Lost My Mind

Yesterday was to have been a toss up between Shadow: Dead Riot and Shatter Dead. However, I got sidetracked and never got to either one. Of course, it's easy to be distracted this time of year, with the NHL and NBA playoffs going on, that I haven't even warmed up to the MLB season that's going on now. So, today is a trip back through the mental vaults and a movie that I was deeply disappointed with after it was over. It's worse than Andrew Alberts taking a dumb penalty that kills my beloved Canucks' chances of winning a game and maybe as bad as the Sharks choking in the playoffs (again). Yes, the movie in question is Unhinged.

Some back story on this movie, the film was banned in 1983 due to its graphic violence and nudity, and was literally pulled-off shelves nationwide. It was later given a DVD release in 2004. I don't necessarily know about the former, but the latter would probably have been the bigger reason for such a move by Britain. To say that this movie was sorely lacking in the violence department would be an understatement. The plot is rather clichéd, as three women on their way to a jazz festival crash their car in an abandoned area, and I seriously doubt that a stick would cause such a huge wreck. The women find a house and stay with a family there. What they don't know and will find out soon is that the family holds a rather murderous secret.

Aside from the women taking showers and one of the women taking an ax to the stomach and brutalized, there just simply isn't anything really worth seeing in Unhinged. The secret of one of the family members is quite disturbing, which at least, makes the ending worth watching for curiosity purposes. The filming is quite shoddy, as it is rather lo-fi, especially when one of the women meets her demise in bed with an ax to the head, which I might add, looks like someone glued the ax to her head and isn't graphic at all. Talk about false advertising!