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09/23/08

08/07/08

When filmmaker Terrence Williams tried to sell his latest movie The Hood Has Eyez on CreateSpace.com, he was turned down. “Unfortunately, we are unable to accept ‘The Hood Has Eyez’ due to its extremely disturbing graphic nature,” he was told. The rape/revenge film starring Cyd Schulte, Jesselynn Desmond and Jamielyn Kane was also originally called “just too strong” by Sub Rosa Studios, although they later released the film on DVD nationwide. Greg Stanina, who composed the film’s score, went as far as saying the movie “makes ‘Last House on the Left’ look like an episode of ‘Sesame Street.’” Just a bunch of hype? Find out what PollyStaffle.com has to say about it here:

http://www.pollystaffle.com/exploitation/thehoodhaseyez.shtml

07/24/08

For those of you who haven't gotten a chance to pick up "The River: Legend of La Llorona" or "Revenge of La Llorona," when they were previously released this is your chance. Both films will be released for THE THIRD TIME on a new Pendulum Pictures DVD box set titled "BLOODY NIGHTMARES" which has 100 HORROR FILMS on 24 DVD's! All for the low price of $44.98 - So there's bound to be something on the set you like.

This is for TRUE LOVERS of indie-horror and not for the faint of heart. The box set hits store shelves August 19!

Splatter fests and other-worldly evils await. Vixens, serial killers, demons and flesh-hungry mutant freaks are all locked up here begging to escape. Dare to open the tomb and unleash the wickedness inside but be warned: Bloody Nightmares makes Pandora's Box look like a gift from the heavens! So check your sanity at the door and get ready for a blood-soaked marathon of gore, madness and depravity. With so many hours of terror, the nightmares will never end!

100 mind-blowing horror films on 24 DVDs make for endless hours of entertainment.

Included
1. Abberdine County Conjuror
2. Barely Legal Lesbian Vampires
3. Before I Die
4. Bewitching, The
5. Blood Legend
6. Blood Sucking Babes from Burbank
7. Burning Dead
8. Candle in the Dark, A
9. Capture the Flag
10. Catholic Ghoulgirls
11. Crate, The
12. Crawlspace, The
13. Crucifier, The
14. Cutting Room, The
15. Dead 7
16. Dead Body Man
17. Dead is Dead
18. Dead Live, The
19. Death From Beyond
20. Demon Seduction
21. Demon Slaughter
22. Devil's Moon
23. Disk Jockey
24. Dominion
25. Edgar Allan Poe's Madhouse
26. Flesh Eating Ghouls from Outer Space
27. From Venus
28. Goblin
29. Gorno
30. Goth
31. Granny
32. Hell's Highway
33. Hellbound: Book of the Dead
34. High Desert
35. Hip Hop Locos
36. Hollywood Vampyr
37. Human Behavior
38. I Dream of Dracula
39. I Hate You
40. Inexchange
41. Invitation
42. Jim Haggerty's The Slasher
43. Kill the Scream Queen
44. Kill Them And Eat Them
45. Las Vegas Blood Bath
46. Lifeblood
47. Lunar Pack, The
48. Massacre
49. Matthew
50. Mayhem Motel
51. Night Owl, The
52. Nightmare Asylum
53. Nightmare Museum
54. None Left Standing
55. Off The Beaten Path
56. Parasite
57. Prehistoric Bimbos in Armageddon City
58. Purvos
59. Rape is a Circle
60. Reanimator Academy
61. Redneck County Fever
62. Revenge of La Llorona
63. River, The: Legend of La Llorona
64. Rose of Death
65. Scarlet Fry's Junkfood Horrorfest
66. Season in Hell
67. Serial Killer
68. Shadow Hunters
69. Shower of Blood
70. Shunned House, The
71. Siege of Evil
72. Skyggen
73. Slasher
74. Sleep Disorder
75. So Mort It Be
76. Somnambulists, The
77. Soul of the Demon
78. Strange Things Happen At Sundown
79. Suburban Sasquatch
80. Summer of the Massacre, The
81. Tales of Terror
82. Terror at Baxter U
83. Terror Toons
84. Thirteen
85. This Darkness
86. Three Can Keep a Secret
87. To Become One
88. Todd Sheets' Sorority Babes in the Dance-A-Thon of Death
89. Toe Tags
90. Traveler, The
91. Unborn Sins
92. Up For Rent
93. Vampire Hunter
94. Veil, The
95. Vulture's Eye, The
96. When Heaven Comes Down
97. Wishbone
98. Witching, The
99. Woodland Haunting 2, The
100. Zombie Rampage

