Cry Havoc

Unless the writer and producer IS the Charles Bronson actor under a pseudonym, this looks like a vanity project, yet it's not. I guess the writer director had a wet fantasy to see Charles Bronson take on Jason Voorhees?

A wanna-be big time reporter is invited by one of the top 10 most wanted criminals the FBI to interview him. She accepts and learns Detective John Kimble didn't kill him in 1991 and he's since gone on to make snuff films. His star of his films is a Jason Voorhees rip-off, one whom looks like he made his mask out of the exterior of a baseball then jammed his head in a fishing tackle box. Big Bad Villian Crisp then watches as a voyeur as his Jason called Havok kills a bunch of girls lured in to his neck of the woods with the promise of becoming big time actors, not knowing they're going to be killed.

A very predictable plot happens with the reporter, but it switches focus to a cop looking for his daughter he suspects is in the vicinity. This cop looks like Marty and Doc travelled to the 60s or 70s and brought Charles Bronson with them to star in this movie.... this includes flares and 70s tough guy cop attitude who is the only guy in the world who can shoot straight and hit targets. It would be almost laugh worthy if it wasn't so lame that this guy thinks he's one bad mother trucker and just blows away bad guys with his gun, then slow motion walks away... infact the slow motion use was sickening in this film using it to try and show how bad this guy thinks he is... least it wasn't Rob Zombie introducing his wife's character in every movie he does with a slow motion rock video shoved down your throat because HE thinks she's the most beautiful thing in the world, but it's still pretty bad use of unnecessary slow motion.

Anyway, there's half a decent movie here, then it just goes off the rails and had no idea where it was going trying to get Jaso...Havoc to face off against Charles Bronson, and when it does, it's not worth the effort as it's poorly executed and anti-climactic with a stupid ending leaving you thinking "is that it?" Also leaving many unanswered questions and unresolved characters.... or perhaps the director thought a sequel was going to explain it? Well that's a joke, no one will ever want to see it.

Overall, decently made, but poor directing and writing making it a film no one will ever regret not seeing. Nothing special, no memorable lines, no fun kill or laugh at gore effects even to check out just for that. The movie offers nothing to audiences. I mean, look, it's watachble from start to finish, it's not boring, but I'd most likely say pick something else to watch, it's just one of those typical anticlimactic movies that just kinda abruptly ends suddenly with nothing being resolved.

I know what type of movie it is I know what was I getting myself into I did like Death Kiss (2018) it was traditional of Death Wish film same actor looking like Charlies Bronson type but actor named Robert Bronzi but with this film I like idea that Robert Bronzi is in a horror film type nice cinematography, type of style of film, location was nice place to film in Forrest it didn't look cheap so as gore was good not faking looking but rest of action was cheap like gun shooting, fight scenes didn't look to real felt Cliché in 70's type of fight scene

this was really poorly directed poorly ending left it as cliffhanger film 99% focus on blond journalist girl (Emily Sweet) that's it and less of Robert Bronzi saying to everyone have you seen this girl carrying photo to everyone including girl is tied up witch it is stupid what about cut her free then ask her what you wanna ask? but no this film is far too dumb to do that. you have him in action kills couple bad guys that's it with a little small revolver 38 crap he uses director or someone could give him an shotgun or machine gun? is this film that was soo cheap could not get different type of guns? so completely cheap all henchmen's uses same guns nothing different. the killer type of look looked great scary type of guy played by (J.D. Angstadt) as Havoc cooling looking mask and everything on material that has been made, weapon looked cool and specially killer really looked like from video game Dead by Daylight this is what it felt like it looked like Dead by Daylight if you played it you know what I mean survivors got to survive if they get caught they get killed killer has to look for them it reminded me too much like Dead by Daylight game in forest with tall scary killer Havoc could be built better. threw out film start's off An ambitious reporter (Emily Sweet) is given an exclusive interview with one of the FBI's Most Wanted. She travels to a secret compound to meet the wealthy Voyeur (Richard Tyson) who is suspected of having paid to secure the release of the psychotic serial killer known only as "Havoc" you have scene of them 2 reporter Tyson character and she is finding out about himself about Havoc the only thing they do is they kidnap girls and run away from Havoc and survive and make a bunch of Snuff film (Robert Bronzi) was an rogue cop or ex cop whatever you wanna call it goes out their to look for a girl that got kidnap but you find out later at end of film it's his daughter (Spring Inés Peña) looking for his daughter threw out film at middle of film was just pointless dumb not boring but characters make bunch of stupid silly decisions, your not gonna like ending and it ends empty believe me this film is just reporter is running away from killer then in middle of plot was just pointless and useless and final showdown with Robert character to Havoc killer was nothing fight just Robert trying to punch with his boxing skills but Havoc is not felling pain then he is throwing him then hits him with rock then that's not gonna spoil it but film is terrible ending didn't explain nothing, explained at all or what happened to character nothing ending is like not even completed not even ending

