Inhumanity

Starring:Todd Bridges, Billy Davis (VI), Georgia Foy, Faizon Love, Karl Mays
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Murder in the First
Starring: Christian Slater , Kevin Bacon , Gary Oldman , Embeth Davidtz , and William H. Macy
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ASIN: 0790741660
Release Date: 1999-06-22 |
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Based on a true story that occured on the 1930s. A young, inexperienced public defender is assigned to defend a hard-core prisoninmate accused of committing murder while behind bars.
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QUIK delivery,perfect new condition! Thanks!!!.......2007-03-21
Was very pleased my order arrived in a matter of a few days,new in sealed original packaging as described. Thank-you,will order with you again!
The Story of Alcatraz.......2007-01-27
Alcatraz was norotious in its day for being an island prison off the coast of San Francisco Bay. A man who spends a year in solitary confinment goes mad enough to kill a fellow inmate. The sad thing is that the convict was a mere petty thief whose nature only hardened when he was sentenced to imprisonment. Christian Slater plays an ambitious public defender in San Francisco who fights for his client in that Matlock kind of way. One of the best scenes in this film are all the shots of San Francisco which create the atmosphere of the times.
good movie.......2007-01-19
once again america has shipped an ntsc dvd to europe knowingly that europe is pal. you guys are deffinatly a bunch of joys.
Murder in the first.......2006-11-10
I think that this movie show exactly what is still going on in prisons today. I loved his (Christian Slatter) strenght, and determination to Fight back. It is sad and true, something people should think about, being that there are so many people with mental illness are still being mistreated in the prisons.
A Movie with a Purpose.......2006-05-14
I've been reading some reviews and I've seemed to notice that the only negative comments are not about the movie but people who disagree with the message of the movie. They either critisize it for not coinciding with reality or they disagree with the message that society is at fault. But these are not faults with the movie. The only purpose of a movie of this kind is to portray an idea and provide an argument for their belief. This movie does an amazing job of portraying the idea that sometimes it is worth fighting for something that noone else believes in and that life is valuable and EVERY person has a right to be treated fairly. No, this film does not follow what actually happened 100%, but it doesn't claim to. All it does it tell a story and it does an impecable job of it. The director allows the viewer to get inside the accused's mind as he goes mad and the viewer feels helpless as he watches in horror. This is the real success of the film, to convey the feeling from the accused's point of view so that they can see him as a person for who he is. This is truly one of the best movies I have ever seen, not because it's "cool" or "hip" but because it invokes a passion inside you and by the end of the movie you will feel like you know what it is like to have nothing, have noone, and feel nothing but pain and fear. After that you can derive your own opinions about how you feel on this issue, but at least it will be an educated opinion and you will have been exposed to another point of view.
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- Italian Sadism and Cleavage
- Love story AND gruesome goosome
- old but good
- I saw it at the drive in
- It's not scarry, but it's entertaining
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Mark of the Devil
Starring: Johannes Buzalski , Dorothea Carrera , Günter Clemens , Gaby Fuchs , and Herbert Fux
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Release Date: 2004-10-26 |
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The commanding Herbert Lom stars as a sadistic, corrupt inquisitor in this salacious exploitation thriller from Germany set in 18th-century Austria. A handsome young Udo Kier takes a rare romantic lead as a young baron who rescues an innocent peasant girl from the clutches of a local witch hunter (the villainous-looking Reggie Nalder), only to run afoul of Lom's unholy warrior. An early entry in the "sex and sadism" genre, this production is an exploitation film with an intelligence behind it, but an exploitation film nonetheless: director Michael Armstrong revels in the most barbarous tortures as the impotent inquisitor punishes innocent young maidens for his own unclean desires. Strong performances from Lom, Kier, and Nalder and a cynical ending deliver a dramatic punch along with the grisly nastiness. This brutal thriller is not for all tastes: barf bags were handed out to audiences on its initial release. The new Collector's Edition restores the film to its full, uncut gory--that is, glory. --Sean Axmaker
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MARK OF THE DEVIL Positively The Most Horrifying Film Ever Made
This is one that historians and gorehounds alike still speak of with shock and awe, the movie so extreme that audiences were given free barf bags! Herbert Lom (THE DEAD ZONE), Udo Keir (BLADE), Herbert Fox (EUGENE) and the ultra creepy Reggie Nalder (SALEM'S LOT) star n this infamous epic of fanatical 18th Century witchfinders who rape, torture, dismember and burn thousands of nubile young women falsely accused of fornicating with Satan. Can you stomach the agonizing torment of the damned. Behold the gut-wrenching horror of MARK OF THE DEVIL!
MARK OF THE DEVIL has been completely restored from recently discovered vault materials - including all of its scenes of unspeakable torture - and is now presented totally uncut, uncensored and packed with startling new Extras that finally reveal the full controversial history behind what still may be "positively the most horrifying film ever made!"
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Italian Sadism and Cleavage.......2007-06-12
Any student of horror has to look back on some so-called "Giallo" films of the 70's and just wonder..why?
In "Mark Of The Devil", for instance, WHY did we need to see an innocent woman's tongue ripped out by crazed and perverse "witchfinders" and then see her burned to death, unable to scream: WHY did we need to see Count Cumberland (played in a nearly perfect constipated, corrupt "manly" feverish fury by Herbert Lom) rape the mother of two children who are locked up in a cell because they were playing with puppets? WHY did we need to see nails stuck up the a** of Baron Daume, played by some other tan Italian guy? And WHY, oh why, would we have any interest in a romance between Udo Kier (playing a Byronic Thomas More, kind of) and some idiotic but very attractive Italian woman?
The answer is difficult but undeniable: the madness of natural breasts, gore, the constant mention of the Devil in some way, and the undeniable fact that historians who study some of the Inquisition's torture techniques are really no different from the people who watch nonsense like this: the curiosity about ultimate chaos under the guise of religious purity.
A more refined version of this interesting trashfest is "Witchfinder General" with Vincent Price. That great but largely unnoticed horror star, Reggie Nalder ("Salem's Lot", "Zoltan", "The Manchurian Candidate") is here in full glory as Albino, a demented and malicious witchfinder. I don't know why he never got more attention. That nose, that burnt mouth...authentically sinister.
Love story AND gruesome goosome.......2007-06-08
Interesting seeing Udo Kier (Nazi Captain in Raiders of the Lost Ark) in his early days. Rather boring plot that drags among beautiful scenery. Surprising that this film is not rated as there is nudity, torture, and violence; this one's not for the kiddies! It will make you squirm in your seat during some of the torture scenes, especially the tongue scene. I first saw this movie when I was a teenager (35 years ago) and something about it stuck in my mind; I think it may have been the ending.
old but good.......2007-01-17
it's kitzy now but i waited 30+ years to see it .....sooo cool
I saw it at the drive in.......2006-10-19
Well it's been a long time but I still remember this movie. I was 12 years old and my mom took me and my sister and 2 brothers to see it at the drive-in theatre.