06/04/08
Fellow filmmaker and composer of "The Hood Has Eyez," Greg Stanina aka Teargas Gin, has made a cool little short film named, "Curse Of The Devil Doll." Check it out by clicking the YouTube link below.

06/01/08

What’s up fellow freaks and geeks!!

"The Hood Has Eyez" will be playing June 14th (Saturday) at THE CINCINNATI HORROR FILM FESTIVAL in the great city of Cincinnati, Ohio. There will be 12 hours of Indie horror films (both short and feature length films), guest speakers, and more bloody fun at the Fairfield Community Arts Center in Fairfield, OH (its a suburb of Cincinnati, for those that are wondering!!) "The Hood Has Eyez" will be playing at 9:00 pm (the last film of the night) right before the awards and closing ceromonies. So if you are in the Ohio area stop by and check out some kick ass films and help out the indie horror community by showing your support for the artist. You can pre-order your tickets now at the website: http://cincinnati.horrorsociety.com until May 12th for a lower rate. Shit, they are low enough! Only $12 now and after May 12th they are only $15!! For all 12 hours of horror!! This festival is for the filmmakers. All proceeds will go to the next film festival which will be bigger and better.  So check out the site for all the info and check out the theater they have, it’s great! This should be a fun time for all, so grab your tickets now and join us down there on June 14th!!

When:
Saturday June 14, 2008
11:00 a.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Where:
Fairfield Community Arts Center - Theater
411 Wessel Drive
Fairfield, OH 45014

http://cincinnati.horrorsociety.com

06/02/08

Cult website Cinema Crazed.Com just reviewed "The Hood Has Eyez" for their 2nd annual GRINDHOUSE  REVIEW FEST.

Visit the link below to see what they had to say about our indie exploitation gem:

04-26-08

The "Amateur Porn Star Killer 2" screening last night at Laemmle's Sunset 5 was the shit! The movie was a great follow up to "Amateur Porn Star Killer 1" and filled in a lot more pieces to the missing puzzle pieces from part one. It also delved deeper into the killers Psyche and there was full blown on screen penetration and cock sucking and lots of uncomfortable situations and violence. What more could a gore-whore want? As a bonus I finally got to meet writer/director Shane Ryan and the other people involved with the film including super hot actress Kai Lanette. They all signed my copy of the upcoming 2 Disc DVD set. If you missed it too bad. The film comes out at major DVD retailers everywhere May 13!!!

04-20-08

AMATEUR PORN STAR KILLER 2 – The sequel to Shane Ryan's "love or hate" indie gem will be playing at Laemmle's Sunset 5 (8000 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood) at midnight April 25-26. Ryan stars, co-wrote, directed and edited "Amateur Porn Star Killer 2" which is "a horrifying mix of grindhouse sleaze, torture porn and voyeurism that is just as intoxicating as it is creepy." There will be movie poster giveaways at the screenings and Shane Ryan will be in attendance. Go on down the 25th or 26th and help support a fellow filmmaker.

