Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Micransix Crappy film

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Anthony Rauscher Contender for best horror film ending. ever. period. Quite possibly the winner. Quite possibly one of the best film endings. ever. period. Regardless of the budget, and Hollywood snobbery aside etc..Full of real "Oh f*#k.." moments, in key places. The acting isn't Hollywood character development, but it's explanatory, and tonal - This and the films set and atmosphere set a fantastic pace to the story, which I believe is intentional, to establish the ultimate finality in the film clearly - Marion Penrose is a psychopath unlike no other, and no well developed character could possibly compare or stand against her! Hardcore in depth focus and development in characters, would have produced the opposite effect. The cute, sweet, natural, genuine, leisurely, carefree girls (both as actresses, and the characters they portray) just seem to carry along on their own, and then.... get brutally slaughtered and slashed. That would seem to be the ultimate horrifying terrifying point! And that's what helps make this film so nightmarishly impactful overall. Everything seems only somewhat odd, at first - the characters, the location - but ramps up successively, becoming creepier, and creepier, and very, very creepier..Nothing is contrived in this film, it's not trying to be anything at all, and it firmly stakes it's own, untouched, ground - It's 100% unique. If elements of influence are felt, it's particularly from Psycho - In a really good, and innovative way! Few films have what Unhinged has in droves, and none have it the way Unhinged does - true creep factor.The murders are well timed, and have an extremely realistic, and quite very disturbing feel. They're conducted swiftly, and succinctly, with great precision and skill, and with surprising and LEGENDARY daft! Marion Penrose simply establishes "herself" as a seemingly absolutely intelligent successful crazed murderer that tingles inside with nothing but thoughts of killing. The reveal in the shed when Terry tries to escape Carl is grotesque as heck, and disturbingly trippy - One can almost sympathetically feel at this point, that sadly the films protagonist will NOT make it out. These are all victims you feel for, and WANT to survive. But they don't, and it hurts. The strong and righteous female lead is a subtle and sweet presence that could stand side by side with the likes of Sigourney Weaver as Lt. Ripley, Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, or Milla Jovovich as Alice, in it's own right. Terry Morgan (Laura Munson) always did her best, against all odds, and never gave up. Laura Munson's sidekick Sara Ansley is no slouch either, and they both sport out many fun different looks over the course of the movie, and spew out some great one liners. The girl power in this movie is ahead of it's time, and superseding of it's genre - these girls are intelligent, determined, unflinching, strong, and persevering - Considering the circumstances. The girls are also strikingly very beautiful, and cute as friggin beans! You also sense that, meh, they don't care about much - they're having fun doing this! When you love what you do - it shows!😊The storyline is quite airtight, signifying that even though a great deal of money wasn't behind this project, a great deal of intelligence was. As a "low budget" film - It has a whole LOT more to give, and get out of it, than went into the budget - and that's a fantastic thing to see. We're watching what effort, purpose, and labor of love & interest do in Unhinged. We're not watching what the love of a swimming pool filled with money does. Gronquist was extraordinarily intentional, commanding, particular, intelligent, careful, and selective of what he did with what resources he had. Subtly, everything about this film is iconic and legendary - It's something like diamonds in the dark (a film in a low budget), and when glints of light make them sparkle, you know exactly what you've got, and how beautiful and valuable it is.I hope you love the film as much as I do!