We were scared out of our minds. We didn't use the barf bags though. I have often told people about this movie over the years I never did find anyone who saw it though. I will be buying this movie and watching it again. Nostalgia, there's nothing like it.
It's not scarry, but it's entertaining.......2006-02-21
I've read the other reviews, a lot of them are calling this film boring. I didn't think it was boring for one second. It was very interesting. I was not even born when this film came out, but I read all the hype about it being the most horrifying film ever made... It definetly was not that. However, it did have it's moments, such as when the woman's tongue was ripped out by the roots. I bought this film because I really like Udo Kier, and he looks really hot in this movie (besides the outfit and hair) that could be why I liked the movie so much actually. The dubbing of the actor's voices is REALLY bad, especially of the children, you can tell it is adult's voices trying to speak in little voices...I wanted to hear Udo's voice, he has a German accent, but they dubbed over that too...But it really was entertaining, and the fact that people used to burn "witches" and this could be close to a true story back in those days makes it even more interesting to me. I am SO glad this doesn't happen now, I would be horrified of being accused of being a witch. I would recommend this movie to anyone that can handle watching torture scenes, and likes horror films.
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Men Behind The Sun
Starring: Zhe Quan , Gang Wang , Andrew Yu , Runsheng Wang , and Dai Yao Wu
Director: Tun Fei Mou
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ASIN: B0000AQS1H
Release Date: 2003-12-02 |
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A celluloid nightmare.......2007-05-20
When discussing World War II, you'll hear a lot about German atrocities committed throughout Europe. You'll even hear about the Soviet Union taking upwards of 20 million casualties in that fight. What you won't hear much about, unfortunately, concerns the carnage inflicted upon China by the Japanese Imperial Army. Even to this day, Japan refuses to take full responsibility for the injuries wreaked upon their neighbors during that conflict. Once in awhile you might stumble over an article in the paper involving the Japanese government's activities in Korea. China is another matter altogether. Silence seems to reign about what happened on Mainland China between 1931 and the end of the war. Remember the North Korean nuclear test a few months back? Remember how the Japanese started talking about building their own nuclear arsenal as a counterbalance in the region? China went nuts when they heard that talk. If you don't understand the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s and the genocidal campaigns that occurred shortly thereafter, you won't understand why the communist regime threw a hissy fit about Japanese nukes. Welcome to the film "Men Behind the Sun," a movie that explains a lot about modern Asia's attitudes toward the Japanese.
When Japan conquered Manchuria in 1931, the created a puppet state called Manchukuo the following year. They used this area as a source for raw materials to fuel their war machine, and also as a staging ground for invading the rest of China. What followed was a nightmare for everyone involved. Arguably the worst atrocities centered on a place called Unit 731, a Japanese research facility that used mostly Chinese men and women (other nationalities died there too) as test subjects in order to develop various biological and chemical weapons. The scientists at the research facility often performed vivisections, without anesthesia, on prisoners of war and pregnant women. They messed around with amputation, sometimes to learn the effects of massive blood loss and sometimes to see what would happen if gangrene went unchecked. Other tests included using flamethrowers on innocent civilians and studying the killing and maiming capabilities of grenades. Worse, the laboratory dove head first into learning all they could about employing diseases as a weapon. They used ceramic containers filled with anthrax and cholera infected fleas as bombs in civilian areas, killing hundreds of thousands of Chinese men, women and children. Unit 731 developed this program by first testing it on inmates at the facility.
I could go on and on about the atrocities committed by these monsters. You can read about them on dozens of Internet sites devoted to Imperial Army war crimes. You can also watch T.F. Mou's "Men Behind the Sun". I went into great detail about what went on in Unit 731 above because we see many of these events unfold in nightmarish detail in the film. We see the Japanese scientists' penchant for vivisection taken to nauseating extremes in a scene involving a small child. We see the monsters put a guy in a high-pressure chamber so they can find out what happens when they turn the dial up as high as it will go. Experiments conducted to find out what occurs when a human being's limbs are frozen and then suddenly thawed leave the viewer with a horrific vision that will stay with you long after the film ends. A central theme of the movie revolves around the base commander figuring out how to spread fleas riddled with diseases via ceramic containers. Then there's the racist tone of the film. The Japanese Army's most powerful weapon was racism. By dehumanizing the Chinese, it was easier for the personnel in this facility to perform the experiments.
"Men Behind the Sun" is a grim, grim movie. I called it an exploitation film above, but I'm not sure about the accuracy of that label. The atrocities depicted in the movie hew so closely to what actually occurred in Unit 731, as documented by numerous investigations conducted after the war, that to call Mou's vision an "exploitation" flick does a grave disservice to the victims of the Japanese Army. The director himself doesn't think "Men Behind the Sun" is an exploitation movie; he makes his true feelings abundantly clear in an interview included as an extra on the disc. His motivation for the film is to educate viewers about the atrocities committed during the invasion of China. Well, this motion picture certainly does that in spades. A few subplots in the film, including one showing a contingent of recently recruited Japanese soldiers playing ball with a Chinese boy, probably serves as an effort by the director to inject a bit of humanity into the proceedings. That the boy in question ends up on an operating table in the movie's most grotesque sequence only underscores what the movie tries to teach the viewer, mainly the destruction of real people under the heel of the Japanese invaders.
The DVD version of "Men Behind the Sun" isn't the best in technical terms. The picture quality lacks sharpness, and the audio is only adequate. I'm not sure I'd want to see a pristine version of this film, and you'll likely agree if you ever sit down with it. Even the paucity of extras (the aforementioned text interview and a trailer for the film) isn't worth complaining about. You're watching this film because you either want an education about what went on in China during the war or because you want to see sickening scenes of gore. If it's the latter, you're missing the point--although you'll see gore that, in a couple of scenes, apparently involved the use of real cadavers. Yeah, it's that bad. I really suggest you read up on Japanese atrocities in Asia before watching the film. If you remember what you're seeing, for the most part, actually happened, I think you'll come away from the movie with a different attitude about what constitutes exploitation filmmaking.
A MOVIE.......2007-03-09
WELL THIS ONE I GOT FOR SOMEONE ELSE AND THEY DO LOVE THE MOVIE I DON'T KNOW TO MUCH ABOUT IT. BUT SHE LOVES IT
I really cannot decide about this film........2007-03-09
On one hand, the film depicts a truly foul evil committed by the Imperial Japanese Empire that should and must be told. On the other hand, the director tortured animals on screen(rats and cats) and purchased a corpse for an onscreen autopsy---seemingly learning nothing from his subject. He also apparently believes the Communist lie that the United Nation used biological warfare during the Korean War. The film is also wildly graphic and violent in a way that teeters terribly close to pornography. So on one hand, he depicts a great evil------while embracing evil of another stripe. Unfortunate that victims of Unit 751 cannot have their story told in a film with a more certain integrity......but this is all we have at the moment.