04-10-08

Review by: zer0hal0
Date: 8th April 2008

A young shy teenage girl named Kimmy (Cyd Schulte) is trying to fit into the so called “popular
group” and will do just about anything to fit in. That’s until her 2 spoiled rich high school friends
Susan (Jesselynn Desmond) and Rachel (Jamielyn Kane) decide they all should skip school and
attend a ditch party in the hood. Before getting into Kimmy’s car, all of a sudden Susan’s friend
Jerry (Tom Curitore) also decides to skip school and accompanies the 3 girls to the party.
Unfortunately that following day slowly ends up becoming their worst nightmare. When Kimmy
accidentally hits a half naked Latino woman with her car in the backstreets of the hood, frantic
and scared, they quickly get out of the car to see if the women is still alive, sadly Jerry can’t find
a pulse and they quickly try to come up with a suggestion to make their problem go away. Susan
who is buzzing on cocaine comes up with the idea to leave the body on the side of the road, and
wants to forget that this ever happened. All of a sudden the mysterious woman jumps back to life
and scares the teenagers making them run off down the road an head on into 2 ex-con Latino
gang members Joker (Carlos Javier Castillo) and Psycho (Antonio Royuela). The 3 girls and Jerry
are held at gun point, and made to follow them back to their gang territory where they are soon
accompanied by a third gang member Shy Girl (Anne Stinnett) who basically played possum when
jumping out in front of their car. The helpless four teens soon find themselves being mugged, tied
to a fence and then one by one are subsequently humiliated, submitted to absurd sexual acts,
violently raped, tortured, sodomised, assaulted and then murdered in cold blood. Susan, who was
passed out, awakes and manages to make a quick exist leaving Kimmy crying out for help while
face flat on the ground after recovering from a viscous rape, while Rachel is at the time being
sodomised with a broken beer bottle. Scared for her own life, Susan leaves Kimmy behind for the
gang to come back for second helpings and tells Kimmy she is going to bring back some help. It’s
not long after the police sirens go off in the distance and the gang flee the scene with the money,
but lucky for Kimmy, Psycho’s gun jams and he quickly runs off. When Kimmy gets to her feet, she
finds her best friends Rachel and Jerry dead, and decides to take things into her own hands, and
begins to seek revenge on the gang. As the table has turned the gang members are one by one
are submitted to play her revenge games which she leaves Psycho for the picking last.

A couple months back I was browsing through Myspace and I found the official The Hood Has
Eyez Myspace page www.myspace.com/cinemathreat and after checking out the trailer I had
to watch this film. I don’t know it was that made me want to see this film so badly, maybe it was
the fact of seeing hot gorgeous teenager being Dirty Sanchezed by a Latino gangster that did it
for me. Who knows? But one thing I will say is that, I am fucking glad I had the chance to review
this little rape/revenge gem.

This film is written, directed by independent filmmaker Terrence Williams, who also happens to
have a short cameo within the film as a black married man who keeps on dozing off on Susan while
she is screwing his brains out in a public toilet at the beginning of the film. The Hood Has Eyez is
not this director’s first full length featurette film, but instead this is his fifth attempt at directing
and writing a movie. I personally haven’t had the chance of reviewing any of his previous films,
but after watching The Hood Has Eyez I can absolutely see myself tracking down some of his
earlier films in the near future.

Before I even watched this film, the title alone kind of had me thinking “what was I in for?” was  I
going to be watching a zero budget tongue in cheek version of Wes Cravens: The Hills Have
Eyes? But instead this isn’t even the case; The Hood Has Eyez does not even resemble The
Hills Have Eyes not even in the slightest bit. Surprisingly the film kind of reminded me of a low
budget version of I Spit On Your Grave mixed with another one of Wes Craven’s earlier film called
The Last House On The Left but bringing out a new fresh look to those old 70s rape and revenge
roughies. I really have to hand it to Terrence to have the balls to create such a brutal, sadistic
twisted film which falls into the same category as these older cults classic films I have grown up
loving. I can’t recall how many times when watching this film it had my emotions jumping from
down to up, while I found myself slightly turning my head away from the TV and squinting my eyes
from the extreme torture scenes. One minute it’s a low angel up the skirt panty scene and then
the next it’s some guy pulling out a tampon and then sucking the blood out it. This went on and
on throughout the whole film, and honestly I loved every single minute of this film and most of all
the impact it had on me.

