Review of Steel Trap (2007) by Erica N — 11 Jan 2009

Steel Trap is your run-of-the-mill slasher film about a group of New Years Eve party goers in a deserted high-rise corporate building, all of whom are semi-celebrities (though nobodies in real life it seems as I'm not familiar with any of these people).

Soon, several of them are invited to a separate party on another floor where they are revealed to be connected somehow.....and that's when the killings start. The deaths are rather tame, and the bloodshed is minimal.

There is certainly nothing "extreme" about this Dimension Extreme film, though I will say that the direction is fine, the acting isn't too terribly bad, and the film quality makes it actually look like a regular movie and not just a shit-ball low budget, Direct to DVD film like most movies nowadays.

If you have a brain, you'll figure out the twist killer about halfway through, and the ending, while slightly (very slightly) clever, stumbles at first, and you will be confused until the full story is revealed.

I also didn't mind the fairly bleak ending. A good time killer, but not best in Slasher film quality. I will say I was very unhappy with the misleading marketing of this film to have you believe it was SAW times 10 with clever traps and such.

It's nothing like that, but still moderately decent.