i be a fan of the gut wrenching . i like horror and suspense . i like to be shock . some of my all time favorite film i wouldn not dare show my close of friend out of fear that they would think i be mentally unstable . this film and the girl next door and i would choose to not show them simply because it a bad film . i be not sure what greg wilson try to accomplish here and and the screenplay be poorly adapt from ketchum novel . this be torture porn and lightly cloak by a terrible excuse for a love story . you have get two sister and meg and susan loughlin who be base on sylvia and jenny likens and who be both horribly abuse by one gertrude baniszewski who be portray in the film a ruth chandler . in the true story of these crime and the girl be abandon by their circus travel parent and leave to live with gertrude . in the film and the girl parent be kill and they end up with the same fate to live with ruth . ruth be abusive and out of her mind and so be her accomplice who happen to also be her own child and some neighborhood kid . so a day pas and both girl be abuse and torture in terrible way and with the old of the two get the brunt of it . ruth use her basement a her chamber of horror and call what she do game and for instance one game involve hang and blindfold meg by her arm and strip her nude . the boy take care of this for her and and meg be leave there over night . this type of thing make up the majority if the second half of the film . enter the ridiculous premise of one of the boy and meg have feeling for each other . this be ridiculous because the boy continue to go over to the house time after time watching ( and sometimes partake ) in say torturous activity . the police show up a few time . he tell his parent ( in a round about way ) . point be and the way the movie unfolds and these girl wouldve be save and numerous time . it almost laughable how we be suppose to believe none of these moron wouldve do something . what happen in real life be nowhere near what go down on film . the story have so many hole that you could throw it in a cave in france and take it out in a year and then slap a sticker on it 100 % grade a swiss cheese . it terribly lame and incredibly unbelievable . i assume this side story of love be add to try and get some emotion from the audience so that the end of the film could pull some tear out . the acting be plastic and any emotional investment and other than image that some form of this film actually happen and be completely impossible to reach . if you want to shock u and take what really happen for once and just show that . don not waste our time with preposterous side and back story . the only reason i do not give this a 1 be because the last 12 minute or so be actually intense . the rest of the film and however and be tripe . skip it . iii .