Killing Spree

Starring:Alan Brown (III), Raymond Carbone, Christina De Tequesta, Tracy Drolet, Asbestos Felt, Courtney Lercara, Richard Lustig, Paul Merkel Jr., Vince Miranda, Al Nicolosi, Darlene Nowocien, Bruce Paquette, Cloe Pavel, Alice Penner, Mel Pitler, Rachel Rutz, Kieran Turner (II), Dwayne Willis, Joel D. Wynkoop
Studio: Sub Rosa Studios
Product Type: DVD

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A CLASSIC ROAD FILM
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A Briliant Piece Of Cinema. One Of The Best Movies I've Ever Seen.
Don't sweat it. Women have secrets. Water is wet, the sky is blue, and women have secrets

Thelma & Louise (Special Edition)
Starring: Susan Sarandon , Geena Davis , Harvey Keitel , Michael Madsen , and Christopher McDonald
Director: Ridley Scott
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ASIN: B00007BKVC
Release Date: 2003-02-04

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Thelma & Louise is a feminist manifesto writ large on the big screen, a smart and funny gender reversal of the standard Hollywood buddy formula, a road movie extraordinaire, with characters who became instant cultural icons. No matter how you define it, Ridley Scott's 1991 box-office hit pinched a nerve and made the cover of national news magazines for tweaking gender politics like no movie before or since. Callie Khouri's screenplay overhauls the buddy formula with its story about two best friends (Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis) who embark on a liberating adventure that turns into an interstate police chase after a traumatic incident makes both women into fugitives; they are en route to a destiny they could never have imagined. The perfect casting of Sarandon and Davis makes Thelma & Louise a movie for the ages, and Brad Pitt became an overnight star after his appearance as the con-artist cowboy who gives Davis a memorable (but costly) night in a roadside motel. --Jeff Shannon

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Directed by action master Ridley Scott (Hannibal, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down) from an Oscar(r)-winning* screenplay by Callie Khouri, Thelma & Louise is an "exhilarating" (The Washington Post), full-throttle adventure hailed as one of the best road movies of all time! Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis star as accidental outlaws on a desperate flight across the Southwest after a tragic incident at a roadside bar. With a determined detective (Harvey Keitel) on their trail, a sweet-talking hitchhiker (Brad Pitt) in their path and a string of crimes in their wake, their journey alternates between hilarious, high-speed thrill ride and empowering personal odyssey even as the law closes in. *1991: Original Screenplay

Customer Reviews:

Received the wrong edition.......2007-03-19

The movie deserves five stars, but the reason I'm writing is because Amazon has this DVD mislabeled as the Special Edition when, in fact, it is actually the standard edition. I ordered the SE, but received the standard edition. I returned the item and told Amazon other reviewers had complained about receiving the wrong edition as well. I hope they correct the error.

A CLASSIC ROAD FILM.......2007-03-14

What everyone says about THELMA AND LOUISE is right on the money; it's one of my favorites. As for this Special Edition: Included are 1) the widescreen (2:35) edition of the film (best seen on a big-screen TV), 2) two commentary tracks, one with director Ridley Scott, the second with Geena Davis, Susan Sarandon and writer Callie Khouri, 3) deleted and extended scenes with footage markers, and 4) the original extended ending with commentary by Scott. The four making-of documentaries, multi-angle storyboards and musicvideo are not on this disc. Is there a two-disc version of this with the extra material?

You get what you settle for..........2007-03-09

The very best line in "Thelma and Louise" is when Louise tells Thelma, "you get what you settle for." I have quoted that line time and time again to my children, friends, family, etc. There are many such literary gems contained within the writing of this wonderful movie.

Virginia Slims specifically marketed carcingenic tobacco products to millions of women by promising them "you've come a long way, baby," but we really haven't come as far as we should have. Thelma and Louise illustrates that very point with fine accuracy and almost too-close-to-reality dialogue.

I was so enamored of this movie that I purchased it and then watched it with each of my three daughters. After the movie, we had a discussion about why this was such an important film. The ending of "Thelma and Louise" is unspeakably sad but it too makes a powerful point about the futility and frustration of a woman's lot, even in our modern times.

The movie is very well written and provides painfully honest portrayals of marriage, men, women and their relationships.

A Briliant Piece Of Cinema. One Of The Best Movies I've Ever Seen........2007-02-26

I watched "Thelma & Louise" knowing it was one of the most highly acclaimed films of the 1990s'. So my expectations were already quite high when I started it. By the time it was over, to say it had met my expectations was an understatement.

"Thelma & Louise" is one of the finest movies I've ever seen. In terms of acting, pacing, writing, cinematography and soundtrack, it is perfect in all aspects. The two main characters could've easily been cliched 2-D cutout rip-offs of Bonnie & Clyde or Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, but the script injects them with enough originality and depth to set them apart. This is also thanks to the the fantastic performances of the two leads, Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon, who put on tow of the finest performances in all of cinema. They are backed by a solid supporting cast including Michael Madsen and the incomparable Harvey Keitel, as well as early breakthrough role by Brad Pitt.

The plot could've also been one dimensional and uninteresting, but writer Callie Khouri again made ot sparkle with inventive sequences, a solid mix of action, laughter and drama, and crackling dialogue.

And the direction by cinematic auteur Ridley Scott is audacious. The last sequence is one of the most beauotful images in cinema, and it brought a bit of a tear to my eye.

The special edition of this film is a must for all its fans, and the film itself should eb seen by all true cinema buffs.

Don't sweat it. Women have secrets. Water is wet, the sky is blue, and women have secrets.......2007-01-10

I've been doing some thinking, and as I look at the careers of directors Ridley Scott and his brother Tony, I wonder if Greg Araki's "Mysterious Skin" is at all based on their lives.

(If you're unfamiliar with the plot of Araki's film, click over to the Amazon summary then meet me back here.)

Hi.

So, maybe similar circumstances happen with a lot of men, and Araki just picked up an archetype. But check out 1991: Ridley, director of "Alien" releases "Thelma and Louise," one of the greatest feminist films of all time. That same year, Tony Scott, director of "Top Gun," the most homoerotic movie of all time (according to Quentin Tarantino), releases the bloody football actioner "The Last Boy Scout," one of the most misogynistic films of the past decade.

So, I figure if these two work on a movie together again its storyline will fit somewhere between "Mysterious Skin" and "Alien vs Predator." It will take place in the desert, and everyone on screen will be dead by the end, with the possible exception of an ugly Electra. There's an interview with the two brothers in a recent issue of "Post," so maybe a collaboration is in the near future.

