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Sadly, by far the weakest of the four incarnations
I'd pay big money to visit Liberty's torch!
Pretty lame movie, better watch its great inspiration "Anatomy of a Murder" (1959)!
If there's "nothing" outside, where does the air come from (and everything else)?!
Whose penis is it we see?!
Wouldn't they have checked her fingerprints anyway? And what about the dead son's stabbed body??
So crime does pay?
Jack Bauer, sadly, totally wasted in this movie!
How many movies are called "The Contractor" anyway?!
Weird and totally absurd Berlin hotel lobby music
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MOST FASCINATING READ!!! Thank you very much for sharing that info.
Next on my eternal dream-wishlist would be the "Relieving Chambers" in the Great Pyramid...
Seriously, you don't come to this site before seeing the films in question! :-)
My. Thoughts. EXACTLY.
I have absolutely no idea why she is such a "star". Not a single memorable hit that is known all over the world.
For real superstars, try MJ, Madonna or Tina Turner with their endless list of classic songs.
My thoughts exactly!!!!!
***SPOILERS***
I could almost see the writers hanging out, raving about an idea one of them just had:
"Hey dude, what about you're on holiday on some bizarre s*** hole island and by accident you kill somebody of the locals; you get arrested and sentenced to death in some Kafkaesque prison but they can clone you and kill a copy of you instead and you're free to go." --- "Whoa dude, we gotta make a movie, c'mon!"
....but what arey the going to do with that idea once the bloody execution is over and you are still alive and back in your resort?
That's exactly where they ran out of any ideas whatsoever. How is the story supposed to end? In the movie, after it has turned out he has been played by his resort acquaintances the whole time somehow, he decides not to leave the island after all but to stay in the resort, lying alone on the beach in the rain - THE END.
Like dude, WTF?
Up to the execution, Cronenberg manages to create a really tense and immensely unsettling atmosphere of being far away from your safe home country in a sinister, oppressive, almost hostile country on an island in a luxury resort somewhere on this planet, protected by barbed wire, not allowed to leave the premises.
I love vacation horror movies, where the main characters are in some corners of the globe where totally different and often archaic laws apply, where you don't speak or read the language and you suddenly get caught in a nightmarish police and justice system after something (by accident or negligence) happens.
This should be a 30-minute short film that ends with the main character coming back to the hotel room, greeted by his wife but just somehow staring blankly at her. You don't know if this is still him or maybe in fact the copy, leaving open the question if something has indeed changed in his mind or consciousness after having been cloned. That would be my version of this brilliant premise!
I think he told him he now had two choices:
A) He commits suicide by hanging himself in the pantry in the next five minutes.
B) If not, he will be skinned alive, his body then rubbed with chili powder and finally roasted alive over low flame, thus being put to a death the devil himself would be afraid of.
I guess that's what he told him... :-)
Hm-HM!!! This IS a tasty burger!
Is what right...?
You got a point there... :-)
You could say the original SAW made a nod to TCM!
Not how ON earth did he do it but how IN the earth...:
--> SOLUTION: He dug a tunnel from one lesser frequented side entrance of the cemetery to right under the grave and could easily switch the bodies!................................... :-)
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..........NOT!!!!! Of course this whole sequence is pure BS and the worst writing possible, insulting the audience's intelligence WAY too much....
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