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The Task (2010/After Dark/Lionsgate DVD)

 

Picture: C     Sound: C     Extras: D     Main Program: C+

 

 

The game is simple: 6 college students must spend a night in an abandoned prison, and if they survive they win $20,000 cash.  They must complete a series of tasks that will test their bodies, minds and sanity, all designed for maximum terror.  As the camera rolls so does the terror, and what started out as a reality show soon become a real nightmare.  Trapped in a prison one by one they fall to unseen forces, not knowing if around each corner there is a madman, and each moment could be their last.  This is The Task, a new thriller which seems old and “tasks” the viewer in many ways.

Trapped in a reality TV horror show, 6 students test their courage to try and win 20 grand.  Their tasks includes completing satanic rituals, being buried alive, and entering a gas chamber and as the film crew rolls on in attempt to capture their horror, unexpected forces begin to take things beyond the original written script, including that there maybe a sadistic inmate still loose, hidden within the prison.  What was fake soon become all too real, and by the time they realize it's no longer a game it's already too late.
 
This is a horror story (in more than one way), a game that has been taken too far, where the demons of the mind becomes real, every darkness lies a sinister story, a blood death around each corner.  The tape crew has set the scene in broken, rusty decaying prison, and has even planted a story along with a few actors to play the story of former madman inmate who raped, kill and enjoyed the death of others... but unknown to even the film crew this man was alive, existed, and was hiding in the abandoned prison, and that one of their actors was for real.

 

The picture and sound are not great and sometimes intentionally, but this is very tired either way.  Extras include behind the scenes, and trailers.

 

 

-   Ricky Chiang


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