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Sadistic nightmare!, 30 May 2001
10/10
Author: HumanoidOfFlesh from Chyby, Poland

"Forced Entry" is a very low budget hard core rape/porn/horror which contains some of the nastiest and ugliest rape scenes ever filmed.Truly the rapes are filmed in hard core and are very uncompromising.In the film,the rapist played convincingly by Harry Reems makes the first victim to give him a blow job telling her that he won't torture her to death,too badly if she does as he says-she'll die anyway,but if she messes with him she'll suffer.He cuts her throat-the second victim is dragged from a shower to a bedroom,thrown on the bed and forced to give a blow job with a gun against her head.He then rapes her from behind and tells her "I didn't enjoy that..." and starts cutting her body with a knife and then stabs her in the breast.This murder scene is really nasty and cruel-not for the faint of heart.The dialogue is the worst aspect of the film:what he says is really dirty and unbelievable for example:"Is it starting to bleed in there a little hun?You don't know what bleedin' is do you,I'll show you some,I'm gonna' show you a lot of bleedin'!".Anyway,this film is extremely brutal and vulgar,I was really shocked and disturbed when I first saw this.Nothing is left to imagination,everything is shown in unflinching detail.I can't believe the fuss being made over "I Spit on Your Grave" when this film exists.Meir Zarchi's infamous video nasty is really tame in comparison to this one.Not a film for all tastes,but it pulls no punches with its sheer nastiness.Check it out,if you can handle it.

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Twisted Rape/Slasher XXX-"Rougie"..., 3 May 2006
8/10
Author: EVOL666 from St. John's Abortion Clinic

Here is a prime example of why I respect 70's film-making. Although I can't say that I necessarily "enjoyed" FORCED ENTRY - I have to give it credit for its sheer "shock value" and boundary-pushing audacity. Those that think that hack films like AUGUST UNDERGROUND or SLAUGHTERED VOMIT DOLLS is the nastiest thing out there should really make a foray into the world of sadistic 70's/80's porn. These films show that they were doing things far more graphic, subversive, nasty, and ground-breaking thirty years ago...and not much has topped them since...

FORCED ENTRY is a strange installment in "classic" porn history. Playing out much more like a psycho/slasher film that takes itself quite seriously - but with unarousing hardcore sex thrown into the mix as the anti-hero of the film rapes and slashes his way through several victims. This sort of material is DEFINITELY not going to be for everyone, so you are duly warned...

Harry Reems plays a shell-shocked 'Nam-vet who uses his position as a pump-jockey (at the ironically named "Joe's Friendly Service") to scope out possible victims for his exploits. Reems (I don't recall him ever having a character-name in the film...) is frequently assaulted by flashbacks of the war, which are cut into the film via actual war stock-footage and sound FX. Obviously, our pal Harry hasn't adjusted too well to being back in the real-world, and only finds temporary "release" from these visions by stalking, raping, and stabbing women. There are 3 such scenes in the film - the first having Reems break into the house of a woman he met at the gas station, who he proceeds to humiliate at knife-point while getting a forced blow-job. After promising not to hurt her if she does a good job - he cuts her throat after he blows his load on her face. Guess he wasn't too fond of her "skills". Next up is another young lady that was a gas-station patron - who Harry yanks out of her shower and forcibly rapes at gun-point while spouting all kinds of nasty-talk at her. In the end, she is dispatched too by a stomach and titty stabbing. Finally, Harry meets his match when he goes up against two drugged out lesbo hippy chicks - who are so whacked out on something, that they try to "take advantage" of Harry when he comes in to rape them. This causes Harry to "short-circuit" - and ultimately spells the end of his rape and murder spree...