The cast in this film, I couldn’t really place anyone’s face in any other films. Actress Cyd Schulte
most definitely played a solid role as Kimmy and gave an outstanding realistic performance
throughout the film. But the cast member who stole the spotlight is none other than actor Antonio
Royuela who played the role as gang member Psycho. Where his character unplugs a Susan’s
tampon and said “I always wanted to know what a catholic school tastes like” and begins to suck
the blood from it and then says “I always wanted to know the difference between a 69 and 6.9,
now I know, it’s a period”. Not even David Hess in his whole career was that vile enough to
portray a scene like that.

The gore factor is roughly borderline, some scenes can be very disturbing to watch at times, while
other times can be tame but still very enjoyable to watch. Some of the props Terrence used were
in-fact realistic sex toys (male penis, woman’s vagina), but incredibly it still manages to have that
shock effect and tricks the audience in thinking that it could be real. There is only a handful of
cast members listed in this film, and I really don’t want to spoil too many of the scenes for you in
the way they are tortured to death. But I will say this, 80% of the final scenes are brutal as fuck,
especially when it comes to the revenge on the gang members.

The Hood Has Eyez also has a high level of T&A (Tits and Ass) scenes. Just about every female
cast in this film gets right down to their bare skin, and doesn’t mind showing their goods off to the
camera, but sadly actress Jamielyn Kane who played Rachel didn’t strip down or flash a boob. And
sorry girls/gays there was no full male nudity presented in this film.

The score I have to say was original, and suited the movie. Every time something extreme was
going to happen unfortunately the score gave it away. But the sound itself has a Celtic Goth feel
to it, similar to the score in Cannibal Holocaust with those deep ping dropping sounds.

I can’t really comment on the DVD extras because the movie I had the pleasure to review was a
screener. The only extra presented on the screener was a trailer and that’s about it. But
according to Amazon.com this movie does contains the original uncut version (which no doubt is
the version I reviewed) of the film, behind the scenes, bloopers, trailer, still photo gallery.

I know now days you tend to see a lot of handheld low budget films hit the shelves of your local
video store, and yeah, some of them turn out to be utter shit. Trust me, I have come across so
many in my time, and still to this day I end up being tricked into grabbing a dud every now and
then. But I can assure you that Terrence Williams: The Hood Has Eyez is one film you won’t
regret buying and owning on DVD. If you enjoy watching rape and revenge films as I mentioned
before, low budget effects, an un-named cast, lots of nudity, extreme violent torture, well then
this film is what you want to get right now.

If I have to sum up The Hood Has Eyez in a few short words I would have to say “Extremely
Sadistic, Grotesque and Sinister”.

