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Helgärin aka Sacrilege is the sole non-adult film made by prolific xxx director Joseph Sarno.
The plot concerns a religious group going out to the woods, joined by a former member returned and a newspaper reporter. The former member has a sister living out in the woods who is said to be in league with the devil and killer their mother via decapitation. No surprise, once in the woods someone begins decapitating people.
Like the similar US-lensed Blood Frenzy, which was also the first and only non adult film by that director, the movie is surprisingly captivating l, despite its nearly 2 hour runtime. The first half of the movie is mostly setup and exposition, but it never feels boring.
The decapitation scenes are well done, but are very fast, and we only get 5 onscreen kills, which will probably not satiate those looking for another Friday the 13th, though the killer putting the heads on spikes in the woods is a great image. The finale doesn't much get the pulse racing either but if you can tolerate a religious drama/thriller interspersed with some quick but gory beheadings, Helgärin is a lost treat to track down.
Filmed in english, it's odd this movie never seems to have gotten a legitimate release. If this was cut down to about 80 minutes it would be much more palpable.
The plot concerns a religious group going out to the woods, joined by a former member returned and a newspaper reporter. The former member has a sister living out in the woods who is said to be in league with the devil and killer their mother via decapitation. No surprise, once in the woods someone begins decapitating people.
Like the similar US-lensed Blood Frenzy, which was also the first and only non adult film by that director, the movie is surprisingly captivating l, despite its nearly 2 hour runtime. The first half of the movie is mostly setup and exposition, but it never feels boring.
The decapitation scenes are well done, but are very fast, and we only get 5 onscreen kills, which will probably not satiate those looking for another Friday the 13th, though the killer putting the heads on spikes in the woods is a great image. The finale doesn't much get the pulse racing either but if you can tolerate a religious drama/thriller interspersed with some quick but gory beheadings, Helgärin is a lost treat to track down.
Filmed in english, it's odd this movie never seems to have gotten a legitimate release. If this was cut down to about 80 minutes it would be much more palpable.
We open on aerial footage of St Louis, MO... ok well actually it's just one fast shot of the arch and then a really long shot of Union station. I guess were to assume the random tile warehouse full of junk the movie takes place in is that building.
A group of men and women meet amidst the cement bags and vacuum cleaners to lay their plan of revenge out to the others: a lawyer who has wronged all of them must die. One of the men is four time champion martial artist Earnest Hart Jr.
That lawyer is a man who looks eerily like Dale Earnhardt. The first woman's revenge is tying him down and then humping him nude saying "touch me". Dale responds with "you're a lunatic!"
Eventually the revenge turns to fighting, and our mustached lawyer turns out to know some moves himself. Will he be able to survive each fighter the group has selected to beat him up?
Kick of Death: Death Kick is presented by David Heavener, and if you've seen any of his output around this time it fits in perfectly with that (zero budget, bad action, poor production qualities) but therein lies the charm of these dtv stinkers for fans of bad movies.
Each persons revenge is essentially a vignette. The women all get nude and try to seduce him before they bring in some guy who looks like a truck driver or aged gym rat to fight. Finally Earnest Hart Jr pops in to fight all the other combatants just because he wants to before fighting the lawyer.
William Crabtree just wanted to make a movie. He had a tile warehouse and knew some folks who could punch. Today it seems he has moved to Florida and owns a sign company, listing himself as an entrepreneur with a background of failed and successful business ventures. I don't know what he considers Death Kick to be, but if you enjoy bad shot on video action, this is a nice hidden gem. If you require your movies to have a higher budget than some Dominoes pizza and a 2 liter of Pepsi for the cast, look elsewhere.
A group of men and women meet amidst the cement bags and vacuum cleaners to lay their plan of revenge out to the others: a lawyer who has wronged all of them must die. One of the men is four time champion martial artist Earnest Hart Jr.
That lawyer is a man who looks eerily like Dale Earnhardt. The first woman's revenge is tying him down and then humping him nude saying "touch me". Dale responds with "you're a lunatic!"
Eventually the revenge turns to fighting, and our mustached lawyer turns out to know some moves himself. Will he be able to survive each fighter the group has selected to beat him up?
Kick of Death: Death Kick is presented by David Heavener, and if you've seen any of his output around this time it fits in perfectly with that (zero budget, bad action, poor production qualities) but therein lies the charm of these dtv stinkers for fans of bad movies.
Each persons revenge is essentially a vignette. The women all get nude and try to seduce him before they bring in some guy who looks like a truck driver or aged gym rat to fight. Finally Earnest Hart Jr pops in to fight all the other combatants just because he wants to before fighting the lawyer.
William Crabtree just wanted to make a movie. He had a tile warehouse and knew some folks who could punch. Today it seems he has moved to Florida and owns a sign company, listing himself as an entrepreneur with a background of failed and successful business ventures. I don't know what he considers Death Kick to be, but if you enjoy bad shot on video action, this is a nice hidden gem. If you require your movies to have a higher budget than some Dominoes pizza and a 2 liter of Pepsi for the cast, look elsewhere.