First off - FORCED ENTRY is filmed very matter-of-factly and can be considered quite "shocking" in it's starkness. The scenes of Harry raping women while the film is edited with scenes of war-footage and machine-gun and explosion sound FX can prove to be harrowing. That said - I didn't find the film quite as "rough" as others seem to. To be quite honest (at the risk of sounding like a sick-o...) rape-style films don't get to me the way that they seem to bother others. This is not because I in any way, shape, or form condone the act - it's that I can't relate to it from either side. I can't imagine being forced to have unwanted sexual relations against my will - nor can I really imagine violently forcing myself on an unwilling woman. I also don't personally know any rape-victims (or if I do - I've never been told...) so although I know this type of thing does happen in real-life, I have no personal experience to draw from, therefore viewing the situations in much the same way that I view an on-screen murder in a horror film - as not being "reality". I personally still find THE TAMING OF REBECCA to be the "roughest" of the XXX-roughies (that I've seen so far), with sickeningly graphic and demented depictions of simulated pedophilia and twisted sex-acts that in my opinion surpass anything shown in FORCED ENTRY. Still - FORCED ENTRY is not for the average viewer. The porn/rape aspects are graphic and unarousing, and the film itself overall is pretty bleak and dreary. Much like watching a sex-filled version of COMBAT SHOCK - minus the mutated baby. Those that dig or can handle dark and extreme films will probably want to check this out. Think MANIAC with a lower budget, worse acting (though Reems is quite believable) and hardcore rape scenes. 8.5/10

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Violence as literal porno, 16 October 2006
6/10
Author: haildevilman from Tokyo, Japan

This is porno for people who hate themselves for liking porno.

The hardcore rapes basically left nothing to the imagination, like a more mainstream film would have. Even without the hardcore scenes, and even if it had 'name' actors, it would still be considered for mature audiences only. That is, if the Christian right didn't get it banned first.

Harry Reems was a better actor than you think. He just preferred doing films where he could 'do' the actresses.

Parts of this remind me of 'I Spit On Your Grave' or Joe Spinell's 'Maniac.' No violent revenge here however. But the psychological attacks, both in the film and on the viewer, were HEAVY.

It will be hard to watch, but watchable it is. Just be prepared.

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Not a film to be taken lightly, 10 December 2000
Author: sirarthurstreebgreebling from Streeb Greebling Acres

This has to be one of the most brutal films I have seen , regardless of the more well know films along this theme (House by the Edge of The Park , Last House on the Left) , "Forced Entry" by its low production values , obtuse direction that is meant to leave you wondering what the hell went on , and the most bizzare inclusion of hardcore scenes , that were the most unplesant I have seen in years. It stuck out as a little know and heavily derided work. I dont think it could be classed as a "Adult Film" (as in pornography) because you would have to be one sick individual to get aroused watching this. That is where a lot of the contraversy comes from , and I was amazed that it was included in the film , and it would have been better without the hardcore rape scenes. We get the idea of what is going on , but having 8 mins of him forcing a woman to give him oral sex and then cutting her throat (and we do get to see the money shot) , had dubious overtones. But then again the subject matter is not one that should be glossed over , rape is an evil crime and I have never seen it put across so well , if brutally as in this film. So I was in two minds about it, I did like and and thought that it went to places that film makers are rarely brave enough to go , but then on the other hand I could see people taking it the wrong way. But you should make up your own mind and see it .

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A grim pleasure to behold, 25 May 2006
9/10
Author: Scott-from-Modesto (andrea_yates_clogged_drain@comcast.net) from United States

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Harry Reems gives his all in Shaun Costello's much-maligned roughie masterpiece Forced Entry. As a rapist, he is convincing. Viet Nam made him a hardened man, and his hardened manhood seeks out pretty young things to satiate his inner desires and help him forget his outcast status.

They're all just whores to be preyed upon--somewhat clichéd premise at this point in cinematic history but imagine the splash this must have made in 1972. Reems is an unnamed gas station attendant who uses a phony "credit card machine didn't print your address" M.O. to stalk his victims. He then breaks into their domiciles, forces them into fellatio and intercourse (unleashing on them a torrent of filthy talk all the while), then slashes or stabs them. There are only two victims shown killed on screen but both scenes are rather harrowing. The second is the most brutal as the lass is stabbed three times, breast and torso. As this carnage plays out, Costello edits in footage of the atrocities of Viet Nam to give meaning to the hate behind this killer's eys. It's effective in its way and not for those who are uncomfortable going beyond the pale.

