(re)Search my Trash

<body> <div align="left"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" width="800" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/square.gif" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="592" valign="top">  </td> <td width="4" rowspan="3"></td> <td width="100" rowspan="3" background="../stylepix/squareright.gif" valign="top">  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">    <p>Spektor Island, 1972: For unknown reasons, ten women from all walks of life - a model (Leah Principe), an actress (Kerri Lynch), a folk singer (Sophia Cacciola), a doctor (Susannah Plaster), a naive co-ed (Porcelain Dalya), a medium (Karin Webb), a religious fanatic (Molly Carlisle), a high society real-estate investor (Molly DeVon), a nerdy bookworm (Rachel Leah Blumenthal) and a renegade (Jade Sylvan) are lured to the single house on the island under false pretenses, and a storm makes sure they have to stay the night at least - something neither of the ladies cares too much about, as they seem to not be too fond of one another, and mostly incompatible ... yet, the place has a wine cellar, so why not make the best of it?<p>The evening with copious amounts of wine goes reasonably well until the model strips naked, insults each one involved personally ... and a short time later is found dead, wearing nothing but a pig mask. Her drink was drugged, but the others don't know that - but they do know there's some kind of fould play involved ... especially after the "ghost" of the "Butcher" appears to them, which turns out to be nothing but a film projection, and then the actress, who has apparently collaborated with someone, tries to scare them with a butcher mask, something that's cut short when the nerd, totally against character, swiftly breaks her neck and kills her. Not the other women start to panic a bit, quickly drug the nerd and lock her into the basement ... but that's no guarantee whatsoever that there is not another one among them who's after them, quite the contrary. And since all the ladies know very little about one another, they all suspect one another - and the suspects only grow fewer as our heroines start to drop like flies. So is one of the ladies a serialkiller, or is the house haunted ... or is there something much more sinister going on?<p> <p><b>Ten </b>is a clever little thriller of the old dark house variety that might introduce us to a rather familiar set-up - but then develops the story into a totally unextpected direction that will keep you guessing till the end. And a well-paced directorial effort that keeps a good balance between narrative and spectacle, with sexy and gory bits thrown in at the right times along with a bit of irony, carries the plot quite beautifully. Now some might say that the moive does feature about two busloads full of genre mainstays, and I won't argue with that, but it's how these are put together that makes <b>Ten</b> entertaining throughout! <p>  </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="592" valign="top">  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> currentyear = "2015"; </SCRIPT> <SCRIPT language="JavaScript" src="../scripts/endcredits.js"></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"> dosworsdonn(); </SCRIPT> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body>