Sentences with phrase «rape revenge movies»

Not exact matches

Strickland is keen for his thrillingly strange and sophisticated movie not to be labelled a horror (recalling a line from Santini in the movie itself, who's outraged by the very suggestion) and - although it flirts with horror conventions, just as Katalin Varga did with its rape - revenge plot - Strickland conjures a world that's hypnotically unsettling rather than overtly frightening.

Labelled a «feminist rape - revenge movie», it takes all the traditional tenets of that most dubious of genres and simply does them again.

Alternatively, we might look to the heroine of rape - revenge movies who gleefully dispatches her attacker / s in the appropriately brutal eye - for - an - eye logic of the genre, or the resourceful and virginal «final girl» of the slasher film.

The first with the HFPA's love for Paul Verhoeven's hot - potato rape revenge comedy Elle — a movie previously deemed too controversial for major acclaim.

and Abel Ferrara's Ms. 45; the latter is practically a spirit animal to this French take on the subgenre known as the «rape revenge» movie.

Well, I really want to see A-holes stop raping women at all, but I did agree to see a movie called Revenge.

The capper is a fourth segment that compares unfavorably to a Tarantino - style revenge thriller; I liked the overall slasher - movie stylings, as though Liz is being stalked across all four segments by cruel religious patriarchy itself, but Brimstone is unsatisfying in its rape - revenge particulars.

The movie begins with Lavelle hearing a confession from an unseen man who says that for seven years, beginning at age five, he was raped by a priest, now dead, and that he'll take revenge by killing a «good priest» — Lavelle — in a week's time.

The movie that many believe speaks most directly to the moment — the revenge dark comedy Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, about a mother avenging the rape and murder of her daughter — emerged as the night's top film.

The movie that many consider speaks most directly to the moment — the revenge dark comedy «Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,» about a mother avenging the rape and murder of her daughter — emerged as the night's top film.

Directed by Simon West («The Mechanic,» «The Expendables 2»), «Wild Card» ambles episodically from vigilante revenge fantasy to mismatched buddy movie, as Wild comes first to the aid of a woman (Dominik Garcia - Lorido) from his past who's been brutally raped by a pretty - boy gangster (Milo Ventimiglia); and, later, a meek computer whiz (Michael Angarano) who wants Nick to teach him how not to get dirt kicked in his face.

And because the movie depicts rape, sexual mutilation, and murder, and especially because the third act involves a dead girl's father taking revenge on her behalf, à la Bergman's The Virgin Spring, Night Train Murders is often regarded as a blatant knock - off of The Last House on the Left.

Ostensibly a horror film of the «girls trapped in a basement by a madman» subgenre, like last year's 10 Cloverfield Lane, it somehow ends up being a rape - revenge superhero movie, like a DC Comics version of Elle.

Considering the subject matter, it's easy to feel distressed at just how funny this movie about the rape and murder of a young girl, the ostracism of her mother as she seeks justice and revenge, a cop dying of cancer and his powder keg of a racist underling stirring up trouble, but the humor is undeniable.

A rape, revenge and road movie (in that order) about a distressed young girl (Georgia Groome) helped by a prostitute (Lorraine Stanley — stunning) to flee a gang of tinpot hoods, it's a film where no shot, line and character is wasted.

-- «It's a rape - revenge movie.