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For now it's good, but can't wait for the next...
I had to watch this movie three time to fully appreciate it. I had to get past the fact that the camera work looked like you were watching a soap opera the whole time, the low budget is obvious. I had reasearched and eventually bought this movie because I am a huge fan of Cradle Of Filth and thought it would be awesome to see Dani as the main role in a horror movie, and indeed it was, though it didn't show him enough. The movie was overall well casted and acted out, though sometimes a line or two will be really cheesy, I guess that's what I was expecting anyways though, it adds some fun. You definitely get all the blood, guts and gore you want in this film and it is a purchase well made. Dani and the boys have uncovered plans to make another film, hopefully the budget is bigger for that, I would like to see him casted in something along the lines of Lord of The Rings mixed with the non stop death element of Cradle of Fear,now that would be metal. Keep the gore coming.

Flawed but fun british bloodbath
Cradle of Fear is a shot-on-video cheapie containing bad acting, poor special effects and lots of graphic gore. It also serves as somewhat of a vehicle for singer Dani Filth of the world's leading black metal band Cradle of Filth. Britain is a country that although very prominent in horror litterature, seems to be surprisingly devoid of quality modern-day horror films. In fact I haven't heard of any aside from 28 days later and the Hellraiser films, so I was eager to give this one a try.

The film is a collection of 4 shorts interconnected together by a similar premise. A crazed hypnotist is handed a life sentence after it was found that he used his hypnotising powers to lure children, kill them and then eat them. Not content to simply rot away in jail, he calls upon his son ("The Man" played by Dani Filth) to dispatch the relatives of those who had a hand in incarcerating him. In the first story, a young woman picks up Filth at a goth club and brings him to her place. After a weird night of subliminal [intercourse], the woman wakes up feeling physically changed. As she walks the streets downtown, she is able to see what the average person can not, that some people among the crowd have horns for ears and are in fact demons (a similar premise to John Carpenter's "They Live"). She soon comes to the horrific realization that she herself is now among the undead. My personal favourite story is "The Sick Room", where an office worker obsesed with surfing porn sites stumbles upon an interactive snuff web site where "You are the Killer". The outrageously expensive website consumes the man until he is forced to be way more involved with "The Sick Room" than he would like to be.

From the opening scene where Filth walks into an alleyway and dispatches a couple of thugs trying to rob him, you can see in what this direction this film is going. ... No doubt many people will be offended by this movie and anyone looking for a cohesive storyline better look elsewhere. The gore is beyond belief. It would be easy to slam this film for its horid acting and laughable special effects (the car crash the most obvious example) but that would be beyond the point. This is not meant to be horror in the traditional sense, this is meant to be trash cinema and good trash cinema this is, delivering tons of laughs and creative gore effects.
The soundtrack fits the mood perfectly, a pounding industrial and black metal score laced with EBM and darkwave sounds.

As for Dani Filth's "acting", it is practically non-existent. Filth pretty much serves two purpose only; to stand around like a boogeyman and to administer gruesome deaths. He never utters a word throughout the entire movie, except in one gruesome scene where he sacrifices a cat as part of a satanic ritual. At least he does do a good job looking intimidating, just don't expect any acting. Think of it more as him playing his part in another Cradle of Filth rock video.

Despite the innumerable artistic flaws, Cradle of Fear is definitely great fun. I never found myself bored throughout the film. I would recommend this for fans of the Creepshow films looking for something gorier. I do think the British critic's blurb on the front of the DVD's box is a little on the extreme side of things however. In yet another spin-off of an old Stephen King quote he says about the film and its director: "I have seen the future of horror: His name is Alex Chandon". While I did find the film entertaining in a trashy kind of way, if a movie like Cradle of Fear really is to be the future of horror then us genre fans might be in for some trouble...

for cof die hard fans
several things about this movie...if you are not a die hard cof, fan there's a good chance you wont like this. Alex chandon has worked with them several times on videos such as her ghost in the fog, from cradle to enslave, and has helped in other videos, and dvds. I loved this particularly for the all around underground feeling to it. If you are interested in it: "dont have pre-assumptions about it, keep up with cradle of filth, and alex chandon". That would be my advice to any one thinking about buying this movie.

