I watched this movie not too long ago, just out of morbid curiosity. But it is, by far, one of the worst films I have ever seen. I mean, worse than the multiple sequels to Halloween or Jason; even Cop & a Half with Burt Reynolds. Absolutely horrible... Anyone else agreeing with me, reply to this post.
shareI really disagree. The production values are terrible, but there's more to a movie than productions values. It may not be your kind of story, but the director had a very sure hand and created a consistently haunting world.
And comparing this movie to a Halloween sequel or Cop & a Half (a shallow big-budget movie-star vehicle) is like saying, "The Blair Witch Project sucked just like The Sound of Music."
I accually saw this at a cinema art house I'm a member at, and the director was there. He was glad to see that this movie accually had a small cult following after over half a decade. I thought it was scary, funny, suspenful and everthing left unsaid.
If you've never seen a movie worse than this, you've led a very sheltered life. Sonny Boy is really not bad at all, very low budget, but well-directed within the budgetary contstraints and very well acted too. Some of the story is exaggerated, but this kind of child-abuse is not as rare as some people would like to believe. The filmmakers have nothing to be ashamed of. I give it a 6/10.
"The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it."--Oscar Wilde
Wrestler-1 has hit the nail on the head. I don't think that there is any other movie that combines raw, unnecessary violence for no apparent reason (I mean Jason of Halloween or Freddy of Elm Street have a reason, revenge of a demented type but revenge nevertheless). Totally tasteless and makes one wonder who in his right mind would finance such trash. I wonder what it fetched in the box office.
shareIt did just a little less than "Passion of the Xhrist."
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
Personally I loved this movie. While I understand why some may not like it, I happened to love it. I found something that tried to be different from everything else being made and it made me ecstatic.
shareThere's no accounting for taste. Got any?
Nothing exists more beautifully than nothing.
I think you are misinformed. The "Passion of Christ" was a sort of a box office hit, at least in Europe, though it did pretty well in the States as well. It became a global blockbuster fetching a cool $ 600 million! Wherever you got that bizzare notion that trashy "Sonny Boy" did marginally less than the awe inspiring "Passion" is beyond me. Get your facts straight, next time...
shareI've been looking for this movie for the past 15 years... A DVD would be great!
shareWhat do you mean?
$1.98 is definitely less than $600 million.
'little' is a relative term, if you're not as wealthy as I, $1.98 may seem like a great deal of cash to you.
His facts are correct, though.
I don't like violent movies, but-- at least as I saw it broadcast-- this was not a what I would call a violent movie. A violent story, but not particularly gruesome visually. I see it as showing a little world, Slue's compound, in which women are excluded and violence has taken over the function of love. Sonny Boy is at first embraced as a triumph by which that world can perpetuate itself, but inevitably he comes into contact with the normal world and even his extreme conditioning hasn't completely immunized him against its influence.
shareJust saw your comment on my film SONNY BOY. As it's director I wanted to say you have it exactly right. You are astute in noticing that it is a violent story but not particularly gruesome, an important distinction that most people seem to miss.
RMC
Hello Sonny Boy director.
Five years ago you posted in a thread about someone trying to make a French DVD. Did it ever get produced? Did you get any offers after it showed on TCM Underground for the US or anywhere else?
I asked TCM Underground on Twitter if they would rerun it since I missed the first part.
Lots of talk but no results. I never heard back from the French producer and I couldn't get the distributor to release it in DVD. I also would like TCM to show it again. It was the main feature of a retrospective for David Carradine last year hosted by Quentin Tarantino, but that's about it.
Thanks for the interest.
RMC
RMC, you should talk with Blue Underground, Arrow Films or Mondo Macabro. One of the things they specialize is in cult films so hopefully they can release the film.
Btw, thank you for making Sonny Boy. It is the equivalent to punch in the gut. I loved it.
TCM is playing this film on Saturday, March 15. The time depends on where you live.
Since there is no DVD available, I feel fine burning it to a DVD from my DVR as I do with films not released on DVD.
Interesting conversation on this ridiculously titled tread. Even if the OP did not like the film, calling it the "Worst Movie I have ever seen," says more about his/her limited viewing history than it does about the movie's quality.
I'll finally get to see the entire movie!
shareFYI - Scream Factory is releasing it next month with extras!
I couldn't believe it.
"Jason of Halloween"
No.
I think its an incredibly bold nihilistic work. Needs a DVD badly.
shareIf I had seen three movies in my life, including this one, and the other two were Inception and The Dark Knight Rises, then, yes, this would have been the worst movie I had ever seen. However, I have seen Plan 9 from Outer Space and Xanadu, so this movie would have to be much worse to be near the bottom.
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