BlackMale

This is a rather hard to find (not on video)film that fits somewhere in the Tarantino-type tradition of wild plot twists, explicit violence and psycho characters who outdo each other in their insanity and malevolence. There's also quite a bit of sick humor. After the first couple of minutes, I was ready to dismiss Blackmale as another low-budget, perhaps made-for-cable thriller, but it does have some originality and humor that makes it a cut above the standard genre flick. Many of the characters are actually entertaining and funny, if you can appreciate such humor. Still, it's hardly a great film and ends up being mainly an exercise in mindless violence.

I was fascinated by the subtitle on the cover "Ultra-violent stylish thriller" but in reality it was actually more a sad comedy than a thriller. The story begins with two friends who owe money and decide to blackmail a psychotic doctor for having crude sex, which they have on tape and it ends up with him blackmailing them.The movie contains scenes of rape and not for the faint-hearted. I would only recommend this movie to those who enjoy this kind of black humor, but by me if you wanted to watch an Independent movie Pi, or The Man Who Wasn't There would be a much better choice.

I saw this film about a month ago, and I have to say it wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. The reason I seen it in the first place was because I found out that Justin Pierce (R.I.P) was in it, and I haven't seen any of his other films apart from Kids, and Next Friday. And as usual he gave a great performance, and so did the rest of the cast.

The story wasn't particularly good but the way the cast acted they made the film watchable. So I would suggest if you want a film that is fun and not to be taken that seriously, than choose this you might even like it.

This movie is just total fun. Don't kill yourself over the plot of story line. Just remember that this film is to entertain you and make you laugh. If you ask yourself how it is possible for the girl to have the money when she couldn't have possibly will only make you crazy. Forget about it. It's one of the all genre covered films that adds just a little bit of everything. Excellent acting by that British guy from Cheers. He plays the best psychopath since Joseph Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt. The brothers who directed this film could be the next Cohen Brothers....keep your eyes on them!

*Coughs*

"Blackmail" has driven me to break my IMDb duck. I am usually in broad agreement with the overall scores, if not the individual reviews of the members of this august body. But it has to said folks. An average score of 4.1 is just wrong, Wrong, WRONG.

I was not looking forward to watching this - the cover text was a deterrent and, as others have said, after 5 minutes my finger was hovering over the stop button.

Then I got it - it's all tongue in cheek - a challenge to see how many cliches can be stretched to the furthest (inc goriest & sickest) possible extent and crammed into 86 minutes, overlaid with thick dollop (sorry to be technical!) of black humour. It's the obvious thing to do with a low budget movie, and it works wonderfully. I squirmed at the gore, and laughed as each cliche approached and was played out with hilarious familiarity. It even has a fabled "boot shot". I hope the cast had an absolute riot making it.

If you're into very black comedy, take out your brain and watch this.

A 7 for setting its stall out and executing it (geddit!) in a far classier manner than it suggests on the tin.

And you'll never look at a briar pipe the same again. Guaranteed.