This movie is definantly insane...
First of all i'm going to say...this movie flat out rules! If you like Cradle of Filth, you must own this, along with all of their 3 official DVD workings.(Those being Heavy Left Handed and Candid, Pandaemonaeon, and Cradle of Fear.)
Cradle of Fear, the simply put title for this bloodbath of macabre horror, is a B-movie constructed by director Alex Chandon (whom also directed From the Cradle to Enslave, [Cradle of Filth's first promotional music video.] Pervirella, Bad Karma..etc.) and a well constructed B-movie it is.
As the DVD package indicates, this movie has "enough blood and guts to satisfy even the most terminal gorehounds." If you're squeemish, don't like the sight of violence and blood and gore, or can't stand Cradle of Filth...forget this movie, its brilliance isn't for you.
But for those of you whom are hungry to see Dani Filth go at it with his Sadistic mind and his ever so sharp and sweet looking Finger Armor...get this DVD, it's great!
The movie consists of 4 stories, revolving around the ex-child rapist/cannibal/hypnotist, Kemper. The movie is basically about him getting revenge upon those whom had him thrown in the Insane Asylum. He does this through "The Man" played by none other than Dani Filth. So as indicated, Dani (The Man) literally has all these people destroyed..in seriously violent ways.
I'm not going to give anything away as to how or why, anymore..but just know, this movie is seriously violent when it comes to Dani Filth killing people.
The movie lacks in graphics and acting...those are its only flaws. While yes theres ALOT OF F**KING GORE in the movie, there lacks alot of realism. You can tell alot of it is fake, but remember, this IS a B-movie (movie with a low budget, for those whom didn't know what a B-movie was.) and the fact it has a low budget shows.
The movies sound effects are also really cheesy, it sounds like they took kick and punch and blah blah...right out of the Power Rangers TV show and used them on this movie. I'm not one to complain when it comes to Cradle of Filth or the genius work of Alex Chandon unless necessary but those sound effects were childish and definantly weren't necessary.
The acting is remotely crap...Dani Filth doesn't even seem like he's even acting throughout this movie. He seems to be more like the "look around, and gawk, and stare, and stalk people" kind of person in this movie, if you ask me. But i'll tell you, he can do a badass job at acting like he's killing someone! The acting of other characters at times can also be cheesy, and the sound effects sure don't help them along. (i.e. girl puking in toilet..bleh stupid.)
Other than these things, if you can get past them, the movie is a top notch macabre, campy horror film that all fans of B-movies, and maybe fans of british director Alex Chandon will definantly enjoy. I'd give this movie 10 stars if I could...
Heh, can't wait for the sequel, Cradle of Fear 2..hopefully it'll be better than this is.

great for all the wrong reasons.
This film is a piece of trash, and thats why I loved it. As a fan of Cradle of Filth I enjoyed it immensly as i got to see Dani trying to act. And i do mean trying as the acting in this film is beyond S#!t, but thats what makes it great. The special effects are nice and dodgy, lots and lots of blood everywhere.
Its actually a shame that the acting is a bit dodgy as one of the story's is brilliant.
the story in question is the story about the sick room and this is pretty much essential even if you dont like horror. It is writen brilliantly and Chandon deserves all the praise in the world for writing a story like this.
The soundtrack on this film is great too as Black metal and electronica are mixed together to produce a nice piece of ecclectica.
the bottom line is if you are a fan of any of the following: Cradle of Filth, Horror, old video nasties, trash culture or just fun then get this film. You dont need to own it but try and see it at least. ... Read more

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A 'Classy' Naked Nun Fest
If you've ever reveled in guilt over your desire to explore the sex lives of nuns, 'Sacred Flesh' should definitely be on your list. I saw this film for the first time in its limited theatrical run in London some years ago with my ex-catholic girlfriend. Due to her years in strict English catholic schools, she was attracted to anything having to do with nuns and sexuality. I wasn't expecting much out of this film other than some softcore nun sex scenes, but as it turned out the writer/director really took the theological debate about earthly vs heavenly satisfaction very seriously. Ultimately, the film doesn't really take sides, but presents repression and lust with both their torments and rewards. Either way, I had a great night at the movies, and I recommend this film for anyone who wants a little bit of philosophy with their kink!

