- Film Review
- Reviewed By Jeremy Aspinall
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4 out of 5
A debt-ridden medical student takes up a lucrative sideline in extreme body modification in this pulverising horror from the Soska twins (Dead Hooker in a Trunk). Katharine Isabelle (star of cult werewolf flick Ginger Snaps) gives a terrific performance as trainee surgeon Mary Mason, whose dire financial straits force her to take a walk on the dark side after a visit to a sleazy strip club. She's soon attracting some decidedly unusual clients to sample her skills, until her new-found career is thrown into turmoil by an encounter that sends her on the vengeance trail. The film is dedicated to Hostel director Eli Roth and contains plenty of look-away moments, but the sibling directors' second feature is no gratuitous schlock fest: it's a thoughtful, well-made piece with plenty of gallows humour and a memorable cameo from the Soskas themselves. It's true the picture tends to meander at the end, but it's anchored by Isabelle's class act as the innocent girl-turned-fearsome female fury.
Plot Summary
A medical student is short of cash, and increasingly disenchanted with her profession and the surgeons she once idolised. Needing some extra cash to make ends meet, she begins performing dangerous procedures in the sinister world of illegal underground surgeries. Thriller, starring Katharine Isabelle and Antonio Cupo.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Mary Mason
- Katharine Isabelle
- Billy Barker
- Antonio Cupo
- Beatress Johnson
- Tristan Risk
- Dr Grant
- David Lovgren
- Ruby Realgirl
- Paula Lindberg
- Dr Walsh
- Clay St Thomas
- Detective Dolor
- John Emmet Tracy
- Lance Delgreggo
- Twan Holliday
- Dr Black
- Nelson Wong
- Rat
- Paul Anthony
- Twin one
- Jen Soska
- Twin two
- Sylvia Soska
Crew
- Director
- Jen Soska
- Director
- Sylvia Soska
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