The finale in my mind is a rather blunt message about "free love" conquering the evils of society--two hippie dykes are accosted by the rapist at home and they proceed to coo at him and giggle, causing him to shrink back and paint the ceiling red.

The killings are not very graphic but serve the film's nihilistic vison well. And admittedly, even lovers of rape smut will not be too interested in the overly long XXX scenes but it all serves its purpose. Forced Entry is a document of a time when experimentalism in porn was a good thing. There is nothing in the same vein that is quite as well made today (at least in terms of being a viable film for audiences with a mind for plot) and believe me I've searched and searched. Give this one a look if you're daring--9/10.

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Deserving of its notoriety., 23 January 2008
5/10
Author: ba.harrison from Hampshire, England

Every time I believe that I have discovered the ultimate in repugnant, vile and downright scuzzy film-making, something comes along to prove to me that there are always more contenders for the title—it's just a matter of finding them.

This time, it's Shaun Costello's Forced Entry that has made me feel like like a complete degenerate for watching it. This reprehensible slice of XXX roughie sleaze stars Harry Reems as a disturbed Vietnam vet who gets his kicks from raping and killing women. Working as a gas pump attendant, the psycho selects victims from unsuspecting customers at his garage, deceives them into giving him their home address, and then pays them a little 'visit'.

After spying on victim number one indulging in a spot of (prolonged and rather dull) hardcore action with her man (played by Costello himself), our knife-wielding nutter breaks into her apartment and forces her to give him a blow-job, before slitting her throat.

The next unlucky lady to cross Reems' path fares even worse: she is interrupted mid-shower at gun-point, brutally sodomised (all the while being verbally abused), and then repeatedly stabbed in the belly and chest.

The loopy killer meets his match, however, when he chooses a couple of stoned hippy lesbians to be victims three and four. Too wasted to find him intimidating they merely laugh at his threats. Finding this all too much to take, a confused Reems turns his gun on himself, and blows out his brains!

A thoroughly distasteful fusion of explicit sex and extreme misogynistic violence, this is harsh viewing that is made even harder to stomach through the use of genuine Vietnam war footage, which is inter-cut during Reems' vicious attacks. As if scenes of rape and murder weren't harrowing enough on their own!

When viewed as porn, Forced Entry is a failure: the non violent sex scenes are over-long and mundane (and robbed of much of their eroticism by constant cutting to Reems' leering maniac), and the rapes are completely abhorrent. But as an unforgettable exercise in pushing the boundaries, I guess it can be viewed as a success.

I'm not sure how to rate this one, so I'll give it a middling score of 5/10 (a bit of a cop-out, I know). Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to scrub my eyeballs!

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Dirtier Harry!, 21 October 2006
4/10
Author: Coventry from the Draconian Swamp of Unholy Souls

