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Movie Reviews of Scalps
Movie Review: Great Atmosphere
Summary: 4 Stars
Pretty slow moving but the special fx and weird atmosphere make up for it, like the random indian facees that apear on the screen. pretty sweet daeth scenes too.Movie Review: A lesson to learn
Summary: 3 Stars
I vaguely remember seeing this film on Continental Video in the mid 80's and considered it OK. I puchased the original movie poster a couple of years ago and then went on a quest to find a VHS copy of it. No luck. Then I heard about Retromedia and Fred Olen Ray Along with "The EEL" decided to do the 20th Anniversary eddition. I bought it. Basically Fred Olen Ray had to go through hell trying to piece together a print to Scalps. Most of the footage shown is grainy from a blow up of a 16mm print to 35. The cut scenes that were added in are from a Vidoe transfer from the 80's U.S. VHS release and Canadia 3 quarter inch tapes. Watch the movie once through and please forgive the grain. The viewing may seem like the film is over 2 hours because it drags and drags on. The best scene is the throat slashing. In my opinion it is one of the best throat slashings I have ever seen on film. I had some time to kill and decided to view Scalps once again with the commentary track on by Lee and Fred. The commentary is great. I learned information about the making of a film. From script writing to finding financing. The commentary taught me a lesson on filmmaking. How to make a film with no budget and the tricks to shooting with what you got. Fred Olen Ray explains about shooting day for night, shoestring budgets, how 21st century cheated him out of $ and the secrets to some special effects that were used for the murder scenes. I recommend the viewer to watch the film once without commentary then watch it with the commentary. The movie is not great, the image is grainy and poor but the make-up and gore is pretty good. The commentary is the best. Fred's voice over is much louder than Lee's but Fred is much more fun to listen too. 3 stars for gore and commentary.Movie Review: "Its From Hell!!!!!"
Summary: 3 Stars
The packaging of Fred Olen Ray's "Scalps" leads one to believe that it has been banned virtually everywhere and is usually only seen in highly censored versions. I doubt this is a true statement and comparisons with "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" are unfounded. If you do not watch the film expecting it to be some sort of forbidden fruit of graphic gore and unrelenting horror you will probably enjoy it. The setting is a familiar one to those who know horror; a group of young people end up stranded in a remote area and stumble upon an ages old curse that engulfs them all. The acting is terrible and the film does not ever betray its low budget roots. The one amazing thing about the film is an extremely brutal throat slashing sequence that might be one of the "best" ever. This scene alone makes the film worth watching as well as cameos by Forrest Ackerman, Carrol Borland and a general revisiting of early eighties horror. I especially enjoyed the virtual immediate "freak out" of one of the group who resorts to some priceless dialouge during a scene when they hear ghostly drumming. (Its from hell). The DVD transfer is barely acceptable and there is even a disclaimer stating that it was culled from many different sources to present the most complete version possible. What is odd is that I am not clear as to why this was needed as there is nothing in the film that would indicate the need for massive censorship. My thought is that the film was basically "lost" and it was pieced together from whatever footage they could find. Anyway, while I seem fairly negative about this movie, I did enjoy revisiting "Scalps" and would recommend it to slasher movie completists.Movie Review: "HALPS" for your going to need it if you watch this!
Summary: 3 Stars
Oooooof! Where do I start? If you are a lover of the film SCALPS then you will be happy to know that this DVD is shown in wide screen format
and uncut(unlike the VHS copy I use to own)and has audio commentary from the makers as well as a trailer. That being said this is a very BAD movie but!!! If you enjoy movies like Plan 9 and The Manitou(which was good) then I believe you will enjoy this movie. A stalker is possessed by a ancient Indian demon and "SCALPS" as well as stabs his victims. This has some of the worst acting I have ever seen in a film(and friends I have seen a lot) seriously the acting in this made the actors in CANNIBAL FEROX look like THE GODFATHER. Still it does however bad it is have its moments. The possessed killer does look FREAKISH in a Linda REAGAN Blair sort of way and has cameos from Kirk(SUPERMAN)Alyn-Carol(Mark of the Vampire)Borland and the biggest CLASSIC MONSTERS fan of them all J.(No not you J.from Amazon)J. Forrest Ackerman. If so bad why 3 stars? Because this is great in a M.S.T.3000 sort of way, I mean we have a fight scene where the guy kicks the face of another but in no way does his foot even come close to the head yet still we hear a big "WHAP" and their is lots of BLOOD!!! Had to laugh for their is a scene with a actor who is dead and has blood all over him but yet you can still see him Anyway buy SCALPS! Yes its bad...But in a good way
Movie Review: Interesting Native American themed horror
Summary: 3 Stars
Possibly one of the only Native American themed horror movies ever, the widely banned and censored Scalps. The story follows a group of student archeologists who travel to the remote desert in search of ancient Native American artifacts. Seeing as they are desecrating sacred grounds, it doesn't take long for them to get their come uppance from savage indian spirit.
While it may bear some semblance to the typical slasher movie format, this movie has a few things that make it stand out. Scalps certainly lives up to its name as the spirit's primary means of disposing of victims is scalping them with a tomahawk, and while we're on the topic, Scalps is a pretty gory horror movie for its time in general. It also captures an effective feel of rural isolation that creates a nice bleak atmosphere.
For anyone who loves cheesy, gory, non-politically correct, low budget horror, Scalps would definetly be one for you. It's quite gritty and choppy looking as censored footage was edited back in, but for the viewer that is accustomed to movies of this nature this shouldn't be too much of an issue. Scalps is a nice little diamond in the rough, highly recommended.
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