Crushed
Crushed
| 01 January 2009 (USA)
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Love can be painful. Very painful. The intriguing-on-the-outside, twisted-and-tortured-on-the-inside Tara sets her sights on the unassuming guy-next-door Ray. Their innocent flirting turns into a regretful one night stand which he hopes to put behind him. Tara has different plans for their relationship.

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Rob Neil

Ruddiger and I have been watching horrible horror movies for almost two years now, and this one is definitely on the bottom of the barrel. For one, the title of the film is idiotic, and the website of the film company is pasted directly on the DVD. Very classy. We popped this sucker in and from the very first moment we saw that ugly CGI horse run across the screen, we both just let out a sigh of disgust. This is going to be a great one. The characters in this film were not thought out well at all. The main man, Ray, is just a loser that can't stay off the sauce long enough to realize he's having sex with his crazy neighbor, Tara, who ends up just killing everyone. I get it, "she's crushed", but God I feel like Ray could've done something to fix the situation. He called the cops but nothing ever came of it.. It's ludicrous. Anyway, Rick's bald friend and co-worker, the "troublemaker", as Ray's girl puts him, was the most offensive movie character I have ever seen. Every line seemed like he was taking an improv class, and he managed to insult about ten different social groups, until he finally gets killed. I was relieved. Bottom line, this film had nothing good in it. Bad acting, bad plot, bad filming.. Just a horrid affair the whole way through. I would buy this movie just so I could burn it.

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P J

This movie might make want to never rent a Redbox movie that I had previously not heard of ever again. Being a low budget independent film, you can't have your expectations too high, but you would not expect a movie that could at least make it to Red Box to be this terrible. As you can tell by other reviews, yes there are a lot of bloody scenes that can be at times shocking. So if that is all you want and could care less about film quality, acting, or any sort of a plot whatsoever, be my guest. Honestly, a bunch of middle school kids letting their twisted imagination runs could have written that screenplay in about two hours.

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christopher-underwood

I'm not quite sure why some love to jump on a film like this. Maybe, the clever use of internet promotion backfires, maybe people are upset by the movie and get their own back, maybe because there are no big name stars, maybe just because they can. Anyway, I reckon, this little film that surely achieves everything it sets out to do, has been very unfairly dismissed. It is stylishly shot, with imaginative soundtrack and a furious pace that never lets up. The violence is believable and horrendous and once the thing starts to roll, (that is right at the beginning!) there is nothing to stop it. Well, and here's my only gripe, the lead guy should have tried a little harder to nip this in the bud. There were a couple of opportunities when as a viewer you feel like screaming at him for being so 'understanding', when, of course, he seems not to understand at all. In fairness to the film he is set up to be this type of guy, taking it from his girlfriend and boss but it would have been absolutely perfect if he'd shown a bit more muscle. This is not, however, to take away from this very powerful and effective thriller.

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bbsalamander

Every mans nightmare, crazy girl who will do anything to get and keep her man. I see this as the Fatal Attraction meets any bloody torture porn and that's not a bad thing. I love the way this woman can get away with almost anything just by the mere fact that she is female. I think this is a great angle for a horror film and I for one felt pretty bad for Tara's new lover. Tara is the main character of the movie and is played by Natalie Dickinson who knocks her role out of the ball park. This is movie had me squirming and as a jaded horror fan this is not an easy thing to do. I like this movie and recommend it to the true gore hounds and horror movie buff but this is not for the average movie crowd in my mind.

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