"Thelma and Louise" is a hallmark in cinema history, one of the greatest girl power movies ever made. Every man in it is a possessive, scheming creep (save Harvey Keitel as an understanding detective, and, to an extent, Michael Madsen as Louise's musician husband), and every creep gets his comeuppance. All of the scenes are beautifully and meticulously composed -- the filmmakers do an amazing job making shots that must've taken hours to prepare seem as natural and effortless as the good ol'girl banter between Sarandon and Davis. The famous ending, which would have been depressing or dishonest in the hands of someone less skilled, is genuinely uplifting without compromising any of the dignity and freedom T&L have discovered during their journey. The inclusion of B.B. King's "Better Not Look Down" before their final leap of faith definitely helps.

Ridley Scott's films seem to have more warmth, more humanity than T.S., which has me coming back to them more frequently. Tony's films are colder, flashier, more misanthropic. "The Last Boy Scout" exists in an emotional vacuum, excepting the dull rage running through every scene. The film's only noteworthy aspect is an early performance by Halle Berry as a dancing cowgirl (She is gunned down early in the film.)

Any doubt about T.S. being more obnoxious and condescending than his sibling was erased by the inclusion of Pat Boone's "Moody River" during the film's credits. Here's a sample:

"No longer can I live
With this hurt and this sin
I just couldn't tell you
That guy was just a friend."

How does T.S. keep getting away with the subversive homoerotic stuff in these macho action films? I would've never noticed if Tarantino first hadn't pointed out the "Wingman Anytime" analogy in "Top Gun." I don't know about you, but I just wanted to lift weights.

Anyway, I think Ridley Scott's films, particularly "Thelma and Louise" and "G.I. Jane" are subversive -- they're absurdist yet humanist. I believe Ridley wants the men who see these "feminist" films to make him look very silly. After seeing males portrayed as intolerant, monstrous caricatures, I bet he'd be pleased if audience members turned to their partners and said, "he doesn't know what he's talking about. Watch me treat you sweet."

On the other hand, these "empowering" films could be intended by some as a dulling narcotic, keeping kept women kept. Watching is chosen over the actual exhilaration of flying the coup. Near the end of the film, while T&L cruise through the Arizona desert, Thelma describes a feeling which I think everyone, male or female should experience at least once in their life (preferably without the death and destruction). It's a feeling of freedom and optimism I suspect Tony Scott still hasn't experienced, and I suspect he envies his brother's ability to convey it so effortlessly during this film. Further projecting onto Tony, I suspect this deficiency eats at him, drives him to make angry films like "Man on Fire," and feeds his "Deja Vu."

Here's the scene:

THELMA: You awake?
LOUISE: You could call it that. My eyes are open.
THELMA: Me too. I feel awake.
LOUISE: Good.
THELMA: Wide awake. I don't remember ever feelin' this awake. Everything looks different. You know what I mean. I know you know what I mean. Everything looks new. Do you feel like that? Like you've got something to look forward to?
LOUISE: We'll be drinkin' margaritas by the sea, Mamasita.

Hey, where are you girls, anyway?

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One Of The Great Ones
Questioning the nature of good and evil
Never gets old.
You Talking To Me?!

Taxi Driver (Collector's Edition)
Starring: Diahnne Abbott , Frank Adu , Gino Ardito , Victor Argo , and Garth Avery
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ASIN: 0767830555
Release Date: 1999-06-15

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Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film," Scorsese would later say), combined with a perfectly timed post-Watergate expression of personal, political, and societal anxiety. Robert De Niro, as the tortured, ex-Marine cab driver Travis Bickle, made movie history with his chilling performance as one of the most memorably intense and vividly realized characters ever committed to film. Bickle is a self-appointed vigilante who views his urban beat as an intolerable cesspool of blighted humanity. He plays guardian angel for a young prostitute (Jodie Foster), but not without violently devastating consequences. This masterpiece, which is not for all tastes, is sure to horrify some viewers, but few could deny the film's lasting power and importance. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

perfect.......2007-06-19

Every aspect of this movie is exceptional.

One Of The Great Ones.......2007-06-05

I have enjoyed a 30 year affair with this film. I watched it again last night and it just keeps getting better. The screenplay is exceptional, the cast flawless, the direction is perfect and it has a world class original score. I have seen it over 100 times by now and it never gets old. It may be the best film depiction of what it must feel like to deteriorate into a paranoid, psychotic state. If you have never seen it and can manage its dark content, it should be on your must see list. Hard to believe that it lost "Best Picture" to Rocky in 1976!

Questioning the nature of good and evil.......2007-04-27

Viewing "Taxi Driver" for the first time recently I'm struck by the feeling that I'm seeing it out of context, and that it suffers by my comparison of it to more recent films rather than films that were its contemporaries. While "Taxi Driver" is a societal-cultural touchstone I never felt compelled to see it and having seen it now doubt I would rush back to see it again. That's not to say it's a bad film, but it is difficult viewing. Director Martin Scorsese certainly captures the nihilism, ambivalence, angst, dislocation, and malaise of the 1970s to a tee. Having grown up in that era, I remember that all too well, and in that respect "Taxi Driver" is a depressing drive down a memory lane I'd rather avoid. The characters also lack nuance or much depth: DeNiro's Travis Bickle is a stereotypical "damaged goods" Vietnam veteran (which I found profoundly insulting), Peter Boyle's Wizard is a hard-boiled, heat-packing NYC cabbie, Jodie Foster is an equally stereotyped drugged out/addled prostitute, and Harvey Kietel's pimp/hustler borders on an ugly ethnic stereotype you'd only find in a movie of this vintage. All border on two-dimensional caricatures and are almost over-the-top.

The thing that bothered me most (and perhaps that was Scorsese's intent) is the amoral ambivalence Scorsese presents here. Politicians are bland and interchangeable, uttering empty platitudes, government is the problem and the solution, Travis is a psycho and a hero. The movie is fairly drenched in shades of gray rather than the moral certainties of black and white - and perhaps that's Scorsese's intention. "Taxi Driver" was a departure from the Hollywood oeuvre that came before it with obvious heroes and villains. The end result is a movie that unsettles and causes us to question the nature of good and evil.

While "taxi Driver" is not a movie I'd care to see again anytime soon please don't misconstrue that to mean I didn't think it is not worth seeing, because everyone should see it. Out of context "Taxi Driver" is hard to sort out and feels more like camp or a send up of the whole 1970s genre of gratuitously violent films. "Taxi Driver" is far deeper than that as Scorsese forces us to move beyond our Manichean obsessions over the concepts of good and evil.

