Grok
Risen from the Grave
Reged: 07/30/08
Posts: 38
Loc: Beyond Belief
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A search didn't find a topic for this one and since I just found out Grindhouse Releasing will be unleashing the first official DVD on Oct 3rd I thought it would be a good time. Personally I love this movie. Brimming with absurdity, outrageous gore, brain-stabbing dialog, nudity and a general air of sleazy tastelessness I can't see how anyone couldn't like it, but I like a lot of crap.
The plot is quite thin of course. At the start of the film a boy's mother finds him putting together a nudie puzzle and slaps the shit out of him. So he hacks mommy up, blames it on a mysterious intruder and grows up obsessed with naked women and jigsaw puzzles. From here on it's sort of standard slasher material, except for the kung fu fight. The gore really stands out though with a woman chainsawed in half and a murder on a waterbed that plays seemingly intentionally like a porno money shot.
Put your brain in idle for this one.
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"The day before I die I shall kill the pimp that turned my daughter into a whore! The day after I die I shall help you find justice for yourself!" - Psychic Killer
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EdgarAllen
Living Dead
Reged: 09/16/00
Posts: 1206
Loc: Star City
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Been a long while since I've seen this one. The thing that always stands out to me is the bizarre, mayhap supernatural, ending that really didn't mesh with the rest of the film. Maybe they just threw that in there for kicks or maybe they thought that might lead into a sequel or something. I did enjoy this one though.
Welcome aboard Grok.
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"Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday."
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Grok
Risen from the Grave
Reged: 07/30/08
Posts: 38
Loc: Beyond Belief
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Been a long while since I've seen this one. The thing that always stands out to me is the bizarre, mayhap supernatural, ending that really didn't mesh with the rest of the film. Maybe they just threw that in there for kicks or maybe they thought that might lead into a sequel or something. I did enjoy this one though.
Welcome aboard Grok.
Thanks, glad to be here 
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"The day before I die I shall kill the pimp that turned my daughter into a whore! The day after I die I shall help you find justice for yourself!" - Psychic Killer
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korosh1ya
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 06/06/05
Posts: 207
Loc: New Orleans, La
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Love this flick, one of the first films I ever added to my collection, actually this movie, and basket case WERE the first films I added to my collection.
I'll probably skip oN the DVD since I still have a good working tape, and I usually skip on DVD's unless they're packed with multiple discs and special features, and I wonder just what all they would have on this feature.
Either way, great film, love all the murders, and I'm with you 100% on that ending, just WTF is going on right? I love how they just freeze it, and let you bask in the final absurd moment of the feature.
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DanielSavage
Flesh Eater
Reged: 09/25/03
Posts: 1213
Loc: West Virginia
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I did a write up for this movie on the site about 5 years ago. Here's the link.
http://www.horrorspeak.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/90828/an/0/page/2#Post90828
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MojoNexus
Flesh Eater
Reged: 10/22/01
Posts: 1090
Loc: Manhattan, KS USA
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Love this film!
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My DVD collection!
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DanielSavage
Flesh Eater
Reged: 09/25/03
Posts: 1213
Loc: West Virginia
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By the way, welcome to Horrorspeak Grok. There are some really cool people here...
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Grok
Risen from the Grave
Reged: 07/30/08
Posts: 38
Loc: Beyond Belief
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By the way, welcome to Horrorspeak Grok. There are some really cool people here...
Thanks
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"The day before I die I shall kill the pimp that turned my daughter into a whore! The day after I die I shall help you find justice for yourself!" - Psychic Killer
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Zeroillusion
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 11/04/00
Posts: 140
Loc: Seattle, WA.
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There's no way Grindhouse is releasing this bare bones. I heard they shot footage at the New Beverly in L.A. during Eli Roth's "Pieces" screening to be included on this disc.
I've never seen it, but always wanted to. I passed on a bootleg copy a few months ago knowing that Grindhouse was going to do it justice in the near future.
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korosh1ya
Rotting Corpse
Reged: 06/06/05
Posts: 207
Loc: New Orleans, La
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HEE HEE, I get turned on every time that sexy chick in track pants gets split in two..k a little freaky, oh yea? and is that bluto or what??? lol.
Love the pool scene as well, I just never imagined toting a chainsaw around to be so "appliable".
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Sanguine
Flesh Eater
Reged: 08/16/02
Posts: 1255
Loc: Federal Way, Washington
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Grindhouse releases are always comprehensive but they have a strange understanding of near future...
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Dr Peligro
Voodoo Master
Reged: 05/25/00
Posts: 7645
Loc: Québec City
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Awesome trashy pile of low-budget nonsense, I loved every minute of it. Especially the Oscar-worthy moment (ouch there goes my sarcasm gland again) where the main lady character, upon finding the corpse in the locker room, raises her arms to the heavens and screams "baaaastaaaaard" several times 
And also, obviously, the amazingly random "what-the-fuck!?!?" ending...
What's this talk about the movie never having been released on DVD, though? I personally own a cheap-ass, VHS-quality DVD that I bought in a reputable, non-black-market store. Its from Brentwood.
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DanielSavage
Flesh Eater
Reged: 09/25/03
Posts: 1213
Loc: West Virginia
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I bought a Pieces dvd at Suncoast 6 or 7 years ago...
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