Why would anybody love you?
-Justine

I can get behind the message, but I didn’t think this was very good. It’s hard to enjoy something when you make the people that are morally right act out worst than the scum of the earth that they’re torturing. I mean when the credits role, no one in this short has “seen the light” despite what the description says.

Part of Etheria Film Night Shorts 2020 showcasing genre shorts directed by women. It’s presented on Shudder this year as they weren’t able to schedule their screenings due to the world ending and all.

I’m not a torture porn fan, and this is definitely in that realm; and saying that the character deserves it is negated by the fact that this is all invented, extremely didactic, and majorly overlong. There’s some real anger behind the filmmaking here and this would probably make a better essay than a film.

This is the sort of thing only a deeply sick culture could produce. A culture on the edge of collapse.

Etheria Film #4

hot trans girl calling a repressed homophobe a faggot ... i’m easy. and this is cheap heat. looks nice tho the use of music is not good

Therapist conversation.

2/10.

Getting home after a day out with pals in Manchester,I felt like watching a short movie before bed. Remember I had titles from the Etheria Film Night Shorts on Shudder,leading to me meeting the therapist.

View on the film:

Running a drawn-out 20 minutes and powered by anger about the real world, the screenplay by writer/director Bears Rebecca Fonte misses the cut in the Torture Horror genre.

Fonte attempts to give Justine and Tanya a unsettling kooky comedic edge,which is quickly left falling flat to the clanging dialogue of Fonte making everyone horrid, with Tanya and Justine’s act of revenge on homophobic Ira not delivering a feeling of release to the duo or the audience,as the homophobic dialogue the duo say are matched by their numb outbursts of violence,leading to this being a failed therapy session.

Torture/revenge horror with a message. 
Love the tones in this.
Maybe pushed a bit too hard at times.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Being nasty and grotesquely sanctimonious are the least of this short’s problems.

About as soft and deft as a hammer to the back of the head. People tied to chairs and screaming as they're tortured is the shittiest crutch of indie horror that's somehow been perpetrated with no ceasing for more than a decade now. It's fucking old, man. It doesn't work anymore. You might have a valid message, and even good actors to sell it with, but even at twenty minutes, it's hard to make this shit worthwhile anymore.

SJW torture porn. Cringe.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Eesh, at 20 dragging minutes this is the (unnecessarily) longest and so far weakest, and most obvious and heavy-handed of the Etheria film fest so far. Also—SPOILER—once he gets his arms cut off he looks so fucking ridiculous that I couldn’t take it seriously.

Therapist conversation.

2/10.

Getting home after a day out with pals in Manchester,I felt like watching a short movie before bed. Remember I had titles from the Etheria Film Night Shorts on Shudder,leading to me meeting the therapist.

View on the film:

Running a drawn-out 20 minutes and powered by anger about the real world, the screenplay by writer/director Bears Rebecca Fonte misses the cut in the Torture Horror genre.

Fonte attempts to give Justine and Tanya a unsettling kooky comedic edge,which is quickly left falling flat to the clanging dialogue of Fonte making everyone horrid, with Tanya and Justine’s act of revenge on homophobic Ira not delivering a feeling of release to the duo or the audience,as the homophobic dialogue the duo say are matched by their numb outbursts of violence,leading to this being a failed therapy session.

Etheria Film #4

Torture/revenge horror with a message. 
Love the tones in this.
Maybe pushed a bit too hard at times.

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

I watched this on Shudder as part of Etheria film shorts 2020.

This is a strong statement about the perils of conversion therapy.

What the fuck... Offending literally every party involved and making them all spiteful disgusting husks of humanity, especially the ones you claim to be trying to represent is not how you make a socially charged point.

I get the role-reversal angle due to how women and minorities are subjectively represented in horror depending on your own social philosophies but this is ridiculous, especially considering the claim that the "evil evangelical homophobe sees the light" by the end.

This short completely fails to understand that the perpetrators in torture films like Hostel are designed to be villains yet after 20 minutes of pure excess for the sake of hateful excess, masqerading as an attempt to turn the genre on its head, it completely demolishes any remote semblance of an important message the delicate subject matter requires, instead making the people it wants to protect ultimately the villains themselves.

hot trans girl calling a repressed homophobe a faggot ... i’m easy. and this is cheap heat. looks nice tho the use of music is not good

This is the sort of thing only a deeply sick culture could produce. A culture on the edge of collapse.