This Story Must Be Told.......2007-01-20
Much is written about the Holocaust. Many movies have been made, memorials erected, and in Washington we have a Holocaust Museum. We often overlook Japan's atrocities in Asia--equal to anything the Nazis ever did. This movie is based upon real historical events. It shows very graphically some of the things that occurred at Unit 731 in Japanese-held Manchuria. Not for the faint of heart, it tells a gruesome story that must be told, and never forgotten.
SICK!!!.......2006-09-01
i HAD TO see this movie, its pretty grimmy, i loved it.
i just orderd it last night from amazon and i hope i get it based on what the guy under me said, but maybe he just complains alot. i cant wait for it to come. thares alot of rumors about this movie sutch as the little boy gets disected while hes passed out and they take out his heart... this is supose to be REAL it sure looked it. this movie is NOT FOR EVERYONE!! its VERY nasty, great movie for when u want to go over somebodies house for the first time, put this movie in and get a great first impression!!!!
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- Intolerance
- Truly one of the world's great films
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Intolerance
Starring: Mae Marsh , Robert Harron , F.A. Turner , Sam De Grasse , and Vera Lewis
Director: D.W. Griffith
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ASIN: 6305186685
Release Date: 1999-01-19 |
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After Birth of a Nation, what do you do for an encore, especially after said film has branded you a racist? D.W. Griffith, the silent era's "king of the world," mounted this melodramatic spectacle of "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages," four stories that illustrate "how hatred and intolerance have battled against love and charity." Critic Heywood Broun, upon the film's release, probably said it best: "Quite the most marvelous thing which has been put on the screen, but as a theory of life it is trite." But what's on the screen is dazzling!
Griffith interweaves the four parallel stories set, respectively, in the modern era (fuddy-duddy reformers and a workers' strike), Jerusalem (Christ's crucifixion), 1572 Paris (a "hotbed" of persecution against the Huguenots), and ancient Babylon. No collection of silent films is complete without this landmark, awe-inspiring epic, which really does boast a cast of thousands (the most memorable of which is Constance Talmadge as the spunky Mountain Girl). The fall of Babylon ranks with one of the great action set pieces, complete with racing chariots, a nifty decapitation (at the hands of Elmo Lincoln, the man who would be Tarzan), and falls from what appear to be incredible heights. The edge-of-your-seat climax to the modern story, a race against time to save an innocent young man from the electric chair, is another bravura sequence. --Donald Liebenson
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D.W. Griffith's towering epic of man's inhumanity to man throughout the ages, "Intolerance" is considered the greatest film of the silent era and perhaps the greatest film ever made. This edition of "Intolerance" has been restored and reconstructed to 178 minutes with the original color tinting specifications and a digital stereo organ score by Gaylord Carter.
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Intolerance.......2007-06-18
Stung by accusations of racism after the debut of his "Birth of a Nation," Griffith decided to assuage his detractors and at the same time top his previous masterpiece with this lavish meditation on cruelty and persecution. With colossal stages, a vast universe of extras, and some of the most jaw-dropping images ever recorded on film (check out the fall of Babylon sequence!), "Intolerance" is a masterpiece of epic melodrama and set-piece grandeur. Among the cast, Harron (as the contemporary hero), Lillian Gish (as the symbolic Woman Who Rocks the Cradle), Mae Marsh (as the "Dear One" in the modern tale), and Constance Talmadge (as the Girl From the Mountains) are especially striking. And the brilliantly innovative parallel climax of all four stories is a feat of ahead-of-its-time editing technique that may still take your breath away.
Truly one of the world's great films.......2007-03-11
D.W. Griffith's "The Birth Of A Nation," filmed the year before "Intolerance," is a much better-known film, but this depiction of four stories, illustrating the intolerance of people for those unlike them throughout history, cuts a wider swath. In many ways it is one of the most remarkable films ever made.
I believe that the oft-repeated bromide that Griffith made "Intolerance" to "atone" for the perceived anti-black prejudice and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan in "The Birth Of A Nation" is simply wishful thinking on the part of many liberals. Griffith in fact saw nothing inaccurate or unfair about the earlier film, and made the 1916 blockbuster as an answer to what he perceived as the intolerance of his critics.
The acting in "Intolerance" is, of course, somewhat dated (affer all, the film is 91 years old), but the movie nevertheless packs an emotional wallop.
Most visually appealing is the Babylonian story, with sets that are jaw-droppingly huge and impressive representing the walls of the ancient city, and various statutes and other structures. The actors in those scenes literally look like ants in the master shots, totally dwarfed by the sets which rival the tall buildings existing today in many cities.
As a matter of fact, the Babylonian sequence alone would justify the colorization of this film. It would have to be done with great care, of course, to guarantee that copies of the original black and white work were preserved. But re-photographing every frame of the film to produce a brand-new negative has been done before on other movies. It would be quite a job, but it would be possible. The Babylonian scenes are awe-inspiring in black and white. In color, done properly, and with the new negative cleaned digitally to remove dirt and scratches showing from the old prints, it would be of almost unbelievable grandeur.
I hope someone undertakes this project. The world's viewing public deserves it.
Great..yes...but...........2007-01-13
Is "Intolerance " a great film ? Of course...who would dare to say otherwise...? But..I found it very hard going to sit through..and I am a fan of silent films. Can anyone please just slap "the dear one"..viewing a film with the devine Clara Bow just 10 years later makes you realize how far women progressed in the mind of film makers...what a breath of fresh air!
Anyway....for all its spectacle and artistic invention the message film "Intolerance" is a big bulky piece of furniture in the living room of movie history...not really enjoyable but "de rigeur" for every film fan worth that name. For all its political incorrectness(that's putting it mildly) "Birth of a nation " is, surprisingly, still a far more enjoyable film than "intolerance"...drenched in reprehensible racism but it still works as an involving story , and so it is much more accesible to modern audiences.
I do know that watching a silent film asks of modern audiences an effort of mind and concentration..but the rewards are many ...at its best it is like enjoying a heavenly piece of classical music or a fine painting....but it can also be escapist fun in truly gorgeous sepia tones.
"Intolerance " however is a sermon....and a long and heavy one at that...you will find the cathedral it is given in vast and overwelming but ultimately uninvolving and cold.
If you are already experienced in viewing silent movies it is a must see film at any rate.
