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Chaos

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(14)

 

 

By now everybody knows that "Chaos" is supposedly a violent, unrestrained film. It IS violent, and yet restrained, it's one of those films that promises a lot with it's hype and premise, and in this case delivers something FAR below expectations. You know your production is in trouble when the director is a guy who calls himself "The Demon," in this case David "The Demon" DeFalco. Oh DeFalco has spent a lot of time and energy defending the piece as a look at "real life" and pure evil blah blah blah, claiming this is the most brutal movie ever made eventhough Mel Gibson's "The Passion Of The Christ" outdoes the film in pure blood and violence, DeFalco and his producer have also been waging a childish print and video debate with Roger Ebert who rightfully gave the movie zero stars. At the end of the day what brings "Chaos" down isn't the subject matter, but the mere fact that this is pretty poor filmmaking. First there's the look of the movie, it looks like a straight to video production with really simple, pale lighting that doesn't even make the movie look sinister. This really looks more like a first term student film by students still learning to use the equipment. The camera work consists of a few hand held shots and pretty basic framing, nothing too intense. The actors are also very unconvincing, they deliver either performances that come off as too cheesy or too overdone. The biggest problem here though is the script which is so poorly crafted. Characters are cardboard cut-outs with no personality, they merely exist for the purposes of running, grinning, screaming and looking tough or scared. The dialogue is laughable and the story advances with such a choppy, simple rhythm that we can't take any of it seriously. The violence itself only reaches a shocking climax in two scenes, this is not a non-stop orgy of death and killing, in fact, I found the movie to be quite restrained. Oh sure the nipple slicing scene is pretty grotesque, and the final murder in the woods is also birthed from a disturbing use of the imagination, but a more intense, graphic movie would be Meir Zarchi's "I Spit On Your Grave" which makes "Chaos" look like child's play, or Pasolini's "Salo" based on the Marquis De Sade's "120 Days Of Sodom." DeFalco also needs to be a little more original, movie buffs are already signaling out all the obvious "Last House On The Left" rip-offs present in the movie. I see the film more as one of those cheesy attempts by a guy who thinks he's tapped into reality at trying to make "something real" when in fact it doesn't feel real at all. Evil is a topic best looked at when it's done with a balanced blend of violence and psychology as in "The Silence Of The Lambs," "Seven," "The Exorcist," and horror works best when it is attempted with a real sense of the disturbing and gritty as with the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre." "Chaos" is more of a geek show, with scenes of pain, breasts and slobbering villains in a B-movie setting. This is not the most brutal movie ever made, or one of the best, or one worth checking out.

Note to filmmakers: You can't manufacture controversy.

CHAOS is a movie made with all hyperbole and no talent. If you want proof, look no further than the cover art: Even when you take the graphic violence into account, it's far from the "most brutal movie ever made". In fact, it's nothing more than a rip-off of Wes Craven's grindhouse classic, LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. That film may have been a spin on Ingmar Bergman's THE VIRGIN SPRING, but CHAOS actually steals from its source scene-for-scene. In the end, it's the equivilant of the PSYCHO remake (minus that film's skill). It's a miracle these amateurish filmmakers weren't sued.

If you want a lesson on how NOT to make a movie, then watch this. If you want a good unintentional laugh (the DVD extras show the director in a morgue, wearing a wrestler's outfit and flexing his muscles), then watch this. But don't watch this in hopes of seeing a genuinely effective shocker. You'll only wind up feeling insulted by this hackneyed attempt at peddling to horror fans.

This movie is exactly like Last House On The Left. So much so that as it moves along you would think that you were watching the Wes Craven classic. The only difference is that they changed some parts around. You know a quick revision but not enough to not recognize the movie they are stealing from.

The story is basically two naive girls on their way to a rave mistakenly walk into the clutches of the dumbest and most ugliest people ever captured on film. They are tortured and killed and the three idiots oops I meant criminals go to the house of one of their parents. Sounds familiar? It should.

The acting terribly unconvincing. I never once believed those girls were in danger but I do believe that they might have had a bad case of the runs. The villains were stupid and pathetic and this movie even has a campy subplot involving idiotic cops just like Last House On The Left!
Seriously, this movie is really bad and gives low budget cinema a bad name. There are some low budget movies out there that are good and are made with heart but this is not one of them. The director(David DeFalco) is this fiasco should be forced to watch his own rubbish till his eyes bleed. Honestly, Batman and Robin was scarier than this slop. Lets hope that this mangy dog doesnt inspire more hacks to be hacks because low budget cinema doesnt need anymore than it already has. Two thumbs down.

Don't waste your money, it STINKS!!! Stallone's kid needs to hit the gym too. GOD THIS MOVIE WAS AWFUL, LOL!!

PLOT: An un-official remake of the Last House on the Left. Two girls, Emily and Angelica, are lured into the home of four serial killers while looking to buy some drugs. Brutality ensues.

