Even Lambs Have Teeth (4 Stars)

This is a good old-fashioned rape'n'revenge thriller. That's one of my favourite genres, as long as the rape scenes aren't too explicit. In this film that's the case... or is it? I read that the original film is 95 minutes long, but 16 minutes have been removed from the German edition. I immediately checked the foreign (i.e. non-German) editions, and they're also 79 minutes long. Curious.

The film takes place in the fictional small town of Tendale, Washington. The two friends Katie and Sloane have volunteered to work on an organic farm for two months. 

The girls are offered a lift to the farm by two handsome young boys. That's not a good idea. The boys drive them to their home instead. The girls are afraid, but when they meet the boys' kindly old mother they calm down. She tells the boys to drive them to the farm after they've had a cup of tea. You shouldn't judge a person by her age and gender. The tea is drugged, and they wake up in chains in industrial containers in a field. It's the family business. Young girls are trapped and sold for sex to the local townspeople.

We don't see the rapes taking place. Money changes hands outside the containers, the customer goes inside, and the door is shut. Sometimes we hear screams coming from inside. If anything, this isn't explicit enough. Maybe this is where the 16 minutes were removed. I don't know.

But as I said above, this is a rape'n'revenge film. The girls escape and manage to steal a car. They could have driven home, but they have other plans. They go to a hardware store and buy whatever they need for revenge on their captors and all the other men who used them: hammers, nails, saws, everything that young raped women need. The prey become the predators.

Is this a realistic film? Not really. The girls become aggressive within minutes without the least signs of hesitation. Yes, I wanted to see the revenge, but it comes too fast and too furiously. It's not just about revenge, the girls are sadists who enjoy causing men suffering. I wouldn't say that it's a well made film, but it speaks to me. This is the sort of film I like.

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