Honouring the Worst Movies of the Noughties - #2: Chaos

Writer-director David DeFalco may have misunderstood the idea that works of art should be daring: metascore 3

"The first 30 minutes tread the usual genre path strewn with variable quality acting and wooden dialogue as two college-aged women are lured from a rave to a remote cabin before it plunges into an abyss of gruesome imagery so repulsive it precludes further watching." - Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times

"'Chaos' is ugly, nihilistic, and cruel -- a film I regret having seen. I urge you to avoid it. Don't make the mistake of thinking it's "only" a horror film, or a slasher film. It is an exercise in heartless cruelty and it ends with careless brutality. The movie denies not only the value of life, but the possibility of hope." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

"The movie opens with a message announcing its mission 'to educate and, perhaps, save lives'—presumably a joke, although the portrayal of one girl's impossibly naive parents ("Emily was raised with good family values!"), an attempt at social satire so inept as to verge on self-parody, raises some doubt." - Joshua Land, Villlage Voice

"The only thing this so-called cautionary tale will inspire audiences to do is to never sit through another insultingly awful piece of exploitative trash 'conceived' by David DeFalco." - Laura Kern, New York Times