I stumbled upon this limited series documentary while researching the murders of four men on which little is known. When I learned that the supreme team was tried in the brutal murders of Fernando Suarez and Pablo Perlaza, and two additional men I was interested in this documentary to learn more about this notorious gang I admittedly knew nothing about.
After watching nearly three hours about the subject I learned even less about Supreme Team than was on their Wikipedia.
This rambling, narcissistic, gangster-glorification was a major let down, concerned more about making them look cool and putting in as many montages as possible.
First, we start by crowbarring the biggest name they got, LL Cool J into the beginning simply because he grew up in the same neighborhood and once went to a party with the gang.
The two gang leaders, Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and Gerald "Prince" Miller provide interviews basically amounting to tiny sound bites while they get their nicknames pasted on screen with their nice little graphic to look 'cool'. Then whenever they say something meant to be profound it comes up as a huge text across the screen. Let's also try to forget the part where they used that photo app to animate a still photo of the two making them smile at the camera (cringe).
As for the story, they definitely got a large amount of people that they could to talk about the gang, but it feels as though there was no planning before interviews took place, and we just jump from point to point without much of any idea where the history leading between each is. Sometimes it's just a man on the street reacting to information we've just heard.
It took until about halfway into episode two where it totally lost me. We get to the arrest of Prince and focus solely on how awful it was for him and his wife to have their home raided and police put her mink coats in the bathtub (they even filmed reenactment footage haha), while literally not even mentioning the names of the "four murders" he was wanted for. That's it. That's all the coverage it gets. Their drug dealing is only mentioned in passing after ep 1. Instead we hear about how Prince was a nice guy for pleading for police to let his wife put on pants, or how hard it is to hear "found guilty" in court.
Any doubt that this doesn't have an agenda to glorify this brutal gang that dealt drugs and murdered, ep three prominently features a man wearing a sweatshirt with Supreme's face and name on it proudly talking about how he wouldn't snitch on his friends and was given 20 years for such. Then their friends crying they are in prison. Almost all of the criminal aspects of this gang are brushed largely ignored because it would put them in a bad light.
The murders I mentioned? The Supreme Team gang members robbed two men before putting bags over their heads and beating them to death with a baseball bat, dumping their bodies across queens the same time two other exactly similar murders happened in the same area. But no, let's instead focus on how the leaders of this very gang were cool guys with aspirations and have "served enough time".
If you are familiar with the supreme team and hip hop history, you'll probably like hearing some more tidbits and seeing a flashy presentation. If you're watching this looking to learn anything about these men's crimes they were tried and convicted for, you won't.
After watching nearly three hours about the subject I learned even less about Supreme Team than was on their Wikipedia.
This rambling, narcissistic, gangster-glorification was a major let down, concerned more about making them look cool and putting in as many montages as possible.
First, we start by crowbarring the biggest name they got, LL Cool J into the beginning simply because he grew up in the same neighborhood and once went to a party with the gang.
The two gang leaders, Kenneth "Supreme" McGriff and Gerald "Prince" Miller provide interviews basically amounting to tiny sound bites while they get their nicknames pasted on screen with their nice little graphic to look 'cool'. Then whenever they say something meant to be profound it comes up as a huge text across the screen. Let's also try to forget the part where they used that photo app to animate a still photo of the two making them smile at the camera (cringe).
As for the story, they definitely got a large amount of people that they could to talk about the gang, but it feels as though there was no planning before interviews took place, and we just jump from point to point without much of any idea where the history leading between each is. Sometimes it's just a man on the street reacting to information we've just heard.
It took until about halfway into episode two where it totally lost me. We get to the arrest of Prince and focus solely on how awful it was for him and his wife to have their home raided and police put her mink coats in the bathtub (they even filmed reenactment footage haha), while literally not even mentioning the names of the "four murders" he was wanted for. That's it. That's all the coverage it gets. Their drug dealing is only mentioned in passing after ep 1. Instead we hear about how Prince was a nice guy for pleading for police to let his wife put on pants, or how hard it is to hear "found guilty" in court.
Any doubt that this doesn't have an agenda to glorify this brutal gang that dealt drugs and murdered, ep three prominently features a man wearing a sweatshirt with Supreme's face and name on it proudly talking about how he wouldn't snitch on his friends and was given 20 years for such. Then their friends crying they are in prison. Almost all of the criminal aspects of this gang are brushed largely ignored because it would put them in a bad light.
The murders I mentioned? The Supreme Team gang members robbed two men before putting bags over their heads and beating them to death with a baseball bat, dumping their bodies across queens the same time two other exactly similar murders happened in the same area. But no, let's instead focus on how the leaders of this very gang were cool guys with aspirations and have "served enough time".
If you are familiar with the supreme team and hip hop history, you'll probably like hearing some more tidbits and seeing a flashy presentation. If you're watching this looking to learn anything about these men's crimes they were tried and convicted for, you won't.