Redhead

So, I found this on Tubi and expected it to be one you might watch for the opening and cut it off. BUT!! I was pleasantly surprised by the pacing and totally forgot how long I was actually watching. Though the idea of a woman constantly being sought after is somewhat unrealistic... and her ability to off them one by one, I do realize there is a possessive, super-natural element to the whole thing and that makes it wonderfully unique for a female-revenge flick. Johnna Hodge seems to be wonderfully confident in front of the camera and I just have to wonder how she handles all that blood to the face. It's like water boarding with bodily fluids! Watch out boys... multiple acts of genital mutilation here!!

After being tortured and humiliated by a psychopath, a woman who escaped the situation with a series of triggers for extreme violence sets out on a path of vengeance against anyone and everyone she comes across that set off her triggers eventually leaving a massive trail of bloodshed and bodies behind her.

This was a pretty fun exploitation-style genre effort. One of the finer aspects of the film is the strong and generally enjoyable setup that provides the necessary reasoning for the ensuing rampage. The situation she finds herself in, trapped and held hostage with her husband and friend and systematically abused by the guy, works quite well at establishing not just the brutal tone the rest of the film follows but the justification for what goes on by signaling the type of psychological and physical abuse she suffers. Watching a person murder both her husband and a random stranger in front of them and then revel in the aftermath with their exclaiming joy at the condition they've been left in and feeding their remains to her is rightfully shown to be a traumatizing experience and the psychological impact that type of situation has on person gets explored nicely here with her vicious and brutal outbursts later on being fully justified. This justification allows the film to go about delivering a solid series of extremely brutal and graphic outbursts to play off the emotional trauma she's experienced. The series of fantasies and hallucinations she has that showcase the brutal extremes she goes to with the mindset she's developed that sees nothing wrong with delivering retribution on people including stabbing them in the head repeatedly, slicing their nutsack off to feed it to the perpetrator, or strangling someone with their exposed intestines. These scenarios, which escalate nicely in terms of brutality and graphic execution throughout here, focus more on the catharsis of the situation than shock or thrills but still deliver the goods throughout here especially when it moves beyond her being justified in the actions to the later half spree which is shown to be influenced and outside of her control. That far more overt sense of glee and overwhelming joy at what she's doing delivers on actively setting out for victims or wallowing in the carnage inflicted on her mission, all of which provides the film with quite a lot to enjoy about it. There aren't too many flaws with this one, but it does have a few minor factors. A lot of these issues are centered around the bizarre form of punishment doled out here where a lot of the actions that trigger her are shown to be worthy of doling out the kind of reaction here. While it's mostly explained away by the way her mind's snapped, the mentality of everything here being met with the kind of murderous instinct for the everyday garden-variety creeps who hit on her and have no follow-up or interaction from the authorities is so unrealistic it doesn't come off all that well. That no one has suspected or caught on to what she's doing since there are way too many warning signs about it is unrealistic as well, and this whole factor of the film is somewhat disappointing. That also leaves a lot of these encounters to be highly repetitive with a misconstrued come-on resulting in excessively violent outbursts to seek revenge for what happened that gets old somewhat fast, and overall serve to be the main issues here.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

Ugh, another movie that is written, directed and starring the same people. Yeah, those movies usually have a tendency to not the worth the effort. Yet, I still opted to watch "Redhead" and give it a fair chance, with it being a horror movie that I hadn't already seen. So I opted to give Johnna Hodge and Sam Hodge the benefit of the doubt.

The storyline was a bit sluggish. There were a few bright moments in the narrative, sure, but the movie wasn't particularly interesting in overall.

Needless to say that I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, but the acting performances were all over the place. Some performers were able to put on adequate performances, while others looked like deer caught in the headlights of oncoming traffic. And especially leading actress Johnna Hodge didn't do it for me, as she was stripped of any acting talent entirely. And having to endure her performance for 97 minutes was a test of wills.

Something that worked in favor of this movie was the amount of visceral mayhem and blood that was in the movie. That definitely helped to make it a bit more bearable to sit through the movie.

For a low budget horror movie, I will say that the movie makers actually pulled it off well enough. I've seen far worse low budget movies. Sure, "Redhead" had its shortcomings, but it had its bloody moments.

My rating of "Redhead" lands on a generous four out of ten stars.

This was disgusting and I mean that with adoration. The effects were amazing. The music was phenomenal. I would say maybe it could have been a little shorter as it dragged a bit, but it was a lot of fun and I enjoyed hearing people's reactions to the gore. Also the filmmakers are so sweet and kind, it's no wonder half the village of Barboursville was involved. To quote Jeff, "dude hell yeah" this is like the 80s action movies where the male director self-casts as the protagonist wearing a black tank top beating people up, except for women who post unironic biker skeleton memes on their instagram story.

Love everything about this movie. I love the lead actress becoming a villain and the movie quality was so great. Great gore and great acting. I see eye to eat with the movie and the character lead and the whole thing was eye candy the way it was made all through. I was impressed with everything with this movie like an iconic horror. At the end I was wanting more and hope there's more to see with a continuation of this movie . So much fun watching this woman go from a weak person to a scary killer. Will watch this lots where it's too fun and I loved the little dog in the movie so cute that she found and has as her new found friend. Love a cherished movie to me .