Summary: After his
call girl fiancé is lured and trapped by a Satanic trio of escaped
mental patients, a young man must rescue her from a posh Hollywood home
before their sadistic plans can be realized.
This
summary is very deceiving. It is taken directly from the DVD as well as
IMDB. Based on the description, I was expecting something along the
lines of Taken. It read to me like an action movie where Ned's (Jason
Mewes) fiancé is being held captive and the whole movie was going to be
his fight to get her back. Ultimately ending with a final showdown in
which he kills the three mental patients and saves the damsel.
That is far from what we got. Turns out the "rescue" was about 15 minutes of the movie and involves zero action what-so-ever.
While
I was watching this, I could've swore I recognized the main actress,
Lauren Walsh, but I couldn't place what if seen her in. I looked her up
on IMDb. I didn't recognize anything she's been in so I'm not sure why
she looked familiar BUT did come across a movie called Breath of Hate
(2011). I noticed it had an identical cast so I clicked on it and
realized it's the same movie. Not sure why it was renamed and re-released
4 years after it was made, but whatever. Anyway, the summary for "that
movie" is as follows: One last job and Love is out of the
erotic escort business. Unfortunately, that final job is for a trio of
escaped mental patients who are looking to change the world; one victim
at a time.
Now this summary is a tad bit more
true to what actually happens in this movie. It is however, just as
deceiving as the first summary. Love wanting to get out of the escort
business to be with her customer Ned is really a minor story line once
the movie really gets going. She says she'll do one more party which is
going to consist of her and 2 other escorts "taking care" of 3 mental
patients (who are claiming to be actors living in Hollywood.
There
were countless things I was expecting from this movie, none of which
really delivered. For starters, I was expecting some kind of sex. I
wasn't looking for porn, or even Cinemax for that matter, but when the
movie centers around a party of 6 people and 3 of them are hookers,
you'd expect something. The most erotic scene was when Cleb, the
youngest and horniest of the mental patients pleasures himself with a
melon. Seriously, I can't make that up...
Secondly, I was
expecting some kind of violence and/or gore. Again, it did not deliver.
In fact, all the deaths in the movie were pretty weak. If I'm picturing
a movie with 3 psychopaths capturing 3 escorts, I'm thinking mind games
and torture. Didn't get any of that.
Lastly, as I stated
early, I was expecting some action as Ned would be the hero and rescue
Love. Again, not delivered. In all reality, Ned was pretty nonchalant in
his hunt to find Love.
If even a few of these
expectations were reached, it would've made for a more complete movie.
Even with all that being said, it was intriguing; at first. There was
some interesting dialogue between Love and Hate (the head mental
patient). But once everyone paired up and went off on their own it took a
really weird turn. It jumped to a few flashbacks that really didn't do
much for the story. It took an even more drastic turn into a "spiritual
side" which made no sense at all. From that point on, the rest of the
movie was very confusing. I can't really go into much more depth without
spoiling the movie but it basically became a sick and twisted version
of Ghost.
This had a lot of potential to be a
really good movie but it fell short on the mark. If you stumble across
this movie, either as The Last House or Breath of Hate, I'd probably
recommend continuing on and finding something else.
reviewed by Bobby
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