Writer and director Lucio A. Rojas was overly ambitious and certainly went all out to create insane shock value, but his inexperience as a filmmaker overshadowed his ambitions. There were just too many rookie mistakes, some so easily avoided, that it's a shame he at least didn't go back and edit some of the obvious issues. There were too many long, dragged out, and some unnecessary filler scenes, but that can be forgiven as rookie mistakes. But the film being too dark in the dark settings - and some so badly out of focus, could've easily been fixed post. I was impressed with the gore effects, prosthetics and S/VFX, but in many of those scenes, the camera only lasted a few seconds - some even less than one second, hardly enough to enable the shock value fully. You'll spend more time trying to figure out what you just saw in between dark, washed out, out of focus and quickly filmed scenes, you'll lose focus on what's happening next, to the point of getting annoyed, and that's still with me also having to constantly rewind to try and figure out what I just missed. The first few minutes of the film were the most impactful, as they were perfectly shot. But the rest of the film is hit and miss, which makes this entry into the gore genre a misfire that could've been much better.
Review of Trauma
