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It's a shock to me sometimes what people think constitutes humor nowadays.
Don't really expect Hitchcock or anything close to this. this is a good one for friends,but i wouldn't recommend it for anything else.this movie lacks all the substance of a true horror movie,the suspense,the shock,and good characters.
The director seems to be trying to combine the atmosphere of classic '30s/'40s style horror movies with the shock factor of the then-exploding '80s slasher genre.
Five Fingers relies heavily on barbaric, shock value Hollywood tactics to elicit apparently a positive movie-going response.
Yes, there are plenty of innuendos, people in drag, and crude sexual situations, and yes, these elements may have shocked audiences in 1982 (which was almost certainly Almodovar's intention), but much of the shock value has probably eroded over the years, leaving a limp storyline.
Kids, Bully, and to a lesser extent Ken Park all achieve their intended purpose: shock, revulsion, and even disgust.
It's clear that directors Louis Leahman and William Sachs thought they were making something really shocking; but despite its best efforts, South of Hell Mountain is just too boring to shock the viewer.
The shock factor is set to 10.
Despite the potentially interesting plot, the atmospheric setting and the involvement of video-nasty director J.S. Cardone ("The Slayer"), this is an uninspired and cliché-ridden film that couldn't offer a single fright or shock.
However, it was not the shock of a monster that turned me off this movie, it was the horrendous acting and absolutely disgusting ending.
This creature was lying on the floor in a state of shock before it died.
The rest of the time I was in shock at how ridiculous/poorly shot and poorly written it was.
Why do directors feel they need to shock with a sick flick in order to get recognition?
Balabanov wanted to shock the viewers by pervasive evil, and he succeeded in creating a hopelessly dark film.
But the biggest shock is Balabanov's primitive directorial work.
Watching ALIEN EXPRESS inspired feelings of awe, shock, pity and, yes, sheer terror.
The events that he is rapidly forced to come to terms with are the separation of his parents, the culture shock when his Pakistani roots collide with a complete breakdown of English straitlaced society in the sixties, his father's dubious transformation into the revered Buddha of Suburbia, and the turning of his cousin into a feminist militant as his best friend suddenly becomes an icon of the burgeoning punk movement in the seventies.
However, if you're expecting something of the calibre of Society or Beyond ReAnimator, you could be in for a shock.
Though a fan of shock and gore, I found this movie disappointing to say the very least.
Apparently, this movie is still banned here in the UK; but somehow I doubt it's because of its shock value.
Gein was responsible for a rash of gruesome murders that sent a shock wave of terror through his rural hometown in the late 1950's.
Yet here, the humor just isn't there as it seems the intent is to shock the viewers and not entertain them in any way.
Too little of the real Coach Knight and too much profanity for the sake of shock value turned this movie into a "season to turn off half-way through the broadcast."
The actors who inhabit (I wouldn't say act in) this flick say their lines like they're reading from cue cards and pout when they're supposed to be showing an emotion, and it comes as no great shock (or loss to the industry) that they have since faded into obscurity.
The shock to me, though, is seeing what has become of some of the actors in this film.
A couple of good scenes (Sarah Miles discovering her son has been peeping at her and confronts him in anger, the pasty-faced lad trying to ensnare Kris Kristofferson to his demise by being extra friendly), but what's the point beyond provoking shock?
The acting is terrible and every shock is signposted so far in advance that it is almost laughable by the time it reaches you.
I could only explain this as a sort of shock to the brain, you are so mentally exhausted you cant move and also I guess you have to know who was behind the mess.
Maybe he was supposed to be in shock or something.
I kept waiting for the film to move me, inspire me, shock me, sadden me in some way but it stirred none of my emotions.
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