Uncle Sam

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Uncle Sam

R

1997

1h 28m

Horror

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A Gulf War veteran rises from the dead to wreak vengeance upon unpatriotic residents of his hometown.

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Budd Wilkins

Slant Magazine

06/29/2022

William Lustig and Larry Cohen team up to bring you this curdled rumination on small-town Americana, jingoism, and the hell that is warfare.

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Nick Schager

Lessons of Darkness

05/16/2006

B+

Reinvigorates stale horror clichs via both tongue-in-cheek social commentary and an unironic, unbridled love for blood-and-guts mayhem.

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Eric Henderson

Slant Magazine

04/20/2005

3.5/4

Lustig's surprisingly evocative widescreen compositions are peppered with an absurd parade of Americana.

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Steve

Dread Central

08/02/2010

3/5

Uncle Sam may never be widely considered as a classic horror flick, but it's leaps and bounds better than the usual crap that's shoved down our throats.

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Tim Brayton

Antagony & Ecstasy

07/05/2009

1/10

The worst of everything in the slasher subgenre consolidated into 89 endless minutes.

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Chuck O'Leary

Fantastica Daily

11/12/2005

3/5

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brad p

02/21/2023

I wish I had more kind things to say about Lustig's would-be yearly slasher but this one hasn't ever worked for me. I'll say it was moderately fun to revisit it some 25 years later.

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Jimmy P

01/20/2023

I wish that this wasn't the last film that William Lustig ever directed.

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michael d

11/21/2022

Unfortunately tame and lame.

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tom k

07/11/2022

Disjointed and sloppy. Definitely not Lustig's and Cohen's best. This should be remade.

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R P

07/04/2022

What is more patriotic than watching Uncle Sam on the 4th of July? Watching him get revenge on unpatriotic people. I'm continuing to watch holiday horror movies on the holidays. I love these themed horror movies. Granted, Uncle Sam isn't the greatest of movies but it's still okay. (https://foreverfinalgirl.com/uncle-sam/)

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06/08/2020

Great movie. Some parts are a bit silly but overall it's a fantastic movie.

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Synopsis

A Gulf War veteran rises from the dead to wreak vengeance upon unpatriotic residents of his hometown.

Director: William Lustig
Screenwriter: Larry Cohen
Production Co: A-Pix Entertainment
Rating: R
Genre: Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 28m

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