If this is going to be your first silent movie : think again....it may put you off from ever seeing one again. Better start with Clara Bow, Douglas Fairbanks or even a lovely Erich Von Stroheim monstrosity !
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'Intolerance' is a passionate antiwar statement... It has long been considered the artistic peak of the early silent films...
Of the pacifist films produced in the United States, Griffith's "Intolerance' is undoubtedly the best, despite its failure to capture the authentic atmosphere of the war...
Griffith had in mind a vast theme-the age-old struggle against intolerance, or 'love's struggle through the ages...' The film showed how self-appointed 'uplifters' throughout history hypocritically destroy true love and happiness in the name of religion, patriotism or justice...
Griffith's innovative but highly complex plot structure had four separate episodes, three historic - the fall of Babylon, the Crucifixion and the St. Batholomew's Eve Massacre - and one modern... The effect of the war on two young lovers living in a small French village occupied by the invading German forces... All are cross-cut and interwoven, leading to a final grand finale of man's inhumanity to man... We must turn to Godard to find a modern equivalent of what Griffith was attempting to do with cinema...
In Graffith's words, 'the stories begin like four currents looked at from a hilltop. At first the four currents flow apart, slowly and quietly. But as they flow, they grow nearer and nearer together, and faster an faster, until in the end, in the last act, they mingle in one mighty river of expressed emotion.'
As a piece film 'Intolerance' marks the extreme advance of screen art... But as innovator in film making, its effects are still with us...
More theory than quality.......2006-12-31
`Intolerance' is made up of four stories: 2 feature length (The Modern Tale and The Babylonian Tale) and 2 shorts (The Nazarene and French Tale). The only story of any worth though is The Modern Tale, which has some truly great images. The remaining tales are all about set and costume design and nothing else. Clearly we can see this would go on to influence other epic picture directors like Cecil B. DeMille. It would be hard to imagine films like `The Ten Commandments' (1956, DeMille); `Lawrence Of Arabia' (1962, Lean); `Cleopatra' (1963, Mankiewicz) or even Lord Of The Rings and Star Wars without it, but because you do it first doesn't necessarily make it good.
What `Intolerance' is remembered for is it's cross-cutting between the four tales. This was a new idea because it's cutting between events thousands of years apart in order to show parallel thematic ideas and not to parallel events. The cutting towards the end speeds up dramatically. All this of course would have a huge influence Soviet montage directors like Eisenstein as well as Pudovkin and Dovzhenko. Welles, Godard and Coppola could also be said to draw ideas from `Intolerance': just see films like Citizen Kane (1941) and The Godfather II (1974), which freely cuts between different periods.
The best thing about this film is the Modern Tale and it's structure, the rest is just epic film-making of gargantuan proportions. The problem I had is that I failed to see how the title `Intolerance' applied to the film. Griffith would have been better to re-release `Birth Of A Nation' (1915) with this title because the previous film clearly had an intolerant message. All Griffith is doing here is trying to dig himself out of a moral hole. So I believe that this is an important film in terms of the development of narrative structure, and therefore a must-see for film students, but not necessarily a good film.
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One of the most notorious serial killers in America was Wisconsin's Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer's exploits included killing 15 boys and resorting to cannibalism on their corpses. This biographical drama starring Jeremy Renner (TV's ZOE, DUNCAN, JACK & JANE) does not focus on the grisly details of the murders, rather it sets out to comprehend an alienated man who struggles with his own sexuality until driven disturbingly over his head. Writer/director David Jacobson has constructed a film very much in contrast to other Dahmer portrayals in its compassion for the deranged mind. The film uses flashbacks and very few characters to give a history of the serial killer's upbringing and details as to what drove him over the edge. The masterful use of time and a strong cast were additional tools Jabobson used to elevate this horrific drama. Featuring Bruce Davison and Artel Kayaru.
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not a typical serial killer movie..........2007-02-13
I was actually disappointed in *Dahmer*. I guess I was expecting the life and crimes of Dahmer. I remembered, as a teenager, how it was such a big deal when Dahmer was arrested. So, I was looking forward to a gruesome account of how he had came to be. He was charged on 17 counts of murder. However, he was actually convicted on 15 of them, totally some 937 years in prison.
Instead, like one reviewer put it, this was like "pre-Dahmer" and it certainly felt that way. Plus, not everything in this film was accurate as there was a disclaimer saying so. So, if you're not familiar on Dahmer and his crimes, then you won't know which is true and which isn't.
*Dahmer* paints this serial killer as a lonesome gay chocolate factory worker in Milwaukee. However, Dahmer likes his men to be totally submissive. In order for them to be submissive, he'll have them drugged and then killed.
The problem is that we don't really see how or where he murders them, except 2 of them. We see, in flashbacks, how he seduced his (first?) victim. Then, we see how he seduced Khamtay. Khamtay was the only person who gave suspense in this entire film. You see, Khamtay escaped from Dahmer's apartment and begged for help. However, when the police arrived so did Dahmer, from work. After some smooth talking, the police gave Khamtay back to Dahmer to his death. Last, we see the drama between Dahmer and Rodney. In real life, Rodney is supposed to be Tracy, who was the second and last victim to escape from Dahmer.
However, we do not see that here. Instead, we see that Rodney is interested in Dahmer. Dahmer is interested but conflicted. Every time that Dahmer wanted to kill Rodney, he stopped.
So, we do not really see the real portrayal of Dahmer in this film. Instead, we see flashbacks of his teen years and young adulthood where Dahmer struggled against the authority of his religious father. I guess that is supposed to explain why Dahmer came to be as this serial killer. We see his run-in's with the police but gets away with it every time. We see how he drugged men at the local gay bar and in his apartment. And that's just about it.
Honestly, it was a waste of time. You're better off watching *The Texas Chainsaw Massacre* just to get an idea of what Dahmer might've been like.
