I'm not sure how I've made it to age 50 (almost) after a lifelong love affair with exploitation, art cinema, trash, gore, etc and not seen the GP films - and I will watch them all - but this first entry is absolutely garbage. There is a long list of films from yesterday that still hold up today, but this is not one or them. I tempered my excitement going in to this, as I knew it could never live up to the cult status it has attained. Every aspect of this film is fake and non-committal - ie there is nothing realistic about any of the individual terrors the lady faces. Slapping...come on...every single slap is seen NOT hitting her face, but the slapper's own hand; kicking...seriously...I've seem more realistic kicking at an 8u soccer game. Each point of the story is faced with this same level of phoniness. Had I seen it when it came originally out (I was 15), MAYBE I would have thought differently, but even then, having seen countless Italo-horror masterpieces, and even some of the American ones (eg Evil Dead etc), this would have likely disappointed me then as well.
I hear that the next couple films In the series are better, and for crying out loud...I hope so. There is no way I would recommend anyone watch this. Not because it's too hard core, but because it lacks ANY core.
I hear that the next couple films In the series are better, and for crying out loud...I hope so. There is no way I would recommend anyone watch this. Not because it's too hard core, but because it lacks ANY core.