Wes Craven ha gettato le basi dell'horror moderno. In questo film troverete la strutturache costituisce i film dell'orrore oggi: momento felice - dramma - finale sanguinolento. Non per niente, il nome di Craven echeggia in numerosissime produzioni attuali. Pellicola grezza, cruda, a volte acerba. Sicuramente uno dei pilastri del genere.
Wes Craven's first effort as a director, about the family of a girl who is raped and murdered enacting bloody revenge on her killers, is a bizarre, tonally schizophrenic mishmash of comedy and horror. It awkwardly switches back and forth between scenes of gruesome violence and odd comic relief. Still, it's an effectively gritty low budget chiller that broke new ground for teen horror.
I found it to be a tad disappointing. Was a little random and moody at times. I dunno. I felt the film drifting through time. Like the killings followed a spur of the moment kind of thing. There were great ideas, but not all of them did follow through aptly. I liked the soundtrack but at times it gave the film a burlesque tone that made the whole thing too light and happy-go-lucky..I dunno. Let down.;(
Firstly, this film does a lot more than recreate Bergman/Nykvist's wildlife imagery; it maintains and reinterprets the narrative from a contemporary perspective. Secondly, this is not, (as someone below said) a 'Virgin Spring remake' ... it is simply a reinterpretation of the classical narrative, originally derived from Nordic folklore. I'm sorry but one should really research before offering up such a harsh critique
When I started watching this I had no idea it was The Virgin Spring remake...I did not even know what the movie was about. The first couple of minutes where they were only showing breezy woods with its springs and streams really reminded me of The Virgin Spring. So two stars for quite perfectly adapting Bergmans and Nykvists wildlife imagery. The rest was bullshit.