Dahmer..............2006-02-26
As a owner of such films such as Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Gacy and interviews of many natorious serial killers, I must say that Jeff Dahmer is definetly the most DISTURBED serial killer to date. This movie is not a true serial killer flick. It focuses on Jeffery's lifestyle and doesn't truly explain to us the reason this man turned into a ruthless killer. Jeremy Renner does a good job portraying Dahmer in this film. You look at Dahmer and would never suspect that while working in a chocolate factory by day, he was a murderer by night. Dahmer was a loner who would pray on young men, usually dark skinned. We see Dahmer pick up a young man while shopping. Dahmer offers to buy this young man a pair of shoes with an ulterior motive. Dahmer would lure these young men to his apartment by offering then $50 or $100 dollars to pose for pictures for him. Unaware of what lied ahead, these young men would agree and once in the privacy of Dahmer's apartment, he would usually give them a drink which was heavily drugged ultimately rendering his victims helpless. We see him perform a labotomy on one victim. We also see scenes with his father. Dahmer at that time was living with his grandmother and stole a manniquen from a local store which was found by his father and grandmother in his closet. Dahmer's explanation was that it was just fun to have stolen it but we know that the manequin was used by Dahmer so he could sleep with it and fondle it. We see him go to bars where he would drug young men by buying them drinks and slipping in his deadly cocktail drug and take these young men to a back room of the bar to have sex with them while they were knocked out. This is not a bloody, gory film. At one point, we do see Dahmer hack up the body of a young man he has killed. Dahmer would have to get himself intoxicated in order to dismember the bodies. He then puts the body in garbage bags and was on his way to a local dump to dispose of the body when he was pulled over by a policeman who saw him swerving in the road. Dahmer was able to talk his way out of it saying that he was just adjusting his rearview mirror. The policeman saw the garbage bags in the back of Dahmer's vehicle and inquired about them but smooth Dahmer explained that he couldn't sleep and was on his way to the local dump to dispose of trash. The policeman did not search the bags and let Dahmer go. Dahmer was finally caught when one would be victim escaped from Dahmer's apartment and went to local authorities. From that point on the police went to Dahmer's apartment and found a crime scene like no other. There were body parts, a huge drum with 3 torsos in it, and remains of other victims. The smell was awful...and Dahmer was arrested and convicted of killing 17 young men and was sentenced to 957 years in jail. Dahmer does not deny anything and admits to the killings and admits to even eating some of his victims, making him a cannibal. The town of Milwaukee could now breath a sigh of relief. As we all know, 2 years after being in jail for serving a "life" sentence, Dahmer was killed in a bathroom by another inmate. He was beat in the head and pronounced dead upon arrival at the local hospital. This movie is worth renting because you do see the different sides of Jeff Dahmer, a man who could not stop himself from killing.
4 Stars for Slow Depress-O-Rama...Here's why.......2006-01-25
The first thing anyone should know about this film is that it is not entertaining. That may be surprising to hear considering that I'm giving it four stars. Here's why.
This film was made by a production company that has found a niche making straight-to-video serial killer films. Of the films I've seen in the series, this is the way it goes: "Gacy" and "Bundy" are exploitative and entertaining in their guilty pleasure way. "The Hillside Strangler" is even more exploitative, and not for the feint of heart, but has a raw, unapologetic quality to it that almost brings it to the level of the cult classic "Henry: Portrait of Serial Killer". (All of these films, I've noticed, suffer from the filmmakers' seeming inability to realize that they might have something good on their hands. They always pull the story over for cheap, expoitative pitstops when they really don't need to. If made in the seventies or eighties, some of these films may have found a large following, but they're guilty-viewing novelites in the P.C. Aughts.)
Then there's "Dahmer". Faced with these less artistic possibilities, the filmmakers chose the exact opposite approach; a stark, sophisticated psychodrama that takes such a straightforward look at such an incomprehensible personality that it drains the viewer of everything except a creepy, disaffected feeling.
I skimmed some of the negative reviews of this film (I was quite surprised to find 67 reviews) and a central criticism is that you don't gather any new information about Dahmer. That's accurate, to a point. This film is an intense character study. It's not looking to give you information you received from a TV documentary because, quite simply, you already have it. The film is trying to give you an inkling of what it was like to be Jeffrey Dahmer. Can any of us possibly imagine how bizarre and alien such a psychology must be? "Dahmer" attempts to achieve this and succeeds to the inevitable point of leaving us either scratching our head or trying to forget the whole thing. "Dahmer" brings us into the farthest, darkest corner of the human condition. Its as lonely as being buried alive for two hours, without the fear. And about as boring.
The main reason I'm giving this film four stars is that it is, undoubtedly, one of the most unique films I've ever seen. You never know what to make of it. I don't think anyone with any sense of morality wants to feel sympathy for Jeffrey Dahmer. Yet, the filmmakers chose to take such a uncompromising look at their subject that we find ourselves in Dahmer's reality and it is a very ugly place. Dahmer is such an anomalous soul that the viewer can't find any anchor to hold on to. The film reeks with an intense, morose sadness and emptiness. The acting of the central players is subtle and mature. The film concentrates a great deal on the relationship between Dahmer and his father, Lionel (played well by Bruce Davison) and we really get the sense of a parent dealing with a desperate situation that he hasn't even begun to grasp. Dramtatic irony is played up to a crescendo in one unforgetable scene where Lionel Dahmer demands to know the contents of a box which we know contains...
"Dahmer" wants to be a sophisticated film and it is. Anyone looking for blood and guts thrills is going to be disappointed. "Dahmer" doesn't rely on suspense, scary incidental music, or scenes where the killer pops into frame with an evil smile and beheads his victim. The film does detail Dahmer's killings, but it never exploits them for scary thrills.
None of this, unfortunately, adds up to a film that is entertaining. "Dahmer" is so slow that I felt like I'd watched a four hour film. It desperately needed a bit more editing. One of the film's final scenes seems like it literally will not end. "Dahmer" is, in fact, boring without having to be, and it wouldn't need to compromise its vision to be better. This does not take away from the fact that the film is so dedicated to giving the viewer a realistic portrayal of what it was like to walk around in Dahmer's shoes. If you are looking for entertaining Friday night viewing, you are in the wrong place. "Dahmer" is very depressing and makes "Taxi Driver" feel like a trip to Disneyland. If you're not especially interested in this subject matter, or a film student, this is not for you.
The acting was good, but a bad poorly researched script.......2005-12-11
I thought the actors did a very good job considering what they had to work with. The only reason why I'm giving a "1" is because it was disappointing--it's NOT a good documentary movie reflecting the life of this sicko. The movie ED GEIN was superior in this respect--yes it had gruesome scenes about what Gein did to his victims, but it was necessary. Not so with Dahmer: You watch the movie, and still know as much as you did about Dahmer before watching it...it really was very superficial. It showed NOTHING about the events that led to his arrest. It showed NOTHING about what police did. It really didn't show anything at all.
It's a kind of generic profile that could fit any serial killer--but this movie did NOT even hint at cannibalism.
Still, despite the bad script and obvious poor research, I cannot emphasize the actors were good.
Pre-Dahmer: Or, what happened to a young man.......2005-09-01
Three and a half stars, but I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt.
If you are looking for blood and murder, you won't find it here. There is one puddle of blood, a pretty tame drill bit, and one flashing, bloodless cavity exploration. This isn't a film about Dahmer's killing spree; it's a "Pre-Dahmer" exploration of a young man's transformation. And even then, sorry to say, it doesn't have the ring of accuracy to those who know psychology.
What 'Dahmer' does have is some surprisingly good acting from unknown talents. Jeremy Renner is especially good in his role of Jeffrey Dahmer, and kudos to Artel Kayaru, Matt Newton, Dion Basco and Bruce Davison. The film is artistically directed, well photographed, well edited, and makes good use of music/soundtrack and make-up effects. Overall, it's a very well done movie.
