The Hamiltons (DVD)

The Hamilton's is that rare type of horror movie that defies conventions and brings new ideas to the genre. It's a slick, low budget effort that feels like an episode of US drama Party of 5 with a psychotic twist. In the film a family have just moved into a new neighbourhood.

Orphaned, the older twins and sensitive younger boy are in the charge of the eldest brother, who is now their guardian. They seem like a normal family hit by a terrible event from which they are trying to recover in order to build a new life. But the problem with the Hamiliton's is that they life the kidnap young women and leave them hanging in the basement... Are they a family of psychos? The older brother likes to cruise for gay rough trade that he can murder in cold blood while the incestuous twins seduce and kill gullible women. Only the younger brother resists the urge to murder, befriending one of their captives and going through turmoil as his guilt eats him alive. And just what is the creature they keep locked up in a cage in the cellar?

This movie keeps the twists coming and deals in some pretty twisted violence though it keeps much of the sexual violence off screen while giving the audience queasy hints of just what they are missing. By cleverly mixing domestic drama, camcorder footage shot by the artistic brother and outrageous violence and gore, the filmmakers have created a bold and original horror movie with a quirky script and doses of OTT melodrama. How many more secrets are the Hamilton's hiding?

i dont rate this film very well as im a big horror fan but this film did not deliver very slow in places and very boring