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After many years and literally having seen hundreds of obscure, psychotronic and downright demented movies, I can only come to one conclusion: horror, and all its derivative sub forms, is a practically inexhaustible genre! Whenever you think you stumbled across THE absolute sickest or most politically incorrect gem ever, you can bet all your money there will still be other, far worse titles waiting to be discovered. For example, all the easily offended people who claimed that "Last House on the Left" and "I Spit on your Grave" are the most repulsive things ever captured on film are probably going to die from a massive heart-attack if they ever get to see this "Forced Entry". I would say this pile of early 70's exploitation smut is the ultimate experience in shock-cinema, but the truth is that I'm not sure anymore about making such statements! For all we know there's sicker horror flick out there, although that's really difficult to imagine. "Forced Entry" starts with a more or less interesting concept, as the camera zooms in on a newspaper article enlightening us about the Post-Vietnam Syndrome. It states that veterans who recently returned home from the war are likely to continue spotting the enemy everywhere they go. Gas station employee Harry Reems (his character is nameless) is such a mentally unstable vet. He stalks the women who passed by for gas, invades their homes and sadistically forces them to have all types of sex before mercilessly killing them. This routine is repeated three times (two and a half times, actually) throughout the movie and words can hardly describe how disgustingly explicit all this is shown. Oh yes, it's hardcore pornography of the vilest and most women-unfriendly kind, blend with low-budgeted shock-horror, so squeamish people should stay as far away from it as humanly possible. Also, to add some depth as well as for mere reason of padding, the film equally contains a lot of grim and disturbing Vietnam War footage, like relentless gunfights, misogyny and helpless children starving. Definitely not the type of cinema that makes you merry...

*** Spoilers **** The first female victim is a woman stupid enough to share her name and address with a stranger and Mr. Rapist-Killer pops up at her window some time later. At that moment, she's having sex with her partner and Harry just watches. That's just ten long minutes of random porno. You can't even refer to it as "sex", since the couple (of which the sleazy-looking guy is director Shaun Costello) is horridly disgusting to watch. It's more sensual to observe farm animals fornicate, I'm sure. And farm animals probably won't be as hairy as these two. When she's alone again, Harry nearly chokes her to death using his... what do you think? The oral-rape sequence is really hard to watch and seems to go on forever. The second victim only stopped by the gas station to ask for the way (she needs instructions to drive to her own house?) and looked like a really nice person! That made her suffering even more shocking. Then the last twenty minutes are really weird and confusing. Two girls, undoubtedly the worst actresses in the history of mankind, meet by the side of the road and promptly decide to become best friends. They do some drugs, try out some lesbian sex tricks and startle the vicious rapist-killer with their friendly hippie-spirit. Very odd, but why not? Recommended to the extremely sick puppies among us.

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Porno Shock, 21 January 2006
7/10
Author: Dries Vermeulen (dirtymoviedevotee@live.nl) from Brugge, Belgium

This notorious early roughie, though credited to one "Helmuth Richler", was indeed directed by our old friend Shaun Costello (aka Russ Carlson and at least half a dozen more noms de porn) who adopted this one time only (?) pseudonym on both sides of the camera. Though the long sideburns and tinted glasses prove distracting, his voice should be instantly recognizable to those familiar with his later quickies. He plays the character of David, boyfriend of the first victim (Jutta David, also in Danny Stone's 1973 cult fave HIGH RISE) and the only male performer except for Harry Reems who plays the deranged anti-hero Joe. Make that VERY anti, by the way !

A pre-credit newspaper article commenting on the syndrome commonly suffered by shell-shocked Vietnam veterans unable to re-adapt to everyday life after the war and therefore susceptible to battling imaginary enemies lends an air of seriousness if not quite respectability to the sordid saga viewers are about to endure. Haunted by B&W newsreel footage with a heavy predilection towards mangled corpses and various forms of disfigurement, gas station attendant Joe (who's never referred to by name but he runs a place called "Joe's Friendly Service") spouts his interminable interior monologue about how much he hates women in general and the uppity, sexually liberated ones in their big cars stopping by for gas or directions in particular. Getting their address from their credit cards, he stalks and spies on his victims before submitting them to his pent-up rage, ending in bloody murder. Joe's misogyny seems to stem from his being ambushed by female soldiers in 'Nam (or so the stock footage would have us believe) and perhaps symbolically none of the women in this movie are given character names, signifying that to him they're less than human. His MO consists of bursting into the woman's apartment, demanding oral gratification at gun or knife point and then berating them for not being any good at it ("I'm not enjoying this one bit"), thereby justifying their subsequent "punishment".

