Picture

Live Animals (2008)

Horror     Not Rated

Plot

A ruthless entrepreneur targets young victims for his macabre business. Using an isolated horse barn, he sells his captives to the highest bidder. Five friends on a vacation at a lake house are brutally kidnapped and find themselves prisoners, awaiting the auction block. Rather than succumb to a soulless slave's existence they chance death for freedom only to discover this twisted underworld reaches further than they imagine

Acting

The cast full of complete unknowns is ok, but do nothing to either help or hurt the movie.

Gore

Bloody gunshots, slit throat, chunks of skin removed, a hole drilled through a guy's hand, and a leg sawed off.

Sex/Nudity

Some women are naked as there are hosed off.

Final Thoughts

This movie claims itself to be like "Saw" or "Hostel" however, up until the last few minutes of the movie, it fails to deliver on this promise. The last few gore scenes are very good, but up until that point it is lackluster. The story is the generic torture porn story with a mild twist to it, however this movie jumps right into the action, and fails to allow it's audience to get to now the "good guys" in any way, and is all about the villains, who, without anyone to route for, are fairly ineffective. The film also employs at least one too many false endings. There are much better (and worse) torture porn movie out there, and this one is pretty skippable.

Overall Rating

C-