Chaos (2005)

This movie already annoyed me before it even properly started… The first screen depicts a written message in which is stated that hundreds of girls get abducted and sexually abused every year, and that the producers of this movie wish to illustrate these crimes as graphic and realistic as possible in order to warn parents and potential victims about the dangers of meeting up with strangers. Seriously, shenanigans like these make me furious because A) you honestly don't need to show explicit rape footage and sadist murder in order to pass the message of kids having to be wary of strangers and B) it's 300% hypocritical! If you want to make a raw and shocking exploitation movie, that's perfectly fine, but don't pretend even for one second that cinema like this has a deeper social moral or an educational task to fulfill. Perhaps my rant is slightly exaggerated, but pretentious messages like that at the beginning of a film irritate me enormously! Furthermore, I honestly don't understand where all the commotion with regards to this film comes from. Some people (mainly the haters) call it a rip-off of Wes Craven's "Last House on the Left", whereas others (primarily the fans) refer to it as an unofficial remake of that same exploitation landmark. To me personally it's just another entry in the "rape & revenge" sub-genre of exploitation cinema that is admittedly a lot more similar LHOTL than most titles. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, and then once more in the years 2000-2010, there were dozens of movies cashing in on the success of LHOTL (and, ironically enough, Wes Craven stole the idea of Ingmar Bergman's "The Virgin Spring") so why would one more form a problem? The only significant difference that "Chaos" has to offer is that it goes another step further when it comes to depicting misogynous cruelty and repulsive murder. Two young girls, Emily and Angelica, have planned to go to a rave in the woods, much against the will of Angelica's mother. They arrive so early that the rave hasn't even started yet, so they tag along with a guy named Swam who claims that he has ecstasy in his cabin. They end up in the hands of Chaos and his accomplices. Chaos is a dangerously deranged psychopath and rapist, and the poor girls' final hours will be excruciating and miserable. Then, in good old LHOTL tradition, the rapists somehow end up at the parents' house and another violent confrontation ensues. Yes, the violence is sickening. What Chaos does to the white girl's nipple and especially how he kills the black girl is truly disgusting and will make even the most hardened horror viewer squirm in his/her seat. But let's not exaggerate, neither. "Chaos" is not the most depraved film ever made, even though I'm sure that is what writer/director David DeFalco likes to believe. Kevin Gage, who's biggest moment of glory was to appear in Michael Mann's "Heat" in 1995, gives a more than solid performance as the titular sicko Chaos, but in spite of that he will never grow out to become a cult/exploitation icon like Krug Stillo (David Hess) did after "Last House on the Left".

