Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (R.W.W.M.)

Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre (R.W.W.M.) (2009)

  • 24% of users liked it
    (782 ratings)

A whale watching trip goes horribly awry for a group of unsuspecting tourists in this darkly comic Icelandic shocker starring Gunnar Hansen (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). After the captain of the whale watching ship is badly injured and his first mate attempts to sexually assault a passenger, the… More

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Directed By
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Written By
Sjón Sigurdsson
Genres
Horror, Art House & International, Comedy
In Theaters
Sep 4, 2009 Wide
Image Entertainment

Critic Reviews

  • Simon Foster, Screen-Space

    Deliberately OTT in its gory dispatches and crassly xenophobic enough to rile the intelligentsia, Kemp's riff of 'Texas Chainsaw'-style claustrophobic terror is neither as bad as some would have you believe nor as shocking as it makes itself out to be.

  • Anton Bitel, Little White Lies

    by replacing Tobe Hooper's bubba with a whole lot of blubber, Júlíus Kemp's Harpoon: The Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre reinvents the southern gothic as a bloody Nordic seafaring saga.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Lee ?


    So-so slasher based in Iceland about a group of Whale-watching tourists who bump into a family of murderous former whalers. Films of this type have been done before but the change of scenery was nice, unfortunately I don't think the film made the most of it's unique… More

  • Steve K


    Not as special as I hoped, the location helps get you through some of the unoriginality of it.

  • Brian D


    Great title but that all is good about this movie.Its full of dull people and hillbillies type people on a boat really dont work.The plus side there are some descent killings and enough gore for fans but its the over all quality just sinks.

  • Jacob P


    Great name\story, bad movie.

  • August S


    It has the suspense, and the gory fun ride but this movie has the most stupid or rather annoying characters that just sits there and die. This could have been great, really and I truly loved the conclusion because the survivor is the only one who deserves to live because the other… More

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