The Worst Film Ever

Simply A Masterpiece

Boring

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

Woman are abducted and forced to fight to the death or else a loved one will die. The opening focuses on Jamie (Rachel Nichols) only to kill her off as our focus switches to Sabrina (Zoe Bell) a former POW who had escaped. The girls fight each other with Phoebe (Rebecca Marshall) being the villain in the group. This is of course entertainment for a rich society run by Joseph (Doug Jones). The film is formulaic as we wait for Sabrina to go Uma Thurman all over everyone.The movie is basically a violent bloody woman on woman fighting. Each has its own background in fighting, but there was nothing in the fighting styles to distinguish them.A fight rental at best.Parental Guide: F-bombs. No sex or nudity.

A secret organisation abducts fit young women, puts them in push-up bras and tight white vests, and makes them duke it out to the death in a pit. Sounds like guaranteed exploitation heaven, doesn't it? Well it isn't… against all the odds, director Josh C. Waller has managed to make this delightfully trashy concept into a really dull film that amounts to little more than a series of repetitive, unimaginative, unconvincing fist-fights between characters that it's hard to give two hoots about.Lead Zoë Bell, a stunt-woman turned actress, does admittedly look like she can handle herself in a fight, with an athletic physique and a face that has clearly taken a bit of a pounding in the past (from a distance, she looks like Sean Penn in Fast Times at Ridgemont High), but the rest of the girls are mere eye-candy, completely unconvincing as bare-knuckle brawlers. Most look like they would give up all hope if they broke so much as a fingernail.Orchestrating the violence for the benefit of an exclusive audience of rich sadists are married couple Joseph (Doug Jones) and Elizabeth (the once sultry Sherilyn Fenn, who needs to update her profile pic to avoid future disappointment). These despicable reprobates predictably get their comeuppance in the final act, when our heroine, Sabrina (Bell), escapes her confines after playing possum during her final fight. Here, we get my personal hilarious highlight (or should that be lowlight?) of the whole film, as Fenn grabs a weapon to try and kill Sabrina—never has an actress looked less comfortable in a fight scene.

This was a great action/horror flick with excellent acting and many touching scenes as well as some gruesome ones. The characters bring you inside them and you feel the psychological torture that precedes the physical one. Each fight scene is unique and the dialogue is superbly crafted. You can feel the female touch in the making of this movie as the actors are not presented as titillation but as human beings undergoing the most extreme situation. I wish there was more elaboration on the purpose of the cult. It reminded me a bit of the atmosphere of Martyrs, bringing that sense of intrigue and shock. I would definitely see a sequel.

This film is tasteless, ugly, overly violent and feels like some sicko with a twisted mind created a 90 minute snuff film of women being beaten up by one another. This is a horrible movie, anyone who can sit through its entirety clearly have more willpower to tolerate trash. Kudos to Zoe Bell and Rachel Nichols for putting on brave faces, but two actresses who have the talents are left with characterless roles, without any sort of interesting traits. This film gets so violent that it just becomes sick, watching women in tank tops get stamped on, crushed to a powder and worst of all thrown to the dogs. I don't think I've seen a film so repulsive and tedious in its story and themes. I would advise anyone thinking of watching Raze to skip it entirely and check out Deathproof, which features Zoe Bell at her best in terms of her acting performance and stunt abilities.