Never gets old........2007-04-12

One of my favorite films. Movie awesome; Scorsese awesome; DeNiro awesome. Everything about the movie...awesome. Other than the movie itself, the DVD extras are pretty interesting. I'm a movie buff, or a dork, so I like to watch the extras. The interviews were fun and learning about DeNiro's dedication to this movie and other movies was pretty cool.

You Talking To Me?!.......2007-03-19

This is my favorite movie of all time. Favorite Actor. Favorite Director. Great Score. New York City when it was N.Y.C. This film historically speaking is an archival documentary of a bygone era when neighborhoods like Clinton were known as Hell's Kitchen and the East Village was Alphabet City.
The main character, Travis Bickle is a lonely out of place Marine Vietnam Vet suffering from post-tramatic stress. He is the hero in the form of an isolated individual, running, running, always running. It is Robert DeNiro's finest performance.
The film also co-stars Harvey Keital as "Sport", a low level street pimp, the type you would like to punch but yet the best character in this film is not the late Peter Boyle as "The Wizard" or the sneak cameo appearance by Martin Scorsese himself but of "Handy Andy" the Traveling Salesman who pitches his salesman routine exquisively.
If there is ever to be made a Part II of Taxi Driver I would like to see it done soon. Perhaps the Broadway lights of the New Times Square will bring back the ghosts of 42nd Street.

Halloween H20 - 20 Years Later (Dimension Collector's Series)

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Jamie Lee Curtis returns to the film that made her a star
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"I'm not who you think I am." Halloween: H20 - 20 Years Later
Surprisingly good!

Halloween H20 - 20 Years Later (Dimension Collector's Series)
Starring: Adam Arkin , LL Cool J , Jamie Lee Curtis , Joseph Gordon-Levitt , and Adam Hann-Byrd
Director: Steve Miner
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ASIN: 6305291446
Release Date: 1999-10-19

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Halloween is one of the great modern horror films, but as a franchise its track record has been spotty at best, painfully bad at worst. Halloween H2O: Twenty Years Later, directed by horror vet Steve Miner (Friday the 13th parts 2 and 3, House), won't displace John Carpenter's original but it might help you forget the films in between. Miner certainly has: the film begins as if sequels 3 through 6 never happened. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis, reprising her role for the first time in almost two decades) faked her death and is now a single mom and headmistress of an exclusive California private school. She's also a secret alcoholic who lives in fear of her homicidal brother-bogeyman Michael Myers. Guess who decides to show up for a family reunion? The film begins with classic horror-movie exposition (the deserted college campus, Michael's escape, Laurie's waking nightmares) accomplished with some humor and style, but it's all setup for the second half, a driving roller coaster of stalk-and-slash thrills. There's little of the self-conscious genre referencing of Scream and at times the film is a little far-fetched--it is a slasher movie about a knife-wielding homicidal maniac who won't stay dead, after all--but Curtis transforms Laurie from a shrieking victim into an empowered, determined horror-movie heroine who's learned a thing or two from the previous films. Adam Arkin, Josh Hartnett, and TV cutie Michelle Williams (Dawson's Creek) costar, and the script received uncredited polish from Scream writer Kevin Williamson; Curtis's mom, Janet Leigh, pops up in a cameo. --Sean Axmaker

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This smart and suspenseful thriller scares up a bone-chilling good time with original scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis (TRUE LIES, HALLOWEEN I&II) and a hot cast of hip young stars! Now the headmistress of a private school, Laurie Strode (Curtis) is still struggling with the horrifying, 20-year-old memories of the maniacal killer Michael Myers ... when he suddenly reappears with a vengeance! And this Halloween, his terror will strike a whole new generation! Laurie's rebellious son (Josh Hartnett -- THE FACULTY), his girlfriend (Michelle Williams -- TV's DAWSON'S CREEK), and the school security guard (LL COOL J -- WOO, B.A.P.S.) will become Michael's newest victims unless Laurie can conquer her greatest fears and put evil in its place once and for all! The time has come again for you to experience the frightening fun of HALLOWEEN -- the motion picture series that totally redefined terror!

Customer Reviews:

AT LAST A SEQUEL WORTH WATCHING!.......2007-06-04

This entry into the halloween series is probably about as good as it is gonna get! After two really really bad installments(parts 5 and 6) we get a pretty darn good sequel "Halloween H20". The best thing about the movie is that Jamie Lee Curtis is back and it makes all the difference. I still don't understand why they keep changing Michael's mask? It looked great in the first movie...why fix what ain't broke? This movie is really a 3 and 1/2 star movie,but they don't have that option. The DVD transfer is good,but I would like to see a 16X9 upgrade someday.

Jamie Lee Curtis returns to the film that made her a star.......2007-05-20

In HALLOWEEN H20, Jamie Lee Curtis returns to the film franchise which made her a star. This is probably the best entry since "Halloween II", in terms of performances and the fact that Jamie Lee Curtis is back as terrorised Laurie Strode. To properly enjoy this film, you have to disregard the 4th, 5th, and 6th films which featured Laurie's daughter, Jamie Lloyd. There is no daughter here, instead we have Laurie's son John (played by Josh Hartnett).

The film picks up 20 years to the day of the original Haddonfield slayings. With a new name and persona, Laurie Strode is the headmistress of a private school in Southern California, yet still living with the daily terror of her past literally coming back to haunt her. Sadistic, unstoppable Michael Myers has tracked down her records and decides a little family reunion is needed, but this time, Laurie vows to ensure it will be the final showdown...

Jamie Lee Curtis perfectly slips back into the role of Laurie, and the rest of the cast is equally fine, including Jamie's legendary mother (Janet Leigh, "Psycho") in a fun cameo as the school receptionist, Josh Hartnett as her son, and Adam Arkin as her boyfriend. There are some brilliant set-ups and action scenes, and the tension is taut.

HALLOWEEN H20 originally set out to close the chapter on Laurie and Michael, but the franchise has continued with "Halloween: Resurrection", again with Jamie Lee Curtis.

Halloween H20-TwentyYears Later-Zsendsational movie-still.......2007-05-15

The cast of actors-charactors blend in so well with suspense-its just unbelievable. Ms.Jamie Lee Curtis and the cameo appearance of her mother working together is very nice to see-and historical (Ms. Lana Turner was in the orginial movie of the notorious thriller, "PSYCHO") and her appearance really contribute to the suspense to the movie-Halloween H20. And seeing LL Cool J acting, WOW! Mr. LL Cool J is a multi-talented performer-he can do it all! I just love this movie.

