Highly Overrated But Still Good

Far from Perfect, Far from Terrible

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Two women of low moral fiber Mary (Danielle Harris) and Annie (Jennifer Blanc-Biehn) go out on a date in the woods with two police officers Jim (Ryan Honey) and Cooger (Denny Kirkwood). Mary (Danielle Harris) is killed during sex by Jim (Ryan Honey) semi-accidentally. The cops decide to kill Annie, who has overheard the conversation and escapes to a cabin occupied by Kyle (Michael Biehn, her real life husband), a man who seemingly has deeper issues than the movie lets on.The production moves into the abduction phase and uses flashbacks to build the girl's character. The questionable aspect as to the identity of the main character i.e. being a possible serial killer is hinted at, but never fully developed to where the audience knows with certainty. We are left with doubt as is Annie.I liked the soundtrack and background music used in the film. They didn't go cheap. When two girls listen to music that sounds like Katy Perry, you know they put out. The character of Kyle was too underdeveloped or under utilized, perhaps Michael was wanting to give more of the story to his wife and not turn this into an ego fest.PARENTAL GUIDE: f-bomb, sex, nudity (Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, the blond from "The Divide").

Some couple is having sex in the woods. The guys gets rougher. When the bored girl says something, he snaps her neck.We meet some loner who lives in the woods. A screaming and crying girl named Annie knocks on his door for help. In flashbacks we learn that this girl and the dead girl are strippers/friends/roommates. They went out on a date with cops, a date in the woods, where things get heated. We also learn that a series of girls have disappeared in the area.She tells him the story. She went looking for her friend and found her dead body so she started to run with the cops chasing her. They eventually arrive at his cabin. While he doesn't want to have any trouble with the law, he still lies for her and claims to not have seen anything. He's had some trouble with the law in the past. Through research they discover that one of the cops is some corrupt but well-connected creep.Of course the cops are very motivated not to leave a living witness. When the guy and Annie go into the woods they eventually run into the cops of course. The guy will have to decide whether he's going to act or just try avoid trouble. But there's a cool twist near the end.The Victim is a fairly plain, short, and simple low-budget horror thriller. It benefits from the presence of the likable Michael Biehn and the occasional appearance of the lovely Danielle Harris. Direction and acting are sometimes off the mark. There's a bit of violence, gore, and nudity. But the movie is fairly raunchy. There's something to be said for ending on a strong note and The Victim delivers with the neat twist, that while not entirely surprising is well handled. The story in a way deserved a larger budget. Still, The Victim is a success for the Biehns.

Annie's life is in jeopardy after she witnesses the murder of her friend. Fleeing from two attackers she stumbles across Kyle, who has a cabin in the woods. Kyle finds the stillness of the woods comforting, and stays far from anything or anyone else, until a knock on his door throws his life into chaos......Ever since The Terminator, Biehn has always been quality in whatever movie he's been in, from Aliens to Navy Seals, to The Rock, no matter how small the role,he's always made an impact, so a directorial effort from him would always be a curioso piece.And plus the added factor of its exploitation roots, and Danielle Harris, I was looking forward to this.And then I waited for the film to get going, waited a bit more, and then the film finished with a twist that you can see coming from a mile off.Take away the the story, and the film is nothing more than a vanity project for him and his wife. The script is full of compliments to them both, Harris is hardly in it, and its nothing more than a revenge flick, a downright boring one at that.Biehn though, no matter how big his ego must have been making this, puts in a good performance, but it cannot save the film from what it is.A boring ego trip.

Ultra-low budget private effort at a throwback to what was known as Grindhouse Movies. A deliberate attempt to be lurid with lazy film making and exploitation sub-genre subject matter. The more gore (H.G. Lewis), nudity (Roger Corman/Russ Meyer), the better and with great colorful posters and titles (Bloody Mama, The Gore Gore Girls) they would attract audiences and the public with taboo breaking bad flicks.Most of them were pretty awful, with an occasional sleeper hit and a later discovered cult classic (The Texas Chainsaw, Massacre, Ms.45. Basket Case). But unless you are willing to go way over the top (Tarantino & Rodriguez) or somehow find a great script or story, the results are predictably, almost always BAD.The trouble with setting out to make a bad movie (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes) is that it usually results in nothing sensational. LIke this Movie. The charm of an Ed wood movie is that he was not winking at the audience, he was trying really hard and the result was a primitive style that endures. There may be kudos for an attempt, but eight hundred thousand dollars is hardly chump change, even in the independent film world, and this comes off more like someone saying lets make a gritty movie while we're on vacation, rather than an auteur deciding, well we only have a few bucks and a lot of willing folks so we can do this thing.This movie is lacking sensationalism with unattractive nudity, has mundane violence, no surprises and is ultimately uninteresting, not entertaining, or worth the effort.