Synopsis: A woman seeks revenge after a massacre during her wedding rehearsal which leaves her in a comatose state.
Appraisal: Sound and fury signifying nothing. I have heard of style over substance, but here we don't even have that; it's rather a pastiche of styles devoid of substance. The insistence on severed limbs, gouged eyes and other assorted mutilations is puzzling. The film is practically an encyclopedia of accessory characteristics of cheap cinema of bygone eras (e.g. shrill synthesizer music during moments of suspense, hyperfast zooming in and out of the martial arts teacher, and so on). Come to think of it, everything in this film is derived from fetish, be it sexual or cinema-oriented. The problem is that none of the genuine emotions conveyed by the original sources are present here; you can see clearly the artificiality of it all. In fact, he is dealing here precisely with cinematic traits that can best (only?) be savored first-hand; context is important. What is touching, if anything, about those exploitation films of the 60's and 70's is their authenticity; unfortunately, it is inevitably lost in translation.
Rating: 28
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