The Tortured (2010)

Stars: Erika Christensen, Jesse Metcalfe and Bill Moseley

Writer: Marek Posival

Director: Robert Lieberman

Okay this is one of the first films in a long time to earn sympathy points and not in a bad way. It really caught me by surprise and lived up to it's title cause I feel they were trying to depress the audience into suicide. Again not in a bad way. I'm also kind of vehement when it comes to "Twisted Pictures" just because some of the films almost have the same premise. Not in the basis of the same exact film ideology but in the idea of torture, which is good but can get tired and be sought as lack of imagination. Not saying they lack, but you get my drift. One plus was the fact the film had Bill Moseley, if it has Bill Moseley I'm always game. A bigger plus was the film itself which was incredible.

The film is about a child named Ben who is kidnapped from his own yard while his father "Craig" (Jesse Metcalfe) was searching for something in the house. He hear's his son screaming and rushes out to try to get his son from the kidnapper "John" (Bill Moseley) and does not succeed. He calls the cops and his wife "Elise" (Erika Christensen) comes home to a house of cops and news of her missing son. They later receive a phone call from the morgue and find out their child is dead. They then decide they want revenge after not being satisfied with the kidnappers sentence, manage to kidnap him and take him to a house in the woods somewhere.

While in this house, Craig uses his medical skills and imagination to make John, suffer and feel the pain, or worse pain, then he had inflicted upon their child. John begins to fake memory loss, plea and beg as he suffers days of torture from both parents. He also begins to have very graphic nightmares which in ways turn him from antagonist to protagonist. Though remembering has actions, you still don't feel sorry for him.

This films is a must see, it's not the sickest, it's not gory (in my own opinion), but it is brilliantly written, Directed and most certainly effective. This may possibly be my shortest review because it is very much worth seeing and is great to see Twisted Pictures still mustering up a few good films.

5/5