Madness (2010)

Contains minor plot spoilers, but hey this is a slasher so you know a bunch of people die gruesomely.Two Mustang Cheerleaders on their way to a meet in Minneapolis, pick up some stranded boys outside of Stockholm, Sweden (at least cover the plates). Tara (Yohanna Idha) has done it once and is destined for slutdom. They end up getting abducted by a gang of one-eyed Swedish homosexuals (?) who seem to prefer pretty boy Oliver (Max Wallmo) over the girls in this gore-fest which in many ways seems to be a spoof of this type of film.They screwed up the formula, as the final girl should be the virgin. They had a chainsaw, but it ran out of fuel. The initial woman in the teaser scene looked slightly pregnant, suggesting the girls would be "breeders" but that never came full circle, as if Oliver had a womb. The white lab rat running around the old barn wasn't convincing either. The Swedes have done better.Guide: F-word. Sodomy rape. No nudity.

I love slasher movies. I like torture movies. I totally enjoy redneck movies. This might be a good film but I will never know. Because I switched it off shortly after a big boot stepped on a very cute little rat at the end of the opening scene. I mean the same person stepped on a pregnant woman right at the beginning, which seemed a promising start of mindless violence but when it comes to animals I cant take it. I just hope it was CGI. Because if it wasn't I couldn't enjoy the rest of the movie anyway as it would have been made by people who don't understand the first thing about the horror genre. There is not much else to say really. OK, I made it to the first scene and when I heard and saw the two first actresses I had all my fears confirmed. It's a 1* for me. There is better out there.Added later: Thankfully I did find out that it was CGI. So what I will have to do now is watch the whole thing and maybe up the vote appropriately once I have done. Thanks to the person who took the time to message me!

first ill say stick with this movie or you will miss-what ill call a great low budget movie.. when i watched this i was glued to my screen and thoroughly enjoyed from start to end.. if this had a bigger budget it (in my books) could of been a big hit.. OK the acting not 100% and the effects are not all that good, (hence small budget). but i promise if you stick with this movie you will enjoy,, especially if you are a horror fan such as wrong turn,, hills have eyes,,and and other twisted horrors. ...warning do not watch if a little afraid of blood as there are some scenes that could offend your angelic nature,,, the brutality how-ever made the movie for me.. i'm giving this film a eight out of ten if the budget were in the same region as some higher profile films such as wrong turn id have rated higher.. but in my eyes i see low budget films as having heart to them where some high budget films have nothing but glamorous shots and over paid actors who simply just cant act.

Madness plays like a student-made homage to Texas Chainsaw Massacre / Hills Have Eyes etc. The acting is so terrible it is unintentionally hilarious, as I doubt any of the cast have any acting skill / experience whatsoever. The plot is basically non-existent and much of the characters actions make no sense at all. The strange thing is that it features Swedish actors playing American characters, who are travelling across backwoods USA, but it is actually filmed on location in Sweden. And the 'bad guys' talk in Swedish whilst the 'good guys' all talk in English with heavy Swedish accents. Rather bizarre. The violence is pretty brutal and senseless, with some rather effective gore effects (given the shoestring budget), although the violence becomes rather stale, generic and uncreative, with no stand-out set-pieces. The film does have a kind of lo-fi charm, and probably would have been more entertaining had the film-makers acknowledged this by making the movie more 'tongue-in-cheek' rather than the stark and serious tone they have tried to set. The one redeeming factor is that the whole thing (including writing / directing / shooting / editing / effects) was all carried out by a team of three guys, quite an admirable effort.Also, it's rather hard to hate on a movie that keeps it's two female lead characters in cheerleader outfits the whole time.