She Kills

I sat down to watch the 2016 movie "She Kills" with the expectation of it being an homage to the Grindhouse movies, and even IMDb have the movie listed as an Action/Horror movie. Well, it should be labelled as a spoof actually.

I managed to endure about 30 minutes of pure torment that is known as "She Kills", then I was ready to claw my eyes out. Not only was the movie having an amazingly boring storyline, but it was also brandishing amateurish acting that was dubious at best.

Sure, I get that the movie was intended to be this way, with questionable acting and having a dubious storyline, as a part of it being a tribute to the old exploitation and Grindhouse movies. But "She Kills" just failed to pull off the spoof in an enjoyable manner. And for me, it ended up being a catastrophic eyesore of a movie.

The dialogue was as heinous and cringeworthy as the acting was. And the things that took place on the screen was just uncomfortable to witness.

I am sure that there is an audience out there for a movie such as "She Kills"; I just wasn't part of that audience.

This is without a doubt one of the worst ranking movies I have ever stumbled upon. I was not entertained the least from what I suffered through those 30 minutes, give or take, nor were I enjoying anything that transpired on the screen.

My rating of "She Kills" is a generous one out of ten stars, simply because I cannot give it any lower rating than that. This was a total swing and a miss from writer and director Ron Bonk. And I can in all honesty say that I am not ever going to return to watch the rest of this movie.

A bizarre and grotesque wonder. I understand everyone who is tempted to rate She Kills a 1 but I also get if some may be tried to rate a straight 10. Well, I got well entertained by some gory and very funny and very absurd moments - so a rate of 7 it is from my side. Worth a try if you are able to enjoy very absurd, grotesque movies with a high trash and low budget factor (production and storywise) + overacting in a style that it is somehow reborn almost superb again.

I like b-movies. "Toxic Avenger", "Class of Nukem High", "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead" but they have still have more than good ideas. Even in a b-movie execution matters.

She Kills really needed an editor. The scenes just drag on, the cuts don't come fast enough. Further the acting is horrible. Of course I don't expect good acting in a b-movie but it's like everything was done with zero practice and on the first take. Lines are poorly delivered, no umph, it's like their reading the script instead of acting the lines.

There's lots of great and hilarious ideas and if they'd figure out the acting and the editing this could have been one of the great b-movies but as it is it's just frustrating to watch.

Ron Bonk's story is a hilarious ride into insanity, and sexuality. "She Kills" takes all the character flaws that fans of cult cinema celebrate in the b-movie genre, mixes it with a heavy dose of campy tasteless fun, and pops out an unhealthy amount of fun, tacky, gory awesomeness. Honestly I think this may very well be the first time I have seen camp and trash cinema from a straight man's point of view. Normally John Waters' movies, and the few new indie directors in the LGBT community are the ones who bring these awesome blends of style, and humor together in such an over-the-top way-and make it work. I laughed a lot while watching this movie. Everything is so visual, spoofy, and insane. Ron Bonk "goes there" in his play on the whole "revenge kill", grindhouse genre.

The special effects in "She Kills" are cheap, practical effects that are obviously cheap, but the way that they are used it doesn't matter. They are meant to be seen as cheap, practical, gory, and gross. The special effects, music, and cinematography style that Bonk goes with in this cult cinema comedy are all meant to be exactly what you see on screen, and it is all just fun, cheeky, entertaining madness. Overall "She Kills" is a great indie flick for the spoof, grindhouse/trash cinema fans who really dig the cheap and tacky stuff. It is a film that I will have on my shelf and watch over and over. Now this is not gonna appeal to the straight laced, serious grindhouse, revenge cult cinema movie goer, because everything is just so over-the-top, and yes you can even say - "shticky". Still I feel everyone should check out "She Kills" out. It will make you laugh, gag, and above all else you will be entertained.

This parody to 70's Grindhouse movies is good. Yes. There are scenes that made a lot of reviewers very uncomfortable, that they were unable to watch the entire film. Those scenes of sexual assault in She Kills, were made with a comedy element. Not like the scenes with the movies "Thriller :A Cruel Picture, AKA They Call Her One Eye, I Spit On Your Grave, Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom and other sexploitation movies that didn't tone down the sexual assaults. Those two movies that I mentioned, those sexual assault scenes were brutal. Here in She Kills, they took a lighter touch and even paid homage to Thriller with the eye patch as well as other exploitation and mainstream movies. The sexual in nature scenes were more of a comedy gross factor, than making the viewers think that this could be an actual assault taking place on film. The filmmakers and the actors are all in on the joke. They know it's a bad movie and they put their all of the worst into it. With double stand-ins, burned film, the dialogs doesn't switch up with the actor's mouths, the use of a dog and a cat being used as weapons for a fight, the use of not to scale models of buildings, roads and cars. There are even scenes with the crew in the shot.

It's a funny film. You have to stay with it. It doesn't go down easy, but you will laugh and groan at the same time.