Sickly Disturbing Films

This is the best Larry Clark film ever. I just love this movie. It's a sick, disturbing and depressing story of blind and troubled youth down in a suburb west of Fort Lauderdale, Florida and it's all true. This film is based on the harrowing true story of the murder of teenager Bobby Kent.


The True Story -

"Kent and Puccio had known each other since third grade, had lived on the same block in Broward County since that time, and were good friends as adults. Bad blood, however, existed between the two. Puccio felt "ill-will and hatred" towards Kent because Kent would bully and pummel him. Both sets of parents were wary of the friendship as well. Marty's parents, Martin Sr. and Veronica Puccio, were cautious because Marty often returned from being with Bobby with bruises or bleeding. Fred Kent thought of Marty as a wayward slacker who had no future (Marty was a high school dropout) and felt the friendship with his son would destroy the future he was helping Bobby build. Both boys were avid steroid users which, according to testimonial accounts, significantly contributed to Kent's erratic aggressive behavior.

Kent and Puccio had also delved into making homosexual porn movies in the hopes they could sell them to local shops to earn extra money. Neither Kent nor Puccio actually participated in these movies, but rather allegedly directed them and either coaxed or forced Lawrence Shafer, a Florida man in his early 40's to commit lewd acts on camera. Kent tried to peddle the movie, entitled Rough Boys, to porn shops across south Florida. However, none took him up on the offer due to the poor audio and video quality as well as the lack of any sellable sexual activities in the film beyond Shafer dancing nude and playing with a dildo.

For a few weeks prior to his death, Kent dated Ali Willis, best friend of Puccio's girlfriend, Lisa Connelly. Willis moved back with her parents in Palm Bay, Florida, and broke up with him after Kent allegedly forced Willis to watch a graphic homosexual porn movie while he had rough sexual intercourse with her. Kent reportedly said he was going to murder her and smother her baby unless she returned to Broward County to date him. Willis returned and she and Connelly concocted a plan to kill Kent. The girls obtained a gun (Connelly's mother's gun which Lisa stole from her for that night) and lured Kent to a rock pit in west Broward but backed out at the last minute.

The plan was for Willis to seduce Kent and begin having sex with him. While this was happening, Connelly would sneak up behind Kent and shoot him. Connelly allegedly later said that she did not shoot Kent because the police can trace bullet fragments to the gun they originally came from.

The next day a wider circle of friends conspired to kill Kent, including the newly recruited Derek Kaufman who the group heard through friends was a gang leader and mafia hitman. Prior to meeting the group, Kaufman had no association with Kent, Puccio or any other member. The group again lured Kent to the rock pit in an undeveloped area in Western Broward County, Florida. Puccio had told Kent that they were going to race cars and that Willis wanted to have sex with him again. That night, despite blistering Florida summer heat and humidity, Puccio was dressed in black jeans and a black trench coat with a red bandana tied around his head. According to Willis, "Marty came out of his house looking like Rambo."

Sometime around midnight, Willis led Kent away from the group down by a canal that ran up against the area. Heather Swallers then was instructed by Derek Kaufman to join them and figure out if Kent suspected anything. If she felt he didn't, Kaufman told her to ask Kent if there were any alligators in the canal. Once she did that, the murder would commence. Swallers asked Kent if the canal had any alligators and Kent sarcastically told her she should go skinny dipping and find out for herself. Almost immediately after, Donny Semenec charged Kent and stabbed him from behind in his neck. Kent whirled around and called out to Puccio for help. Puccio then stabbed him in the abdomen, and when Kent tried to flee, Semenec, Kaufman, and Puccio tackled him and stabbed and beat him. Several times during the murder, Kent pleaded and begged Puccio for mercy, telling his friend "I'm sorry! Marty, whatever I did, I'm sorry!" but Puccio continued. While Kent was down, Puccio cut his throat and hit his head against the ground so hard he fractured a vertebra in Kent's neck.
Kaufman delivered the final blow with a weighted baseball bat to the head. Kent's body was then dumped into a canal."


Sick, sick, sick movie. Well acted and powerful. Do not watch this film if you are easily offended. But if you do decide to see this movie make sure that you get the UNRATED version, it's a big difference. Before seeing this you should already know what you're getting yourself into. This is a Larry Clark film for Christ sakes, the director of "KIDS", it's not going to be a fun watch at all. Bobby Kent did not deserve to die, even though what he did was unbelievable wrong, these kids should have not taken justice into their own hands. It also goes to show you how little involved some parents are with their kids. Such a shame. Go and see this movie as soon as you can, highly recommended!


