siddheshgarg
Surface-diving you through Amsterdam, the serial killer takes us through randomly executed hits. While the classic Dutch film loses on humour with words like Goat-Fucker and Rusk-Dick after translation, it keeps you tuned with all the 8 killings.
Eric Vissner as detective Eric Visser doesn't do much in the film except romance the beautiful Monique Van de Ven without caring less about her young daughter.
Highlight of the film is the hero's jaw-line, repeated gripping villain's breathing and the speedboat chase during the climax.
Must-watch if you into world cinema and classics only.
Nick Duguay
Amsterdamned is a wonderful late eighties artistic slasher film that suffers from a rather unfortunate title. Although it was made in the Netherlands, it has all the trappings and style of a giallo piece. Honestly if it weren't for the location and language I could have easily taken it for giallo. Speaking of the location, excellent use is made of the canals, especially during one hectic chase scene- which although long, is never boring, and kept me absolutely riveted. The canals and the city of Amsterdam also create a very palpable atmosphere which really brings the entire film up a notch. In fact, it reminds me a lot of the film Don't Look Now. In addition are the meticulously decorated sets common to euro-horror and giallo. Amsterdamned is a fun, tight, and thrilling horror film that can be enjoyed by fans of both giallo and American slashers alike.
chaos-rampant
Initially I thought I would like this. In the credit sequence that opens this, a curious camera emerges from underwater to steal illicit glimpses of the neon Amsterdam night. The colors are bright and soft, and they bleed into a night of unspoken promise. Combined with this, the grisly murder (of a prostitute in skintight leotard, this fundamentally 80's of slasher movie beings) that follows made me anticipate an Argento or DePalma.Alas, it is not. We don't get the adventurous camera that embarks upon discoveries of psychosexual violence, or even a second rate giallo, instead we get a hackneyed police proceedural.We get a car chase and a boat chase through the canals, in the hope that they will inject excitement. Instead, they bore me with their 'action flick' tedium. We also see a boat singlehandedly towed away by one man in scuba gear, then sunk (with a knife?).The resolution of this stuns with its badness, with its cheesy, cheap ideas of twists and revenge. Cop things on 80's TV were more intelligent than this.
bas_jaburg
This movie is fun to watch because of its poorness. Audio is overwhelmingly bad, where all lines are dubbed and poorly synchronized.Also, Eric Visser must be one of the worst policemen around, since he basically does nothing to solve the crimes. Then again, that is sort off typical for dutch policemen anyway!Being from Amsterdam (and actually was at the set of the speedboat-jump over the bridge) it is great to see so many shots of the city centre. And (opposed to what many say), except for the bit with the people having lunch next to the canal, which is shot in Utrecht, almost all shots are taken in the Amsterdam canals.I guess if you like (bad) horror movies this one is a must.Bas
AD
