![]() ![]() Still, while McCord and her fellow femme fatales Alisha Boe (Paranormal Activity 4) and Sheila Vand (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night) may dominate the poster/DVD cover, the real central character in 68 Kill is a guy – who, wouldn’t you know it, has a major weakness for beautiful women. Whether it would hold up quite so well stone cold sober in the harsh light of day, I’m not quite so sure, but I can safely say I had a lot of fun with this lurid, self-consciously nasty piece of work. I caught director Trent Haaga’s film at Celluloid Screams Horror Festival, where it screened at 12am Friday night very wise scheduling, as this is prime midnight movie material that plays great with a crowd, and even better if at least mildly inebriated. All of which makes it clear as day that 68 Kill is basically Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! for the post-torture porn crowd. ![]() She’s blonde, she’s beautiful, there’s blood on her face, she looks certifiably insane, and she’s driving a car. A single image from such a movie tells you pretty much all you need to know take, for example, the picture of 68 Kill actress AnnaLynne McCord to the left. Hard to believe it’s been a full decade since Grindhouse, don’t you think? Even stranger to think that a film which was deemed a box office catastrophe proved to have such a legacy, inspiring scores of low-budget filmmakers to try their hand at vintage-flavoured exploitation, to such an extent that ten years on grindhouse is pretty firmly established as a genre (or subgenre) in its own right. ![]()
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