04-08-08

The Hood Has Eyez By: Craig on April 8, 2008. Share 0 Comments

Poster Art     Credits Director: Terrence Williams Stars: Cynde Schulte, Antonio Royuela, Carlos Castillo, Jamielyn Kane Screnplay: Terrence Williams Country: USA Year: 2007 Purchase You may be cringing just a little after seeing that title, but fear not, The Hood Has Eyez is not some Scary Movie-esque hip hop lampooning of the survival horror genre, nor is it a flat out rip-off. Instead, it is a nasty no budget amalgam of Wes Craven's first two movies – Last House on the Left and, naturally enough, The Hills Have Eyes – that puts its own spin on the material and places its characters in a more urbanized setting. Unfortunately for those characters however, while the backdrop may have changed the results are pretty much the same as they discover that inner city psychos can be every bit as brutal as your average mountain dwelling mutant. Good little catholic schoolgirl Kimmy and her friends have cut class to attend a party somewhere in "The Hood", but on the way they get themselves lost and fall into the clutches of a sadistic street thug and his two cronies. An extended period of rape, murder, and general unpleasantness follows, and after being left for dead at the end of her ordeal Kimmy has just one thing on her mind. And it involves a tasty dish that is best served cold… Truly independent filmmaking (and by "truly independent" I mean movies where it's basically the director and a handful of friends doing everything with virtually no money to play with) has always been a force to be reckoned with as indie filmmakers are ballsy enough - or perhaps unscrupulous enough - to film the sort of craziness you would never see at your local multiplex, but over the past couple of years the independent scene has lost some of it's verve in my opinion. With budgets getting lower and lower to the point where movies are being made for less than a 15 year old McDonalds employees daily earnings, a lot of independent films have become nothing more than dull gab fests shot by amateur hacks with no real desire to shock or scare their audience, while Hollywood on the other hand has embraced blood and guts, with slick major studio efforts like The Hills Have Eyes (2006) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning containing more torture and mayhem than 80% of the independent product being churned out. Thankfully, The Hood Has Eyez is the sort of indie movie that makes Hollywood look like a bunch of pussies. Written, directed, photographed, and edited by Terrence Williams, The Hood Has Eyez is an undeniably cheap affair, but while the lack of funds means we don't get anything resembling a "polished" production, Williams clearly has some fucked-up ideas running through his head and is more than happy to put them on screen. High on the list of indecencies committed during this film are: golden showers, soiled tampon sucking, coat hanger foetus removal, violation with a broken beer bottle, penis nailing, and more than one instance of anal molestation – one of which culminates with the victim receiving a "Dirty Sanchez". Yes, this really is a treat for the whole family, provided that family is a bunch of hardened exploitation loving nutters of course. It probably reads a little nastier than it really is, but even with a few amateurish gore effects that might not get the stamp of approval from Tom Savini, The Hood Has Eyez is the sort of film that will definitely offend people. Perhaps not your average Digital Retribution reader though. As a revenge film The Hood Has Eyez has a lot more in common with low budget 70s and 80s entires like I Spit on Your Grave rather than the slicker, stylized new millennium revengesploitationers like Kill Bill and Death Sentence. Several sequences – particularly the initial brutalization of Kimmy and her school friends - are genuinely unpleasant to sit through (viewers of all genders will be crossing their legs at some point with both male and female genital trauma on the menu), and while the zero-budget production values might also make the whole experience unpleasant in a completely different way for those who prefer their movies with a dash of Michael Bay-esque pizzazz, the bargain basement quality does gives the whole film a gritty realism, despite the aforementioned amateurish gore effects and vanilla cinema verite style camera work. Also, like I Spit on Your Grave, this is a bleak viewing experience from start to finish, and there is no real feeling of triumph at any point, even when the traumatized and presumably broken (mentally at least) Kimmy begins to exact her bloody revenge. The downbeat denouement in particular offers no real winners, only losers. Williams does find time for a brief moment or two of levity in amongst the extreme material though. Watch for Kimmy doing her best Rambo impression as she ties a bra around her forehead before going in to battle! As with many production of its ilk, the acting quality varies. None of the performances are appalling, although you may find it hard to believe that some of the cast actually are good little school girls as most of them looked old enough to have graduated several years earlier (in fact, according to IMDB profiles the "school girls" are all in their 30s, but they look great in tartan mini skirts so I'm sure as hell not complaining!) The two pivotal characters - Kimmy (Cyd Schulte) and Psycho (Antonio Royuela), the perpetrator of most of the atrocities inflicted upon the girls – are played quite well. Schulte is believable both as the innocent schoolgirl and the crazed vengeance seeker who begins to imitate her attackers speech and mannerisms, while Royuela delivers a thoroughly repellent villain that is grounded in reality. Location wise, while it is set in the inner city, The Hood Has Eyez feels very much like a backwoods horror movie. After all, for a group of white catholic schoolgirls the ghetto is probably just as foreign as the Georgia backwoods were to Burt Reynolds and his white collar rafting buddies in Deliverance. Also, with the urban setting it feels as though the events are hitting a little closer to home, and it's not a stretch to imagine someone we know winding up in a situation like this. Most of us don't live in fear of cannibalistic inbred hillbillies as we are far removed from the backwoods environment, but urban violence is something that can affect anyone. Although the film and its characters are distinctly American, those of us outside the USA can still relate to the setting, as most westernized countries have their own versions of "The Hood" where young mini skirt clad school girls fear to tread. You really will need to be fan of truly independent filmmaking in order to tolerate its no budget aesthetic, but if you crave the sort of rape/revenge nastiness that Hollywood will never project on the big screen then The Hood Has Eyez will deliver, and at just 67 minutes long it doesn't outstay its welcome. It's got a gratuitous shower scene, murder, sodomy, genital abuse, bloodied tampon tea bagging (possibly the vilest thing I've witnessed for a while - seriously!), backyard abortions, and a whole lot more. Honestly, if that's not appealing then you are of sound mind and will not be able to enjoy a movie like this. I'm definitely looking forward to checking out more from Terrence Williams, if only to see what other fucked-up ideas the guy has.

