Fleshburn

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Audience Member In the desert sun you can feel your flesh burn. A mental instutution escapee abducts four psyciatrists who put him away and strands them in the desert to die. Fortunately, one of the psychiatrists became a forest ranger and a good survivalist. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member This isn't a horror movie, I don't know why they put it together in a dvd of horror movies. It's more of a thriller about revenge. There's really not much going on in this movie either, and the actors aren't very good. I was bored by this. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Talk about terrifying! A nut job escapes from a mental hospital, kidnaps the people who put him there, Leaves them out in the desert to die while he stalks them from nearby.What an awesome movie! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Asylum escapee takes revenge against psychiatrists who institutionalized him at his trial. Perhaps he could be more appreciative of being committed instead of doing hard time in prison. It seems his defence lawyer escaped blame in the ordeal. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member Fleshburn was one of those covers that stuck in my mind from the hey day of renting VHS. It was in the horror section but this isn't really a horror movie. No more then Deliverence is anyways. I had been sitting on a copy for years & figured that I should finally watch it since Im a fan of Sonny Landham. I loved him in 48 HRS & Predator & always thought that he should have had more of a career. They should have cast him in the Thunder Warrior series. To hell w/ Mark Gregory. In Fleshburn he's a shell shocked Vietnam vet who has been committed to an mental hospital. He escapes, kidnaps those responsible for putting him there & takes them out to the desert leaving them to die. As they try to survive Sonny continues to torment them from a distance. I was a little disappointed w/ Fleshburn. No great thrill but it is watchable. Sonny is underutilized as this could have been better since it came from a book by the man who gave us Death Wish Brian Garfield Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member The main reason I wanted to see this picture is for the fact that it stars Sonny Landham as the psychotic villain. Don't recognize the name? Well do you remember the bad motherfucker from "Predator" who was the tough ass native American tracker? Yes the guy who cut his chest with the machete before taking the Predator mono-e-mono. Yeah this guy is B-A-D-A-S-S. He even had the balls to have a security gaurd hired for him on the set of Predator not to protect Landham from people, but to protect people from Landham. Yeah, B-A-D-A-S-S. I also wanted to see it for the fact it was based on the novel by Brian Garfield, the same guy that gave us "Death Wish" and "Death Sentence." Landham playing a psychotic Vietnam vet villain in a film based on the author of "Death Wish", bring on the popcorn bitches! The film opens with an odd written backstory of how a Native American Vietnam Vet left four people to die in the middle of the desert due to a disagreement over opinions on Native American magic. Four psychologists found him to be mentally ill so he is sentenced to life in a mental health ward. Is any prison strong enough to hold Landham. Fuck no and he easily breaks out. He soon gets a vehicle and weapons and heads around the state kidnapping the psychologists and leaving them all in the middle of the desert to die while he keeps a watchful eye on them. The problem with this film is it doesn't live up to its potential and comes out looking more like a made-for-tv would-be thriller. It just degrades to a boring survival film with Landham wasted as the mad vet only appearing at the beginning and end, disappearing throughout most of the middle of the film. The acting is decent but the characters are blah and the ending is FAR from satisfactory. Looking for a violent mad brawl between the psychologists and Landham? Well you won't find anything exciting here. The poster artwork was promising making this look like a variation on the Rambo theme which it is far from. This film had so much potential to be a taunt survival film with a strong casting choice for the Vet but thanks to boring filmmaking and blah script, we are left with a hollow shell of what could have been. Sonny Landham is sadly underused... yet again! Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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