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\"\"<\/a>“In and out, what could go wrong?” has been the famous last words of every man in existence, and it’s basically the last words of our hapless hostages and their inept captors in \u201cBotched.\u201d While the premise is creaky with much of the narrative reminiscent of \u201cFrom Dusk Til Dawn,\u201d Kit Parker\u2019s \u201cBotched\u201d is a horror comedy up there in lunacy with fare like \u201cSeverance\u201d and \u201cThe Cottage.\u201d While \u201cBotched\u201d begins clumsily with a poorly edited rushed sequence of events extrapolating Ritchie\u2019s predicament, it\u2019s a movie you\u2019ll want to stick with. Once the blood begins to pour, the raucous comedy and gruesome horror ensure a worthy experience deserving of an audience.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Dorff stars as professional thief Ritchie, a man who just can\u2019t catch a break after getting into a car crash with his partners in America. His boss sends him to Russia to pull off one more heist involving a sacred cross. On the way out of the gig, his psychotic partners Peter and Yuri kill a woman and they find themselves in an elevator stuck with a group of people they take hostage in a moment of desperation. When they abruptly stop on the thirteenth floor, the feces hit\u2019s the fan as the body count rises inexplicably.<\/p>\n

Sadly, director Kit Parker can never quite decide what his film is in the end, so \u201cBotched\u201d suffers because it jumps onto all sub-genres from slasher, to crime thriller, to pure slapstick comedy, which ultimately leaves this to feel very genre confused and muddled. What saves \u201cBotched\u201d from mediocrity, though, are the performances. Stephen Dorff, while oddly out of place here, works well off of his mostly Russian cast, acting as the voice of reason in a room full of cynics, religious lunatics, and gun toting thugs. Dorff keeps this movie grounded in drama adding a sense of urgency to a situation that\u2019s utterly outlandish.<\/p>\n

Jamie Foreman as over the top killer Peter serves up a majority of the laughs here screaming and bursting from the seams like a bodily function, and Jaime Murray, best remembered from \u201cDexter,\u201d is often very entertaining as smoking damsel Anna. While the allusions to \u201cShaun of the Dead\u201d and \u201cSeverance\u201d is inevitable (and apt), Parker\u2019s film has an interesting advantage of originality, as the villains of the piece are kept shrouded in the shadows, and never seem to run out of methods to mutilate these bystanders. How many movies have the heirs of \u201cIvan the Terrible\u201d maiming office yuppies? Not many. While it\u2019s not perfect, \u201cBotched\u201d is a good time with a twisted sense of humor, great writing, and ace performances by a cast of veterans who bring the sharp comedy and grue home.<\/p>\n