Madness (2010)

I love this movie so much

To me, this movie is perfection.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Contains minor plot spoilers, but hey this is a slasher so you know a bunch of people die gruesomely.Two Mustang Cheerleaders on their way to a meet in Minneapolis, pick up some stranded boys outside of Stockholm, Sweden (at least cover the plates). Tara (Yohanna Idha) has done it once and is destined for slutdom. They end up getting abducted by a gang of one-eyed Swedish homosexuals (?) who seem to prefer pretty boy Oliver (Max Wallmo) over the girls in this gore-fest which in many ways seems to be a spoof of this type of film.They screwed up the formula, as the final girl should be the virgin. They had a chainsaw, but it ran out of fuel. The initial woman in the teaser scene looked slightly pregnant, suggesting the girls would be "breeders" but that never came full circle, as if Oliver had a womb. The white lab rat running around the old barn wasn't convincing either. The Swedes have done better.Guide: F-word. Sodomy rape. No nudity.

I ordered this film last month from the us because i need to have every backwoods horror film in my video store here in Vancouver ( yes there is still a video store left in this city ). It's a guilty pleasure for me to engage and embrace a new backwoods film regardless if it is horrible. Madness had all the ingredients to be one of the worst backwood horror films of all time ie.. low shoe string budget, horrible acting, Swedish film pretending to be an American film with Swedish actors speaking with a British accent etc etc but instead i watched in awe and suspense one of the best backwoods horror films of the last decade or so. First of all we have an opening that will jade the most jaded horror fanatics. Wow, the start would give Carver's ball crunching scene a run for its money ( well maybe not ).After this we are introduced to the four leads which end of being stranded in the middle of nowhere and than the mayhem ensues and never lets go. The film has a longer than usual running time for films of this ilk but that didn't matter at all. The two main antagonists speak only in Swedish and they are creepy as hell especially the one with the screwed up eye. The bandannas on these two freaks of nature only added to their macabre decor. What makes our protagonists so likable in this film is that they seem to go through just as much grisly chaos ala ash ( Bruce Campbell ) from the first two evil dead flicks. Even though the budget of this film might remind you of some other basement fodder flicks like machined and reborn, this one on the other hand wears its low budget like a decayed badge of honor.... Fantastic stuff and not for the squeamish....

I love slasher movies. I like torture movies. I totally enjoy redneck movies. This might be a good film but I will never know. Because I switched it off shortly after a big boot stepped on a very cute little rat at the end of the opening scene. I mean the same person stepped on a pregnant woman right at the beginning, which seemed a promising start of mindless violence but when it comes to animals I cant take it. I just hope it was CGI. Because if it wasn't I couldn't enjoy the rest of the movie anyway as it would have been made by people who don't understand the first thing about the horror genre. There is not much else to say really. OK, I made it to the first scene and when I heard and saw the two first actresses I had all my fears confirmed. It's a 1* for me. There is better out there.Added later: Thankfully I did find out that it was CGI. So what I will have to do now is watch the whole thing and maybe up the vote appropriately once I have done. Thanks to the person who took the time to message me!

"Madness" is about a group of blond-haired cheerleaders (who actually look like they're 30-plus) and male travellers who end up becoming the prey of sadistic rednecks in the middle of nowhere. They're on their way to Minnesota, although that's totally irrelevant. Get ready for some male bondage style torture as the film unfolds - but don't hold your breath: most of it is done off-camera. The female actors disappear from the movie pretty fast. It's all quite confusing.The movie starts off as what apparently promises to be another blood-drenched horror movie from the league of "The Hostel" with some quality gore and a horrific forced abortion scene... it's all very promising, that is, until the actors actually start to speak! It's hard to tell what the director Sonny Laguna actually wanted this film to be. Is it about a group of wannabe Americans from Sweden travelling around the US of A, and insisting on ignoring their mother tongue when they are together? In that case, their strong Scandinavian accents could perhaps be forgiven. As it turns out, the director seems to have wanted to use Swedish actors to pass for Americans, and the result will only make viewers cringe, as it is totally unconvincing, unnatural and just plain wrong. Then we find the villains speaking what must be Swedish, although we're in redneck country... which does nothing but add to the confusion. Apart from a few quality scenes of gore, actors with insufficient English language skills were used in an American setting, and this seriously affects the movie right from the start. It's difficult to determine what type of audience this film is aimed at. It will presumably only be a box office success in those parts of the world where people have poor knowledge of English. It merits no more than a 3 out of 10.