'Dhamer' covers Jeffrey's life prior to his 'splurge', so to speak. It's a development study. The script makes use of Dahmer's close run-in's with police that were blown off, like getting caught trying to return a victim to his house, getting caught drugging drinks in a gay bar, and an incident in his youth with a garbage bag in the back of his mothers car that *wasn't* grass clippings.
The movie makes strong use of flashbacks and scene-skips, but it works to an advantage on film. Jeremy Renner plays both younger and older Dahmer, and the make-up/photography is excellent in making this work on-screen. To some, the movie may seem paceless, but it's absorbing nonetheless. It did seem to end too soon, too much left out; but for the time frame of Dahmer's life it did a good job.
Some interesting notes of my own would be the writer's reference to the Christian cross as a torture device, like worshiping an electric chair or a guillotine. To a serial killer, this would make sense. It brings up interesting social issues for a young gay man, but I honestly don't credit Dahmer with having much debative intellect. Serial killers are normally creatures of immediate sensation, not debative thought. They live 'in the now' and often believe that other people are simply 'items' in their world and not beings with thought processes; like them. Others are a study, not a reality.
I strongly doubt Dahmer felt any revulsion the first time he cut, killed, dismembered, or ate any of his victims. It would have been merely interesting to him. In the real world, you can't use reason to reach unreasonable people. They cannot hear it.
All in all, I suggest renting before buying, and keep in mind its more of an artistic study than a horror movie. Enjoy!
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After Birth of a Nation, what do you do for an encore, especially after said film has branded you a racist? D.W. Griffith, the silent era's "king of the world," mounted this melodramatic spectacle of "Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages," four stories that illustrate "how hatred and intolerance have battled against love and charity." Critic Heywood Broun, upon the film's release, probably said it best: "Quite the most marvelous thing which has been put on the screen, but as a theory of life it is trite." But what's on the screen is dazzling!
Griffith interweaves the four parallel stories set, respectively, in the modern era (fuddy-duddy reformers and a workers' strike), Jerusalem (Christ's crucifixion), 1572 Paris (a "hotbed" of persecution against the Huguenots), and ancient Babylon. No collection of silent films is complete without this landmark, awe-inspiring epic, which really does boast a cast of thousands (the most memorable of which is Constance Talmadge as the spunky Mountain Girl). The fall of Babylon ranks with one of the great action set pieces, complete with racing chariots, a nifty decapitation (at the hands of Elmo Lincoln, the man who would be Tarzan), and falls from what appear to be incredible heights. The edge-of-your-seat climax to the modern story, a race against time to save an innocent young man from the electric chair, is another bravura sequence. --Donald Liebenson
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Intolerance.......2007-06-18
Stung by accusations of racism after the debut of his "Birth of a Nation," Griffith decided to assuage his detractors and at the same time top his previous masterpiece with this lavish meditation on cruelty and persecution. With colossal stages, a vast universe of extras, and some of the most jaw-dropping images ever recorded on film (check out the fall of Babylon sequence!), "Intolerance" is a masterpiece of epic melodrama and set-piece grandeur. Among the cast, Harron (as the contemporary hero), Lillian Gish (as the symbolic Woman Who Rocks the Cradle), Mae Marsh (as the "Dear One" in the modern tale), and Constance Talmadge (as the Girl From the Mountains) are especially striking. And the brilliantly innovative parallel climax of all four stories is a feat of ahead-of-its-time editing technique that may still take your breath away.
Truly one of the world's great films.......2007-03-11
D.W. Griffith's "The Birth Of A Nation," filmed the year before "Intolerance," is a much better-known film, but this depiction of four stories, illustrating the intolerance of people for those unlike them throughout history, cuts a wider swath. In many ways it is one of the most remarkable films ever made.
I believe that the oft-repeated bromide that Griffith made "Intolerance" to "atone" for the perceived anti-black prejudice and glorification of the Ku Klux Klan in "The Birth Of A Nation" is simply wishful thinking on the part of many liberals. Griffith in fact saw nothing inaccurate or unfair about the earlier film, and made the 1916 blockbuster as an answer to what he perceived as the intolerance of his critics.
The acting in "Intolerance" is, of course, somewhat dated (affer all, the film is 91 years old), but the movie nevertheless packs an emotional wallop.
Most visually appealing is the Babylonian story, with sets that are jaw-droppingly huge and impressive representing the walls of the ancient city, and various statutes and other structures. The actors in those scenes literally look like ants in the master shots, totally dwarfed by the sets which rival the tall buildings existing today in many cities.
As a matter of fact, the Babylonian sequence alone would justify the colorization of this film. It would have to be done with great care, of course, to guarantee that copies of the original black and white work were preserved. But re-photographing every frame of the film to produce a brand-new negative has been done before on other movies. It would be quite a job, but it would be possible. The Babylonian scenes are awe-inspiring in black and white. In color, done properly, and with the new negative cleaned digitally to remove dirt and scratches showing from the old prints, it would be of almost unbelievable grandeur.
I hope someone undertakes this project. The world's viewing public deserves it.
Great..yes...but...........2007-01-13
Is "Intolerance " a great film ? Of course...who would dare to say otherwise...? But..I found it very hard going to sit through..and I am a fan of silent films. Can anyone please just slap "the dear one"..viewing a film with the devine Clara Bow just 10 years later makes you realize how far women progressed in the mind of film makers...what a breath of fresh air!
Anyway....for all its spectacle and artistic invention the message film "Intolerance" is a big bulky piece of furniture in the living room of movie history...not really enjoyable but "de rigeur" for every film fan worth that name. For all its political incorrectness(that's putting it mildly) "Birth of a nation " is, surprisingly, still a far more enjoyable film than "intolerance"...drenched in reprehensible racism but it still works as an involving story , and so it is much more accesible to modern audiences.
I do know that watching a silent film asks of modern audiences an effort of mind and concentration..but the rewards are many ...at its best it is like enjoying a heavenly piece of classical music or a fine painting....but it can also be escapist fun in truly gorgeous sepia tones.
"Intolerance " however is a sermon....and a long and heavy one at that...you will find the cathedral it is given in vast and overwelming but ultimately uninvolving and cold.
If you are already experienced in viewing silent movies it is a must see film at any rate.
If this is going to be your first silent movie : think again....it may put you off from ever seeing one again. Better start with Clara Bow, Douglas Fairbanks or even a lovely Erich Von Stroheim monstrosity !
The extreme advance of screen art..........2007-01-02
'Intolerance' is a passionate antiwar statement... It has long been considered the artistic peak of the early silent films...