The Rating

04-01-08

Cinema Threat Productions has officially wrapped up shooting on our latest film Speed Freaks, an outrageous horror-comedy about a young porn director and his misfit band of porn stars who are given the opportunity to make a low budget, mainstream zombie movie. Life quickly imitates art when several drug crazed, cannibalistic, mutant zombies, also known as"speed freaks" show up on the set. The cast and crew are stalked and attacked one by one. These insatiable creatures explicitly attack and then disembowel their victims, but the director refuses to stop production and decides that he will finish his first mainstream movie even if it kills him.

In the coming weeks we will be cutting the film and expect to have a trailer up ASAP. We are really proud of the outcome so far and think our fans will be really happy with the final film.

03/18/08

Taking a page from the Quiroz brothers’ Hood of the Living Dead, or Snoop Dogs’s Bones, The Hood Has Eyez brings Wes Craven’s Last House on the Left to East L.A.

Featuring the oldest high school students in film history, Hood follows three private school “girls” running around in short plaid skirts, never skimping on the panty shots or T&A. The girls decide to skip school, but of course wind up in the wrong end of tha hood where they are kidnapped, raped, and tortured until one escapes and gets her bloody revenge.

Most reviews of The Hood Have Eyez are going to read like a list of obscenities: rape, dirty sanchez (smearing shit under someone’s nose), castration, tampon licking, coat hanger abortions, and these are just a few things that happen in this film. I say if John Waters could become famous for filming a fat cross-dresser eating dog poop why can’t these guys? Actually, if the people behind Hood should be recognized for anything it should be the fact that they at least made a rape/revenge film, a subgenre not many people tend to revisit these days.

The funniest part of the film, besides the actresses they picked for teens, is during the abortion scene. They used one of those fake plastic pussies I used to sell at my porn shop. I was proud that it looked like they spent a little extra cash on the cyber-skin model and didn’t go with the cheap Wal-mart version. I do have to wonder if it was from one of the crew’s private collection, which is a grosser thought than the actual scene.

As for shock value, I hate to admit it, but the hardcore horror fan that has seen even the basic rape/revenge 101 is not going to be too shocked. Horror fans do not really respond to being outrageous just for the sake of being outrageous. We need a little more.

With that said, The Hood Has Eyez does push the envelope very far. Most movies that claim to be too brutal and controversial these days fail miserably to deliver, but Hood does give you what it promises. It will make pansies who’s mangina’s are still aching from so-called “torture porn” have to go back to the lame label board and invent a new term. It is vicious, crass, and contains no redeeming value. It is only here to offend and shock you and for a lot it people it probably will.

