Horror

Over the weekend I watched the stylishly entertaining Korean movie ‘Oldboy,’ a marriage of the Count of Monte Cristo with some Grand Guignol tale in which a man, taken and held captive for 15 years for mysterious reasons, is released only to carry out a revenge plot that turns out to have been designed by his captor to wreak further, violent cruelties.

But even as I thought ‘Oldboy’ enjoyable in part because of its outlandishness, comes this horror from Austria about a man who kept his daughter imprisoned in his basement for 24 years. If proven true in all of its details - the father has apparently confessed - this will surely be the most mind-bogglingly nauseating ‘family’ story I’ve heard in a while.