Trailer
Cast
Tiffany Shepis ... Princess
Debbie Rochon ... Debbie
Tara Cardinal ... Liza
Domiziano Arcangeli ... Larry
Plot
A group of people are found in a poor jail: no beds, poor hygiene (no toilets), dirty, dim, and cold. As time passes, we find out that each of them is in the prison for crimes/sins that they have committed - killing a coworker at the circus, killing a child, killing a priest, murdering women (and collecting parts of their bodies as souvenirs), etc. A new person enters the prison in one of the cells but she doesn't seem like the others. She is beautiful, covered with a crow-feathered cape and wearing a sexy black corset. How did she get into the cell without any of them noticing? It was like one hour she wasn't there and then she was. But the weirdest thing is that she seems to know more about each of them than humanly possible. Who is this woman, what is her role in this prison, and how can they all survive/escape the prison?
Rating Criteria
0/5 – No value whatsoever. Absolute waste of time.
1/5 – Barely worth any time.
2/5 – Pathetic but has a bit of something to hold the attention a little.
3/5 – Somewhat kept the attention but could definitely have used more.
4/5 – Good, but not awe-strikingly amazing. Could have maybe used a bit more to the movie.
5/5 – Go see it! Wonderful movie all around. – characters, music, theme, story line, etc.
2.5/5 - WARNING! This movie is LOADED with gore and unnecessary violence. Yes, "slasher" flick but they don't explain why the gore/violence until almost thoroughly through the movie. Reason *SPOILERS*: it is purgatory and their crimes/sins that they committed in life brought them there. So the "judge" (a blind monk that sought something other than just good vs. bad) is trying to separate their corrupted souls in the purgatory and send them to hell. And Princess, the crow-feathered cape gal? She was a helper to the monk in harvesting the souls (to send them to be eternally damned) but finds herself under the scrutiny of the monk himself because she used fiendish ways to get the souls, so she would have to stay in the purgatory prison for a "lifetime sentence".
Gore? This movie has it and it is very graphic. In the first few minutes, we see a man "Skinny" having a flashback on his sin - aborting his girlfriend's/wife's baby though she wanted it and torturing her, biting her face off with his teeth. He is later chased down by a dog-like savage human and the guards rip his teeth out of his mouth without analgesic. He supposedly dies but after the whole "trying to gain salvation" scene and dragged back to his cell, we don't hear from him for the rest of the movie {not even to see his dead body}.
Sexual appeal? This movie has it though it wasn't something that I would call appealing. Princess wearing a black corset and being seductive towards one of the inmates (and trying to get him to kill another so he could get to have sex with her) was pretty much the gist of the sexual aspects.
Violence/Evil? Rampant in this movie. Even though it turned out to be a purgatory to judge the souls, this movie was ridiculous with how much it had. Most of it was flashbacks, but still I didn't enjoy watching how this person did this and that person did that. Sure, the flashbacks explained why each was there but wow.....
Religion? Oh, my goodness. Please, no. This tries to be spiritual but how it goes about it is, in my honest opinion, way off course. I really don't think that if there was a purgatory, that the powers that be would put each guilty soul in a Nazi-like camp without proper hygiene (and whatnot) and then torment them to see if they can get better!
What knocked the rating down - the gore/violence, the slow reveal of what the place really was, not explaining how Princess (if that IS her name because maybe the older guy just wanted to use that because that is an endearing term for females) got there, etc. I honestly turned off the movie, at first, because of the gore that Skinny's flashback had with going to eat off the woman's face. I understand that evils are out there but the examples that they use are just outrageous.
Combined with the low budget and strange story-line, I find this almost completely avoidable. If you like (what appears to be) lower budget stuff, gritty, gore/violence (seemingly for the purpose of gore/violence), and gaps in story-line, go for it. Otherwise, DO NOT WATCH. And DEFINITELY don't let your kids watch!!! You think Stephen King's "IT" was bad for kids? This makes IT look like a day at the park; it is that bad.
Thanks for reading my review! Next movie to review is "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel", maybe this weekend.
~ Gracie
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