Synopsis
Reap what you sow.
After a pawn shop robbery goes askew, two criminals take refuge at a remote farmhouse to try to let the heat die down, but find something much more menacing.
The Price We Pay
2022 Directed by Ryûhei Kitamura
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Andre Relis Robert Dean Stephanie Denton Mark Andrews Todd Lundbohm Jessica Bennett Bill Kelman Jesse Kinser
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828 Productions Buffalo 8 828 Media Capital VMI Worldwide ABS Payroll & Production Accounting Services Project Indie Hope
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Very generic first half followed by an ultra fun, bloody and especially gory second half. The characters are goofy and somewhat cartoonish which works perfectly with the darkly comedic and unrealistic elements. Third act blew me away, that's exactly what I want to see when i'm watching horror: an epic gore fest of head popping madness with everyone actually fighting and running for their lives. Loved the movie references throughout and the villains are cool and likable. Emile Hirsch was clearly a standout but the prize goes to the tall woman with Michael Myers' blue jumpsuit, Hannibal's muzzle, Negan's barb wire bat, Regan's haircut and a lightsaber!
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Irgendwo zwischen der ganzen Stangenware, der unfertig ausgedachten Geschichte, einem teilweise misslungenem Schauspiel und vielen Problemen auf struktureller-, sowie temporaler Ebene, steckt wohlmöglich in The Price We Pay ein durchaus funktionales Werk. Die Komponenten liegen dafür allemal bereit: Mit Stephen Dorff und Emile Hirsch wird auf schauspielerischer Ebene durchaus Qualität geboten, mit Kitamura sitzt eine Person auf dem Regiestuhl, die scheinbar sein Handwerk grundlegend versteht und als Genre für den dargebotenen Film das Action-Thriller-Segment auszuschöpfen, ist grundlegend eine durchaus gute Entscheidung, welches mit dem verhältnismäßig unverbrauchtem und anfangs ordentlich wirkendem Setting durchaus Stimmung erzeugen kann. Doch Kitamura schafft es nicht auf gescheite Weise, die Komponenten zu verweben und geschmeidig ineinander übergehen zu lassen. So sind Hirsch und Dorff maximal mittelmäßig…
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“Let’s see how deep this rabbit hole goes.”
-Adam-
The Price We Pay is the prototypical direct to VOD, C-Tier film you’d expect. The Price We Pay is cliched riddled and predictable. The Price We Pay is filled with cringy performances, and to add insult to injury, a clunker of a script to boot.
But hey, it’s “The Price We Pay” when we watch these sorts of low-brow trash exhibitions. I couldn’t resist the pun, sorry. But listen, there were some things that actually worked. Some things that actually hooked me, forcing me to see “just how deep this rabbit hole goes.”
The Price We Pay is mercifully short and wastes no time getting to its gore soaked point. The…
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Bloody; gory; grisly; gruesome; ludicrous; short; twisty; underdeveloped; unrealistic; unsatisfying; wild.
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Despite what the poster and bland title may lead you to think, this is actually more of a horror flick than a generic action movie. Stephen Dorff and Emile Hirsch are in this, that's for sure, but the tone and vibe radiating from this marketing campaign is completely baffling.
Fortunately for us that means we get an under 90 minute thrill ride directed by Ryuhei Kitamura. Dorff and Hirsch lead a robbery of a pawn shop that goes horribly wrong. They end up taking Gigi Zumbado hostage so she can drive them as far away from this mess as possible but car troubles in the middle of the night essentially throw them into a horror film. This small clan of…
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Another "robbery gone wrong" horror film that sees three petty criminals and their hapless hostage hiding out in a remote farmhouse where things are much worse than they seem...
None of the characters are particularly likable but they are all fairly interesting. Would've been nice to flesh them out more but the tidbits of info we were given on them added a layer of intrigue to them.
Solid practical effects, decent gore, a gnarly blood drenched climax, and a brisk 83 min runtime kept things moving along. It's doesn't reinvent the wheel but it's a decent watch.
2023 Horror (Ranked and Evolving) boxd.it/kvT5o
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Score : 4.6/10 ✅
The price to pay to witness one of the worst editing done in a film is apparently around $5. Even at that price, or if you are finding a way to see it for free, The Price We Pay is an awful letdown.
It starts as a robbery-gone-wrong type of film then escalated (or in that case, drop) to something you wouldn’t have ever expected. Which is good in a sense. If done well, obviously. Despite some effort to turn the wheel in a new direction, the film progress into this cold-blooded territory where just scream, blood, and ridiculous turn of events dominate the screen. I’m not saying this in a good way, by the way.…
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English text below
Ryûhei Kitamuras neuer, augenscheinlich preisgünstig produzierter „Don’t go to the farmhouse“-Film hat eine ähnliche Struktur wie FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, bedient aber in der deftigen zweiten Hälfte keine fantastischen (Vampir-)Motive, sondern segelt im blutigen Fahrwasser von HOSTEL und THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Das Ensemble ist annehmbar, die Technik solide und der Unterhaltungswert akzeptabel, zumindest dann, wenn Interesse an einem sinnentleerten, nicht gerade originellen Gewalt-Schocker besteht. Die FSK hat die Freigabe verweigert, ich winke THE PRICE WE PAY ebenso selbstverständlich wie leidlich durch und stelle den Film unter die B-Ware in den Erwachsenenbereich der (verschwundenen) Videotheken ein. Gorehounds können durchaus einen Blick riskieren, sollten jedoch nicht allzu viel erwarten – außer einige knackige Schauwerte natürlich.
Bitte beachten: Ich…
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The Price We Pay is so bad it borders on being fun. It’s mostly just bad though, with a few sequences of explosive practical effects-driven gore sprinkled in to break up the monotony. Structured as almost two completely different films, a robbery gone wrong and a maniacal family slasher, neither of which work, The Price We Pay is truly left for dead by its cast, led by Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff, who clearly couldn't give less of a shit about what they were doing here.
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If you squint, you can kinda see that loveable Kitamura style in the last fifteen minutes.
Also, Dorff wears a diaper.