Hate Crime

I found it on the 'banned movies in the UK' list that I'm trying to get through lately, as I'm consistently not shocked or excited by new movies of this genre.

It's filmed in a 'home movie' way; shaky cameras, cameras out of shot and not a great quality. But once I got used to this I found that it added to the tension.

There are some uneasy scenes. The family are made to do things unimaginable. But overall I wasn't hooked the whole time. It isn't very gory or violent, it's more of a mind thing as you're imagining what they're doing (because you can't clearly see where the cameras are placed).

It is watchable but to me not really shocking enough to be on the banned list.

I found this movie to be interesting at first, but now i'm disappointed with myself. I don't know what i found so interestimg in this movie, it definetly had potential but... yeah.

Hate crimes are a real problem and the movie is not the worst thing i have ever seen, it focuses on something important but does that really matter when the movie only scares you by showing some nazi's brutal fantasies? That's all you will get from this movie, it's not going to educate you and show you what is actually happening. I don't know why this movie was made, i didn't like it at all but i also don't really hate it because i have seen worse movies.

A Jewish family, who have recently moved into the neighbourhood, celebrates the birthday of their youngest son. Camera at the ready the father films the proceedings. Little do they suspect what will become of the night…from a time of celebration to one of terror! Hate Crime is when a Neo-Nazi gang decides they don't want Jews in their town and go to scare them off with a home invasion and acts of terror. Drug fuelled they take a step too far at the beginning then roll with this into something much worse. Taking the camera off the father they film the proceedings James Cullen Bressack's second feature length film is a very different monster to his first, his very personal journey that is My Pure Joy! Naturally a film from the perspective of thugs shooting footage of their own crime belongs in the Found Footage genre. It is very well done as well; there is a true feeling of viewing something that is actually happening with no unnecessary shaky camera work. Firstly we get what we would expect from a father fooling around with his camera then later on with the Neo-Nazis filming their atrocities towards the family.

James Cullen Bressack seems to be able to get a lot out of his actors here in Hate Crime! All the players in this from both parties portray their roles well. There is suitable amount of both terror and anguish from the family at what is happening to them. Each one is believable in what they they are experiencing. Then we have the three Neo-Nazis. These guys were great, suitably menacing and crazy; a real feeling of a drug fuelled menace. Each uses a number to represent themselves. No. #1 and No. #3 are brothers and No. #2 is their friend and fellow Neo-Nazi gang member. These brothers are pretty crazy guys while their friend seems more in control. Especially with the eldest brother No. #3, his mannerisms and the way he moves are brilliant! Being a film about violence towards innocence there are effects, and thankfully Mr Bressack went with all practical visual effects. There are some great moments when these effects are used very well, but I won't discuss them here as I don't want to spoil the film! Something else stood out for me too, and perhaps it is strange for me to mention, but the gunshots sound real in this and not tinny or what have you as we sometimes get; for whatever reason this stuck with me.

My only real negative about Hate Crime is the scene with the mother being raped by No. #3 and the later rape. I felt more nudity would have made this more shocking for the viewer! Not necessarily full frontal and what have you though. I think this would have been more shocking in creating an even more feeling of helplessness for the character of the mother. Although maybe the actress wasn't willing to go so far, thus what we get is all that could be done. However, in stating this it is still a great scene with the terror portrayed by the mother done very well.

With what we get with Hate Crime, James Cullen Bressack succeeds with his goal of creating a film that depicts the hatred of one group of people towards another with a different set of beliefs! Of filming torments being thrusted upon a family who were expecting a night of celebration and fun.

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When it comes to extreme films, there aren't many films out there that are more extreme than Hate Crime. This is filled with anti Semitic material from start to finish, as a Jewish family is brutalized by a rampaging trio of Neo Nazi home invaders.

We don't get much character insight at all before the carnage begins, which is the exact problem with the movie. Here we are supposed to sympathize for the characters, which the director succeeds in doing, but only because of the level of violence inflicted upon them, as opposed to generating some characters with any depth in them. Cardboard cutouts who have no name, no personality, just the capability of screaming to let the viewer know that they are in pain and remind everybody of how bad the situation is. Its like the horrible acts of violence that we hear on the news every night. We sympathize with the victims because of the situation, but we forget about it days later, because we didn't know them. That is the best way I can sum up Hate Crime. Yes, the victims are going through some very bad things, but we don't know these people. We don't know their interests. We don't know their names.

Hate Crime will appeal to those who like shocking acts of violence on screen for the sake of being rebellious, but if you want something with depth, then you are better off looking elsewhere!

Poorly simulated choke / hitting / r*pe scenes. Super fake violence in general. Almost no actual blood or torture throughout the entire movie, if you pay attention it's nothing more than * we walked in on this scene with a bit of blood *.

If your going to attempt making a shock torture porn movie at least do it right. The plot and reasoning behind the film was so believable it truly was a wasted film / plot.

This is just soft core Atroz.

Also, what a lame attempt to end the movie on some wholistic "80,000 hAtE cRiMeS" like this had anything to do with your movie.