trashgang Made in a time when everybody wanted to make money out of the torture porn genre. Of course you have the good ones and the bad ones and this here I didn't like at all.I found the acting and the story itself worse. it was just made to add some gore towards it but even that never really worked for me. Some say that the gore was extremer then in the SAW flicks but that was ridiculous. just look at the slashing done, it was all laughable. After a while it bored me a bit and the conversations with the cops made me almost reach for the remote control. bad flick, bad acting, bad effects.Gore 3/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

Eavan Masters Another one of those horror movies that I got solely due to the cover artwork. My mistake. Although some of the acting could be deemed less than extremely pathetic, the directing was not. He has absolutely no idea how to create a suspenseful atmosphere. Granted, the script from Kirk Sever didn't give him much to work with, but there were still times where it was obvious he didn't maximize the suspense. I wasn't scared once. I was however left wondering, "Kirk Sever wants his sister to do what to him...?" It tried to use shock value to create a horror movie, but we've seen Saw, Faces of Death, Hostel, etc. You're gonna have to take it a lot farther than that. Otherwise it'll just look lame, as it did. Overall it looked like a decent high school project. Nowhere near anything worthy of being on a Blockbuster shelf. If you like horror movies, even if you like bad horror movies, do not watch this. The only way you could justify watching this garbage is if you're an up and coming horror director/writer and you want to see what not to do.

JustAnotherFace-Griff Okay. So the other reviewers have pretty much gone ahead with what the movie means. It's an indie, underground movie about torture. The problem with this is that underground movies should really learn to stay underground, so that the people who are into it, can watch and see just how miserably cheesy they are. The rest of us don't need to see it.What got me the most was the background given on the DVD case. As you may or may not have read, it describes the beginning, and informs you that the two thieves' friendship will be put to the test. Nope. One is stoned through most of the movie. They have one argument. And then the stoned one gets murdered.The only scary part, not so much gripping, or terrifying, but actually very cringe worthy, was when one of the characters has a spear, or a sharpened pole, anyways, forcefully rammed up through his anus. What gets me is that there are things about the movie that don't make sense.I understand that there should be a certain regard for human life. And in the beginning, before he'd been molested or whatever, I'd have understood the main hero sticking around to keep someone from being killed.But for the few headstrong enough to finish this movie, at the end, there was no reason for him to keep it up. His best friend was dead, and the only person left alive had been raped, beaten and forced to pleasure her brother. She wouldn't really want to live. But regardless, our hero winds up trying to save her, gets killed.By a security guard who found the other security guard dead. That's right. Two security guards. In the end, our nutjob manages to take down the armed guard. Probably with the morphine he's so damned fond of.All in all, unless you're into really, really, really underground movies, stay away from Gag. Or you will want to.

twilight_speaks I pretty much watch all horror movies voraciously, and I LIKE my torture porn - right along with my psychological thrillers and good, old-fashioned slasher/monster flicks. With the recent lines of Saw and Hostel setting the bar for outrageous gore effects fairly high, I'm not surprised to see the lower budget movies struggling to keep up with the trend. Gag does use what budget it has effectively enough in its gore shots. They didn't skimp on the blood, and while some of the stunts were ridiculous, I'm not entirely sure they weren't intended to be.It's a watchable film, but it drags. The writing and delivery of lines were often amateurish, which made the dialogue difficult to sit through at times. Had the death and torture sequences been more outrageous, it could have been truly shocking. Had they been a little more ridiculous, it could have been horrifyingly funny. Had they hired a different script writer, it might even have been clever. The end result is a sloppy movie that lacks commitment to be anything other than another low-budget fright flick with lofty ambitions and no follow-through. Worth a rental for genre fans, certainly, but not really worth a movie theater ticket - even at the matinée price. I'm not surprised it didn't get a general release.