film is for the blood and gore lovers witch I like gore staff but this is an film witch is nothing special at rest of it I like Robert Bronzi but not enough of him he has nothing to do in film sadly what can I say, there are loads of attractive females with bare breast I like that but that can't hold film bare breast I like that I can go strip club for that this film has Nudity I like films with Nudity but can't hold film or save film I know this film is trying to be traditional 70's or 80's horror film trying to be touchable but it fails he is the fantastic spitting image of Charles Bronson, and my only wish must be that some serious film giant gives this man a chance in a well written and directed blockbuster film not this junk cheap made film crap I like idea of film it was watchable but to the middle and end was stupid this is like your curious about spitting version of Charles Bronson the actor is Robert Bronzi who does a great job of acting this film you will watch it then never see it ever again believe me you don't wanna see this again

Right, so this LOW - go lower than that - budget slasher with a Most Dangerous Game twist does the most it can with what it's got, you gotta give it that much. Lack of funds result in some seriously risible Halloween Store moments, especially in the design of unstoppable, possibly non-human killer Havoc, but those can be overlooked if there's enough cheap thrills to go around. Having a plucky reporter interview the eccentric billionaire who created the murder park (really a clump of bare trees) that Havoc runs amuck in was a wily way to get the backstory told without having to pay for much, too. Said reporter is essayed by Emily Sweet, and she's iffy at best in this, kind of a completely charmless Samara Weaving. Anyway, she eventually teams up with a rogue cop that's wandering around shooting everybody. Robert Bronzi (with a dub job) is the cop and if you've never seen the dude before, the reports are true - he's an astonishing deadringer for late 60's era Charles Bronson. I mean, it's wild. So the vigilante and the Final Girl take on the kooky billionaire and the undead killer and it basically goes how you think it might. It would've been nice to have a more Bronzi-centric story, as he is by far the most intriguing aspect of this whole operation, but I'll take what Bronzi I can get.

The script is loosy goosey and again, it's really cheap. But Bronzi is so weirdly compelling that it's worth it just to gaze upon him. As far as exploitation type kicks go, I can at least report that every female actor in the film under 50 shows their boobs and there are a few solid gore gags (top of head ripped off, jaw removal, manual drill through the throat, etc). Not a great film by any stretch, but if you squint just a little, it's got some good stuff.

Director Rene Perez - who churns this stuff out at an alarming pace - really did put every penny on the screen. It was only like 17 pennies, but still.

This film is shot well, has the expected level of B-movie gore and nudity, and the plot itself is not bad. The acting is pretty terrible from all sides other than Robert Bronzi and Richard Tyson. In the version I watched, it seemed like they stuck a voice-over on Bronzi which really takes away from the film and feels stiff and fake. Bronzi has a nice voice and can act, why did they do this? If you like gore and modern sploitation films, this is passable. Cinematic gold it ain't.

There is a lot that's actually good here so let's do that.

The good:

The Gore: It's good and there's a lot of it.

The Plot: What you do get isn't bad.

The Acting: Minus dubbed Bronzi it's fine

The Bad:

The Plot: Remember how I said what is there is good?

Well there is so little of it that it becomes a massive negative.

It starts with a random kill and the random kills happen at random and do not stop throughout the movie.

You don't get any plot until you finally follow the reporter and then she's immediately thrown away for dubbed porn action scenes.

The Action: So the gore is impressive, but the action is so unserious (especially in comparison to everything else) that it just looks and feels wrong all of the time.

Ultimately the gore is good. But if the plot of your movie is just more meat for your grinder your movie is bad.

There are no characters. Just annoyance that the one the plot centers around isn't one.