Thursday, June 30, 2016

Dying God (2008)


(out of 5)

Dying God (2008)
d:  Fabrice Lambot
s:  James Horan, Lance Henriksen, Erin Brown, Agathe de La Boulaye, Victoria Maurette, Enrique Liporace, Samuel Arena, Nicolás Silvert 
spfx:  Gonzalo Pasos
format:  Personal Collection NTSC Region 1

     Neat little monster rape movie.  The monster effects were ok in some scenes, kind of bad in others, and pretty cool in a few shots so altogether I would have to say the creature fx in this were about average overall.  Still shots being very bad, it's easy to hide not so great fx when your creature keeps moving.  One giant monster penis was absolutely the best part of the creature fx.  And what a giant pp this thing had ripping open street girl after street girl.  The gore however, those fx were on point.  Always nice to see very little cgi in the gore department.  It has it's places in my opinion and blood and gore are just almost never one of them.  The victims of the creature in this one are women who basically get f'd to death by the creature. 

     Getting to the story better late than never.  There is a series of serial rape/murders mostly comprised of hookers in the streets.  One crooked cop and a band of pimps and gangsters are all out looking to figure it all out.  Takes them awhile but soon enough one of the gangsters has his head ripped clean off so they figure out the killer is not human.  After this a typical end of the movie show the monster and have a big fight ensues.  The dialogue was a bit shoddy in this but I liked the script as a hole because of the story-line although a little more background on our creature would have been better.  Then again I do like leaving a certain amount of story up to the viewer to fill in and you certainly have it in this.  Not much character development really at all either. 
     Lance Henriksen plays Chance the leader of the gangsters and does his usual thing.  I love Lance he makes any bad movie that much better.  The acting by James Horan in particular and pretty much the rest of the cast minus Erin Brown was pretty bad.  Erin herself for me was the shining star and I've only ever seen her in a couple of things one being Dickshark by Bill Zebub. 
I like to bring up the shots and the music but once again like my last review for A Day of Violence there really was nothing special in either case.  The shots of the gory victims were very cool of course for displaying the brutal nature of the crimes but overall I say nothing innovative camera wise.  Scariest scene of the film was when one of the victims walks in on another victim being raped by the creature.  There's a little more to the story but I'll leave the rest to the viewer.  For a fun monster movie, if you can call a movie with serial raping fun, I recommend this one however don't go looking for the best actors in the world. 

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