Its taken me a long time to get round to watching this film. Its subject matter disturbed me, more so than such films as Saw and The Human Centipede because this film is based on truth and still happens to this day. The film is well made but its not entertainment. If there is one message that should be taken from the film, its this, DON"T IGNORE WHAT ABUSE COULD BE HAPPENING TO SOMEBODY YOU KNOW. IF YOU SUSPECT SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAPPENING TO A NEIGHBOUR, COLLEAGUE OR SOMEBODY AT SCHOOL, TELL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE!

This movie actually did disturb me.

Ruth is one of the best villains I've seen. Evil. Heartless. Makes her children hate women because she hates women and herself. Gets her boys to drink alcohol because she's a drinker and doesnt want to drink alone. She teaches sadism and power trips to kids and speaks on their level to communicate the evil. It's truly messed up. Nothing short of torture. It's not just shock, the character of Ruth says some interesting psycologically revealing things. It just adds to the darkness.
It did feel tiresome near the end as Ruth's manipulative wasn't a bigger part because the character of David didn't really shine when he needed to. It became torture without a motive. David never had much of a personal journey. I didnt feel his pain. He didn't react to the torture in interesting or natural enough ways. The movie doesn't have much replay value as a result but it's worth a watch.

Based o a true story? Maybe it should have told us that unless I missed it.

I don't understand the negative reviews because of the shocking content. If you want horror then this is horrific. It's no cosy Stephen King adaptation.

Holy shit! This movie left me in awe... I never felt so dirty, helpless and uneasy after watching a movie. The acting was supurb, pacing is great and direction is spot on!!! Would totally recommend it to you torture porn viewers out there.

If movies or tv shows have taught me one thing its; if you really hate a character or a group of people with everything inside of you. ITS BRILLIANT ACTING, and def worth watching it to the end.

This is the second time I watched the movie and I couldn't finish it this time.
I remember the first time I saw it, didn't knew it was supposed to be a horror film but a thriller-drama or something. Then it says it's based on a true story. It's just makes me so angry. For a couple of days I was really disturbed by it.
I hope no one took it off on the actors who played the Chandler family, because I sure felt like I could snap on them if I saw them.
F@#k.

This is a movie that will make you sad and frustrated but lacks the necessary exposition to have the impact it could have had. This could've easily been one of those movies that tears you up for a week. The only character really developed though is the abusive woman--her children seem like normal kids during the first part of the movie and then suddenly they're raping and torturing their own cousin because...why? We have no idea. This film pauses briefly on the "bystander effect" but blows past it in its rush to show us pure evil and in doing so loses any kind of point it had.

THIS MOVIE IS 10/10
ABSOLUTELY AWESOME AMAZING PHENOMENAL EXPERIENCE. I HAVE A MASSIVE MASSIVE HORROR COLLECTION OF SIMILAR MOVIES & STORIES
ONES THAT WILL TURN YOUR HAIR WHITE
BUT NONE AS HORRIFIC AND AS DISTURBING AND
UPSETTING AS THIS ONE.
AND BELIEVE ME OUT OF
4500 THAT IS SAYING
SOMETHING. I COLLECT
UNCUT, UNRATED
EXTREME RARE BAND MOVIES BUT THIS TRULY IS A VERY SPECIAL MOVIE
STANDS ABOVE THEM ALL
FOR HOW IT MAKES YOU
FEEL-(DIRTY NAKED &
AFRAID) AND TOTALLY
HELPLESS. NEVER IN A
MOVIE HAVE I WANTED TO HELP SOMEBODY SO SO
MUCH. WOW WOW WOW
IS ALL I CAN SAY AT THIS MOMENT AFTER THE 2ND
VIEW AND NOW I HAVE
JUST COME TO THE DECISION THAT I CAN ONLY BRING MYSELF TO WATCHING ONCE A YEAR
EVEN THOUGH I LOVE THE
MOVIE 3000, IT JUST TAKES
SO MUCH OUT OF ME.
I AM A HORROR FANATIC
AND THIS IS RIGHT AT THE TOP OF MY ARCHIVE
HORROR SECTION.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND
TO ANYONE LOVING HORROR & TRUE STORIES
WOW FRICKIN BAD-ASS
AWESOME.

Very disturbing and sick movie with a very bad acting and directing and unbelievable story, don't get me wrong I like movies like hustle, saw and... But this one is different and realy sadistic.
Why didn't Dave tell his parents
Why police never checked if anything is wrong with the girls.
Why police left the girl dying and took the healthy one!
And why why why!

A film about a boy who witnesses all kinds of tortures being done to a neighbor girl in the basement and won't do anything to help her. And we're meant to believe the family torturing the child are the evil ones...

The main problem with this film is that it hides behind the label of true story to present a parade of various atrocities unrealistically. Not that the atrocities didn't happen, of course they did, but the boy telling his mother about the neighbors only while she was was asleep, the young child who witnesses her sister being abused with no reaction, the way the girl's fate isn't addressed at the end because this movie is only interested in shortcuts to 'get to the good parts'.

The film is an excuse to make us feel uncomfortable, which it does admirably, but to get there it relies on voyeurism alone while sacrificing good storytelling and good filmmaking.