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RATING |
| 6 |
| DIRECTOR |
| Robert Kurtzman |
CAST |
Andrew Divoff
Reggie Bannister
Erin Brown
Ryan Hooks
Rachel Scheer
Sean Serino
Keith Herrick
Alan Tuskes
Christopher Allen Nelson |
YEAR |
| 2007 |
RUNTIME |
| 86 minutes |
DATE REVIEWED |
| 6 / 14 / 07 |
SHOPPING |
| N/A |
| REVIEWER: FrighT MasteR |
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RATED BY:
18 FAN(S) |
CURRENT RATING:
7.5 SKULL(S)
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The Rage
Director Robert Kurtzman has served the genre in the effects field since the mid-80s, working on some of my favorite movies as his career progressed, from Evil Dead II and The People Under the Stairs, to In the Mouth of Madness and From Dusk 'Till Dawn. It was only a matter of time that the gore-maestro would go behind the cameras, which he did in the mid-90s with a cheesy Sci-Fi action flick entitled The Demolitionist, then a couple years later with the horror flick Wishmaster; also starring The Rage villain Andrew Divoff. The man knows his horror and knows what horror fans want to see, thus, one of his next ventures is The Rage -- an obvious throwback to the cheesy B-movies from the genre that some may consider have long gone extinct thanks to low-budget straight-to-DVD crap-fests and Hollywood remakes.
If you want your blood in buckets and gore in piles, then this is your cup of tea. Short on story, but heavy on carnage, the film tells the tale of a mad scientist who secretly works in a secluded lab in the woods, where he does inhumane tests of innocent victims in order to perfect his rage virus. Shunned from the world of science, he now looks to get revenge on those who did him wrong and the rest of the world, by creating a virus that's passed along by fluids and can cause those who come in contact with it to turn into mutant killing machines. Sound familiar? Yes, the whole rage-virus scenario sounds very familiar to 28 Days Later, but that's pretty much where the similarities end. After one of his test subjects breaks free it roams the woods, where it offs a couple campers before collapsing on the ground, where it's then eaten by nearby vultures. By doing so a brand new strain of the virus is created and a group of post part-goers on their way home from a late-night concert get caught up in the path of the vultures and are forced to fend off against the vile creatures.
The rest of the flick follows the last survivors of the group as they make their way through the woods after their encounter with the vultures and eventually come across more of the scientists mutants and stumbling onto the man's lab, where the remainder of the film plays out. Reggie Bannister has a cameo in the film as a fisherman with his kids around the half-way mark, who makes an obvious reference to Phantasm in one of his lines. This is a B-movie plain, and simple, which is why the film works. Sure the acting's not that great, and there are some cheesy lines thrown in by some of these whacky mutants, but that's what makes the movie all-the-more entertaining. From the start you get an eye-full of gore, and it never lets up until the credits role. In the end Robert Kurtzman gives us fans something the genre is in dire need more of -- rage-induced vultures, talking severed heads, skin-wearing midgets, and Misty Mundae!
OVERALL
The film is an obvious throwback on B-movies, which excuses a lot of the cheese and dubious acting that we encounter in the movie, and since it doesn't take itself seriously it becomes an entertaining way to pass an hour-and-a-half. Full of gore, mutants, and regurgitating rage-induced vultures, I say give this movie a rent when it becomes available.
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As long as 'The Regman' is still acting I WILL WATCH AND FOLLOW.
Long live the 'Regman'
but thats a little critical... they are pretty much zombies
the infected in 28dl were still alive. pay attention.
they even called it rage in 28DL. at least it doesn't start in monkeys.