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Scrapbook [VHS]

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I recently had the chance to see this DVD. Part of me wishes I never had viewed this disturbing movie.
While watching SCRAPBOOK I felt dirty! It felt like at any moment SWAT officers were going to bust down my fron door and take me in for contributing to the badness of society!!!
After the movie was over I sat back and reflected on the experience. And this is the conclusion that I came to:

SCRAPBOOK is the most honest, brutal,powerful, and true look at a serial killer that I have ever seen! The camera does NOT shy away from the violence. It feels like the viewer is dropped in the middle of a serial killers life. And you see EVERYTHING!!!

If you want a glossy Hollywood movie...look elsewhere!
But if you are looking for brilliant, raw and powerful filmmaking then this is your movie!

HIGHLY reccommended!

This movie is not for the timid. Low budget assault on your sense of right and wrong. In the footsteps of "I Spit On Your Grave" it takes you one step further into the mind of true madness. The sound quality rises and falls creating hushed converstaions (turn it up) to loud screams (turn it down) so real it is sure to get the neighbors dialing 911. If you are not offended by extremely realistic bloody rape scenes then give this one a look.

As with Ice From The Sun, Stanze puts it all on the screen. The plot here is simple but executed with a real quality sure to offend anyone. Ths acting here is excellent, but I wonder how much is acting (except by "Leonard" played by the departed Tommy Biondo) and how much is reacting to the sequences they are a part of. "True horror is simply what one human being can do to another"

Eric Stanze's "SCRAPBOOK" is a great low-budget film that crushes the bounderies of reality horror! this movie is !SICK! & its definetely not for everyone! when this movie is over you truely question yourself weather or not you should have just watched it. now thats real horror! *YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED*

Very disturbing. Recommended only for sick minds, like myself.

I first read a review about 'Scrapbook' in Rue Morgue magazine. After getting up the guts to finally buy it, I can say the hype from the article as well as the reviews on various websites does not prepare you for what you are about to watch. This is a tough film to look at. That being said, it is a better than average horror movie. All the credit in the world belongs to Tommy Biondo and Emily Haack for really going all out. The realistic mock-documentary feel to the movie makes the brutality that much more disturbing. As a lifelong fan and collector of all kinds of horror movies, I enjoy and appreciate when a movie is capable of shocking me. 'Scrapbook' did it. It is a very well done movie worthy of a place in any true horror fan's library.

Coming from a girl who loves "Last House on the Left," "Irreversible," & exploitation like "I Spit on Your Grave," & "Thriller: A Cruel Picture," I must say that Scrapbook was BAD! It actually crossed the line of cinematic fantasy, meaning you know its not real. Most pictures like this one, have an element of substance to them... like an actual story and plot. A plot where the action moves the story along. Not Scrapbook. It was just ugly for ugly sake. The actors & crew just wanted to shock. I guess it worked, and I recommend this for those who aren't shocked easily. But coming from a girl who loves her "edgy" movies, this one was just violent rubbish.

Basically what you have here is a director who seems incompetent and a writer without much skill. The actor/writer of the film is not doing this for anything other than his own depraved interests. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of exploitation in my cinema, but this is utterly boring and self serving. I mean BORING. Even the 'rape' scenes were lame. By the end of the movie, you get the impression that Biondo and Stanze just wanted to treat a girl like a pig.

Pros: Brave Emily Haak. She gives it an extra star for her fearlessness.

Cons: cinematography, pacing, writing, editing, ACTING. There are more, I am sure.

This movie is grotesque and macabre. I disliked it and pass up on it unless you have to c every horror film there is.

This was an excellent video!!! The possibility that someone could do the things in this video to another person is unbelievable. I am a huge fan of gore and violent films but there were scenes in this movie that made me feel a little sick, now it's not a really gorey movie but it is quite violent. The craziness will drive you mad.

Image Entertainment has re-released another WICKED PIXEL CINEMA title uncut and with good special features. First, the movie SCRAPBOOK itself is a beautifully simplistic serial killer story with basically two characters: Leonard, the serial killer played by the late Tommy Biondo (ICE FROM THE SUN, SATISFACTION) and Clara, the victim played by EMILY HAACK (THE UNDERTOW, SAVAGE HARVEST 2:OCTOBER BLOOD). Both actors are brilliant in this movie. By keeping the movie simple, director ERIC STANZE (ICE FROM THE SUN, DEADWOOD PARK) is able to portray all of the torturous elements of kidnapping and torture, without pulling any punches. This movie made we cringe, wince, and shutter in terror, leaving me saying, "I can't believe they put that in a movie." Which, makes the movie one of the best serial killer, suspense, and horror movies I have seen in a long time.
The special features on this re-release aren't as extensive as the previous Wicked Pixel Cinema re-release of Ice From The Sun, but they did not disappoint. The commentary tracks are informative and the "shower cam" sequence was a nicely added, chilling surprise.
Although this movie is not for everyone, I highly recommend this movie to anybody looking for no-holds-barred brutality, done in a brilliantly simple style and design that leaves you breathless.