Cry Havoc

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I feel like the dumbest SOB alive for actually having watched this whole movie. Think of the worst movie you've ever seen then multiply it by 10,000 and you still won't have how bad and boring this flick is!

Horrible acting, horrible horrible acting, writing is just as bad. Complete waste of 85 minutes of your life.

Okay let's cut to the chase and call this movie what it is, a B movie. Is it bad? Not completely. Is it good? As far as low budget slasher films go, it was good/decent. The dubbing for, "Charles Bronson's" lookalike was top notch. The nudity, although predictable was enjoyable. The action scenes were a mixture of great to average. Silly at times but overall the action was good enough for a movie like this. What I liked most of all about this movie? That it was made in the traditional way. The fight scenes are choreographed, decent practical effects, the stage blood looks decent. Sure the movie is a little cheesy, but overall not as bad as people have been saying. Frankly, I look forward in seeing more Bronson reincarnation Robert Bronzi films. I hope he does LESS slasher films and MORE traditional action films! I'm not a big fan of this genre(too predictable and pathetic regardless who makes them) so to recap 5 stars for the following: dubbing, Bronson action, nudity (a bonus), and for trying(A for effort).

Arriving in a small quiet town, a reporter is taken to a remote site deep in the woods for an interview with a wanted criminal where she's then inducted into his games as a potential victim to a psychotic serial killer hunting down people in the woods and must team up with a policeman seeking his missing daughter to escape. This one ended up being a great addition to the franchise. This one works best when kept to the basic format of having fun, brutal encounters with the deranged killer. The opening shots here featuring the one victim in the blazing woodland battleground chained to the killer who has to outwit him has a lot of fantastic stalking and impressive tactics to enjoy about it before featuring the incredible gore and general setup. That's carried over nicely into the other stalking and victim-hunting, from a fantastic cat-and-mouse sequence inside a house filled with red-and-blue series of filters, an encounter with a tied-up victim in the woods that the reporter witnesses or the series of gunfights taking place between the officer and the henchmen in the woods. As well, the film also has a lot to like involving the final half which is where this one has a lot to like. The girls' escape and an eventual run-in with the pursuing officer lead to several intense and enjoyable gun-battles between the policeman and the other henchmen which goes alongside the fun hunting and stalking scenes elsewhere in the woods. Chasing the escaped reporter through the woods from the rusted-out car remains and through the various embankments down to the lake, a battle to free a tied-up victim before the killer returns and a brutal bare-knuckle brawl that takes place with the killer providing some all-around enjoyment and variety with the type of action set-pieces present, this part of the film has quite a lot to like about it. There's also a lot to like here with the introduction of the real motivation behind the franchise. Tying together the one loose thread involving the unnamed voyeur who watches the events unfold from the video-cameras placed around the various compounds, that comes across rather well here. Giving everything not only a reason for happening but also managing to offer up a thrilling revelation sequence where it gets spelled out how the situation is set up, what the goal of his project is all about and where it comes from is quite an impressive feat since that's been one of the biggest issues involving the series up till now. Combined with the still terrifying appearance of the killer and some vicious, creative kills, there's so much to like about the film. The film does have a few minor flaws involved here. One of the biggest issues is the weird disappearing act created by the killer in the second act where it's noticeable he completely disappears from the film for long periods. The entire interview segment and resulting setup to put her into the game keeps him off-screen, much like the lack of attention paid to him during the multitude of gunfights with the henchmen taking place in the forest with them. As well, there's also the constant notices that what's going on here is still quite low-budget and is obvious about it, which isn't detrimental but could be an issue for some. Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.

This film is shot well, has the expected level of B-movie gore and nudity, and the plot itself is not bad. The acting is pretty terrible from all sides other than Robert Bronzi and Richard Tyson. In the version I watched, it seemed like they stuck a voice-over on Bronzi which really takes away from the film and feels stiff and fake. Bronzi has a nice voice and can act, why did they do this? If you like gore and modern sploitation films, this is passable. Cinematic gold it ain't.

