Legend
Of The Hillbilly Butcher
+ My
Name is A by anonymous
(2012/MVD Visual DVDs)
Legend
of the Hillbilly Butcher
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: C Film: D
Made
thirty years too late, The
Legend of the Hillbilly Butcher
is a low budget Grindhouse-style knockoff that is meant to be an
homage to films like the original Texas
Chainsaw Massacre.
In the lonely backwoods, Carl Henry Jessup spends his days in
twisted contemplation and hazy reverie of the good old days. He
seems nice enough at first...
Carl
finds plenty of time to keep watch for trespassers on his land,
fulfill his stereotype, and to eat them if necessary. In a pact with
a demon, Carl bargains for the resurrection of his parents' rotting
corpses and the evil presence of Sam Bakoo drives Carl deeper into a
whirlpool of torture, slaughter, vengeance, and delirium.
The
film is meant to have a documentary type feel that helps aide in its
realism but really grows tiresome after about ten minutes in. The
cast simply doesn't have the talent to carry it and it becomes a film
that would be a better short trailer than feature.
Sound
and picture on the disc aren't great... but it isn't meant to be. In
style with the film, the image is in a grainy/noisy standard
definition presentaton with a lossy Dolby 2.0 Stereo track.
Extras
on the disc is a Making
of documentary, Straight Razor: a short film, Horror Happens
Interview, and Trailers.
My
Name is A by anonymous
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: C+ Film: D
My
Name is A by anonymous
also known as Alyssa:
Portrait of a Teen Killer
is inspired by real events of some psychotic teenage girls and tries
to be this deep dark experience in the vein of Requiem
for a Dream
but ends up just coming across too amateur for my tastes.
Shot
on video and probably inspired by a Nancy Grace broadcast, the search
for a missing girl exposes a dark world of lost and emotionally
unstable teenagers who are responsible for the girl's disappearance
and eventual murder.
A
raw and fascinating portrait of the alienation and despair found in
teenagers who have been left to fend for their own emotional purpose.
They cut each other, scream and cry for minutes on end, and become
even killers. The question I have is: who wants to watch this?
Based
on the true crime of Alyssa Bustamante who murdered neighbor
Elizabeth Olten in 2009, and is currently in prison serving a life
sentence but should probably get the electric chair.
Sound
and Picture on the disc is not very good... but isn't supposed to be
here either. The image is again in standard definition with a lossy
Dolby 2.0 Stereo track.
Extras
include Alternate
Version of the Film, Deleted Scenes, Alternate scenes, Music Videos,
Short Films, and Trailers.
-
James Harland Lockhart V
https://www.facebook.com/jamesharlandlockhartv