Corona Cork Film Festival

A hit in the ‘midnight madness’ slot at the recent Fantasy Film Festival, Botched is a classic horror romp.

Ritchie Donovan is a professional thief whose luck has just run out. The only survivor from a heist that goes terribly wrong, Ritchie is forced to take the rap and is sent to Russia to steal a priceless antique cross locked in a safe on the penthouse floor of a Moscow skyscraper. Things start badly and go rapidly downhill when, during the robbery, Ritchie and his Russian accomplices are forced to take hostages because they are trapped by the police on the unused 13th floor.

From there things get bloodier, messier and deadlier. The police end up to be more bloodthirsty than Ritchie’s accomplices and it turns out that some of the hostages are in fact insane descendents of Ivan The Terrible. What follows is multiple fatal twists and turns, as everyone involved ends up trying to take control of the situation,
and more often than not actually making things worse.