Forced Entry

Here is a prime example of why I respect 70's film-making. Although I can't say that I necessarily "enjoyed" FORCED ENTRY - I have to give it credit for its sheer "shock value" and boundary-pushing audacity. Those that think that hack films like AUGUST UNDERGROUND or SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS is the nastiest thing out there should really make a foray into the world of sadistic 70's/80's porn. These films show that they were doing things far more graphic, subversive, nasty, and ground-breaking thirty years ago...and not much has topped them since...

FORCED ENTRY is a strange installment in "classic" porn history. Playing out much more like a psycho/slasher film that takes itself quite seriously - but with unarousing hardcore sex thrown into the mix as the anti-hero of the film rapes and slashes his way through several victims. This sort of material is DEFINITELY not going to be for everyone, so you are duly warned...

Harry Reems plays a shell-shocked 'Nam-vet who uses his position as a pump-jockey (at the ironically named "Joe's Friendly Service") to scope out possible victims for his exploits. Reems (I don't recall him ever having a character-name in the film...) is frequently assaulted by flashbacks of the war, which are cut into the film via actual war stock-footage and sound FX. Obviously, our pal Harry hasn't adjusted too well to being back in the real-world, and only finds temporary "release" from these visions by stalking, raping, and stabbing women. There are 3 such scenes in the film - the first having Reems break into the house of a woman he met at the gas station, who he proceeds to humiliate at knife-point while getting a forced blow-job. After promising not to hurt her if she does a good job - he cuts her throat after he blows his load on her face. Guess he wasn't too fond of her "skills". Next up is another young lady that was a gas-station patron - who Harry yanks out of her shower and forcibly rapes at gun-point while spouting all kinds of nasty-talk at her. In the end, she is dispatched too by a stomach and titty stabbing. Finally, Harry meets his match when he goes up against two drugged out lesbo hippy chicks - who are so whacked out on something, that they try to "take advantage" of Harry when he comes in to rape them. This causes Harry to "short-circuit" - and ultimately spells the end of his rape and murder spree...

First off - FORCED ENTRY is filmed very matter-of-factly and can be considered quite "shocking" in it's starkness. The scenes of Harry raping women while the film is edited with scenes of war-footage and machine-gun and explosion sound FX can prove to be harrowing. That said - I didn't find the film quite as "rough" as others seem to. To be quite honest (at the risk of sounding like a sick-o...) rape-style films don't get to me the way that they seem to bother others. This is not because I in any way, shape, or form condone the act - it's that I can't relate to it from either side. I can't imagine being forced to have unwanted sexual relations against my will - nor can I really imagine violently forcing myself on an unwilling woman. I also don't personally know any rape-victims (or if I do - I've never been told...) so although I know this type of thing does happen in real-life, I have no personal experience to draw from, therefore viewing the situations in much the same way that I view an on-screen murder in a horror film - as not being "reality". I personally still find THE TAMING OF REBECCA to be the "roughest" of the XXX-roughies (that I've seen so far), with sickeningly graphic and demented depictions of simulated pedophilia and twisted sex-acts that in my opinion surpass anything shown in FORCED ENTRY. Still - FORCED ENTRY is not for the average viewer. The porn/rape aspects are graphic and unarousing, and the film itself overall is pretty bleak and dreary. Much like watching a sex-filled version of COMBAT SHOCK - minus the mutated baby. Those that dig or can handle dark and extreme films will probably want to check this out. Think MANIAC with a lower budget, worse acting (though Reems is quite believable) and hardcore rape scenes. 8.5/10

"Forced Entry" is a very low budget hard core rape/porn/horror which contains some of the nastiest and ugliest rape scenes ever filmed.Truly the rapes are filmed in hard core and are very uncompromising.In the film,the rapist played convincingly by Harry Reems makes the first victim to give him a blow job telling her that he won't torture her to death,too badly if she does as he says-she'll die anyway,but if she messes with him she'll suffer.He cuts her throat-the second victim is dragged from a shower to a bedroom,thrown on the bed and forced to give a blow job with a gun against her head.He then rapes her from behind and tells her "I didn't enjoy that..." and starts cutting her body with a knife and then stabs her in the breast.This murder scene is really nasty and cruel-not for the faint of heart.The dialogue is the worst aspect of the film:what he says is really dirty and unbelievable for example:"Is it starting to bleed in there a little hun?You don't know what bleedin' is do you,I'll show you some,I'm gonna' show you a lot of bleedin'!".Anyway,this film is extremely brutal and vulgar,I was really shocked and disturbed when I first saw this.Nothing is left to imagination,everything is shown in unflinching detail.I can't believe the fuss being made over "I Spit on Your Grave" when this film exists.Meir Zarchi's infamous video nasty is really tame in comparison to this one.Not a film for all tastes,but it pulls no punches with its sheer nastiness.Check it out,if you can handle it.