Brad Renfro and Nick Stahl in Bully

A truly chilling creep fest of a movie. This one sends chills down my spine. Way more frightening then the original Amityville! Watch this one alone in the dark.

Highly Recommended!

What a great family film...LOL, are you kidding me? Don't let the cover fool you, this is one fucked up movie! Murder, rape, suicide, depravity, child molestation. This movie is like "American Beauty" but on crack. Sick thing too is that this movie is actually funny as well, but it's the kind of laughter that you feel guilty making. This is one of the darkest comedies I have ever seen. This film was directed by Todd Solondz, the same man who brought you "Welcome to the Dollhouse" and judging on his films, sort of like Larry Clark, I wonder what kind of sick life Todd had lived and if any of this is from his past experiences.

"The story mostly revolves around a family and it's three daughters. Helen, the eldest sister, a successful author who is adored and envied by everyone she knows, but also has the sick fascination with getting raped. Trish, the middle sister, an upper middle class housewife happily married to psychiatrist Bill Maplewood and has three children. There's one problem. Bill likes little boys and he masturbates to teeny bopper magazines. Bill also has crush on his son's 11-year-old friend and he will do anything that it takes to get the pleasure that he needs from him. Joy, the youngest sister, is seen by her family as overly sensitive and lacking direction. Because of her loneliness Joy will sleep with anyone who will give her the time of day, including men who will use her and steal money from her.

Then there's their parents, Mona and Lenny, who are separating after 40 years of marriage. Lenny is bored with his marriage, but does not want to start another relationship; he simply "wants to be alone." As Mona copes with being single during her twilight years, Lenny tries to rekindle his enthusiasm for life by having an affair with a neighbor. There's also Allen, played by Philip Seymour Hoffman, a pervert who makes obscene phone calls to women while he masturbates, and likes sticking post cards on the wall with his own semen."


Expecting that the MPAA would brand this movie with an NC-17 rating, which would make distribution difficult, the filmmakers opted not to submit the film for rating, hence sealing limited distribution and difficulty in advertising.

Toward the end of this film there is a conversation between Bill Maplewood, the child molester, and his 11-year-old son Billy. Let me tell you, this conversation was so sickly intense that it send chills down my spine. I don't know how the hell they got such a little kid to go along with such a disgusting and vile conversation, but he did play it off extremely well. It was scary and shocking. You have to listen to what the father say's to his son, watch it and you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

This movie is great. Dark and twisted, but great. Highly recommended if you can stomach this kind of thing(but don't worry, most of the stuff is just suggested).

"August Underground"...this movie will knock you on your ass! Fucking hardcore stuff. I gave this movie 1 star simply because it filled my stomach with too much nausea and made me too depressed. This is garbage, but it's shocking to the max. Disgusting shocking filth.

Gore. Degradation. Torture. Sexual humiliation. Rape. Vomit drinking, and Necrophilia. This movie certainly pushes the limits beyond any film I have ever seen.(if you can even call this pile of trash a film). But I do have to say, this movie only sets out to shock you. And it did just that!...and a whole lot more. Believe me. This is an uncompromising and in your face raw experience. For a fake snuff film this certainly does indeed feel like a real one.

This is one movie that will quite possibly just ruin your whole day. You've been warned!

Sick ass film to the extreme. I am not kidding. This is a another hard film to get a hold of, but if you can try to find it. This is another Larry Clark film, the director of "Kids", and it's also his most deranged film yet. Vile and depressing. I feel guilty even owning this movie(you can find a few of copies of this online), but I bought mine at a horror convention. I don't even know if I should really recommend this one, but for those of you who can stomach it, go and see this now! No matter how sick it is this is still a very good movie. A very realistic and very honest film. The only reason why I didn't give this a higher rating is because this movie makes me feel too depressed and it ruins my day whenever I watch it.

"Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his enormously pregnant mother. Peaches looks after her devoutly religious father, but yearns for freedom. They're all rather tight, or so they claim. But they spend precious little time together and none of them seems to know much about one another's family lives. This bizarre dichotomy underscores their alienation # the result of suburban ennui, a teenager's inherent sense of melodrama, and the disturbing nature of their home environments."