"I'm not who you think I am." Halloween: H20 - 20 Years Later.......2007-05-13

In 1998, Director Steve Minor put his stamp on the Halloween series. This is the entry, the sequel everyone was looking forward to, the return of Jamie Lee Curtis and when Laurie and Michael see each other again. "I'm not who you think I am." is exactly right, it truely is a great sequel even though it is part 7.

Laurie has a 17 year old son and she is the headmistress of a secluded private boarding school. 20 years after he first attacked her he came back, she thinks her son is the one in danger, he is, but she has more to fear than her son's life. Laurie stops running and faces her fear in the most amazing ending the series has ever seen.

Note that this movie completely ignores parts 3-6 so continuity for this entry as part of the series is completely screwed up. The acting is extra ordinary in this entry, the best acting in the entire series comes from this entry. Jamie gives her strongest performance as Lauries in this entry. And unlike the previous two entries Michael is top notch in this entry, Michael is really scary.

This entry doesn't suffer from much asside from giving LL Cool J a role this entry soars on all levels. The ending where she attempts to grab his hand is the most emotional part of the series.

The bonus feature "Unmasking the Horror" is very informative, but again, Jamie sounds like an idiot in her interviews and everyone else sounds smarter than her which is the exact opposite as on film where she appears to be the smartest person on screen.

In conclusion, this is the definitive ending to one of the longest running horror series. This entry has an A list cast and some great scares. Too bad the series continued on and on and on...

Surprisingly good!.......2007-04-12

I liked it! While nothing can top John Carpenter's original Halloween -- sequels and remakes almost always fall short of our expectations -- H20 is suspensful and good, and the musical score includes a variation of John Carpenter's classic, errie theme as a reminder. Jamie Lee Curtis brings class and authenticity to the film, which is almost as scary as the original Halloween. The film's vibe succeeds without too much gratutious sex and gore, and keeps you on the edge until the end. I agree with the other reviewers who didn't like the other cheap sequels after Halloween II ... they just didn't have the same vibe as the first two films with Jamie Lee. This one is a worthy addition to anyone's Halloween collection.

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Great Thriller
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pretty scary
Scream
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ASIN: 630521610X
Release Date: 1998-12-08

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With the smash hit Scream, novice screenwriter Kevin Williamson and veteran horror director Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street) revived the moldering corpse of the teen horror picture, both creatively and commercially, by playfully acknowledging the exhausted clichés and then turning them inside out. Scream is a postmodern slasher movie, a horror film that cleverly deconstructs horror films, then reassembles the dead tissue, and (like Frankenstein's monster) creates new life. When a serial killer starts hacking up their fellow teens, the media-savvy youngsters of Scream realize that the smartest way of sticking around for the sequel is to avoid the terminal behaviors that inevitably doom supporting players in the movies. They've seen all the movies, and the rules of the genre are like second nature to them. One of the scariest/funniest setups features a kid watching John Carpenter's seminal Halloween on video. As Jamie Lee Curtis is shadowed by Michael Meyers and the kid on the couch yells at her to turn around, Craven reverses his camera and we see that the kid should be taking his own advice. The fresh-faced young cast (including Drew Barrymore, Neve Campbell, Skeet Ulrich, Courtney Cox, and David Arquette) is fun to watch, and their tart dialogue is sprinkled with enough archly self-conscious pop-culture references to make Quentin Tarantino blush. --Jim Emerson

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A crowd-pleasing smash hit with a sizzling cast -- critics are calling SCREAM the hippest thriller of the year! Afer a series of mysterious deaths, a seemingly peaceful community becomes a place where no one is safe ... and everyone is suspect! That's when an offbeat group of friends rally to unlock the town's deadly secrets ... and get caught up in a lively mix of thrills, chills, and surprises! With hot stars Drew Barrymore (CHARLIE'S ANGELS), Courteney Cox (TV's FRIENDS), Neve Campbell (54), Skeet Ulrich (AS GOOD AS IT GETS), and David Arquette (BEAUTIFUL GIRLS).

Customer Reviews:

Great Thriller.......2007-06-17

A great thriller, though extremely cheesy. I'm not a very conservative person, but I was surprised by the amount of swear words. As usual, the special "collector's edition" extras are nothing special.

"There are certain RULES that one must abide by in order to survive a horror movie...".......2007-05-23

By the mid-'90s, the teen slasher genre seemed utterly played out. But in 1996, a seemingly unlikely figure helped resurrect the genre. That man was director Wes Craven, the horror maestro who had himself been largely responsible for kickstarting the genre in the '80s with the classic "A Nightmare On Elm Street" (1984). A dozen years later, he directed a new classic called "Scream." Written by Kevin Williamson ("Dawson's Creek"), it's a self-referential horror film/satire that's both terrifying and hilarious.

Craven had actually written and delivered another self-referential, postmodern take on the teen horror genre two years earlier, with "New Nightmare." But since that film was the seventh installment in the left-for-dead Elm Street series, it was largely overlooked. "Scream," on the other hand, boasted a new story line, more laughs and a hot young cast, and it quickly became a hit with critics and audiences.

Neve Campbell plays Sidney Prescott, a teenage girl still coping with the violent death of her mother a year earlier. Now, a deranged killer is offing her classmates and other members of the community. Worse, the murderer's got his eye set on Sidney, terrorizing her with a series of creepy phone calls. A tabloid reporter (Courtney Cox) thinks the current serial killer may be the same person who murdered Sidney's mom.

Sidney's friends try to comfort her by cracking wise about horror films and offering advice on how she can avoid becoming the killer's latest victim. It may not sound helpful, but it's better than leaving herself in the hands of bumbling Deputy Dwight Riley (the perpetually annoying David Arquette). In the end, everyone is a suspect, and Sidney races to find the killer's identity and save her life.

"Scream" succeeds as both a satire and a horror film. Williamson's excellent script tweaks every scary movie cliche and asks the question every horror buff wants to know: Why, when the heroine is being chased by the killer, does she run up the stairs instead of out the front door? It's a blast to watch the film's characters talk horror, even as they're being stalked by the killer.

Of course, the humorous self-referencing wouldn't be nearly as fun if the movie wasn't damn scary in its own right. With a petrifying opening sequence, Craven immediately establishes that he hasn't lost his touch for delivering scares. Ferociously acted by Drew Barrymore -- giving perhaps her finest performance to date -- it's guaranteed to leave you whimpering.

From there, the laughs and scares come fast and furious and don't stop 'till the film's knockout finale. While "Scream" did regrettably spawn a slew of weak imitations (including its own limp sequels), the original is a scary treat you don't want to miss.

pretty scary .......2007-05-07

This movie is so scary. I love drew barrymore and neve campbell. they are great actresses. Too bad drew's character casey is so short-lived in the movie. overall, a great scary movie. I just love slasher movies. Scream 2 is great too.

