{"id":366,"date":"2013-10-12T21:37:51","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T21:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=366"},"modified":"2013-10-27T20:44:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T20:44:55","slug":"devoured-i-spit-on-your-grave-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Devoured \/ I Spit On Your Grave 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Devoured<\/strong><\/span> (2012)<\/p>\n<p>A film about a woman working as a minimum wage slave in a cafe, for a pair of pretty horrible bosses.\u00a0 She&#8217;s working to save up money for an operation her son needs, but starts to see disturbing visions in the cafe.\u00a0 An effective psychological horror with a good ending &#8211; it&#8217;s a little slow to get going, but it has to be because the film is fairly intimate in scope.\u00a0 You get a good sense of how lonely and hopeless her life is, the atmosphere is quite haunting and uncomfortable in places.\u00a0 I thought the lead actress did a great job in this one, she was engaging to watch in every scene.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to say more about this one without ruining it though, it&#8217;s worth mentioning it picked up a bunch of film festival rewards.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>I Spit On Your Grave 2<\/strong><\/span> (2013)<\/p>\n<p>Is it as good as the first one?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 There &#8211; now that&#8217;s out of the way, what we have here is an expected tale of horrific abuse and subsequent revenge.\u00a0 A young woman trying to break into modelling goes for a photoshoot, but leaves when they ask her to show a bit more than she expected.\u00a0 Unfortunately the simpleton brother of the photographer takes a shine to her, and it&#8217;s downhill from there.\u00a0 The abuse scenes are pretty nasty, they did just enough character building with Katie for them to work, but by the end of the film I didn&#8217;t think the bad guys had really suffered enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devoured (2012) A film about a woman working as a minimum wage slave in a cafe, for a pair of pretty horrible bosses.\u00a0 She&#8217;s working to save up money for an operation her son needs, but starts to see disturbing visions in the cafe.\u00a0 An effective psychological horror with a good ending &#8211; it&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}