Victim # 2 is played by top-billed Laura Cannon, described by her male co-star in his 1975 autobiography (wittily entitled HERE COMES HARRY REEMS !) as a snooty Jewish American princess with a predilection for anal intercourse who had her heart set on adult movie super-stardom. Though she got off to a strong start with this one and the previous year's popular sex & horror combo DARK DREAMS, she would rapidly disappear from view. Porn fans expecting to get a thrill from the lady's extensive back-door activity here should be forewarned that the scene is in no way played for turn-on value, fortunately given the circumstances. It's rape all the way to the girl's gruesome demise. A couple of spaced out hippie chicks (Ruby Runhouse & Nina Fawcett) unwittingly turn the tables on Joe as he rudely interrupts their blissful lesbo love fest. High on sex and various mind-blowing substances, the women burst into laughter at the guy's sadistic taunts and willingly offer him their bountiful bodies. The girls' compliance proves to be too much for Joe and, rather than submit to their sexual assault, he turns the gun on himself.

Convincingly grimy in every single frame, this flick makes for a harrowing experience which must've rattled adult audiences' cages back when this played theatrically. It's hard to imagine anyone getting aroused over the unflinchingly depicted violations and even the bookend consensual encounters (the Jutta David-Shaun Costello scene and the lesbian number) are bereft of their erotic potential by constantly cutting back and forth to Reems spying on them. Such stark denouncement of the turn-on, crucial to the genre, may either seem like the makers shooting themselves in the foot by turning their backs on the entire raison d'être of pornography or an actual attempt to make viewers think about the correlation between cinematic sex and violence and the inherent danger thereof. Was this a film ahead of its time then ? Could be.

The biggest surprise remains leading man Harry Reems however. Billed as "Tim Long" (a pseudonym he frequently used before DEEP THROAT made him familiar even to those who would never have set foot inside a porno palace), he makes for an all too convincing madman in the Jamie Gillis mode. He would of course become best known for his many goofy, inoffensive turns that followed in the wake of THROAT's zany doctor character, making his menacing performance here all the more impressive. By his own admission, FORCED ENTRY was the one movie he regretted doing, apparently having signed on before reading a script. His reticence barely shows through. You may hate both this film and its main character, but you're not bloody likely to forget either. Ever !

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Sleazy sex on a low budget, 31 October 2006
7/10
Author: The_Void from Beverley Hills, England

Forced Entry has quite a reputation for being an extremely nasty shocker, and indeed; the reputation isn't unfounded as Shaun Costello's film doesn't hold back and the rape scenes are as gritty as the film's production values. The film makes rape its primary topic, and does this through the story of a disgruntled Vietnam veteran who makes it his business to slice and dice his way through various women in the city. The tagline proclaims 'He was taught to kill. Rape was his own idea!', which gives you an idea of the sort of things this film is preaching. There's a message about the horrors of war buried deep under the rape and torture sequences, and this comes to light by way of director Shaun Costello cutting the rape scenes with various images from the Vietnam conflict. We never really get to know exactly why the killer (hell, we don't even know his name!) has decided to take his anger out on the female population, but the way that the female cast is presented doesn't leave much to the imagination, and it's not hard to see why, as the tagline says, he got the idea to start raping them...

Forced Entry was shot on an extremely low budget, and indeed the picture quality isn't exactly good. However, like so many of these films; this really does do the overall piece a big favour as the sleazy atmosphere is made all the more gritty thanks the to dirty cinematography. The lead role is taken by prolific porn star Harry Reems, who went on to make The Devil in Miss Jones and the sleazy Giallo 'So Sweet, So Dead' not long after this film. Reems' performance isn't exactly stunning, but he certainly gives his 'character' believability and a good atmosphere as he stalks, rapes and humiliates his victims. As you would expect, there is a lot of sex in this movie and it's all very down and dirty, but cold thanks to the way that it's filmed. I suppose it's to the director's credit that the sex scenes ardent erotic considering the context and this also serves in making the film all the more shocking as it merely shows the sex without much reasoning behind it. Overall, Forced Entry certainly wont be to everyone's tastes; but if's dirty sex films you're after, this is a must see.

