Bane (2008)

One of my favourite genres is horror. This movie is extremely poor, badly written, awful to watch. Avoid it all all costs, truly !!

BANE ,Alittle 'SAW' & a tad 'H P LOVECRAFT' this is a movie with somestuff to Frighten ! So these ladies may have been kidnapped,That's pretty bad news.Some medical types are experimenting with/on them…Not good.Is that a Cthulhu alien ??? So,These factors are unsettling and then they get a 'Time To Die' carved into their bodies.There is a lot going on and the title BANE was never explained to our satisfaction, Were the producers playing off the release of new BATMAN film with the villain, BANE or is it the explanation of the word -a person or thing that ruins or spoils.

It's discouraging that a listless film like Bane got solid festival play. The film is easily the most meandering, pointless horror movie I've seen in a long time. The filmmakers deserve kudos for managing to screw up an intriguing concept, which involves a bunch of women waking up in a test facility with no memory of how they got there. The viewer is intentionally kept in the dark about what the heck is going on, presumably to help ratchet up the tension, but the approach only works when the plot - what's actually happening - is fun and interesting to watch. Instead, we get scene after poorly acted scene of the women freaking out about their ordeal, being interviewed with electrodes on their temples, undergoing various torturous experiments that are neither scary nor particularly intricate, and being stalked by a robed figure that the producers aped from Hostel. Sound intriguing? Believe me it's not. The film also suffers from taking place (mostly) in a visually dull environment comprised of austere corridors, all of which are lit the exact same way. It gets very tiresome, very fast. Avoid.

This was like a train wreck in that I felt compelled to watch it to the end... That being said your best bet is to not even start. The movie made very little sense even after the explanation which was at the very end. The gore part was not. The horror part was not and I could go on. The only positive thing I might say is that the actress Sophia Dawny did a pretty good job and was convincing as a woman who was terrified yet started to grow strength as the movie progressed. The woman supposedly had their memories wiped but she had flash backs but they were confusing. They could have handled them the flash backs in a different way although not sure what. There were so many unanswered questions that my head spun.Don't waste your money buying it or your time if it ever comes onto TV.