Directed by Marcel Sarmiento & Gadi Harel
Starring Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen, Candice Accola, Andrew DiPalma, Eric Podnar, Nolan Gerard Funk, Jenny Spain

Ricky and JT, two high school friends and delinquents, decide to skip school one day and head to a local asylum that has been closed for years. During their wanderings, destruction of property, and being chased by a wild dog, they come across something that changes their life and their friendship forever: a naked woman tied to a medical gurney. At first, they think she’s dead, but then she moves. While they try to decide just what to do with her, things get even stranger.

This is quite an interesting movie since it moves back and forth between several types of movies. After JT decides that he wants to keep the girl there to use as his sexual play toy, the tone becomes pretty dark. Real dark. The fact that there is this young girl tied to this bed being repeated raped by JT and the other friend he brings to join the party, really shows the type of people that we are dealing with. Then to make it even stranger, we discover that this girl they’ve found . . . doesn’t die. Discovered by accident, if you could call it that, JT had broken her neck. But she’s still alive. Of course, this doesn’t deter JT from carrying out his plans of sexual conquests. Even when she starts to smell. But we’re never really told what this girl really is? Is she a vampire? A zombie? No clues are given, which I did like that it didn’t fall down any of those typical plots.

Ricky doesn’t want to join in and starts to question his friendship with JT. Then you throw in some high school angst, a childhood crush, and you have all the makings of an after school special. Other than the part about the captive dead/alive slave that is repeatedly gang raped. Definitely not one for the PG-13 crowd.

While it would seem that the film would delve into twisted sexual depravity, which really isn’t the point of the movie. We don’t really go into get detail about what exactly is this creature. There are a few questions thrown around to what she might be, but JT is more concerned about getting his rocks off, and really doesn’t care. As the plot gets thicker and thicker, with Ricky digging a hole harder and harder to get out, it does make us wonder how this is going to end up, though we’re pretty sure it’s not a happy one.

Aside from some creepy moments while first investigating the asylum, most of the scare elements come from the girl. Chained to the bed, actress Jenny Spain does wonders just by her gaze she gives the camera. Even when her face is beaten, swollen and bloody, she still can still send chills up the viewer’s spine. I think is where the movie succeeds more than anything.

With a pretty fresh cast and crew, they all do an adequate job here. Shiloh Fernandez plays Ricky, who really looks like a young Joaquin Phoenix. But the real praise goes to Spain as the title character. With not a lot to do other than lie there naked, she still makes an impact with the viewer. Noah Segan plays the friend JT that one wishes they never have. Nothing but trouble could come from someone like that, and Segan does a good job in that role.

Not sure if I can really recommend this film just because I found it disturbing in what these youngsters are doing, and even more so in that nobody there was thinking too much about it, like it was no big deal that they were sexually assaulting this girl and it wasn’t a big deal. It is well shot and does give the viewer something you haven’t seen before. But not sure if it is one that wish to see again.