The first entry in a Neil LaBute unofficial trilogy of cruelty – Your Friends & Neighbors (1998) and The Shape of Things (2003) follow – that established the template for stories of bored, financially secure, thoroughly nasty people do thoroughly nasty things to weaker species for their own wry amusement. There are dozens in this sub-genre now, and this is worth the watch just to see the more naive of the two sadists get his just desserts.
The most perplexing of all of this is the fact the director made the frankly batshit The Wicker Man (2006), a remake so unnecessary and atrocious that not even Nicolas Cage can salvage it. Actually, he’s at least a good sport and makes it funny.
Wanderings and ... wonderings. 