie besides me. Every single one of these movies are the same -- innocent girl gets kidnapped and brutally raped by psychopaths, one of whom is stereo-typically mentally retarded, and then eventually she gets revenge in the end and the movie ends. Boring as hell with terrible acting and no unique twists.And enough already with the so called "shock value" of these types of movies. We've seen it all before. Many times in fact. There's really no point in doing a movie like this anymore unless you're going to really change things up. And this movie certainly doesn't even attempt to do that. Dumb plot, dumb actors, dumb movie. Pass.