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A group of girls, for unknown reasons, head to a remote area for a water fast. They have no electricity, no video games, no music, no food, nothing but water. They each have secrets they are trying to forget and hope this is the answer. Unknown to them, their water source is heavily polluted and exposure to it is making them act erratic... to the point of no return.

Aside from the fact that I'm never a fan of films that give pollution a bad rep, this movie, which I watched in Italian with English subtitles, was undoubtedly boring. The idea certainly was creative and interesting, but this movie is really lacking. I don't recommend watching it but the concept itself had potential.

Alex Infascelli has made some intriguing films. The first of his I saw was his documentary S Is for Stanley, which is about Stanley Kubrick and his personal chauffeur and assistant Emilio D'Alessandro. He also made a few other giallo movies, including Almost Blue and The Vanity Syrum.

Written by Infascelli with Vincent Villani, Olivia (Chiara Conti) and her friends Ana (Anapola Mushkadiz), Nicole (Mandala Tayde), Christina (Olga Shuvalova) and Summer (Claire Falconer) have travelled to a farmhouse where they will undergo a purification ritual and only drink water. No phones, no food, just them and water. Of the friends, Olivia is the one who is most often made fun of, as she's too sweet. But what a secret she has. Inside her body is her unborn twin Helena, who has left behind teeth in her shoulder. While in the middle of the madness that the water brings on, she tears out those vestigial teeth with her hands. And then it gets worse.

Featuring effects by Sergio Stivaletti (The Wax Mask), this feels like a new take on the f giallo, a movie where what should be a peaceful time of meditation is transformed into horror inside a glass-walled villa. I have no idea exactly how it got to where it got, as it could have been polluted water, the hidden twin, witchery or just plain mental illness. A lot of it feels like an art film with giallo leanings - hey, that sounds good - and some reviewers have outright hated the acting and the fact that nothing occurs for long stretches of time. But when it gets going, it really hit with me. Hopefully you will get the same thing out of it.

HATE 2 0 is a straight-to-video indie horror/thriller that hails from Italy. As with so many indies, the plot is a worthless concoction full of cliches and zero imagination. Five girls head off to a rural retreat for a 'water fasting' weekend but instead soon find themselves plagued by mysterious events, some of which are grisly. The ultra-slow pace and uninteresting characters make this just about the norm for its genre.

I watched this movie on DVD since it was not released to cinema but directly on DVD supports as commercial choice made by the director Infanscelli. Infascelli gets the right mood filming this story using only actresses. They go on a little island to perform the water cure, some sort of extreme diet using only water, i mean drinking only water, staying together, trying maybe to open their minds, expanding their knowledge into nature and other sorts of things. I liked this story until i recognized something, the dead twin, absorbed by the other that is the one alive, a concept used in many other novels even by Stephen King in one of its most famous book. Once you understand this, all magic seems to disappear but still remains a good exercise in style and in music as well.

As good as the premises are and the end of magic comes, you see the main character in front of a mirror discovering her dead twin's rest, a tooth in her upper arm, she then understands other things becoming living revenge against all those who tried to fool her, despise her and blame her.

Good movie but not excellent, i feel like there was so much left unexplored... six out of ten!