Scream.......2007-05-03

Scream is the best scary movie I've ever seen.My favorite part of the whole movie was of course the opening seen.I mean, Drew Barrymore did a
really good job in the scene.It was about 12 minutes of her and the killer
playing cat and mouse, it was really cool.And I also like the ending because it's where they have the two killers and Sidney.And it just ended in a real bloodbath.So seriously, watch this movie

Scream DVD.......2007-02-21

I was one of the fortunate to view all three flicks at the cinema. This is definitely the best one of them all. There is just one issue that this DVD is lacking from the rest: WHY ISN'T THIS DVD ENHANCED FOR WIDESCREEN PRESENTATIONS ON 16:9 TELEVISIONS LIKE THE OTHER ONES ARE?

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Coffy
Exploitation at its best
Foxy Brown
Thank you Pam for a Blaxploitation classic!
My Favorite Movie...

Coffy
Starring: Pam Grier , Booker Bradshaw , Robert DoQui , William Elliott (II) , and Allan Arbus
Director: Jack Hill
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Release Date: 2001-01-09

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In the opening minutes of Coffy, Pam Grier's star-making role, she blasts the skull of a sleazy drug pusher into pulp like a watermelon and shoots his junkie assistant with an overdose of heroin. Jack Hill knows how to open a movie, and he never lets up on the down-and-dirty action. Coffy is an emergency room nurse by day and vigilante by night, targeting the dealers who made her sister a comatose junkie. She works her way up to the Italian mobsters muscling into the ghetto drug trade while she's romanced by glib, smooth-talking politician Booker Bradshaw and wooed by nice-guy cop William Elliot, whose refusal to sell out to the corrupt force earns him a crippling beating.

There's plenty of sex, a catty girl-fight that leaves the losers topless, and car chases and shootouts galore, but what makes Coffy a blaxploitation classic is Grier's Amazonian presence and fiery charisma, and the gritty, low-budget action scenes marked by visceral, wincing violence. Mob strong-arm Sid Haig (Spider Baby) cackles while dragging his victim (a strutting peacock pimp played by Nashville's Robert DoQui) behind a speeding car in a sadistic lynching, and Grier runs down one bad guy with a speeding car and takes care of another with a shotgun to the groin. Hill had previously directed Grier in The Big Doll House and The Big Bird Cage. Their next and last picture together, Foxy Brown, was originally written as the sequel to Coffy. --Sean Axmaker

Description

She's the ultimate tough and sexy heroine. She's Soul Cinema superstar Pam Grier, and whether delivering her justice with a shotgun, a razor or just her bare hands, she doesn't miss a beat in this "smashing, no-holds-barred tale of retaliation" (Variety)! Nobody ever commandeered the screen quite like Pam Grier...and Coffy "couldn't be better! [It's] one of the most entertaining movies ever made"(Quentin Tarantino)! Grier is Coffy, nurse by day and avenging angel by night. When she discovers that her little sister has been doped upand freaked outby a greedy drug pusher, she not only puts an end to his miserable days, but she vows to follow his trail of corruption up to the topthe very top. But what Coffy doesn't realize is that all is not as it seemsand that the leafy green behind the pushers' scene just may come from someone she knows!

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Coffy .......2007-05-11

This movie is one of the first big movies
of the Blaxploitation "movement." It's
also the one that made Pam Grier a household
name. Originally, this movie was created as box-office competiton
for "Cleopatra Jones," but what resulted was a soul cinema
classic for the ages.

As always, the plot is simple. Pam Grier plays a nurse whose
young sister suffers a near fatal overdose thanks to a
local pusher. Coffy's reaction (in grand Blaxploitation style)
is to eliminate the pusher and everyone in proximity to him.
She resorts to various means to infiltrate the
system, locate the main culprits, and dispose of them with
a firey vengeance. We're taken on an entertaining blood ride
of costumes, clever weaponry, cat fights, and colorful accents
(one of the highlights is Grier's totally unconvincing Jamaican
accent, which dies away before the end of the scene and is never
heard from again. LOL. I'm pretty sure the director was thinking that Pam Grier in a bikini
is convincing enough to sell sun tan lotion to an Eskimo ). The customary nudity, too, is well displayed.

This film is a great time. I highly recommend it.
The standard blaxploitation disclaimer must be given: If you're looking
for profound, thought provoking cinema, keep looking. If you're
in the market for a good time, Coffy's the gal for you.

Exploitation at its best .......2007-04-02

Pam Grier is Coffy, a young nurse seeking vengeance against the drug peddlers she blames for her sister's death. She uses her feminine wiles, which are indeed ample, to gain access to the dealers. Her ultimate target is the powerful Arturo Vitroni, played deliciously by Allan Arbus. Along the way, Coffy comes to realize the business is not such a straight-forward, simple matter. If one knows what to expect from this film and has the desire to watch it, this is a caffeinated jolt of fantastic fun. Conservative folks, who find gratuitous nudity, profanity and violence offensive, will likely want to steer clear of this one. The soundtrack, which features music by Roy Ayers, is noteworthy. The DVD has a very good, widescreen transfer as well as commentary by the director, Jack Hill, and an original trailer for the film.

Foxy Brown.......2007-03-09

Angelina Jolie has nothin on Pam Grier. Now you know what the real Ancient Egyptian women looked like. her beauty alone makes the movie.

Thank you Pam for a Blaxploitation classic!.......2006-10-03

Maxim magazine lists Coffy as number 7 on its list of the 50 best B-movies of all time, and there can clearly be no mistake about its status as a B-movie. Pam Grier shines in this hilarious action-packed blaxploitation flick where she first got her name as a 'black pin-up queen' during the early 70's. It is apparent after watching this film that no one remembers this for the bad-acting and dialogue, but for Pam Grier herself she is one mean sister.

This movie SCREAMS 'early 70's', from the afro wigs to the awesome outfits Coffy finds herself wearing whether it be at a gala for call girls or when she's undercover to kick some drug-dealer's nasty behind!

This brilliant film mixes comedy right in there with the action. From the campy catfight scenes when Coffy dumps a salad bowl onto a blonde girl's head, to when King George makes his first appearance and steps out of his car in his pimp outfit, complete right down to the feather in his hat!!! Just seeing Coffy smash a wine bottle on a table to defend herself against a crack head wielding a knife is riotous enough and also goes old school by putting razor blades in her hair!!! The action is fairly consistent. There are a lot of guns firing off and endless catfights.