Forced Entry (1973)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Notorious hardcore movie attempted to mix real life drama with sex and graphic rape scenes. Harry Reems plays a gas station clerk who has just returned from Vietnam, which has left him mentally unstable. He gets various women's addresses from his job, follows them home only to rape and kill them. There's really not too much else to say about an actual plot and I'm really not sure where to stand on this movie. Having read about it for years I guess I was expecting something more brutal than what I actually got. I think, for the most part, this is just a porno movie that tried doing something more than just your average porn, which was something every porn was doing around this time. The fact that they tried to tell a "real" story of a troubled Vietnam vet was an interesting gimmick but I'm really not sure it helped the film any. To me, this is still just a porn movie and I think for the most part the film tries to play erotic just as much as it does disturbing. There are a couple sex scenes that are clearly meant for the erotic nature and then we get Reems breaking in on the women for the rape sequences. I found the violence in a few of the scenes, especially the second woman, to be a lot more disturbing than the rape scenes. I was surprised to see how realistic the murder sequence was as it almost looked too real. I think many could debate what the film was really trying to go for but the film-making is rather lousy and this here takes away a lot of its more dramatic impact. I can't say I was really disturbed by this film. Future films like I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and MANIAC dealt with ugly subjects, minus the hardcore footage, and to me were much more disturbing. I think many expect this to be more graphic with the hardcore scenes, which is pretty much a given in terms of sexuality but the dramatic side that they were going for is lost due to some bad editing and just overall below average film-making. I did like some of the camera shots that got us "close" to the action but that's about it. As a porno movie this is a mixed bag. As a drama it's a failure. On the level of plain weirdness and depraved film-making it somewhat works as there certainly aren't too many films out there like it.

Forced Entry comes these days with some weight of historical significance, above and beyond its own content. One of the earlier of "Vietnam vet goes crazy" flicks (though I recall Oddo and maybe others came first this was among the first to make a big impression) as well as being the film that really "broke" the 70's roughie genre (yes, I know Sex Psycho was first), its worth a watch on grounds of importance alone. But is it a good film in its own right? Well, yes and no. The best thing about it is its sheer grime. Crude, repetitive and utterly devoid of social merit the very sight of it slathers moist and grim across the eyes, by the end one watches the film as if through some sheen of noisome condensation. Speaking of noisome sheens, at one point the hero of this one spunks direct to the camera lens, always a sign of taste and class. Our hero, while we're on the subject is rather nicely portrayed by Harry Reems, he isn't as frightening as the role calls for but is finely compelling in a swarthy, intensely seedy kinda way, and makes good use of his lewd and hateful dialogue. The various rape scenes are suitably mean spirited, though I must say they could have been a lot rougher for my tastes, or hotter. By and large I'm of the opinion that cinematic rape should either be savagely violent, cruelly eroticised or both, but here they consist of pretty generic non consensual in out in out action, the dialogue makes them quite fun but there's little energy or style to hand and watching long close ups of a guys pounding member or bouncing nut-sac gets kinda dull after a while. Still, the important thing is that they're there, even though I wasn't that personally impressed the sheer affront to most peoples taste still makes it a winner to me. After all, most people suck (and not in the good way). The Vietnam connexion is fun as well, our crazy veteran suffers from constant flashbacks without rhyme or reason, the editing serving to almost promote a sense of hunted horror, it adds an interesting flavour to the mix and is particularly amusing at one point in which the film cuts from jism pooling topside of a broads buttcrack to dead Vietnamese children and back again. Actually this could be seen as a meaningful juxtaposition of of wasted lives but I laughed instead. I did wonder about the realism though. Why would a disturbed veteran, tormented by memory, oppressed by enemies even in peace, go out on a rape spree as opposed to just a general killing spree? If he saw enemies everywhere, why would he only search out chicks to kill? I could understand if the chicks were really hot or aggressive or something but for the most part they're just kinda rogue. He does hate hippies (doesn't everyone?) but I'm still not sure that excuses his single-mindedness. I guess this film is probably smarter than me, which isn't too much of a surprise. Anyhoo, this isn't a great film by any stretch but its still a must see for sleazoids. So if you haven't yet, you know, go track it down sucker.

This has to be one of the most brutal films I have seen , regardless of the more well know films along this theme (House by the Edge of The Park , Last House on the Left) , "Forced Entry" by its low production values , obtuse direction that is meant to leave you wondering what the hell went on , and the most bizzare inclusion of hardcore scenes , that were the most unplesant I have seen in years. It stuck out as a little know and heavily derided work. I dont think it could be classed as a "Adult Film" (as in pornography) because you would have to be one sick individual to get aroused watching this. That is where a lot of the contraversy comes from , and I was amazed that it was included in the film , and it would have been better without the hardcore rape scenes. We get the idea of what is going on , but having 8 mins of him forcing a woman to give him oral sex and then cutting her throat (and we do get to see the money shot) , had dubious overtones. But then again the subject matter is not one that should be glossed over , rape is an evil crime and I have never seen it put across so well , if brutally as in this film. So I was in two minds about it, I did like and and thought that it went to places that film makers are rarely brave enough to go , but then on the other hand I could see people taking it the wrong way. But you should make up your own mind and see it .