@beccamb: As horrible as that practice is (makes me flamingly angry), you can't really compare that to this movie. This isn't condoning that practice, and honestly I doubt the creators even know about it. That's a cultural practice that is, frankly, disgusting. This is a stupid movie made by a bunch of guys.
@dragonian_angel: The creators don't have to be aware of the practice. They both come from the same line of thinking--that the threat to men posed by lesbian sexuality can be brutally vanquished with force by men. It is all part of rape culture, wherein women's bodies are treated as the rightful property of men and women's autonomy is dangerous. It's not mitigated if anyone's too stupid to see that they're buying into it.
@beastybeatsy: no no no, you should be handing in your taste card (sorry, you shouldn't really - I just have yet to find one person who found it funny until now).
@emilyanne: Yeah. And to be fair the cinema was half empty. And it isn't as good as (for example) Shaun of the Dead, but I think it's been handed a lot of vitriol which it didn't really deserve. It's a crappy movie but it made me laugh. And I wasn't insulted to be a feminist (or a woman even) in that cinema.
@beastybeatsy: ha fair enough, i have to say that I've been too scarred by my brief time as a film reviewer to go and see a movie with reviews that bad. I was suprised as I think Gavin and Stacey is both funny and quite sensitively done.
Then again Horne's Law says that for everything good Matthew Horne does he will also appear in something as shit as Roman's Empire.
Why am I not suprised a bunch of guys thought out a plot where there are a bunch of hot lesbian girls but give them the right cock and its all over. You know what guys, those of you that think this movie is correct, please use this as your first date movie. This way my female friends and I can quickly eliminate you from the dating pool...better yet can you pair it with the blow up doll jacket? This way there is no further misunderstanding.
As much as I understand the outrage, if you do some research into the other work these people have done (like Gavin and Stacey) they're clearly not misogynists. This movie is a joke, it's not even satire, it's just meant to be utterly insane and ridiculous. Obviously a feminist or lesbian reviewer is going to hate it. Clearly I'm in a minority here, but I still think this looks funny.
@dragonian_angel: but no one whose seen it has found it funny, not even teenage boys - really, I've never seen such bad reviews, well not since sex lives of the potato men, yes that really was a film, no the british film industry isn't in trouble, not at all.
@undomesticgoddess fears all!!!: yes, trust me you don't. Oh ok then, Sex Lives of the Potato Men stars 'comedian' Johnny Vegas, Office boy Mackenzie Crook and The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gattiss. They are delivery men who deliver potato chips round the country and have active if largely imaginary sex lives in northern England. Yes that's the plot. To help you understand it's sheer pointlessness The Times called it 'one of the two most nauseous films' ever made. I merely called it utter rubbish. I wish i'd been as sarky as the Times guy in retrospect.
Any chance this is badly executed satire on B movies?
Hate to play devil's advocate and all, but I'm quite sure those who made this were aware of how incendiary the topic, but tried to play it in such a way that the lunacy of the vampire genre is pointed out too. It's likely incredibly cackhandedly done, but that's a point about comedic execution, not intent.
@Beat Girl is screaming into the abyss: From the interviews I've heard with the two guys that star in it, it isn't badly executed satire. They actually think slaying lesbians with your big manly cock sword is hilarious.
@Beat Girl is screaming into the abyss: Yes, but the British film industry has churned out quite a few unspeakably dire comedies in the last ten years.
Sorry i can't stop mentioning it. I had to review it. The sheer horror is still imprinted on my retina all these years later. I occasionally wake at night screaming about it.
@Beat Girl is screaming into the abyss: Mathew Horne said, in response to criticisms that the film was offensive to women '"It's so far less gratuitous, both sexually and violently, than you could ever imagine from the title. And [the vampires are] very strong women! So you can read it as a feminist text as well."' That sounds like massively missing the point, rather than intending to satirise B movies but executing your intention badly.
@dragonian_angel: Their new sketch show Horne and Corden seems to find homophobia and mocking gay men a replacement for humour and wit. It seems to be becoming a trend with them...
I would like to make a film called "The Cocksword in the Stone" in which lesbian siren's lure men to have sex with vagina shaped rocks that lock on and imprison the man's penis forever. Take that, menz.
Lets be fair people it's not just feminists who hate this film, everyone hates it. It's opened to the worst UK reviews of recent times and the Sunday Times gave a whole page over to why or how it could kill Matthew Horne and James Corden's up and coming careers.
@eldritch -- Yeah, it's so STUPID to expect everyone and everything in the world to reflect the fact that women are human beings. So OUTRAGEOUS to hope that women aren't simply fodder for men in movies to murder/fuck/fuck then murder. So OVER THE TOP.
Seriously, it's people like you I will never, ever understand.
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In parts of Africa lesbians are raped to "cure" them.
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Then again Horne's Law says that for everything good Matthew Horne does he will also appear in something as shit as Roman's Empire.
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You know what guys, those of you that think this movie is correct, please use this as your first date movie. This way my female friends and I can quickly eliminate you from the dating pool...better yet can you pair it with the blow up doll jacket? This way there is no further misunderstanding.
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Hate to play devil's advocate and all, but I'm quite sure those who made this were aware of how incendiary the topic, but tried to play it in such a way that the lunacy of the vampire genre is pointed out too. It's likely incredibly cackhandedly done, but that's a point about comedic execution, not intent.
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Sorry i can't stop mentioning it. I had to review it. The sheer horror is still imprinted on my retina all these years later. I occasionally wake at night screaming about it.
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From the clips, I'm inclined to agree.
I'm guessing that they were shooting for a cross between Snakes on a Plane, Shaun of the Dead, and Rocky Horror Picture Show.
Fodder for amusement:
[www.lesbianvampirekillersmovie.co.uk]
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Seriously, it's people like you I will never, ever understand.
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"Next time," quips Corden - the scariest two words in the movie - "he'll have me bummed by a big gay werewolf".
You should be so lucky, dear.
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