The Shadow

Just when you're settled into thinking you're watching another survival horror, there's a massive and quite bold change in direction and all bets are off.

It is short, sharp and competently made but only narrowly avoids falling into the torture porn genre.

presents one of the creepiest, most grotesque-looking antagonists seen since Max Schreck embodied Count Orlock in Nosferatu (1922). And if that does not whet the appetite, there is a scene of gratuitous toad-licking too...

A PTSD allegory concerned with exactly how torturous war becomes emotionally on those affected by it, as well as those who've participated in it.