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Run! Bitch Run! 2008
Freak Show Entertainment / 2009
Directed by Joseph Guzman
Written by Joseph Guzman & Robert James Hayes II
Cast: Christina DeRosa, Cheryl Lyone, Peter Tahoe
Two Catholic schoolgirls on a cross country Bible selling trip run afoul of a gang of nasty scumbags looking to do illegal drugs and commit heinous murder.
While being incredibly short on plot and story, Run! Bitch Run! Is big on gross, disturbing sequences of murder, rape and drug use! Exploitation junkies everywhere will rejoice over Run! Bitch Run! and the obvious homage it pays to films like Last House on the Left and I Spit On Your Grave! The filmmaker strives to recreate that filthy, offensive shoestring-budgeted exploitation cinema of the seventies and does so admirably!
For me it’s hard to say whether the dialogue and acting in this film were purposely bad or not because, let’s be honest, rape/revenge cinema of the seventies rarely featured competent writing and adequate acting; it was all about the brutal rape and eventual gory revenge. If the filmmakers were purposely going for bad dialogue, so-so acting and an outlandish premise in order to recreate the beautiful filth of old, they succeeded above and beyond anything I’ve recently seen. The nu-sploitation hitting theaters these days just can’t compare to sleaze like this; it was like receiving a sticky, stinky X-Mas gift from a drunken mall Santa.
RBR gets big thumbs up from me as their production values are wonderful, their characters are all nailed and their adult content over-the-top.
Run Bitch! Run!
If you can’t handle rape and you cringe at the idea of women raining bloody, gory revenge on male genitalia, RBR is definitely not going to be for you; it was sick stuff indeed. That being said, if you’ve been waiting for nu-sploitation with balls, Run! Bitch Run! is right on point!
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