INVITATION ONLY - A Taiwanese take on 'Saw' / 'Hostel' territory - the sick rich ravage a selection of cowering social aspirants in a torture warehouse. Quite enjoyed this functional but reasonably paced morsel, a slight but brutal package with a bit of stylistic ambience and more than a bit of gore. It's strange really - 15 years ago this kind of thing would've been thought of as pretty transgressive... now it's just another case on the shelf. Weird how it all works out. Anyway, yeah, it was pretty good, all the more so for making the socio-economic power aspect central - glad to say there was some restorative class justice at the end, freedom for Tooting (or Taiwanese equivalent of) etc.
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