Shaun Costello's (some akas for him include Amanda Barton, Warren Evans and Helmuth Richler) 1972 US hard core porn/horror film Forced Entry is among the most infamous and thoroughly mean spirited films ever made, albeit very rare and hard to get, dealing with the subject matter that is not suitable at all for purposes of entertainment, that is rape, as painfully realistic as possible and without any other meaning than the shock exploitation value. Rape can be just as graphic and horrible as in Forced Entry, French film maker master Gaspar Noé's 2002 masterpiece Irréversible being perhaps the strongest example with its anti violent themes, and it is only about how those scenes are used and why. Forced Entry goes shamefully wrong at every possible question.
A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran working at a gas station called "Joe's Friendly Service" is played by an ex-porn star Harry Reems (as Tim Long) and he hates females. The opening credits tell that the veterans are left and returned to society with deep feeling of fear, rage, frustration and anger, all of which are definitely true, and that all they need is a victim and an enemy. The protagonist's enemies are the members of the opposite sex whom he sadistically and extremely brutally rapes and then kills. He speaks dirty things to them during the act, things like "you better start liking that, bi**h", and the film concentrates on these long scenes of sexual violence and misogynism. So that's the story of the film, going from the previous victim to the next one, he gets their addresses as they visit his gas station and after the day, he finds the houses and it starts again..
The film is very amateurish in most levels, there are meaningless camera zooms and movements everywhere, the microphone can be seen on the top of the screen, the acting is only occasionally convincing (mostly the rape victims are not always at all realistic, they may even have a neutral expression on their face!) and the film is just so plain dirty and smut filled as possible. Reems' character is pure evil and sadism and violence are his best friends, but far more convincing and also challenging performance of this kind can be found, for example, in William Lustig's Maniac (1980) with the late Joe Spinelli as the maniac. Also, the endings of these two films are pretty close to each other but again Lustig makes it really harrowing and uses his camera with talent, not to speak of the incredible Jay Chattaway composed soundtrack.
Forced Entry has plenty of more or less actual war atrocities footage to add to the shock value, and a premise of this kind could create a wonderful piece of cinema, with plenty of social criticism and thoughts about the "civilization" of our world and how it contrasts with the wars and other things we do to each other all the time. A great example of this is Buddy Giovinazzo's challenging Combat Shock (aka American Nightmare, 1986) which depicts the living hell of a Vietnam veteran as he tries to survive the dirty, drug filled and violent streets around him, with no work and no one to help him anywhere. Forced Entry uses plenty of the war images which are pretty harrowing, to say the least, but don't add anything to anything as the film doesn't have a theme and any kind of meaning other than to be among the most notorious examples of the hard core sex film market. Also the editing is very bad at times during these flashback scenes, too fast and irritating and probably finished with the other eye already in the schedule of the next sex film to be made.
The rape scenes themselves are very strong and pretty hard to watch. If I noticed myself watching a film like this more than once, I'd really stop and ask myself what the hell am I doing? The rape scenes leave nothing to the dirty imagination, they include mostly oral sex and all in extreme close ups with shocking and mean dialogue from which the rapist seems to excite even more. This is a plotless porn film with a story of some kind and the main concentration is on how it could be made as sick and disturbing as possible. The murders are very badly made but graphic enough to leave even worse taste in the mouth after the rapes have been finished. There are no strong or surviving female characters in the film, all either get raped and killed or then messed up by drugs and thus acting like idiots. Neither the male characters are too plenty in the film, but as the Reems protagonist is the dominating abuser all the time, it all leaves a very misogynistic taste in the mouth after all, and it is pretty impossible to come up with a justification of its existence for a film of this kind. It is ready to go as far as possible to deliver the ultimate shock-excitement experience, with no thoughts on what kind of things they are in fact depicting and dealing with.
