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The Victim | |
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Directed by | Michael Biehn |
Written by | Michael Biehn Reed Lackey |
Produced by | Jennifer Blanc Lucien Flynn Lorna Paul Travis Romero |
Starring | Michael Biehn Jennifer Blanc Ryan Honey Denny Kirkwood Danielle Harris |
Cinematography | Eric Curtis |
Edited by | Vance Crofoot |
Music by | Jeehun Hwang |
Production company | Anchor Bay |
Distributed by | BlancBiehn Productions |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $800,000 |
The Victim is a 2011 American horror film directed, written and starring Michael Biehn, [1] produced by and co-starring Jennifer Blanc. Thought to be a financial success due to Biehn's effort selling out theaters across the nation, neither he or producer Jennifer Blanc know final sales figures, due to open litigation with the film's investors. [2]
The film was produced and shot in less than two weeks [1] in Los Angeles in 2010. Most of the principal photography took place in the Topanga Canyon, close to Malibu, California.
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Alan Cerny of Ain't It Cool News characterized The Victim as "a fun sleazy grindhouse film", in which Biehn was lauded for both giving a good performance and getting good performances out of his actors. Though Cerny stated that Biehn's directing effort exhibited imperfections such as a driving montage scene that he felt was too long, he appreciated that Biehn understood the genre in which he was working, commenting, "Biehn has a clear path to what he's shooting for, and for much of the film's running time, he gets it", and "It's a specific genre with a specific style, and working from that, Biehn gets way more right than he does wrong." [3]
The New York Times wrote, "Directing his own screenplay, Mr. Biehn (working from a story by Reed Lackey) pays more attention to genitals than spatial coherence, unaware that labeling a film grind house doesn’t excuse soap-opera emoting and laughable dialogue. Wait, what am I saying? Of course it does." [1] The film has a 35% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 17 reviews.
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