CHAOS Director's Cut
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Movie Reviews of CHAOS Director's Cut
Movie Review: Film is hard to watch, but powerful
Summary: 4 Stars
Yes, this film could be considered a rip-off of Last House on the Left, but the brutal murders in this film are far more disturbing and powerful than anything in Last House. It's cruel and distasteful, but this film shakes emotions in people which few horror films do these days. It's not a great film, but for what it is, I think it accomplishes its goals. I'm a hardcore horror fan and the murder scenes made me recoil, they are so realistic.Movie Review: Big mistake with where is the reality.
Summary: 3 Stars
First off I am a Horror movie buff, I have over 3,500 DVDs to my name most of them Horror. This movie clearly was a rip off of Last House on the Left and countless other movie's. I am not rating it on it's violence because I could care less about violence in movies because I know people are acting and it's not real, so fiction does not get to me in the way everybody is screaming about how this movie is harsh and evil. The worst thing to happen to horror movie's or movies in general is the MPAA because they chop movies up and they choose what we should see, which is one more thing of control. My problem's with this movie is, there was some major bad acting in spots. You could clearly tell the fake crying at spots. And yes these dumb bitch's go off with some guy they don't know into the middle of the woods and they don't expect nothing to happen. The shot with the father running in with the chainsaw, there was no pause he had to do what he had to do, and then moments later the most stupid thing happened, he hisatated on the man that was the ring leader Chaos, he just sliced with a chainsaw and now wont finish it, that to me was the biggest mistake, it should have been wrote diffrent he should have went through with it or he should not have had the gun. Every one is talking about this over violence in this movie, half of it was off screen, all you really saw was blood, screaming and the imagination of the mind in what they where doing. The ending was so far over the top that to me it reminded me of a corny 1970's movie. I don't really care if the bad guy win's or lose's what I do care about is the reality in movie's and a belivable outcome when you start something you should end with reality, the whole hisatation part the shoot out at the bar western style of an ending made no sense to me because the movie was strong in moments and then went the typical route of oh yeah that was coming. Watch it for what it is worth but other then that it's a forgettable movie.Movie Review: "A Poser- Hack Director's Version of The Most Brutal Film Ever Made"
Summary: 3 Stars
I went into this movie taking it for what I knew it was...a complete rip-off of Last House On The Left. Keeping that in mind, I was not dissappointed!
There is absolutely NOTHING ORIGINAL about this movie at all...and I can deal with that because it's still a brutally entertaining film. I thought it was a pretty good remake until I watched the director's interviews. In the extras on the DVD, the director talks about himself as if he was some martyr being persecuted for making a movie that finally told the truth about the harsh world, when all he really did was RIP OFF a classic exploitation film from 30 YEARS AGO (and playin it off as if we are to stupid to realize it!!!!). Not once does he even mention Last House as an influence, or drop Wes Craven's name as inspiration! Instead, he says that the film was inspired by some serial killer named Pee Wee somethin or other...what a hack!!!
It's one thing to remake or reinterpret a film, but don't play it off like you're some kind of "pioneer" of the shock film industry...you're just insulting the intelligence of your audience!
The tagline shouldn't say "The Most Brutal Film Ever Made"...it should say
"A Poser Hack Director's Version of The Most Brutal Film Ever Made"
You owe Wes Craven an apology!!!
The movie gets 3 stars...the director gets 0...what a punk!
Movie Review: Poor Last House remake with sensationalistic advertising
Summary: 2 Stars
Original story based on the killings of Pee Wee Gaskins? (as described on the back of the DVD) Nope. More like an almost scene-by-scene remake of Last House on the Left and is very much inferior to its inspiration.
Most Brutal movie ever? Not even close. August Underground, Mordum, Man Bites Dog, Murder Set Pieces, I Spit on Your Grave...I can think of dozens more than are way more brutal than Chaos. OK, slicing off a girl's nipple and force feeding it to her is pretty icky, but not when the effects are shoddy. Yes, raping a corpse is nasty stuff, but it pales in comparison of the brutality and feeling of disgust and horror when presented with the same material in a movie like Cerda's Aftermath. Even the original Last House had scenes that were more brutal and unsettling than Chaos, and they didn't have to slice off and cannibalize nipples to do it.
Acting is relatively substandard, save for the main bad guy who was played with gusto and noticeable enthusiasm. Comparatively though, he's no David Hess. The other bad guys were throwaways- just deranged junkies. Wes established a lot more characterization and even humanity with the bad guys in LHOTL; we don't learn much about Chaos's baddies apart from, well....they're junkies, they commit atrocities, and once in a while one of them feels a momentary pang of guilt about what's happening, but never acts upon anything.
Extras wise, the disc has a few nice additions that wind up spoiled. The Roger Ebert controversy turns into an essay of defending their film against Ebert's reports against Chaos. Both sides make valid and invalid points, it's just not that engaging to watch. And what could have been a great extra in a visit to the LA morgue becomes an exercise in the ludicrous as the director assumes a shirtless WWE wrestler persona while surrounded by real dead bodies. I don't know if that's the director's real personality or whether he was attempting to make a comedic, ironic statement with the contrast and dark humor, but for me it went over like a house on fire.
It's not a pleasant movie by any stretch of the imagination, but neither was it engaging, entertaining or significantly brutal or disturbing like the original LHOTL, or countless other movies that have far better rights to the tagline of "most brutal movie ever". With the hype and the advertising, it's a severe disappointment that is more Shakespeare than Craven when it comes to summing up Chaos: "a tale told by an idiot....full of sound and fury...signifying nothing".
1 1/2 stars.
Movie Review: Not cool....
Summary: 2 Stars
As a fan of the horror/exploitation genre, I saw "Last House on the Left". As disturbing as that movie is it does offer the revenge and retribution angle at the end which offers some solace to the audience. Also, it wasn't quite as sickenly graphic in its depictions of brutal violence. "Choas" even felt the need to subsitute the very effective rape scene in "Last House on the Left" with a truely puke worthy rape of a corpse scene.
On a positive note, the acting isn't bad. The victims are effective and the bad guys are believable. Its the changes to the script that are what ruins this movie. If it was a straight remake it may well have worked with this cast..
Where "Last House on the Left" left the viewer wanting to take a long shower, "Choas" leaves the viewer wanting to take a bath with a razor blade. Alas, this movie will not make it into my DVD collection.