Featured Audience Ratings

• Emil K

  
  Raising Cain verges way too close of an parody. Here is film that is almost so bad that it is actually good, but only almost. Brian De Palma is no stranger for these kind psycho-thrillers with echoes of cheap exploitation and Hitchcock. With Raising Cain he amps up the exploitation… More
  Raising Cain verges way too close of an parody. Here is film that is almost so bad that it is actually good, but only almost. Brian De Palma is no stranger for these kind psycho-thrillers with echoes of cheap exploitation and Hitchcock. With Raising Cain he amps up the exploitation factor to the maximum and the end result is something completely tastless and quite frankly stupid. There is some visual trademarks, like slow-motion, of De Palma to be seen here, but overall Raising Cain is surprisingly tastless and clumsy for a De Palma film. Brian De Palma has hardly been the most discreet of directors. Too often his films suffer from style over substance and this film is one of those cases. While De Palma tries so very hard to make sense with his nightmarish dream-structure, but the more you think about it all the more ludicrous it gets. There are split personalities, psychological mumbo-jumbo, countless bad Psycho-imitations and the top of it all is campy John Lithgow whose performance is certainly a worst in this actors career. Over the top does not even come close to describing John Lithgow's performance. Some perverse mind might enjoy Raising Cain for it's awfulness but seriously, this is something so awful that it takes truly twisted mind to enjoy a film this bad. Or maybe just huge amounts of humour which i am clearly lacking. When De Palma is good he can be very good as a director, but when he is bad he can be also very bad. Raising Cain is one of his worst films, possibly even the worst along with Wise Guys. There is nothing that would make this film worth to see. Instead there is loads of reasons not to see it and i am advising you to avoid this lazy and silly piece of bad filmmaking at it's very worst.

• Ken S

  
  While not quite as crazy it's main character(s), Raising Cain has some pretty nuts twists and turns. Not DePalma's best, but far from his worst too.

• Conner R

  
  A misunderstood movie that is almost as bizarre and comical in nature as Body Double. Brian De Palma’s style really shines here, due to the fact that he plays perfectly with insanity. His shots make sense more than they do in some of his other work. To make this what it is though,… More
  A misunderstood movie that is almost as bizarre and comical in nature as Body Double. Brian De Palma’s style really shines here, due to the fact that he plays perfectly with insanity. His shots make sense more than they do in some of his other work. To make this what it is though, it wouldn’t be complete without someone like John Lithgow. He gives such a scarily funny performance(s) as a man gone crazy in four different ways. The plot is very much a homage to Psycho, but even more on the edge of insanity. Whether it’s kidnapping babies or dressing like Margot, Carter is quite the multiple personalities victim. I would only suggest watching it if you get Brian De Palma’s style, otherwise you will be completely lost and write it off as silly.

• Nicki M

  
  Very good, once I could figure out what was going on!

• Candy R

  
  This thrillers' content is very disturbing, so not for the faint-hearted. An evil Dr performs strange experiments on children.

• Pierluigi P

  
  John Lithgow's disturbing and wicked multiple roles are the only appealing element of a tiresome thriller with dozens of themes previously displayed in Hitchcock films (freudianism, voyeurism, split personality, etc) Brian DePalma revered the master of suspense with good results… More
  John Lithgow's disturbing and wicked multiple roles are the only appealing element of a tiresome thriller with dozens of themes previously displayed in Hitchcock films (freudianism, voyeurism, split personality, etc) Brian DePalma revered the master of suspense with good results (sisters, obsession, dressed to kill, body double) but here he just missed the point.

• Lady D

  
  I'm not sure how this film got into my film collection, it's as corny as hell, but for that reason, I found it quite amusing.

• Stephen M

  
  This is one of those crazy little Hitchcockian thrillers that De Palma churns out between big-budget Hollywood assignments. Here, besides obvious nods to "Psycho" and a host of other movies, he finds time to reference his own "Sisters" and "Dressed To… More
  This is one of those crazy little Hitchcockian thrillers that De Palma churns out between big-budget Hollywood assignments. Here, besides obvious nods to "Psycho" and a host of other movies, he finds time to reference his own "Sisters" and "Dressed To Kill". John Lithgow is great, playing multiple roles, Pino Donaggio contributes a good score and there are a couple of superb orchestrated camera movements. If you accept it on its own barmy terms this is a lot of fun.

• Lafe F

  
  Plot twists galore and some great suspense. Not quite a masterpiece because of some of the over-the-top performances. But it's quite interesting and has some really cool scenes. Yup, a lot of it feels like Hitchcock, but that's a good thing. There's a sense of menace… More
  Plot twists galore and some great suspense. Not quite a masterpiece because of some of the over-the-top performances. But it's quite interesting and has some really cool scenes. Yup, a lot of it feels like Hitchcock, but that's a good thing. There's a sense of menace throughout. I liked the child psychology and abduction plot elements. There are various good shock scenes. Recommended.

• Dean M

  
  Strange thriller and confused stuff with reality and dreams mixed so much we are in danger of going as mad as John Lithgow's character.

• James A

  
  The twist is that John Lithgow is an alien who tries to fit in.

• Anthony V

  
  John Lithgow's tour de force gives this a lift.

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