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Two girls (Kirsten Zein and Tiera Skovbye) are kidnapped and held captive on a remote farm. It is implied the girls are abused in some way (we don’t see anything actually happen), and after sudden personality changes from both, the two escape and begin to seek their revenge. Obviously drawing inspiration from films such as The Last House On The Left and I Spit On Your Grave, this 2015 film fails in every way to deliver the punch those two gave us.
Do they LOOK tortured?
We have seen many movies come along over the years that have this exact simple premise—a woman (or women) is captured, tortured, escapes, and gets revenge via violent, bloody means. This movie does not earn any points for creativity, but I’m not going to hold it against the film either. The primary issue I take with this one is it’s failure to make the two captured women sympathetic characters, or even likable ones. For a movie such as this one to work, those characters have to be ones the audience connects with—you want to make the viewer be near tears as they watch the victim being tortured so that when the revenge happens, the viewer is cheering out loud. This film doesn’t even attempt to make that connection, giving us no reason to care what is happening to them—whatever that may be, which brings me to the next problem. The time between when the women are captured and when they escape is very rushed, and we don’t really see anything even happen to them. This is unfortunate in that the film seems to have potential right up to this point—from the time they plan their escape, the movie goes down hill fast, and it somehow manages to get worse with every scene. We see the gals enter a hardware store to gather up their tools for revenge, and the movie becomes almost a parody of itself at that point. The remainder of the film is so uninteresting it’s actually difficult to sit through—mercifully, Even Lambs Have Teeth is only 80 minutes long, so you’ll make it.
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