REVIEW: This is the most shocking film ever made. No, I'm serious. There is no point to this film. All it is is a look into heartless cruelty, inhumanity, and pure sadism. I don't reccomend it. Even if you want to watch it out of curiousity. Don't. So why did I give it four stars? It is so true. It shows how psychotic some people can be. It shows the dangers of trusting the wrong people, even if they look harmless. This is the same kind of thing that you see on the news. There are no undead killers wearing hockey masks, no CGI explosions, nothing that is considered "fake". In fact, I can never watch this film. It makes you want to take a long, long shower after your done. It's that bad. The gore is almost disturbingly realistic, and the acting is fairly good. Actually, this movie breaks all the taboos in film history (except child killing). There's graphic rape, nudity, inter-racial couples, bigotry, drug use, necrophelia (and it looks almost too real). It makes you feel sick and unhappy to live in a world where stuff like this goes on everyday. It's just that distasteful. If you're feeling depressed, watch this, and you'll probably kill yourself. It's just that bad.

ACTING: Considering most of the actors are unknowns, the acting is surprisingly above par. The main girls are portrayed so innocently that we feel so disgusted and sad when they meet their demises. I have nothing more to say...

GORE: I couldn't watch the whole thing, so I'll list what I saw. Lots of stabbings, nipple torn off and eaten, bloody vomit, beatings, knife to the testes, and some more. That first necrophelic scene looks so real, even I could feel it. I can only imagine the auditions for this...

OVERALL: 4/5. It's definetely not good by any normal means, but it is just so effective.

This movie was a complete rip off of Wes Craven's, Last House on the Left. I'm sure you already know this but I just thought I emphasize it to anyone who is thinking of buying this movie. I'll admit, I love gore and that's why I decided to buy this movie but this movie only had two "gore" scenes that we poorly scripted and as well as acted. In fact, the whole movie had corny dialogue, ammeter actors, and on top of that a stupid ending. I like movies with a cliffhanger or even bad endings but movies that just cut you off with no hope of anything good or bad (like this movie had) is what grinds my gears. I absolutely regret purchasing this movie and wish I could get my money back. I actually wound up throwing it in the trash. If you want a good movie, you will not find it here.

This flick is supposed to be a *cautionary tale*. In this case, the cautionary tale is something like - don't get involved with dirty strangers cause they may cut off parts of your anatomy and force you to eat it. If it wasnt so low budget, it might have been OK for a gore flick. But when he supposedly cut off the nipple..you could see it was fake blood and that booby was bigger than the other one(hidden nipple and top of breast). What a snore!
I love horror movies and am not offended by violence, as a matter of fact, I love the Saw series, but this was garbage. And if DeFalco thought the ending was "realistic", then he's a bigger idiot than I thought.
This film has no character development no advancement and no real lesson to learn except the one they have to blatantly tell you at the beginning of the movie.

This flick belongs on television(basic cable) at 3 am

Aside from the amateur acting and direction, the bleak, pointless "plot," and the endless, cruel, sadistic, misogynist sexual violence, the most galling thing about CHAOS is director DeFalco's deluded and/or arrogant boast that his film is actually "based on an original idea" - when anyone watching the film with a casual knowledge of horror film history will instantly recognize CHAOS for what it really is: an inept remake-cum-rip-off of Wes Craven's classic, ground-breaking, and infinitely more disturbing LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, made over 30 years ago! The only thing CHAOS has going for it is an intense, credible lead performance from Kevin Gage as the leader CHAOS himself - he's truly heartless, evil, and totally convincing, even if the performances by the young girls/victims aren't. Still, it's hard to watch, much less stomach, so much mind-numbing violence directed toward young innocent girls - in particular, there are two very graphic rape/torture/murder scenes that are so stomach-turning, cruel, and just plain mean-spirited that they, depressingly, almost push the envelope in terms of the limits of onscreen taste - almost. But since the film serves no purpose except to shock, nauseate, and give jaded viewers a sick voyeuristic thrill, do we really need to endure much more of this poorly-shot brand of vicious rape, necrophilia, and murder in such unblinking, exploitive, & sleazy fashion? Does it turn the audience on or off, and does it even matter? Will this cynical horrorshow of sliced & stabbed genitals or endless sobbing/screaming/pleading female victims make CHAOS an underground cult hit because of it? Even if you reach the cop-out climax, it doesn't matter - there's still no reason to support it - esp given the disingenuous "warning" that wraps the whole film like a flimsy excuse. Rent it on Netflix if you must, but don't BUY it to support his sexist trash.

One of the girls who plays a victim in this film also showed up in the first season of the Jamie Kennedy Experiment as the girl he played a dating game joke on. That segment on the first season is hilarious and a little scary in parts. Much scarier than anything in this film.
As for this film, yes, it's a copy of a much better film but instead of railing against it, just ignore it. There are worse films out there and the more attention films like this and Hostel get, the more we'll see of them. I'm tired of filmmakers trying to outdo and outgross one another in the torture department. I'd like a good story too.

I just watched this film recently and must admit it is in fact a truly fantastic horror film.
I liked it, but it could have been a bit longer and had a bit longer ending.
It's not based on I Spit On Your Grave, but a serial killer case.
Or rather, spree.
Plot; a group of serial killers on the lose in the Australian landscape decide to attack, abduct and torture what two victims but end up confronting parents who are far smarter than they thought they were with potentially catastrophic consequences for their plan.
The group is led by a strong, heavily muscular built gentleman who goes by the name 'chaos', then the terror begins, and reigns supreme throughout the rest of the whole film.
I've watched lots of horror films, many of them really good, some better than Chaos, others worse.....
Chaos is set to become an instanat smash hit and a cult film in the near future since the beginning of it's conception.......
It does not remind me much of I Spit On Your Grave.....
I have not yet seen the original I Spit On Your Grave, I saw it's remake and intend to see the original......