Knifey
Flesh Eater
Reged: 06/20/04
Posts: 1255
Loc: Obamaland, Massachusetts
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Hailed by some as amazing and shocking; others think it's complete trash.
What do you guys think?
Me? This was hyped up for years, and I remember I couldn't wait to see it. It was one of the biggest buildup-let downs, as far as movies, ever, for me. Some love it, some hate it. I guess I dont get it. I didn't find it scary, disturbing, shocking, or even remotely groundbreaking. I found it lame from head to toe.
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"You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman."
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Drauch
Flesh Eater
Reged: 12/30/02
Posts: 1174
Loc: Springfield ,Missouri
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Absolutely love it. My favorite Craven film behind "The Hills Have Eyes". Not in my top 10, but definitely in the top 100, being one of my favorite revenge flicks of all time. A very dark and gritty film that still remains quite disturbing to this day.
Of course, like most fans, the comedy cops could have been opted out, but they don't ruin anything. Just kinda gives you a little relief every once and awhile from the poor girls' pain.
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kamikaze_zombie
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 10/03/05
Posts: 927
Loc: Canada
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Yeah. Although I love this movie, There are still several others that I like more. People always ask me why I love this film. I love it because it pushes boundaries & kicks disbeleif in the balls.
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Uncle_Ash
Living Dead
Reged: 07/08/04
Posts: 993
Loc: Georgia
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I hate the film. I find it to be the most overrated load of crap, ever to hit the screen. Terrible acting, stupid camera-work and a last half that is just dreadful. ISoyG is ten thousand times better.
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Johnny_Darko
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 06/13/05
Posts: 425
Loc: Alaska
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I like it.
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"Deep Throat was like The Blair Witch Project of its time." -David F. Friedman
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Hellraiser_
Flesh Eater
Reged: 12/03/03
Posts: 1314
Loc: Maine
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I love it.
Top 100.
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We'll tear your soul apart.
Edited by Hellraiser_ (10/29/05 10:14 AM)
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kamikaze_zombie
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 10/03/05
Posts: 927
Loc: Canada
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I think this film is a classic, it still accomplishes shocking me, without really impressive effects (case in point the "blowjob". But I could've done without the bumbling cops, but it did create some levity.
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Kriz
Flesh Eater
Reged: 01/23/00
Posts: 1839
Loc: Salisbury, NC, USA
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I like it. I think it would make my top 100, but probably somewhere in the 90s.
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Knifey
Flesh Eater
Reged: 06/20/04
Posts: 1255
Loc: Obamaland, Massachusetts
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Hmmm, interesting poll results so far. Seems to be a like it alot, love it, or fucking hate it, type of movie
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"You're a gentleman," they used to say to him. "You shouldn't have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that's no occupation for a gentleman."
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eibon89
Recently Deceased
Reged: 11/28/05
Posts: 3
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For about 3 years i have been dying to see this movie. The reviews that i have read qouted: " I have never had a harder time getting through a movie than this. Without doubt the most violent and brutal movie i have ever seen"
So when i found in local dvd shop in copenhagen, where i live, two days ago, my heart stopped. I had to get this movie. I bought it, hurried home and plugged in my dvd player. I was first impressed by it's total primitive almost kinda documentary footage of the forrest. It made me think of the beggining of films such as " Texas chainsaw..."
But ín a while it accured to me that this was a total piece of overrated crap!!! This movie shows that if you want to create a movie that creeps under your skin you gotta have actors that have a sense realistic tone in their screams and painfull moments. And to have a minimalistic score. I mean exploitation and horror/rape cinema does NOT fit with a theme song that make you think of mammas and the pappas. I must admit that the scene where Krug slit his name in Mari's skin had an impact on me. But it did'n get me sleepless... Don't think that i'm talking bad about wes craven, cause i love his other works such as Hills have eyes or the Freddy flicks...
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Johnny_Darko
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 06/13/05
Posts: 425
Loc: Alaska
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Camp classic, LOL.
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"Deep Throat was like The Blair Witch Project of its time." -David F. Friedman
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Roadkill
Risen from the Grave
Reged: 02/19/06
Posts: 57
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Total, unadulterated rubbsih. Apart from the bit where Krug bursts the kid's balloon with his cigarette it's complete shite.
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korosh1ya
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 06/06/05
Posts: 209
Loc: New Orleans, La
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love it. it's one of the only exploitation films in my opinion that reaches this "otherworldly" stature.
the addition of the foolish cops, adding a light-heartedness to a terrible situation, the musical score is a perfect fit, much like MANBITESDOG it makes you somewhat like the perpetrators, you think hey this is funny, goofy, I kinda like these people, and then it hits you that what is happening is wrong, yet there's that part in all of us that just can't resist it, hey we're watching it with pre-knowledge of what it is aren't we? the revenge of the parents I thought was great, and for me that's when the movie really picks up. it's an exploitation film with emotion. I'll never forget after he rapes the main girl and there's a song which lines open with "and now you're all alone" and it shows her, as well as some shots of krug and him looking confused, and from my context I wonder who the song is about. I doubt everything I get out of this movie was intentionally used, but the way it was put together works for me.
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