Animalistic (2015) User Reviews

Seen one, seen em all

[A_Different_Drummer · 4/10 · 28 January 2016]

Reviewers Notes:

1. Yet another torture porn in the grand tradition of films like I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE and LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT. Seen one, seen em all.

2. The date stamp says 2015 which is actually the creepiest thing in the movie (among many many creepy things) because the settings, the direction, the cinematography, the script, the acting, all of them scream 1974. Which raises the question, why would anyone want to do a film in 2015 that is completely indistinguishable from similar stuff shot about a half-century ago??

3. The only other thing worth mentioning is the "tease" scene off the top where the kidnapper/abductor tells his fellow kidnapper/abductor that he wants to try "something different" with the new girl, he wants to make her "love" him. And for a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second, the poor viewer (any viewer watching this film is automatically in deep distress, hence the adjective) might think that the producers and writers did this film because they have something new and different to add to the genre. But then the moment quickly passes, and you realize they do not.

Emma facial expressions were the worst

[darrenk-61219 · 3/10 · 31 March 2020]

The gore I liked. We all can appreciate a good Thriller, and this one wasn't bad except for the lead actress acting. Her struggle expressions, were a struggle, which also looked like her scared expressions along with her hard breathing as if she's having a asthma attack. Everyone else did a great/good job, except for Emma and the female tycoon in the restaurant, they killed my vibe. UPDATE: 12/21/2023 Forgot I saw this movie 3 years ago and watched it again by accident. Came to the reviews to see if anyone else was pissed or discussed about Hana Oldenburg (Emma)'s non-acting skills. Saw this review header, and pressed on it to read, and bam, it's mine. Lol... Ralf Beck (Jim) killed it, he was on a whole different, Empire State Building top floor level, EVERYONE ELSE was also on a different level, while Emma basement level acting ruined it for me again, with her 3 facial expressions. I really hope Hanna got some much needed acting skills, cause this isn't it.

I spit on your grave too.

[nogodnomasters · 2/10 · 8 January 2018]

Emma (Hanna Oldenburg) has come to America from Australia to sign a secret oil deal. She gets kidnapped by Shirley Perkins ( Niki Nordenskjold) a friendly cab driver and delivered to Jim (Ralf Beck) a crazy guy who has discovered he likes to kill things and Pete (Torbjörn Andersson) a necromantic. Things don't look for good for Emma, other than a formula film writer manages to turn this into another rape/revenge film. Oops sorry about the revenge part, I know no one but me saw that coming.

Guide: F-bomb, rape, nudity (Hanna Oldenburg-shower, Madeleine Norberg)

Same as every other rape movie.

[taylrkeke · 1/10 · 28 January 2016]

Agree with the only other reviewer below and hopefully the only other person who's ever seen this movie besides me. Every single one of these movies are the same -- innocent girl gets kidnapped and brutally raped by psychopaths, one of whom is stereo-typically mentally retarded, and then eventually she gets revenge in the end and the movie ends. Boring as hell with terrible acting and no unique twists.

And enough already with the so called "shock value" of these types of movies. We've seen it all before. Many times in fact. There's really no point in doing a movie like this anymore unless you're going to really change things up. And this movie certainly doesn't even attempt to do that. Dumb plot, dumb actors, dumb movie. Pass.

Dross

[thedmtmolecule · 1/10 · 29 January 2016]

This is a 'video-nasty'. A woman gets abducted, raped and tortured. She eventually gains control, and fights back. She kills the 'trio of psychopaths' - one at a time of course. The first guy dies in a wood-grinder. The psycho-woman dies from shotgun blast. The third guy gets all sorts of pain inflicted on him. I guess 'we can watch' because its revenge, and so justified (yawn). The penis-hammering scene was fairly well-acted (I think the penis was method-acting). If you like nightmarish torture stuff, this is for you. For the other 99.9% of us fairly mentally normal people, forget you saw the title, and just move on.

Really bad movie, but sometimes you need a really bad movie.

