STOCKHOLM SYNDROME (2009 dir Ryan Cavalline)

**DVD Screener Review**

The latest feature from Ryan Cavalline and 4th Floor Pictures is a story about human trafficking that is easily their best, most brutal, vicious, and intense movie to date.

A secret business being run in rural Northwestern Pennsylvania appears to be harboring something dark, sinister, ghastly, and horrific. A man and his pregnant wife show up in town and get a room at a motel. After having a creepy encounter with a couple of men discussing some kind of business plans, the two settle in not thinking anything of it. Soon it turns out these guys have something nasty up their sleeves as they kidnap the couple and take them to a warehouse where the people who they work for maintain their business. This business appears to be part of an enterprise of human trafficking and slavery where people are taken in, forced to succumb to new masters, raped, tortured, made into pets, mutilated, and have body parts amputated and certain organs removed to be sold on the black market. The pregnant wife is gutted and has her fetus removed before being incinerated. A priest rapes a girl and shoves a wicked-looking sharp object between her legs. The pregnant woman??(TM)s husband eventually escapes and is chased through the woods. He soon has a run-in with backwoods hillbilly cannibals and various grisly acts ensue.

STOCKHOLM SYNDROME is without a doubt Ryan Cavalline??(TM)s most professional movie yet. The film is very gruesome and menacing and there are some very disturbing parts that are guaranteed to get under the skin of even the most desensitized viewers. Jason Senior does a fine job in the lead role and some of the effects are very well done and convincing.

There were no extras on the screener DVD I obtained from 4th Floor but the movie is coming to DVD from Brain Damage Films on May 5 and is expected to have extras like commentary, behind-the-scenes, interviews, photo gallery, and more. In the meantime, visit 4th Floor on MySpace for info on their movies and updates on their next project THE KILLING FIELDS.