Milo-Jeeder In "Unhinged", three college friends named Terry, Nancy and Gloria go to a music festival in Pinewood, but during a dreadful storm, their car falls into a steep ravine and the girls are rescued by a man named Norman, who takes them to a nearby mansion. The owner of the place is a woman named Marion Penrose, who lives with her crippled mother. Marion advices the girls not to go out again during the storm, and offers them to stay for as long as they need.For dinner, Marion introduces the girls to her mother, Mrs. Edith Penrose, who turns out to be a delusional, uptight harpy. Mrs. Penrose ruins dinner for everyone by making awkward comments, accusing Marion of being a tramp and going off on a rant on how awful men are, especially her ex-husband, who cheated on her. Later that night, Terry and Nancy talk about what a horrible time they're having and both agree that they want to leave as soon as possible. Also, Terry tells Nancy that she thinks there's someone lurking outside the house, watching them, but her friend doesn't believe her. Things keep getting more and more tense between Marion and her mother and Terri can't wait to get the hell out of there, not only because she knows that there is someone watching her, but also because she can't tolerate the weird mother-daughter relationship. For some reason, "Unhinged" was banned in the UK, which is something that is proudly mentioned on the DVD cover. Honestly, I don't get it; the film isn't that violent. We see a few murders on screen and they are gory too, but it's nothing so vile that we need to look away from the screen. I am a horror fan, but I dislike extreme gore and I can honestly say that I wasn't freaked out by this at all. It is perfectly endurable and I can't understand why this film was banned at all. It can't be the nudity either, since it is something very innocent (we only see the girls showering). Could it be that the movie was banned due to the offensively bad acting instead? That I can believe!"Unhinged" was filmed in Portland, Oregon and director Don Gronquist decided to cast Portland locals with little or no acting experience… and it becomes evident as we see the film. To my surprise, Virginia Settle, who plays Mrs. Edith Penrose, was actually a stage actress. Mrs. Settle is probably one of the highest points of this film due to her over-the-top acting that gives this film an undeniable campy nature. The way she yells and gesticulates, while she's accusing her daughter of being a whore is simply hilarious. The high-pitched voice, the eyes wide open and the whole refined and snobbish aristocrat stereotype makes Mrs. Penrose a very memorable character, but I would have never guessed that she was actually a trained actress. Perhaps the declamatory acting is part of her theatrical training. Janet Penner, who plays Marion Penrose was probably the more decent actress on this film and thank god for that, because even though Terry is the main character, she is pretty forgettable as a lead and the actress, Laurel Munson is very unskilled. Marion is a more interesting character; Penner gives a solid performance throughout the entire film and during the last minutes, she displays a lot more strength and histrionics, while managing to stay serious and avoiding the campiness. The ending is campy by itself, but Penner doesn't make it more bizarre. The two other girls were awful; Sara Ansley, who portrayed Nancy, was a model whom Gronquist had found through a talent agency and maybe she was an excellent model, but as an actress, she was terrible. The filming locations are probably one of the best things about "Unhinged", since most of the action takes place at the Pittock Mansion, which is the perfect scenario for a horror film. The place is beautiful for sure, but it's also eerie and it gives a feeling of uneasiness, since the girls seem to be lost and trapped in that isolated location.Throughout the entire film, we hear a weird synthesizer music that doesn't really fit for a horror movie that is supposed to be serious and creepy, but somehow, it works well in this film. While this film doesn't really offer anything that special to the horror genre, I found the twist in the end to be rather interesting and fun. I have read other reviews stating that the twist was predictable and unoriginal, but I myself don't feel the same way and it's one of the reasons why I love this film so much. The thing about "Unhinged" is that, clearly, it is a less than perfect movie, but there's just something about it that makes a lot of people love it, without being able to explain why and I am one of those. I love this film and I regard it as one of my all time favorite slasher flicks, even though I also understand that it isn't all that great either.

videorama-759-859391 Why do we go to horror films? To see a lot of gore and be on edge. What the hell was this writer thinking. We've got three honeys, one at the start, who we are granted with seeing her goodies while taking a shower, going to a rock concert during a rainstorm, which as consequence, they crash their car. They're taken in by a pleasant enough guy who works at this mansion that harbor a terrible secret. There's little suspense, but a lot of screen time wasted with uninteresting activity (chatting). The old woman who owns it, has a real nasty, spiteful nature, and worse, she HATES men, hence the secret. The younger woman, the sister, provides the twist, which I liked. You won't see the twist, so to speak, it's too well covered up. It doesn't look good for three girls, either, as one by one, they're being sliced up, with a sickle in some effectively sick gore. But Unhinged suffers, purely on the lack of suspense and uninteresting prattle, by our three mains who are okay in their roles, plus dialogue from others too, in a displaced horror that could of much better, if not for a lot of nothingness. The unveiling of the killer + murderous, reasons, provide a good backing of the character's motives. Unhinged is a horror movie you'll fee cheated by.

lastliberal This video nasty slasher film directed by Don Gronquist, was banned in Britain for 20 years because of violence and nudity.It may have been nasty in 1984, but it is certainly tame by today's standards. That doesn't mean it is not worth watching, but it certainly does not stand up next to today's slasher films.First, I have to be careful and cannot fully review it as it would spoil it for anyone wanting to see it.I can say that the two shower scenes were nice, but nothing special.I can also say that there were three slasher scenes, but only the last one was special.It is worth the time, but it is certainly not anything excessive.