Some things I liked some I did not.

Lack of good storyline.

In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

Before one of you writes me off as someone who doesn't enjoy disturbing films, let it be known that not only do I love a Serbian Film, but my favorite movie of all time is Irréversible, you know the one with the 11 minute rape scene. Where was I, oh yeah this film is awful. 90% of this movie is just some guy yelling at the woman and the other 10% is some awful scene made up of jumpcuts with some of the worst music that I've ever heard playing in the background. I almost turned off the movie ten minutes in because of how bad the music was. And with extremely loud music, you gotta have unbelievably loud screaming for the entire movie to go along. I had a headache for the rest of the day after I saw this film. Overall this is a worthless piece of absolute garbage that I hope nobody ever sees again.

If you have been able to sit through "A Serbian Film" or "Murder-Set- Pieces", this movie will be a waste of time. You know, its strange that I have found many lists online of supposedly the "most disturbing movies of all time," and every single one of them include "The Bunny Game." To this day, i have not been able to figure out why. The story is relatively simple and common: a deranged trucker kidnaps a prostitute, chains her up in the back of his rig for the purpose of torturing her. The only problem is he never really DOES anything to her. The girl yells and screams all during the movie, yet not ONE DROP OF BLOOD is drawn. He puts a bag over her head and she briefly smothers. Big deal, he removes it and she doesn't die. He cuts all her hair off. Big deal. Not exactly "life-threatening." Unless i'm missing something, the one and only thing he does to her in the way of inflicting any pain is, he heats up the steel head of a hatchet with a blow torch, then briefly touches her skin with it. Of course, that hurts, but its very brief. I still don't understand why this girl screams hysterically throughout the movie. At the end of the movie, I found myself saying, "she's lucky she didn't come across Ted Bundy, then she would be dead." All in all, this movie is a total waste of time if you are expecting to see something "HORRIFIC." From the reviews and lists i've seen online, you'd think this is the most shocking movie of all time. I don't see it.

It's a good film, well acted, well directed and very well edited with great sound and b/w visuals, now who might really enjoy it? Can there be anyone? Not the point of course, what we have hear is a fascinating depiction of first the dehumanisation of a young women fallen into the drugs/prostitution cycle, ending up in some nutter's truck who proceeds to then, also remove her sexuality and leave her as crazy as himself. Rodleen Getsic who plays the leading lady incredibly well, clearly has some vested interest in exploring the uncomfortable truth that she would not be the first such women to go down at least the first path. The second is more extreme, but we are not talking about torture really here but more a shaping process. Her hair is removed, she is branded, her breasts almost perversely ignored and sex never takes place, although some seem to have imagined it! This is more like a bad marriage telescoped into mere days. He does not delight in 'taming' her, nor enjoy dragging her around like a dog, just something a man has to do. Disturbing, illuminating and involving almost to the point of driving the viewer crazy. In the end I hardly dared press the 'extras' button, I'm not that much of a glutton for punishment, but it is a director/actress commentary, so another day, I just might brave it all again.

I watched this film last night after reading the press coverage of the film being banned in the UK.Rodleen Gestic's performance was amazing. She was physically branded, and abused for real in front of the camera, so it is impossible to fault her commitment. Similarly at times Renfro was genuinely convincing as a lunatic.However, the film has many flaws. The editing is so quick that for whole sections of the film, individual scenes last 3-5 seconds. I have read reviews on here that praise this as creating an atmosphere where the viewer shares a sense of disorientation. I just found it distracting from an already weak story.The film is made on a low budget, and the added features on the DVD say there was not even a film crew present - just a handful of actors and the director / filmmaker. This lack of budget feeds through into limited sets, and few (none?)special effects. There's a lot of torture, but no blood (fake or real). The actresses are really branded, but this added nothing to the film compared to the use of prosthetics - it doesn't add to the story so why do it.In interviews Rehmeier states that they improvised large parts of the film. The reality seems to be that they didn't have money for a decent script so fall back on filling the film with bunny being abused over and over again for little real purpose in terms of plot development. Rapid cutting between the 2 main characters screaming at each other over and over again for 5 minutes is not an alternative to a script, and doesn't even build tension.The bunny game itself involves Renfor dragging Bunny around the desert in a straight jacket and a rabbit hat. This was more like a fetish film than a serious horror film. This is supposedly the highlight of the abuse, but compared to what came before it would have been a relief.The film ends with an anticlimax. Bunny has been abducted and tortured by what appears to be a psychopath, but he doesn't kill her, rape her, or free her. After a few days he transfers her to a friend, who takes her away. There is no explanation of why. I have read reviews here which state that this leaves it open for the viewer to interpret it in their own way (For example has he been breaking her as a human being in order to make it easier to sell her into white slavery, has he tired of her and passed her onto his friend to play with). Whatever. Its hard to praise the skill of the storyteller if he expects you to decide what his story actually is.I didn't find this film frightening / scary, and the plot was so weak that there really isn't much of a story. If you like seeing a young girl get hurt, in the knowledge that a lot of it is real, then this film is probably for you. If you want to watch a film that scares you and makes you think then you would be better off watching "irreversible" or "Oldboy" Gestics skill and commitment deserved a better vehicle than this.