Run! Bitch Run!

What I Spit On Your Grave was for the seventies, and MS 45 for the eighties Run Bitch Run will be THE revenge movie for the, how do we call it, the first decennial of the new millennium. This is a pure revenge movie I can tell you that. so you know what that means, girls got raped, girl survive girl starts killing. Mostly the killings are done off camera so no gore galore in this flick, but that doesn't matter. It's weird enough. Were in I Spit a scene was cut in the bathroom, you geeks surely know what I mean, because it wasn't boy friendly we also have a scene here were guys will think, ooowie my ass. The only problem I had was the fact that after 45 minutes the movie slows down a bit. The scene at the bar takes a bit too long. But the acting is believable, they all have been type casted. The fact that playboygirl Christina DeRosa goes naked makes it a movie for the guys, in fact, there is a lot of frontal nudity. And included as extra on the DVD is the movie that the guy is watching at home, again, full frontal nudity. But also have a look at those faces, the bad girl, what a face, perfect casting. And the face of Cheryl Leone, man, isn't that a seventies face or what. The score is perfect too and the colors are washed too to make it a drive in flick. Be sure to watch it, it's a trip down memory lane.

OK, I understand that this is supposed to be a throwback to the Golden Age of Grindhouse Sleaze, but it follows the recipe a little too well for my tastes. Lots of needless exposition between the few action scenes means that you lose attention (and sympathy) pretty quickly.

And like the grindhouse flicks, there's quite a bit of 'cheating' in the film. The camera always cuts away from the money shots, so you get plenty of shots of someone sticking a gun in someone else's face and then getting blood spattered on them in a reverse shot. It reminds me of something you'd see in "Sorority House Massacre."

And as far as nudity or sex, there's not really that much.

Overall, the discomfort this film might generate is pretty weak. Go see a true exploitation film, like "Hanger," if you want to see this sort of thing done to the extreme.

Let me first tell you that i love exploitation movies and over the past 10 years some directors have tried to capture the spirit of the nasty exploitation movies of the 70's, the one that captured that spirit was Rob Zombie's "The Devils Rejects" it was well directed, edited, and at least the actors gave a damn about there performance, now a lot of Grindhouse movies in the 70's was badly acted but thats no excuse now, the big problem with Run Bitch Run is the student like direction there is no flair with the direction, it's just plain flat and the editing is very bad, don't get me wrong i really wanted to love this movie (the trailer looked fun) but it was bad, and not even in a good way.. I know there were working in a very low budget but it looks like the film-makers did not even try, it was just lazy work..

Now the story is pretty much the same as I Spit On Your Grave, just a standard rape and revenge that you have seen many times, but what really sucked about the movie was the violence, it was not brutal or disturbing enough, now let me tell you, forget about some of the good reviews that this movie has been getting, it's all lies lies lies, what you really want to see is some hard hitting bloody violence some sleazy sex and this does not deliver..The only good thing about the film is the nudity...Trust me, the trailer is much much better than the whole movie...in other words avoid...

In the intro we meet a bunch of creeps in what is described as a whorehouse. Although they don't think twice about killing the customers.

Two girls from a Christian school travel around selling bibles door to door. They're not doing well and even get robbed by a little kid. When they stop at the whorehouse you just know things are going to get ugly. Sure enough, the two girls are grabbed, one of them is raped and dies when she's forced to play Russian roulette. The other one is taken to the woods where she's given a chance to escape, but the main bad guy catches up with her and rapes her. She's then is offered to a secondary bad guy to be raped and killed. However, she manages to escape when he has second thoughts upon seeing her crucifix, not before beating her a little.

She ends up running around the woods naked till she ends up on a road and collapses. She's brought to a hospital where the doctor makes it sound like she's on the verge of death for reasons unknown. Not so fast...a few moments later she wakes up, grabs a nurse's uniform, finds her car, and drives back the the whorehouse to take brutal revenge.

The story had been told many times before. What does Run! Bitch Run! offer? Not much really. It's low budget, so it doesn't look polished. Audio is even worse, no, it's downright terrible. Except for the music, which sounds good and it's pretty much constant and loud. Too bad they didn't pay as much attention to the actors voices. There are actually some neat tunes among the non-stop music, which is similar to the stuff Tarantino uses. I'm not even sure what genre it is. The principal cast does a good job acting, especially Peter Tahoe and Ivet Corvea. Some of the secondary cast don't seem to be actors at all. There's some violence, some nudity. The female cast is somewhat attractive, in particular Christina DeRosa whose character unfortunately only gets only little screen time. Writer/director Guzman likes his sexploitation pretty crude and this movie captures the spirit but doesn't quite deliver enough violence or nudity, or quality audio. Compared to other movies, what the main character goes through, isn't THAT bad. But then again, for the budget, this movie turned out pretty well. It's with Nude Nuns with Big Guns that this crew get's a better chance to show what it can do.

Two Catholic girls (Cheryl Lyone and Christina Derosa) selling Bibles knock on the wrong door and get brought into a world of drugs, violence and prostitution. Soon, it becomes apparent that they probably will not survive, at least in one piece.

The film opens up with three couples having sex, two people taking bong hits and a john getting murdered. So the first five minutes really sets the tone for the rest of the film.

The word that describes this film is either "nudity" or "exploitation" because it is both of these and nothing more. Within ten minutes, we see a fully nude Catholic girl, some naked nuns, gratuitous nudity on characters who do not even factor into the plot, and more. The nudity pretty much never stops, so if you cannot go five minutes without seeing a breast or a butt cheek, this is probably your film.

This is a low budget picture, with the expected video and sound. The closest to any stars this picture has is the kid from Rob Zombie's "Halloween". The budget is not the big problem, though -- it is the plot. We have about 80% "I Spit on Your Grave" and 20% "Last House on the Left". There is practically nothing original about this film, aside from maybe the use of a plunger for masturbating.

I did like the nurse's outfit a lot, and it turned Cheryl Lyone from average to borderline sexy (though still not my type). The acting as a whole was pretty good, though at times I felt the leader wanted to be Michael Madsen, which only made me want him to be Madsen... but we cannot always get what we want.

If you cannot get enough of "I Spit on Your Grave" and need to see more senseless violence, rape and more topless girls than spring break in my backyard, this is your film. If you are not a fan of low grade knockoffs, this will not be your cup of tea.