The Task

(2011)

 

This is another movie I saw in the horror section of the local cheap movie store for a cool £1.99 and thought it sounded ok very similar to another movie I had seen years ago and decided to buy it. I really need to stop getting sucked into three for a fiver deals. No good normally comes of it.

 

So the plot is there is a game show and it's set in a very large prison that has been subject to a horrid past and is now no longer in use. So that's the nice cliche plot of it. The consents get dragged from their normal lives and thrown into this game show.

 

The contestants are

Gay guy

Blondie bimbo

Stereotype blackman

Bad British accent girl

Bad British accent guy

Smart Asian girl

 

They have names but none I cared to remember? anyway..

 

 

So they are locked in a room and each one is given a task to complete either on their own or in pairs. Now I know this might sound abit shit and just an excuse for gore but this movie really isn't about the gore.

 

They perform their tasks while being watched by the production crew and small things start to go wrong, camera's go on and off and a man who they do not recognise is also there appearing and looming over our contestant's. The crew click that the people behind all of this are just trying to get a reaction out of the crew as they watch the show unfold.

 

Some of the tasks include cliche black guy having to lay down in a small hole in the floor full of shit which I do not like the thought of as being buried alive is one of my own personal little nightmares and it's even worse if your buried alive in alot of peoples turds.

 

Another task is bad Brit accent guy and super smart Indian girl go off and into a gas chamber where she is strapped down and he puts a gas mask on her 'just in case'.

 

 

The story of the prison is told that the warden was evil and used to torture and kill his male prisoners but the true story was there was also a women's wing and he would rape and starve these women and even feed them their own children. He was a pretty sick mother fucker and you see him looming over the people and following them down hall ways.

 

So things pan out and it seems the ghost of warden is going around and causing trouble. He kills one of the production crew that was sent to fix the camera's. He stabs Blondie and gay guy and takes the gas mask off of the girl in the gas chamber causing her to die.

 

Later he kidnaps the British guy and drags him away. With all these things going wrong the women who is in charge of the production team goes down there herself to sort it out and comes face to face with the warden... who goes to stab her and doesn't.

 

It was all to get the women, was all fake, the warden was just people pretending to be the warden, stunt doubles, was like she was on a secret camera kind of show. Everyone laughs and gay and Blondie come out of the background and joked about the fake deaths.

 

The woman is shocked but amused and goes to collect the other people.

 

 

British guy and girl sadly suffer a bad fate. The guy is hung upside down and killed by the real ghost of the warden and the women he treated so poorly and starved eat the guy. The girl runs down the halls, slips and see's the body of the really dead member of the crew.

 

Another guy goes to check on the black guy who was stuck in the shit hole... As the crew lady finds the girl dead in the gas chamber she realised that one of the 'fake' wardens was really the ghost of the evil man himself and the Indian girl and black guy as well as the British guy are really dead.

 

As she makes this discovery he appears in the watching room and the gas kills the women while everyone in the prison starts to feel the wrath of the warden. It was set up to be real, but was fake... but then there was the actual warden in the background.

 

The plot twist was a little weak but the pacing of this movie was fantastic, it was strong, there was never a moment where you got bored. There was little gore but the bits you had were.. corny but acceptable.

 

The consents were all really fucking annoying but at least they felt 'real' and the atmosphere was good and I felt gripped alot along the way. It wasn't jump out scary it was scary due to the vibe and the feel which so few modern western movies are able to do.

 

So i did enjoy it. I liked the way it was shot how the screen would split up into different cameras and different reactions.

 

Plot: 2/5

Scares: 3.5/5

Gore: 1/5

Acting: 3/5

Overall Enjoyment: 4/5

 

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