Product Details

• Actors: Tony Rugnetta, Rudy Altenor, Debbie D
• Directors: John Orrichio
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Orrichio Films
• DVD Release Date: August 5, 2008
• Run Time: 107 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0019MG2XW
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #46,651 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Black Ribbon" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

Famous writer Kenneth Richardson (Tony Rugnetta) gets a strange inclination to write his next work on an authentic typewriter. After purchasing the antique writing device, he begins to write feverishly. Little does he know, this typewriter was once owned by Jeffrey Blackwood; a sadist and Satan worshiper who abducted women and brutally tortured them during satanic rituals. With each stroke of the key, the gates of hell open up more and more while Kenneth becomes possessed by the soul of Jeffrey Blackwood. With the aid of a mentally challenged man (Rudy Altenor), the demonic Kenneth Richardson abducts Emily Harrison (Debbie D) and tortures her in his basement, preparing for the Black Mass which will bring Satan back into the world of men!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fast forward review, August 12, 2008

By	Nobody - See all my reviews

Back from the dead, the FFR sleaze film review, to comment on the state of the art, I guess. Because sleaze flicks, and I'm talking sexploitation like nuns, prison women, serial killers, etc., are not only definitely non PC these days, they're also pretty much a lost art due to the lack of distribution. No drive ins left, all sit-down theaters run by global corporations, and any notion of a nudie cutie version of these things (ala Troma) made a joke by the overwhelming wash of internet porn.

Which apparently leaves one outlet left, direct to DVD releases like this, where the director is the guy running the "film company", taping an ultra-cheap vid with student actors, hoping for a few Azon sales based on including buzz words like "tortured in his basement" (and a five-star review by a friend or cast member). The result is usually not just disappointing, but a total joke.

Like this ultimate turkey, which looks exactly like some dude filmed some buds and one of their girlfriends they coaxed into getting her clothes off, which doesn't start until 38 minutes into this waste of plastic. Nothing actually happens, just some mild bondage, and the whole thing is suffused in a nonsensical soundtrack including voice overs and constant pounding sludge rock. I'm not even sure there was any actual dialogue, it was difficult to tell with my finger mostly leaning on the fast forward button.

The lesson is obvious. No, you will not discover some juicy sleaze bits in a film that cost little more than the cassettes used up taping it. Sleaze, aside from actual big-budget things like "Hostel", is pretty much dead. Rest in pieces.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Everything was going so well, and then they drop it, December 18, 2008

By	Pedro Arjona (Ciudad de México, D.F., Mexico) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

First of all this is a low budget movie with low know and somewhat inexperienced actors. Inside this limitations the film works rather well.
The simple plot is correctly exposed, the actors are no demanded above their skills and perform well, the victim, althoug not as cute as my internal sadist may desire, is satisfactorily naked, tortured and frightened all the time, the twist is very well presented and when it happens completely logical, the police officers than suspect but do not know act in a rational manner, the technical aspects all, not extraordinalily but well resolved in an There is of course the caracter of the anoying (to the writer) housemaid, than other of be anoying, I do not know what porpouse may have, and the gothic botanist caracterization is even more cartonish than the others, but as a whole the movie works, as I have already say, rather well.
Spoiler.
That is until the "all have been a dream" innecesary end.
End of the spoiler.
All in all a nice bad movie with and stupid finish, good to rent or to own.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awsome Horror Flick, September 29, 2008

By	Richard Denton "Rick" (exton pa) - See all my reviews

This is the best horror film I've seen in a long time. The acting, cinematography, music score and story line are first rate. I predict this will be a cult flick in a short time.