Released in the UK as Killer Ink, this Hostel-esque caper feels weirdly straight outta 2005 so it's amazing that it was made 10 years later. Perhaps this is one reason why I'm feeling so generous towards it. There's a certain nostalgia factor to seeing a movie being so slavishly retro for a period that few movies have tried to go back to yet... If it'd ACTUALLY been made in 2005, I'd probably rank it at least half a star lower because it just would've been part of a zeitgeist, whereas here it feels like it's bucking a trend, which gives it points for rebellion alone. Still, either way, it's an undemanding and reassuringly predictable watch.

A group of tourists from…

"The Yakuza got it all wrong.
Skinning a dead man's body only wounds the canvas.
Elasticity is gone."

Now and then I like to watch a horror movie from the sub-genre "torture-porn". I've read somewhere, before I saw this movie, this description : "a gory, gruesome black comedy horror flick". Well to be honest it was quite a huge disappointment. Indeed it's a "torture-porn", except that the torture part looks really soft (or you're someone who only saw "The little house on the prairie" all his life of course). In addition, there's quite some female nudity shown throughout the movie, as if they wanted it to be a soft-porn. As far as the tortures is concerned, it could be more…

Damn straight, fiendishly campy, raw ink, Wat Bang Phra Tattoos, long thin needles; who needs sophisticated tattoo equipment? Clitoris piercing with the pain threshold of Hello Kitty?

'Anarchy Parlor' is a mix between 'Hostel, 2005' and errr... Hostel, 2005' with a dash of 'Raze, 2013' thrown in for good 'cat fight' measure.

A group of kids head off to Europe’s Baltic states (again) before they take off to college. This time it's poor Lithuania. Shot on location, the film captures the city of Vilnius in all its glory before closing doors to the outside world and making the audience think that Borat is a real person.

Robert LaSardo (Death Race, 2008 and Junkie, 2012) plays 'The Artist' who not only…

"She wants her clit pierced, can you make that happen?"

The Parlour would be a sufficient title for this, as there is nothing particularly anarchic about the Lithuanian tattoo shop a group of young American tourists stumble unwittingly into only to get tortured and murdered. There is a backstory, of course, but it doesn't help director Devon Downs and Kenny Gage distance themselves from obvious Hostel-lite comparisons. And what's more, they seem to ignore the fact that horror films should progress beyond finding a single act of torture and just repeating it over and over.

Anarchy Parlor is as cheap as they come, returning to a single aerial shot throughout for token establishing shots, and featuring gratuitous nudity without any…

This tourist-torturing Hostel-esque horror is nobody's idea of a "good film", but it's brash, boorish and unfashionably carnal enough for it to be a good time regardless. Dodgy acting and unlikely dialogue abound, right from the opening nightclub scene in which a group of American and English students, aiming to party hard in Vilnius, drunkenly talk about doing more shots and who they're planning to fuck. Enter the darkly glamorous Uta, all tattoos and an undercut, who lures a couple of them to her body-mod shop, ostensibly for sex but really to painfully murder them. Uta (Sara Fabel) lights up the screen whenever she appears; unfortunately her male partner-in-crime - "the Artist" (not Prince) - is the sort of boring…

This flat,stale torture porn celluloid slop certainly puts a whole new meaning to the words "worthless piece of shit",as three twentysomething couples vacationing in the Eastern European nation of Lithuania(best known as the home country of Charles Bronson) slowly fall victim to a deranged tattoo parlor owner/artist(Robert LaSardo[HARD TO KILL,THE HUMAN CENTPIEDE 3]) who nabs them and tortures them in his basement dungeon to use their skins to paint his artworks on and sell those works to the Eastern European black market,at the same time he falls for one of his female captives(Tiffany DeMarco[RAZE,SOYLENT]) and slowly brainwashes her into joining his twisted world. The writing and directing duo of both Kenny Gage and Devon Down mightily fails at creating any…

I watched this as 'Killer Ink' which isn't a great title, but it's a hell of a lot better than 'Anarchy Parlor' I can't even tell if it makes sense or not.

It's always going to be a struggle setting a horror film based in or around Eastern Europe without the obvious comparison of 'Hostel', it make seem a little lazy, but I will also make the same connection. The surroundings, tone and colour pallet are to hard to ignore and you do find yourself thinking you may as well be watching an entry in that series.

The premise should have been a simple one, but for some reason another concept is brought in around halfway through trying to explain…

Anarchy Parlor follows a group of friends exploring the Lithuanian nightlife when they happen upon Una, a goth tattoo assistant. A couple of these friends decide that they would like to visit the parlor and get some work done. Insert some pretty tame “torture porn” here, frequent female nudity, a lackluster plot, and then a silly twist ending, and that’s about it, that’s Anarchy Parlor.

The acting, line delivery, direction, and dialogue are around the level of higher-quality porn. It actually reminds me of the porn-with-a-plot films you'd find in the '80s to mid-'90s, married to a middling splatter film. If you have any nostalgia for those films this might be a good watch, otherwise it's probably not going to…