A few girls wake up in a room dressed only in their undergarments with their hands tied. Someone then comes in looking like one of the killers from the Hostel series, then grabs a girl pulling her out of the room to what sounds like her being cut up. Another side story has a father who can't find work and pay his child support, taking a job from a mysterious man on the phone. The money is good so he continues doing random jobs which start increasing in difficulty. The two tales find a way to fuse together by the end I did like the quality of the picture and the score they used was pretty cool but the rest of the film did irk me. This is one of those films where everybody does the wrong thing and when they finally do something it doesn't make sense. In one scene a girl is crawling through the ducts in the ceiling. The killer is underneath her and jams a pitchfork through the duct and into her leg. She then holds her hand over her mouth so as not to scream. I think the killer is going to see the blood on the pitchfork and maybe even the blood dripping down from the duct but that doesn't happen. She does get pierced again in her shoulder and then she jams her fingers all the way into the wound and covers her mouth again. Yes I would apply pressure but I don't know about sticking my fingers all the way into the wound.

They do have long drawn out scenes which get on your nerves after a bit. I don't think any acting awards are going to be handed out for this one either. I did give it two and a half stars because of the way it ended. It was sorted of twisted and happy at the same time.

This had the makings of a good film but it misses in so many ways. It has a slightly unusual format being two stories that are supposed to overlap but never quite do, at least not until after it ends, and then only maybe.

Strand one is a typical horror motif: attractive young girls kidnapped and murdered at leisure; most red-blooded males can think of better things to do with them, but the anonymous character who is doing this, is only a servant. Then there is Andrew, he is recruited by a voice on the phone to simply deliver innocuous packages for premium rates. When his mysterious benefactor decides he can be trusted, he is invited to meet the boss, who happens to be a woman. And if he is up for it, Andrew's remuneration is about to go through the roof.

Meanwhile, the dude who has kidnapped the attractive young women is killing them one by one purposefully, until one damsel gets the better of him, and he is toast. Next we switch back to Andrew, and all you need to know is he is a replacement for the deceased bad guy, and that the woman who wants to shower him with riches in return for his services is named Elizabeth, at least that is her Anglicised name.

WAKE IN FEAR is another low-budget horror feature that revolves around young nubile women being captured and chained up by a pervert. There's literally no more plot to the film than that; the entire running time consists of one of the girls attempting to escape from her captor to limited effect. This is a slow, drawn-out and repetitive movie that resorts to padding with an extensive and mundane sub-plot involving the maniac's daily life which really needed excising. I do like Caitlin Stasey and remember her from her NEIGHBOURS days; she's not bad as the lead but the rest of the film is fairly pitiful.