[tiskeith · 1/10 · 2 April 2016]

If you are in the mood to watch a really awful movie, this is it! Once in a while we find ourselves not wanting to watch a really good move or thriller so we settle for mediocre just to get to sleep or see how terrible a movie can be. I have to say this is the typical Terrible horrible. I never yell at the screen with a good horror movie, but this was down right stupid. To summarize the entire movie. The beginning is useless and serves no purpose in the plot what so ever. Female gets captured, raped. Oh yeah! She escapes, but then can't climb a fence next to a busy road. So she is caught again. Then she gets raped again then escapes again....well she passes out in the small Forrest to wake up and head to the lake instead of heading to the road...??? Anyways typically idiotic revenge from here on out. I am actually writing the review while the rest of this movie is playing out. Enjoy!!

Why Women in Peril Make Dumb Decisions?

[twotrybe · 1/10 · 31 January 2016]

So. I watched this film and it seems as if a majority of these types of films have one thing in common, women who make bad decisions. Do you ever wonder why people talk back to the screen, well, it's movies like this that shows the number of stupid times these kind of chick do dumb things. She escapes the first time and she can't keep her trap shut from all the whimpering she's doing while hiding form the bad guy. She takes off in the woods with him on her heels. She gets to the roadway only to find it blocked by a wire fence. Where does that exist in the U.S.? He captures her again and the head bad guy comes back and she berates the guy into raping her again. She escapes a second time, this time at night, and of course she passes out, typical. She wakes up the next day and she waste time by heading to the river to clean the blood off her and she gets caught AGAIN. He drags her back to the cabin and this time she fights back and gets the upper hand but instead of running off, she goes back to the cabin and gets the shotgun leaning against the couch. The main bad guy drives back up and he finds his dead friend and then he finds the girl with the shotgun and she threatens to kill him and fires off a warning shot. Look, you've been raped twice, watched another woman get her brains blown out and you want to play fair? This is not how the human condition works. You kill the guy, you don;t talk about anything. You level the weapon at him and you fire. Stop wanting to exact the same type on punishment he just doled out on you. Get it over with. Films like this are just frustrating to watch.

jst watched '' we are monsters''

[hanikingkong · 2/10 · 1 September 2018]

Just finished watching this rape revenge type of film

i totally agree with some reviewers mentioning this low grade film as rape revenge torture porn,i do like these types of exploitation throwback films one thing i did like was the gore effects,totally appreciate the fact the makers of this trash didn't shy away when it comes to gore and that's the only good thing about the film,the characters were bad and too stereotypical with bad judgments bad decisions from get go, this film will make you frustrated with the female lead acting and responses from the get go and shes suppose to be smart business woman working as oil extractor but all she do is acting weirder and weirder till the end

i wouldn't call this a video nasty and heres why : film will get 2 stars from me for the setting and gore only acting was bad,really bad,potholes,bad zoom in,stupid camera movement that will give you headache while watching ,if you call this above video nasty i would disagree because this film wasnt shot in 70s ort 80s ,i know its low budget film,but that is not an excuse in 2015

recommendation,if you re looking for similar type of films check out i spit on you grave franchise/ ms 45 and start from there thank you for reading

sickening

[truthseekah-39456 · 2/10 · 27 December 2023]

This movie was just sickening. I like these kinds of plots, but this was just sadistic with nothing else going on. It was a torture flick. With no other parts to it. It could have been interesting with the authorities looking for her, but they were absent the whole movie. The guy was a total dirt bag. The cab driver could have had a bigger role, but didn't. The helper was a lame brain. It tried to be like I spit on your grave but had nothing of value. I was calling the ending because it was so obvious, sorry, no giveaways here. Go watch the new I spit on your grave movies instead. This will make you feel sick to your stomache. No good revenge vibes here.

Brutal and graphic kidnapping effort

[kannibalcorpsegrinder · 8/10 · 28 May 2020]

After a successful business meeting, a woman is kidnapped and held hostage by a psychopathic killer and his henchman who begin to systematically beat her down and have their way with her, forcing her to resort to extreme measures to get away live.

