The Bunny Game
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Bunny Game |
| Original title | The Bunny Game |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 78 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK / JMK unchecked |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adam Rehmeier |
| script |
Rodleen Getsic Adam Rehmeier |
| production | Rodleen Getsic Adam Rehmeier |
| music | Adam Rehmeier |
| camera | Adam Rehmeier |
| cut | Adam Rehmeier |
| occupation | |
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The Bunny Game is an American independent film directed by Adam Rehmeier in 2010. The showing of the experimental horror film, shot in black and white, with real scenes of violence was banned by the British Board of Film Classification .
action
The drug addict prostitute Sylvia Gray lives on the streets of Hollywood and lets anything do with her. After she is raped and robbed by a client , she runs into truck driver Hog, who at first makes a nice impression. But he numbs her with chloroform and chains her in his truck. In a remote part of the desert, he raped and tortured her for several days. He himself sniffs glue and has more and more insane features. Among other things, he shaves off the young woman's hair and brands her. He shows her a video of another victim that he ends up suffocating with a bag. The highlight is the "Bunny Game" (in German "Bunny Game"), in which he chases the emaciated woman disguised as a bunny through the desert while wearing a pig mask himself. In the end he passes the woman on to Jonas, who lays her naked in his van.
background
Adam Rehmeier described the creation process in the making-of as a process that took years. In 2006 he wanted to make a similar film. Originally, Greg Gilmore provided as the main character. But when it became clear that Rodleen Getsic , Adam Rehmeier's partner, would take on the lead role, the direction of the film changed. Getsic, musician, model and actress, had a similar experience in her youth and really wanted to play the scenes for real. Gilmore went too far and withdrew from the project. However, he ends up appearing in a short supporting role as Jonas.
Rehmeier hired Jeff F. Renfro, who is actually a truck driver in real life. He also found another actress, Drettie Page , who was also willing to have her hair cut and branded. To play the role more realistically, Getsic fasted for forty days. In the meantime a script was written that consisted of only a few instructions and included a rough schedule. It was decided to shoot with a camera and make the whole thing as realistic as possible. Similar to BDSM , a safeword was agreed and the first time the outdoor shots were shot in Los Angeles . Then they tried to shoot in the desert, but it failed because they feared that the police might take the events for real. Then it was shot in a junkyard in Los Angeles. The shoot took a total of eleven days.
publication
The film was initially shown at various film festivals and was released in the USA on July 31, 2012 on Blu-ray Disc and DVD. The film won several awards at the PollyGrind Film Festival in 2011. These were "Best Cinematography", "Best Editing" and "Best Overall Individual Performance in a Film" (for Rodleen Getsic).
In the United Kingdom , the film classification authority BBFC refused to release the film, which means that the film is banned there. A German-language version was released on June 15, 2012 in Austria by the Illusions Unltd label. The mediabook with Blu-ray Disc and DVD, limited to 2,000 copies , also contains a 32-page booklet with background information. As extras, a making-of and a 12-minute music video by Rodleen Getsic were added to the two image carriers. The film was released unaudited in Austria and is not available in Germany.
criticism
TheaterThoughts.com film critic John Carpenter praised the film as raw and realistic. Although there are a few sections that are a little too slow and the film crosses some boundaries, the film is very impressive overall. It would be seen in a row with other cross-border films such as Human Centipede , A Serbian Film or Salo and nothing for the common film fan.
Other critics, on the other hand, describe the film as not very visionary, but rather backward-looking:
“The first half an hour was quite successful with its dreary pictures of street prostitution, backed by heavy guitar music. Later, a collage succeeds here and there, but especially in the last third it becomes exhausting when Shakycam and quick cuts mean that you always want to add something - the desired 'dragging into the nightmare' doesn't want to work, the viewer is more likely to step out. "
Web links
- The Bunny Game in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Creating the Monster . Making-of. Blu-ray Disc and DVD Mediabook. Illusions 2012
- ^ Matthias Bogner: The Bunny Game - Real pain . In: X Rated . No. 64 (April / May), 2012, pp. 4-8 .
- ↑ Josh Bell: From sadism to kitsch: PollyGrind film fest wrap-up, Part 1 . In: Las Vegas Weekly , October 13, 2011. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
- ↑ Exclusive: Second Annual PollyGrind Film Festival Announces Winners . In: Dread Central , October 26, 2011. Retrieved July 16, 2012.
- ↑ THE BUNNY GAME: Total ban in England / BBFC refuses approval. Screenread.de, October 12, 2011, accessed on March 21, 2013 .
- ^ The Bunny Game in the online film database
- ^ John Carpenter: Blu-ray Thoughts: The Bunny Game. Theater Thoughts, August 3, 2012, accessed March 21, 2013 .
- ↑ Alex Klotz: The Bunny Game. Hardsensations.com, March 13, 2012, accessed March 21, 2013 .