Most abduction movies work up to the actual abduction slowly, building up the tension. In this film, the abduction takes place in the first five minutes. When something like this happens, my first thought that this better be good. And it is.
The tension created, the things that happen--one in particular quite stomach-churning--are to be experienced for themselves. Unlike your typical American or Japanese style gorefest, the things that happen here feel very real and uncomfortable. I actually became nauseated at one point, and I am most definitely not the type to be affected by a movie, not on a physical level.
It is amazing to see the difference between the insipid, utterly moronic American take on the abduction theme and this one. Take, for example, the pathetic joke that was "Pet." The abduction takes place, we settle in our seats waiting to cringe at whatever sick crap the abductor has in store while hoping the heroine will make it out, and then...we are treated to a "twist" so utterly stupid and imbecilic that you wonder what these little vanilla sissies were even thinking of.
If you want actual horror that will push the limits without being afraid of offending its morally superior, goody-two-shoes American vanilla dunce of an audience, you need to look elsewhere. France. Korea. Here, Mexico does not disappoint.
Don't pay attention to the negative reviews. One takes issue because a poor little woman is the one in the predicament as if it were a political statement, and the other thinks it's "disturbing" and "unnecessarily violent." Are you kidding me? Disturbing is what a film like this SHOULD be. If you don't want "violence," go watch your soulless Hollywood blockbusters.
Recommended.
