Run! Bitch Run!

OK, I understand that this is supposed to be a throwback to the Golden Age of Grindhouse Sleaze, but it follows the recipe a little too well for my tastes. Lots of needless exposition between the few action scenes means that you lose attention (and sympathy) pretty quickly.

And like the grindhouse flicks, there's quite a bit of 'cheating' in the film. The camera always cuts away from the money shots, so you get plenty of shots of someone sticking a gun in someone else's face and then getting blood spattered on them in a reverse shot. It reminds me of something you'd see in "Sorority House Massacre."

And as far as nudity or sex, there's not really that much.

Overall, the discomfort this film might generate is pretty weak. Go see a true exploitation film, like "Hanger," if you want to see this sort of thing done to the extreme.

Let me first tell you that i love exploitation movies and over the past 10 years some directors have tried to capture the spirit of the nasty exploitation movies of the 70's, the one that captured that spirit was Rob Zombie's "The Devils Rejects" it was well directed, edited, and at least the actors gave a damn about there performance, now a lot of Grindhouse movies in the 70's was badly acted but thats no excuse now, the big problem with Run Bitch Run is the student like direction there is no flair with the direction, it's just plain flat and the editing is very bad, don't get me wrong i really wanted to love this movie (the trailer looked fun) but it was bad, and not even in a good way.. I know there were working in a very low budget but it looks like the film-makers did not even try, it was just lazy work..

Now the story is pretty much the same as I Spit On Your Grave, just a standard rape and revenge that you have seen many times, but what really sucked about the movie was the violence, it was not brutal or disturbing enough, now let me tell you, forget about some of the good reviews that this movie has been getting, it's all lies lies lies, what you really want to see is some hard hitting bloody violence some sleazy sex and this does not deliver..The only good thing about the film is the nudity...Trust me, the trailer is much much better than the whole movie...in other words avoid...

In the intro we meet a bunch of creeps in what is described as a whorehouse. Although they don't think twice about killing the customers.

Two girls from a Christian school travel around selling bibles door to door. They're not doing well and even get robbed by a little kid. When they stop at the whorehouse you just know things are going to get ugly. Sure enough, the two girls are grabbed, one of them is raped and dies when she's forced to play Russian roulette. The other one is taken to the woods where she's given a chance to escape, but the main bad guy catches up with her and rapes her. She's then is offered to a secondary bad guy to be raped and killed. However, she manages to escape when he has second thoughts upon seeing her crucifix, not before beating her a little.

She ends up running around the woods naked till she ends up on a road and collapses. She's brought to a hospital where the doctor makes it sound like she's on the verge of death for reasons unknown. Not so fast...a few moments later she wakes up, grabs a nurse's uniform, finds her car, and drives back the the whorehouse to take brutal revenge.

The story had been told many times before. What does Run! Bitch Run! offer? Not much really. It's low budget, so it doesn't look polished. Audio is even worse, no, it's downright terrible. Except for the music, which sounds good and it's pretty much constant and loud. Too bad they didn't pay as much attention to the actors voices. There are actually some neat tunes among the non-stop music, which is similar to the stuff Tarantino uses. I'm not even sure what genre it is. The principal cast does a good job acting, especially Peter Tahoe and Ivet Corvea. Some of the secondary cast don't seem to be actors at all. There's some violence, some nudity. The female cast is somewhat attractive, in particular Christina DeRosa whose character unfortunately only gets only little screen time. Writer/director Guzman likes his sexploitation pretty crude and this movie captures the spirit but doesn't quite deliver enough violence or nudity, or quality audio. Compared to other movies, what the main character goes through, isn't THAT bad. But then again, for the budget, this movie turned out pretty well. It's with Nude Nuns with Big Guns that this crew get's a better chance to show what it can do.

I am a huge fan of horror and exploitation, and low budget b-movies have never been something to scare me off. Rape/Revenge is my favourite subgenre (probably because seeing the brutal revenge is almost cathartic to me, a fantasy I'll never actually enact). So when I heard Run! Bitch Run! was a modern throwback to the 70's grindhouse trash, I immediately knew I had to see this film.

The story is pretty much what you'd expect: two Catholic school girls are going door-to-door selling bibles. They knock on the wrong door and witness a pimp killing one of his girls. They become captive to the pimp and two others. After one girl dies and the other is left for dead, the surviving girl sets out for revenge.

The script, while basic, could have worked with better acting and a soundtrack that didn't sound like it was from a horrible porno. If you're watching for tits, they're on display quite frequently, but you'd be better served picking up a Playboy. Our heroine, Catherine, has a pretty nice pair and once she's naked after the rape (and later wearing a nurses' uniform), she becomes acceptably pleasant to the eye.

I cannot stress enough how poor the acting was, though. What a relief that Catherine doesn't speak throughout the entire second act. One star was added to this review for the way she gets her revenge on Lobo (the pimp). The knifing is the sole reason to watch this film. Try it with the mute on.

What I Spit On Your Grave was for the seventies, and MS 45 for the eighties Run Bitch Run will be THE revenge movie for the, how do we call it, the first decennial of the new millennium. This is a pure revenge movie I can tell you that. so you know what that means, girls got raped, girl survive girl starts killing. Mostly the killings are done off camera so no gore galore in this flick, but that doesn't matter. It's weird enough. Were in I Spit a scene was cut in the bathroom, you geeks surely know what I mean, because it wasn't boy friendly we also have a scene here were guys will think, ooowie my ass. The only problem I had was the fact that after 45 minutes the movie slows down a bit. The scene at the bar takes a bit too long. But the acting is believable, they all have been type casted. The fact that playboygirl Christina DeRosa goes naked makes it a movie for the guys, in fact, there is a lot of frontal nudity. And included as extra on the DVD is the movie that the guy is watching at home, again, full frontal nudity. But also have a look at those faces, the bad girl, what a face, perfect casting. And the face of Cheryl Leone, man, isn't that a seventies face or what. The score is perfect too and the colors are washed too to make it a drive in flick. Be sure to watch it, it's a trip down memory lane.