CRY HAVOC is a variation of THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME (1932) concept, except here the hunter is not a rich and eccentric lunatic but the eponymous beast he unleashes on its unfortunate victims on his property, and which he has guarded by armed mercenaries. The director has a good eye for composition, and visually, the film is much better in this than in all other respects. The acting ranged from mediocre to atrocious. For example, here was an opportunity to create a colorful villain, but the actor who played him turned him into a dud. The best part was played by Robert Bronzi, an eerie Charles Bronson look-alike, but even he was not given much to work with by the script. Indeed, the script is one of the low points of this movie. Beyond banal dialogue, rampant character stupidity, cliche after cliche, there is also this pretense to some philosophical motivation for the villain which fails completely. In an interview sequence with him and a reporter, he assures her that what he wants out of life is Truth, all the while explaining that he lures the victims by lying to them. The reporter fails to challenge him on the blatant contradiction, and he makes no attempt to resolve it himself. Of course, he could be just BSing the interviewer, but the movie portrays him as sincere in this belief. It would not have been difficult to fix this: for example, he could have argued that small lies are justified by large truths or something like that. The point is, the *movie* (as opposed to the villain) is selling us a bill of goods. An outstanding example of a horror film that is profoundly difficult to watch yet reveals a robust and consistent underlying philosophy for the villains is the French MARTYRS (2008) (the American remake, MARTYRS (2015) manages to completely botch the philosophy of the original, as though the film-makers really had no idea what it was about). An outstanding example of how an interview in a horror movie can give depth to the villain and his motivations while commanding attention is in THE SACRAMENT (2016). The action and shoot-out scenes are lame and unrealistic, while the gore scenes, which seem to combine practical effects with CGI, are at least in a technical sense a bit better. This film has a lot of over-the-top gore, so not recommended for people with weak stomachs. The film ends on a cliff-hanger but, frankly, I could care less. I watched this film only because I wanted to see at least one film with Robert Bronzi to be able to compare him to Charles Bronson (He does look, talk and walk like him). I would not have otherwise watched it, and cannot recommend it, either.

This is the dumbest, most boring, as far from a horror movie I have ever seen. Every aspect of this film is horrible. The soundtrack is so stupid. Just a complete waste of life.

Rene Perez is clearly an example of an auteur since he pens, produces, photographs, edits, and helms this ultra-low budget movies. Mind you, the man has got the knack and the know-how, but he is trapped by his bare budgets. "Cry Havoc" appears to be the latest chapter in his "Havoc" movies. Take about back to basics! We have the equivalent of Leatherface from Tobe Hooper's "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre," with barbed wire wrapped about his hockey mask. This behemoth of a maniac is appropriately christened Havoc (J. D. Angstadt of "Cabal"), and he craves for blood. He utters absolutely nothing, and we never see the face beneath the mask he wears. In "Cry Havoc," this ghastly, gruesome, killer wanders the woods searching for young, beautiful, but vulnerable damsels-in-distress who expose their breasts without qualms. These gals suffer the wrath of Havoc, but he displays little relish for his horrible handiwork. Evidently, Havoc's preferred method of murder is to gut his victims with a jagged meat cleaver and then eviscerate his them. Meantime, an aspiring news reporter, Ellen Weaver (Emily Sweet of "Fear Pharm") schedules an interview with a The Voyeur (Richard Tyson of "Death Kiss") so she can land her dream job at CNN. However, she must accommodate those minions who work for the evil The Voyeur. Ellen must surrender all electronic devices, including her cell phone, because The Voyeur's attorney has to escort the reporter to a secret rendezvous. The attorney is worried that somebody might have followed Ellen, so she keeps her eyes peeled. Meantime, Havoc is harvesting his supply of intestines as if he were pulling ticker tape out of a machine. Ellen manages to escape Havoc's clutches and collides with an off-duty cop (Robert Bronzi of "Once Upon A Time in Deadwood") who is searching for his long, lost daughter. This cop is so focused on finding his adult daughter that he exhausts his supply of ammunition and must contend with Havoc mano a mano in a showdown. Perez shows an ample number of breast shots, and he likes to show our indefatigable hero reloading his revolver. Basically, "Cry Havoc" is torture * of the worst kind. Havoc's butchery of sexy babes gets to be pretty sickening as this 85-minute epic unwinds. Altogether, "Cry Havoc" is enough to make you 'cry havoc.' The squeamish are advised to steer clear of this largely outdoors epic. The ending is sort of depressing. Perez is not without talent, and the sooner he starts using his talent wisely, he may make it as an auteur. Skip this trash that happens to be a sequel to "Playing With Dolls" (2015), "Playing with Dolls: Bloodlust" (2016) and "Playing with Dolls: Havoc." Ultimately, it is a shame that Perez has to make these yarns. The ending really sucks, too.

While the slasher parts are good, the backstory of It or Havoc could be built better. Actors and actresses seem to be amateurs. Very horrible acting. Also can we talk about the motorcycle scene? Like wtf? Dont watch. I give this movie a one cause i made it painfully through the whole thing