A Night to Dismember

1983 "Lust, betrayal and dismemberment…"
3.4| 1h9m| NR| en
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A woman from a "cursed" family is released from a mental facility, and soon dismembered corpses start turning up.

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Laikals The greatest movie ever made..!
Lancoor A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action
StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
Tobias Burrows It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.
Coventry Every living organism gradually gets better in what it does… It's a simple process called development or normal learning curves. You know, like little babies that learn to walk and then run, or puppies that learn they shouldn't urinate on the carpet. Directors usually also have a learning curve, as the first couple of movies in their careers are often experimental tryouts while their final films are the best and most qualitative achievements. However, this 100% natural process seemingly doesn't apply to Doris Wishman because her last films are just as worthless as the first films in her career. In fact, the latter films are arguably even worse! Films like "Bad Girls go to Hell" or "Nude on the Moon" were still enjoyable whereas this "A Night to Dismember" is downright unwatchable. After nearly three decades of experience, Doris' movies are still dreadfully amateurish, unendurably boring, miserably inept and unbelievably pathetic. Every inexperienced but aspiring horror director should see this movie and take notes on how it is NOT done… Do NOT make use of an awful voice-over to narrate the already simplistic plot, do NOT hire random retards from your family and neighborhood and pretend they are actors, do NOT use the world's most inappropriate and monotonous music from start to finish, do NOT assume that grotesque gore and splatter compensates for the lack of screenplay and so on, and so on… I'm not even sure why I'm bothering but here's the plot synopsis: every member of the whole wide Kent family has the bad habit of dying in nasty axe-related accidents. Samantha Fox – no, not the one you think – plays Vicki Kent and she's prematurely released from a mental institution. Mum and day are ecstatic that the family is united again, but her wicked brother and sister want to send Vicky back to the loony bin as soon as possible. They do everything they can to drive her nuts and bloodied corpses start piling up again. Whenever the stupid narrator isn't mumbling redundant nonsense, "A Night to Dismember" is just a horrible series make-up effects and laughable splatter situations that are practically impossible (for example, a severed head that gets stuck on the axe…). I'm fully aware of the fact that the title sounds extremely cool and that the DVD cover image looks irresistible, but please don't watch this so-called "cult-classic". It is, hands down, the biggest piece of rubbish I've ever seen.
Woodyanders This movie is a special kind of bad. There are bad movies and then there are Doris Wishman bad movies. Wishman had a uniquely off-kilter style and sensibility which gave her remarkably rotten celluloid abominations a distinctive identity that was wholly her own. Wishman's trademark singular ineptitude permeates every last fabulously fumbled frame of this faltering attempt at a slasher horror picture: plodding all-thumbs (mis)direction, a meandering ramshackle narrative, badly post-synced and recorded dialogue, bizarre lingering close-ups of people's feet, ridiculous sub-Jack Webbian "Dragnet"-style hard-boiled narration, chintzy cut-rate gore (the severed head that gets tossed in a fireplace is hilariously hokey!), a decent smidgen of gratuitous female nudity and soft-core sex, dreadful acting from a lame no-name cast (porn actress Samantha Fox in particular totally hams it up as the fragile and troubled Vicki), grating, redundant, and often inappropriate music, rough, grainy, shaky cinematography by frequent collaborator C. Davis Smith, choppy editing, tacky psychedelic visual flourishes, the ubiquitous false cat scare cliché, labored use of slow motion, clumsily executed murder set pieces, an absurd impromptu dance number, and a completely ludicrous "what the hell?" surprise twist ending all ensure that this exceptionally atrocious bilge is a gloriously ghastly marvel to behold from start to finish. Wonderfully rancid'n'wretched bottom-of-the-barrel schlock.
sexdwarf A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER may not be one of them, but jesus, I honestly can't think of another film so disjointed, so visually unattractive, so inane and illogical beyond belief as this train wreck on film. So, because of that I strongly suggest anyone who seeks out the macabre, twisted, odd and unusual to do whatever it takes to see this movie. Thinking back, I'm almost sure it has to do with a woman released from an insane asylum and a whole lot of elevator music and narration. A detective narrates the entire film (!), telling us things that have absolutely no relation to what we are actually seeing. He stumbles and stutters his lines, coming across like an 8 year old with dyslexia. It's actually very funny. Occasionally, the actors in the film do get to speak (albeit they are HORRIBLY dubbed.) Much of the time when they are speaking, we aren't shown the actors' faces, rather their feet, a couch or a house plant! Oh yes, like any Doris Wishman film we get plenty of shots of people's feet. She must've had a foot fetish, like 99% of America I suppose. Ok, I'm trying to give you the plot of this car accident but it is physically impossible. Woman gets out of loony bin, her brother and sister try and drive her back there (for what reason, I have NO idea), a few gory murders take place (in the HG Lewis gory way) and before you know it, this 70 min. mess is over and you wonder to yourself JUST WHAT IN THE HELL YOU WATCHED. And just in case the movie itself isn't surreal or bizarre enough, Wishman throws in a couple of dream sequences to REALLY throw you off. In one dream, a woman is slashed and knifed to death about 100 times, slashing and knifing, over and over and over.. She moans like she's having an orgasm. Speaking of orgasm, A NIGHT TO DISMEMBER probably has a budget much lower than your average porn. Technically speaking, THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY the worst motion picture made. Point blank. But, I found enough enjoyment to watch it multiple times. It's funnier than most comedies, and makes not a lick of sense that it BEGS to be watched. A true spectacle.
drhannibal666 This incomprehensible slasher movie was the last-known feature directed by cult filmmaker Doris Wishman. Making heavy use of voiceover narration, the film stars legend Samantha Fox, in a rare non-hardcore role, and deals with a cursed family and an escaped mental patient.Gory and violent, the film is filled with bloody decapitations and eviscerations, as well as peculiar use of negative and solarization effects. The results are unbelievably bad, and it is hard to imagine that this 70-minute mess took five years to make.My Rating:3/10