Did you people see the same film I saw?

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

The sequel is half decent, but this first instance is just dumb.It's as if the writer thought up a dozen "trap" type scenarios, and only then realized he had to write a plot around it. That ended up falling flat on its face. From one day to another, this rich guy's mansion turns into a booby trapped home. Really? All that design, setup, and testing overnight?And for what purpose? There's nobody in that home except the rich guy, his wife, and daughter. The wife's tied up, the rich guy is tied up, and he doesn't know about the daughter. What exactly is he trying to achieve? Who's going to run through all those traps? It's just stupid. For the gore fans, there's nothing to see here either other than some blood here and there. Nothing shocking, nothing scary, nothing surprising, nothing worth seeing at all. Waste of time.

Awful and boring. Not anywhere near as good as the Saw films.

It starts a terrible film, it's all been done before. However, as the story went on it got more, and more gripping! It had the signs of a normal 'horror' over the past 10 years. The stupid people who don't get it and end up getting themselves killed and the gore.It wasn't entirely original but it pulls you in. I loved how the ending wasn't all sunshine and rainbows, getting a bit sick of films where everyone's happy families at the end.

Dear Marcus Dunstan, jeez man! I do not understand this sort of mindless gore fest without any character development or other interesting cinematic elements. It was almost as if you couldn't wait to introduce the characters and get that part out of the way so that you could start with the violence. You ought to watch some Rob Zombie movies or something.The film did start off quite well. Josh Stewart is a reasonably good actor. His interaction with the family whose house he works at and his wife were at least mildly engaging.I guess your film is not without merit. You do have your own unique style. The atmosphere cultivated by screaming and breathing of the psycho and loud background score. The staged violence as a result of many traps set in the house. But it is all pretty over the top and relentless and gets boring very soon.Best Regards, Pimpin.