'Chaos' from director David DeFalco proudly proclaims itself as "The most brutal movie ever made" and while that is a questionable statement, it is a highly effective and emotional horror film. What is more disturbing than the violence on the screen is the people doing it. They are pure evil and have no problem stating so proudly. Signs of humanity, human nature, or compassion need not apply.

'Chaos' was released in the fall of 2005 and caused quite a backlash from film critics all over. Roger Ebert gave the film zero stars and went on to get into a verbal debate on-line with the producer and director about the film. Ebert was against the films message, abuse of women, and approach. DeFalco and company claimed the film was showing a true and honest portrayal of evil. It was not glamorous and there was no happy ending.

The film was originally planned as a remake of Wes Craven's debut film from 1972 entitled 'The Last House On The Left', but they felt it was original enough to stand on its own. The film is not a carbon copy like Gus Van Sant's 'Psycho', but it is extremely similar to Craven's film. A few changes are made such as including a black girl, an interracial relationship, and a few things here and there. Wes Craven's 'Last House On The Left' was an idea from another movie, so that can be forgiven and not dwelled on.

Two young girls are on their way to a rave when they make a decision they will regret for the rest of their lives. They are looking to score some drugs and run into Swan (Sage Stallone) who is more than willing to provide them with the drugs. They must meet up with his friends at the cabin in order to secure the drugs. Eddie 'Chaos' Cooper (Kevin Gage), Frankie (Stephen Wozniak), Daisy (KC Kelly) round out the crazy group. They are a group of escaped convicts looking to have a good time at the expense of the two girls.

The film then goes into graphic detail as to the torture, mutilation, and rape of the young girls. It is difficult to view, bloody, and pretty disgusting. I had a rather difficult time watching and I'm not easily repulsed. The question is then was I disgusted by the shock value or was it the way the story was being told? The answer I came up with was the way the story was being told, the documentary like footage, and the convincing performances by everyone involved.

The victims give performances that had me wanting to leap out of my chair and save them. The bad guys, especially Kevin Gage, gave such an evil, dark, and disturbing performance, I wanted to attack him and was hoping and praying he got his. The cardinal sin of cinema is being boring. 'Chaos' is far from boring. It is ruthless, in-your-face, and disturbing. The film is going to get you to react. In some shape or form.

The direction is done in almost a documentary style fashion. It feels too real. Which adds another eerie and surreal feel to it. Since at times you put yourself in the shoes of the victims and ask yourself how would you react? I have some problems with how the film ends, I don't think a lot of what happened would have happened. I also would have liked some kind of payoff to enhance the emotional effect.

'Chaos' is not a perfect horror film by any means. There is some issues as I stated above, and some of it is a little too over the top. This is not the type of film for everyone, so be prepared. It is likely to cause the same kind of reaction 'Wolf Creek' caused. Either you love these types of movies or you don't. But I think it is a forgotten film genre of balls out horror movies that take no prisoners and haunts and keeps you up at night.

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