While celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, a couple are
caravanning through the desert with their 3 children, son in law and
their baby granddaughter. While the rest of the family agrees there are
plenty of better and more appropriate things to do to celebrate an
anniversary, they make do with what they have, but things take a turn
after a sketchy gas station attendant informs them about a "short cut"
that will take them in between a series of hills in the desert. It
doesn't take too long before they realise they're not alone and the
hills indeed do have eyes.
Protagonist Alex DeLarge is an "ultraviolent" youth in futuristic
Britain. As with all luck, his eventually runs out and he's arrested and
convicted of murder and rape. While in prison, Alex learns of an
experimental program in which convicts are programmed to detest
violence. If he goes through the program, his sentence will be reduced
and he will be back on the streets sooner than expected. But Alex's
ordeals are far from over once he hits the mean streets of Britain that
he had a hand in creating.
The movie is based on the infamous "Stanford Prison Experiment" conducted
in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with
cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two weeks 20 male participants
are hired to play prisoners and guards. The 'prisoners' are locked up
and have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the 'guards' are told
simply to retain order without using physical violence. Everybody is
free to quit at any time, thereby forfeiting payment. In the beginning
the mood between both groups is insecure and rather emphatic. But soon
quarrels arise and the wardens employ ever more drastic sanctions to
confirm their authority.
Three teenagers are confined to an isolated country estate that could
very well be on another planet. The trio spend their days listening to
endless homemade tapes that teach them a whole new vocabulary. Any word
that comes from beyond their family abode is instantly assigned a new
meaning. Hence 'the sea' refers to a large armchair and 'zombies' are
little yellow flowers. Having invented a brother whom they claim to have
ostracized for his disobedience, the über-controlling parents terrorize
their offspring into submission. The father is the only family member
who can leave the manicured lawns of their self-inflicted exile, earning
their keep by managing a nearby factory, while the only outsider
allowed on the premises is his colleague Christina, who is paid to
relieve the son of his male urges. Tired of these dutiful acts of
carnality, Christina disturbs the domestic balance.
Nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve, escape for a romantic
weekend away. Steve, planning to propose, has found an idyllic setting: a
remote lake enclosed by woodlands and seemingly deserted. The couple's
peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their
campsite. Reveling in provoking the adults, the gang steals the couple's
belongings and vandalizes their car leaving them completely stranded.
When Steve confronts them, tempers flare and he suffers a shocking and
violent attack. Fleeing for help, Jenny is subject to a brutal and
relentless game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to evade her
young pursuers and find her way out of the woods.
A group of friends stop to pick up a hitchhiking woman only to end up
getting drugged by her with a gas. They awaken to find that vials have
been implanted in the base of their skulls - which are of course
instantly fatal if they are removed, a grinning professional looking
woman informs them on TV screens that they have 22hrs to fill these
vials with a specific amount of brain fluid, a fluid that is produced
during times of extreme pain. Along with another group of unlucky test
subjects and with time ticking away they decide to work together and
share the burden of reaching their painful target.
The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the
violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent
insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and
humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also
sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a
fruitless invasion of Britain before meeting an appropriate end. There
are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily truncated
90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which
leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were
inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in
reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and
beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take
matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find
the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful
and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect,
and how time destroys everything.
In Serbia, the retired porn star Milos is married with his beloved wife
Marija and they have a little son, Peter, that is their pride and joy.
The family is facing financial difficulties, but out of the blue, Milos
is contacted by the porn actress Lejla that offers him a job opportunity
in an art film. Milos is introduced to the director Vukmir that offers a
millionaire contract to Milos to act in a film. However, Vukmir neither
show the screenplay nor tell the story to Milos. Milos discuss the
proposal with Marija and he signs the contract. But sooner he finds that
Vukmir and his crew are involved in sick snuff films of pedophilia,
necrophilia and torture and there is no way back to him and maybe it is
too late to protect his family.
After kidnapping and torturing two innocent teenage girls, a group of
people seek refuge in the home of the parents of one of the victimized
girls. When the parents find out what happened to their daughter, they
plot and carry out revenge against those that hurt their daughter.
Katie is trying to make it in the cutthroat world of modeling. When she
innocently accepts an offer to have new photos taken for her portfolio,
the experience quickly turns into an unthinkable nightmare of rape,
torture, and kidnapping. When a twist of fate finally frees her from her
captors - beaten, battered, bruised, and broken, she will have to tap
into the darkest places of the human psyche to not only survive her
ordeal, but to ultimately find the strength to exact her brutal revenge.