OTHER REVIEWS:

"Explicit sex (and I mean explicit, like triple-X explicit), masturbation, and near-incest are all on the menu."
- eFilmCritic.com

"...[Larry Clark's] most audacious film to date."
- Monsters At Play

"...scenes of graphic onanism, oral gratification, and ritualistic violence."
- All Movie Guide

"Thoroughly vile!"
- reelingreviews.com

"Makes "Happiness" look like Dumbo."
- Film Freak Central

"...leaves the viewer stunned - stuck between laughter and disgust, horror and compassion, not knowing what we should feel or what we are."
- Plume-Noire

"Everything is graphic. Very graphic. Perhaps, at times, too graphic."
- movie-views.com

"...this is well beyond what we're used to seeing within the realms of conventional cinema."
- DVDTimes

"...Clark has made a maniacal, demented, sexual, violent film that might cause a few hundred catholic riots..."
- Ain't It Cool News


lol...Good stuff! See this movie and judge for yourself. Let me know what you think.

Dark. Disturbing. Scary. Beautifully shot and brilliant.

As many of you probably already know, the whole movie is shot backwards. A few people that I talked to had shut this movie off in very beginning. They said that it gave them a headache, or that nothing was happening and that it made no sense. The few people who I know that actually sat through the whole thing said things like "it was too boring", or that "it wasn't shocking at all." I only know about three other people who personally love this movie like I do. Then again, I haven't sat down with too many people to watch this movie with. A lot of my friends don't even care much about the "art form" of films, let alone seriously appreciate films overall. That's another reason why I joined Flixster too, so I can finally talk to some people who are actually on the same level of film appreciation as I am. Now that I'm on this site I have found even more people who are actually into Irreversible and who understand it's brilliance. On the other hand I have read some negative reviews, and it seems that they're the same exact reasons why my friends hated it. I guess this is just a love it or hate it kind of movie. I for one loved it!

Plot -
"Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring two criminals to help them find the rapist so that they can exact revenge. A simultaneously beautiful and terrible examination of the destructive nature of cause and effect, and how time destroys everything."

I can't understand why some people didn't find this movie to be shocking. I watch a lot of hardcore, sickly difficult films all the time and this is indeed one of them. What more shock value did people want from this film?...A nine minute rape scene in 3D? This is one brutal movie. Maybe it's because some people just view this for the shock value alone and become disappointed by the overall quantity of disturbing imagery. It does seem to slow down a bit and almost come to a stop as the movie progresses. But this movie isn't just all about the violence and the gore, there's more to it here. This movie has a very strong message and it also tells a very emotional and complex story(carried along with some great cinematography). The acting in this is outstanding. Vincent Cassel's performance is truly fierce and ferocious. There's some truly powerful stuff here.

Sick and violent. This is in fact a very disturbing movie, as well as a high quality film. Highly Recommended...if you can stomach this.

A story about a woman tearing, eating, and slowly self mutilating herself. Literally.

In My Skin is a bizarre, bloody grotesque, and disturbing little film. Not a movie for everyone, especially for those with a weak stomach, but for those who are looking for something completely different, in a strangely deranged unique way, this is definitely the movie for you.

In My Skin very much reminds me of some kind of David Cronenberg film. Strange, graphic and bloody, but yet very compelling at the same time. Gore aside, this movie also has some great performances, and the art direction is top notch. It's an artsy film where everything here moves at an extremely slow pace, but nevertheless, it all still seems so strangely beautiful. There's some strange message here hidden behind all the gruesome imagery, one that needs to be examined by viewers, where we can share our opinions and try to understand the actual point. Would someone, as the female character in this movie, really do the kind of things that she did? I really don't know. But out of all the crazy things that people do in this world, I wouldn't really find it hard to believe that someone, somewhere, would be doing something like this.

Plot:

"Attending a party, Esther decides to catch a breath of fresh air in the garden and accidentally cuts herself severely. Only later does she realize her injury and when telling this to her doctor, he asks her, "Does this leg belong to you?"

