Jun 2020
Lately I have seen a movie in each of the above categories.
Rape-revenge:
Even lambs have teeth (2015)
Two young female students are going to work on a farm. However there is no farming to do as they are baisically used as prostitues being locked in a container. They manage to eventually get out and take revenge on all the people that are involved in the whole business. It's not very explicit but especially the revenge part is brutal. And it might actually be a much more believable approach than most of the movies in this subgenre. Take Revenge (2017) which had an interesting premise but the revenge part is basically a splatter show with no logic whatsoever. Not to be taken serious IMO. ELHT had a much simpler approach and felt much more effective. I actually lowered my rating for Revenge from 6 to 4/10 after seeing ELHT.
Psycho cat and mouse:
What keeps you alive (2018)
A couple decides to spend the weekend in a house/cottage near a lake in the woods. The special thing is that it is a lesbian couple celebrating their 1 year anniversary. One of them actually spends most of her childhood there. It's also that girl that proves not to be the sweet thing she appears to be at first. It's the story of the psycho who for one or the other reason likes to kill hunting down their victim(s) in a cat and mouse game. In some cases the prey becomes the hunter. The movie offers a few surprises but again there is also a lot of the things that actually will irk me, make me impatient or almost make me want to scream at the screen asking them to hurry up and come to a conclusion. WKYA is probably one of the 'better' in this subgenre.
While the concept sounds good of these kind of movies they are IMO not very effective as full feature. If you need to fill 90 minutes or more it's bound to get repetitive, characters must do dumb things, coincidences will happen, people keep going despite the wounds and survive nasty falls. Eden Lake is possibly the best example where all logic is defied expecting the viewer to turn of its brain. Or some try the long build-up approach were almost nothing happens. Seems clever but this viewer might lose interest before the good parts even are to start. Wolf Creek (2005) is possibly the one taking the unexciting build-up to an extreme. No that the violence that followed was so shocking it was worth the wait. And there is complete riciculous ones like High Tension (2003) mostly thanks to a dumb twist making everything that happened before totally impossible or House of 1000 Corpses mostly because of a director who thinks his wife is a good actress.
It might be mostly personal preference why rape revenge works much better for me than the psycho stuff. But as I described earlier it's not always a winner like Revenge or The Last House on the Left where the misplaced country music and comedy cops ruined the experience mostly for me (and the violence wasn't that shocking IMO).
You have a preference dear forumites?
Rape-revenge:
Even lambs have teeth (2015)
Two young female students are going to work on a farm. However there is no farming to do as they are baisically used as prostitues being locked in a container. They manage to eventually get out and take revenge on all the people that are involved in the whole business. It's not very explicit but especially the revenge part is brutal. And it might actually be a much more believable approach than most of the movies in this subgenre. Take Revenge (2017) which had an interesting premise but the revenge part is basically a splatter show with no logic whatsoever. Not to be taken serious IMO. ELHT had a much simpler approach and felt much more effective. I actually lowered my rating for Revenge from 6 to 4/10 after seeing ELHT.
Psycho cat and mouse:
What keeps you alive (2018)
A couple decides to spend the weekend in a house/cottage near a lake in the woods. The special thing is that it is a lesbian couple celebrating their 1 year anniversary. One of them actually spends most of her childhood there. It's also that girl that proves not to be the sweet thing she appears to be at first. It's the story of the psycho who for one or the other reason likes to kill hunting down their victim(s) in a cat and mouse game. In some cases the prey becomes the hunter. The movie offers a few surprises but again there is also a lot of the things that actually will irk me, make me impatient or almost make me want to scream at the screen asking them to hurry up and come to a conclusion. WKYA is probably one of the 'better' in this subgenre.
While the concept sounds good of these kind of movies they are IMO not very effective as full feature. If you need to fill 90 minutes or more it's bound to get repetitive, characters must do dumb things, coincidences will happen, people keep going despite the wounds and survive nasty falls. Eden Lake is possibly the best example where all logic is defied expecting the viewer to turn of its brain. Or some try the long build-up approach were almost nothing happens. Seems clever but this viewer might lose interest before the good parts even are to start. Wolf Creek (2005) is possibly the one taking the unexciting build-up to an extreme. No that the violence that followed was so shocking it was worth the wait. And there is complete riciculous ones like High Tension (2003) mostly thanks to a dumb twist making everything that happened before totally impossible or House of 1000 Corpses mostly because of a director who thinks his wife is a good actress.
It might be mostly personal preference why rape revenge works much better for me than the psycho stuff. But as I described earlier it's not always a winner like Revenge or The Last House on the Left where the misplaced country music and comedy cops ruined the experience mostly for me (and the violence wasn't that shocking IMO).
You have a preference dear forumites?
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Sometimes, there will be a decent one here and there, but it's almost become like the slasher subgenre in which everyone thinks they can make a good one when nobody ever wanted one in the first place.
I'll still agree that Eden Lake is a piece of shit movie. Wolf Creek is also pretty mediocre, spending most of the time trying to cash in on Aussie scenery until it ends up in a lackluster finale, but the sequel was a much more enjoyable splatter fest. And the first season of the series was fucking wonderful. Have you seen that one? It has a strong female lead, so you might like it.