I'm not sure if I should bother writing a review but as we can see from the highly contrasting reviews on this site, this film still shocks and annoys people. From the starting, Wes Craven creates an effective sense of the squallid dead lives of the killers that has not been done as well until "Henry Portarit of a Serial Killer". The expolitation begins at the first rape scene which is extremely babdly done with the girls not really tring to get away very hard But the second rape scene is a shocking contrast brutal, disturbing and lyrical. Not resorting to any obvious devices such as jarring music or anoy suspense. Craven creates one of the most despairing scenes in film.
Throughout the film it switches tones between when the girls are almost figures of dubious black hyumor, when we sympathize with them and when we feel for the killers. The shocking switches of tone as well as the completely innapropriate music score add to the shocking nature of this brutal film. This film mocks the idea of making a seroius film about it's subject. It is one of the most realistic films about it's subject but yet sees it with a curious distance and nastiness as well amplifying the emotions we feel.
Throughout the film it switches tones between when the girls are almost figures of dubious black hyumor, when we sympathize with them and when we feel for the killers. The shocking switches of tone as well as the completely innapropriate music score add to the shocking nature of this brutal film. This film mocks the idea of making a seroius film about it's subject. It is one of the most realistic films about it's subject but yet sees it with a curious distance and nastiness as well amplifying the emotions we feel.