But every time Coffy appears on screen and you just KNOW that some bad stuff is about to go down, you know that you're going to be taken for a fun ride! As I mentioned above, no one is watching this movie for an Oscar-nominated performance or even a decent soundtrack (the "Coffy" theme sung by the Gladys Knight & The Pips-wannabes halfway through the movie is timeless!!!) - You're there to be entertained... and entertained is what you'll get, guaranteed. This is one movie where you don't have to be drunk to enjoy it.

My Favorite Movie..........2006-01-05

This is probably my all-time favorite film, and I think it's because everything seems to work right: the atmosphere, the music(especially the title song "Coffy" with the classic refrain "Coffy is the color/Of her skin"), the gags, the actors, Pam Grier, everything. I especially like director Hill's choice to film some of the sleeziest parts of Los Angeles in order to tell the story; we see Watts, downtown, Malibu.

I recommend this film to everybody, as it's the kind of movie you put on for people, and, no matter what their movie taste is like, they always walk away enjoying "Coffy."

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The terrible future nestled behind doors
AHHHHHHHHHHH
Eerie and haunting nightmare
Tragically beautiful film showcasing a great filmmaker
Bowling With Gus

Elephant: A Film By Gus Van Sant
Starring: Alex Frost , Eric Deulen , John Robinson (IX) , Elias McConnell , and Jordan Taylor (II)
Director: Gus Van Sant
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Release Date: 2004-05-04

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Elephant, the elegant and unsettling movie from Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting), depicts students at a high school before and during a harrowing, Columbine-style shooting. The movie follows one young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch, then loops back in time and follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then loops back and follows another--all captured in long, unedited tracking shots that are serene and unhurried, even when two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, arrive at the school and begin shooting. Elephant doesn't attempt to explain their behavior; it simply places the audience back in the brief yet interminable window of adolescence, when life is trivial and painfully important at the same time. Your reaction to Elephant will depend as much on your life experiences as anything in the movie itself. --Bret Fetzer

Description

Winner of the Palme d'Or and Best Director prizes at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Gus Van Sant's (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester) Elephant takes us inside an American high school on one, single ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. Elephant demonstrates that high school life is a complex landscape where the vitality and beauty of young lives can shift from light to darkness with surreal speed. It's an ordinary high school day. Except that it's not.

DVD Features:
Featurette:On the Set of Elephant: "Rolling Through Time"
Full Screen Version
TV Spot:HBO Films Spot
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

The terrible future nestled behind doors.......2007-06-11

Gus van Saint surprised to many people with this singular picture that explores with crude realism the frivolity, hopeless and miscarriage existence of two teenagers who assume the world is like a video game when you can kill and win points. After a extremely slow introductory section that consummates three quarter parts of the film, we may realize how the troubled mind of these young murderers take over their ambitious plans.

There is explicit violence and for many viewers may become unbearable. For many reasons that you and me are aware I would like you to watch in presence f your children for trying to avoid this movie might be regarded a cult movie like "Natural born killers" achieving a distorted pattern's behavior.

Brutal and devastating, not for squeamish.

AHHHHHHHHHHH.......2007-06-03

WARNING STAY AWAY, HORRIBLE MOVIE. If you like watching people walking around and doing nothing for over an hour, then this movie is for you. This was honestly the worse movie that I have ever seen, and I have seen a lot of movies.

Eerie and haunting nightmare.......2007-04-28

This film gives no explanation, no backstory, and no judgment as it presents a Columbine-esque tragedy at a high school: two boys plan to shoot as many people as they can on a regular afternoon when everyone is going about their business and nobody sees it coming. Here's an example of tracking shots that actually work in their extended form. You focus entirely on one person as that person goes through the mundane high school life: cafeteria, classroom, library, photo development, gossip, and the emotionless planning of the massacre too. Also an intriguing example of multiple versions of the same scenes as the focus shifts from one character to another.

Tragically beautiful film showcasing a great filmmaker.......2007-04-25

Elephant is an understated, incredibly haunting film account of how the day of the Columbine shootings might have progressed.

With long, amazingly detailed and subtle steadicam shots (most several minutes in length), director Gus Van Sant follows his cast of characters through their typical daily school lives. Although some reviewers may call this tactic "boring", I think they're missing the point entirely. This isn't a subject or a story that requires quick cuts and shaky character development to tell.

What Van Sant manages to do is to show, in a beautifully tragic way, just how ordinary the school day was, and how surprising and explosive the events really were or could be.

Following the long shots, at several points overlapping from different angles and different characters, the audience begins to create a visual image of all the activity occuring on a school campus at any given time. The understated performances by all the young actors add another layer of perfection to the film by making it all feel painfully realistic.

When the shooting finally does start, in the last 10 minutes of the film, it's almost like the viewer has been lulled into a false sense of security, much like the students in the school have been. Overall, this film is terrifically and tastefully done and it's definitely worth watching whether you're interested in Columbine or not. Elephant is just good filmmaking.

The DVD is 2-sided with the feature on one side and special features on the other. The special features are pretty weak. There's a making of featurette, but it's pretty much the worst making of I've ever seen. There's no discussion from the director on what he was trying to do or say, there's a few different cast members describing what their definition of violence is... other than that it's just shots of them making the film.

Bowling With Gus.......2007-03-23

A fairly tedious exercise of particularly contentious issues which deserves far more committed, engaged behaviour from its director, Van Sant. The unfolding of the pointless mayhem is told in interweaving, elegant hand held camera style, all very collegiate in concept, and, really, in intellectual content. Van sant falls for the old gag of content being held in contempt by form, or art for art's sake. Dangerous stuff when you play a nihilistic hand in dealing with nihilistic, adolescent behaviour. There simply isn't sufficient depth, no explanatory power in this cheap entertainment. Get the scene of the killer kids lounging in the bedroom. Blondey looks at his computer game which displays rear-view figures and takes them out in turn. Camera swings to rear view of actual conspirator buddy and lover, also from rear and displaying identical anonymity as the game. All too easy a swing here, Gus. Get real.