Naughty Nuns Beautifully Photographed
Wow! This movie rivals Behind Convent Walls and Sinful Nuns of St. Valentine as one of the best 'nunsploitation' films around. If you went to Catholic school you should definitely see this film!

The title sequence with blood and crosses starts the film off in an absolutely stunning way. From there it's naughty nuns and some horror thrown in for good measure. The color is really well done, the production value is high. If you like nuns, or even better lesbian nuns, with a bit of horror and a dab of religion thrown in you should check this out. ... Read more

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The beautiful young Pervirella, nurtures a sex demon of incredible lethal powers within her bountiful bosum. Powers only contained by a mystic amulet with a rather looseclasp! Powers that can send her into a lethal matingfrenzy from which no mortal man can survive...though manytry! DVD contains comprehensive biographies, the story behind the film and its music, photos and more!She’s Sexy...She's Deadly....She’s Pervirella! ... Read more

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british people are weird
the only reason i went and ordered this movie is because i was impressed by cradle of fear and wanted to see more of the directors work. During this movie i read a book after being unable to 1.figure out what the hell is going on and 2.not being from over seas unable to understand the humor therein. if you like movies like Brazil go ahead if you liked cradle of fear don't bother ... Read more

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The real truth about their mysterious adversary--a vampire--would "ripyour mind's fragile hinges," the death's-head CEO of a secret society (Christopher Adamson) warns a human henchman. Your mind's fragile hinges have little to fear from this vampire-action-sexploitation hybrid. Director-writer-editor Jake West desperately tricks up his one-man opus in tech glam: sexpot Lilith Silver evolves from 19th-century vampire victim to modern-day hitwoman in black-and-white, color, freeze-frame, fast and slow motion, cartoon FX, overblown Freudian dreams.

There are moments: in the James Bond-style credit sequence, Lilith's fanged mouth yawns wide, disgorging a veritable blizzard of razor blades. And in the black-and-white prelude, West's camera looks down on his voluptuousvampire, sprawled on a bed, the only color the scarlet drenching her dress, bloodying her mouth. But "artsy" razzle-dazzle can't distract from Razor Blade Smile's overall failure to arouse horror, lust, humor, or any other redeeming response. First-timer Eileen Daley makes Lilith sosoignee and hip it hurts; her femme fatale's couture runs to multizippered, skintight black leather, shades, fur hats; the picture's completed by ebony mane, cheekbones to die for, and an extraordinarily mobile mouth with alarming overbite. Lilith kills time at a vampire/goth bar, shagging lesbian or stud, but what she really lives for are century-long power games played with the love of her life--er, death. This cynical horror flick punctures the very conventions that are the genre's lifeblood: encouraging egregious mugging and milking portentousness from every remark, Smile reduces the primal sex-death themes of authentic vampire fiction to kiss kiss/bang bang/bite bite. --Kathleen Murphy ... Read more

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This movie is just terrible.
I blindly ordered this DVD after reading a cool review of it that highly recommended this movie. I want my money and my life back. This movie is low, low budget. The acting is way over-dramatic, to point of being plain cheezy. The costumes are all leather and zippers to the extreme. The script itself is pretty bad. The characters have no depth and you never have reason to care about them. The photography tries to get artistic or something hip at points but it just doesn't help.

I mean, I wanted to like this movie but there is not much good to say about it! How did this film get enough support to be released as a Special Edition? I'd have a hard time recommending this movie to even the hardest of vampire fans. Stick with Anne Rice.

Razor Blade Frown
I love vampire movies. I even love bad cheesy ones. This is one of the rare exceptions. It's hard to say where Razor goes so wrong. It just does. Decent cast and look for a low budget film but the story fails to live up to its potential. This could have been so much better.

Not bad for a no budget Vamp Assassin movie
If you're looking for another "Interview with the vampire" then you will be badly disappointed, this is low budget film making and has no expensive locations or known actors. It is however an odd movie that grows on you and does have a nice twist in the tail. If it was more consistent I`d give it four, but the quality of production and acting at the start isn't too hot, being reminiscent of a bad pop promo. Don't give up however persist, it improves in leaps and bounds and ends on a high. It has a hard edge too it and is a nice counterpoint to the sanitised vampire tales of Buffy or Angel.

