UnowPriceless hyped garbage

Alasdair Orr Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Lela The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Caroline Phillips Going into The Redeemer (or as my tape calls it "Class Reunion Massacre"), I didn't expect anything, but I'd been told it was a really weird movie I just had to see to believe. Well, they were right. The Redeemer is about as weird as they come, but I wasn't expecting it to be quite as creepy as it is.Trying to decipher the first 15 minutes of this movie are next to impossible, but if you get past that, you'll find an eerie and atmospheric early slasher before "the rules" of the sub-genre had been created.The characters are colorful with special attention to Jeanetta Arnette's lovable floozy, Cindy. They're all picked because of their "sins", such as gluttony, greed, homosexuality, etc. and picked off one by one at their fake high school reunion by a creepy preacher with a knack for outlandish disguises. I'll be honest - some of these disguises range from daffy to downright terrifying (that scene in the auditorium, the grim reaper, and the John Wayne Gacy-ish clown are all horrifying). The entire film feels like someone's nightmare, cobbled together without much thought for logic or realism. It's quite a sight to behold. T.G. Finkbinder's Redeemer is a truly imposing and creepy figure with his endless disguises and penchant for long Shakespearian monologues.The Redeemer is worth the time for cult film fanatics. It'll be hard to find an American film this bizarre.

trashgang We are at the slasher era and flicks pop up like flies. A lot of them were rip offs or just so bad but being bought due the VHS cover. Others were so weird that they became OOP. This here is one of those although nowadays it's available on DVD full uncut. It's a rare piece. It starts with a boy fully clothed coming out of a lake. That's already some weird stuff. And he has two thumbs on one hand. Whatever, it was made by first-time actors and directors. Only Jeannette Arnette made it somehow into the scene, she appeared in series like Invasion and The Fringe. But overall it's so odd. You hear a priest telling what's good and bad, then it's of to someone cutting out pictures of students out of a book and every time you have a flash forward to the person seen in the picture. Once all six persons are cut out and shown they meet at a class reunion. Why we did have to see those flashes is still a question, once they are at the reunion they start telling about themselves. After 40 minutes the killings starts but never becomes messy or bloody. Most of them are off-camera or you will see other mistakes made by rookies. A burned victim, dead of course is sitting in a chair but you can easily see him breathing. The killer disguise himself in so many ways that you will argue afterwards with geeks what you just saw. It's surely is a slasher but it is not made for everyone.

babyjaguar Well, this flick from the 70s proving that religion has its repercussions. This pre-Halloween movie follows more in the venue of Italian "giallos" films, except you get to "see" the killer function like a chameleon constantly changing props and costumes with different setting for each killing.There was some great chilly moments such as the theater stage scene where one of the characters gets a sword in his head. There was even a lesbian subtext (in the beginning each character is given vignette to show us their hidden lives and "sins") to satisfy the "straight" male interest. Each killing relates to each of the seven deadly sins, a "killer" if you are Christian!There was some quirky film-making moments, which added on to the "weirdness" of the film in how the characters interact with each other. Watch out for the scene where the freeze framed image (70s motion picture technique) of the killer wearing a black cloak outfit with a skull mask, with his eerie laugh echoing, fun stuff!

MovieWatcher66 In my opinion this movie was extremely unique and scary.The beginning was a little slow- but after 10 minutes the action begins.There were plenty bizarre, twisted, and freakish scenes of brutal murder.The "killer" in the film plans "perfect" murders for each "sinner" which coincides with their sin.The murder scenes are longer than typical murder scenes.If you like classic horror movies and enjoy being engaged, mortified, surprised and scared this is a sure winner for you.I give it a A- (I enjoyed its uniqueness of its time period, even though the ending a bit involved.