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==Critical response== |
==Critical response== |
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''Chaos'' earned [[Rotten Tomatoes]]'s rating of 7%,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005402-chaos/ |title=''Chaos'' Tomatometer |accessdate=2007-03-12 |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> and its [[Metacritic]] rating is 3 out of 100,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/chaos2005 |title=''Chaos'' reviews |accessdate=2007-03-12 |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>, and, according to them, it's the third worst reviewed movie of all time[http://www.metacritic.com/film/lowscores.shtml]. Conversely, a positive review came from Ken Fox of [[TV Guide]]'s Movie Guide, who said, "Unlike so many other ''Last House on the Left'' rip-offs, this virtual [[remake]] is reasonably well shot and convincingly acted."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.com/detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=191927&more=ucmoviereview |title=Review of ''Chaos'' |accessdate=2007-03-12 |author=Fox, Ken |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=[[TV Guide]] |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> |
''Chaos'' earned [[Rotten Tomatoes]]'s rating of 7%,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10005402-chaos/ |title=''Chaos'' Tomatometer |accessdate=2007-03-12 |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> and its [[Metacritic]] rating is 3 out of 100,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/film/titles/chaos2005 |title=''Chaos'' reviews |accessdate=2007-03-12 |author= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=[[Metacritic]] |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>, and, according to them, it's the third worst reviewed movie of all time[http://www.metacritic.com/film/lowscores.shtml]. Conversely, a positive review came from Ken Fox of [[TV Guide]]'s Movie Guide, who said, "Unlike so many other ''Last House on the Left'' rip-offs, this virtual [[remake]] is reasonably well shot and convincingly acted."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tvguide.com/detail/movie.aspx?tvobjectid=191927&more=ucmoviereview |title=Review of ''Chaos'' |accessdate=2007-03-12 |author=Fox, Ken |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=[[TV Guide]] |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref>. Another favorable review came from the Chicago Daily Herald's film reviewer, Dann Gire, upon the theatrical release of "Chaos" in September of 2005. "This movie horrified me. 'Chaos' is blunt and brutal. 'Chaos' has done something no modern horror film has accomplished since 1973’s THE EXORCIST: Reacquaints us with our humanity. 'Chaos' comes at us with such unrestrained intensity that the movie doesn’t just cross the line, it leaves the line back at the horizon." |
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===Roger Ebert=== |
===Roger Ebert=== |
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Despite general controversy, ''Chaos'' received most of its publicity from [[Roger Ebert]]'s |
Despite general controversy, ''Chaos'' received most of its publicity from [[Roger Ebert]]'s no star review and the filmmaker's response. Ebert wrote in his initial review: |
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:"Chaos is ugly, [[nihilism|nihilistic]], and cruel -- a film I regret having seen. I urge you to avoid it. Don't make the mistake of thinking it's "only" a [[horror film]], or a [[slasher film]]. It is an exercise in heartless cruelty and it ends with careless brutality."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/508110303/1023 |title=Review of ''Chaos'' |accessdate=2007-03-12 |author=Ebert, Roger |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2005-08-12 |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> |
:"Chaos is ugly, [[nihilism|nihilistic]], and cruel -- a film I regret having seen. I urge you to avoid it. Don't make the mistake of thinking it's "only" a [[horror film]], or a [[slasher film]]. It is an exercise in heartless cruelty and it ends with careless brutality."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050811/REVIEWS/508110303/1023 |title=Review of ''Chaos'' |accessdate=2007-03-12 |author=Ebert, Roger |authorlink= |coauthors= |date=2005-08-12 |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate= |quote= }}</ref> |
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| Chaos | |
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| File:ChaosPoster.jpg Theatrical release poster. | |
| Directed by | David DeFalco |
| Written by | David DeFalco |
| Produced by | Steven Jay Bernheim |
| Starring | Kevin Gage, Stephen Wozniak Sage Stallone |
| Distributed by | Dominion Entertainment |
Release date | 10 August 2005 |
Running time | 74 minutes |
| Language | English |
Chaos is a 2005 movie about the rape and murder of two teenagers. It stars Kevin Gage, Sage Stallone and Stephen Wozniak and was directed by David DeFalco.
