Mike McCahill 

No One Lives – review

This entry into the fast-growing "down with the 1%" breed of slasher flick leaves the audience no one to root for, writes Mike McCahill
  
  

No One Lives
Ladling on the entrails … No One Lives Photograph: PR

Taken with last week's superior You're Next, this dreary slasher would suggest we're in for a raft of horror runaround pitting representatives of the 1% against the murderously aggrieved remainder. Here, it's a psychopath wrestling a set of backwoods ne'er-do-wells for possession of the brittle blonde heiress he's kidnapped. Director Ryuhei Kitamura ladles on the entrails like a ghoulish dinnerlady, but his three-way narrative strategies lead nowhere: the film's switching between the fictional equivalents of Ted Bundy, the Manson family and Paris Hilton, without realising this gives us no one we might remotelygive a hoot about.

 

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