Stuck (2008) 7/10

Stuart Gordon is an interesting director. He became popular in the horror genre after directing Re-Animator and From Beyond and recently he's made some really horrorific films, like the excellent Edmond and the disturbing King of the Ants, but not really horror films. Stuck is another one of these and is certainly the most horrrific film he's done in years.

Stuck is about an old folks home nurse that gets drunk and accidentally hits a man crossing the street. The man flies into the windshield headfirst becoming Stuck. The nurse freaks out and parks her car in her garage, leaving the man in the windshield alive. We spend the rest of the film watching the man suffer in the windshield trying to get out while the nurse tries to figure out what to do with him. And the most f-d up thing about it? Its based on a TRUE story.

To say the film is unpleasant is an understatement. Seeing a poor guy stuck in broken glass for 90 minutes is pretty damn grisly. It would be easy to make the nurse into a monster, which she is, but the script decides to show her as a normal, if screwed up, person. We don't feel sympathy for her but at the same time we can understand why she decides to leave a dying man stuck in her garage. The film rides that fine line between believeable and unbelievable and for the most part stays on the believable side. The acting here is great and the pacing is quick as well.

Gordon has created a film that is watchable yet grisly, interesting but appalling. Its hard to watch but hard not to finish. Unlike most of the grisly horror flicks that have come out in the past few years that the viewer can shut off and forget about, Stuck sticks with you. Remember kids, always cross in a cross walk, otherwise some drunk person is gonna hit you and you'll die a slow painful death.

Gore-mild/medium

Nudity-mild

Overall - 7/10