There's a very good reason for film ratings. People could be influenced to do terrible things through watching acts of violence.
For instance, if you are the sort of person who has an innate tendency to hack other people to bits, hang them upside-down, and so on, I think it would be wrong for you to see this film. Similarly, if you happen to be a young boy who might be tempted to borrow your grandfather's gun, shoot a rabid dog, and then inject its blood into meat pies, I really don't think you should watch this. In fact please forget you read this in case it gives you ideas.
Then of course there's drugs. If this film encourages you to take psychedelic drugs irresponsibly, in the misguided belief that acting stupidly on them and killing your buddies is fun, then I can't imagine anything worse. As the man once said, don't take them at all - buy your own like everybody else. Sit down with a copy of Timothy Leary's Politics of Ecstasy and have a life-expanding experience.
But on the off-chance that neither being a psychopath or a mystic runs in your blood, then it might even be quite safe to watch this movie. Secure in the knowledge that you won't be badly scarred and run out to rape and murder the girl selling popcorn in the interval. But is that a chance worth taking?? Watching the film on DVD however is also perhaps to be discouraged. You'll miss out on the hoots of laughter as your fellow grindhouse eclectics thrill to the awful dialogue and spurts of blood. You might worry about whether there is secretly something wrong with you for watching such stuff.
I was also rather concerned about the implication that some workmen had unprotected sex. Not even with each other. But with a young woman who, at one point is in the shower. And I don't think it is quite clear if her consent was properly obtained in advance about the shower element. Of course, it is one of those rare films that isn't based on a true story, so the main concern is whether it could incite similar behaviour. Since there are foolhardy people out there, it would obviously be better to ban all movies made in the 60's in which unprotected sex is implied, and no mention of the dangers of slipping on the soap given beforehand, during or afterwards..
Although it is fairly incidental, I will mention the plot for sake of completeness. Some low-life youngsters take lots of that LSD stuff and, after various indescribably horrible rituals, arrive in a town of about forty people, all of them nice mainstream types, pretty unintelligent except for the lad with a shotgun. After getting infected they start biting and chopping bits off anyone and generally making quite a scary time of it all.
It's quite a little gem in its way. The first American film to get an X certificate for violence.
Enjoy.
Responsibly of course.
For instance, if you are the sort of person who has an innate tendency to hack other people to bits, hang them upside-down, and so on, I think it would be wrong for you to see this film. Similarly, if you happen to be a young boy who might be tempted to borrow your grandfather's gun, shoot a rabid dog, and then inject its blood into meat pies, I really don't think you should watch this. In fact please forget you read this in case it gives you ideas.
Then of course there's drugs. If this film encourages you to take psychedelic drugs irresponsibly, in the misguided belief that acting stupidly on them and killing your buddies is fun, then I can't imagine anything worse. As the man once said, don't take them at all - buy your own like everybody else. Sit down with a copy of Timothy Leary's Politics of Ecstasy and have a life-expanding experience.
But on the off-chance that neither being a psychopath or a mystic runs in your blood, then it might even be quite safe to watch this movie. Secure in the knowledge that you won't be badly scarred and run out to rape and murder the girl selling popcorn in the interval. But is that a chance worth taking?? Watching the film on DVD however is also perhaps to be discouraged. You'll miss out on the hoots of laughter as your fellow grindhouse eclectics thrill to the awful dialogue and spurts of blood. You might worry about whether there is secretly something wrong with you for watching such stuff.
I was also rather concerned about the implication that some workmen had unprotected sex. Not even with each other. But with a young woman who, at one point is in the shower. And I don't think it is quite clear if her consent was properly obtained in advance about the shower element. Of course, it is one of those rare films that isn't based on a true story, so the main concern is whether it could incite similar behaviour. Since there are foolhardy people out there, it would obviously be better to ban all movies made in the 60's in which unprotected sex is implied, and no mention of the dangers of slipping on the soap given beforehand, during or afterwards..
Although it is fairly incidental, I will mention the plot for sake of completeness. Some low-life youngsters take lots of that LSD stuff and, after various indescribably horrible rituals, arrive in a town of about forty people, all of them nice mainstream types, pretty unintelligent except for the lad with a shotgun. After getting infected they start biting and chopping bits off anyone and generally making quite a scary time of it all.
It's quite a little gem in its way. The first American film to get an X certificate for violence.
Enjoy.
Responsibly of course.