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| WaZ (Extreme Sleeve Edition) [2008] | ![WaZ (Extreme Sleeve Edition) [2008]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RGc6vj1sL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Actors: Stellan Skarsgard, Melissa George, Ashley Walters
Studio: Contender Entertainment Group
Category: DVD
Buy Used: £15.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 30747
Format: Pal
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
Running Time: 104 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5030305512200
ASIN: B0018BTYNE
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 So much more than gore June 25, 2008
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Despite the marketing of this film as ultra voilent, this isn't some torture porn knock off. Far from it. WZ is an intelligent thriller that makes you stop and question your beliefs about the nature of love. Yes, there's a bit of torture but that serves the story and there's so much more going on. Seen it several times and get more from it each viewing. Noticed that some folks on here are slagging it off. Fair enough, but its important to note the film got pretty much rave reviews in all the important publications and broadsheets! See this!
A DECENT HORROR FILM June 17, 2008
7 out of 16 found this review helpful
You probably think you don't need to see another film about folks tied to chairs being tortured. Hostel transformed this Abu Ghraib image - also practiced by the real-life `BTK' (Bind Torture Kill) serial murderer - into cliche, and my dungeon is already full of depressing lookalike exercises in simplistic misanthropy. However, the peculiarly-titled WZ (W-delta-Z) turns the sub-genre around.
The BTK scenes are not only disturbing, but serve to make a point. By establishing that at least half the participants arguably deserve what's happening to them, the horrors are more complicated than when a mean movie villain carves up an innocent. Vigilante Jean Lerner, powerfully played by Selma Blair, is not merely avenging a wrong done her but trying to solve a philosophical riddle (does altruism exist in nature?). Her former abusers could end their ordeals by throwing a switch to electrocute the especially-selected person they love most who is strapped to a home-made execution chair opposite. "You don't think I'm enjoying this?" Jean whispers in her agony as she searches for a self-sacrificing streak in her victims, only to be disappointed time after time.
Symbols (`WZ') carved into corpses lead the investigators to a jittery animal researcher who identifies an equation representing a theory of animal behaviour. As more corpses show up, Stellan Skarsgard's crumpled dick has to admit that the crimes must be connected with an old assault, which went unprosecuted for slightly too guessable reasons. Atrocities are doled out in hallucinatory flashes, and information is given in an order which confounds easy judgements: by the time we understand what was done to Jean, a pregnant woman and a child have been killed, and the first full representation of her procedure comes with the most culpable gangbanger (Tom Hardy).
Shooting mostly in Belfast, director Tom Shankland goes for the stylised neo-noir feel of Seven, presenting an almost claustrophobic big city story where all the characters on both sides of the law are wound up together and crime scene forensics shade into abstract inquiry.
Verdict
If you've got the stomach for strong scenes of torture, and the heart to take part in an uncomfortable debate about human nature, this intelligent horror is well worth your time...
 ''Is this the most violent film ever?'' ... No. June 17, 2008
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
These kind of movies always get compared to Se7en, but never matches up.
Found Waz quite boring tbh. The torture scenes really wasnt that bad compared to recent offerings.
If you enjoyed Waz, i recommand - Seven, Saw, Hostel, Audition, Eastern Promise, Old boy
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