2/18/08

Cinema Threat Productions is currently casting "SPEED FREAKS," an outrageous horror-comedy about a young porn director and his misfit band of porn stars who are given the opportunity to make a low budget, mainstream zombie movie. Life quickly imitates art when several drug crazed, cannibalistic, mutant zombies, also known as"speed freaks" show up on the set. The cast and crew are stalked and attacked one by one. These insatiable creatures explicitly attack and then disembowel their victims, but the director refuses to stop production and decides that he will finish his first mainstream movie even if it kills him. 

For those of you actors out there who might be interested, we are still casting two of the lead roles and one supporting role. They are as follows:

CAROLINE BOTTOMS: (lead) Attractive female, any age, any ethnicity, to play very stuck up porn star. Believes she is God's gift to the world. Very superficial.

SAMANTHA GOOD HEAD: (lead) Pretty young woman in her early 20s, any ethnicity,  who is a contradictory figure. She is a porn star and a religious fanatic. Always wants to be the center of attention, but not very confident at the same time. 

DELIVERY GIRL / ZOMBIE: Sexy female, any age or ethnicity, who has a very upbeat and bubbly personality, and who can also play a wicked zombie.

02-01-08

The Hood Has Eyez

Year: 2007
Director: Terrence Williams
Stars: Cydne Schulte, Carlos Castillo, Jesselynn Desmond
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Studio: Cinema Threat Productions
Running Time: 67Mins
Review Rating: 4 Stars
Official Website: http://www.hoodhaseyez.sinfree.net/

The Hood Has Eyez is one of the most controversial horror films out there in the independent horror scene, for its disturbing and offensive content. The film is so controversial that the filmmakers had to distribute it themselves, as nobody has the balls to distribute it.

The film is about Kimmy, a shy teenager who wants to fit in with her classmates. In order to fit in, she decides to ditch class, along with a couple of classmates. While having a good time, the three accidentally hit someone. The three girls then try to cover up the accident until a couple of gangsters come along bent on doing harm to the girls. They then proceed to humiliate and torture the girls, but they leave forgetting to make sure that Kimmy is dead. Now in a demented state of mind, she is out for revenge. She won’t stop until all the gangsters pay for what they did to her. The Hood Have Eyez is not a spoof or has no relation to Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes.

This film is definitely not for the weak of heart. The Hood Have Eyez is a very frightening and disturbing film that would be on a grindhouse double bill. Director Terrence Williams does a great job with the horror aspects here. Some of the images in the film were disturbing to watch, which is one of the ingredients to make an effective horror film. It’s something that major studio films don’t do that much. The violence felt terrifying, as it wasn’t cheesy or misplaced. His story and screenplay were very good. The screenplay goes into the frightening aspects of abductions. It gave me the sense of fear for the characters during the torture scenes in the first half of the film. The screenplay and direction keeps the tension of the film up through out.

Williams also did a good job with the actors. Their performances were very good especially, from Cydne Schulte. Her performance was very good. Her role must have been a little challenging. In the first half of film, her character has to be shy and victimized, and then the character has to be completely insane. She did a very good job being both throughout the film.

Horror fans should take note of this film. The Hood Has Eyez will satisfy the blood lust of gorehounds everywhere.

To purchase this film you can log on to the film official site at http://www.hoodhaseyez.sinfree.net/

01-11-08

"The Hood Has Eyez" was mentioned in last months (December) Fangoria Magazine. We circled "The Hood" in blue. If you haven't checked out the movie yet, go on over to Amazon.com or Filmbaby.com and snatch up a copy of this cinematic horror feast.