Dave Defalco's twisted horror thriller "Chaos" is without a doubt in my mind, one of the most gut-wrenching film experiences I ever had in my life. It's relentlessly intense, and while declaring it "The most brutal movie ever made" is a bit of a stretch as, foul as they are, it doesn't actually have all that many scenes of violent torture in it, the overall effect that you get from watching this movie is disheartening and disturbing in the extreme, as I think it's as much about the grim hopeless psychology of it as it is about the humiliation and pain, and it left me quite mentally exhausted from shock the first time I saw it. The two nastiest scenes really made me recoil and caused my skin to crawl, it was like it was completely real and it was all I could do not to look away. That stuff is *very* difficult to watch. If ever a film deserved to be labelled as sick, this one does. There's not a shred of hope in it, it has no regard for humanity at all. There are no light or comedic moments, it's flat-out mean and ruthless from beginning to end, and it leaves a hell of a bad taste. It gets right down to it pretty much straight away with the first of several uncomfortably nasty and squirmy situations that just seem to go on and on, and there's no rhyme or reason other than I guess, 'watch who ya trust', to why the events happen at all. It's just bad circumstances and random occurrences of cruelty, for cruelties' sake... It's only about an hour and fifteen minutes but it feels more like two and a half hours. And while I was looking at the clock it wasn't because I was bored or anything, it was because it was so coarse and unpleasant to sit through that I couldn't wait for it to hurry up and end already! And the dark tone of murder isn't haunting or chilling like in say, "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer", it's just something that sets out to blow away your senses with a crude but effective barrage of intimidation, sickening and offensive bodily mutilation, and endless screaming. It's just shocking and isn't anything deeper than that. In other words, it's blunt as a sledgehammer. So I'd agree on that level that it is an empty movie, as there's nothing else you can take from it other than its ability to disturb. But I don't know, for what it is it's a powerful piece of work, and while none of them were positive in the least, it did evoke strong feelings in me the whole way through once it got going. And that is what the high rating's for, I was consistently gripped by the 'story', and it constantly had me on the edge of my seat, it's very engaging and involving.. I don't actually find it to be bad film, just a very unpleasant one to watch. I feel like I've got to rationalise my appreciation here - I love horror but never take enjoyment in overly violent torture and killing scenes in movies, I don't like to see people in pain, not even in a spoofy way, my heart is too damn sensitive for it these days. Horror isn't torture to me. Anyway there was just something in this that was worthwhile to me, if I had given it a low rating it would have only been based on principle, not what I thought of the basic watchable quality of the thing. Kevin Cage is the standout cast member, his depraved performance draws out hatred, horror and nausea, sometimes all in the same scene. The bloodthirsty psycho "Chaos" was so heartless that he shotguns his junkie girlfriend on a whim when she says the wrong thing, and even strangles his own son without hesitation after he's been fatally injured, so what manner of chance did the actual victims have? You keep hoping that anything at all will happen that'll bring this bastard down and make him pay for his crimes, and there are numerous nail-biting moments where it almost does..but not quite. And in the end for all intents and purposes, this self-proclaimed 'Devil' wins out. That ending was ice cold, but also something that I didn't see coming, and appreciated. All in all, phenomenally effective shock factor, scary situations and fearless actors make this a good movie to me, and all I can say is that, if grim realistic horror that you feel right in your gut is your thing, than you certainly won't be disappointed with this one. And while I might personally consider it to be very good, when all's said and done it's most-certainly not something that I could watch every week or whatever, no way. Once a never sounds about right.. This movie gets under your skin and gnaws on you. It wallows in its own muck and likes it there. Needless to say, not an easy pill to swallow for most people, but it does what most horror films want to do on the same basic level. It genuinely and unapologetically horrifies. Take care of yourselves.

This is by far the worst film i have ever seen. For many reasons. I know the film was due to be a remake of last house on the left but then at the last minute was changed because of its own originality...... This is ridiculous. The film is pretty much a carbon copy of the film, although it lacks all of the qualities of both the original and the more recent remake. The tagline. This film is not the goriest film, its not the most disturbing film, its not scary. All it does is it shows prolonged attacks on the two girls, breast fondling and so on and hints at one of them being raped. There is no gore!! Now this film is being marketed as the goriest film ever made. i couldn't believe it. The Ending. Honestly, the last shot of the film is ridiculous, it could be a family guy sketch, the dad stabs the villain, the cop shoots the dad, the mum shoots the cop, the villain grabs the gun and shoots the other cop then the mum..... the villain laughs like a cu*t and the feel ends, i feel as though i have wasted an hour and a half and lose faith in small independent horrors. I honestly am at a wits end as to how this film ever got made. The french are miles ahead of us in their production of solid, classy, terrifying and truly disturbing horror movies, with no need for gimmicky taglines. Please watch Inside, Martyrs, La Horde, Seven Days, Frontiers or Switchblade Romance for something a little less Sh*te.

You have to judge this for yourself, do not pay attention to the low rating people are giving this film. I'm giving this movie a 7 rating because it really made me feel like I was there and I didn't get bored or turn away from the screen, accept the disturbing scenes.This movie is worst than Hostel 1 & 2.You need to be fully warned, seriously. This movie made my stomach turn and I'm still disturbed about what I saw and I kind of wish I didn't see this movie. The leader of the pack was extremely vicious and psychotic and played his part to the max. The way he tortured and sexually mutilated these women was bad enough but for it to be be shown in graphic detail in this film was just too disturbing and the violence was worst than any movie I've ever seen.I couldn't even enjoy the scene with Chantal Degroat showing full frontal nudity either, not that she's not a beauty woman. It was just way too disturbing, she's the woman who plays Emily, who by the way is a gorgeous actress who I have to say was extremely brave to even consider doing a part like this.The ending was not a happy ending at all, although I have to say those useless bigoted cops got what they deserve in my opinion, I don't want to say anymore without spoiling the ending.