☠👽☠
Texas Chainsaw fanatic
Horror, exploitation, gay stuff
Not the most enthralling plot. On paper, it should be. In practice, it's kinda like, oh another whacky bit, then long periods of dialogue. A lot happens, action, death. It starts to drag / get exhausting and repetitive. Wish it was more surreal (like Freeze Me). Brutal and depressing. Gorgeous. Sooooooo gorgeous.
Ironically takes a long time to get to blood OR nudity. Once it does, the gore is gross and funny- cringe or almost slapstick. The special effects are...... well, I can see why people treat it like a camp classic.
It's sooooooo slow and not dripping sleaze (the way I expected). Some nasty squeamish bits, but it's more the suggestion of them than the execution.
A few ridiculously memorable moments.
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Thought i would love-hate this, but it was mostly middling. Seems to always miss the meat of the shot, which I guess is why it's acclaimed. A lot of crazy shit keeps happening, but it's somehow framed in the most boring way possible (sooo many filler shots, very bland color palette besides like two scenes, generic camerawork, shot over the shoulder through the doorways always at an inconvenient angle but never an interesting one, etc). Gore is rare, primarily implied.…
It feels like a long fucked up joke: being treated like a dog by a man is still better than dealing with a woman.
I mean, the woman here was abusive too- she (and similar characters in doomed love stories) is a caricature of the devoted crazy girlfriend (she's not actually devoted). Here she represents a barrier to her boyfriend's growth, both wrt sexuality and masculinity.
Their relationship could be seen as representative of how within the prototypical heterosexual couple,…
