Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre

R

2009

1h 22m

Horror

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500+ Ratings

Whale watchers experience terror on the high seas at the hands of murderous whalers.

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Anton Bitel

Little White Lies

by replacing Tobe Hooper's bubba with a whole lot of blubber, Jlus Kemp's Harpoon: The Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre reinvents the southern gothic as a bloody Nordic seafaring saga.

Dec 1, 2010

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Ed Travis

Hollywood Jesus

Harpoon offers some wild kills, and a killer whale, and very little else. You've seen it all before, and you've seen it done better.

Apr 7, 2020

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Ard Vijn

ScreenAnarchy

I shouldn't be surprised that this film failed on almost every level, given the filmmakers previous work and I have to lay the blame on Kemp who should stick with producing films and have more competent directors handle the actual filmmaking.

Jan 15, 2020

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Simon Foster

Screen-Space

Deliberately OTT in its gory dispatches and crassly xenophobic enough to rile the intelligentsia, Kemp's riff of 'Texas Chainsaw'-style claustrophobic terror is neither as bad as some would have you believe nor as shocking as it makes itself out to be.

Apr 26, 2012

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Albert V

A wild Scandinavian homage to the great Texas Chain Saw Massacre replacing chainsaws with harpoons, the late Gunnar Hansen making the most of his screen time, and a rip-roaring good time with some pretty intense kill scenes.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/15/20

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Audience Member

Icelandic version of what is already a well-used formulaic horror scenario. It's not a bad effort, although some of the English language acting is ropey in places (I can't speak for the native stuff though).

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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An unashamed reworking of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' which becomes fairly tedious through its lack of invention.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

Typical slasher film with some good gore and kills, but the story itself is lame and filled with so many plot holes that it just gets borderline ridiculous.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Audience Member

not too exciting and tensed, but at least not seen idea.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Audience Member

Just.....the worst! Watched it because of Gunnar Hansen and the blu-ray cover promised bloodshed but it never delivered.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/18/23

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Julius Kemp

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Nae

Endo

Pihla Viitala

Annette

Terence Anderson

Leon

Miranda Hennessy

Marie-Anne

Aymen Hamdouchi

Jean Francois

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Synopsis

Whale watchers experience terror on the high seas at the hands of murderous whalers.

Director: Julius Kemp
Screenwriter: Sjón Sigurdsson, Sjón
Production Co: The Icelandic Filmcompany, Solar Films, Film and Music Entertainment
Rating: R (Some Nudity|Bloody Violence|Language|Drug Use)
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Jan 20, 2017
Runtime: 1h 22m