The Killing of America

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Audience Member Exploitative documentary from 1981. Starting as a high-minded overview of 20th century assassinations, it quickly reveals its true purpose: to string together the most shocking footage of random killings, accompanied by several gratuitously nasty forensic photos of bloody corpses, and disguise the cheapness with a solemn and fatuous narration. What is the point this odd film is failing to make? Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A must see movie! Educate yourself. Mainstream media doesn’t want you to see this movie—that’s why you saw zero press for it. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 10/22/18 Full Review Audience Member Disturbing but awesome. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Very interesting early 80's documentary about murder in america. Almost in the faces of death type style this shows actual footage and interviews with coroners and law enforcement officials. Worth a watch if you can find it online or a copy somewhere for cheap. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member The most brutal documentary ever made, it's probably on par with Mondo Cane in terms of uncensored real life brutality. I fucking love it. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/30/23 Full Review Audience Member A really odd film to work out what exactly the point is. There's no real overriding narrative to speak of so to claim it's a documentary would be generous. It's not glorified violence or overly explicit either though so it would be wrong to lump it in with the 80's trend of 'video nasties'. So what have you got other than a kind of video collection of horrible stuff that's happened in America over the past 50 odd years...OK...do we need that particularly? Probably not, so really however engrossing and compelling some of the clips are, overall the film is a failure and really a waste of everybody's time. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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