Synopsis
An epic tale about a group of whale watchers, whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fisher vessel. The Fishbillies on the vessel has just gone bust, and everything goes out of control.
2009 Directed by Júlíus Kemp
An epic tale about a group of whale watchers, whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fisher vessel. The Fishbillies on the vessel has just gone bust, and everything goes out of control.
Gunnar Hansen Pihla Viitala Nae Yuuki Terence Anderson Miranda Hennessy Aymen Hamdouchi Carlos Takeshi Miwa Yanagizawa Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir Guðlaug Elísabet Ólafsdóttir Snorri Engilbertsson Helgi Björnsson Bjarni Gautur Guðrún Gísladóttir Ragnhildur Steinunn Jónsdóttir Stefán Jónsson Hanna María Karlsdóttir A. Reynir Sandra Tordardottir Ingvar Þórðarson Ingibjörg Reynisdóttir Þorvaldur Davíð Kristjánsson Kristinn Ágúst Friðfinnsson Þorsteinn Gunnar Bjarnason Jón Páll Eyjólfsson Rúnar Guðbrandsson Ívar Örn Sverrisson Hólmsteinn Össur Kristjánsson Ervin Shala Show All…
Jason Swanscott Ricky Butt Jeremy Price Árni Gústafsson Arran Mahoney Nigel Squibbs Simon Epstein Billy Mahoney Clare Mahoney
R.W.W.M., Harpoon, Harpoon - Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, Harpoon - Whale Watching Massacre, Гарпун: Резня на китобойном судне, 雷克雅未克鲸鱼大屠杀
Texas chainsaw massacre Iceland ripoff. This gotta be the best hidden gem find of the year for me. Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre is exactly what the title suggest. Turned out even better than what i expected. About a group of foreighners who set to watch whale by a boat near icelandic coast and getting into trouble, instead of whale they chased by a psychopathic fisherman family. The whole acts are stereotypical and have racial commentry but thing i liked about this flick is its setup. Got to see the beauty and evil of iceland, lighthouse, epic boat, slasher backdrop, lighthouse and at the end unexpected cameo of Killer whales. Just the kind of shit i was looking for. Can't believe it's rated only 2.8/5 this shit slaps hard. Recommended.
A grim slice of whalesploitation bullshit whose primary message seems to be 'bring back whaling', 'don't trust the Japanese' or 'stay away from Iceland' depending on your take. A few decent kills (including a harpoon kill, inevitably) don't do much to disguise the terrible acting from a parade of toxic racial stereotypes, the uneven pacing, grimy visuals or disjointed narrative. An ugly film in every sense of the word.
Cover: ⭐☆☆☆☆
Atmosphäre: ⭐⭐️☆☆☆
Spannung: ⭐⭐️☆☆☆
Erotik: ⭐⭐️☆☆☆
Spaß: ⭐☆☆☆☆
Ekel: ⭐⭐️☆☆☆
Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre ist ein Horrorfilm aus dem Jahr 2009.
Es geht um eine Gruppe Touristen in Island die Whale-Watching betreiben möchten. Es passiert ein Unglück und die Touristen sind alleine auf dem Schiff, ein Walfängerboot fährt zufällig vorbei und nimmt die Reisenden an Bord. Die Besatzung besteht aus einer Walfänger Familie die ihren Jagdtrieb noch nicht ganz abgelegt hat.
Wir sehen ein paar spaßige splatter Effekte wo Köpfe abfliegen, ein paar Brüste die mit Blut übergossen werden. Einige verbrannte Körper, und ein paar unnötige Twists.
Ich fand den Film ganz okay, aber nichts was man gesehen haben muss. Zum ende hin wurde es mir ein bissl…
Maybe the most insufferable group of victims and killers I’ve seen in a slasher, which I think is meant to be a mocking satirical angle but just makes for cinematic cringe. Still, this Icelandic riff on Texas Chainsaw Massacre via a rusty trawler and psycho fisherman family did provide some entertainment with its unique setting, decently gory kills, gallows humor, and character dynamics that warp familiar genre stereotypes.
Shocktober 2015 - 31 Nations Of Fear Film #13
After a distressing opening pre-credits sequence which definitely isn't recommended for Greenpeace activists, vegetarians or whale lovers, this soon settles into its stride of an outsiders butchered by homicidal hicks yarn - the big difference here being the mayhem takes place at sea rather than on the usual terra firma. There's a solid use of location and isolation, and a gritty pull no punches brutality, as some of the most obnoxious tourists imaginable get messily slaughtered in this Icelandic maritime massacre. Offensive (racism and sexism abound) and aggressively stupid, but this certainly delivers the gory goods by the blood-soaked bucketload.
Part of Hell On Earth: Horror Around The World, a 30 Days 30 Countries challenge.
12th stop: Iceland
A great twist on the whole backwoods family of murderers angle, transplanting them to a whaling boat where they bemoan the involvement of the United States in the recent changing tide of "save the whales" sentiment, is all but ruined by the filmmakers' insistence on delineating the characters with unnecessary racism. A group of whale-watchers that include black, white, American, British and Japanese members are in for a surprise when a tourist expedition turns into a slaughter, but it's really the audience who is in for it as each of these people are called some of the worst names imaginable. I just don't get why the film needed to go there. There are some fantastic kills, and a clever ending, but as usual in horror films it's the interplay between the characters that ultimately sinks the ship.
It’s Iceland’s finest so bad it’s good movie. It makes absolutely no sense and every character is the worst person in existence. Can’t belive Sjón wrote this lol
The telenovela of whale watching horror. Cringe, cry and cackle.
Has death metal “it’s oh so quiet” at the end. 🤷♀️😂
So this basically tried to act as a sort of throwback to Texas Chainsaw Massacre? You got Gunnar Hansen in one of his last roles and a psychotic family preying on unsuspecting travelers, but you know what set this film apart? Racism and homophobia!
Seriously, it's like...when people say a film was made with love and passion, this one was instead made with petty hate and bigotry for no apparent reason. Even if the whole point was just to be offensive for the sake of being offensive, there's still nothing clever or entertaining about pulling the most juvenile "haha asians are yellow tourists with cameras and broken english" and "haha N word" bullshit.
I hope the people involved were satisfied with the paychecks they got, cause I sure wouldn't want to have this shit stain on my resumé.
Really appalling to be honest. The dialogue and acting are atrocious. The token gay guy gets what I'm assuming is supposed to be a rousing, air punching speech but it's delivered with no conviction and has the authenticity of a photocopy of a facsimile of rejected West Wing fanfiction. The storyline is utter bobbins and makes no sense, rape is used as a character device to show how awful one of the *women* are, racist slurs are used against horrificly stereotyped Japanese characters. The gore is fleeting and only very occasionally anything more than competent.
I liked the surreal moment when a character, in shock, uses the boat's tanoy system to sing a couple of minutes of Björk's sublime It's Oh So Quiet.
Oh, and there's barely a whale in sight.
Really dumb and poor movie of which I thought I likes the Orca sequence, which I didn’t, and I’d grown bored and lost interest before they’d even got off to sea...