
In Rutland Country, six year old Benjamin Michael Landry is kidnapped by a psychopath from the lawn of his house. His father, Craig Landry, unsuccessfully runs after the truck, but, the abductor escapes. Soon, the police discovers that John Kozlowski had abducted and killed Benjamin. When Kozlowski is sentenced to only 25 years in prison, Benjamin's mother, Elise Landry, presses her husband to kidnap the criminal and torture him. Craig is a doctor and knows exactly how to inf... (Full plot summary below)
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In Rutland Country, six year old Benjamin Michael Landry is kidnapped by a psychopath from the lawn of his house. His father, Craig Landry, unsuccessfully runs after the truck, but, the abductor escapes. Soon, the police discovers that John Kozlowski had abducted and killed Benjamin. When Kozlowski is sentenced to only 25 years in prison, Benjamin's mother, Elise Landry, presses her husband to kidnap the criminal and torture him. Craig is a doctor and knows exactly how to inflict pain on the psychopath. They succeed in kidnapping John from the prison transport, but, Craig has an accident and John is hurt. The couple tortures the man until they find the truth about the victim.
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| AV ClubScott TobiasThere's an opportunity here for screenwriter Marek Posival and director Robert Lieberman to play up the squeamishness of upper-middle-class torturers who don't fit the profile, but they're too busy tending to horror-thriller clichés. |
| BrianOrndorf.comBrian OrndorfIt's an angry picture, but that dependable sense of rage doesn't carry through to the end. Instead, the effort dissolves into a strange genre predictability. |
| Shockya.comBrent SimonA stupendously inane and pointless slice of revenge-based horror whose title might as well describe the audience watching it. |
| Reel Film ReviewsDavid NusairA serviceable genre entry that is, admittedly, destined to leave non-horror fans absolutely cold. |
| FEARnetScott WeinbergNo amount of plucked-off fingernails are going to fill this empty vessel with any semblance of a point. |
| Village VoiceBenjamin MercerLean, nasty, and patently absurd, The Tortured plays like one long scream of agony. |
| New York ObserverRex ReedA nasty piece of work that's been hanging around for two years looking for an audience. |
| The National (UAE)James Luxforda film more suited to the bottom shelf of the DVD rental store, not the multiplex. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfA last-minute twist implicating the audience in the bloodlust isn't clever so much as hypocritical. |
| New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisVeering from ridiculous to revolting, The Tortured would like to be about more than singed nipples and seared skin. And it is: It's also about cracked toes and lanced eardrums. |