Of the pacifist films produced in the United States, Griffith's "Intolerance' is undoubtedly the best, despite its failure to capture the authentic atmosphere of the war...
Griffith had in mind a vast theme-the age-old struggle against intolerance, or 'love's struggle through the ages...' The film showed how self-appointed 'uplifters' throughout history hypocritically destroy true love and happiness in the name of religion, patriotism or justice...
Griffith's innovative but highly complex plot structure had four separate episodes, three historic - the fall of Babylon, the Crucifixion and the St. Batholomew's Eve Massacre - and one modern... The effect of the war on two young lovers living in a small French village occupied by the invading German forces... All are cross-cut and interwoven, leading to a final grand finale of man's inhumanity to man... We must turn to Godard to find a modern equivalent of what Griffith was attempting to do with cinema...
In Graffith's words, 'the stories begin like four currents looked at from a hilltop. At first the four currents flow apart, slowly and quietly. But as they flow, they grow nearer and nearer together, and faster an faster, until in the end, in the last act, they mingle in one mighty river of expressed emotion.'
As a piece film 'Intolerance' marks the extreme advance of screen art... But as innovator in film making, its effects are still with us...
More theory than quality.......2006-12-31
`Intolerance' is made up of four stories: 2 feature length (The Modern Tale and The Babylonian Tale) and 2 shorts (The Nazarene and French Tale). The only story of any worth though is The Modern Tale, which has some truly great images. The remaining tales are all about set and costume design and nothing else. Clearly we can see this would go on to influence other epic picture directors like Cecil B. DeMille. It would be hard to imagine films like `The Ten Commandments' (1956, DeMille); `Lawrence Of Arabia' (1962, Lean); `Cleopatra' (1963, Mankiewicz) or even Lord Of The Rings and Star Wars without it, but because you do it first doesn't necessarily make it good.
What `Intolerance' is remembered for is it's cross-cutting between the four tales. This was a new idea because it's cutting between events thousands of years apart in order to show parallel thematic ideas and not to parallel events. The cutting towards the end speeds up dramatically. All this of course would have a huge influence Soviet montage directors like Eisenstein as well as Pudovkin and Dovzhenko. Welles, Godard and Coppola could also be said to draw ideas from `Intolerance': just see films like Citizen Kane (1941) and The Godfather II (1974), which freely cuts between different periods.
The best thing about this film is the Modern Tale and it's structure, the rest is just epic film-making of gargantuan proportions. The problem I had is that I failed to see how the title `Intolerance' applied to the film. Griffith would have been better to re-release `Birth Of A Nation' (1915) with this title because the previous film clearly had an intolerant message. All Griffith is doing here is trying to dig himself out of a moral hole. So I believe that this is an important film in terms of the development of narrative structure, and therefore a must-see for film students, but not necessarily a good film.
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- One word: Awful.
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Inhumanity
Starring: Todd Bridges , Billy Davis (VI) , Georgia Foy , Faizon Love , and Karl Mays
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Release Date: 2001-04-17 |
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IM THE DIRECTOR OF THIS FILM.......2007-03-30
I am the director of this mess. I just wanted to say, in my defense that I had no budget, and I had a hard time trying to make this film, because 5 days into production, Fazion Love walk off the set and, went back to L.A. to shoot a movie called The Replacement Killers. This movie could have been a good little low budget classic. So the script and movie in additon to not having enough money, was a huge factor. But the other problem was that, I really was focus on having sex with the extras, instead of taking my craft a little more seriously. I took a break from making low buget films, after this mess. I have been learning the craft of filmmaking. I have been directing music videos, etc. As of today I am gearing up to shoot my first feature, that is in the millions. So I guess somebody thinks that I have an eye for filmmaking. See you guys at the Oscars!!
One word: Awful........2002-01-11
I bought this movie believing that it had some potential, but unfortunately, it didn't. It was awful. I felt as though I were watching a bootleg tape. Please don't waste your time on this one.
Inhumanity.......2002-01-10
This has to be the worst movie I have ever seen. I could have done better with my home video camera. The script is bad and the acting is even worse. These people need to take acting classes, and if they have they need a refund. I expected more of Todd Bridges and Faizon Love. Save your time and money. This movie is TERRIBLE.
inhumane is right.......2001-06-13
There's a serial killer on the lose in Dallas and Todd Bridges and Faizon Love are the detectives who have to find him. You will never forgive yourself. This movie has a poor script, a poor director, and poor actors. If it was not for faizon Love the movie would be a complete waste, but his presence is only worth so much this time. This film appears to me be homemade. It was probably a schol project that some kids dad accidentally took to work a put in the production pile. But be that as it may save your time dogs know more about police work than Todd Bridges and these actors need more practice. The plot isn't bad but they blew it. You know it is pathetic when the person playing the judge can't even say the courtrrom terms properly.
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- Italian Sadism and Cleavage
- Love story AND gruesome goosome
- old but good
- I saw it at the drive in
- It's not scarry, but it's entertaining
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Mark of the Devil
Starring: Johannes Buzalski , Dorothea Carrera , Günter Clemens , Gaby Fuchs , and Herbert Fux
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The commanding Herbert Lom stars as a sadistic, corrupt inquisitor in this salacious exploitation thriller from Germany set in 18th-century Austria. A handsome young Udo Kier takes a rare romantic lead as a young baron who rescues an innocent peasant girl from the clutches of a local witch hunter (the villainous-looking Reggie Nalder), only to run afoul of Lom's unholy warrior. An early entry in the "sex and sadism" genre, this production is an exploitation film with an intelligence behind it, but an exploitation film nonetheless: director Michael Armstrong revels in the most barbarous tortures as the impotent inquisitor punishes innocent young maidens for his own unclean desires. Strong performances from Lom, Kier, and Nalder and a cynical ending deliver a dramatic punch along with the grisly nastiness. This brutal thriller is not for all tastes: barf bags were handed out to audiences on its initial release. The new Collector's Edition restores the film to its full, uncut gory--that is, glory. --Sean Axmaker
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Italian Sadism and Cleavage.......2007-06-12
Any student of horror has to look back on some so-called "Giallo" films of the 70's and just wonder..why?
In "Mark Of The Devil", for instance, WHY did we need to see an innocent woman's tongue ripped out by crazed and perverse "witchfinders" and then see her burned to death, unable to scream: WHY did we need to see Count Cumberland (played in a nearly perfect constipated, corrupt "manly" feverish fury by Herbert Lom) rape the mother of two children who are locked up in a cell because they were playing with puppets? WHY did we need to see nails stuck up the a** of Baron Daume, played by some other tan Italian guy? And WHY, oh why, would we have any interest in a romance between Udo Kier (playing a Byronic Thomas More, kind of) and some idiotic but very attractive Italian woman?
