Its taken me a long time to get round to watching this film. Its subject matter disturbed me, more so than such films as Saw and The Human Centipede because this film is based on truth and still happens to this day. The film is well made but its not entertainment. If there is one message that should be taken from the film, its this, DON"T IGNORE WHAT ABUSE COULD BE HAPPENING TO SOMEBODY YOU KNOW. IF YOU SUSPECT SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAPPENING TO A NEIGHBOUR, COLLEAGUE OR SOMEBODY AT SCHOOL, TELL BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE TO DO ANYTHING ELSE!

This movie actually did disturb me.

This is a movie that will make you sad and frustrated but lacks the necessary exposition to have the impact it could have had. This could've easily been one of those movies that tears you up for a week. The only character really developed though is the abusive woman--her children seem like normal kids during the first part of the movie and then suddenly they're raping and torturing their own cousin because...why? We have no idea. This film pauses briefly on the "bystander effect" but blows past it in its rush to show us pure evil and in doing so loses any kind of point it had.