Overall, this was a solid and serviceable effort. The fact that this one manages to get to the point immediately here with the abduction and eventual arrival at their lair happens quickly in this one. That turns the intensity up within the film as the dirty, bloodsoaked environment they begin to humiliate and torture her in that signals the kind of appropriate behavior which can be quite intense at times with the perverse sexual torture and degradation designed to beat her down. The escape attempts and times she fights back setup the final half where this picks up considerably with the brutality stakes featuring a depraved and brutal brawl around the house before getting to the main confrontation which is graphic, gruesome and designed to bring everything that's happened to a satisfying resolution. These here give this one a lot to like that holds this one up. There are some problems here. The main issue here is the unnecessarily humanizing attempts done on the lead villain here when those scenes don't matter much. There's no sense in him having a wife and son unaware of what's doing when they're never shown on-screen, all we end up getting is a single voice-call and all they end up doing is causing a break in between the torture showing how they find out who she is which is also a missed opportunity using that as motivation to kidnap her. The other minor flaw is the wrong-headed tone to the finale where this one tries to make her retribution feel cathartic in a sense yet comes off more as gratuitous violence. Since nothing she does is in any way an eye-for-an-eye mentality for what happened to her as theirs was sexual while she goes for straightforward brutality, there's an off imbalance to this section but it's not that big of a deal.

Rated Unrated/R: Extreme Graphic Language, Extreme Graphic Violence, Nudity and several rape scenes.

the gruesome revenge makes it worth seeing

[trashgang · 6/10 · 24 May 2017]

Okay, this isn't going to be a gem but for me it did still offer some nasty moments. The story is rather simple, girl being kidnapped and raped, she escapes somehow and is out for revenge. I was surprised that the rating was so low.

If you want to see a typical Hollywood blockbuster forget it because it shows that it was a low budget flick. It take a while before things go wrong and it's only once the girl is out for revenge that it becomes a brutal flick and people could get offended by some torturing done by her. Clocking in under 90 minutes makes it worth the trip to see it. As said before, there are moments that will make you grab the remote but the effects are really well done which makes it a delight for the geeks of nasty brutal revenge flicks.

Gore 1,5/5 Nudity 1/5 Effects 2,5/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5

My Review Of "Animalistic"

[ASouthernHorrorFan · 6/10 · 28 August 2018]

The story isn't very original nor does it expand upon the subgenre, but it does explore the subject matter with a push toward brutal, visceral, unease which tests the viewer's tolerance level toward revenge horror that plays in torture-porn lanes. The whole subgenre is hard to watch even the ones worthwhile, "Animalistic" takes you to the bitter edge of ability.

The acting is intense, acceptable performances that sell the cruelty set upon the protagonist, as well as that which show the assailants as disgusting members of humanities worst. It isn't stellar, but enough to bring a very dark and disturbing story to life. It does bare mentioning that at times the acting is shaky and some moments feel too redundant.

The effects are impressive. Gory scenes of horror and blood stained settings are good enough to make you gag at the grittiness on screen. The practical elements work well and when the killing goes to the good during the revenge portion of the movie, it works well! Plus the cringe worthy atmosphere and anxiety enduring score help pull you into the nightmare.

Overall, "Animalistic" lacks originality and creativity. However what you get is a purist, straightforward exploration of set expectations done good enough to satisfy most fans of the subgenre. All others with no taste or interest in this style of exploitation should stay away. But if you wanna check it out I say go for it!

Decent, simple revenge flick with some good kills

[mfoxartist · 7/10 · 10 September 2023]

I found this one fairly entertaining and Hanna Oldenburg (Emma) and Ralf Beck (Jim) were pretty effective in their roles. While this is a rape/revenge story that features two rapes, I wouldn't say the rapes were particularly gratuitous and they showed very little skin. LOL, me saying that any "rapes" were not gratuitous is a bit of a non sequitur, but as these things go in the cinema world, they really weren't.

The violent scenes were quite well done and special effects pretty decent for a low-budget film. I've certainly seen a lot worse and these were good enough to make their impact. I found the screenplay to be fairly original, with some good one-liners that are not usually found in movies of this type.

In the climactic scenes near the end I was impressed with the expressions that Emma emoted as she wreaked her revenge on Jim. She was simultaneously repulsed by the actions she was taking yet inspired to gather strength to do even more to him. Not quite Oscar-worthy, but that was a nice mix that seemed pretty realistic for someone who had never been so violent in her life...yet was absolutely driven by her hatred of the man who raped and tortured her.

It's pretty easy to toss off these types of movies as just another "seen one, seen 'em all" type of film. This one offered a little more realism that sometimes made you forget that this was a movie with a camera, director, lighting, sound equipment, etc. Surrounding the action. And I never overlook all that stuff, even when watching the most horrific slasher/horror type movies.