Nothing beats a good Revenge flick.
Some of my favorites:
Rolling Thunder
Thriller
Last House On The Left
Virgin Spring
I spit on your grave
Death rides a horse
Cain's Cutthroats
Dragon Princess
Kill Bill
STRAW DOGS
And pretty nearly every Kung Fu film...or it seems that way at least esp. as it comes to 70s and 80s stuff.
Thanks for mentioning ROLLING THUNDER. That movie doesn't get nearly as much "quality B-movie" notoriety as it deserves. Wish I could get it on DVD.
just watched it for the first time last night, Enter the Dragon. I loved it! :tongueout:
the Shawshank Redemption
Quote from: Bull on January 09, 2010, 04:31:27 PM
the Shawshank Redemption
Really? I guess it sort of is. Though that depends on what your view of Andy is, that is to say, if he did it or not.
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loads of other blaxploitation too.
Hmmm... wouldn't Sidehackers be considered this?
Shotgun (1989) :drink:
Shotgun Jones is a police officer whose sister (a hooker) is killed by a rich S&M loving lawyer. He breaks the rules and mouths off in the process of trying to catch him, gets thrown off the force and becomes a bounty hunter.
Quote from: The Burgomaster on January 09, 2010, 01:21:35 PM
Thanks for mentioning ROLLING THUNDER. That movie doesn't get nearly as much "quality B-movie" notoriety as it deserves. Wish I could get it on DVD.
There's a spanish disc out, but I believe it has bootleg quality. I cant confirm since I havent seen it. I'm still waiting for some cult label to release the thing.
Quote from: xXx_JaseSF_xXx on January 09, 2010, 03:39:17 AM
STRAW DOGS
I really hated SD. Peckinpah is one of my favorites, but this movie had a chance to be a pretty decent revenge movie...but it just didnt deliver.
Quote from: Me on January 09, 2010, 07:06:18 PM
STRAW DOGS
I really hated SD. Peckinpah is one of my favorites, but this movie had a chance to be a pretty decent revenge movie...but it just didnt deliver.
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Wow. I'm a big Peckinpah fan too and I love STRAW DOGS. The climax is among the best I've ever seen.
memento
oldboy
unforgiven
live free or die hard
The Majorettes (1986) - Sort of a slasher flick that turns into a revenge flick halfway through. One of my old fave's.
Quote from: Jack on January 10, 2010, 08:12:18 AM
The Majorettes (1986) - Sort of a slasher flick that turns into a revenge flick halfway through. One of my old fave's.
How about Slaughter High or House On Sorority Row. Not a true revenge movie, but still has elements of a revenge flick.
Quote from: SPazzo on January 09, 2010, 04:37:51 PM
Quote from: Bull on January 09, 2010, 04:31:27 PM
the Shawshank Redemption
Really? I guess it sort of is. Though that depends on what your view of Andy is, that is to say, if he did it or not.
Do you mean if the character killed his wife or not? I don't recall there being any ambiguity in that regard, it was pretty well represented that he did not commit the crime. The film, as the book, is written mainly from the perspective of the character Red, so I guess there could be some doubt, but I don't think the film was trying to have that doubt, I think it's assumed that Andy didn't commit the crime. My opinion.
Even assuming he didn't commit the crime, I don't know if this is really a "revenge" film. It's more about how a strong-willed man with a brilliant, methodical, and imaginative mind was able to carve out a niche (not to mention a tunnel) for himself while incarcerated for life, make some friends whom he positively influenced, and overcome extreme odds and the worst of luck to triumph over lesser men with the authority to coerce his life and actions. Now, while all of this resembles a revenge tale in alot of ways, I think it's a "triumph of the human spirit" story first, revenge story second.
Revengeploitation is entirely different. These films are much more primal, and designed to satisfy the filmgoers desire to see their adversaries writhe in agony an then be brutally killed. More often than not they share a common result: little to no redemption and all characters are left with little but brutality in their hearts for the rest of their lives. Death Sentence (2007) and The Brave One (2007) are perfect examples. They made 2007 seem like "the year of revengeploitation) flicks. Neither one were particularly good, nor were they terrible, but they satisfied all the criteria of a classic exploitation/revenge flick.
Thriller: A Cruel Picture (http://www.badmovies.org/movies/thrillercruel/)
I have nightmares about one-eyed hookers with shotguns because of this film.
Eye of the Tiger
Gary Busey fighting a violent desert biker gang that kill his wife and kidnap his child. Busey has a pickup truck with mortars and machineguns! His buddy is the Black Red Baron (complete with red biplane), and Busey kills a gang member by sodomizing the unfortunate b*****d with a vaselined stick of dynamite!
Straightheads, a.k.a. Closure (2008)
The starring role is Gillian Anderson, the star of my fave series The X-Files
A group of guys rape her and poke the eye out of her male friend, so she rapes one of those guys in the ass with a sniper rifle and her friend does the rest. It's my favourite revenge thriller, mainly because Gillian is nude in many scenes :buggedout:
Fight For Your Life
Fighting Back
Death Wish (screw the sequels)
Vengeance Is Mine
Quote from: retrorussell on January 29, 2010, 06:01:29 PM
Fight For Your Life
Fighting Back
Death Wish (screw the sequels)
Vengeance Is Mine
VENGANCE IS MINE is great! If thats the Ernie Borgnine and Micheal J. Pollard sicko 1974 classick!
HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER also comes to mind. Clint the Squint comes back from the dead to paint the town red.
The BLACK CAT (1934) with Bela and Boris. Bela returns to his old haunting grounds to kill Boris for stealing his wife. Bela skins him alive! !!!! "BIT by bit!"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4X9StsrNurw
QuoteEye of the Tiger
Gary Busey fighting a violent desert biker gang that kill his wife and kidnap his child. Busey has a pickup truck with mortars and machineguns! His buddy is the Black Red Baron (complete with red biplane), and Busey kills a gang member by sodomizing the unfortunate b*****d with a vaselined stick of dynamite!
YES!!! This filim is sorely underrated and needs more exposure.
I'm kind of partial to MS. 45 for some reason. Love the Halloween party massacre!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GObRvQexOmI)
And Chan-wook Park's "Vengeance Trilogy," of course, even though I've never seen the first entry.
Quote from: RCMerchant on January 29, 2010, 08:45:37 PM
Quote from: retrorussell on January 29, 2010, 06:01:29 PM
VENGANCE IS MINE is great! If thats the Ernie Borgnine and Micheal J. Pollard sicko 1974 classick!
Yeah! Wasn't that a fantastic movie? I rented that a long time ago, despite the stupid cover that had nothing to do with anything.
(http://www.critcononline.com/images/vengeance%20is%20mine%20paragon%20vhs%20front.gif)
Mad Max - this becomes very much a revenge movie by the end.
The Black Cat - I love Lugosi's weird strangulation of the English language in this one " Fayre The Skin From Your Body!"
One of the only films Lugosi plays a good guy in, and he still manages to skin a man alive!
White (1994)
If you have ever been wronged by a woman, watch this movie. Great revenge flick with Julie Delpy.
not sure, but Fight Club
in a sense, but actually The Creature from the Haunted Sea- The Creature is our anti-hero, and kind of gets "revenge" on the guys who blame the murders on him