The answer is difficult but undeniable: the madness of natural breasts, gore, the constant mention of the Devil in some way, and the undeniable fact that historians who study some of the Inquisition's torture techniques are really no different from the people who watch nonsense like this: the curiosity about ultimate chaos under the guise of religious purity.
A more refined version of this interesting trashfest is "Witchfinder General" with Vincent Price. That great but largely unnoticed horror star, Reggie Nalder ("Salem's Lot", "Zoltan", "The Manchurian Candidate") is here in full glory as Albino, a demented and malicious witchfinder. I don't know why he never got more attention. That nose, that burnt mouth...authentically sinister.
Love story AND gruesome goosome.......2007-06-08
Interesting seeing Udo Kier (Nazi Captain in Raiders of the Lost Ark) in his early days. Rather boring plot that drags among beautiful scenery. Surprising that this film is not rated as there is nudity, torture, and violence; this one's not for the kiddies! It will make you squirm in your seat during some of the torture scenes, especially the tongue scene. I first saw this movie when I was a teenager (35 years ago) and something about it stuck in my mind; I think it may have been the ending.
old but good.......2007-01-17
it's kitzy now but i waited 30+ years to see it .....sooo cool
I saw it at the drive in.......2006-10-19
Well it's been a long time but I still remember this movie. I was 12 years old and my mom took me and my sister and 2 brothers to see it at the drive-in theatre.
We were scared out of our minds. We didn't use the barf bags though. I have often told people about this movie over the years I never did find anyone who saw it though. I will be buying this movie and watching it again. Nostalgia, there's nothing like it.
It's not scarry, but it's entertaining.......2006-02-21
I've read the other reviews, a lot of them are calling this film boring. I didn't think it was boring for one second. It was very interesting. I was not even born when this film came out, but I read all the hype about it being the most horrifying film ever made... It definetly was not that. However, it did have it's moments, such as when the woman's tongue was ripped out by the roots. I bought this film because I really like Udo Kier, and he looks really hot in this movie (besides the outfit and hair) that could be why I liked the movie so much actually. The dubbing of the actor's voices is REALLY bad, especially of the children, you can tell it is adult's voices trying to speak in little voices...I wanted to hear Udo's voice, he has a German accent, but they dubbed over that too...But it really was entertaining, and the fact that people used to burn "witches" and this could be close to a true story back in those days makes it even more interesting to me. I am SO glad this doesn't happen now, I would be horrified of being accused of being a witch. I would recommend this movie to anyone that can handle watching torture scenes, and likes horror films.
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- Classic 19th-century melodrama
- It's never too late to discover Tod Slaughter
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Never Too Late to Mend
Starring: Tod Slaughter , Jack Livesey , Marjorie Taylor , Ian Colin , and Laurence Hanray
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Release Date: 2005-01-25 |
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Fond of the whip, the isolation chamber, straight jackets and starvation tactics, Squire Meadows is the sadistic governor of a Victorian prison who relishes making the lives of his prisoners a torturous hell. He's also a dishonorable lecher scheming to marry Susan, a beautiful village girl. She's deeply in love with someone else - a handsome but poverty-stricken man named George, who is forced to work in far-away Australia so he can earn enough money to wed her. The evil squire intercepts George's long-distance love letters and coerces Susan into marrying him. News reaches the squire that George is making his way back home (and is now a wealthy man). Learing exposure, Meadows determines to destroy George before he can return.A gruesome and deliciously lurid thriller, Never Too Late To Mend places the spotlight firmly on Tod Slaughter, an often-overlooked British horror film star whose performances are always bursting with over-the-top melodrama. The film is based on the writings of Charles Reade, which inspired Queen Victoria to overhaul the deplorable conditions of the era's prison system. Scottish-born director David MacDonald later helmed the unusual British sci-fi thriller Devil Girl From Mars, as well as episodes of the eerie Boris Karloff TV-series "The Veil." Script writer H.F. Maltby also wrote the dialogue for Tod Slaughter's Sweeney Todd and Crimes At The Dark House.
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Classic 19th-century melodrama.......2007-06-07
The previous reviewer says this was based on Charles Reade's novel, which is partly true. Reade also made this into a play which was immensely popular in the 19th century and shocked Victorian audiences in its depiction of prision life. Many considered its "realism" too harsh. The performance on this 1930s film is in the style of the 19th-century melodrama as it would have been performed on the stage, including the style of acting. So if you want to eperience what that was like, try this film. Squire Meadows is a true "villain" and you'll be rooting for the hero, who is saved by his best friend!
It's never too late to discover Tod Slaughter.......2005-12-11
The passing years have unjustly consigned him to relative obscurity, but Tod Slaughter never failed to deliver a tour de force performance that practically personified villainy. The man had it all - the eminently tweak-able mustache, the dramatic (some might say melodramatic) facial expressions, the masterful smirks, the perfectly dark, gleeful laugh, and a panache that goes unrivalled still today. In this 1937 film, he was in fine form indeed, scheming his schemes, enjoying his local power in the community, and - this time around - dispensing justice the Tod Slaughter way.
Slaughter plays the wealthy Squire Meadows, a stalwart fixture in the local community who also serves as justice of the peace and administrator of the local prison. Hiding his villainy behind a mask of nobility and indulging his dark side in the form of prisoner discipline just isn't enough to satisfy him, though. He's in love with a young lass named Susan Merton (Marjorie Taylor) - but she is in love with a poor farmer named George Fielding (Ian Colin). That's okay, though, because Tod Slaughter always has a plan - J.R. Ewing could take a few lessons from Tod Slaughter. Even though part of his first plan doesn't work out, Fielding gives the good Squire time to rethink his approach by taking off for Australia for a couple of years, aiming to make something of himself and then return to claim his bride. During that time, Meadows ingeniously manages to insinuate his good graces into the Merton family, intercept all of the young lovers' letters back and forth, and cast ruinous gossip about George Fielding all over town. All the while, he is there to comfort Susan and butter up her father. It's the perfect plan.
The film is best known for its depiction of harsh prison conditions. Tod Slaughter is purely in his element as he's threatening prisoners (young and old) with "the cat," having them thrown in the "Black Hole," or sentencing them to 1800 turns of the crank a day and a week on bread and water. In this capacity, the film is based on Charles Reade's novel Never Too Late to Mend, a book that characterized the abuses and depravity of prison justice so effectively that it inspired Queen Victoria to call for a complete overhaul of the system.
Historical context aside, though, Tod Slaughter really makes the entire film. When is the last time you saw a villain on film and felt as if the guy truly enjoyed every facet of his evil ways? It is that unmatched spirit of devilish glee that shines through every second of a Tod Slaughter performance that makes him the archetype and the embodiment of true villainy - and makes this and every other Tod Slaughter film a must see.
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