Red White & Blue
2010 Directed by Simon Rumley
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Three lives... bound together in blood
Film follows the cool, emotionless Erica, who dives into bed with any man she meets. When she is offered a job in a DIY store in Austin, she discovers the kindness of strangers, but also the gruesome shadowy side of it.
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Now I know what it feels like to be the victim of a hit and run. This film ran me over and left me to die on my sofa....
Bloody hell, this was a hard film to watch. It relentlessly sucks you in, makes you care for its leads and in the end just kicks the ever loving crap out of you.
This of course only works if the acting is spot on and it is, but what is done best here is the pacing. This film is impeccably paced, it always keeps you guessing as to what it is trying to say and when it finally does, it's too late, you're done for.
I cannot recommend this film, that would be cruel, but still.....it is very, very good indeed. -
Probably one of the best Indie Films I've seen so far. People would call it "dragging" but I call it slow paced for reasons of development.
Very interesting story.
Ending was AWESOME!
REVENGE MOTHAFUCKAS. -
Simon Rumley is a deeply unhappy man and I sincerely hope someone would give him a hug and tell him it's gonna be okay.
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American horror by British director Simon Rumley that for the most part is focused on a strangely blossoming romance surrounded by abuse, disease and almost satirical stupidity.
After earning its place with extremely intricate editing and a brilliant performance from Noah Taylor, the violence kicks in...with extreme force, testing even the strongest of nerves. -
Whilst not traditional horror on the surface, Red White & Blue dwells in the darkest recesses of America's sordid underbelly. Inhabiting a stark nihilistic twilight of emotionless, diseased sex, casual brutal violence and disturbing depravity. Sharing much of the grim, flesh-crawling aesthetic of films like Combat Shock and Snowtown, this is an uncompromising study of a society underclass fuelled by primal urges and moral malaise. Yet when the vengeful violence kicks in during the final reel, it hits harder than a sledgehammer to the guts and truly pulls no punches, putting most traditional horror films in the shade. Red White & Blue is bleak, brutal and belligerent. A truly twisted romance and one of those under the radar films that truly gets under the skin.
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Manages to maintain the fine balance between a quiet indie drama, establishing and exploring the three main characters, and brutal violence. As it enters revenge territory, it thankfully doesn't delve inte exploitation, and though it has especially one grissly scene, you still feel it's just about justifiable. Noah Taylor is great.
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Grim.
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"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
- Jules Winnfield (Pulp Fiction (1994))
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A film this disturbing has no right to be this classy and intelligent.
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American horror by British director Simon Rumley that for the most part is focused on a strangely blossoming romance surrounded by abuse, disease and almost satirical stupidity.
After earning its place with extremely intricate editing and a brilliant performance from Noah Taylor, the violence kicks in...with extreme force, testing even the strongest of nerves. -
I hate everything this movie stands for. EVERYTHING! I freaking can not stand it when a film is so goddamn edited that it cuts in time every 30 seconds. It makes me feel like I'm missing half of a film. I also hate the kind of piano music, that sounds like it's being played by a child with epilepsy, and I do NOT need dramatic music when I'm watching a guy brush his teeth, common!
I can't believe I watched A WHOLE hour of a woman fucking everything that moves, and edited shots of doors, hands, and feet. AN HOUR!
To only get 10 minutes of gore! NO FUCKING WAY! -
Whilst not traditional horror on the surface, Red White & Blue dwells in the darkest recesses of America's sordid underbelly. Inhabiting a stark nihilistic twilight of emotionless, diseased sex, casual brutal violence and disturbing depravity. Sharing much of the grim, flesh-crawling aesthetic of films like Combat Shock and Snowtown, this is an uncompromising study of a society underclass fuelled by primal urges and moral malaise. Yet when the vengeful violence kicks in during the final reel, it hits harder than a sledgehammer to the guts and truly pulls no punches, putting most traditional horror films in the shade. Red White & Blue is bleak, brutal and belligerent. A truly twisted romance and one of those under the radar films that truly gets under the skin.
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Probably one of the best Indie Films I've seen so far. People would call it "dragging" but I call it slow paced for reasons of development.
Very interesting story.
Ending was AWESOME!
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On Netflix this was billed as a psychological thriller....it's not, it's a revenge slasher. I watched this because psychological thrillers are one of my favorite types of movies but after about halfway through It was clear that's not what this is. I probably would have turned it off if I had known what it really was but only because the beginning is slow and takes a while to get going. This is fine if the writing/acting was better but I pressed on and the ending was good if your looking for a slasher flick, very intense violence scenes. Not like Hostel or Saw but it had a raw feeling to it the way the movie was filmed and that adds…
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Hmmm. There's plenty of good here, the acting is top-notch and the writing is far better than your usual revenge flick. The trouble is it feels so damn long and boring it drags when it should be drawing you in. Matters aren't helped by the main cast being so unlikeable it's hard to care about what happens to any of them. A shame, I like the idea of a classy exploitation flick, but this seemed to forget to add any real heart.