Synopsis
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Chaos is the story of two teenage girls who, while on vacation at one of their parents' mountain homes, go to a rave party in the woods in order to score some ecstasy, and are then brutally raped and murdered by Eddie "Chaos" Cooper - the film's titular character - and his two accomplices, Frankie and Daisy.
This feature film is a remake of Wes Craven's film, The Last House on the Left, itself a remake of Ingmar Bergman's Academy Award-winning The Virgin Spring. However, the director of "Chaos" has played down any connection to these two movies, and neither Craven nor Bergman were provided a story credit. Some controversy stems from the film's postcard tagline and eventual theatrical release poster, "...it's only a movie...," which is borrowed from the infamous tagline of The Last House On The Left. The original 2005 limited theatrical release poster, however, provides its own new tagline, "The Most Brutal Movie Ever Released," which was followed by the similar 2006 DVD release tagline, "The Most Brutal Movie Ever Made."
The substantial difference between Chaos and the previous two films named above is the ending, whereby Eddie Chaos Cooper eschews the questions its predecessors raised on vigilantism and revenge, and instead seems to express simply that "evil exists."
Critical response
Chaos earned Rotten Tomatoes's rating of 7%,[1] and its Metacritic rating is 3 out of 100,[2], and, according to them, it's the third worst reviewed movie of all time[1]. Conversely, a positive review came from Ken Fox of TV Guide's Movie Guide, who said, "Unlike so many other Last House on the Left rip-offs, this virtual remake is reasonably well shot and convincingly acted."[3]. Another favorable review came from the Chicago Daily Herald's film reviewer, Dann Gire, upon the theatrical release of "Chaos" in September of 2005. "This movie horrified me. 'Chaos' is blunt and brutal. 'Chaos' has done something no modern horror film has accomplished since 1973’s THE EXORCIST: Reacquaints us with our humanity. 'Chaos' comes at us with such unrestrained intensity that the movie doesn’t just cross the line, it leaves the line back at the horizon."
Roger Ebert
Despite general controversy, Chaos received most of its publicity from Roger Ebert's no star review and the filmmaker's response. Ebert wrote in his initial review:
- "Chaos is ugly, nihilistic, and cruel -- a film I regret having seen. I urge you to avoid it. Don't make the mistake of thinking it's "only" a horror film, or a slasher film. It is an exercise in heartless cruelty and it ends with careless brutality."[4]
DeFalco responded with a full page letter in the Chicago Sun-Times to rationalize the very existence of his movie, saying in part,
- "Mr. Ebert, how do you want 21st century evil to be portrayed in film and in the media? Tame and sanitized? Titillating and exploitive? Or do you want evil portrayed as it really is? "Ugly, nihilistic and cruel," as you say our film does it?"[5]
Ebert replied to DeFalco in the article "Evil in film: To what end?" Ebert wrote:
- "In a time of dismay and dread, is it admirable for filmmakers to depict pure evil? Have 9/11, suicide bombers, serial killers and kidnappings created a world in which the response of the artist must be nihilistic and hopeless? At the end of your film, after the other characters have been killed in sadistic and gruesome ways, the only survivor is the one who is evil incarnate, and we hear his cold laughter under a screen that has gone dark. [...] Your answer, that the world is evil and therefore it is your responsibility to reflect it, is no answer at all, but a surrender."[5]
References
- ^ "Chaos Tomatometer". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month=and|coauthors=(help) - ^ "Chaos reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month=and|coauthors=(help) - ^ Fox, Ken. "Review of Chaos". TV Guide. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month=and|coauthors=(help) - ^ Ebert, Roger (2005-08-12). "Review of Chaos". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
{{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters:|month=and|coauthors=(help) - ^ a b Ebert, Roger (2005-08-19). "Evil in film: To what end?". Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
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