The words choice and game feature predominantly in the artwork for this direct to DVD flick that encapsulates neither the torture porn or slasher genres it hopes to ingratiate itself with.
A promising opening gives us a young girl faced with the ultimate Sophies Choice, pick either her mother or father to die or her little brother gets it. This is the introduction and one of a few appearances of the films villain credited as Scarlip. Next we are introduced to Fiona Wagner and her Sheriff father who become the central points of the story as they are tainted by the killer and investigate further leading them to a dark secret around Fiona's mothers death. A dull police procedural follows with the films villain disappearing for the majority of the films running time. No one ever really feels in any danger and there is a distinct lack of any tension, mystery or horror.
To compare CHOOSE to SAW or THE COLLECTOR is lazy and insulting to those films and their makers. This half-baked, hell one-tenth baked, script and cliche ridden mess fails to act on its two strengths a possibly good villian, though the use of a gun by slasher/anti-hero is a cheat, and a beautiful lead actress Kathryn Winnick last seen to genre fans in AMUSEMENT. There are no shocks, no thrills leaving this psycho killer thriller to commit the most heinous of horror movie crimes; inducing boredom.
Floppy, floppy, floppy.
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