| release date | August 12 2008 |
| studio | Dimension Extreme |
| director | Tom Shankland |
| writer | Clive Bradley |
| starring | Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Selma Blair, Ashley Walters, John Sharian |
| site | wazthemovie.com |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
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I watched this movie the other night and found it interesting. I didn’t like the solving W delta S problem, I think the movie could have done without that. I did enjoy the revenge.
decent, bought it ..watched it, then sold it,a rent for sure not a buy. gore it lame,selma blair keeps her cloths on,twist at the end is gay..he he.
Not that worth for 5 points. I think the overall pacakge was not great, They could have made it better.
Of all the movies that utilize the Saw-like storyline of torture this one keeps it simple. There is a pretty decent plot and the film is very dark and mostly set at night. Motive? Yeah it’s not
bad but it’s been done before. It’s all about revenge … but what does W Delta Z have to do with it? It’s the killing gene that’s all. It isn’t
explained very well though. For the most part the acting was pretty decent although we could have done without Melissa George. I don’t think she fits in this film very well. Selma Blair is pretty decent as the woman behind the torture and Stellan Skarsgard is just plain dull and dreary. In all this was a pretty decent movie that could have had some better characters and more suspense. This one is gonna get filed in my collection until I feel the need te watch it again.
Saw has alot to answer for. Seems like almost every modern horror film is trying to employ the same feel and ‘big twist ending’ of Saw, and failing miserably. WAZ (as I think a few reviews have said already) is perhaps average, but fails to draw you in, and most importantly, is nowhere near as gory as you are first led to believe (see ‘Untraceable’ for another fine example of this!!!). Wait until it comes on the TV, ’cause renting it would be a waste of money you can buy yourself a beer with.
“Intelligent, Thought-Provoking and Brutal.” The exact words written on the front cover are a MARKETING SCAM LIE. Nothing was brutal about this slow pace rip off of SEVEN and SAW… Selma blair though did do a good job as a freaking nutcase. But the movie sucked dick.
the film carried nothing at all FUCK THIS MOVIE.
great
i personally liked this one alot! kept me guessing until the end, and when the final twist comes, wow! just wow. never saw it coming. its definately worth a rental atleast.
The subgenre that has been come to be called “torture porn” is the lowest of the low among horror fans. Why? I’m not entirely sure. It’s an insanely repetitious subgenre filled to overflowing with rip-offs and spin-offs, but so is most every subgenre anymore. Its core idea is to disgust and disturb the viewer, but isn’t that the point of horror in the first place? So when non-horror fans ask me why horror fans trash the likes of Saw and Hostel for no apparent reason whatsoever, I can’t really give them a solid answer. Personally, when the torture porn subgenre was first formed, I was a follower. Finally, I thought, there was a group of films and filmmakers who set out to make horror films truly disturbing again. I can say without doubt that I’ve seen almost every single film that falls into the torture porn subgenre. A lot of them have dampened by hopes for the subgenre. But it was The Killing Gene that singlehandedly destroyed any faith I had that torture porn was going to be the intelligent, disturbing subgenre it was meant to be. The subgenre it could have been.
The Killing Gene is pretty much the first Saw dumbed down, with the perspective flipped from the victim to the cops, al a Se7en. Calling it a rip-off is an understatement. Accurately pointing out that the movie not only has the same exact plot as Saw, but also copy/pastes some of its lines more than once is a better way to put it. The only sole difference between Saw and The Killing Gene plow-wise is that one involves someone mutilating themselves; the other involves someone mutilating someone else. The motivation of the victim is the only thing that was entirely not copy/pasted from Saw. And contrary to what some reviews I’ve read have stated, that is not my opinion. Unless, of course, you also believe it’s my opinion that two oranges are the same exact color.
Having established that The Killing Gene is unarguably Saw with a different setting/perspective, let me move on to the quality. Simply put, it’s laughable. The entire movie is cheaply thrown together with the dynamic writing of a twice-failed 5th grade. There is not a single scene in this movie with any sort of imagination. The kills are all generic. The entire movie is completely predictable. The writers try hard to follow the same exact storyline as Saw, but then add a twist on the formula near the end. This twist is hilariously absurd and predictable. In order to avoid the obvious cliché, the writers did–who would have guessed?–the polar opposite. This isn’t any less predictable, and it just cheeses the entire movie up further. Did I mention that all the could-be bad guys in this lame whodunit talk super slow and pronounce their words in that I’m-so-evil voice, as if they have Down syndrome? Seriously. I’d almost go as far as to say as the main villain, when they’re revealed, has about as much humanity as an emo stereotype with legs. I almost wanted the Adam and Andrew “Emo Kid” song to start playing in the background. Now THAT would have been cliché-defying.
The gore is all off screen. It makes me wonder why the directors even bother writing a torture porn movie without any on-screen torture. It’s hilariously paradoxical. The torture scenes are all generic and unimaginative, strung together with, you guessed it, poorly done flash cutting. There is nothing brutal about this movie. Half the time you can’t even tell what is going on because the director is so balls-less he cuts away from the gore literally every few seconds. You see a torture build up, a cut, a bit of blood, a scream, some blood, and then a complete scene change. You never actually see anything at all. I’ve seen a lot of watered-down torture films–Hostel, for example–but this is just pathetic. Why don’t producers start backing up directors who don’t cringe every time they squish a fly, much less cut a throat, or much less torture a victim? We, the audience, can handle gore or we wouldn’t have picked up this movie in the first place. I’m sick of pansy attempts at gore like The Killing Gene. I find the lack of audacity in so-called horror directors more disturbing than the actual torture– BY FAR.
Overall, The Killing Gene is Saw from the perspective of Se7en, minus the quality either film had. It’s a rip-off in the lowest degree of the term. When it tries to be different from the movies it copies, it ends up being absurd and downright laughable. Any attempt at making an intelligent point is quickly diminished when you realize the Down syndrome villain just literally copied half their “thought-provoking” speech word-for-word from Jigsaw. Anyone who gives this film a positive review is stating this: “I like movies that wholesale copy other movies. I like watered-down torture. I like zero quality. I like zero creativity. And most of all, I can care less, utterly care less, about the future of the horror/thriller genre. Just give me another rip-off and I’ll give you my money.”
i love selma.