Pretentious campers get locked in a makeshift chicken coup.Pretentious campers get locked in a makeshift chicken coup.Pretentious campers get locked in a makeshift chicken coup.
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- Kristen Weingartner(uncredited)
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- TriviaWhen New World Pictures picked up the film for US distribution, they decided it would be more marketable as an exploitation flick called 'Caged Terror.'
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Bergmanesque film is not at all Bergmanesque, and barely a film!
Without question one of the most embarrassing productions of the 1970s, CAGED TERROR reveals a curious determination to become something insightful or important as it reaches in futility for a leg of Bergman's monogram earthy key elements. The tragic upshot is such a wispy, self-aggrandizing display of thin air that it nearly succeeds as a Bergman lampoon. To its credit, however, it does have a nice look to it, being artfully lensed in scenic woodsy environs. Also, it's as relaxing as two glasses of wine and half a Quaalude.
The story(?) denotes the budding romance of a young hippie city couple as they spend a sunny afternoon making the nature scene in a deep forest. They walk along a shady path, apparently desperate to outdo each other in a bizarre duel of random verbal evasions. They exchange bits of insanely over-the-top, lofty discourse which sound like the idle chatter of a U.C. Berkeley coffee klatsch...you'll be howling over tarradiddle such as "I feel that life itself is made up of as many tiny compartments as this pomegranate....but is it as beautiful?". Following what seems like an eternity of this grandiose sermonizing and a noticeable lacking of occurrences, we succumb to a VERY anticlimactic confrontation involving a pair of folk-singing 'Nam vets who proceed to lock our non-hero inside a chicken-coop while having-at-it with his girl.
Aside from some obligatory nudity and soft sex, nothing eventful or interesting happens IN THIS ENTIRE FILM, and its enfeebled crusade to draw the viewer "into a brown study" is strained and insincere. I thought the Larry Buchanan picture STRAWBERRIES NEED RAIN(1970) was a weak example of a Bergman homage...CAGED TERROR is somehow worse than that film, largely due to the ceaseless onslaught of flatulent verbiage.
1.5/10...one of the worst films I've seen in my entire pomegranate.
The story(?) denotes the budding romance of a young hippie city couple as they spend a sunny afternoon making the nature scene in a deep forest. They walk along a shady path, apparently desperate to outdo each other in a bizarre duel of random verbal evasions. They exchange bits of insanely over-the-top, lofty discourse which sound like the idle chatter of a U.C. Berkeley coffee klatsch...you'll be howling over tarradiddle such as "I feel that life itself is made up of as many tiny compartments as this pomegranate....but is it as beautiful?". Following what seems like an eternity of this grandiose sermonizing and a noticeable lacking of occurrences, we succumb to a VERY anticlimactic confrontation involving a pair of folk-singing 'Nam vets who proceed to lock our non-hero inside a chicken-coop while having-at-it with his girl.
Aside from some obligatory nudity and soft sex, nothing eventful or interesting happens IN THIS ENTIRE FILM, and its enfeebled crusade to draw the viewer "into a brown study" is strained and insincere. I thought the Larry Buchanan picture STRAWBERRIES NEED RAIN(1970) was a weak example of a Bergman homage...CAGED TERROR is somehow worse than that film, largely due to the ceaseless onslaught of flatulent verbiage.
1.5/10...one of the worst films I've seen in my entire pomegranate.
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- Feb 2, 2004
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- Caged Terror
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- Montebello, Québec, Canada(Seigniory Club)
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- CA$130,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 26 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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