She Kills

A bizarre and grotesque wonder. I understand everyone who is tempted to rate She Kills a 1 but I also get if some may be tried to rate a straight 10. Well, I got well entertained by some gory and very funny and very absurd moments - so a rate of 7 it is from my side. Worth a try if you are able to enjoy very absurd, grotesque movies with a high trash and low budget factor (production and storywise) + overacting in a style that it is somehow reborn almost superb again.

This movie is clearly a satire on the grindhouse genre. It has a lot of clever parts to it and I really wanted it to turn out better than it did. The problem is not in the ideas, but it is in the consistent execution. I like the over-the-top dramatic acting, except sometiimes the characters aren't over-the-top. I like the laughs from the "poor editiing." These remind me of old Benny Hill sketches with poor editing. These laughs come occasionally and are the best part. A lot of the other laughs aren't very funny. They are just gross or they are just stupid people saying stupid things.

I'm glad I watched this one, but I would never watch it again.

So I did watch this first - and then the movie this is supposed to be a sequel of. I don't think you have to watch the other movie before this. Or at all - but if you really dig this, you should watch the other one too. If possible in the right order. Not because of any story developments (I know good one, right?), but because this is better than the other one. I am standing up for that (no pun intended).

But yes there is innuendo to say the least - and there is the notion of trying to make even the most horrible situation funny. I am not sure if you can see the humor in the "Benny Hill" style ... sexual abuse of someone. If you remind yourself that it's just a movie, you may be able to let things go. I am just warning you and telling you what to expect. What you make of it ... that's up to you.

That said, a lot of nudity, a lot of blood effects and a lot of really insane "otherworldy" situations ... and humor! Above all it is the humor that will make or break this for you. And how "sensible/sensitive" you are ... because this literally takes not prisoners ... and when I say this, you could put that in the pun column too ... you've been warned ... or encouraged, not sure to be honest.

This parody to 70's Grindhouse movies is good. Yes. There are scenes that made a lot of reviewers very uncomfortable, that they were unable to watch the entire film. Those scenes of sexual assault in She Kills, were made with a comedy element. Not like the scenes with the movies "Thriller :A Cruel Picture, AKA They Call Her One Eye, I Spit On Your Grave, Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom and other sexploitation movies that didn't tone down the sexual assaults. Those two movies that I mentioned, those sexual assault scenes were brutal. Here in She Kills, they took a lighter touch and even paid homage to Thriller with the eye patch as well as other exploitation and mainstream movies. The sexual in nature scenes were more of a comedy gross factor, than making the viewers think that this could be an actual assault taking place on film. The filmmakers and the actors are all in on the joke. They know it's a bad movie and they put their all of the worst into it. With double stand-ins, burned film, the dialogs doesn't switch up with the actor's mouths, the use of a dog and a cat being used as weapons for a fight, the use of not to scale models of buildings, roads and cars. There are even scenes with the crew in the shot.

It's a funny film. You have to stay with it. It doesn't go down easy, but you will laugh and groan at the same time.

Ron Bonk's story is a hilarious ride into insanity, and sexuality. "She Kills" takes all the character flaws that fans of cult cinema celebrate in the b-movie genre, mixes it with a heavy dose of campy tasteless fun, and pops out an unhealthy amount of fun, tacky, gory awesomeness. Honestly I think this may very well be the first time I have seen camp and trash cinema from a straight man's point of view. Normally John Waters' movies, and the few new indie directors in the LGBT community are the ones who bring these awesome blends of style, and humor together in such an over-the-top way-and make it work. I laughed a lot while watching this movie. Everything is so visual, spoofy, and insane. Ron Bonk "goes there" in his play on the whole "revenge kill", grindhouse genre.

The special effects in "She Kills" are cheap, practical effects that are obviously cheap, but the way that they are used it doesn't matter. They are meant to be seen as cheap, practical, gory, and gross. The special effects, music, and cinematography style that Bonk goes with in this cult cinema comedy are all meant to be exactly what you see on screen, and it is all just fun, cheeky, entertaining madness. Overall "She Kills" is a great indie flick for the spoof, grindhouse/trash cinema fans who really dig the cheap and tacky stuff. It is a film that I will have on my shelf and watch over and over. Now this is not gonna appeal to the straight laced, serious grindhouse, revenge cult cinema movie goer, because everything is just so over-the-top, and yes you can even say - "shticky". Still I feel everyone should check out "She Kills" out. It will make you laugh, gag, and above all else you will be entertained.