Product Details

• Actors: Candy K. Sweet, Lexton Raleigh, Tom Dennis, Levi Tinker, Buddy Spafford
• Directors: Christopher Dunne
• Format: Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, Drama enhanced, Full length, Special Edition, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: December 24, 1999
• Run Time: 147 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0967801206
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #509,479 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

TIME MAGAZINE, October 26,1998

"Truly Independent Cinema"

Product Description

Shakespeare's Savage Epic of Brutal Revenge: Set in early Rome, this is the saga of a noble man cruelly betrayed and brutally persecuted-- ultimately driven to madness and murder by the "wilderness of tigers" of the Roman Court. A tale of timeless relevance and depth, yet a bizarre and exotic indulgence in the horrific imagery of humankind's inhumanity to itself... torture, dismemberment, murder, conspiracy, dementia, cannibalism, infanticide AND MORE! This film is an intentional "cult" treatment: a close adaptation of Shakespeare's original drama, enhanced with an original musical score of cello and theremin, heavily laced with outrageous scenes of gory violence and preposterous mayhem. This two hour and twenty minute epic feature tells the powerful tale as it was intended, focused on the simple truth that violence and revenge simply begets only more violence and revenge. Enjoy!

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Customer Reviews

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Hold the mirror up to nature?, November 17, 2000

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Robert Hawkes (Cleveland Heights, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Titus Andronicus [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The main object of any acting is to persuade the audience that you understand what you're saying and why - thus one becomes the character. The actors in this show have missed that boat by a mile - seem, often, not even to be trying to communicate the sense of what they have to say, and seem not at all embarrassed to be doing nothing but mouthing lines they don't understand. And so whatever may be the purpose of this extravaganza - spoof, horror, just a bit of fun, or whatever (it certainly can't be to "do" Shakespeare, either seriously or satirically) - it is doomed to failure because its actors simply fail to tell its story. So the chintzy effects and amateurish "music" may be a bit of a lark, but the general dishonesty of the production values and the worse than amateurish acting leave this one at a spiritual and aesthetic level somewhere below that of "I Spit on Your Grave".

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Wish there was a zero stars option!, February 8, 2000

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Rebecca B. Campion (Cary, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Titus Andronicus [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This video is too bad to even rate a "campy" label. The director could have picked 20 people at random off the streets and gotten more intelligible performances. It isn't the gore and violence that is the problem; it's the fact that the actors don't understand their lines, making it impossible for the viewer to do so.

Don't waste your time and money on this.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Residents at Attica Prison Could Have Done Better, March 7, 2000

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David Logan-Morrow (New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Titus Andronicus [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Of all the film versions of plays by William Shakespeare this has got to be the worst. I agree with one reviewer that you could have gotten better performances from people off the street. I hope all these actors donated their time to this film for there isn't one worthy of a penny in remuneration. Cuts to the text had no justification. And the special effects. Zounds!What special effects! A plastic kneck brace spewing forth blood; a latex head chopped in half; a rubber baby doll impaled on a stake (not even in the original text);and more! It's not even a "good" bad movie.