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A must-see for fans of the genre!
Very entertaining and humorous horror flick
Brilliant movie!
An over-the-top romance featuring Patricia, Johnny and big, sharp knives, with a fine Michael J. Fox and lots of special effects
Funny and Scary

The Frighteners (Director's Cut)
Starring: Trini Alvarado , John Astin , Jonathan Blick , Angela Bloomfield , and Jake Busey
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Release Date: 2005-11-29

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One movie lover's nightmare is another's raucous joyride, and this special effects-laden horror comedy is bound to split both camps right down the middle. (Or, as Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide puts it, "definitely not for all tastes but a wild time for those who get into it.") Michael J. Fox plays a psychic investigator who can actually see ghosts, and lives with a trio of undead spirits who scare people to promote Fox's ghost-busting business. In a town infamous for serial killings, a new series of deaths prompts Fox to induce his own out-of-body experience so he can battle death in a spirit-plagued netherworld where evil reigns supreme--or something like that. So much happens in this chaotic film that you might feel like you're watching several movies at once--a slasher pic, a supernatural thriller, and a black comedy all rolled into a nonstop showcase for grisly makeup and a dozen varieties of special effects. It's an odd but wildly inventive film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson, who earned critical acclaim for his previous film Heavenly Creatures and would later create the ingenious pseudo-documentary Forgotten Silver. --Jeff Shannon

Customer Reviews:

A must-see for fans of the genre!.......2007-06-04

This is one of the most entertaining horror flicks of all time! It has humor, horror and great effects that make it a compelling & fun movie. Michael J Fox plays Frank Bannister, who claims to be able to see ghosts and ekes out a living by chasing ghosts out of homes. In actuality, he has a couple of ghosts working for him, and he sends them off to unsuspecting victims homes where for a fee, he 'exorcises' the homes. The story picks up when Frank senses some ghostly activity that is not of his doing, and tries to figure things out. The characters are all well-fleshed out, and the effects are just spectacular. A great blend of humor and horror!

Very entertaining and humorous horror flick.......2007-04-05

This movie was alot of fun from start to finish. It was very brilliant and very humorous story. The commentary in the beginning of this movie by the director gives a little history about this movie and others about the special effects. A person just seeing this movie would not think about how much effort goes into a movie like this until you are told about it. Michael J. Fox gives an outstanding performance as the "paranormal researcher and exorcist". This is not a scarey horror movie, instead it is a very funny, alot of laughs kind of horror movie. I highly recommend this movie that really likes alot of fun in horror movies.

Brilliant movie! .......2007-02-20

The Frighteners is a thrilling, entertaining and overall great movie! I loved the characters, and would definitly recomend this movie.

An over-the-top romance featuring Patricia, Johnny and big, sharp knives, with a fine Michael J. Fox and lots of special effects.......2007-02-20

The room was full. Almost everybody had filled their white styrofoam cups with black coffee and had taken their seats. When I finally got the nerve to stand I felt so self-conscious I wanted to crawl under my chair. "My name is Charley DeRiemer," I finally said, "and...I...uh...I'm a fan of...uh...The Frighteners."

But I'm disappointed in a lot of it, too. This horror-comedy has too much humor and wit and not enough cheese to qualify as a cult flick. All the film's Computer Generated Flatulence, for me, eventually loses impact. The CGF so clutters up the story-line, which already is complicated, that I think Peter Jackson, the director, must have fallen in love with his computer toys and forgotten there was a story to tell. It doesn't help that while most of the movie is over-the-top funny, the last part sinks into to an old-fashioned scare-um gore-fest without cleverness, just Jake Busey grinning with a lot of teeth and people jumping out with big knives in their hands. So why is this movie so likable?

First, most of the time the script is funny and clever. Second, several of the sequences manage to create a great blend of humor, raunchiness, special effects and drama (the funeral and cemetery, the museum party in the Egyptian wing) or a real jolt of dread and foreboding (Lucy in the mansion with Patricia Ann, the beginning of the psychiatric hospital scene). Third, the movie has some fine, grotesque acting that is weird and unsettling (Jeffrey Coombs, Dee Wallace, Jake Busey) or weird and funny (John Astin, Chi McBride, Peter Dobson). Fourth, you can't beat a love story that reaches beyond death into eternal devotion. For Patricia (Dee Wallace) and Johnny (Jake Busey), love is forever and means never having to say you're sorry. Fifth, and to my mind most importantly, it has Michael J. Fox as Frank Bannister. Fox has the personality and star firepower to be able to turn a typical nice-guy character into a man we really like. Fox has been a master in portraying flawed, vulnerable nice guys we almost instantly sympathize with. It's a rare talent. For me, he manages most of the time to overcome the continual show-off intrusion of all that Computer Generated Overkill. The exception is when he's involved with a massive tube to heaven that looks like a Slinky on steroids. When he's on screen, even when he's enmeshed with silly blue-screen aerobics, he makes the film human and grounded. It's a shame Jackson had all that money and all those computers to play with. He didn't really need them. Just watch how he builds dread when Lucy arrives at the creepy old mansion to whisk Patricia away to safety. It's one of the best, most skillful scenes in the movie, and there's hardly a computer effect to be seen until the last of it...when the dread and suspense are swept out and the "wow" stuff is swept in.

There's a lot of great stuff in this comedy about serial killers, demonic possession and a scamming psychic investigator who brings along his own ghosts. There's a lot to be frustrated by, too. For the most part, I just use my fast-forward button now and them. I do like the movie even with its faults. Now if only someone would make, "Johnny and Patricia versus Mommy and Daddy," featuring the knife-wielding Mommy and leather-suited Daddy from The People Under the Stairs. That would make a tag-team match worth watching.

The original, basic DVD has the 110-minute theatrical release. There is a director's cut at 122-minutes which was probably the brainchild of the production company's marketing department, division of double-dips development. The DVD transfer looks just fine.

Funny and Scary.......2007-01-04

This has got to be the best Michael J. Fox movie I have ever seen (and I love M.J.Fox) .
This movie has it all, Scares!Laughs! Romance!
The Ghost are great.
I could watch this movie every day.
I watch alot of movies and I own alot of them.
This is one of the few that I have on both VHS & DVD.
I have the original and the Directors cut.
The extras are great.
If you like Michael J. Fox movie's you will love this one,
Even if you don't like his movies this is a must see for Horror fans and Comedy lovers a like. Enjoy!!!

