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Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre

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

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Anton Bitel Little White Lies 12/01/2010
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. Go to Full Review Ed Travis Hollywood Jesus 04/07/2020
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. Go to Full Review Ard Vijn ScreenAnarchy 01/15/2020
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. Go to Full Review Simon Foster Screen-Space (Substack) 04/26/2012
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. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Albert V 06/15/2020 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. See more 03/20/2016 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). See more 11/20/2013 An unashamed reworking of 'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre' which becomes fairly tedious through its lack of invention. See more 05/13/2013 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. See more 04/25/2013 not too exciting and tensed, but at least not seen idea. See more 02/25/2013 Just.....the worst! Watched it because of Gunnar Hansen and the blu-ray cover promised bloodshed but it never delivered. See more Read all reviews
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Julius Kemp

Director

Nae

Endo

Pihla Viitala

Annette

Terence Anderson

Leon

Miranda Hennessy

Marie-Anne

Aymen Hamdouchi

Jean Francois
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Movie Info

Synopsis Whale watchers experience terror on the high seas at the hands of murderous whalers.
Director
Julius Kemp
Screenwriter
Sjón Sigurdsson, Sjón
Production Co
Solar Films, Film and Music Entertainment, The Icelandic Filmcompany
Rating
R (Language|Drug Use|Bloody Violence|Some Nudity)
Genre
Horror
Original Language
English
Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 20, 2017
Runtime
1h 22m