While his question notes upon the irony of the situation, it actually is exactly what goes on in Esther's mind, as her body and mind are two. Hardly has her wound healed, before she cuts it open again, both in order to feel the pain, but also to watch how her flesh reacts. Slowly she becomes obsessed about her flesh, her blood and mutilating herself, going thru phases of self-vampirism and self-cannibalism, to a point, where she begins to peal her skin off, for later to take it out and feel it. Equally slowly, she becomes detached from the world around her, giving up friends and her job, retracting herself into a world, where she can be alone with her pealed skin.

The self-mutilation of Esther begins as any other act of self-mutilation, due to stress and low self esteem. She isn't as attractive as her girlfriend, nor as successful at work. During the early stages of the film, while her girlfriend is writing a report for the ministry unsupervised, she has to rewrite her report, as her boss found it flawed. But soon it becomes obvious, that she has become addicted to it. During a business dinner, the image of her boss pealing a grape excites her to such a degree, that she first rips her stocking, then, as she watches her arm being detached from her body, has to go away for a moment, to satisfy her urge by cutting herself over and over. Its not lust, but addiction, and within days, her addiction has reached a level, where she hardly can get home, before she maniacally indulges in acts of self-vampirism."


This movie also focuses a lot on slow driven character study. At first it gets us weirdly acquainted with the female lead, just enough as to where her pain later becomes more believable to us, and as the film goes on it only becomes even more shocking. I recommend this movie only for those of you who are really into extreme cinema.

Other Reviews:

"As unrelenting an exploration of isolation and dissociation as Roman Polanski's Repulsion."
- The New York Times

"A bizarre exercise in perversion that will well test even the most jaded art house audiences' appetite for the offbeat."
- The Hollywood Reporter

"Fiercely uncompromising psychodrama infused with a keen intelligence and a sinister primordiality."
- Chicago Reader

"In My Skin takes that pain/pleasure principle and magnifies it until you're either dumbstruck or running screaming from the theater."
- Boston Globe

"A truly trangressive film as unsettling as it is psychologically acute."
- TV Guide

"An experience you won't easily shake."
- Entertainment Weekly

"Spectacularly grotesque and literally nauseating, even for this usually intrepid moviegoer, In My Skin is among the more disturbing films in this blood-drenched cinematic season."
- Los Angeles Times

Meet the lieutenant. A gambling addicted, perverted, and angry junkie. He likes to smoke crack, steals cocaine from crime scenes, screws over connected bookies, dances with prostitutes completely naked, and masturbates in front of young innocent teenage girls. He's also investigating the rape and torture of a seventeen year old nun, who's perpetrators inserted a crucifix eleven centimeters into her vaginal aperture, breaking the hymen membrane. They also used a sharp object to carve a cross between her shoulder blades and after they were done with her they took a crap on the church altar.

Does this sound sick to you? Well it's because this movie is sick.

Harvey Keitel plays the lieutenant, making a powerhouse performance and giving it his all. He even bares it all...literally. An interesting thing about this movie too is that, in one particular scene, we actually sympathize with the lieutenant. I shit you not. There's this one scene in the church when Harvey Keitel is crying, praying to Jesus, and we can see how much pain he's in and how much he regrets everything that he's doing. He was dealt a harsh hand in life and those drugs he did didn't make it any easier, but all in all he was still just a dirty scumbag. My sympathy for him couldn't last that long anyway for I kept remembering that one shocking and disgusting scene, when he pulls two teenage girls over for a broken taillight, and sexual humiliates them to the max.

Religion and faith also play a big part in this movie. Since the lieutenant is investigating the rape of a nun his own personal demons come into question and he begins to learn the true meaning of forgiveness within himself and for the perpetrators of this ghastly crime. It's like a "what would Jesus do?" kind of thing, but of course sometimes, we all can't forgive as Jesus would. Suddenly we find ourselves counting on the lieutenant to do the right thing, to cause punishment on the lowlifes who raped the nun, and to save the day. It's the power within the true concept of forgiveness that makes the ending here a total shocker, and it will quite possibly leave you pissed off to the extreme. But what does that say about ourselves? Should we be more forgiving to people no matter what they do? I for one lean toward NO. I'm sorry but I could never be forgiving to a person who had raped and tortured someone. Watch this movie and judge for yourself.

Premiere voted this movie as one of "The 25 Most Dangerous Movies", and it's rated NC-17 as well. If you rent this movie make sure you get the NC-17 version. It's a big difference and there's 5 full minutes more of disturbing shit. Highly recommended(if you can stomach this).