Forced Entry is not a film, it is an attempt to make some money by temptating the sex film audience by its controversy and graphic content which all rapes a tool called film and cinema. This is easily the lowest and also most disgusting film I've seen, surpassing even the Japanese Guinea Pig series, with titles like Devil's Experiment (1985) and The Flowers of Flesh and Blood (1985), and it is just because the makers didn't care for anything and let our nature's most dangerous and vile instincts come active while "writing" and shooting their product. 1/10
A deeply disturbed Vietnam veteran working at a gas station called "Joe's Friendly Service" is played by an ex-porn star Harry Reems (as Tim Long) and he hates females. The opening credits tell that the veterans are left and returned to society with deep feeling of fear, rage, frustration and anger, all of which are definitely true, and that all they need is a victim and an enemy. The protagonist's enemies are the members of the opposite sex whom he sadistically and extremely brutally rapes and then kills. He speaks dirty things to them during the act, things like "you better start liking that, bi**h", and the film concentrates on these long scenes of sexual violence and misogynism. So that's the story of the film, going from the previous victim to the next one, he gets their addresses as they visit his gas station and after the day, he finds the houses and it starts again..
The film is very amateurish in most levels, there are meaningless camera zooms and movements everywhere, the microphone can be seen on the top of the screen, the acting is only occasionally convincing (mostly the rape victims are not always at all realistic, they may even have a neutral expression on their face!) and the film is just so plain dirty and smut filled as possible. Reems' character is pure evil and sadism and violence are his best friends, but far more convincing and also challenging performance of this kind can be found, for example, in William Lustig's Maniac (1980) with the late Joe Spinelli as the maniac. Also, the endings of these two films are pretty close to each other but again Lustig makes it really harrowing and uses his camera with talent, not to speak of the incredible Jay Chattaway composed soundtrack.
Forced Entry has plenty of more or less actual war atrocities footage to add to the shock value, and a premise of this kind could create a wonderful piece of cinema, with plenty of social criticism and thoughts about the "civilization" of our world and how it contrasts with the wars and other things we do to each other all the time. A great example of this is Buddy Giovinazzo's challenging Combat Shock (aka American Nightmare, 1986) which depicts the living hell of a Vietnam veteran as he tries to survive the dirty, drug filled and violent streets around him, with no work and no one to help him anywhere. Forced Entry uses plenty of the war images which are pretty harrowing, to say the least, but don't add anything to anything as the film doesn't have a theme and any kind of meaning other than to be among the most notorious examples of the hard core sex film market. Also the editing is very bad at times during these flashback scenes, too fast and irritating and probably finished with the other eye already in the schedule of the next sex film to be made.
The rape scenes themselves are very strong and pretty hard to watch. If I noticed myself watching a film like this more than once, I'd really stop and ask myself what the hell am I doing? The rape scenes leave nothing to the dirty imagination, they include mostly oral sex and all in extreme close ups with shocking and mean dialogue from which the rapist seems to excite even more. This is a plotless porn film with a story of some kind and the main concentration is on how it could be made as sick and disturbing as possible. The murders are very badly made but graphic enough to leave even worse taste in the mouth after the rapes have been finished. There are no strong or surviving female characters in the film, all either get raped and killed or then messed up by drugs and thus acting like idiots. Neither the male characters are too plenty in the film, but as the Reems protagonist is the dominating abuser all the time, it all leaves a very misogynistic taste in the mouth after all, and it is pretty impossible to come up with a justification of its existence for a film of this kind. It is ready to go as far as possible to deliver the ultimate shock-excitement experience, with no thoughts on what kind of things they are in fact depicting and dealing with.
Forced Entry is not a film, it is an attempt to make some money by temptating the sex film audience by its controversy and graphic content which all rapes a tool called film and cinema. This is easily the lowest and also most disgusting film I've seen, surpassing even the Japanese Guinea Pig series, with titles like Devil's Experiment (1985) and The Flowers of Flesh and Blood (1985), and it is just because the makers didn't care for anything and let our nature's most dangerous and vile instincts come active while "writing" and shooting their product. 1/10