{"id":6129,"date":"2010-02-07T04:46:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-07T09:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2010-02-07T04:46:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-07T09:46:33","slug":"massacrator-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/07\/massacrator-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Massacrator (2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Massacrator-07-Punch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6130\" alt=\"Massacrator-07-Punch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Massacrator-07-Punch.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a>Watching &#8220;Massacrator&#8221; is frantic, jarring and violent, and in the end you feel very violated. I had every reason to love Pierre Ayote&#8217;s ode to Grindhouse silliness but instead I just couldn&#8217;t jibe with what was happening on-screen. Being a simultaneous ode to everything from Grindhouse to science fiction we meet Massacrator, a borg sent in to the present (or future?) to&#8230; kill a girl, I think. After decapitating a few poor suckers, he makes his way to a young woman who manages to get away just in time to avoid his super punch.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->How did he know where she lived? Not important. Because Ayote moves the film in to such a frantic and mind-numbing pace that it&#8217;s almost impossible to make out what&#8217;s actually happening. So the woman somehow resurrects Elvis who comes to the rescue and takes on the killer borg. I know, that sentence makes no sense, but the movie is pretty much a big bag of senselessness. Ayote, obviously an Elvis fan, stages much of the fight scenes between the killer robot and the king with such a rattling choreography that it&#8217;s almost impossible to make out what&#8217;s happening ninety percent of the time.<\/p>\n<p>While Ayote does indeed seem to want to pay homage to Grindhouse, the movie contradicts what the atmosphere brings to the screen. So while the tone is that of a sleazy seventies actioner, the actual story is a melange of fan boy references and homages to classic movies and pop culture. Ayote seems to have the right grasp on the surreal, it&#8217;s just too bad it&#8217;s lost in a haze of choppy editing, and shaky direction that will assuredly induce a migraine or two. I wanted to like &#8220;Massacrator,&#8221; and by all accounts I should have, but in the end the shaky direction, frantic pace and awfully nonsensical plot left me apathetic to its appeal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching &#8220;Massacrator&#8221; is frantic, jarring and violent, and in the end you feel very violated. I had every reason to love Pierre Ayote&#8217;s ode to Grindhouse silliness but instead I just couldn&#8217;t jibe with what was happening on-screen. Being a simultaneous ode to everything from Grindhouse to science fiction we meet Massacrator, a borg sent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[58,219,433,501,617,906,938,1087],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-action","tag-comedy","tag-grindhouse","tag-indie-film","tag-m","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-film","tag-thriller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}