Product Details

• Actors: Lou Diamond Phillips, Mark Wilson, Mädchen Amick, Vince Corazza, Robert Haley
• Directors: Ken Girotti
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: May 15, 2001
• Run Time: 96 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005AVZS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #80,520 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Hangman" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Bland vanilla with a tiny twist., April 9, 2002

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"jddunn2" (Denver, CO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hangman (DVD)

I have to hand it to the filmmakers. The "hunt for a serial killer who taunts the police" gimmick is dead and Anthony Hopkins has eaten the corpse. Hangman attempts to breath a little life into the genre, though. And for the most part it's just a by-the-numbers police story. That's fine, but I've seen it all before. The real surprise is the twist near the start of the third act. I pride myself on being able to spot big plot twists (I knew the end of The Sixth Sense from the trailer), but I did not see this one coming. The only other time that's happened in recent memory is with Witness for the Prosecution.

Movies can't survive on a single twist alone, though. And Hangman is no different. The actors are B-level and the characters were so vanilla I wanted to go out for a cone at the thirty-minute mark. We've seen all this before as a serial killer known as "The Hangman" taunts police with little riddles and pictures of `hangmen' (the game). If the police don't find the victim in time, the hang. Okay, I haven't seen that before, but it feels like I have.

This was all over cable for a while so I'm guessing it will rotate back around in a few months. There's no need to get the DVD or tape.

Recommendation to avoid unless you really like big twists in a bland story.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Bah.., December 17, 2001

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M. Fonseca "carmarthen" (Thunder) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hangman [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Lou Diamond continues with his string of B-movies. At least, this one here has a really good production. The viewer is cheated by not being able to guess the murderer due to the old scheme of "double criminals", well, a sort of it... Lou DIamond plays the cop once again.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Standard, December 8, 2002

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A. Trotter (New Hampshire) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hangman (DVD)

No surprises in the script, but the acting is really good. I caught this one late at night on TV at the begining and stayed awake to watch it through. Rent before you buy; it's worth the money to rent & see it at least, but I'm not sure you'll want to pay to keep it unless you're a huge fan of someone in the movie.