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The movie also gains a lot from not trying to be shocking.
The love making scenes have been shot well & are shocking as well, & they are sensual & seducing as well.
Whereas most movies (especially during the 90's) can hardly focus on any of these essential horror elements, Bernard Rose masterfully succeeds in stuffing his film with genuine tension as well as shocking gore-images.
It's interesting to see this movie for only two reasons: 1) the fun of spotting scenes directly ripped off in later movies like Friday the 13th Part 2; 2) the ending, which comes out of left field and manages to be both shocking and funny.
I enjoyed this film quite a bit, however a lot of it is rehashed,and it had some shocking but bizarre plot twists, don't get me wrong i didn't see them coming, but they didn't make any sense, however Eddie gets to show off more with his comic talent, and had a lot more to do this time (in my opinion).
I put a question mark after spoiler alert because the fact that they off themselves in the end wasn't particularly shocking.
Other than that, a rather boring historical picture with some shocking subject matter to make it relevant.
The action in the movie intersperses tension-building dialog and dramatically shocking visuals with tremendous effectiveness.
Michael Kitchen is a fine actor, but his performance here as Stephen's father is just shocking; he could probably drag the scriptwriter down the plughole with him, but either way he is not going to be a movie star if this is the sort of project he gets saddled with.
Nothing's shocking anymore.
The atmosphere is chilling, carefully established and maintained throughout, by the grisly sights and the incredibly well-done and meticulously crafted sound-side that is either shocking or hinting, never noisy or dull.
Despite a successful depiction of the shocking balloon accident that sets the story in motion, director Roger Michell fails after this stylish opening to generate any of the psychological tension that made the novel such a page-turner.
Lots of cult film actors (Including Vic Morrow, James Franciscus, and Giancarlo Prete) and a lot of goofy effects and stock footage, make this film completely silly and enjoyable rather than disturbing or shocking as most horror films set out to be.
This movie is also shocking like most Verhoeven movies.
A black person having his or her own TV show was shocking back then.
A choice cheesy chunk of wonderfully rancid and wretched two-cent 70's grind-house garbage about a putrid Califonia passion pit that's beset by a shocking series of gruesome murders perpetuated by some mystery maniac.
You see the postcards contain the shocking images of structural landmarks.
An overload of ridiculous profanity doesn't succeed in shocking anyone...just laughable.
There are plenty of shocking scenes.
It is genuinely shocking that Hollywood was able to produce a film this utterly inept and mindless.
I kept watching because it said on the box "rated R for sex and a shocking scene."
I remember the guy being shown a model of himself to explain what would happen if he stared at the sun for too long... and the model's brain caught fire... Oh, it was quite shocking.
His profligate behaviour eventually alienates them all with a truly shocking result.
The ending is somehow predictable, but it's still shocking.
Both of their roles show the opposite ends of how people deal with such a shocking event.
The language is obscenely vulgar (which seems to be historically accurate), violence is shocking and graphic, and the gritty atmosphere feels realistic and true to the times.
The shocking conclusion has obviously been tacked on just as the gratuitous sex scenes were, to make something from nothing with minimal effort.
What they don't know is the shocking way in which it does end.
The theme of Nazi reprisal is worked in very well, but the film steers clear of the much more shocking and ugly truth.
This is a good thriller with some very shocking scenes.
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