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Not only is this the most controversial movie of its time, this may turn up to be one of the most controversial (but not confrontational -) reviews of the page. You have heard my personal review and verbal promotion for the past few years, since before the film even came out (due to the Special Effects team that was involved). This is the film in which all fans who know me personally have been waiting for. Hell-o, Gore Maggots of the extreme and boundary pushing puss heads. Starring: Jade Risser, Sven Garrett, Valerie Baber, Fred Vogel, Christi Wiles, Jerami Cruise, Tony Todd, Gunnar Hansen, Ed O’ Neil and Cerina Vincent
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When a Las Vegas fashion photographer (Sven Garrett) develops a penchant for murder, the body count rises swiftly and steadily as the shutterbug killer manages to deceive just about everyone he encounters - everyone, that is, but an 11-year-old girl - in this film notable for its heaping helping of gore and sadism. It's clearly the writing that is at fault here, which again lays the blame at Palumbo's feet.Sin City makes an appropriate setting for this over-the-top slasher/sexploitation flick from writer-director Nick Palumbo. Obviously Hodder and Todd are fantastic actors, and have had many classic characters in the horror movie pantheon. Of course, with writing this lazy, there's no reason to expect that we'd get accurate quotes. The killer then says "In my mind's eye, I light fires in your cities." This is a loose paraphrase of one of Charles Manson's quotes, "In my mind's eye my thoughts light fires in your cities," which is much, much creepier. Tony Todd then yells at The Photographer because he's asking for a snuff film in an adult bookstore, because, obviously, that's not something that someone would actually do. You plug your other film inside this film? And sell it as a snuff film? Seriously, dude, get a grip. Seriously, what a lazy piece of writing and filmmaking. Todd runs an adult bookstore, which the main character visits to look for "a real snuff film." Which snuff film, in particular? Wonder upon wonders, its director Nick Palumbo's previous effort, Nutbag! Which, of course, is so "disturbingly real" that its a real snuff film. Hodder is a Nazi, because reasons, and is really more of a cameo than a character. Kane Hodder (F13) and Tony Todd (Candyman) were also in this movie (which gives me great hope that I can get them to come to my birthday party).
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To her credit, she at least tried to get out from under the wheels of this struggle bus. One of the actresses in the film, Cerina Vincent, actually asked to have her part cut from the movie upon learning all of the details, which was of course denied. This is hardly explained, of course, as is most of the plot. The Photographer (the only name we're given for the main character) would randomly scream things in German, because apparently he was the descendant of a Nazi. The actors did not have much to work with: this film had one of the worst scripts I've ever seen in a film. The film itself was awful on its own merits. Now, this has nothing to do with the film itself, it just strikes me that if you have to lie about your film to sell it, that should tell you something. Now, I can't vouch for the veracity of all of these claims, but there are too many to be completely untrue, and from what I've read from the director's actual correspondence, I tend to believe most, if not all, of these reports. Some reports I read actually stated that Palumbo threatened people on various boards, and actually called the police to get one of them shut down due to unsatisfactory reviews. In fact, from what I've seen in my own research, most of the positive "reviews" of the film come directly from the director or someone who is obviously a shill. Another fun fact: Apparently, in the lead up to the film's release, he and his promoters were banned from pretty much every major horror message board for bashing other films, trolling and insulting users, and writing fake reviews for their own blurbs. The only mentions that I could find about the film's previous rating was from director Nick Palumbo himself (or people that sounded like Palumbo representatives).
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The tagline for the movie on IMDB is "Prepare yourself for the first American NC-17 horror film." However, according to the movie's trivia section on IMDB, the film never received that rating.