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All David (Jason Senior) and his pregnant wife Anna (Lisa Marano) want
to do is spend a night in a lousy motel to get some sleep on their journey
home from wherever. However, out of the blue, they are kidnapped by Ty
(Todd David Humes) and Gino (Eddie Benexvich), who work for white slaver
Polino (Michael A.Migliore), who relishes in breaking men and wmen alike
to make them his subjects with no will of their own. The attack though was
too much for Anna, and a sort-of doctor (Denni Dean Thomas) in Polino's
employ performs an unauthorized abortion, while David is beaten to a pulp.
When the abortion causes Anna complications, she is simply burned alive
before David's very eyes. Meanwhile, all of this is getting way too much
for Ty, so he wants out - so Polino has him killed, because that's the
only way out of his organisation. David in the meantime is shipped to a
Mr Black (Frank Marano) ... who is actually a cannibal who wants to -
well, you know. Fortunately for David, Black also has a female victim in
his power, whom he has gutted first - which gives David the opportunity to
free himself and strangle Black's aide with the poor woman's very guts
before making a run for it ... Black goes after David and sends a bullet
through his shoulder, but David manages to kill even him. However, on his
further escape, it seems he has been broken after all, has been made a
creature of primal instincts, and when his escape is stopped by an
innocent beartrap, he has no hesitation to cut off his caught foot ... and
bleed to death on the spot, only a few hundred feet from the highway ... As
you might have figured out from my synopsis, this is a very brutal film
that pulls absolutely no punches (and is very explicit in its depiction of
violence as well). You actually might want to call this film torture porn,
but then again, director Ryan Cavalline and his effects team don't
celebrate the on-screen violence quite as much as other filmmakers.
Cavalline leaves no doubt that all his villains are low-lifes, low-lifes
who are just clever enough to evade justice (or revenge or whatever). Even
Ty, the thug who wants out, is anything but a good guy, he's just a little
slow in finding his own actions despicable - as despicable as Cavalline
(intentionally) makes his brutality look like, there is no glamour in his
violence ... which makes his film much more grounded, much more honest
than many of his higher-budget counterparts. This all, plus an excellent
central performance by Jason Senior, makes Stockholm Syndrome a
deeply disturbing movie of course, which I gather it was intended to be,
but also a very interesting and grossly exciting piece of film - if you
have the stomach for it that is. But be warned: Don't watch when
pregnant!!!
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