Okay. So the other reviewers have pretty much gone ahead with what the movie means. It's an indie, underground movie about torture. The problem with this is that underground movies should really learn to stay underground, so that the people who are into it, can watch and see just how miserably cheesy they are. The rest of us don't need to see it.
What got me the most was the background given on the DVD case. As you may or may not have read, it describes the beginning, and informs you that the two thieves' friendship will be put to the test. Nope. One is stoned through most of the movie. They have one argument. And then the stoned one gets murdered.
The only scary part, not so much gripping, or terrifying, but actually very cringe worthy, was when one of the characters has a spear, or a sharpened pole, anyways, forcefully rammed up through his anus. What gets me is that there are things about the movie that don't make sense.
I understand that there should be a certain regard for human life. And in the beginning, before he'd been molested or whatever, I'd have understood the main hero sticking around to keep someone from being killed.
But for the few headstrong enough to finish this movie, at the end, there was no reason for him to keep it up. His best friend was dead, and the only person left alive had been raped, beaten and forced to pleasure her brother. She wouldn't really want to live. But regardless, our hero winds up trying to save her, gets killed.
By a security guard who found the other security guard dead. That's right. Two security guards. In the end, our nutjob manages to take down the armed guard. Probably with the morphine he's so damned fond of.
All in all, unless you're into really, really, really underground movies, stay away from Gag. Or you will want to.
What got me the most was the background given on the DVD case. As you may or may not have read, it describes the beginning, and informs you that the two thieves' friendship will be put to the test. Nope. One is stoned through most of the movie. They have one argument. And then the stoned one gets murdered.
The only scary part, not so much gripping, or terrifying, but actually very cringe worthy, was when one of the characters has a spear, or a sharpened pole, anyways, forcefully rammed up through his anus. What gets me is that there are things about the movie that don't make sense.
I understand that there should be a certain regard for human life. And in the beginning, before he'd been molested or whatever, I'd have understood the main hero sticking around to keep someone from being killed.
But for the few headstrong enough to finish this movie, at the end, there was no reason for him to keep it up. His best friend was dead, and the only person left alive had been raped, beaten and forced to pleasure her brother. She wouldn't really want to live. But regardless, our hero winds up trying to save her, gets killed.
By a security guard who found the other security guard dead. That's right. Two security guards. In the end, our nutjob manages to take down the armed guard. Probably with the morphine he's so damned fond of.
All in all, unless you're into really, really, really underground movies, stay away from Gag. Or you will want to.