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And at 30 meters:
deliverance.
They are menaced by scary hillbillies, in a wide nod to
'Deliverance'
; but it turns out that the hicks are fronting for a Northern marijuana-trafficking badass.
Perhaps it was the large-print blurb from Ain't It Cool News on the ads that caused me to approach the film with some trepidation (it seems that Harry Knowles and his minions will approve of any film for VIP passes and free food), but "Hatchet" makes me question what writer-director Adam Green's idea of "old school American horror" really is: based on the evidence here, it means the insipid, late-'80s rip-offs of "Friday the 13th" and "Deliverance."
Silly and violent thriller that is a rip - off of
'Deliverance'
but without any charm and intelligence.
They're having fun; little do they know nature is about to be unleashed by an emo refugee from a
Deliverance
or Hills Have Eyes movie.
It's more than obvious that Lieberman intended to make his take on the backwoods-slasher look like
"Deliverance"
and absolutely NOT like "Friday the 13th", which immensely popularized the sub genre one year earlier.
The lack of action in many parts gave it a very
Deliverance
mixed with The Texas Chainsaw Massacre kinda ambiance, and when the action really kicks in, its truly shocking and dramatic, without ever even really needing to be gory.
To describe it would be an intelligent "Friday The 13th" sprinkled with some tasty bits of "Deliverance."
It looked like being a modern day
deliverance
but then for the next 45 minutes, (well over half the film), nothing happened, the family potted about their holiday home which was all very nice and dandy but not the slightest bit entertaining.
also got shades of
Deliverance
and the Amityville Horror.plus,we
Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Clint Eastwood, Sean Penn, the whole lot seem to produce such fundamentally banal product, ostensibly in some allegiance to honesty, but ending up being, for the most part, glorified pro wrestling matches, and moralistic, almost as if Hallmark cards had developed a line of Hell's Angels greetings, and make me long for the days of Deliverance, which is a fine movie.
I must say, after the long hype and witnessing
Deliverance
for the first time, I was so admired by these veteran actors in a movie made more than 30 years ago, and still lives it's terror up in competition to modern movies.
"Deliverance"
is a dead-on example of what wonderful movies came out of the '70s.
After having seen Deliverance, movies like Pulp Fiction don't seem so extreme.
'Deliverance'
is a brilliant condensed epic of a group of thoroughly modern men who embark on a canoe trip to briefly commune with nature, and instead have to fight for their sanity, their lives, and perhaps even their souls.
To conclude, I must speculate as to if and when
'Deliverance'
author James Dickey's 'To the White Sea' will be made.
Returning to
'Deliverance'
, it's impossible to imagine a movie of such honest, unnerving brutality being made in these times, and that is pretty shameful.
Deliverance
is the fascinating, haunting and sometimes even disturbing tale by James Dickey, turned into a brilliant movie by John Boorman.
All these elements actually make
Deliverance
one of the most nightmarish films I've ever seen.
Pure talking cinema,
Deliverance
is a very important movie as well.
Deliverance
is a stunning thriller, every bit as exciting as any good thriller should aspire to be but also stomach-churningly frightening.
It would have been easy for
Deliverance
to slip into exploitation territory, but John Boorman has cleverly avoided the temptation to go down such a route and has made a film that explores, questions and challenges the very meaning of masculinity.
I am a member of a canoeing club and I can tell you the truth that
Deliverance
is synonomous with the peacefulness and tranquility of the experience.
It borrows heavily from better-known films like
"Deliverance"
and "Wrong Turn" but if you're like me, films of this nature never cease to be terrifying.
If you think you know Deliverance, you might, but again, you might not.
It's a shame that
Deliverance
is mainly known as the redneck rape movie and for Dueling Banjos.
Deliverance
is John Boorman's 1972 horror/thriller movie about a group of four Atlanta businessmen (Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty and Ronnie Cox), that undertake a canoe trip down the Cahulawassee River before the river is dammed.
Yes, it's a knock-off of
"Deliverance"
(good movie also), but this movie is worth your while.
After seeing again Deliverance, which was thrilling when it was first released, and Excalibur, poetical, Wagnerian but a little bit out of date (regarding the shining 70's fake armors), Emerald Forest deepens philosophy and ethnology.
Another films about trippers trapped into woods and chased by killers or rednecks, are much better, such as the classic
'Deliverance'
, 'Wrong turn and Cabin fever' among others.
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