The Untold Story

This movie is obviously horrific for many reasons that we can see plainly (even though there is nothing plain about it) on the screen. But one of the things that kept catching my eye was how the female body is used in the film. Towards the beginning of the film, we constantly see how the men in the police station ogled one of the young women. Their banter surrounding her body also causes them to belittle one of the women they work with, they ridicule (light-heartedly) for her lack of "body". This scene really catches my attention because it seems like something out of a sitcom instead of a horror film. The entirety of this film's light-heartedness makes the concept seem so out-of-place. The concept of cannibalism is one so taboo to common audiences but this movie makes it appear so typical within society causing a sense of terror. I truly feel that the way they make the violence seems mundane truly makes this film that much more unsettling to the viewer. I feel like this is one of those horror films that scare us because of how close to reality we imagine it getting. Concepts that are plausible by the standards of reality make us as watchers afraid in our own homes. We start to imagine the ways in which these things could realistically happen to us.