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Forced Entry, 25 March 2009
7/10
Author: Scarecrow-88 from United States

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At Joe's Friendly Service gas station is an attendant who was traumatically scarred from the Vietnam war, enacting his rage and anger on unfortunate female victims who come across his place of employment, the directions to their home scribbled on paper with him using an excuse regarding the credit card machine's not working properly. Following the address written down, this man(Harry Reems in a chilling performance), seething with disgust towards all manners of women, will wait for the right opportune time to force his way into their apartments, either with a gun or knife as a weapon, making his desired targets commit whatever sexual acts he so chooses, threatening death. We follow three particular cases where Harry Reems(..whose name is absent, which really doesn't matter, for he's simply a forgotten casualty of a war that left so many soldiers without an identity or place)follows his prey upon meeting them at the gas station where he works, watching until each female victim is at their most vulnerable(..mostly when they're naked and alone), seizing upon them, offering little hope for their survival. The first victim(Jutta David)has a knife to her throat and must provide lengthly oral sex to Reems as he mouths off hideous insults, degrading her in every possible fashion. At the finish, he removes a curved blade from an art piece on her wall, slicing the poor girl's throat. The second victim(Laura Cannon)just stops by asking for directions to her home, lost within a large city, not knowing that giving her address to Reems signs her death warrant. He catches her in the moment of a very satisfying shower, frightening her obviously, before grabbing the girl, tossing her on the bed, forcing her to commit oral sex, before penetrating her from behind. This is particularly devastating because Reems embellishes in the pain he's causing the girl as she cries and whimpers. What makes Reems' actions so horrifying is the way he uses words to disgrace his victims while forcing them to do embarrassing sexual acts. After Reems is through with victim # two, he stabs her multiple times, burying the knife deep, with unflinching cruelty. This maniac thrives on their misery, enjoying the control and command he has..the war left him an unbearable fiend, wallowing in psychosis. The next selected victims are a couple of dope-smoking hippies, high as a kite, a representation of those who scorned/shamed him upon return. Unlike the other two instances, however, he doesn't have control because these girls do not fear him. They are oblivious to his warnings of serious death, and even offer to pleasure him..this, coupled with the non-stop barrage of Vietnam memories bombarding his mind and soul, cause a psychological break that ends in him quieting the torment haunting him once and for all.

Now, I gave this a glorified synopsis regarding what Vietnam does to the men who fought in it, returning to find themselves just as much a victim as those who died there, but FORCED ENTRY is above all a vile, sickening portrait of a madman fulfilling his grotesque desires, forcing his prey to participate in pleasing his destructive, misogynistic ego. The oral sex scenes are long as the women must obey Reems' command, listening to his commentary on how their "performance" is. The first two sexual attacks are arduous exercises which will only please those who enjoy seeing women demeaned and mistreated. There is an opening sex scene between Jutta David, the first victim, and her lover(..the director of this film)as Reems watches from outside the window, and a lesbian encounter between the two hippie girls(..Reems, his teeth clinched tight, watching with a mixture of revulsion and desire)that differ from the two forced rapes. The film-making style cooperates with the sleazy subject matter and the ugly, raw nature for which FORCED ENTRY operates is appropriate. While I wouldn't recommend this to anyone I know personally, I do believe director Shaun Costello achieves what he set out to accomplish..the film is teeming with a progressive amount of suffering and hostility, and the war footage interspersed within the actions of Reems pack a wallop, I felt. It's rare that you see a sex film with such animosity, with a central character so entirely twisted and cruel, presented in such an unapologetic way. The camera goes in all places, shooting sexual acts from all angles associated in hardcore pornography. Reems is unforgettable. New York City, in this film, is presented as a very appalling, filthy trash heap, just the right setting for the lead character and his despicable activities.

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