Written by David Strege
Brought To Us by Launch Over Productions Sophia Caccioli and Michael J. Epstein And distributed by Brinkvision comes their first feature film together from 2014 called Ten.
The film begins as we see a young woman we don’t know her name but she is being chased by a Character With what looks like an old-school butchers uniform and ultimately off a cliff.. What is strange here is that right before she falls off the cliff it looks like she’s been made to put a pig’s mask on…
Next apparently on Spektor Island piece of land off in Massachusetts we are hearing the recollection of this woman who had been found by fishermen and brought to her Hospital in Sandwich the year is 1972 and it appears that ten women arrive to the same house on the same island for different reasons after the recollection another woman shows up thinking that she’s there for a photoshoot…
What I’m getting is an Agatha Christie vibe as a kind of and then there were none kind of a situation. So it seems like we happen to start and end of characters we have a religious woman, doctor, someone who seems to be new age, a thief, a college student and her hippie sister, a sailor, a nerdy looking wine and historian lover and hard to describe some of the others but you get the gist. I like that some of the film is filmed in a way that it’s like you’re looking through a window. During the night it appears that one of the young ladies has been visited by someone who’s left a pig on her pillow…and entranced with someone starting to sing a nursery rhyme dealing with ten little piggies only heightens my Agatha Christie vibe that I have been getting.
Someone slipped something into a glass of wine and the model walks by and drinks it and while the hippie sing the nursery rhyme of the ten little piggies this woman strips herself of all of her clothing and in her delirium calls out each of the women present basically telling each one that not one of them is innocent what only right before this an offhand comment was said about the model that for being a model she certainly stuffs herself like a stuck pig.
Shortly after we see the original girl that was telling the story about how she had somehow falling off the cliff accept money from the masked butcher that we saw chasing her… hmmm…
Some of the women go up and check on me model that had after her public display got upstairs, when they found her around it in a tub still naked with a pig mask on the three women the doctor, the cheerleader, and the religious woman told what they had found. suddenly an image appeared in the room an almost ghostly visage That made a claim that each of them harbors a secret to helping shape Humanity And before the night is over each of them will be exposed…
I have to say that this was a really good felt with a really good subplot and I feel like it definitely was a variation of the Ten Little Indians story , but was spies and a philosophy of what people have become. There was definitely a lot of weird dialogue and I like that it was somewhat set in a wartime setting. The location at Beach house seem to be a perfect location as there were specific room and specific doors that needed to be used for each of the scenes, I’ve always enjoyed a Whodunnit kind of atmosphere where you don’t exactly know what’s going on and who is exactly behind what is going on from one moment to the next. I felt like the acting was definitely theatrical and feel like the film had a very old soul. This could have very much been an act it out on a stage in front of a public audience but because of the gore where we see the bodies of the victims dripped In Blood I can see how this could be taken to a more horrific level. because of the artistic value of the camera movement especially in the first half of the film like my favorite part of the film is the films intro, for I very much felt like it had a hitchcockian-like atmosphere there were a lot of thee and thous in the dialogue as much as there were nursery rhymes mixed with religious lines from the Bible all to portray the animal of the pig… with various references to how pig meat is very much that much closer to human flesh.
I definitely felt like there were some very Wicked scenes, I think one of the smartest was when one of the killers was hanging upside down and you could see through the two holes in her mask as she slit one of the victims throats. Though there was definitely a lot of overacting that doesn’t mean that the acting was not good I thought that each actress played her part to a T and I didn’t realize how many perpetrators were there in the end so the plot twist definitely did surprise me. If you enjoy this kind of a film I would definitely say check it out if you can it was definitely entertaining and I will recommend that those of you who that to have not seen this film definitely go and see it. I would also like to say that I think of film totally comprised women and very strong roles of women is kind of a rare thing to see and like I said I definitely got A Feeling that it’s like Agatha Christie had a love child in an Old Dark House on a Honeymoon. And if you can recognize Lloyd Kaufman voice showing up in the film you’re even smarter than I am…
Here is the trailer:
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