Product Details

• Actors: Mark Wilson, Georgia Mackenzie, Pascal Langdale, Adam Rayner, Julia Ballard
• Directors: Luis Camara
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: The Weinstein Company
• DVD Release Date: July 15, 2008
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0016MJ6II
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,994 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Steel Trap" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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STEEL TRAP - DVD Movie

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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Tries to be Too Clever for Its Own Good, March 9, 2009

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Graboidz (Westminster, Maryland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Steel Trap (DVD)

Maybe they should have called this thing "Drywall Trap" or "Office Space Trap", because there really isn't a whole lot of "Steel" visible during the flick...maybe the elevator doors??

I really did like the premise of this film. You get nine almost-strangers trapped on the 27th floor of a deserted high rise being hunted down one-by-one by a masked killer. As a huge fan of slasher flicks, that is all I needed to give this one a shot. Unfortunately, there are quite a few things missing that would have made the film enjoyable:
1. - Likable Characters. Okay, so when you make a slasher flick, you always need someone to play the jerk, just so you can enjoy watching them get hacked to pieces. Well, with "Steel Trap" all you have are unlikable idiots that no one could possibly relate too. With so many unlikable characters, you truly don't care who wins, loses, lives or dies. You just want it over with.
2. - A Menacing Killer. The photos on the DVD of the masked killer look pretty creepy...and that is as close to scary as it gets with the movie. In action this masked dork doesn't really inspire fright so much as bemusement.
3. - Creepy Setting. If all else fails, put your protagonists in a creepy environment that can be fun to look at. Watching someone run past the copier room in what looks like an insurance agency office is just plain dull.
4. - Have some Gore. For a DVD from "Dimension Extreme" you would hope a little red stuff would spill from time to time. Even a low-grade horror flick can at least pump out some grue to enliven things, but any red stuff spilled here is strictly in the "Rated PG" range.

The cover of the DVD looks awesome, the story sounds compelling, but trust me, the only thing resembling a "trap" is the marketing done for this film. I sprung it, and was trapped into wasting 90 minutes of my life I'll never get back. Avoid this one big time.

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars steel trap was average but the ending......ugh!, August 12, 2008

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David Carney "REVELATIONS;3 13" (POINT PLEASANT) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Steel Trap (DVD)

A group of people who all have one thing in common,they all work in the media field.After bringing in the New year each one is summons via text message to the 27 th floor for an after party.I did notice the clock on the wall said 9:30 pm....OOOPS!Anyway each one is taunted by a crazed man wearing a black costume and what appears to me as a metalic silver mask almost ninja style.As the morning wears on one by one they're running around advoiding the killer.All in all it kept me interested but the characters were unlikable.They were mean spirited and arrogant as hell!Root for the killer! The ending was frustrating mainly because it was silly and a let down.You be da judge on dat!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars "This Just Keeps Getting Dumber.", June 14, 2010

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Richard Ross - See all my reviews

This review is from: Steel Trap (DVD)

That's an actual quote from one of the characters in this sorry excuse for a horror film. It's also the only thing in the script I found smart. 'Steel Trap' has all the makings for a decent horror film: an interesting premise, a spooky set, unlikable characters and wonderfully campy dialogue, but instead the filmmakers throw it all out in favor of making yet another torture porn movie.

It's New Year's Eve. While the party rages downstairs, six strangers each receive a mysterious e-mail inviting them to a more exclusive party being held on the top floor of an abandoned high rise. The guest list includes a rock star, a celebrity chef, a TV executive, an advice columnist and her boyfriend. There are also a couple of party crashers. When the guests arrive at the top floor they're greeted by ominous music and a severed pig's head. Alarmed but undeterred, they venture onwards where they discover personalized name tags that not only bear their names but also their biggest character flaws. As the six sit around taking swigs from a champagne bottle and snorting coke, they try to figure out who their host is and how that person knows so much about their personal lives. Instead of finding the answers they seek, they find a map which leads them on a scavenger hunt for clues. Since they're a little tipsy and a bit stoned they think it's a good idea to break off into groups and explore the dark hallways and locked rooms of an abandoned high rise. Needless to say, with the group splintered every which way, the guests start getting picked off one by one. What at first seemed like a disparate group of strangers turns out to be a group of people with more in common than they think. Each one did something horrible in the mind of their unseen host who sees fit to get revenge on them in the most gruesome ways imaginable. It also goes without saying that one of the guests learns of this horrible plan before getting captured by the bad guy who then goes into great detail explaining how his pent up pain has led to this, confirming everything that person, and us, knows by now.

The film sucks. The cast is full of unknowns, it's not scary but extremely dull, gory as hell and the ending is so stupid not only in theory but in execution. Except for some wonderfully campy dialogue there's no escape from this 'Steel Trap' of stupidity.