djangozelf-12351
I have no clue what the makers tried to do. What I do know is that they failed.First of,I can't remember seeing a slaughterhouse in this. Second,I thought rising sun had something to do with Japan but that also wasn't the case here.It's trying to make a homage for the seventies grind-house flicks but it also fails at that. Further more it did not need that at all and could be easily put in the present day.More than an hour long nothing really happens other than a girl meeting some free spirited souls. There is some sexy "behavior"but surprisingly little nudity for this sort of subject matter.There is some gore and some "ghosts" in it but none of them convincing enough to give it another star. It lacks content and you would be better of watching something good from the actual seventies.At the end of the movie you even get the idea the actors themselves did not take this to seriously.Comedy was given as 1 of the genres but as that was not in the film I think that means that the joke was on me.I wasted time on this.I hope...you don't.
Claudio Carvalho
In the 70's, while acting in a porn movie, Jennifer (Cheryl Dent) has a vision of her dead sister Jessica and attacks her dwarfish partner Nasty Nat (Pancho Moler). She is sent to a mental institute and six months later, her doctor discharges her under the condition that Jennifer should stay with her parents using medicine for a period. While driving through the desert, Jennifer is thrown in a ditch by the truck of two guys that want to rape her. However she is helped by the dysfunctional hippies Damon Grey (Vin Crease), Violence Onelove (Michele Morrow) and Guilty Karma. They invite Jennifer to spend the night in their camp and they offer peyote to her. Under the effect of the drug, the delusional Jennifer and her new friends are haunted by a mysterious fiend. "Slaughterhouse of the Rising Sun" is a weird movie, with bizarre characters and situations that are not well-developed. The dysfunctional group of hippies, for example, are totally insane and silly, and their violent attitudes are unusual and against the philosophy of "love and piece" from the 70's. Jennifer's insanity is never explained, and the viewer has no explanation why she has this killer instinct and why she killed her younger sister. The genre shifts between a comedy that is neither dark nor funny and horror that is silly and never scary. Therefore the film fails. The best offered by this flick is the version of The Animals' "House of the Rising Sun" in the end. My vote is three.Title (Brazil): "Delírio Assassino" ("Assassin Daydream")
charlytully
This film actually is a shot-for-shot remake of Pole Romanski's suppressed 1968 flick HELTER SKELTER HONEYMOON, the infamous American version of Leni Riefenstahl's Nazi classic, TRIUMPH OF THE WILL. Shown primarily at the seediest inner-city flicker houses, a bootlegged print of HSH found its way onto the Manson family ranch, and the rest is history. Before Watergate, so the story goes, the Dirty Tricks Division of the White House rounded up and destroyed the few copies existent. My campus was open-minded, so it was double-billed with PINK FLAMINGOS--prior to Manson making headlines, of course.It is easy to see why D.C.Mann (an obvious pseudonym) choose the second fake name of "Vin Crease" and renamed this film SLAUGHTERHOUSE OF THE RISING SUN. At least when Gus Van Sant perpetrated his uncalled for similar remake of PSYCHO, Hitch already was pushing up daisies. Whoever Mann or Crease REALLY is, how did you get your hands on a script or print of HSH? More to the point, how do you sleep at night? I get shivers just thinking about it, and Charlie's not even paroled yet!
Rubbed Raw
This is not a horrible movie. It has a few moments. But there are many obvious giveaways that make it clear that it was not made in 1972. Things like hairstyles, clothing, the use of a steadicam and other modern digital editing techniques totally spoil the potential illusion. I don't know how anyone can say that it is convincing in this respect. Unless they have not watched a lot of films from 1972. The music is probably the most convincing part. I also think they make the mistake of playing for laughs at times (and not getting them) when they should have just played it straight. It could have been funnier that way. Just watch SCTV for examples of how that can work. But, in fact, I would have preferred it if they were not going for laughs at all. If they had instead chosen to just make a good solid horror film in the style of movies from 1972. And just an odd side note: Texas Chainsaw Massacre came out in 1974. I'm not sure how to interpret homage to/parody of a movie which is embedded in a movie that's supposed to be made two years earlier.
AD
