Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
1985 Directed by Josh Becker
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Vietnam, 1969. War is Hell. For Marine Sergeant Jack Stryker (Brian Schulz), however, Hell is just the beginning. Trapped outside a Viet Cong village, Stryker takes two bullets to the leg. Sent home from the war, he discovers his ex-girlfriend (Cheryl Hausen) has been kidnapped by a religious cult with a vicious Manson-like leader (Sam Raimi). Stryker teams up with some marine friends to form an assassination squad and annihilate the gang of crazed killers.
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"HAHA! Look at him! Look at him die! He's dyin' reaaaaaallll goooooddddd!!!"
Stryker (perfect name for a film like this) has returned from the Vietnam war to live a quiet life with his dog and girlfriend but soon everything turns upside down when Sam Raimi's Manson-esque hippie cult leader and his band of disciples decide to pay him a visit.
You just don't get films like this any more. Clearly made on a small budget and in glorious 80s Smear-o-Vision, it's full of cheesy acting and stereotypes but has enough charm to make up for it.
Today's B-Movies, the likes of MegaShark vs Giant Octopus, are filmed on cameras that allow you to see everything clearly and sharply (or as…
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It's still pretty amazing to me that we get stuff like this on Blu-ray.
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‘Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except’ is one of those gems that movie geeks seek out, but rarely find. It plays like a blend of Enzo Castellari’s ‘Inglorious Bastards’ and ‘Evil Dead’. Watching the film today gives the film even more street cred. How many times do you see Sam Raimi, director of the multimillion dollar ‘Spiderman’ trilogy, dressed up as a poor man’s Jack Sparrow while leading a murderous cult? Once, and he does it well. While Raimi may be in front of the cameras for this feature, a lot of the same qualities that make ‘Evil Dead’ and even ‘Drag Me to Hell’ so enjoyable are found in this micro budget action flick. There is a great blend of humor…
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A group of Vietnam vets take after a hippie cult after a series of murders and one of the vet's girlfriends is kidnapped by the gang.
All the action, inventiveness, and welcome humour that you'd expect from the Michigan crew of filmmakers around the Sam Raimi/Bruce Campbell circle. Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except is a fun exploitation romp with an absolutely hysterical and positively hammy performance by Sam Raimi as the sadistic cult leader.
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"HAHA! Look at him! Look at him die! He's dyin' reaaaaaallll goooooddddd!!!"
Stryker (perfect name for a film like this) has returned from the Vietnam war to live a quiet life with his dog and girlfriend but soon everything turns upside down when Sam Raimi's Manson-esque hippie cult leader and his band of disciples decide to pay him a visit.
You just don't get films like this any more. Clearly made on a small budget and in glorious 80s Smear-o-Vision, it's full of cheesy acting and stereotypes but has enough charm to make up for it.
Today's B-Movies, the likes of MegaShark vs Giant Octopus, are filmed on cameras that allow you to see everything clearly and sharply (or as…
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While Josh Becker is one of several clear lines of connection between Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981) and Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except (1985) and perhaps a reason many view the work expectant of similarities, what Becker mistakenly applies is Raimi’s approach towards violence in Dead.
While there are budgetary limits to both pictures, Raimi is generally applauded for his ingenuity as well as the excitement of its photography, both traits that happen to occur within Becker’s work. The ability to overcome budgetary limits and yet have an effective visceral photography that is both emotional and exciting is a talent that both Raimi and Becker possess, but it is Raimi’s contextualization of death that makes his approach more effective.
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A little to silly for my taste. Some great gore, action and violence but I prefer "I drink your blood" instead of this.
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It's still pretty amazing to me that we get stuff like this on Blu-ray.
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http://twitchfilm.com/reviews/2012/04/blu-ray-review-thou-shalt-not-kill-except.php
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This splattery actioner from frequent Sam Raimi-collaborator is a little rough around the edges, but boy, does it deliver where it counts! THOU SHALT NOT KILL...EXCEPT tells the story of several Vietnam vets going up against a murderous cult, led by a maniac that's played Raimi himself. He delivers a performance that's so over the top, it wouldn't seem out of place in CRIMEWAVE.
Becker and his co-writer Scott Spiegel keep the film consistently entertaining with Cannon Films-style action and EVIL DEAD-level goofiness. Some of it had me cheering in its last half hour, including a toolshed scene that puts COMMANDO's to shame. Now can we have a DVD/BluRay set of CRIMEWAVE? It's long overdue.
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bluray is beautiful