Sex, Blood, and Rock 'n' Roll
About a week ago I was sitting in the Washington, DC bar Asylum in the checkered Adams Morgan neighborhood. Sitting there with a glass of water, watching my friends get drunk, I noticed an unusual movie playing on one of the televisions. The sound wasn't on, but the imagery presented, backed with the bar's heavy metal and gothic music pounding in the background captivated me.

The movie was Razor Blade Smile (1998), independent fare from England. OK, it looked bad, but I had to see this thing in full. The DVD arrived today.

Having just watched the closing credits (and a little surprise when they're done) I realize this is a mish mosh of atrocious acting, bad editing, horrible effects and abundant slickness that comes together and works much better than it should.

The tale is of a 150 year old vampire "Lilith Silver" who is bored to tears and fills her time by knocking off people for money. Yes, she is a hit-vamp. Her current boy-toy employer has her knocking off people who wear rings with eyeballs in them. When she finally gets curious and asks a contact of hers about them, she learns they belong to a group called The Illuminati, a mysterious cabal that has inundated itself into the world's power structures.

It turns out that Sethane Blake, the ancient vamp who turned our murderous vixen into a blood sucking (and other sucking) fiend heads this group and has also contracted out Lilith's boss to rub out the lower members of his frat house. If this sounds at all interesting, see it. It's quite entertaining if you don't take it too seriously.

The stars are basically no one. Eileen Daly (Lillith) did a few minor roles and is known as the "Redemption Girl". Christopher Adamson (Sethane) is trying to be the next Christopher Lee. He doesn't have suave good looks, incredibly sexy voice, and his skin is bad. David Warbeck (The Horror Movie Man) appears to have had something of a career, but died before the film was released. He doesn't have to worry about appearing in a sequel.

There are lots of effects. None of them are memorable. Someone on some said it looked as if director Jake West got his hands on some video editing software and went nuts. There's black and white, kooky color with lots of blue and red contrasting, grainy picutre, bad focus, slow motion, fast motion, jerky fast motion, lots of fire, blood, a few stakes, computers, guns, rubber, mylar, sunglasses, a lesbian scene in catsuits (OK, that's not an effect, but it was pretty damn hot and coming from me, that's saying something), a few decapitations and a guy blowing his brains out.

And in the end, all is not what it seems. In fact nothing is as it seems. It's like a bad car wreck. You just can't look away. Oh, and don't leave before the credits end.

Awful, but I love it
What more can I say?
A bad film that doesn't take itself too seriously. If you're a fan of the Hammer Horrors, or B-Movies, this is just a modern spin on those genres. More graphic brutality, more nudity, less distinguised actors making fools of themselves....
The plot is secondary to the joy to be had from watching a film that's so bad it's good.
Expect great things, leave disappointed;
expect nothing, and you're sure to find something you like. ... Read more

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Witchcraft 10 - believe it or not
The story line has gone off the deep end with this installment! The "hot" detective returned from WC 9 - & joined forces with a white witch to fight against a satanist and a vampire who wanted to steal power away from a demon. If this were any further out there, it would have been a great comedy. Instead, it was just poorly acted comic relief. Since I'm working on getting the entire series, I'm hoping the next one(s) will be better. Please!!

Learn from history
The Witchcraft series has always been about one thing, a boring plot, and a ton of sex . . . okay, that's two things. Witchcraft X does not let down on either, so if your looking for a "film" with a choppy plot, no moral (or morals), cheesy special effects and naked women doing the horizontal hula, then this is your flik. If not, then check out John Hugh's latest movie -- sissy.

"Move along; there's nothing to see here."
After "Razor Blade Smile" I was ready for more Eileen Daly, but "Witchcraft X" is about as bad as it gets. Redeeming qualities-none! From wooden acting & ridiculous dialogue to amateurish editing & extreme predictibility; it was an unwatchable nightmare. 1 star is way too much. Should you get it? Don't even think about it! ... Read more