Tuesday 25 October 2011

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Year:2007
Country of origin:Canada / USA /UK / Germany
Director:Stuart Gordon
Genre:Modern exploitation
Starring:Mena Suvari, Stephen Rea, Russell Hornsby
Rating:5/5
IMDB link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0758786/
Tagline:Two Destinies Are About To Collide
Favourite line:"…..you can't have an appointment until you're in the computer."

Got to tell you, I just love Stuart Gordon.
If he'd let me, I'd drizzle him in olive oil, slap him in a frying pan and wolf him down with chorizo.
But he won’t
Whether it's schlock horror gore offerings like Re-Animator or From Beyond or his sci-fi silliness such as Fortress or Robot Jox for me, the man can do no wrong. Stuck, a neat little exploitation piece that is as devious as it is disturbing, this is both genre-bending and fantastically original.

The plot:
After a drink and drug-laced party, a young woman foolishly decides to drive home. Mid-journey, messing with her mobile phone, pissed as a judge on Easter Monday, she hits a man, recently forced onto the street after eviction from his squalid flat. The man strikes the bonnet of the car but, instead of rolling off, plunges headlong through the windscreen, pinned in place by the wipers that are now jabbed firmly into the meat of his matter.
With her hit and run victim suspended, half in and half out of her car, the drunkard must flee for home, then devise a means of ridding herself of her 'problem.'

Morbidly humorous right from the get go, this has a black, black heart, but also a natural wit that carries you through the nonsensical nature of what is actually happening on screen.
Though light on genuine gore, the odd moment of nastiness is graphic enough to make you squirm just a little, and the rapid-fire run time gives this the feel of a genuine cult movie.
Vicious, twisted and something of a morality tale in the end, this is a winner down at Smell the Cult HQ.

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