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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Film ThreatFilm ThreatThe actual performances during the film range from excellent to somewhat amateurish, but this amateurism is easily absorbed by the sheer power of the imagery on display.
- 80VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyIts own mythology aside, this flamboyant, graphic and disturbing quasi-docu reenactment of a notorious chapter in U.S. counterculture life is a fascinating if peculiar accomplishment.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is not a "horror" film or an "underground" film, but an act of transgression so extreme and uncompromised, and yet so amateurish and sloppy, that it exists in a category of one film -- this film.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoSee it - if you dare.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe film evokes how homicide became the ultimate orgasm for kids who had turned themselves into zombies of flesh.
- 60Village VoiceMichael AtkinsonVillage VoiceMichael AtkinsonA film the family might've made themselves: sophomoric, hagiographic, amateurishly strobe-happy, and thoroughly hippiefied.
- 60Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesSeriously gruesome docudrama.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittHarrowing and imaginatively made.
- Finally, though, Mr. Van Bebber seems more interested in recreating the grainy look of scratched 1970's film stock than in reflecting on the horrors he depicts, making this a difficult sell for all but the strongest stomachs among connoisseurs of vintage gore.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghVan Bebber is out to capture the mood of a generation-long bad trip and succeeds with unnerving accuracy by telling the story within the family circle.