Disturbing, utterly disgusting, and vile film. This movie is based on the true story of Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi.

The Real Victims:

"The first victim of the Hillside Stranglers was a Hollywood Prostitute, whose body was found near the Forest Lawn Cemetery on October 18, 1977. The corpse was cleaned and faint marks could be seen around the neck, wrists, and ankles where a rope had been used. She had also been viciously raped.

On October 31 1977, police were called to an Eagle Rock neighborhood, north of downtown Los Angeles. The body of a teenage girl, wrapped in a tarp, had been found on a curb in a small residential area. Bruises on her neck indicated strangulation. The body had been dumped, meaning she was killed somewhere else. The girl was about 16 years old, weighing 90 pounds (41 kg), and had medium length, reddish-brown hair. The girl was eventually identified as Judith Miller, a 16-year-old destitute.

On November 6, 1977, the nude body of another woman was found near the Glendale Country Club. Similar to Judy Miller, she had been strangled with a ligature. The woman was identified as 21 year old Lissa Kastin, a local waitress. She had been last seen leaving work on the night before she was discovered.

On November 13, 1977, two school girls, Dolores Cepeda, 12, and Sonja Johnson, 14, boarded a bus and headed home. They had last been seen getting off a bus and going over to a large two-tone sedan car. Inside the car reportedly were two men. On November 20, a young boy cleaning up a trash-strewn hillside near Dodger Stadium found two bodies. Both girls had been strangled and raped. They were soon identified as Cepeda and Johnson.

Later that same day, November 20, 1977, hikers found the nude, dead, sexually assaulted body of Kristina Weckler, 20, on a hillside near Glendale. Unlike previous victims, there were signs of torture on the body as indicated by oozing injection marks.

On November 23, the badly decomposed body of Jane King, 28, was found off an exit ramp near the Golden State freeway. She had gone missing two weeks earlier, around November 9. With the continued discovery of bodies in hilly areas, a task force was formed to catch the predator who was deemed the "Hillside Strangler."

On November 29, police found the body of Lauren Wagner, 18. She, too, had been strangled with a ligature. There were also burn marks on her hands indicating she was also tortured. The law enforcement task force - Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, and Glendale Police Department - began to assume that more than one person was responsible for the murders, even though the media continued to use the singular, Hillside Strangler.

On December 13, 1977, police found the body of 17-year-old prostitute Kimberly Martin strewn on a hillside, her body pointing toward city hall.

The final victim in Los Angeles was discovered on February 16, 1978, when a helicopter spotted an orange Datsun abandoned off a cliff in the Angeles Crest area. Police responded to the scene and found the body of the car's owner, 20-year-old Cindy Hudspeth, inside the trunk.

The Stranglers had stopped Catherine Lorre with the intent of abducting her, but after learning that she was the daughter of famed actor Peter Lorre, they let her go. It was only after the two men were arrested that Lorre realized whom she had met."


C. Thomas Howell(from The Hitcher) plays Kenneth Bianchi. He plays the part so well, making his character so believable that I just wanted to reach inside the TV and strangle his disgusting and perverted ass. Nicholas Turturro(the brother of John Turturro) plays a very believable role as well. These two were total disgusting, down right perverted slobs who should have been shot the day they were born(the real murderers of course). It's scary how C. Thomas Howell and Nicholas Turturro played the part so well, and believe it or not I almost couldn't distinguish the characters from the real life murderers. That's how fucking well they played it!

This is the kind of movie where you feel like washing your hands after you see it. It makes you feel dirty and even almost makes you regret sitting through this pile of vomit inducing trash. Not to say that this movie is really bad or anything like that, but it is what it is...trash. I'm sure that the director knew what he was making was going to be trash, I'm also sure that he knew this movie was going to disturb a lot of people. So all in all he accomplished pretty much what he set out to do. So now I'll put it this way...this is not a good quality film. This is a good trashy ass film. The only reason why I didn't give this movie a higher rating is because, like I said before, it made me fill up with too much disgust and tons of rage. Yes, this movie seriously got me pissed off. It was not a good feeling while watching this film, not the least bit at all.

