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Twitch Of The Death Nerve (a.k.a. Bay Of Blood)Rating:
Release Date: 02 January, 2001 Retail Price: $24.99 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: |
Twitch Of The Death Nerve (a.k.a. Bay Of Blood) Reviews
Overrated slasher flick that spawned the slasher craze...
[good things]
Some of the best kills in slasher movie history, some great blood and a nice cold setting. The acting was pretty good for being an Italian movie, and the characters, at least were very well developed and easy to get along with.
[the bad]
The actual plot was good, but it really didn't interest me. It (to me) seemed like there was too much going on, and it was hard to watch the movie, enjoy the kills and think about the story. The ending was really lame, It was great how it ended, but I did not like the 2 kids... I just thought it was silly.
[final thoughts]
I remember watching this movie as a kid, and hating it. Rewatching it years later was a treat, and my opinions were almost opposite of the ones I had back then. The atmosphere in the movie is great, it reminds me of the atmosphere in the first Friday The 13th (Sean S.Cunningham got the inspiration of Friday The 13th from this film), which seems right. It is no secret that Friday The 13th was inspired from this movie, but inspiration and perhaps the setting was the only similarities that I saw. There were 3 kills in this movie that mirrored (almost exactly) kills in the Friday The 13th sequels, which was fun to watch. The kills in the movie are very well done, bloody and really nasty at times.
I thought (aside from the intricate plot) was very good, and a very solid slasher flick. A must see for the genre.
"But if you kill for killing's sake, you become a monster."
This early slasher genre entry has a lot of great stuff going for it: gory death scenes with plenty of blood splattering, haunting music, and...well that's about it. The plot isn't really compelling, but for slasher fans who crave 1970's horror movie neon orange blood, this is a good place to start.
The movie starts out with a wheelchair-bound elderly woman watching the rain on a dark and lonely night. The background music suggests a relaxing, peaceful setting, but before you know it the old woman has a noose around her throat and she's gasping for air. She was a rich heiress who was murdered for her money, but her murder is only the first in a string of brutal killings. Included among the victims are four sex-crazed teens who pick the wrong deserted cabin to "vacation" in. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Maybe because it's been done so much since this movie was made, back in 1972.
Some of my favorite scenes in the movie: a guy's face gets nearly chopped in half; two scenes of impaling (with spears or something); convincing scenes showing strangulation; after skinny dipping, a young woman gets chased by the killer, who nearly severs her head completely. Without the generous amount of gore, this slasher flick wouldn't be worth crap. I recommend it mainly for the great gore and the creepy music. For horror movie fanatics, it's definitely worth at least one viewing.
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