The Bunny Game
Starring: Rodleen Getsic, Jeff F. Renfro, Norwood Fisher,
Gregg Gilmore
Plot: A prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride
with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath.
My Review and Thoughts:
Unbelievable. I can’t believe what I just watched. My mind
is numb and I in all honesty can say I am 100 percent floored at the blunt
nature of this film. I have seen a lot of disturbing and sick stuff when it
comes to cinema but this powerhouse is shocking. It holds nothing back. This
black and white filmed picture of depravity takes the viewer into a darkness
that is so reality based that the one viewing it feels the process taking place
on film as if it’s real.
The sexual nature and the aspect of torture come together in
a stark slap in the face. Bunny is a prostitute. Day to day she seeks out men
for money to support her drug habit and to keep herself fed. One trick after
another seems to be more violent then the next. Soon she is picked up by a
trucker named Hog and then all hell breaks loose as Bunny is stuck in true
unrelenting madness and horror through torture of some the most heinous
ordeals.
The trucker has a little playground of handcuffs and a
camera and chains in the back of his truck and Bunny is his next plaything. I
have to commend and mention the acting or at least the ordeal that Rodleen
Gestic went through who plays Bunny. She is a golden performer. The torture and
humiliation even though it’s a movie would have to be hard to go through. This
is like a snuff film of torture, sexual torture.
This is not for everyone. Hell it’s not for most, but with
that said if you truly want to see something disturbingly remarkable then you
have to see this, this is a one of a kind dark picture. If you go into this
wanting a thick dialogue and a character study of cinema then you won’t get it,
for this is one sex act after another and one torture shot after another.
The camera work is flooring, the cinematography is mind
altering in the art house indie department of film making. It’s like life
unfolding before your eyes, a slow trip into insanity. A balls to the wall
smack in the face that leaves the viewer bleeding from their eyes.
The flash back of Hogs many tortures with many women as you
watch him get high and stab the hunting knife into the bed of the truck is a
filmed moment that reminds me of what great memorable filmed moments in cinema
history is about. I went through this movie with so many emotions that I cannot
even begin to describe what I felt watching and what I felt in the end.
You think you know disturbing? You think you know torture
horror? You think you know what not to do in cinema? Well you don't know any of
it until you have seen this. This is a movie that I will never forget. It’s a
movie that left a lasting mark on my mind and that is very hard thing to do. I
don't disturb easy, I don't shock easy and this movie gave me the shock, the
disturbing and most of all the memory of this insanity.
A powerhouse of a film. A film that Hollywood would never
ever dare to begin to even touch or understand or have anything to do with.
This is a film that flips off the Mainstream cinema world and says this is film
that you can’t handle, its real, its dark, it’s insane, its porn torture done
in a deprived artistic way that in reality is a masterpiece of exploitation and
the choices that lead down a path of heading into a wrong turn that one should
have never made and now that the choice has been made it has consequences.
The acting between Renfro and Getsic is something that is
award worthy. The Hog and the Bunny don't play nice. The Hog is a true demented
swine and the poor little Bunny has to taste the Legion. True iconic acting by
Renfro. His madness bled off the screen and gave the viewer a haunting reality.
I speak highly of this film because I really enjoy films
that cause great emotions. The images and editing and direction is what should
draw you to this film, because its original and perfect in so many disturbing
ways. You want the inside reality of the workings and life of a serial killer
then watch this film.
I have seen true evil. I have seen true depravity. I have
seen the very foundation of disturbing and it’s The Bunny Game.