The Hood has Eyez

USA 2007
produced by
Nicole Williams, Marcelo Molina (executive) for Cinema Threat Productions
directed by Terrence Williams
starring Cyd Schulte, Antonio Royuela, Anne Stinnett, Jesselynn Desmond, Jamielyn Kane, Carlos Javier Castillo, Tom Curitore, Terrence Williams
written by Terrence Williams, music by QDC, Greg Stanina, cinematography by Terrence Williams, special effects by Terrence Williams, Nicole Williams

review by
Mike Haberfelner

Superficial blondes Susan (Jesselynn Desmond) and Rachel (Jamielyn Kane) persuade good girl Kimmy (Cyd Schulte) to skip school and instead go to a party together with Jerry (Tom Curitore), but they are not even half there when their car hits Shy Girl (Anne Stinnett), who ran the streets only in her underwear - and our quartet panics enough to abandon the car and try to get away on foot ... until they run into Psycho (Antonio Royuela) and Joker (Carlos Javier Castillo), two small-fry gangsters, who actually used Shy Girl - Psycho's girlfriend - as a decoy and who now rob them at gunpoint. However, once the gangsters realize the youngsters have not got all that much money, Psycho decides to instead have a little fun with them. First they humiliate Susan who has her period (a scene which includes a tampon-sucking scene), then Kimmy is burtally raped by Psycho (much to the dismay of Shy Girl), and finally Rachel is fucked by a bottle. And Jerry, who tries to make a getaway, is just shot dead.

At the sound of police sirens though our gangsters panic, and they quickly kill Rachel by ramming a broken bottle up her vagina. In all the confusion though, Susan manages to escape, but when Kimmy begs her to help her, Susan selfishly leaves her friend behind ...

Joker and Shy Girl soon decides it's time to split, but Psycho stays behind to enjoy his triumph over Kimmy a bit before shooting her. But when he finally wants to shoot her for good, he realizes his gun's out of ammo, so he sees no alternative than to let her live, figuring it wouldn't do all that much harm. However, the experience drove Kimmy over the brink, and now she's out for revenge ... and her first victim is Susan, who has abandoned her and whom she now strangles when Susan thinks herself back in the saftety of the car.

Then Kimmy sneaks up on Psycho and Shy Girl and listening in on their conversation, she learns that Shy Girl is pregnant from Psycho - so Kimmy waits until she catches her alone, ties her to a tree, and performs a makeshift abortion, which naturally costs Shy Girl her life.

Psycho and Joker soon notice something's dead wrong, so they decide to search the area each one on his own - which gives Kimmy plenty of opportunity to sneak up on Joker and decapitate him with a shovel. Then she moves in on Psycho for the grand finale, in which she knocks him out, ties him up, drives a nail into his penis, rapes him anally with a pole of wood, then cuts off his balls and feeds them to him. However, ultimately she has to realize that it is still Psycho who has won the game - but as a rare exception to my site's spoiler policies (to always give away the ending), I won't give away the final plottwist this time ...

First of all: If you are of the political correct denomination, don't watch that film, you will not like it (even though on closer inspection the film is far less politically incorrect than it seems to be). Also, if you have got a weak stomach, don't watch. If you are a gorehound however, or a fan of 1970's grindhouse flicks, then this one is for you, a film about the torture, rape and humiliation of three pretty girls in schoolgirl uniforms including one of the girls' bloody revenge.

However, The Hood has Eyez is not just one mindless, misogynistic gorefest that has little to go for it above the violence, actually writer/director Terrence Williams shows remarkable skills in storytelling and character development, especially as the film is only approximately 70 minutes long, and somehow all the brutality makes sense in the context of his story instead of the story serving as a mere hanger for gruesome scene after gruesome scene.

On a directorial level, the film comes across as extremely savage, not so much because the violence is so explicit but because of the use of documentary- or news-style camerawork including handheld camera, long shots and sudden camera moves, which suggest a certain closeness to and authenticy of onscreen events. Plus, in this case, the obviously low budget works for the film, as it limits the number of locations which gives the film a much more coherent feel. And of course, certain very subtle references to 1970's grindhouse cinema are nothing short of charming (at least to fans like me).

That the key actors Cyd schulte and Antonio Royuela are impressive in their roles of course also helps ...

In all, watch this movie ... but only if you're sure you can stomach it !

review © by Mike Haberfelner

12/26/07

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03/20/08

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