I'll Never Die Alone (2008)

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

because I am so tired of rape victims, at least in the USA, being brainwashed by therapists to forgive and forget because their rapists were "sick" and could not help themselves. Hogwash. They are cruel brute beasts who deserve the same fate that the rapists got in this film.This film takes an entirely different approach from most of this genre. First, its hardly a travel brochure for Argentina as the police are shown as completely in league with the rapists who seem to be hunting women as well as animals.Four female college students are traveling through rural Argentina back to their middle class homes when they find a woman who has been severely injured and sexually assaulted. They also saw "the hunters". They pick up the woman, who dies, and go to the local police. Bad idea. The police seem completely indifferent. As they leave town the women are sideswiped, kidnapped, taken out into the brush and brutally raped. One dies from internal injuries when she is severely beaten prior to the rape.Afterwards, two of the women find one of the rapists' guns and decide to track them down and "do unto others". To me the deaths of the rapists were not violent enough. Maybe we Americans just do violence better because of our frontier roots and wildness that is still in us, but I was so hoping the girls could round up the rapists, cut their hands and feet off and then bury each of them alive in a mass grave. As it is the violence done to each is not nearly worthy of their past actions. Only the last killed gets a really horrible death, and you don't even get to see it.We probably won't have the death penalty in the US much longer, but films like this should remind people that sometimes to beat them you have to join them - in technique at least.

Rape/revenge movies aren't supposed to be enjoyable. And this is not enjoyable but it's a great piece of film making and a great addition to the genre. For many, it may feel far too slow and even dull, but that's where the strength and power of the movie lies. As with Funny Games, the director refuses to rush through the mundane, forcing the viewer to acknowledge the reality simulated on the screen. An exploitation director wouldn't spend 3 minutes on burial, let alone on a long shot of it. Adrián García Bogliano also takes defies convention by keeping the soundtrack minimal and ambient emphasizing the dull horror of not only the rapes, but of the revenge. The huge accomplishment of this movie is in getting the words "subtle" and "rape/revenge movie" into the same sentence.

When Meir Zarchi made I Spit On Your Grave in 1978, he would never have comprehended the legacy that his film would eventually generate. Seen as one of the more controversial of the named video nasties, it and the genre it has recently been generating is making waves again.This Argentine roughie must rank as one of the more effective and respectful homages to Zarchi's film. Except that here, experienced micro-budget horror director, Bogliano, takes the genres usual conceits and batters the viewers conscious for the entire duration.Filmed in the stark sunshine of a remote part of Argentina, a group of four young girls drive past a battered and bloody body of another girl. After taking the body to the local police, upon leaving they are followed by a trio of hunters who show little mercy.Anyone who has seen I Spit On Your Grave or, indeed, last year's remake will know the direction the film will turn. The violence is very naturalistic which will repulse the unweary. Add to this a relentless, uneasy soundscape that permeates throughout (think Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974) which is both grating and disturbing in equal measure. A brilliant example of effective low budget film making, using subtle sound techniques to off put the viewer, making you forget any budget limitations (there are noticeably a few).The performances from the four leads are pitched perfectly. Bogliano not too indulgent with giving background detail, although a sense of compassion is forced upon us. This is especially true following the brutal ordeal that the group go through. Directly after the violent assault(s), there can be very few scenes as disturbing or powerful in recent memory as the reaction that the group's youngest member conveys, her character completely broken.Whether anybody would want to watch such fare is really an individual choice. But there is no doubt that this is the real deal - a modern grindhouse film without the retro trappings currently being thrown at us. Granted, there are references abound (see who the film acknowledges in its opening credits for further clues), particularly from the original grindhouse movement (Thriller: A Cruel Picture is covered on a number of occasions for instance), but No Morire Sola remains a horrific horror ordeal. A true video nasty.

"I'll Never Die Alone" is a nasty and mean rape and revenge flick obviously influenced by "Last House on the Left" and "I Spit on Your Grave".It tells the story of four female university students,who travel back to their family home in the remote outback of the La Plata region.During their journey they find raped and battered woman.She was sexually violated by three local hunters.Soon all four girls are captured by them.The orgy of rape and sexual violence begins in the sunny woods of La Plata.Two surviving women mercilessly pursue their attackers and extract bloody revenge via hammer,shotgun and barbwire.The rape sequence is nasty,merciless and very disturbing as is the violence.Unfortunately some shots are far too long and the lack of dialogue comes across as slightly disappointing.Still truly brutal and sick rape and revenge flick perfect for fans of misogynistic exploitation.8 out of 10.