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List Price: $14.98 | | Label: Lions Gate
Salesrank: 39864
Released: January 9, 2007 |
| Our Price: $5.34 |
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MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A fashion photographer exposes his demented childhood and zooms his evil lens on the oldest profession under the moon...in quite possibly the most notorious serial killer film ever made.System Requirements:Running Time: 83 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: HORROR Rating: R UPC: 012236207047 Manufacturer No: 20704
Murder Set Pieces Reviews:
I havent seen the directors cut, but one things for sure.. 
2008-05-06 - this version sucks.. there really isnt much to get out of it, the effects are well done when you actually see them. most stuff is off screen and feels extremely watered down. the killer usually just uses a shaving razor which is much better done in Sweeny Todd and House of 1,000 Corpses. the use of a chainsaw is done much better in countless movies, the Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake and TCM: The Beginning to name a couple. the whole "following a serial killer" thing is done immensely better in Henry:Portrait of a Serial Killer".
... and people say Hostel is watered down..
decent camera work and a pretty good soundtrack are the only redeeming qualities this movie has. other than that its just.. lame.
Not the one you think it is...!
2008-01-16 - This version of the movie is the slaughtered, highly edited version. I rented it from the video store believing I was getting the real, original version and ended up with this. This movie is cut down so much that it is turned into a cheap looking 80's style cheese horror flick. The real version is the UNRATED DIRECTORS CUT. This is not the original Palumbo release...it's Lion's Gates massacre of the original version....be warned there is a reason that there are so many used versions of this DVD for 1.00 or less....
A word on censorship. 
2007-12-28 - You people are missing the point: ANY horror movie that has 20 minutes removed is likely to be destroyed in its impact. It could be a power-of-suggestion film like The Haunting or The Innocents and this rule will still hold true. A film like Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, as intelligent and well-rounded as it is, will become fractured and frustrating, because the key sequences upon which the rest of the film hinges will have been removed. No aficionado of art cinema will view a censored version of Salo, because the removal of the offending portions will severely hamper the integrity of the work (i.e., the film as an integrated whole). Furthermore, there are horror classics, such as the best of Lucio Fulci's films, that are completely structured around the gore set-pieces; and while these films are wonderful phantasmagoric experiences, if you remove the gore, the whole edifice tumbles down like a house of cards.
I'm not naïve, I'm well aware of what Murder-Set-Pieces is: a bottom-line freak show, with nothing else to recommend it apart from consistently good photography. And it's true that the removal of so much footage will do even more damage to such a film as this than usual. But I can't overstress that the idea of censorship is equally unacceptable whether the offending material in question is the human dartboard from Bloodsucking Freaks or the blinding of Gloucester from King Lear.
Okay, so maybe I've overstated the point. But I think it can use some overstating.
Lookin' for blood in all the wrong Pieces
2007-12-25 - I was hoping to drown in rivers of blood and gore. Get some disturbing sick thrills. Ahhh, no such luck. This R-rated version is a few gallons short of a merciless blood bath.
Well, this version does actually have a decent amount of the dark red spewage. There is also plenty of skin. It even has some cool music. But that's about as far as it goes.
It progresses with some cardboard acting and poor story development. There are some random murders with lots of incriminating evidence left behind, but I guess there are no cops in Vegas. Plus, the most disappointing aspect for me was that there's nothing graphic about the murders (yes, me pouting).
I guess there is an unrated Director's cut. I shoulda done a little research. Oh, the horror...
...WTF?
2007-12-05 - No...just.No. I love low budget and amature horror, but there is no excuse for this. I havent seen the unrated version, so mabey after that i'll sing a diffrent song. AVOID LIKE FOX NEWS!
