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The Secret Diary & Growing Pains of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

Sue Townsend

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Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new double edition, featuring the first two books in...

Doctor Who - The Novel Adaptations: Original Sin

Ken Bentley, Andy Lane, John Dorney and Tom Newsom

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On 30th Century Earth, the Doctor and Bernice Summerfield encounter the Adjudicator Roz Forrester...

Wolfhound Century

Peter Higgins

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A thousand miles east of Mirgorod, the great capital city of the Vlast, deep in the ancient forest,...

LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated Revenge (2018) in Movies

Sep 20, 2020

Revenge (2018)

2018 | Action, Thriller

8.2

(9 Ratings)

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I always feel a bit iffy about rape-revenge horror - it's a sub genre that at its best can be a satisfying and empowering thrill ride, and at it's worst, can come across as cheap exploitation. Revenge is luckily in the former camp.

Lead actress Matilda Lutz gives us a badass vengeance seeking protagonist for the ages, while the other three actors (it's a damn small cast) Kevin Janssens, Vincent Colombes, and Guillaume Bouchède effectively provide the the absolute bastards we all want to see die so badly.

The locations and wide shots in Revenge look stunning by the way. In between all the nasty bits(which we'll get to), it's just a stunning and vibrant film to look at, with a lot of the horror elements taking place in blazing sunshine.
As for the aforementioned nasty bits - holy shit, this film is violent. By the time the credits roll, everyone and everywhere is just covered in blood. The practical effects used are pretty great, and looks believable, even if the sheer amount of viscera is absurd at times.
It provides us with some grisly set pieces that linger on the brain, in particular, a scene where a character has to un-impale herself from a tree - it's genuinely quite harrowing.
Also, maybe give this a pass if you're squeamish about foot stuff. I don't know about you, but I always found the foot abuse in Die Hard rather uncomfortable, and this makes that look like a children's cartoon at times.

Overall, Revenge is just a smack to the face. A fairly slow build, but high octane when it gets rolling, with good performances, plenty of blood, and enough jarring sound and camera edits to make you uncomfortable. Worth a watch for horror fans, without a doubt.