Don't expect any gore or anything like that, and even though this film is graphically violent, it suggests most of it's disturbing content. This movie degrades women to the max and it doesn't hold anything back. It's in your face raw and uncompromisingly savage. A dirty perverse little film that's unfortunately all so true. I recommend this film only to those who think that they can stomach it. If you're curious to see as to what really happened revolving around Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, I'd say give this movie a peak. If not, I'd say spare yourself from this cinematic torture, and watch something more along the lines of "The Silence of the Lambs".

A filthy, disturbing, and perverted movie. For fans of "true crime" flicks or extreme cinema, I highly recommend this.

"When I was in prison I got slashed in the face, my ears cut off, my eyebrows trimmed and a butcher's knife here, an ice pick here - Not fun at all, etc. If you drink and drive and you're unfortunate enough to hit somebody, you ought to pray to God that you don't go to prison."
- Chopper Read

This is a sick, raw and violent movie based on the true story of the notorious Chopper Read.

"Read was born to an ex-army father and a mother who was a devout Seventh-Day Adventist. He was placed in a children's home for the first 18 months of his life, as his mother was either unwilling or unable to care for him. Read grew up in the Melbourne suburbs of Collingwood, Thomastown, Fitzroy and Preston. He suffered from bullying at school, claiming that by the age of 15 he had been on the "losing end of several hundred fights" and his father, usually on his mother's recommendation, beat him often as a child . Read was made a Ward of the State by the age of 14, and was placed in several mental institutions as a teenager, where he was apparently subjected to both Deep-Sleep and Electroconvulsive therapy.

By his mid teens, Read was already an accomplished street fighter, and the leader of the Surrey Road gang, made up of himself, 'Dave the Jew', Cowboy Johnny Harris, Terry the Tank and various other affiliates. Cowboy Johnny was killed in a street fight, protecting Chopper, during this period. Read and Dave The Jew had him cremated and sprinkled his ashes in a local swimming baths after closing time, in accordance with his wishes. Dave the Jew is the only ally from this period of his life who Read does not go into personal detail about in his books, stating only that Dave is a slightly-built, upper-class Jewish man who suffers from several undiagnosed mental conditions, and despite being a ruthless toecutter and murderer, is completely unknown to the police. Chopper remains good friends with him to this day.

Read's criminal career began with the robbing of drug dealers, based in massage parlours in the Prahran area. He later graduated to kidnapping and torturing members of the criminal underworld, often using a blowtorch or bolt cutters to remove the toes of his victims before killing them (Hence the slang term "Toecutter", used for Headhunters).

While in Pentridge prison's H division in the late 70's, Read launched a prison war. His gang, dubbed 'The Overcoat Gang', because they wore long coats all year round to conceal their weapons, were involved in several hundred acts of violence against a larger opposing gang during this period. Around this time, Read had a fellow inmate cut both of his ears off in order to be able to leave H division temporarily. Whilst in his early biographies Read claimed this was to avoid an ambush by other inmates, his later works state that he did so to "Win a bet". Several other members of Read's gang also cut off their own ears in a similar fashion after this incident. Read was ambushed and stabbed by members of his own gang in a sneak attack, when they felt his plan to cripple every other inmate in the entire division and win the gang war in one fell swoop was going too far. Read lost several feet of bowel and intestine in the attack. Ironically, one of the attackers was James Loughlan, a longtime friend of Read's. Read was, at the time, serving a seventeen year sentence after attacking a Judge in an effort to get Loughlan released from prison.

The nickname 'Chopper' was allegedly based on the protective Bulldog from the cartoon series Yakky Doodle, due to Read's habit of protecting the small and innocent from harm. Read once claimed to have served two years for GBH in 1978 after attacking a local pimp and drug pusher who was attempting to force a 13 year old school girl into prostitution, claiming "It was worth it".

Described variously as witty, charismatic, sadistic, and frightening, Read admits to being involved in the killing of 19 people and a further 11 attempts. Many of his associates in the underworld claim that Read is prone to making up numbers to increase his own notoriety and the sales of his books. Read himself has stated on numerous occasions that he would "never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn.""


Disturbing and ultra-violent, bloody crime flick...yet darkly funny at the same time. Very well acted and great direction, along with some good storytelling. Eric Bana plays an amazing psychopath in this movie. I can't believe this guy really did what he did, and he got away with most of the shit too. If I ever saw Read walking in the street I would definitely cross to the other side. lol

An interesting dark and extremely gritty look at a true psychopath. Highly recommended!


Eric Bana as Chopper Read


The real Chopper Read