Chaos Review Country : USA Year: 2005 Genre: Stalker/Slasher Format: Theater (limited release) Running Time: (tba) Distributor: (tba) A brutal tale of barbaric violence and sadistic retribution--sounds like a Pit kinda flick..... Credits Written and Directed by David DeFalco. Starring Kevin Gage, K.C. Kelly, Stephen Wozniak, Sage Stallone, Chantal Degroat and Maya Barovich. Two teenage girls Angelica (Chantal Degroat) and Emily (Maya Barovich) looking for drugs are kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered by sadistic fugitive rejects while two cops ineptly bumble their way into what passes for comic relief and one set of the girl's parents remorsefully pines away for their lost daughter. While the sociopath and lead baddie ‘Chaos’ (Kevin Gage) manages to inspire intense dislike, he sleazes it up on screen as the leader of the band of miscreants, as very similar to ‘Krug Stillo’ leader from Last House on the Left. His depraved son, Swan (Sage Stallone), scumbag partner Frankie (Stephen Wozniak) and the clearly vision and taste impaired consort Daisy (K.C. Kelly) play little more than lackeys to Gage’s disciplined acting. Fortunately none of these characters really over do the over-the-top caricatures they are, and their actions amount to a lot more terror than horror. Chaos is disgusting, shocking and laced with humiliation, nudity, profanity and limit shoving tastelessness. And that's what will make this movie a success. It's true, there has been a few movies like this, Last House, I Spit on Your Grave and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. That said, it's hard for a discerning film fan not to see most of this as calculated for shock. Yes, the women are naked, raped, and yes, there are some legitimate gore scenes well worth your low budget viewing buck! It all amounts to more shock value than value with Chaos, thus bringing back elements of Grindhouse from the 70’s. Director David ‘The Demon’ DeFalco really pulled it off here. He manages to shock and disturb as well as give fans a glimpse of hope that some people are still trying to make good, sleazy, exploitation films. In the end of the film (liberally from Bergman's Virgin Spring and Last House) DeFalco (who also scripted) pulls off a strangely satisfying final act. When the killers stumble across home of Emily, the parents bumble in their sleuthing and planning...unlike the parents in Last House, these folks act like real parents might in this terrifying situation. They play this horrible tragedy by ear and it only makes for a sad and empty feeling when it’s all said and done. If you can make it through this entire film without feeling a little disturbed, you have seen too many horror films. Chaos opens to a limited run in art house theatres this August. I’m sure this film will really be a hit with the horror crowd once it hits DVD. A cult classic in the making? Will my children watch this film in twenty years, as I did with Last House on the Left? I am going to let you decide. OFFICIAL SITE Review by John Gray, for Pitofhorror.com