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Dungeon Girl

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(6)

 

 

This supposed horror movie tries to be an artsy psychological horror drama but fails miserably. It's about a young woman who has been abandoned by everyone and is now held in a basement by some man. That's all plot there is except for some flashback sequences of her childhood. The movie relies heavily one first person narration and the pace is extremely slow and nothing much happens in the movie. The sound and picturequality is as bad as Lommel's other recent movies, that is about as cheap as it gets. The soundtrack combines random noises and annoying piano music.

Dungeon Girl doesn't work as a drama nor as a horror movie. It's just plain bad and doesn't deserve your time or money.

Though it was not what I expected, this movie was extremely effective

in my mind. The story was full of understated sexual tension. Also, in

several aspects it worked against type. You would expect that a girl

who had been abducted would hate her abductor but in this case I found

it fascinating how she in fact liked him and needed him. It was the

Stockholm Syndrome of course but the way the two main characters just

often engaged in a staring match was curiously effective (unless you

have the attention span of a gnat) if you paid attention. The

entire relationship between the captor and captive was fascinating. It

did not follow type. It presented complex characters.

The most salient point is that the man does NOT rape the girl. Though

he clearly is heavily sexed and a total wanker, he never apparently

touches the girl. (The original for this movie, Natascha Kampusch, was

raped.)

"Dungeon Girl" does in the end have some elements of repetition that

don't seem effective but they can easily be ignored if the viewer is

unbiased.

Twenty word minimum. Okay.

Student film gone awry and the best argument against giving them digital cameras and desktop editing software. At least in the past the prohibitive cost of film and the accompanying production prevented this kind of junk from being produced and mass marketed. Not all progress can be defined as bettering our condition.

Pointless, superficial, idiotic, completely and utterly worthless.

You're better off throwing your money out the car window, at least that'll make someone happy.

An update of the current grading scale needs to include half-stars and the all-important Zero.

This steaming pile = zero.

This could have been a very tense, psychological study about why an outwardly handsome, well built adult male, who owns a home near a lake and dosen't seem to have a job, but must have money to live on would kidnap a 12 year old girl? He seemed to be obsessed with witches, I don't know if it was a metaphor for a woman's power over men in general or him in particular. The young girl seemed almost comfortable with him, like a perverted father/daughter relationship. However, something about her story just didn't ring true to my ears. Anyway, this could have been a lot better given the material the writers had to work with.

Please, if you see this review in time, DO NOT WATCH THIS MOVIE! The whole premise of this film has so much potential to be scarey, etc.... so when you view it prepare for a huge disappointment. Technically, this is considered to be in the horror genre of films, but the only creepy part are the scenes when you are forced to look at the naked butt of the main male character while he rubs up against the "dungeon" door (really a closet) and, oh yeah, apparently he likes to frolic nude through the fields near his home as well. There are a lot of scenes of the girl and the captor just pensively looking at each other (he looks at her, she looks at him, he continues to look at her, she continues to look at him... this scenario is repeated over and over). The narration is all in whisper by the girl which is supposed to give some depth to the storyline but the viewer is still left searching for a cohesive explanation for why the "dungeon girl" likes being held captive by her "stranger". The film quality is also very poor (which is to be expected from this director I guess?). I found this film to be particularly hard to sit through. I don't know which is worse: sitting through the whole, painfully boring movie, or knowing that the young, beautiful actress playing the "dungeon girl" will have this credit on her resume for the rest of her career. I think we all deserve better than this!

I bought this movie for $14.99 at wal-mart and it has easily been one of the worst movies i have ever seen. I mean some movies are so bad, that their good, but not this one. You repeatedly are shown a scene where the kidnapper is masturbating with a baby doll and he keeps repeating the same annoying phrase over and over "Are you a witch? All women are witches, Are you a witch?"

The musical score is also terrible. Its just a mixture of random sounds and piano keys.

The only reason why this movie gets one star is because the actress who portrays the "dungeon girl" is very beautiful and she is the only reason how anyone can bare to watch this movie.

Overall, the movie is horrible, the acting is horrible and the music is terrible. Dont buy!!!

Cheap-looking. Poorly written "narration" delivered in monotone by the "heroine" will make you cringe. Unexplained reason for the kidnap adds to the idiocy. The victim ages from 12 yrs old to 18 yrs old during the storyline of the film, yet her appearance never changes. Really? Didn't want to put any more actors on the payroll or what? This one's just baa-ad.

To appreciate this movie, one has to have a fairly good working knowledge of how the human mind works. Nearly the whole movie is narrated by the 'Dungeon Girl' because the real story doesn't take place at a remote farm, but in her mind. Many reviewers have failed to realize that this is really a story about the psychology of why a young girl, kidnapped and held by a mysterious man, would stay with him for so long when she seemed to have ample opportunity to escape. In a nutshell, she was a girl from a family where she was more of an inconvenience or bother than a loved member of the family. So, when she is kidnapped, she senses that this is a man who wants her for herself - he doesn't touch her sexually - and for the first time in her life she felt appreciated, if not loved.

My one complaint about the movie, moving it down one star, is that we are not made privy to the kidnapper psychological motive for kidnapping the girl. He probably felt inadequate with adult women, in a sense still being a psychologically a young boy. It is very difficult to depict the human mind in a visual medium like a movie, but the director does a very good job of it by using various movie techniques that many might find unusual. If you don't understand the human mind, this movie might be over your head. If you do, it is a great chance to put what you think you know to use trying to make sense of the story.