Love Life, Hate Kittens

Especially if we’re sitting in a completely empty theatre.

Can you believe it? I mean, Last House on the Left isn’t THAT old and it was a 7:40 showing at downtown Culver City. Anyways, thank our lucky stars and probably their’s cuz we were hella loud + annoying.

The ticket girl said “Are you sure you guys want to watch this? It’s really gruesome.” There was a warning that said sadistic scenes and brutal rape. Haha. I’m not a sick freak but I am not fazed.

Mind you, with all the gruesome talk and ‘sadistic’ ‘sick puppy’ comments, I expected the sadistic level of this film to be similar to SAW or Hostel or any ‘torture movie’. This isn’t. This actually reminds me of the movie Taken. It’s a ‘keeps it real’ revenge/redemption movie. Lesson to be learned? Don’t FUCK with someone’s kid. ‘

SPOILER WARNING 

Basic plot. Naïve girl #1 borrows parent’s car to hang out with her friend. Parents are reluctant but let her go anyway. Girls run into boy. Boy is emo. They smoke pot in his motel room. His parent’s come back. They are actually criminals on the run. Of course they can’t let the girls go. Duh. They actually ummm don’t really have a plan. They drive the girl’s through the woods trying to find the stupid freeway. Girls fight back. Girls get hurt. It’s that simple. That was what distinguished this movie.

The ‘antagonists’ are not people that tie people up and sadistically cut their fingers off or any of that stupid movie crap. It’s pissed off killers that don’t want these girls to blow their cover. Sure he raped one of the girls but it wasn’t in a sick way. More like a god bitch stfu kind of way.

Anyway, the main girl manages to get away and tries to swim home. She gets shot. We are to presume she died. I mean, she got a beating, got raped, then got shot? She’s goner.

Meanwhile, the killer’s go to the nearest house for shelter which is ironically the girl’s parents home. They are really the only vacation home out in these woods. The parent’s help them out and even let them stay the night in their guest home. As the killers get settled into the home across the way, the kid makes her way back to the home half dead. The dad plots to get her to a hospital [it’s storming outside]. The Mom notices that the killer’s son left her kid’s necklace by the sink. She puts two + two together and realizes the people she housed are the sick fucks that did this to her daughter.

Dun dun dun.

Anyway, the mom kicks all sorts of ass while the dad kinda ….can’t fight.

I loved this movie. It was realistic on many levels. The killers weren’t over the top. They didn’t do shit for shits and giggles or to be ‘sadistic’. They did things because they had to, in a way. All they wanted to do was bounce town and their stupid son had to bring two giggly girls to their hideout to smoke pot. I mean, come on now.

All the characters are enjoyable. I thought it was casted really well. Points off though for the much unneeded hype for the rape scene. I seriously seen much worse.