|
Two thieves
break into a house since they're in
desperate need of money, only to discover a man tied
to a bed. They decide to help him since he looks like
he's gotten quite a beating. But sometimes you should
just mind your own business. They soon find themselves
tortured by a deranged serial killer and it seems as
if there's no escaping this nightmare.
For those of you who thought that Captivity would be the
movie to officially end the torture-porn trend, you
were probably right, but just to seal the deal, here's
Gag. Gag is an atrocious horror flick which feels more
like a gay S&M porno gone wrong than a horror movie.
Three men are forced to swallow various objects when
they're not gagged or getting fucked with spears. To
me that sounds like the description of a bad gay porno,
not to mention the porn-sounding title. Anyway, before
I head into this review, I would like to say that I'm
very tired from a long days work so this review probably
won't be as thorough as I'd like it to be.
Gag tells the story of two professional thieves who
break into a seemingly empty house, only to find a
man brutally beaten and tied to a bed. Yadda, yadda,
yadda, Saw-like twist, yadda, yadda, yadda, torture,
yadda, yadda, incest, yadda yadda, you get the idea.
Gag is a no-budget Saw rip-off and it's even a shame
to call it a Saw rip-off as these guys obviously didn't
get what the first Saw movie was all about. It wasn't
about torture, it wasn't about S&M, it was about the
psychological horror (something which has gone lost in
the Saw sequels) - a quality that Gag doesn't have.
Gag may want to be disturbing but it's not, and the
"inventive" torture scenes are either ridiculous or
down right impossible. A mouse would never crawl down
a tube and then eat away at someone’s mouth. And sure,
getting burnt with boiled pennies may hurt, but to
me it just seems like some extreme kind of hazing, not
necessarily torture (plus it was very silly to look at).
Then we have the fact that the movie both looks and
feels homemade. The director obviously doesn't have a
clue about what he's doing behind the camera, and the
"actors" are even less secure about what they're doing.
Hell, it doesn't even seem like these people wanted to
be in the movie. Were they really THAT desperate for a
pay check? Or perhaps they thought that this would be
the next Saw. If so, they can't have been very smart.
It's not the worst movie of the year though and it is
watchable if you're into this kind of thing. To me,
this is more porn than anything. Remove the gore and
add some nudity and you've got yourself a hardcore
porn flick (unfortunately not a very good one at that).
I won't recommend it but I'm sure there are some people
out there who enjoy this kind of thing. I'm just more
into movies that actually have a story. In the end,
Gag is like an extreme version of Saw, only with a
lower budget and with less of a story.
Some guts, a sliced throat, some axe stabbings and a
lot of suggestive gore. Nothing special.
Eh, it was cheap, what more can I say?
No-budget Saw clone with a horrible cast and an even
worse storyline. Watchable due to the fact that there's
constantly something going on, but I need a good story
to be able to enjoy a movie - something which this
didn't have. If you're into Saw-like movies, you might
want to check this one out, but don't expect much.
|
|
