You've got to be *beep* me, not 1 movie has scared me since i was 8 and this movie gave me unsettling chills at 17. This movie needs a much better rating. Avatar has a 8.9 or some *beep*
"Gimme sixty push-ups on your knuckles"
as said by the Neo Nazi Sensei From Karate Kid
I just watched it for the first time today after it being recommend to me multiple times. I'm sorry to say it was terrible. It has dated badly, although i'm not sure it was any good when it came out anyway. Very disappointed. It was recommend to me because I love The Wicker Man but it is no where near as good as that. This was a unfortunate 2/10 for me.
shareI gave it an 8/10. I thought it was a creepy, suspenseful, atmospheric, well made film. The ratings on this website are never right. Some great films have scores as low as 5/10 and some horrible ones have 8/10. I never even pay attention to the ratings. If I like a film, I will consider it good no matter what others may think about it.
I've been waiting for you, Ben.
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I think you will find that the Cathy character, although at first unwilling, was transformed during the ritual and became ready to make her offering of 'the devils skin', thus rendering her body ready for sacrifice.
I like this film and have watched it several times over the years. It has hardly aged at all, for the most part. It's very near perfect with well researched and executed period settings, costume, etc.
The weakest part is the ending. I recall an interview with the director in which he said he would like to have made this more spectacular but didn't have the budget for it. As it is, the slow motion technique does fit in with the generally mystical nature of the rest of the film, although you may consider it to be something of an anti-climax.
The weakest part is the ending. I recall an interview with the director in which he said he would like to have made this more spectacular but didn't have the budget for it. As it is, the slow motion technique does fit in with the generally mystical nature of the rest of the film, although you may consider it to be something of an anti-climax.
I don't know anything about the rape scene being "notorious" as I hadn't read or heard anything about the movie before watching it, and, as a lover of horror and difficult-to-watch films, I've certainly seen other, more graphic rape scenes. But what disturbed me about that scene in this movie was exactly what you pointed out, the voyeurism of it. Cathy was clearly presented as a young, sweet and innocent girl. I was deeply affected by the fact that, from the looks on their faces, these others - mere children themselves and the aged - were so clearly getting off on watching the girl heinously violated. I'm rarely affected by the movies I watch, but I even had a dream similar to that scene the night I watched this movie. Maybe because it brought back memories of the brutal rape and murder of a kindergartner in south Georgia when I first moved to this area of the country. I felt physically sick reading about the woman who masturbated as her husband and son raped the little boy and how she said she felt the devil in her.
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Too many unanswered questions. People hate that... they like perfect closure. For instance, there seemed to be no correlation between what body-part was needed and what body was to give it. There seemed to be a prescribed list of sacrificial offerings, but the tie that bound them was absent from the script. Perhaps this was to convey feelings of uncertainty and apprehension, or perhaps the script itself leaned a little towards thoughtlessness. I believe many people choose the later, though personally, I liked the film and gave it an above average rating.
shareIt's up to 6.4 now
shareI’ve never watched this film, that I can remember, but I saw a vhs copy of this in a record store recently and it was very expensive.
shareI watched it free here https://tubitv.com/movies/611061/the-blood-on-satan-s-claw?start=true
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