Three college students set out to document what other people dread the most. However, one of the three turns out to secretly be a sadistic psychopath who uses this knowledge to gruesomely torture the subjects.
Acting
Shaun Evans makes Quaid's unraveling genuinely unnerving.
Writing
Barker's short story adaptation keeps the philosophical nastiness intact.
Sound
Minimal score lets silence become its own threat.
Director
Anthony DiBlasi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'torture porn' wave post-Hostel, but Barker's source material predates that trend by decades. The film tries to intellectualize what Saw commodified.
Director Anthony DiBlasi later became a Clive Barker regular, adapting 'The Midnight Meat Train' and 'Book of Blood'. This was his feature debut.
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