The Bunny Game
The Bunny Game
| 19 October 2011 (USA)
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A prostitute looking for her next meal hitches a ride with a trucker that leaves her praying for her next breath.

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acallahan-84160

This is the worst movie I have ever seen!It did not stay on the same scene more than 10 seconds at a time. It kept showing the same things over and over. The constant blinking lights were annoying. All you hear is annoying screaming through the whole movie with very very little talking. There was absolutely nothing about this movie to like. There are absolutely no words that could do justice to how ridiculous this movie was.I would rather go back to when my boys were little and watch the same Barney video over and over again! Please don't waste your time on this piece of crap! I rated it a 1 because that is the lowest you could rate it!

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Duckyz95

The Bunny game, is a black and white film focused around the life of a cocaine addicted prostitute, who is abducted by a truck driver, degraded and tortured for a period of time in the desert.Usually with shock films you're presented with extreme blood and gore, however, The Bunny Game steers away from gore and leaves you with a masterpiece based solely on violence and sexual acts which will truly disturb the average human being.From the start, you're dropped into Bunny's world, the cruel life of a woman who turned to prostitution to feed her drug addiction. After viewing her life around dominant males, she meets Hog, an unknown truck driver who quickly takes advantage and kidnaps her, strips her and chains her to the inside of his truck. For the rest of the film you see Hog, torturing and humiliating her in extreme ways, from sexual acts, dragging her with a leash around a desert to branding. As far as story line goes, The Bunny Game is hugely lacking, it seems we are just dropped half way through the story. The first 15 minutes is about Bunny's sex infested drug life but it would of been better to see more of her past. Then you meet Hog, who is a complete stranger to us. We have no idea why he is doing this or whether he has done this in the past. However the lack of storyline between the characters makes it seem more believable as a story. You don't tend to know the other person's back-story so this gives it an element of realism.The movie aside, the special features is the most shocking thing, interviews with Jeff F. Renfro (Hog) and Rodleen Getsic (Bunny) we come to the truth about how they can pull off this element of torture with such a low budget. Well it turns out all the torture was real (minus the drug and alcohol abuse). It was a huge shock to me to find out the there are actors out there willing to get their head shaved, be branded and suffocated for a film. Even Gregg Gilmore, who was originally going to play Hog, pulled out at the last minute as it was too dark and real for him to do.

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eric-pudalov

The entire reason that I wanted to see The Bunny Game was that I'd heard so much hype about it being incredibly disturbing and realistic.Without giving too much away, I will say that it is profoundly intense, and not for the average movie viewer. Ironically, it is much less gory than films from the "splatter" genre, such as "Hostel" and "Saw." Instead, the focus is centered around the main character, Bunny, and her tortured experiences as a prostitute.Perhaps I'm not like some horror fans who feel that more gore = better. Rather, I prefer a good story, even if accompanied by violence. I suppose the most "shocking" scene in the film is the much-talked-about branding scene, because that (and the other violent acts) are not simulated. Yet even that scene is shown in a few edits.The most disturbing part, for me, is that Bunny (and another character named Martyr) look as though they're genuinely suffering, and not acting. That, in my opinion, is far more disturbing than anything the "torture porn" films have displayed. In this, The Bunny Game succeeds wholeheartedly.Whether or not the film has a "message" is debatable; I'd say try to go into it with an open mind, and you will not be disappointed.

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missmonochrome

Not much plot to recount here.....dope sick prostitute Bunny attempts to turn her daily tricks with deranged trucker Hog, and the whole situation goes south even more readily than the title character.Chained up in the back of his semi, she's shaved, tortured, humiliated and dehumanized in a nearly wordless 76 minutes. No character backstory (other than some flashblacks to one of Hog's former victims), no exposition, no editorializing.While occasionally hitting on a retro stylish Floria Sigismondi style cinematography/editing in the crisp black and white, there's remarkably little to recommend here. There is no characterization(and thus very little reason to become involved or care about the titular character), and it's made clear from the beginning of the film that Bunny has no chance of relief or escape.Both of the film's non actors(Jeff Renfro and Rodleen Getsic) do a credible job of making this as visceral an experience as possible, with Rodleen deserving a trophy for sheer showbiz trooper......as she actually endured all of the injuries/burns/brands and humiliations depicted in the film. Only the drug use was simulated.However, first time director Adam Rehmeier wastes this film's strongest card.The first time you see/hear Bunny's legitimate stricken terrified screams or Hog's maniacal laughter in a maelstrom of industrial music and jump cuts, it's affecting. The fourth time a near identical set of stills/audio and jump cuts appears, it starts being annoying. By the 10th go, it's utterly boring.Amongst all of the repetition, some of the film's most haunting moments are lost in the din (Hog playing with knives outside the truck while his victim screams, the filmed playback of a crying Bunny from the in truck tripod, Bunny panting and exhausted in the desert sand in bondage restraints and the titular bunny mask).There's an excellent 35 minute short about in this mess somewhere, buried under a lot of self indulgent performance art pretensions and an overly long run time. It's a waste of the physical endurance test Ms. Getsic endured, which never should have been the most notable thing about this film in the first place, and a flood of press releases and interviews prattling on about rebirth and catharsis do not help.If you have to explain a concept after a film that's run twice as long as it should have, the director has failed in his mission of getting that subtext across visually.

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