So, we have people headed for the desert in 1976. They end up encountering a bizarre cult/family that lives for mayhem. And some of our new people might have alternative motives as things are brought to a boil.
BRUTE 1976 wants to combine the desert family from THE HILLS HAVE EYES with The Sawyer Family of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Director Marcel Walz along with writer Joe Knetter decide to bring back old school slasher by making this a period piece as evidenced by the title.
That's always a brave move because you will get those nitpickers who will tear apart everything on screen to find inconsistencies with the era the film is supposed to be in.
I don't bother unless its a huge glaring error, you know like a gladiator movie having a guy with a watch on. Stuff like that.
Being a huge slasher fan I was excited until I realized there would be no Jason, no Freddy, Hell, no Michael. Instead we get the demented family sub genre. Not a huge fan of those.
But, I watch a lot of low budget movies and was so happy to see Sarah French, star of so many of them, in a really good role. She's not here to be the pretty face. They have a cast of unknowns for that. She gets to be a nutcase and she makes it work so well.
And then there's the reason to watch BRUTE 1976;
Jed Rowen.
Jed has been in sooo many David Sterling films. He always plays a bad guy, but in this he plays a part that could only be described as an articulate Leatherface. He chews up the screen and spits it in your face and laughs while he does it. This is the role Jed Rowen was meant to play.
If you are a huge Leatherface or The Hills Have Eyes fan you will not want to miss BRUTE 1976.
For the rest of us it is good, old fashioned, blood soaked fun.
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