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Like a train wreck in slow motion
Pulls no punches
...powerful rape murder chaos...
Gritty isn't always good.
Very good

Baise-Moi
Starring: Karen Lancaume , Raffaëla Anderson , Céline Beugnot , Adama Niane , and Christophe Claudy Landry
Director: Virginie Despentes , and Coralie
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Not for the faint-hearted. Baise-Moi defies categories--it features pornographic sex scenes and violent shootings, but it won't fit anyone's definition of an erotic thriller. After separately committing murders, two French women join together in a spree of crime and sex. Because both have endured abuse at the hands of men, the movie seems to start as a self-righteous parable--but the women's actions quickly degenerate into amoral, near random killings, with women shot as casually as men. One reviewer described Baise-Moi as "Thelma & Louise with actual penetration," but it's actually Thelma & Louise without Hollywood sentiment. By refusing to condemn or justify the protagonists' actions, and by depicting both sex and violence with unglamorous realism, Baise-Moi forces the viewer to respond in the most contradictory and basic ways. You may find the lead characters surprisingly sympathetic. Jarring, unsettling, and well worth watching. --Bret Fetzer

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Banned in France, this Film Based on the Novel by Virginie Despentes Has Been Described as 'thelma and Louise' Without the Penetration. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly Says Baise Moi is "Graphic, Hardcore, the Most Ungussied Expression of Female Sexual Rage Ever Thrown Up Onscreen!" this is the Story of Manu, who is Brutally Raped, and Nadine who Sees her Only Friend Shot. United by Chance, They Begin a Journey Filled with Sexual Rage. Not Your Typical Road Trip Movie!

Customer Reviews:

Like a train wreck in slow motion.......2007-06-10

I found it intriguing that Karen Lancaume later committed suicide, which may offer some insight into the lives of the characters in the film. The film appears to have been made by the types of characters it depicts, there is a strong sense of numbness and desperation. The main characters are disconnected. It's ironic the film makers decided to exploit the actresses in a film about two women who rage against their own exploitation. Scenes come across as forced, literally and figuratively, and there is constant music throughout, possibly to trick you into thinking you're watching something worthwhile. The soundtrack is pretty good. The film quality is poor, the "porn" scenes are very brief and unerotic, and the acting is unconvincing. I had a much more enjoyable time watching the uncut version of Doom Generation.

Pulls no punches.......2007-04-30

This is a well-acted film that doesn't pull the punches when depicting sex scenes. This makes the film all the more striking. A woman is raped and we see the actual penetration, the spit used for lubrication and the like.

Scenes like this might appear in porno flicks, but here they serve to show it as it really is, not a fade out or left to our imagination.

If REAL sex- close up- offends you, don't get this film. But if you want to see what a movie can be with no cut scenes and the betrayal of sex close up and often brutal, see it!

...powerful rape murder chaos..........2007-04-15

as all others have noted it is a pretty hardcore movie one that you are never sure how others will react to it... it has recieved both good and negative reviews... I quite enjoyed its frank honest brutal portrayal of violence and sex...it does at times feel like a porn movie with all its explicit sex scenes including male masturbation, fellatio, cunnilingus and actual intercourse(vaginal penetration)...the rape scene was brutal but very realistic and the ensuing violence graphic and uncompromiising...it is definetly not a movie for everyone...not erotic or sensual...but for fans of graphic sex and violence this might be up your alley...

Gritty isn't always good........2007-01-31

Gritty, really gritty films are a rarity in mainstream film. Not that this film is mainstream mind you, it's an independent punk film that means to shock, and it does to a degree. Now in all fairness, gritty isn't easy to do, and this film has its share of shortcomings.

Altogether it felt very amateur. At times I couldn't help but feel like I was watching a b-movie. The cinematography is lacking and the dialogue is lame in most scenes. After a strong opening (the rape scene), I found myself getting bored about 30 minutes in, but it did pick up near the end. A somewhat diverse punk soundtrack helps to keep this film together.

Some are saying "this is an important film and must be seen," but I disagree. In this case Hollywood did it better than these indie filmmakers, art house loses and Thelma and Louise wins. Thelma and Louise was maybe not so much a pure expression of feminist anger, but it still does a good job of putting the woman in the position of power, and kept the audience smiling throughout. Baise-Moi puts the female in a physical and sexual place of power, and does it very explicitly. In short, gritty doesn't always mean better.

Very good.......2007-01-04

I THINK THIS MOVIE WILL HURT A VERY SENSITIVE FEELINGS, BUT IF YOU ARE READY TO SEE EVERYTHING THEN THIS MOVIE IS FOR YOU. I WILL EVEN THINK THIS IS THE KIND OF EROTIC MOVIE TO WATCH WITH YOUR HUSBAND ON A RAINY NIGHT.

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surprise ending
I love this film
good cult flick
Yup, its a crazy one allright.
loved it!

The Doom Generation
Starring: James Duval , Rose McGowan , Johnathon Schaech , Cress Williams , and Nivek Ogre
Director: Gregg Araki
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Release Date: 1998-08-05

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Made for a fraction of the cost of Oliver Stone's similarly themed Natural Born Killers, Gregg Araki's The Doom Generation is more persuasively outragous in its cultural satire, scarier in its violence, and more profound in its vision of a hate-fueled, media-drunk America seemingly determined to eat its young and dwell stupidly on their vengeance. Rose McGowan (Scream), James Duval (Nowhere), and Johnathon Schaech (That Thing You Do!) star as a trio of friends (Schaech's character actually being a complete stranger who steps into their car and into their lives one club-hopping night) who end up on a sex-and-crime spree that draws the fixed stare of television coverage. Araki makes a case for their continuing innocence in a society whose anti-outsider malevolence is barely disguised in the media but is quite naked out in the heartland, where a punishing level of bigotry is not unknown. Araki's jokes and techniques are crude yet forceful, and his anger is absolutely clear where Stone's was obscured and overreaching. The climax is among the most shattering and enraged scenes of '90s cinema. The DVD includes cast information, a theatrical trailer, and French and Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

surprise ending.......2007-06-18

didn't like it, blood didn't look real, i'd pass

I love this film.......2007-05-16

I must first admit that I picked up this film because James Duval is a total stud, but it turned out to be a really good and interesting film.

good cult flick.......2007-05-16

This was a good film although a bit disturbing with the nature of the actors in the movie. I did enjoy the somewhat constant "fear" of the main character being caught and the loss of innocense.

Yup, its a crazy one allright........2007-03-24

Yeah, I saw this movie when it came out NC-17. Yeah, I was like 17, I was disturbed, it was a cold February night downtown, my key broke off in my door and I had to pay a tow truck driver to tow me 55 mile home. The part with Perry at the counter and Skinny Puppy in the warehouse will live with me forever, as that night that I originally saw it will. It is simply a good example of nouveau avant garde filmaking. Kind of experimental. There were many art house films in the early to mid ninties that would definitly make your stomach turn, but that was the beauty of these movies, the total, unmistakable catharsis.

loved it!.......2006-11-07

If you are a fan of Gregg Arraki, watch this movie! Roce McGowan and James Duval did a great job. Not to be watched by those that can't expand their minds beyond the box...

Average customer rating:

Good film but I thought there were a few flaws
"God will forgive them, He'll forgive them and allow them into Heaven, I can't live with that."
A masterpiece
Wish they had 6 stars
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